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-THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 17, 1939:
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GERMANY REJECTS DISARMAMENT SOLUTION OF EUROPEAN TENSION
FIRM UNDERTONE IN LONDON
Landon, To-day. Profit-taking on the stock ex- change WOG responsible for a slightly easier trend on the day's markets, though losses were only small and a firm undertone was generally maintained.
Silver fell a farthing to 17-1/16 pence an ounce on the cessation of Indian buying, which hao lately constituted the market's chief support.
Wall Street was dull-Reuter.
MAGISTRATE WARNS MUSSEL GATHERERS
A WARNING WAS ISSUED FROM THE BENCH AT THE KOWLOON MAGISTRACY THIS MORNING BY MR. E. HIMSWORTH IN CONNEC- TION WITH CHOLERA REGULA- TIONS.
"I warn you," said Mr. Himsworth, "that heavy fines will in future be im- posed," when he convicted and fined 26 Chinese, including 25 women, for collecting mussels on the beach at : Shamshuipo,
"You should realise," added the Magistrate, "that it is very difficult to prevent the spread of cholera if peo- ple like you continue carrying on this
kind of business."
· Fines of $5 each, or two weeks' imprisonment, were imposed.
POLISH GENERAL ORGANISING LEGION
WARSAW, TO-DAY. GENERAL HALLER, WHO COM- “MANDED THE POLISH. LEGION IN. FRANCE DURING THE GREAT WAR, HAS ANNOUNCED IN A -PROCLAMATION THAT HE IS NOW ORGANISING A VOLUNTEER CORPS FOR WAR AGAINST GER- MANY,
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General Haller has already organ- ised a volunteer regiment in the Cór- ridor and has asked the military au- thorities to recognise the legal status of the regiment.
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Berlin, To-day.
THE GERMAN 'PRESS is full of alarmist reports from Poland, Danzig and the Corridor, and the Corridor question is now declared to be question of the national honour of the Greater German Reich, the solution of which, in accor- dance with German wishes, is constantly be coming more urgent" as the "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" puts it.
The "Boersen Zeitung writes: "It is impossible to leave the Corridor question unsolved if only for reasons of traffic. Moreover Germany's honour is daily insulted by the illtreatment to which German inhabitants of the Corridor are ex- posed."
SON BEHIND TROUBLE
GIRL'S STORY
IT WAS REVEALED THIS MORN- ING BY MR. H. W. FRASER, OF THE S.C.A., THAT 18 PROSECU- TIONS FOR FAILING TO REPORT POSSESSION OF "WARDS" HAVE BEEN BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR. ·
The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" says: "We consider it incompatible with our honour that our Réich is cut up into two parts, the communica tions between which are threatened
FIRE ON TOURIST STEAMER
Stockholm, To-day.
A Swedish tourist steamer caught fire near. Gothenburg. Thirty passengers and the crew had to jump into the sea, "and were rescued by fishing · vessels and motor launches which Imme- diately rushed to their assistance. Several passengers were injur. ed, two seriously.—Trans-Ocean,
HILLPATH INCIDENT
Sentences of nine months' hard la-
by a country which has gone over tolbour on each were imposed by Mr. the enemy camp.”
Q. A. A. Macfadyen this morning on PEACE OFFER SPURNED ·. Leung Wah-shun, 18, Wan Hoi, 23, All papers unanimously reject the and Wong Kim-chau, 18, for steal- suggestion made yesterday morning ining $1.50, a wrist watch and a poc- the London "Times," that as soon as ket knife, from So Chun-on. the peace front has perfected the They were also recommended for diplomatic and. military instruments banishment. necessary for its defence, the moment will have come to formulate condi-ing, said complainant was walking on Det.-Sgt. H. J. Baldwin, prosecut- tions under
which the peace front a hill path above the Kowloon Public Powers would be prepared to nego- Mortuary on Monday afternoon. De- tiate a general settlement with the fendants, and another not in custody, aim of building up lasting. peace. surrounded and searched him, taking the articles, from his pocket. They were later arrested by the police.
