THE CHINA -MAIL, FEBRUARY 15, 1999
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SWISS RECOGNITION OF FRANCO
Berne, To-day.
The Federal Council has decid- ed to transform the present Swiss representation at Burgos into a Legation.
It will ask. General Franco's Government for its consent to no- mination of a Minister:-Reuter,
DUAL-PURPOSE HOLIDAY CAMPS FOR CHILDREN
London, To-day. Reference to the Government scheme for 50. holiday camps which will be used to provide
NEW JAPANESE EMBARGO IN HANKOW
Shanghai, To-day.
A message from Hankow states that the Japanese authorities have again placed a strict embargo on foodstuffs entering the French con- cession of Hankow..
It will be recalled that the Ja- panese previously stopped food- stuff shipments into the French con- cession, and that this ban was lift- ed after the French and Japanese authorities had reached an agree- ment concerning the feeding of Chinese refugees within the French concession.
The new embargo is likely to re- sult in a new dispute between the French and Japanese authorities.
-Trans-Ocean.
more than 150,000 schoolchildren DEATH SENTENCE
with a fortnight in the country during the five best months of the year and will be available in a national emergency for evacua- tion of children from danger,' was made by the President of the Board of Education in Plymouth yesterday.
Lord de la Warr said at such an addition to the education machine was a challenge to educationalists to
ensure that the best use was made
of it both for improving the health of children and for widening of their interest. British Wireless.
FOUR CRUISERS TO JOIN U.S. ATLANTIC FLEET
Washington, To-day.”
Four 10,000-ton cruisers-San Francisco, Quincy, Tuscaloosa and Houston-will join the new United States Atlantic Squadron in June on completion of goodwill visita to six South African cities.
The Atlantic Squadron, which was created last year, now consists of four battleships, eight light cruisers, 17 destroyers and one supply ship.
-Reuter.
M. PIRLOT ASKED TO FORM CABINET
Brussels, To-day. King Leopold yesterday asked the Catholic Senator, Hubert Pirlot, to form the Cabinet.
Pirlot is a Walloon and was Home Minister from 1934 till 1935, and Agricultural Minister from 1936 till 1938 in the Cabinets of van Zeeland and Janson Trans-Ocean.
"NIKST
ON LOYALIST JUDGE
Barcelona, To-day.
several days, the former, chairman After a court martial lasting.
in Barcelona Senor Eduardo Bar- of the Republican emergency court riobero, was sentenced to yesterday.
death
He was arrested 10 days ago in Barcelona and charged with .the murder of numerous Nationalist Spaniards.
In the соихве of a further "purge" of Catalan territory, the chairman of the former people's court, Ventura Salazar has been arrested in Barcelona. Ocean.
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350,000 REFUGEES IN FRANCE
Paris, To-day.
An official French survey reveals that 350,000 Spanish refugees have entered France from Spain during the last three weeks.
Of this number, 50,000 went to re-
National Spain at their own quest, 150,000 were transported to the interior and scattered over var- ious departments, while the remain- derare in refugee camps along the frontier.-Trans-Ocean.
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Paris, To-day.
A total of 200,000 Spanish militiamen have crossed into France. Reuter.
PRINCE EDWARD RD. BURGLARY
Mr. H. C. Brown; of the Har- bour Department, residing at
· No. 248, Prince Edward Road, has reported the theft of jewel- fery valued at $1,140 from his residence between, midnight, on Monday and 9 a.m., yesterday.
ANGLO-DUTCH TALKS
London, To-day.
Dr Patijn Netherlands Foreign Minister called on Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary, at the House of Lords last evening. British Wireless.
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