THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 7, 1939.
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SCOTLAND YARD BUSY IN FACE OF THREATS
PRECAUTIONS AT OVER TWO BRITISH MUSEUM MILLION OUT
London, To-day.
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The air of expectancy among the population of OF WORK
London, To-day.
FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS LEAVE SPAIN
than a month before and about Pyrenean frontier from Catalonia.
London aroused through the cross-examination of twelve Irishmen accused of attempted trea-
Paris, To-day, son and bomb outrages, increased last night January 16, on the number of in-officers have it is announced been Ministry of Labour estimates at Special committees of French after it had been made known from official sured persons in employment in formed to deal with the thousands sources that plans had been discovered show- Great Britain was approximately of soldiers of the International ing that the police station in Bow Street was to 12,079,000. This was 184,000 less Brigade who are crossing the have been blown up in the course of the night. 50,000 less than a year before. Whereas the Spanish militiamen Scotland Yard informed Bow Street of this by tele- At the same date, registered uh- are being marched off to Argoles phone late in the afternoon whereupon all ne-prising 1,594,430 wholly unemployed, foreign volunteers belonging employed numbered 2,039,026, com- sur Mer where they will be intern- cessary precautionary measures were taken. Scotland Yard was itself beforehand notified by telephone of the plot anonymously.
Last evening the entrances of Bow Street. Police Court were strongly guarded by detachments of police who made a tour of in- spection through all parts of the building every half an hour as it was feared that persons who had attended the public examination of the twelve Irishmen might be able on leaving the building conceal a time fuse bomb.
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IN BRITISH MUSEUM Numerous precautionary mea- sures are now also being taken in the British Museum. All visitors are being required to open hand- bags and cases.
The police emphasise that this is merely a precautionary measure
and that no indications whatever
have been received that any attack
on the British Museum is contem- plated.
Nevertheless, it has been noticed that every single visitor is closely scrutinised by the police on duty at the museum and often strangers are followed about the museum 'during the visit.
Reliable observers declare that
ROYAL WEDDING IN CAIRO
Cairo, To-day.
The programme for the wedding
ed, 379,027 temporarily laid off and to the 11th regiment of the Inter- 65,568 normally in casual employ-national Brigade who reached Le ment. The total was 207,644 more Perthus yesterday morning are than a month before and 211,419 provisionally detained there. more than a year before.
Among these volunteers are a number of German, Danish and Polish Communists who are placed under special control in the camp De- at Le Perthus.
Of the increase of 207,654, over 39,000 is accounted for by the first registration of boys and girls leav- ing school at the end of the cember term, while 84,319 is in res- pect of persons temporarily laid
off.
In addition to the committees of French officers, the international control commission for supervision of the withdrawal of foreign vo-
stated to be carefully examining the newcomers..
Part of the decline in employ of the Iranian Crown Princement was due to the severe wea-lunteers from Republican Spain is ther which restricted outdoor em- Mohamed Resa and the Egyptian ployment at the date of the Jan- Princess Fawzia has now been de-uary count.-British Wireless. finitely fixed.
Mohamed
will Resa
leave Teheran on February 20, and pro- ceed via Baghdad to Cairo where he is expected to arrive on March 3. The Crown Prince will stay 'in Egypt as a guest of King Faruk. The signature of the marriage contract will take place on March 16, before the Rector of the Uni- versity Sheik el Maraghi.
sort accompanied by the Dowager The Crown Prince and his con- Queen Nazli will leave for Iran by the Royal yacht "Mahroussa" at the beginning of April.
the traffic on the underground rail-and their Egyptian guests will be On April 14, the Royal couple
ways has decreased since the investigation at Bow Street began. at the Port of Bandar Shapur. received by the Empress of Iran
BUSES CROWDED
As against that, the motorbus traffic has greatly increased and last evening the lines going from the West End and the city to the suburb were all crowded.
Police enquiries into the recent outrages are proceeding, and last night it became known that a man had been detained in Liverpool on a charge connected with Friday's explosions at London tube stations.
