THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 4, 1939.
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LOYAL ADDRESS TO KING AND QUEEN
House Of Parliament And Trip To Canada
FRENCH EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
Paris, To-day.
Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of
Paris, in his capacity as Papal
yesterday of the 12th French Na- tional Eucharistic Congress Algiers.
A bull announcing the appoint- ment of the Papal Legaté and con- veying the Pope's greetings to
Unprecedented AMERICAN In Annals Of DEFENCE
House
London, To-day.
+
APPROPRIATION
Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt yesterday
The total will be immediately available in appropriations and contract authorisations for "criti- cal" defence items for the army
Legate, presided at the opening The House of Lords yesterday gave unanimous ap-signed the $153,000,000 Defence
proval to a motion moved by the First Lord of Bill. at
the Admiralty, Lord Stanhope, that an Address be presented to the King on the occasion of his departure for Canada and the United States. those attending, was read by the The Address would convey an assurance of the loyal affection of the House and the deep inter- est with which it would follow the progress of Their Majesties during their absence.
Cardinal Legate in Algiers cathe dral yesterday afternoon in the presence of French Cardinals as well as of over 50 Archbishops and Bishops and of thousands of
sea coast defences and for Fleet
expansion.
Meanwhile, the naval committee
of the House of Representatives
has recommended legislation to authorise expenditure of $6,660,000
five battleships.
pilgrims from all parts of France Lord Stanhope described the motion as unprece-for the complete modernisation of
and the French Empire.
This is the first National Eucharistic Congress to be held in French colonial territory, -Trans- Ocean.
GERMAN ENVOYS TO RETURN
Berlin, To-day.
dented in the annals of the House of Lords.
He added that the action, how- ever, was also unprecedented be- cause he believed it the first time a reigning Sovereign had visited a self-governing Dominion.
Lord Snell, Leader of the Labour opposition, supporting the motion, said: "As His Majesty sets out upon his journey, full of promise and significance, we wish him to It is learned on competent
know and feel that he takes with thority that the German Ambassa-him the grateful admiration of all dors in London and Paris are re-his people." (Cheers). turning to their posts in the imme- Lord Samuel, in the absence of diate future, possibly to-day (Thurs- Lord Crewe, said for the Liberals day).
that there was throughout this land
au-
LEAVING
PORTSMOUTH
ON SATURDAY
leave "Em-
London, To-day. The King and Queen will Portsmouth on Saturday by press of Australia" for the Visit to Canada.
..
State
They will be seen off at Waterloo The British and French Ambas-a deep feeling not only of friend-by the Regency Council and by the sadors returned to Berlin last week. ship but also of affection towards entire Cabinet.
-Reuter.
EIRE'S PROTEST ON CONSCRIPTION
London, To-day.
the people of the United States.
CEMENTING TIES OF EMPIRE
Moving a similar Address in the House of Commons, the Prime Min- ister said Their Majestles' journey would further: cement the ties of Empire.
"Relations
The American
Ambassador
in
London, Mr. Joseph Kennedy will also be present.
Reuter.
MISS TOBIN. AGREES TO BROADCAST
Miss Genevieve Tobin, who arrives in the Colony to-morrow, with her husband, William Keighley, Warn- er Brothers film director, has agreed to broadcast over ZBW at 8.15 p.m.
Miss Tobin and her husband, who
are on a honeymoon tour, will attend the tea dance at the Hong Kong Hotel, and after the broadcast are to be entertained to a Chinese din- ner at the Yim King Restaurant, Wanchai, by the the King's Theatre.
management
of
The King and the Queen, on their
ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT journey from London to Portsmouth, will be accompanied by the Prin- O.E.B. Your letter might raise cesses Elizabeth and Margaret an undesirable controversy. As we Queen Mary, the Duke and did not publish the Report of which
Duchess of Gloucester. Ocean.
between ourselves. and the people of the United States Mr. J. W. Dulanty, High Commia have long been of a special char-Duchess of Kent and the Duke and you complain, we do not think it sioner for Eire in London, had an acter on account
Trans- incumbent on us to give the other of common lan-
side. interview with the Prime Minister guage, ideals and traditions. in his room in the House of Com- "We may be sure that the visit! mons yesterday afternoon in regard of Their Majesties will be warmly to the question of military training welcomed in the great Republic and its general application. Bri- across the Atlantic." tish Wireless.
UNITING DEMOCRACIES Mr. C. R. Attlee, on behalf of the
TRAFFIC MISHAPS Labour Party, supported the mo-
tion.
He remarked that in these days Last week, there were 81 traffic, anything that could be done should accidents in the Colony as the re- be done to unite the great Demo- ∙sult of which one person was kill-cracies of the West to the people of ed and 36 persons were injured. Of this country and the other peoples the 81 accidents, 29 were collisions of the British Commonwealth. between vehicles; 38 were colli- Sir Archibald Sinclair. (Liberal) alons between vehicles and pedes trians; 14 accidents were due to other causes.
At the business meeting of the South China W.C.T.U. held at noon,
said that in opening the New York World Fair, President Roosevelt had declared that the American people had hitched their waggon to
star of goodwill and peace,
GOODWILL MISSION
a reception was given to its first: It was striking proof of the sin- -national President, Dr. Mary Stone, | cerity with which the British pu- who has just come to Hong Kong blic shared those ideals that at a from a trip to America with her time when our minds were so grave- friend and co-worker Miss J,.... V. ly preoccupied with dangers nearer Hughes of the Bethel Mlasion. Dr. home, Their Majesties should be Stone is one of the two early wo leaving these shores on a mission man physicians in China, the other of goodwill and understanding to being the late Dr. Ida Kan of the the
of the West. Methodist Woman's Hospital 1:
fon was carried nem con.
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