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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 10, 1939
REFUGEE FLOOD CONSERVATIVE
IN PRAGUE
Prague, To-day.
According to an announcement by the official Refugee Bureau, there are 150,000 persons regis- tered as refugees in Prague alone. Some 16,000 are emigrants from other countries, mainly from Ger- many and Austria.
About 82,000, or more than half, are unemployed.
Statistics further reveal that in Bohemia and Moravia only 50,000 refugees are receiving support and in Slovakia only 4,000 of a total of 12,000 refugees.
Concerning immigration from Czechoslovakia, 8,000 persons near- ly all Jews have left the country since October 1938.
H.D. WANT ELECTION
Conservative Party chiefs are
pressing Mr. Chamberlain for an
Some early General Election. suggest this month or just after the Badget in April
A number of Ministers are known to be in favour of an op- peal to the country, but there has been no ministerial conference on tho - matter.
GREATER OPTIMISM ON ARAB SIDE
London, To-day.
Members of the British Palestine
Besides the 16,000 foreign emi- grants who will not be allowed to take up a permanent residence, delegation had further informal there are 11,000, other persons discussions yesterday with the re- waiting for an opportunity to presentatives of Egypt, Saudi- leave the country.—Trans-Ocean. Arabia and Iraq.
CHINESE ORDER
:
These discussions served to clarify individual points while the Government is occupied with
SIAN CIVILIANS TO drafting of the final British pro-
EVACUATE
posals.
There is greater optimism on the Arab side now than a few days [ ago.
that
Shanghai, To-day. Ali Maher Pasha. chief Egyp- Repeated bomb attacks on Sian, tian delegate, considered capital of Shensi Province, have after the last Arab-Jewish de- induced the Chinese authorities to liberations last Saturday there order the partial evacuation of was nothing to be gained by re- this unfortified town, which is not maining longer in London. Never- protected against air-raids.
theless he has since decided to
Trans-Ocean. prolong his stay.
Tens of thousands of Chinese families have already begun to leave the town. The provincial authori- ties have taken all possible mea- sures to protect themselves against the repeated air-raids. Trans- Ocean.
COTTON INDUSTRY BILL APPROVED
London, To-day.
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JAPANESE DRIVE
IN KANSU FORESHADOWED
Tokyo, To-day.
The continuous air-attacks on Sian and other places on the so-
the water transport route for is China out of Soviet-Russia discussed at length by the "Japan Times."
The President of the Board of called "Red Road" Sian-Lanchow Trade announced in the House of Common's yesterday that the Government's decision to proce- ed with the Bill embodying
The "Japan Times" writes that proposals for reorganisation of the cotton industry of the joint com-it seems almost certain that these will be followed by mittee of cotton trade organisations, air attacks the draft of which was the subiect military operations with the object of obtaining a control over the of a recent ballot in the industry.
whole of North-West China, which The Bill, which will follow close would become possible with the ly the draft published last year,, domination of the Lunghai rail-
will be introduced in the Commons next week.-British Wireless.
way.
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COMING WEDDING REQUIEM MASS
The forthcoming wedding of Mr.
Paris, To-day.
Vadim Bonch, engineer, of No. 4, A solemn requiem mass was ce- Fort Street, North Point, and Miss lebrated in the Orthodox, Russian Lydia Prilipuchoff Huttl, of No. 49, Church at Cannes yesterday for the Kimberley Road; and of Seaman Rumanian Premier, Patriarch Mi- Allan Robert Croft, of HMS. ron Cristea, who died at Cannes Rainbow, and Miss Lau Shan-wah, suddenly on Monday.
of No. 825, Hennessy Road, Wan- The remains of the Patriarch chai, were announced this morn-left Cannes for Rumania yesterday ing.
lafternoon.~~Trans-Ocean...
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