U.S. NAVY APPOINTMENTS
BOTH COMPLAINTS DISMISSED
Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen both summons and dismissed
the case has counter-summons - in
G, Routley concerning Mr. W. and Wong Man-ming, owner of the New Dairy Farm, this morning.
Washington, To-day. Rear-Admiral Harold Stark been appointed to succeed Admiral Leahy as Chief of Naval Opera- tions. Admiral Leahy is retiring on May 1.
Rear-Admiral: Stark at present
is Chief of Ordnance.
Summing up, he said that both parties had suffered bruises in the fight, for fight it must have been. The appointment of Rear-Ad-
If it had been only an attempt to miral Hart to succeed Admiral Yar-hold each other and thus prevent a
the nell, commander-in-chief of
fight, bruises would not have been] Asiatic Fleet, is also announced.
suffered to the extent they wore. Reuter.
ITALIAN
both
He would have to dismiss summonses on the ground that neither side had proved to his satis-
COMMENTARY faction that the other side had been
Rome, To-day.
The fact that the Czechoslovak Republic has ceased to exist has caused no surprise here.
The papers emphasise that Mus- solini in a letter to Lord Runciman dated September 15, 1938, · wrote that not only the Sudeten problem but also the Hungarian, Polish and Slovak problems existed and must be eventually' solved.
Hence Italy can only welcome the triumph of national aspirations which were sacrificed at Versailles. Whilst affirming that the West- ern Powers have definitely lost the game in Central Europe, the
the party who had started it.
DIVIDING SPOILS
Yuen Sik, 28, was this morning months' hard to four sentenced
E. labour for burglary by. Mr. Himsworth at Kowloon.
re-
Defendant, with four others, was seen by Mr. E. D. Sykes, a sident in Sai Yee Street, on the hillside opposite his house, divid- ing clothing,
Witness summoned friends, went
papers
express the opinion that to the hill and caught defendant London and Paris will neverthe- but the rest escaped. less endeavour to make. political capital at the expense of the Axis powers out of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. -Trang-Océan,
Questioned by the police, accused stolen admitted the clothing was from a house, in Argyle Street March 12.
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