THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 30, 1939 GERMANY AND PREMIER'S SPEECH
POSTPONEMENT OF DANZIG SOLUTION WILL INCREASE IMPATIENCE: NO CHANGE
Berlin, To-day.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH in the House of
SYNDICATE
Commons yesterday afternoon has been received TO SMUGGLE
calmly in German official quarters, and it is not considered that it contains “any new points.” On two things, according to a political commentator,
ALIENS
Scotland Yard authorities have ask-
gations at a cafe in Boulogne where,
Germany agrees readily enough with Mr. Cham-ed the French police to make investi- berlain, the need for discretion and the urgency it is believed, an agent working for of the issues.
A German spokesman told Reuter; "Things are still in the balance and have not lost anything in acuteness.
"All that has happened is that there is a postponement, but the longer it lasts the more will impatience'
be manifested.
FORGOTTEN POINTS
an organisation with headquarters in the West End of London is assisting aliens and undesirables to enter Bri- tain without permission.
The police have discovered that the organisation has agents in Antwerp, Amsterdam and a number of English ports. Charges for smuggling an alien One sunny morning a hun-in England vary from £10 to £200, gry python, prowling through the Transvaal bush to seek his breakfast, encountered a party of young hedgehogs.
Within a short time had In the latest incident in Danzig, six down six of these dainty
were killed.
prickly morsels.
"An attempt to procrastinate would lead to disastrous results.
men
DANZIG CLASH
The clash occurred when a number of Hitler S.S. Black Guards, being conveyed by motor lorry, were fired on by men of the non-Nazi minority.
Three men were killed on each side
the subsequent street battle.
in
It is a curious fact that while the majority of international train ser- vices to Germany have been can- celled, the train service across the Polish Corridor between the Reich and East Prussia is being maintained, an indication of Poland's desire to avoid charges of provocation.
Warsaw reports state that military supplies are passing to East Prussia by these trains.
ATROCITY TALES
gulped though
While lying in the sun digesting this feast the python was surprised by native snake catchers and despatched forthwith to the Capetown Snake Park.
MYSTERY ILLNESS Capetown snake expert Bertie Peers found the python in a bad way and ordered him to be placed in convale- scence, carefully nursed him. His ill- ness, remained a complete mystery, however, and in a few days he was found dead.
According to the Sunday Times, of Johannesburg, a post mortem was ordered. It revealed that death was due to the hedgehogs' quills. Though a meal of six hedgehogs was not gluttony on the python's part he was unable to digest the quills.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT TA KU LING
Meanwhile, the allegations of Po- lish atrocities on the Germans again furnishes the principal item featured
A Chinese refugee-family in the in the German press.
New Territories was robbed early this The comments are increasing in bit-morning by four highwaymen, armed terness, and are all to the effect that with revolvers and daggers, the situation is becoming unbearable,
-Reuter
FIRST DRIVE HIT 35 SHEEP
Mary Dolan, nineteen-year-old bar- maid, of Low Escombe, Bishop Auck- land, who has never had a driving licence, took away a car and on her first drive knocked down thirty-five sheep and crashed into a wall.
At Otley (Yorks) Police Court she admitted taking a car without the owner's consent, driving dangerously, and not having a driving licence and insurance certificate.
It was stated she had been employ- ed at a Rawdon hotel. The car was left outside the house of a girl friend of Dolan's, and the two girls took it.
Dolan collapsed in court. Her father said she had had nothing to eat.' He had been out of work nine years, and it had been a struggle to make the seventy-mile journey to court. -
The magistrates made in collection and handed the father half a guinea, and the police officers gave 4s.
The case was dealt with under the First Offenders Act and the girl was ordered to pay £1 costs, as also was Violet Gilbert, of Rawdon, summoned for aiding and abetting.
MORGENTHAU SENT FOR BY ROOSEVELT
Bergen, To-day.
Mr. Henry Morgenthau, the United States Secretary of the Treasury, has cut short his holl- day and has embarked for home. He is travelling In an Ameri- can coastguard vessel which was aont specially by President Roosevelt to fetch him.-Reuter.
AFTER ALL, MR. FORD
MR. FORD
IS
New York, To-day.
Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview setts, declared his belief that all war given at South Sudbury, Massachus- threats in Europe were bluff, be- cause, in reality, nobody dared to go
to war.
Travellers from England with week- Mr. Ford welcomed the decision of end return tickets have been ap-U.S.A. to remain neutral, adding that proached by the agent at Boulogne, it was not in slightest necessary to who has offered big payments for the help other countries out of a crisis return halves of tickets. It is pointed which was solely due to financiers. out that if the sellers have passport, they had only to buy a single ticket to return to England by boat in the or- dinary way.
AGENTS WITH MANY TICKETS
Mr. Ford repeated his old theory that the best way out of all present difficulties would, be a return of po- pulations to rural districts. Trans- Ocean.
WAYS TO BEAT BOMBER
* Special agents of the organisation have made frequent day trips to France to obtain these tickets.
Other agents with day tickets
who have travelled to Boulogne have bought three 'or four extra tickets. Outward halves of these have been surrendered at various times during the voyage over. By this means the number of thickets issued on the out- ward journey has tallied when check-
Sir Kingsley Wood, the Air Minis- ed on the way back.
ter, speaking In London said: "There Scotland Yard has completed ar-
are many limitations of the air wea- rangements for dealing with aliens in pon, and science and invention may time of war.
TRIAD SOCIETY CASE IN KOWLOON
Pleading not guilty to being a mem- ber of a triad Society, Lau Chu, 24, The incident occurred in Ping was this morning remanded by Mr. Yeung Village, Ta Ku Ling, New Ter-Q. A. A. Macfadyen. ritories. The robbers forced their entrance to the village house and after threatening the Inmates, gagged and bound them.
The house was ransacked and some $200 in money and articles were stolen.
Inspector A. E. Carey said accused was arrested on Monday in the Yau- matt district. Books were found on him had led to the charge that he was a member of a Triad Society.
Bail of $500 was allowed.
Nurses of the River Emergency Service, wearing their smart now: uniforme-8mart, too, on the job are the wearers. Photo showa Mr- Walter Elllot having a chat to some of the smart R.E.B. girls during their demonstration on the Thames on August 18.
well provide us with means of defeat- ing the bomber-perhaps sooner than many of us realise to-day."
Sir Kingsley, who was addressing the dinner of the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers at Grosvenor House, said that whether we liked it or not we were living in an aeroplane age.
travel and it is becoming more and "We are just at the beginning of air
more one of the important factors in social and economic life," Kingsley added.
our
THE POPE HONOURS MGR. BROWN
Sir
The Rt. Rev. Monsignor C. E. Brown, Deputy Administrator at Westminster Cathedral, has been raised to the dignity of a Domestic Prelate to the Pope.
Cardinal Hinsley, at Archbishop's House presented the Papal brief, con- ferring the dignity, and a cheque for
£300 subscribed by friends.
Monsignor Brown was chosen by Cardinal Vaughan for service at West- minster 37 years ago.
"The poor around
him In
this neighbourhood," said Canon How- lett, "look to him as their real friend. Several who have enjoyed his Majesty's hospitality for a long period, immediately on regaining their liber- ties, have made a bee-line for Mon- signor Brown.”
Cardinal Hinsley warned Monsignor Brown that the £900 was, dot intènd- ed for the "pocket with a hom in it" which he dedicated to the in tänge of ex-prisoners and the poor, but to meet his own heavy outings, foic, his new_digilty.