THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 17, 1989
Lord Chatfield On The Tragic Mistake Of 1914
HOPES BRITAIN WILL NOT AGAIN BE UNDER-RATED
London, To-day.
The hope that the tragic mistake of 1914 in under- rating Britain will not be repeated was ex- pressed by Lord Chatfield, Minister for the Co- Ordination of Defence, when speaking at the Ex-Servicemen's Rally at Cambridge.
The world, he said, is watching us and wondering if we are the same England with the same un- conquerable spirit.
SIR OSWALD MOSLEY SAYS HIS PIECE
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They may be re-assured.
The young men now coming in are exactly what we should wish and if put to the test they will per- form exactly the same deeds that England has performed in the past.
The world-has-too often-under- rated the British race and its fight- ing capacities.
They did so 25 years ago; let us hope for their sake and for human- ity generally that they will not
same mistake again.-
make the LONDON, TO-DAY. SIR OSWALD MOSLEY HAS Reuter. COME OUT IN STRAIGHT OP- POSITION TO THE GOVERN-66 MENT'S FOREIGN POLICY, AND IN FAVOUR OF AN ARRANGE- MENT WITH GERMANY.
Under a heading "England First,”. he read his four-point "peace pro-
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presented a demand that Britain "You were guilty of a brutal and discontinue forthwith taking an ac: dastardly attack on your own step- tive interest in the affairs of Eas-mother. You both attacked tern Europe. "If Britain told and hit her three or four times Germany," he said, "that she had with a hammer, breaking one of no interests there, Britain and Ger- her cheek bones and causing the many would be able quietly to cuss grievances."
Flaming June provided many heat-wave pictures in Hyde Park, The traffic policeman wipes his brow.
Swiss Claim Right To Stay In Tyrol
Berne, To-day.
dis-loss of an eye. This is the way The Swiss Minister in Rome had another conversa-
you repay her for supporting you.
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WEST SHOULD DISARM ! Secondly, he demanded the armament of Western Europe!
His third point was that Ger many's former Colonies be return ed to the Reich.
Fourthly, Britain should devote all her attention to the Empire, The world, he said, could be told that the Empire would be defended to the last man!-Trans-Ocean
I am going to make you suffer as you have made her suffer," said Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell at the Criminal Sessions this morning, when he sentenced Chan Yuet, who pleaded guilty to robbery and wounding, together with another person, to four years' hard labour and 12 strokes of the cat.
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With 13 previous convictions, Leung Fuk, 32, was this morning sentenced to 12 months' hard labour and two years under police supervi- Charged with unlawful possession sion by Mr. T. J. Houston at the of Po-pui lottery tickets, a widow, Central Magistracy for the theft of Li Kwai, 40, was to-day fined $125 a fountain pen, from a pedestrian, or three months hard labour by in Connaught Road on Saturday. Mr. T. J. Houston.
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AMERICAN LLOVD TRAVEL SERVICE
tion yesterday with Signor Bastianini, the Ita- lian Under-Secretary of State, about the situa- tion of Swiss nationals in South Tyrol, reports "Bund."
ADMIRALTY DECREE
London To-day.
The Admiralty has decreed that in future members of dockyard staffs will not be allowed to take part in trial cruises of submar- ines, says the "Daily Telegraph.'
Submarino specialists, however, will still be permitted aboard during trials.~~Trans-Ocean.
U.S. PROTEST TO JAPAN
WASHINGTON, TO-DAY.
As a result of these conversa- tions, the Italian authorities have tentatively undertaken to consider the possibility of granting special concessions to Swiss nationals, but at the same time it was emphasiz- ed that preferential treatment of Swiss nationals might lead to the demand of similar concessions from other quarters, causing great em- barrassment to Italy.
In reply, the Swiss Government. pointed out that the special rela- tionship of the two countries" to each other would amply justify the exceptional treatment of Swiss na- tionals.
TREATY OF DOMICLE For one thing, the Swiss in Ty- rol had never taken any part in politics, so that no political rea- sons for their removal exist.
Moreover, a treaty of domicile exists between the two states. MR. CLARENCE E. GAUSS, Only about 20,000 Swiss had THE AMERICAN CONSUL GEN-made use of the treaty to settle ERAL IN SHANGHAI, HAS BEEN permanently in Italy, whereas 125,- INSTRUCTED TO “PROTEST EN- 000 Italians were living in Switzer- ERGETICALLY” AGAINST THE land, so that Italy had more to MALTREATMENT. OF TWO gain from the treaty than Swit AMERICAN MISSIONARY WO-zerland. Trans-Ocean, MEN BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS, THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE ined
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