THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 27, 1939
POLAND REFUSES TO PLAY Unwilling To Give Tacit Support To Italy
COUNT CIANO'S
PRESSURE UNSUCCESSFUL
Warsaw, To-day. Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, had a conversation with Colonel Joseph Beck, the Polish Reports that Count Ciano pressed for a definition of the Polish attitude towards the Italian claims against France, lend special interest to Colonel Beck's speech the previous night.
con Minister, yesterday afternoon.
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The speech was interpreted as a hint that Poland has no intention of giving tacit support to a policy which might injure the interests of her French "ally."
Colonel Beck would doubtless | like to obtain a clear statement of Mussolini's attitude towards exten- sion of Germany's commercial and political influence in South-East Europe, since Poland was appointed by the failure of Italo- German arbitration to award Ruthenia to Hungary, which would have created a Polish-Hungarian frontier.
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Polish circles regard the present frontier as a potential source of trouble and the centre of anti-
Ularnialan propaganda. Polish Reuter.
SECOND CONVERSATION
Warsaw, To-day. The Italian Foreign Minister, Cóunt Ciano, had, a second conver sation with Foreign Minister Beck on Sunday afternoon. Silence guarded on both sides regarding the outcome of the conversations.
Earlier, Count Ciano attended the
EGYPTIAN-IRAN ROYAL MARRIAGE
Baghdad. To-day.
The Crown Prince of Iran. Mohamed Resa, now on his way to Cairo to sign a marriage contract for his alliance with the Egyptian Princess Fawzia, arrived in Baghdad yesterday.
The Prince who had left Teheran on Friday morning, was met at the Iraqi frontier, by Prince Abdul Ilah and the Deputy Prime Minis-
ter.
mem
ed by Prince Zoid representing the King and accompanied by bers of the Iraq Cabinet.
At the railway station in unveiling ceremony of a monument | Baghdad," the Prince was welcom- of Colonel Nullo, an Italian who was killed in action during the Polish uprising against Russian rule in 1863. The monument is a gift of the town of Bergamo which was
In the evening, King Ghazi gave n banquet in the Royal Palace in honour of from Iran,
of Egypt
NEW FORMULA GERMANY'S
FOR MEXICO OIL CAMPAIGN NOT CONTROVERSY
Washington, To-day
A new formula for settle ment of the dispute arising from Mexico's expropriation of foreign oil properties is expect ed to be submitted" the re-
by
presentatives of the oil com- panies to the Mexican Govern-
ment this week,
A telegram from Mexico City, published in the "New York Times" states that the com- panies will offer U.S.$150,000,- 000 in cash or credits, for the right to operate the expropriat- ed wells for fifty years.
Suitable guarantees regarding taxation and labour conditions
BEGINNING
OF PROHIBITION
Berlin, To-day.
· In connection with the campaign by the Chief Office for Public Health against the misuse of alco- hol and tobacco, devoted to fight- ing the immoderate consumption of these two luxuries, the question has arisen whether the campaign has as its ultimate aim the --es- tablishment of prohibition in Ger- many.
The Office has how-issued a state- ment about the object and nature of the campaign:—
milliard reichsmarks were
will be embodied in an intern-In Germany, during 1938, seven national treaty and at the end of fifty years the properties would revert to the Mexican Government.-Reuter.
spent on alcohol and tobacco alone, it gays.
-“Consumption
increases from
RETURN OUT OF QUESTION year to year an
Mexico City, To-day. In general principles, the return of the expropriated oil properties is out of the ques- tion, reiterated Castiló Najera, Ambassador to Washington, on arrival here.
Najera referred to the forth- coming visit of Messrs. Rich- berg and Hurley, representing the Standard-Vacuum Corpora- tion and the Sinclair Consoli- reported to be bringing pro- dated Corporation, who-are
posals in connection with the oil controversy to submit to President Cardenas, the nature of which are unknown.
Najera expressed the opinion that the matter was between (Mexico and private interests and in no sense an interna- tional issue. Reuter.
brought to Warsaw by the Mayor representativen quest bolne M.P.
of town, Pigna,
Trans-Ocean.
among the guests. --
is
ON SLEEPING
Crown Prince Mohamed Resa IN THE COMMONS
expected to reach Cairo in the first days of March, and because of the forthcoming marriage will, for four weeks, be the guest of
GERMAN BID FOR
BLUE RIBAND King Farouk.
Berlin, To-day. The fight for the Blue Riband of the Atlantic has not been aban-
The signature of the marriage contract, will be made before the Rector of the Azar Mosque, Sheik El Maraghi, on March 26.
Hard At Times Not To
a corresponding increase- damage done by the
the
al-
cohol and tobacco. Such a develop- ment must be checked unless, in ir- responsible manner, public health is to be jeopardised.
"There is no question of any ob- of ligation to total abstinence or establishment of total prohibition in Germany.
The principles advocated by the competant Office leaves the healthy adult free to live moderately, and abstemiously.
The youth, however, is expected to refrain from the use of alcohol and tobacco.
The forthcoming Reichs Con- gress is intended to inaugurate po- pular discussion of these problems with the object of putting an end, in due course, to any increase in consumption of these injurious lu- xuries."-Trans-Ocean.
The residence of Mr, Kwok Huen- kwan,
47 Robinson Road, was onter- ed on Saturday and jewellery and clothing to the value of $69 stolen.
People need not be surprised at a good deal of sleeping going on in the
The P and O. liner "Canton" House of Commons, said Sir George Hume, M.P., at a meeting at Green left Singapore on Saturday and is wich, which he has represented since due here on Wednesday at noon.
"You get weary at times, and in
At the beginning of April, the doned by but will be re- Crown Princo and Princess will go 1922.
sumed when
ships replacing to Teheran where wedding fenti- the "Europa" and "Bremen" are vities will be held from April 21 the atmosphere of the House it is built, according to the Reich Minis- to 24.
tor
for Transportation, Dr. Julias Dorpmueller, at a banquet on tho 25th anniversary of the German Society for World Economy.
The Minister pointed to the plan ned enlargement of the Kaiser Wil- helm canal at Kiel with 400-metro- long sluices, enabling even the larg cat ships to pass through from the Baltic to the North Sea."
Trans-Ocean.
JOURNALISTS DEPORTED
Rome, To-day,
BAID
to
very difficult to keep awake," he "But the public do not seem be able to appreciate our dificul- ties. Some of the beat members are the silent ones.”
“You always hear criticism about members' lack of interest in some of the debates,” he added. "It is
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Three newspaper correspondents not surprising. Some of the mem- ROYAL BUTED T of Swiss nationality have been ox- bers seem to speak only with the Iden of getting their name into pelled from Rome."
"The Four Years Plan,” the Ono of them, M. Gentizon, has their local papers."
Minister is only a transition been Rome correspondent for the Sir George is retiring before the stage to a new economic world or Paris paper, "Le Temps," while the next general election. dor in
which overy German resident other two represented Swiss news- abroad will be of great importance, papers.
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Despite the present labour shortage Political motives are bolioved to The r.m.s. “Empress of Britain" in Germany, Germans living abroad underlie the expulsion order. It is due at Singapore to
should remain at their prets and is alleged that the correspondents .7, p.m., leaves
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