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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 21, 1989
SITUATION ON
OF
RUMANIA
World Conflict Inevitable, Says Budapest
STATE OF
SIEGE IN DAMASCUS
Paris, To-day.
The revolutionary movement in Syria is spreading, and French troops yesterday occupied all im- portant buildings and streets in Damascus.
The official French version 'says the measure
is prompted by the series of incidents recently.
"Le Journal" says a number have
been
killed in clashes between
mobs and police.
The French military authorities announce that parades and demon- strations are forbidden, and what amounts to a state of siege exists in Damascus.
The Syrian Cabinet crisis is still unsolved. 'Trans-Ocean."
-
STATE OF EMERGENCY
Damascus, To-day.
"We Are At The Last Ditch--." French Premier
London, To-day.
Latest reports indicate that the trade agreement between Germany and Rumania will be signed in Bucharest to-morrow (Wednesday). is disclosed that the Rumanian Government re- fused a German demand that Rumania should devalue her currency and that Germans should
It
BRITAIN
MAY KEEP OLD BATTLESHIPS
* London, To-day, The Admiralty indicates that should Germany carry out the threat made in official Nazi news- papers Anglo-
German Naval Agreement, Bri tain will not scrap the Royal So-
vereign class of battleships as
has been intended.
PIUS XII
be given a share in the exploitation of Italian Crown Prince in audience
Rumanian oil resources.
Vatican City, To-day. Pope Pius XII received the
yesterday. The Crown Prince, who
Rumania, in the meantime, has stopped all military had represented the King of Italy leave and is continuing to strengthen her fron-at the coronation of the Pope, sub- tier defences, along the Ruthenian and Hun-Secretary Maglione.--Trans-Ocean. garian borders.
A delicate situation threatens, in this connection as it is reliably reported that the Hungarians concentrated additional have troops on the Rumanian border, "because extra Rumanian forces have been coming up."
Budapest also announces that Count Teleki, the Prime Minister
SOLID FRONT AGAINST TYRANNY
Quebec, To-day.
The leader of the Canadian Na- A state of emergency was proof Hungary, is paying a visit to tional Conservative Party declared claimed here by the Mandatory au-Rome before the end of March.
Puaux,
thorities yesterday and the city was A reliable estimate says that yesterday that the party would occupied by troops. The High Com-Hungary to-day has 400,000 men gladly join in support, of British missioner, M.
foreign policy. his Deputy, M. de Hautecloque to take all necessary measures for restoration of order.
All meeting and street
instructed
under arms.
“CONFLICT INEVITABLE”
a
He said the Canadian people were of one heart and mind, and demon- A sensation has been created were determined to save liberty.
Hitler's word, he continued,..no. strations have been prohibited. by publication in a semi-official
M. de Hautecloque in a proclama-Hungarian newspaper of a lead-longer deserved trust, and he call- that a ed for a solid front against the tion to the population, recalled that ing article which says France was the traditional protec-world conflict appears inevitable. tyranny of Nazi dictatorship. tor of Islam and was alone in the In that event, Hungary must re- within the Rome-Berlin position to guarantee the Syrian main independence.
its
axis.
The National Arab bloc which is. The Paris correspondent of the the largest party in Syria passed "Daily Mail" says that France is a resolution affirming deter- determined that Rumania shall mination to organise passive renot share the fate of Czecho- sistance and to refuse its support Slovakia, and there is likelihood to any new Government that may of the despatch to Rumania of a be formed. The resolution further military mission,
In the Chamber yesterday, M. reiterated the demand for an im-1 mediate proclamation of Syrian in-Daladier, in the course of a state- dependence. Trans-Ocean.
ment on developments declared:
CABINET MEETING AT CANBERRA
:
“At Munich I did my best to
avoid war.
"Now we are at the last ditch.
MEN CALLED UP
ORDERS BY SECRET RADIO STATION
to
A secret Syrian Arab wireless
broadcast instructions station Rebel leaders in Syria to begin the
J
distribution of arms to their fol- lowers in Damascus, Aleppo, Latakia
and Homs, in preparation for simultaneous revolt..
The French believe that the secret
an-
wireless station may be located in Libya. This station began broad- casting several days ago, and nounced the creation of a "Greater Syrian Revolutionary Committee " in The Hungarian Legation in After referring to the revolt
promised of Palestine the announcer Paris has issued a denial
rumours" that Hungarian troops the Syrians' victory against the are being, concentrated along the French authorities in Syria. southern and south-eastern fron- radio-tiers of Hungary.
Canberra, To-day. An emergency meeting of the Australian Cabinet has been called for to-day, followed a
All that has become necessary
telephone conversation between the is calling up of individual person- Premier, Mr. J. A. Lyons, and Mr. ages in order to bring up to full
Chamberlain.
The Australian High Commis- sioner in London, Mr. S. M. Bruce, has been asked to postpone his re turn to England in order to attend
meeting. ̈
strength the regiments ordered to occupy the Carpatho-Ukraine because these operations were in no way prepared beforehand and had to be carried out chiefly by frontier guards.
Trans-Qean.
SO "EVENING STANDARD" SAYS
London, To-day.
The "Evening Standard" states that Lord Halifax having con- formably with the Cabinet's decl- sion asked the Soviet Ambassador, M. Maisky, if England could rely on the Soviet Union furnishing
the
sequently visited Cardinal
State
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