THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1989
Isolationist Pressure
Unrelaxed
ROYAL VISIT TO
BELFAST POSTPONED
London, To-day. The visit of the Duke and Duchess of Kent to Northern Ireland has been postponed in- definitely.
A notice issued from the offi-
In Washington
WALSH WANTS PROHIBITION OF ALL TRADE IN WAR
Washington, To-day. Senator Walsh, chairman of the Senate naval affairs commission, has called for expansion of the navy and the air corps "to protect this na- tion against any eventuality."
He said: "We can no longer adequately defend a two-ocean nation with a one-ocean navy."
cial residence of the Duke of Senator Walsh simultaneously demanded revision
Abercorn states that at the re- quest of the Government of Northern Ireland, the Governor informed the Duke that it would be preferable if the projected visit of Their Highnesses did not take place this year.
The Duke of Kent kindly ac- quiesced, “and expressed the hope
of the Neutrality Act to prohibit all trade with belligerents after the outbreak of hostilities.
AUSTRALIA
that he will be enabled to pay a HOLDING NAVAL
State visit to Northern Ireland upon his return from Australia." The Duke and Duchess of Kent leave for Australia in the second
Reuter. week of October.
WORLD PUBLIC OPINION FOR PEACE BEHIND ROOSEVELT
Washington, To-day. World public opinion for peace
MANOEUVRES
AUSTRALIA'S
SYDNEY, TO-DAY.
BIGGEST NAVAL MANOEUVRES SINCE THE WAR HAVE BEGUN AND ARE CONTINUING UNTIL
WEDNESDAY,
H. M.-S. Leander, flagship of the New Zealand navy, and eight air co-operating force squadrons, are
with the Australian squadron.
The exercises have been planned as realistically as possible, and will include the stopping and questioning
of liners. Reuter.
HITLER STUDIES
"is strongly developing" behind NAZIS MILITARY
President Roosevelt's appeal to
Hitler and Mussolini, said the Secre-
tary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, in
a statement yesterday.
Mr. Cordell Hull déclared the
STRENGTH
Vienna, To-day. After inspecting troops at Administration was "much grati-Krems and St. Poelter, the Fuehrer
SOCIALISTS
REFUSE TO COOPERATE
Brussels, To-day.
The Socialist Party Congress yesterday rejected, by a majority of 62,000 votes and 15,000 absten- tions, a resolution in favour of Socialist participation in the Gov- ernment, Reuter.
GENERAL LIST
PROMOTED
Berlin, To-day.
•
General List, Commander-in-
He further proposed that the Government refrain from taking sides and expressing favour or Chief of Army Group V, has been disfavour in foreign arguments promoted to Colonel General in and disputes.
Drawing a parallel with condi-recognition of services rendered in tions prior to the entry of the the Ostmark. United States into the World The act of promotion was carried" War, Senator Walsh warned the out by the Fuehrer following his Senate:
inspection of sections of Army Group V.
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"To-day in similar fashion pro paganda is being frantically and This is the first time that a Gor- brazenly spread in order to em- man army group commander has broil us in the present European been promoted to the rank of a Co- disputes, which do not concern us lonel General. and appear certain to lead to an- other devastating war."
PANAMA CANAL Discussing defence needs, Senator Walsh said: "Destruc tion of the Panama Canal, for instance, might throw the pre- sent one-ocean navy system of national defence entirely out of joint."
Reuter.
The two other Colonel-Generals of the German army are Colonel-Gen- eral Brauchitsch, the Commander- in-Chief of the Army, and Colonel- General Keitel, the Chief of
the Supreme Command.
These three Colonel-Generals hold the German the highest rank in army, with exception of Field Mar- Air shal Goering of the German Force and Grand Admiral Raeder,
OLD WOMAN which is equivalent to the rank of
VICTIMISED
Sentence of eight months' hard labour was imposed on Chan Yau, 30, by Mr. R. Edwards this morn- ing, when charged with stealing. from an aged woman in Connaught Road Central yesterday.
Sub-Inspector M. J. Flattery said
fied" by the reaction from the Euro-made inspections at Stockerau, the woman arrived from Macao. pean and Western hemisphere to northwest of Vienna, and at Stre-As she was calling for a rickshaw, the President's proposal,
bersdorf, on the German-Hungarian defendant frontier, south of Oedenburg.from her hand. Trans-Ocean.
He said: "There is evidence of a definite feeling that a practical and timely contribution has been made to the cause of peace, and that public opinion the most potent of all forces for peace is more strongly developing throughout the world."
Mr. Hull said he had received
CONSUL MURDER SENTENCES
London, To-day.
Six men implicated in the mur- no indication from Berlin and der of the British Consul in Mosul, Rome in regard to what their Mr. Monck-Mason, were sentenced answers would be. Reuter.
yesterday by court martial. în Bag- dad to terms of penal servitude varying from 8 to 16 years, accord- ing to despatches here from Bag
U.S. ORDERING
dad-Trans-Ocean.
ARMY EQUIPMENT FORGER SENT
WASHINGTON, TO-DAY.
TO GAOL
snatched the money
a General Field Marshal.-Trans- Ocean.
SHORT TERMS
FOR A PURPOSE
Charged with possession of a dagger for an unlawful purpose, Lau. Fuk was sentenced to nine months' hard labour by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, at the Criminal Sessions this morn-
PERMIT TO BOARD ing.
NOT ENOUGH
on
Twelve months' imprisonment was imposed Lau Loi who peaded guilty to possession of one rounds of Summoned this morning for revolver and nine hawking silkware aboard a ship ammunition. without a permit, the manager of the Swatow Weng Lee Co., Chan Hon Wing, was fined $20 by Mr.
E. Himsworth.
Lau San was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour for unlawful possession of one revolver and five rounds of ammunition.
The Chief Justice remarked that In answer to the summons, Chan said he had a permit to board the as accused were aliens he was im- The posing comparatively light sen- ship, the s.s. Franconia. Magistrate found that the permittences in the hope that they would only allowed defendant to go aboard be sent out of the Colony after
expiration of the terms. the ship, not to sell goods aboard.
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Helsinki, To-day.WEATHER FORECAST
The organisation committee for the 12th Olympic Games in 1940 has given legal protection in Fin- land to the symbolic five Olympic
THE SENATE YESTERDAY
For forging notes of the Hong PASSED THE $152,000,000 DE- FICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor-rings used as trade mark.i BILL.
poration; the Bank of Java; and That means, in practice, that the The Bill Includes a provision of the Bank of Indo-China, Ho Kong, import of foreign commodities bear $110.00
rmy equipment 65, was sentenced to two years' ing this mark is only possible with les, tanks, hard labour by Sir Atholl Mac-the permission of the Finnish Olym-
Gregor at the Criminul - Sessions pic organisation committee.
Trans-Ocean.
The Royal Observatory reports that a weak anticyclone covers, North China, Manchuria and Japan. A trough of relatively low pressure extends from Annam to Formosa.
The shallow depression over Tongking is stationary
Local forecast:- East winds, moderate; cloudy,