"THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 20, 1989.
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New Powers To Deal With I.R.A. Terrorism In Britain
POWER TO ΤΟ
PROHIBIT
IRISH ENTRY
London, To-day.
The Government's emergency Bill to deal with Irish Republican Army terrorism in Britain, was introduced in the House of Commons yes- terday by the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare.
DANZIG'S
In
NEW "POLICE FORCE"
Danzig, To-day.
An additional “police force” re- cruited in Danzig has been form- ed, numbering between 3,000 and 4,000 men.
Tho men will be billeted in barracks and in a new school building. Trans-Ocean.
The Bill was read for the first time, and the second FIRST
reading will be taken either on Monday or Tuesday.
In a subsequent statement on Parliamentary busi-
EXECUTION
ness, the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamber- UNDER NEW RULE
lain, indicated that it was necessary to pass the Bill without delay.
The Bill contains drastic powers, with heavy penalties for non-com- pliance.
The I.R.A., however, is not de- clared an illegal organisation, and no action will be taken on the Bill necessitating passports for people travelling from Ireland.
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The Bill, which will last two years, gives the Home Secretary power to make orders of expulsion ...against people who have lived
years or less in this country and who have been concerned in the preparation or instigation of acts of violence designed to influence
-public opinion or Government policy
in respect of Irish affairs.
MAY BE KEPT OUT
Power is also given to prevent
their registry in this country.
The Home Secretary may also
- prohibit from entering Great Bri-
C.T.A. CLOSES
DOWN IN SHAMEEN
It is officially announced that communication with the Chin- ese Telegraph Administration at Shameen is suspended from to-day.
All telegrams to Canton and
Shameen will be. circulated by
the Japanese Military Adminis-
tration. at Canton,
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:
PARIS, TO-DAY.
GRYNSZPAN
PERSECUTION STORY UPSET
PARIS, TO-DAY. THE FINAL EXAMINATION OF HERSHEL GRYNSZPAN, THE [YOUNG JEW WHO MURDERED THE COUNSELLOR OF THE GERMANY. EMBASSY, HERR VOM RATH, LAST YEAR, BE- GAN YESTERDAY.
The judge informed Grynszpan that information from the Han- nover police disproved the state- ment that the murderer's family had been persecuted by the Nazis. Two members of the family, the German authorities said, were be- ing supported by the State:
Grynszpan, who had maintained THE FIRST EXECUTION. TO that the bad treatment his parents- BE CARRIED OUT PRIVATELY had suffered at the hands of the IN FRANCE TOOK PLACE AT Nazis had driven him to commit ST. BRIEUC, ON THE ENGLISH the murder, listened in silence CHANNEL COAST, YESTERDAY, when the document was read out to WHEN A 34-YEAR-OLD MUR-
him. DERER NAMED DEHAENE WAS
The examination will be contin- GUILLOTINED AT DAYBREAK
ued to-day-Trans-Ocean. IN THE PRISON COURTYARD.
Only witnesses were officials,, a chaplain and defending counsel.
Public executions were recently abolished by a decree following riotous scenes at the execution in Versailles of the mass murderer,
Eugene Weidmann.-Trans-Ocean.
NEW JAP. BID TO GAIN
CURRENCY
CONTROL
Shanghai, To-day.
COMMITTEE OF THREE WATCH DANZIG
London, To-day.
The attitude of the British Gov- ernment in the Danzig question was the subject of several questions in the House of Commons on
The Under-Secretary of State,
tain persons suspected of instigat- Reorganisation of the currency system in the occu-Wednesday.
- ing 'or' preparing any such acts of
violence.
Persons attempting to evade - ex- pulsion can, if found in Great Bri-
con-
tain while the order against them remains in force, be sentenced to five years penal servitude on viction, and on indictment or a term of imprisonment not exceeding three months on summary
tion.
convic-
pied areas of Central China is announced in a Mr. R. A. Butler, stated in a reply decree of the Nanking regime, published to-to the Labour member, Mr. Arthur day.
The decree declares that Yuan notes recently issued by the Hua Hsing Bank will in future be a cur- rency separate from the Chinese dollar with which it had, up to now, been quoted at par.
Power is also given to make sus-Bank will in further be linked with delivery of foreign currency
Yuan notes of the Hua Hsing pied areas and in a demand for pects register and this is based on the Administration of Aliens Act.
the Pound Sterling and will be quoted at sixpence per Yuan. MATTER OF SEARCH
The Hua Hsing Bank, moreover, The Bill also contains a clause announces that it is prepared to dealing with the matter of search, J ́exchange any amount of Yuan at but this is restricted to those sus- this rate of exchange for foreign pected of terrorism.
currencies. The bank will exchange The Bill applies to people coming Chinese Dollar notes for Yuan notes from any part of Ireland.-Reuter. at the current rate of exchange.
DANGER IN EUROPE Trans-Ocean says that a sentence in the Bill draws attention to the state of danger in Europe and if actual hostilities occurred, the danger which might arise from Babotage would be considerable.
The Bill will probably pass the Commons and Lords and receive the Royal signature by August 4.
DR. INGRAM AT PALACE
London, To-day,
The King yesterday received D Ingram, retiring Bishop of Lon don, at Buckingham Palace Beu cter:
With regard to the stability of the Yuan/currency, the director of the note bank, Okazaki, declares that the total amount of Yuan notes in circulation on July 1st amounted to less than a million. The note circulation would, however, be in- creased in order to make it possible. for the new currency to replace Chinese Dollar notes of which several hundred million were in circulation in Central China.
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POLITICAL PRESSURE Although Okazaki denied that political pressure would be applied to support the new mensúre, Chin- ese financial quarters regard it as
ble that the measures an
for guaranteeing stability | new currency will consist trol of trade in the new occu-
the Hua Ocean.
policy in conformity with the prin-
Henderson, that it was the British Government's intention to guide its
Mr. Butler added that the Com- mittee of Three set up by the League
ciples of the League of Nations.
Council was following developments in the Free City. Trans-Ocean.
to The B., 8.3. Santhia is leaving Hsing Bank Trans for Singapore and Calcutta via
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