THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 80, 1989
POLAND WILL REJECT ANY RETROCESSION DEMANDS
PLAIN LANGUAGE CZECH EFFORT
IN POLISH SENATE
Warsaw, To-day.
"Poland will not consent to the return of Danzig to the German Reich. Poland will not consent to the building of a motor-highway across the Polish Corridor. Poland will not agree to ad- here to the Anti-Comintern Pact.” Thus the Marshal of the Polish Senate, Colonel Miedzinski, yesterday in reply to questions by one of the leaders of the Polish Unity Party. "To any such demand, Poland would answer 'No,'
the speaker stated.
In view of the fact that the meet- ing of the Party leaders was secret, little information is available, but it was stated that so far there has not been any attempt to exert pres- sure on the Government.
It was confirmed, however, that
GOVERNMENT
TO FORM PARLIAMENT VETOED
HATAY TO JOIN TURKEY
Antioch, To-day.
The final incorporation of the "Republic of Hatay" with Turkey is imminent.
PRAGUE, TO-DAY. The President of Hatay, Tayfour RUMOURS CONCERNING THE Sokmen, said he would rather be ABOLITION OR LIMITATION OF the representative of the Turkish THE CZECH PROTECTORATE port of Antioch in the Parliament ARE GROUNDLESS, DECLARED of Ankara than hold his present THE PRESIDENT OF THE COM- position. MITTEE OF NATIONAL PEO-
PLES COMMUNITY, DR. HRUBY, This statement, together with the AFTER CONFERRING WITH fact that both the President and PRESIDENT HACHA, HEAD OF the Premier of Hatay are already THE CIVIL GOVERNMENT IN|nominated as delegates to the Tur- PRAGUE, KONRAD HENLEIN kish Parliament, indicates that an AND DR. PACHMANN,
"anschluss" is to be expected the near future-Trans-Ocean.
He informed the Committee that President Hacha was opposed to the idea of the committee of the Na- tional Peoples Community taking over the functions of the dissolved
QUESTIONED ABOUT Parliament.
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indirect negotiations had taken place HEAVY SENTENCE
The British
London, To-day, Government was
on the Danzig question and it was added that contact between Poland and Germany has been maintained for some time past on the question.sharply attacked in the House of
Agitation among the German
Commons yesterday because of the minority in Poland has increased
imposition of a prison sentence of during the last few days.
10 years
and 18 lashes on a 13- year-old Arab boy, who shot at a Jew and wounded him.
ANOTHER “INCIDENT**
of
It is reported that members the Radical Polish Federation forc-
This would be opposed to the duties of the Committee and to the legal status of country as defined by Germany.
All political organisations and to be dissolved and movements in the Protectorate are the National Peoples Community, will in future express the will of the Czech people and constitute their only political organisation.
The Czech Government, he stated,
PRELUDE TO RECOGNITION?
Burgos, To-day.
in
sador in Washington, Fernando de The Republican Spanish Ambas-
los Rios, has left the Spanish Em- the State Department, it is announc- bassy and turned the keys over to ed by the Spanish Foreign Minis- try.-Trans-Ocean.
for labour camps and employment is preparing a definite programme FOG OR MIST
Czech workers to Germany is not that a weak anti-cyclonic area covers measures. Emigration of too many
The Royal Observatory reports desired but the Government is in the Pacific to the southeast of Ja- pan and a ridge of high pressure
favour of the introduction of com-
ed their way into public houses and whether the Government approved Members of Opposition demanded demanded that guests cease speak-such sentences and whether the ing in German. "Several Germans Secretary of State for the Colonies were struck down with chairs and
was in a position to prevent the one German, Karl Minde, was se-sentence from being carried out. verely injured.”
The Polish Foreign Minister, Co-clared:
In reply, Sir Thomas Inskip de-pulsory labour service, which would
The complaints will be lonel Beck, conferred with the taken into
compel every Czech worker to con consideration by the tribute a certain number of days leader of the Government Party, Government.-Trans-Ocean.
work to the State. Trans-Ocean. General Skwarzynski, and his chief of staff, Colonel Wenda, yesterday. It is believed that the German- Polish question was exhaustively discussed.
Mr. R. Edwards, the Police Magistrate, has reported the loss of articles, valued at $25, from his car, The French Ambassador, M. Noel, while it was parked in Barker Road was received by the deputy Foreign | yesterday. Minister, Count Szembek
He
Colonel Beck will depart on Satur- day for his visit to London. will travel across German territory. In contrast to the British press, the Polish press refrain from speculat- ing on the outcome of the London Conference-Trans-Ocean.
HOUSEBOY IN COURT
was
Li Chuen, 24, house boy, brought before Mr. T. J. Houston at the Central Magistracy this morning, charged with larceny of $11 from Mr. D. W. Hume, at "Woodside" Mount Parker Road, Quarry Bay, on Tuesday,
Defendant was employed as
extends from it to Korea. Depres-
alons are situated to the west of
Hokkaido and to the southwest of Shanghai, both are moving east- ward. The depression over Tong-
Mr. B. O'M. Deane, of Watson's king is stationary. Apartment, lost his car No. 4258, · Local forecast:-E. and S. E. which was taken from the winds, moderate; cloudy, local fog Connaught Road Car Park yester or mist. day.
Britain Hardly Thinks It Worth While To Drag League Into It
London, To-day.
The British Government do not favour the calling of a meeting of the League Council to consider the international situation and they prefer at the present time to conduct consultations upon issues arising from recent events through ordinary diplomatic chan- nels rather than to see a conference of certain States for dis- cussion of the possibilities of common. "action as proposed by
the Soviet Government.
MINISTRY OF MUNITIONS?
London, To-day.
The Premier, in the Commons, declined to answer a question as to whether the Government planned to create a Ministry of Munitions, deliberate on whether to change its stating that the Government would
former negative viewpoint Trans- Ocean.
MENINGITIS CASES
These points emerged in a num-, ly a joint declaration on the part Twenty-eight cases of tuber- servant by Mr. Hume. On Tues- ber of Commons answers given of Powers interested in the main-culosis, seven measles, five menin- day, it was alleged, complainant put yesterday by the Under-Secretary tenance of peace but conclusion of gitis, four typhoid fever, four the money into his dressing table, for Foreign Affairs and the Prime a definite pact of mutual defence dysentery, three chickenpox, two and found it missing next morning. Minister, when asked by Mr. Booth- against aggression. The Police were informed, and seven by (Liberal) to give favourable con- pok one dollar notes were found in de-sideration to the proposal for sum- fendant's possession.
Defenda.
ther enquirie
remanded for
atch valued at
between the Kowlo
Ferrand Gloucester Hotel.
IN TOUCH moning immediately a conference of The Under Secretary confined owers whose interests lie in the himself to referring the House to enervation of peace in Eastern the statement he made at question
time, on Tuesday.
Boothby asked for an assur-
the object of the dip
smallpox and one diptheria were were reported to the local Health Department yesterday.
-the world liner which was due in
The
He added in a supplementary re- the Government were's in with
ff the Unior
har
at 11 am. to-day has
reless.
fog. The time
arvival is not yet cer-