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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1939.
BRITAIN SIGNS MUTUAL ASSISTANCE PACT WITH POLAND: ALL-EMBRACING
London, To-day.
TO GO INTO BATTLE
CAN AGREEMENT for mutual assistance between NAZI PROPAGANDISTS
Great Britain and Poland was signed at the For- eign Office yesterday by the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, and the Polish Ambassador, Count Raczynski.
لملاح
The agreement consists of eight articles laying down the circumstances in which the parties will come to each other's assistance,
pushed by the Reich was the creation
Berlin, Aug. 21. Among latest, military preparations,
and air forces. to-day of two propaganda companies which will be attached to the land
and reports from the front in
These companies are to be formed of newspapermen
a way as to buoy the population's mo who, in war, will draft communiques and stenographers
rale.
such
A Foreign Office statement says that agreement between the United Kingdom and Poland was reached during the visit to London last Spring of Col. Beck, the Polish For- eign Minister, and was announced in the House of Com-istry's Press Bureau and chief of the mcns on April 6.
military and of the contracting
It adds that it is a source of lively the competent naval, satisfaction to both governments that air authorities the negotiations for the present agree-parties. ment have been so speedily and satis- factorily concluded.
Article One provides that should one of the contracting parties become engaged in hostilities with a European power as a consequence of aggression by the latter, the other party will immediately give the party contracting engaged in hostilities all the support and assistance in its power.
.
INDIRECT AGGRESSION
EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION
an ex-
in-
change of complete and speedy in-
Article Five provides for formation concerning
any dependence of the contracting par- ment which might threaten the
develop-
Article Six lays down contracting parties will communicate that the to each other the terms of any mutual assistance against aggression
which they have already given or may
in
ties.
Article Two states that the provi-future give to other States. -sions of Article One also apply in the event of any action by a
which
European Article power
clearly threatened -directly or indirectly the independence of one of the contracting parties and was of such a nature that the party in question considered it
resist with its armed forces.
vital
to
Should one of the contracting par-
Seven provides should the contracting parties be that engaged in hostilities, in con- sequence of application of the present agreement, they will not conclude an armistice or treaty of peace except by mutual ment.
agree-
Article Eight provides
Dr. Orlovius, head of the Air Min air force propaganda .company, part to-day in aerial exercises Bernau.
that the
five
ties become engaged in hostilities with agreement remain in force for
a European power in consequence of years subject to six months' denun~ action by that power which threaten-ciation.-Reuter.
ed the independence ΟΙ
neutrality
of another European State in such a
way as to constitute a clear
to the security of
menace
that contracting.
party, the provisions of Article One will apply, without prejudice, how- ever to the rights of the other
European State concerned.
ECONOMIC PENETRATION
CALIFORNIA AND
OREGON RAVAGED BY FIRES
took
at
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TREASURES REMOVED
FROM LONDON
London, To-day.
Priceless documents and his- toric treasures have been remov. ad from Westminster Abbey and taken to places of safety in the country.
Objects removed included the historic Coronation Chair, which Sovereigns are crowned.
In Workmen carefully stored the treasures in crates and loaded them in lorries under the sur- veillance of a police guard.- Reuter.
LEGAL ACTION POSSIBLE AGAINST BUND IN U.S.
Washington, Aug. 20. pro- The Nazi German-American Bund
and and its
affiliated organizations,
The chief of the land forces paganda company, Dr. Metzger, members of the staff of official D.N.B.gether with the Communist Party in to- news agency, took part in exercises the United States, would shortly be at Potsdam last week.
The writers
subject to legal action by the Depart- thus mobilized have the rank of interpreter officers. tin Dies, head of the Committee
willment of Justice, Representative Mar- -Havas.
of Inquiry into Un-American Activities, forecast to-day.
NATIONAL SECURITY REGULATIONS
Canberra, To-day.
The two groups would be charged, he said, with violation of the whereby all organizations and agents law of foreign Governments must register with the State Department, giving full details of their activities,
Comprehensive national security re- gulations gazetted yesterday provide given before his Committee incontest- Mr. Dies emphasized that evidenco emergency powers for, inter alia, the ably proved that both the Bund and -protection of
Government property.
and the Communist Party were agents of foreign Governments. If both
San Francisco, Aug. 20. At least 600 people were left home- un-less to-day, by ravaging forest fires
Article Three provides that should
a European power attempt to
dermine the independence of one of in several regions of California. and
the contracting parties by
processes Oregon.
of economic penetration or other way, the contracting parties will gon, was completely destroyed support each other in resistance
in any The small town of Pie Ridge, Ore- and
such attempts.
Should the European concerned thereupon embark
power
on
hostilities against one of the con- tracting parties, the provisions of Article One will apply.
to about 100 farms there were razed to the ground or else seriously damaged by the fires.
P
defence works
are and be
They also provide for the requisi- taken before the Federal Court tion of goods and vehicles and the taking over of control of ships sentenced
for found guilty, their leaders may and aircraft.-Reuter.
long prison-terms,——
By this evening, the outlook was more hopeful for fire-fighting squads announced that they had succeeded in blocking the sweeping advance of the
Article Four states that the methods blazes, which have caused damage es applying to the undertaking of mutual timated in several millions of dollars. assistance are established between-Havas.
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