This was very similar to "hold up,”. concluded the prosecuting officer.
The German press contends that This morning he prosecuted in the
the "Times' " statements con- 16th, case, before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac-
stitute a "threat of force" con- fadyen at Kowloon, when a woman cealed behind named Cheung Wai-chun, 36, of No.
an allegedly con- structive programme. "This," 55, Shanghai Street, was charged with
writes the "Deutsche Ai- failing to report of possession of algemeine Zeitung," makes the con-
ditions “ward," Ho Sin-yu, 18, and with-as-
taste unpleasantly of Ver. sailles." saulting the girl.
"How can there be a conference on It was stated that 21 cane marks the return of a German city to the -were found on the, girl's body when Reich"
asks "Nachtausgabe" in an she reported to the S.C.A. on Tues-article entitled a "New Versailles?" day. She was beaten on the arms,
NO COMPROMISE legs, and face by defendant owing, It would only be possible to discuss according to the girl, bad feeling be-economic questions with Poland, once tween her and defendant's son.
The woman was fined $30 for fail- ing to report, $10 for the assault and ordered to pay
$5 compensation to the girl The girl is now in the cus- tody of the S.C.A.
SHEKLUNG ATTACK
Yungyun, Kwangtung, To-day.
it was agreed that Danzig is a Ger- man city. There can be no such thing as a compromise on this question.
Germany's tasks are defined by German honour both In Danzig and the Corridor, -
Regarding foreign press reports of an alleged mediation plan, it is re- ported here that no such plan exists and Berlin press circles express grati- fication over the determined language of the Italian papers in commenting on the Danzig situation.
UNPLEASANT SURPRISE The semi-official. German
News
A Japanese unit from Sheklung, at- General Haller has, so the pro- tacked Namshe on the Canton-Kow- Agency states: "If "The Times" and clamation announces, begun to organ-loon Railway, 45 miles east of Canton its inspirers continue to ignore our ise militia units and mounted detach- and five and half miles from Shek-rejection of their fruitless and naively ments in the Corridor from former lung, on Sunday. It heavily shelled egoistical sermons, Britain is bound members of Hlle Haller Legion. the Chinese positions but was finally to receive a most unpleasant surprise.
Trans-Ocean.
repulsed-Central News.
Palestine White
Paper Sharply
"Anyone who wishes to prevent the Reich from regulation of Its' vital questions, of ita, life, and -honour, evidently, wishes to make trouble. Our honour and vital claims will not be bartered in any * market whether it is to be London,
Geneva or elsewhere.
Attacked ends. Temptations to renounce
"We shall place our confidence in friends.,
Geneva, To-day.
BRITAIN'S WHITE PAPER on Palestine was condemned as an “attack on our basic right in Palestine and an at- tempt to reverse the trend of Jewish history," by Dr. Chaim Weizmann yesterday.
Dr. Weizmann was delivering the President Address at the opening of the 21st Zionist Congress, and he was extremely bitter about the formulators of British policy.
He was reluctantly compelled
to and retain our regard for and
the
these (forces do not attract -Following another voluntary disarma- ment we should be betrayed in the same manner as twenty years ago."-- Trans-Ocean.
BREACH OF LIGHTING REGULATIONS
For a breach of Lighting Regula“. tions during the last whi failing to obscure the lights of his faith in Great Britain in spite of ir, No. 5710 on SAMHOT BUST AN the efforte, made" bili thai prevalneT | 201 ...a vijon:Colonial Gedertryckmarkchengo from pm. on July 2721 Stoltenbers
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say, Dr. Weizmann declared, that British Government had gone back
on its promises.
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stood our friend.
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“We cherish that friendship Tter.
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Caught by a passer-by after snatch- ing an ear-ring from a woman Ningpo Street yesterday, Li Sheung, 25, was this morning sentenced to six months' hard labour and 12 strokes by Mr. Q. A. A, Macfadyen.
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