THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 20, 1939.
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Creation Of A Ministry
Supply Expected Soon
Of
CHURCHILL STILL OUT OF FAVOUR WITH PARTY?
London, To-day. The creation of a Ministry of Supply will probably take place following the Cabinet's regular ses- sion yesterday, according to informed quarters. The remark which Mr. Chamberlain made in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon is generally regarded as a hint forecasting such a step.
The new Ministry will, it is believed, be endowed
BRITISH
POLICEMAN KILLED
Jerusalem, To-day.
A British policeman was killed in the Old City of Jerusalem yes-. terday morning.
A 24-hour state of emergency has been declared in the Arab dis- trict-Trans-Ocean.
QUICK-WITTED
with full powers for control and co-ordination AMAH DEFEATS
of industrial production.
EAR. LOSEY AND POLICE EVIDENCE
Thus it will have the right to compel industrial concerns to re-
ARMED GANG
ject orders by private firms or it A quick-witted amah, Ip Kip, may transfer such orders to other frustrated an attempt by three rob- factories not engaged in the manu-1 facture of armaments.
bers, armed with a revolver and The co-ordination of the supply floor of No. 101, Argyle Street, dagger, from entering the ground departments of the army, navy and
air force and their amalgamation Mongkok, at 10 a.m. to-day. in a single organisation will, so it
PREMIER HOLDS
OUT NO HOPE OF CONVINCING GERMANY
LONDON, TO-DAY. WHEN ASKED IN THE COM- MONS BY MR. MANDER (LIBER- (AL). IN CONNEXION. WITH THE MUTUAL AID ARRANGEMENTS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES, IF IT WAS PROPOSED THAT THE OB- LIGATIONS SHOULD BE RECI. PROCAL AND THAT ARRANGE- MENTS SHOULD BE OPEN TO THE ADHERENCE OF ALL COUNTRIES, THE PRIME MIN- ISTER REPLIED:
"As I informed Mr. Attlee yes- terday, His Majesty's Government is still in consultation with other interested governments, and I am not yet in a position to add any
thing to recent statements." ·
Mander suggested that if it were In a supplementary question Mr.
made clear that the arrangements were open to all countries willing
ments constituted encirclement.
PREMIER'S REALISM-
“I have had a lot of experience is pointed out, not present great She was, however, slashed with to give guarantees to accept obli- with the way these cases go and difficulties as the personnel of the the dagger on the wrist and arm gations, that would go a long way am well acquainted with the way present separate supply depart- by one of the robbers and had to to discount German propaganda in which the Crown presents ments of the three services and the be admitted to the Kowloon Hos-that these purely defence arrange- them," was the reason given by framework of their organisation|pital for treatment. Mr. F. H. Loseby for declining to will be taken over by the Ministry question P.C.B.693, in a against Li Ping Cheung, No. 68, Fak Wah Street, ground floor, who was summoned for obstruct- ing the thoroughfare.
case
of Supply.
WINSTON CHURCHILL?
Hearing a knock at the door, the amah opened it, but immediately realising that the persons robbers she
were
The Prime Minister was under- threw her weight stood to reply that he feared those against the door attempting to who had made propagandist allega- tions of that kind would not be con- vinced of their mistake by the theo- retical consideration Mr. Mander had in mind.
The constable, giving evidence, lived to be the most likely candi-
Mr. Winston Churchill is still be-close it. said that on March 29; at about 8.30 am, he saw two men hanging up ter in view of his experiences as date for the post of Supply Minis- cotton cloth on the roof of a ver- andah.
Minister of Munitions during the
SLASHED BLINDLY
Another amah in the flat came to
The Premier answered affirma-
of including China and other Far Eastern countries in any combina- tion of governments for the purpose of resisting. aggression. British Wireless,
WEATHER FORECAST
He had told them that War, but none would be greatly sur-her assistance and the door was tively to another question in which they were causing an obstruction, prised if another personage is even-eventually closed and locked again, he was asked if the Government but they ignored him and walked tually appointed since Mr. Chur- but not before the first amah was would bear in mind the desirability into the shop. He then told them
chill's violent criticism of Mr. cut on the wrist and arm by one of that he was taking out a summons, Chamberlain's foreign policy in the the men who thrust his arm past and had taken down the name of the shop and the number.
past has not yet been forgotten the floor and slashed blindly at the and several members of the Ca- woman behind. Mr. Loseby, declining to ques- tion him, stated: "I was quite sure thies for Mr. Churchill are still op binet who never had great sympa- the Crown would not be prepared posed to his inclusion in the Ca- to present its case correctly. The constable has not even mentioned the name of my client. Even if he had, my client would have had a perfect right to hang cloth on the roof of his verandah."
That the creation of a Supply. Inspector Nolloth, prosecuting, Ministry (with functions consider- said the pavement was made for ably exceeding those of the Muni- people to walk on and not for people tions Ministry directed by Mr. to clutter it up with ladders, cloth, Churchill in the World War) 18 baskets and what-not.
imminent, is also confirmed by se-
binet.
URGENT NECESSITY
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After the door was closed the amahs blew police whistles, but the robbers had already vanished from the neighbourhood when the police arrived.
U.S. NAVAL AIR BASE PLANS
Washington, To-day."
The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone over Manchuria and Japan is moving slowly east- ward.
A shallow depression Tongking and South-West
covers China,
and a trough of low pressure: ex- tends from it across the northern part of the China Sea.
Local Forecast:-E: to S. E. winds, moderate; overcast, occa- sional rain with thunder, slowly im-
Mr. Loseby, objećted, saying it veral papers in their editorials. all depended on how long a person caused an obstruction. He could The "Daily Telegraph" as well not remember the constable having as the "Daily Mail" and the Labour
A Bill authorising expenditure of mentioned how long his client had organ the "Daily Herald" stress $668,000,000 on naval air bases was proving. caused the walk to be cluttered up.
that the creation of a new depart-passed by the Senate yesterday. He was, he said, dealing with the ment co-ordinating the supply of The measure now returns to the evidence presented before
the various services is an absolute House of Representatives for Court.
necessity in the present situation. tion on amendments-Reuter.
Trans-Ocean.
the
The case was dismissed by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen on the grounds
of insufficient evidence.
CAT BURGLAR
UNIVERSITY ROBBERY
WUNING ATTACK ATTACK
Slushui, To-day.
BC-
DARING RAID ON GARAGE
The shroff of the Shanghai Taxi
Company, at No. 33 Wongneichung,
Road, has informed the Police of a daring armed robbery at about 4.50 a.m. this morning,
Six men entered the garage, four. "Mrs. F. V. Parkes, of the Kowloon Mrs. L. Sloss, of the Hong Kong After-establishing contact, the of them armed with revolvers. Dockyards, has reported that, at University, has reported that be Chinese columns on the north and about 4 a.m. yesterday, a cat burg tween 8 and 11 p.m. on Tuesday, south banks of the Siu River, driv lar entered her residence by an come person airtered her residence, ing on Wuning, are reported to open window, and stole jewellery to and stole money and jewellery to have commenced their attack on the value of $186."
the value of $185,
the city itself.-Central News,
One of the garage fokis was tied up, the telephone wire was cut, and the place ransacked.
The robbers escaped by a taxi. No. 96, with a sum of $250.