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Meanwhile, the twelve men who had been arrested following earlier outrages, appeared on remand Bow Street Police Station charged with conspiring to cause explosions.
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LR.A. DOCUMENTS Documents purporting to be is sued by the "Irish Republican Army" were read by prosecuting counsel, outlining what was des- cribed as a plan for bombings and other outrages calculated to cause panic and dislocate important ser- vices
Accused were again remanded. Trans-Ocean and British Wireless.
TEA CONFERENCE
London; To-day.
The official reception by Resa Sha will follow in Teheran. The wed- ding festivities will last from April 21 till April 24, the anniversary of the Shah's ascent of the throne.
Trans-Ocean.
DR. AZANA REPORT
in
Geneva, To-day. Reports received here state that the President of the Spanish Re publica, Dr. Azanà, arrived Colonges, 20 kilometres south-west of the lake of Geneva, · on the Franco-Swiss frontier, yesterday.
SOUTH AFRICAN LAND DEAL
This commission consists of a British General as Chairman as- sisted by one French, one Nor- wegian and one Iranian officer holding captain's, rank. It is pro- bable that only a few volunteers of the International · Brigade can Berlin, To-day, bé repatriated since the majority The South African Government have broken the laws of their res- recently purchased 700,000 hectares pective countries so that the task of land in South-West Africa from will be incumbent on the interna- the Liebig Company, according to tional commission of discovering a Capetown report in the London other States willing to offer made by the German Govern- "Times," which asserted that
the these. emigrants. Trans-Ocean. ment for acquisition of the property in question was outbidden by the Government of the Union.
chase was in the nature of a “reac
The report also stated that the pur-
German inhabitants of South-West tion" against the protests of the Africa who recently complained of expropriation measures carried out by the Mandatory authorities. Trans-Ocean.
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GENEVA AND WORLD COURT
Geneva, To-day..
The League of Nations' Secre- tariat published yesterday corres- pondence with the Netherlands Gov- ernment on the admissibility of denunciation of the optional clause of the Hague Permanent Interna-
SHANGHAI CUSTOMS tional Court by the Government of
Chungking, To-day.
Paraguay last June.
The Netherlands Government de- A foreign high Customs officer clares that it does not wish to denied that the Shanghai Customs raise any opposition to this denun- would be reorganised, as reported ciation as such but that it makes by Mr. A. Arita, Japanese Foreign all reservations regarding the rights Minister, in the House of Repre- of States to denounce treaties that sentatives but admitted that the Ja- do not in themselves contain any pancse had asked for an increase of provision for doing so. Japanese officers in the Customs,
The Secretary-General of the Lea- which matter was being discussed
declared gue of Nations
in his Dr. Azana, it is stated, is on his between the Shanghai Customs Com- answer that he would bring the view the missioner and the Japanese au-of the Netherlands Government to way to his brother-in-law, former Spanish Consul General inthorities,
message the signatories of the Hague Sta- Geneva.
AMBASSADOR'S TRIBUTE
a. Shanghai states.-Central News,
POLISH JEWS' PETITION
To-day.
Jews in Poland have sent a' peti- tion to the British Government in favour of reopening emigration of Jews to Palestine.
Col. C. R. Spear, Military Attache to the British Embassy, was pre- sent at the funeral of the late Ma- jor R. Scott, who had been Assis- The next session of the interna-Itant Attache. 'tional tea conference has been fixed Col. Spear represented the. Am- The petition points out that 190,- for March 2, when the quota for the [bassador, Sir Archibald Clark 000 of 850,000 Jews who have emi- period from April 1, 1989 to March Kerr, and laid a wreath on the grated since 1927, were Polah 31, 1940 will be fixed.-Trans-Ocean, 'grave for the Ambassador.
Jews.
tute and the members of the Lea- gue of Nations.→→→Trans-Ocean.
GIB. COMMAND
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London, To-day. Rear Admiral · Norman Wode- house has been appointed Rear- Admiral in charge and Admira! Superintendent of the Naval Dock yard at Gibraltar in succession to Rear-Admiral Evans.
He will asetime command about
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