THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1989.
British Garrison At Gibraltar On The Qui Vive
CONSTANT
FRONTIER PATROL
Paris, To-day.
Reports from Gibraltar state that the British gar-
-300 ITALIANS HOME FROM MAJORCA
Genoa, To-day. Three hundred Italian troops.
of technicians from the Italian legionaries air base in Majorca, arrived here yesterday en route to Naples, where they will be de- mobilised.--Trans-Ocean,
rison in Gibraltar has been considerably from Spain, including number strengthened and that the frontier between Gibraltar and Spain is constantly patrolled by troops with complete wartime equipment.
The diplomatic correspondent of "Le Journal" QUEEN
points out that the fact alone that Spain is sit-
uated at the entrance to the Mediterranean GERALDINE
is such that the two Western-Democracies
would be compelled to demand special assur-OUT OF DANGER
ances from Spain.
STRONG DENIAL OF GERMAN MENACE TO NETHERLANDS
Berlin, To-day.
The official German News Agency, "Deutsches Nachrichten Buero," last evening issued a statement by the "Deutscher Dienst" denying in, very strong terms, the report the London "News-Chronicle" that
in
The correspondent believes that the visit of Marshal Petain to Paris is concerned with the as- surances expected by France of Spain.
QUEEN
ATHENS, TO-DAY. GERALDINE, WIFE OF KING ZOG OF ALBANIA, WAS REPORTED LAST NIGHT TO BE "OUT OF DANGER.”
Queen Geraldine has been suffer In view of the fact that "Spain's ing from puerperal fever brought position in the Mediterarnean is on as result of her flight across the more important than that of the mountains following the Italian in- Balkan countries," Francé and vasion of her country.. Britain are anxious to see all
She gave birth to a son only Spanish fugitives now on few days before. Reuter. French soil repatriated to Spain.
Spain, moreover, should be GREEK DELEGATION
compe led by political pressure to send home the Italian legionaries in `Spain.
France and Britain
may de-
a German official informed the Ber-mand a definite neutrality guar-
FOR BERLIN
Athens, To-day.
ANOTHER PORTUGUESE SHIP DETAINED
Shanghai, To-day.
Another Portuguese ship "Tai Tak" has been detained at Woo- sung. It was brought in yester day by a Japanese wärship.
Negotiations for the release of all the "arrested" ships flying the Portuguese flag, are still pro- ceeding between the Japanese authorities and the Portuguese Consul-General: Our Own Cor- respondent.
CHINESE RAID TO HUNGJAO
the
on
raid
Shanghai, To-day. Sounds of heavy firing on western outskirts on Shanghai Tuesday night were, explained by the Japanese spokesman yesterday when he admitted that Chinese guerillas had attempted to Hungjao Aerodrome.
According to Chinese reports, the before a skirmish lasted five hours
the Chinese eventually withdrew. Some 50 Japanese were killed and wounded. Our Own Correspondent.
THEFT FROM AN
OLD WOMAN
hard
-Charged...with having, snatched a lin correspondent of the paper that antee from Spain in the event of The Minister of Justice, M. Tam- Germany was preparing military a conflict, according to the cor-bakopulos, the Governor General of gold earring from an aged Chinese measures against the Netherlands. respondent, M. St. Brice, who ex- Macedonia,, M. Kirimis, and the Se-woman, in Sai Yeung Choi Street, -The "Deutscher Dienst" calls this presses the conviction that the cretary-General of the Ministry of an 18-year-old youth was this morn-
and situation in the Mediterranean Labour, M. Phocas, will be mem- ing sentenced to 8 months' message a "dirty invention” demands that the paper name the demands closer attention than bers of a Greek delegation leaving labour and 12 strokes.
Germany's plans in Eastern on Sunday for Berlin to attend the alleged "German official.”
The
adds Europe, although the latter too, celebrations on the occasion of the "Deutscher Dienst"
of reports requires careful watch by the 50th birthday of Adolf Hitler. that the sudden flood
Trans-Ocean. Democracies. about Germany's alleged intentions permits the conclusion that behind there irresponsible and tendencious messages are quarters interested in Trans- poisoning the atmosphere, Ocean.
DUTCH MINISTER CANCELS TRIP
Amsterdam, To-day.
The Dutch Minister of Economics, M. Steenberghe, who was to have sailed for the United States to open the Dutch Pavilion at the New York World Fair, has cancelled his trip......... The Dutch Pavilion will be opened by the Dutch Minister the United States Trans-Ocean..
KING AND QUEEN FOR WEMBLEY
to
Trans-Ocean.
Wang Ching-Wei Denounced For Defeatism
Chungking, To-day.
Defendant passed the earring to another man who was with him at the time, just as a district watch- man caught him. The accomplice had run off with the property which was not recovered. The woman whose right ear was bleeding badly, identified accused as the snatcher.
MEDITERRANEAN DEMONSTRATION?
Britain is planning in common with France a big naval demons-
"You are no different from Dr. Hacha, the last Pre-tration in Egyptian waters between
April 17 and 22, says a Trans-
sident of Czecho-Slovakia,” was one of the pun- Ocean message from Cairo.
gent phrases used by Mr. Wu Tze-hui, the cele- brated Chinese "elder statesman” in the open letter to Wang Ching-wei, exiled Kuomintang leader, yesterday.
Saying that many of the passages. alleged to have been quoted by Wang from the secret minutes of the National Defence Council, werg
ventions, Mr. Wu concluder say that the Communi
create disturbances.
will mention one example.
The area of the demonstration, the report suggests, will be tended to include the Turkish coast
and the Dardanelles.
NEW C.-IN-C. EAST INDIES
Landon, To-day.
ex-
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