THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 29, 1989
NO JAP. WITH
INTERFERENCE SHIPPING
BRITISH
MR. CHAMBERLAIN
REITERATES
BRITAIN'S STAND
London, To-day.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, made a lengthy statement in the House of Com- mons yesterday on the Far East.
Dealing with the latest situation in Tientsin, Mr. Chamberlain said that arrivals of perishable foodstuffs continue to be spasmodic, only a fraction of normal reaching the British Con- cession.
The local British authorities were taking active
steps to remedy the present deficiency.
DELIVERY OF PLANES TO R.A.F.
London, To-day.
The number of British subjects passing through the barriers who had been compelled to strip was 15, including one woman, but there did not appear to have been any more of such cases during the last day or two.
Mr. Chamberlain said that re- In a Commons answer yesterday presentatives of the local British while declining, as contrary to the and Japanese authorities would be public interest, to give figures of invited to Tokyo to attend a con- actual deliveries, the Secretary for ference to settle various questions Air said he could state that there relating to present conditions at was every propect of the forecast Tientsin. of production which he made in in- troducing the Air Estimates in March would. be fully realised and that production would show a con- tinually upward trend. British Wireless.
LOCAL ISSUES
"The conversations will relate to local issues, and will be designed
LABOUR TALKS WITH PRIME MINISTER
London, To-day.
Sir Walter Citrine, Mr. Hugh Dalton and Mr. Herbert Morrison, representing the National Coun- cil of Labour, yesterday had a two-hour discussion on various as- pects of foreign affairs with Mr. Neville Chamberlain and the For- eign Secretary, Lord Halifax.
The discussion took place in the Prime Minister's room in the House of Commons. Reuter,
POLICE SUB- INSPECTOR'S
SUDDEN DEATH
Britain's Great Black-Out
London, To-day.
THREE A.R.P. exer-
cises unprecedented in the history of Britain will be held within the next four months.
The exercises will cover about three-quarters of the country, and approximately 30,000,000 people will take part.
The Minister of Civil Defence, Sir John Anderson, said yester- day that the exercises would be preceded by the distribution of 50,000,000 pamphlets.
First exercise will be held on the night of July. 8 in Kent and Sussex, which being situated in SUB - INSPECTOR - HENRY the triangle east of the line GEORGE BAKER, ASSISTANT London-Brighton are of great PRINCIPAL OF THE POLICE | importance to the defence of the TRAINING SCHOOL IN KOW-capital. LOON, DIED SUDDENLY WHILE AT WORK THIS MORNING, AP- PARENTLY FROM A HEART ATTACK,
Sub-Inspector Baker was giving a lecture at 9.30 to probationary Chinese sub-inspectors when he slumped forward in his chair. He was rushed to hospital, where life was found to be extinct.
He is survived by a wife in
IN 16 COUNTIES
will be
The second exercise held on July 15. It will stretch over 16 counties and the Isle of Ely a quadrilateral enclosed by lines joining Lancaster, Middles- borough, the Wash and Warwick.
These two exercises are pre- liminary to a blackout to take place on August 9 and 10 in the
tween Bournemouth and the Wash.
to secure that while neutrality of England and by two sons, in the south-eastern - quadrilateral ̈ be-
the Concession ed, Britain authority in the Con-
shall be maintain- Colony.
PREMIER DEPLORES cession shall be preserved intact.
NAZI SNEERS
London, To-day. The Prime Minister's attention was called at Commons question
assume
Sub-Inspector Baker was 42 years of age, and had a distinguish- In view of these conversations ed record both in the Great War the British
(when he
Military Government
received the there will be an end of the strip the H.K. Police Force, which he Cross and the Military Medal), and ping and searching and similar in- cidents at Tientsin, and they have joined from England in 1925. reason to hope that this in fact will
be the case,
In the circumstances the Govern-
He was appointed Lance-Sergeant in 1926, Police Sergeant in 1929; Acting Sub-Inspector in 1935, and
This will be a complete black- out, which for the first time in- cludes London.
two exercises will be utilised in Experience gained in the first
the third. Trans-Ocean.
time to the reception given in the ment is not disposed to consider the Sub-Inspector the same year. He CABINET DISCUSSES German and Italian press to recent dispute to the Council of the Lea-was appointed to the Training speeches by himself and the For-gue of Nations.
eign Secretary explaining British FOOCHOW AND WENCHOW policy.
an-
He said: "I have noticed, parti- the Japanese authorities had
As regards other parts of China, cularly in the German press, nounced military operations for articles distorting and sneering at June 27 against the Treaty Ports any speeches made by British statesmen which seek to show un-. derstanding of Germany's position.
"I cannot but deplore such at- tempts to poison relations between ...our two countries. but I do not propose to make representations to the German Government-on the subject." British Wireless.
of Wenchow and Foochow.
A request had been received from: the Japanese Consul-General in all third-Power ves- Shanghai that leave these ports by noon on June sels, including warships, should
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BRITISH RIGHTS
The British Consul-General in
School in 1938, going on leave the same year,
He was highly commended by the Inspector-General of Police on many occasions.
The funeral passes the Monu- ment at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
TIENTSIN
London, To-day. The Cabinet held its weekly meeting, yesterday, with the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, presiding.
Topics discussed were the new and the final attitude to be adopted
COMMITTEE FOR instructions to be sent to Moscow
THE COLONIES
London, To-day. Colonial Secretary was asked in the Commons if he had under con- sideration the growing demand for a standing parliamentary commit
AMBASSADOR SEES Shanghai had replied pointing out tee for colonial affairs.
JAPANESE C.G.
ed upon
that the right of British vessels to Mr. Macdonald said he was proceed to any port in China re aware that this proposal mains unaffected, and we consider that the Japanese authorities con- sequently are not entitled t
to exer- cise undue interference with the movement of British ships or avoid- ably to endanger British lives or
Shanghai, To-day: A conversation lasting two and half hours took place here be- tween the British Ambassador, Archibald Clark Kerr, and the proper Japanese Consul General M. Miura, on settlement of the Tien- chant
obac tsin dispute.
situation as regards mer
Swatow Was still and negotiations between No details of the conversation, the local British and Japanese au- are forthcomin
-Ocean.thorities continuing —— Reuter.
ers and ! t not only on Ita
but on the wider basis quacy of exlating arrangement carrying out colonial policy.
The Government was proceeding in the matter se rapidly as was consistent with the natu problem, and he thing more at present Wireless.
by the Ambassador in Tokyo, Sir Robert Craigie, in the forthcoming negotiations with the Japanese For- eign Minister, Mr. Arita, for settle- ment of the Tientsin situation. Trans Ecean.
THETIS SALVAGE HELD UP
London,” To-day, salvage ship Zello did not
ve Birkenhead last night for the scene of the Thetis disaster because of bad weather conditions in Liver- pool Bay. Half a gule was raring.
Decision as to futuré sailing of the-Zelle will be made when weather conditions become more itable. British Wireless.