THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 14, 1989
SITUATION IN BRATISLAVA GETTING OUT OF HAND
Series Of
Bomb Explosions Throughout City
F.B.I. BERLIN DELEGATES LEAVE
QUINS TO MEET KING AND QUEEN
LONDON, TO-DAY,
DELEGATION LEFT LONDON YESTERDAY MORNING FOR
Before leaving, Mr. Peter Ben-
Ottawa, To-day.
Mr. Oliva Dionne, father of the quintuplets, has accepted the in- vitation of the Ontario Govern- ment for the quins to go to Tor- onto to meet the King and Queen. The quins will be presented to Their Majesties on May 22 in the Lieutenant-Governor's chambers in the Legislative buildings.- Reuter.
The situation in Bratislava late last night was more THE FEDERATION. OF BRI- strained than at any time during the present TISH INDUSTRIES INDUSTRIAL crisis. Events during the night included clashes between GERMANY.
Czech police and Slovak demonstrators, and a nett, President of the delegation, series of bomb explosions throughout the city. stated the F.B.I. delegates were Bombs exploded outside the Coburg Palace, at the meeting their German colleagues of
the Reichsgruppe industries in world trade, Jesuit Monastery (the residence of Premier Dusseldorf. They expected to have Tiso), in a German newspaper building and at discussions lasting two or three other places.
ORDER NOT YET RESTORED IN CANTON
All windows within a radius of a kilometre were smashed.
days.
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Secondly, to settle upon a list of individual industries in the two
countries which could most useful- Objects of the meeting would bely start negotiations in the near threefold:-
future, and Firstly, to agrée on general Thirdly, to discuss difficulties Splinters of a time bomb, explod-principles upon which collaboration which might be encountered in the could best take place between Bri-working of agreements between ing near the Danube Bridge cottish and German industry to their British and German industries. necting Slovakia with Austria,
mutual advantage and that of British Wirelesa: wounded a number of Slovaks.
SIX KILLED
Czech troops, says one German CANTON, TO-DAY. report (unconfirmed from any BELIEVING THAT IT IS other source) fired at a crowd of TARTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR demonstrators who had reassem- THE CRIME WAVE, THE JAP-bled after having been dispersed ANESE AUTHORITIES HAVE with tear-gas..
Lord Halifax Defends Chamberlain Policy
beIn
BEGUN TO TACKLE THE Six were killed in clashes QUESTION OF UNEMPLOY.]tween Czech police and Slovaks. Two were killed in Theatre Square.
MENT IN CANTON.
According to semi-official sta- tistics, no less than two-thirds of the population are without work, and how they live is puzzle.
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Of those with work, the major- ity are employed by the Japanese military in rehabilitation.
Dr. Mach, Director of Propagan- da in the Slovak Government, was addressing a large meeting in Bra- tislava when Czech police
dis- persed the crowds.
NO CABINET CHANGE-
Meanwhile the Czecho-Slovak
Several thousands of unemploy-Council of Ministers continued in ed, however, are expected to have session through the night, and in jobs shortly following formation of
large Sino-Japanese
view of the gravity of the situa concern which intends to establish a num-
tion, the plan to make certain ber of factories.
changes in the Cabinet has been abandoned.
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BOLD ROBBERY
London, To-day.
a speech at a political demoustration at Sunder- land last evening the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, expressed the considered opinion that ? there was no occasion during the past few years when British policy on a major international issue could have followed a different line from the one it had followed without grave risk of leading to a major European war.
He spoke strongly of the suggestion that the action of the British Government regarding Minorca constituted intervention in the Spanish Civil War. It was nothing of the kind.
The invitation to facilitate dis- self-confidence its position and eir- demanded. British cussion between the opposing sides | cumstances (One of Hitler's demands was More medical clinics have been the dismissal of the Defence Min-was a tribute to British impartial- Wireless. opened in various parts of the city ister and the Minister for Interior).ity, and the Government acted as for the poorer classes, who are be- The Foreign Minister, Dr. Chval- ing urged with handbills and pos-kovsky, had an interview with Pre- ters to avail themselves of free in-sident Hacha last night. noculation against smallpox, cho-
lera, and so on.
The crime problem is still caus- ing the Japanese much anxiety. An extremely bold robbery occurred during the busiest part of the day when three armed men forced their way Into a house within a stones- throw of Shakes Road, facing Shameen.
They bound all the occupants, ransacked the-premises for money and jewellery and calmly walked away after collecting all the valu- ables they could lay their hands on.-Reuter..
DECLARATION TO THE SEVEN
London, To-day
WORKING UP OPINION
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they did to save human life.
The decision had been taken to CZECHS ARREST
attack Minorca, and there was no
chance of its making any effective 30 HUNGARIAN only result must have been a fur- LEADERS
resistance or receiving relief-the
Budapest, To-day.
Trans-Ocean messages from Ber-ther instalment of deep human suf- in reveal that German press.com-fering. ment is growing steadily sharper, The British naval captain did Thirty Hungarian political lead- and that indignation is gradually not intervene or mediate. He was ers have been arrested in Presov, being worked up all over the coun- merely authorised to convey the in Slovakia, by the Czechs, accord- try.
Spanish negotiators, and the resulting to the "Magyarszag.” All lead- was the saving of further uselessers of the Hlinka guards in that sacrifice.
town have also been arrested, it is WHAT_RECOGNITION MEANS stated.
The British Government had
clash broke out between thus rendered a service to peace Czech militia and the Hlinka and humanity' which was appre- Guards during which nine clated by both sides.
seriously wounded.
The situation in Slovakia is giv- ing way in news value to alleged attacks by Czech police on `mem- bers of the German-minority.
"Germans once more in distress" says the "Lokalanzeiger.” .
Other typical headings in the Nazi press are "Czech mob tears Swastika flag to pieces," "Brutal assaults," "Cheers for Benes,”
ap-
He went on to explain the mean- ing of the recognition accorded to General Franco's Government. The semi-official Nazi Foreign Recognition did not mean Office journal remains silent, but provál of the form of Government the Nazi Party "Voolkischer Boe- recognised or the means by which bachter" warns Prague against it obtained power. "new attacks on 350,000 people of It meant simply that a certain
The terms of a message about the German race who are still Itv-government commanded the alle the Balfour Declaration, com- Ing: in Czecho-Slovakla." municated by Commander The paper refers to this into Hogarth to King Hussein in Jan-erable situation for members of the uary, 1918, and of a message de-German nation." livered in June, 1918, to certain
prominent Arabs in Cairo about an early date.
the future of the Arab terri- A White Paper containing the tories, often described as "The famous McMahon-Hussein corres, Declaration of the Seven," are to pondence was issued ton days be published in a White Paper at ago. British Wireless.
were
Trans-Ocean.
KIDNAPPING IN N.T.
19-year-old
Kidnapping of the son of a park dealer in Ping Shan District, New Territories, by eight giance of a great majority of the armed mon was reported to the inhabitants of that country, and police last night. was thus the authority with which According to the pork dealer, other governments must have of- Tang Hong, 44, residing at an ficial contacts.
house in Lo Fu-san, Ping Shan, Lord Halifax at about 9 p.m. yesterday eight
steadfastly, mán, armed with a revolver, dag- · ontinue take ger and four mausers, entered his a mogsbary to, house, taking $245 and kidnapping give the country the strength and his son,
The Government, declared, while for peace, would whatever i stopa