THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 29, 1940
BRITISH
DIPLOMATS
IN BALKANS RECALLED Conference In London With Lord Halifax
On The Eve Of Big Events?
LONDON, TO-DAY.
IT IS LEARNED IN AUTHORITATIVE QUARTERS THAT THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, LORD HALI- FAX, HAS INVITED THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR AT ANKARA, SIR HUGHE KNATCHBULL- HUGESSEN, AND THE BRITISH MINISTERS AT ATHENS, BELGRADE, BUCHAREST, BUDAPEST AND SOFIA TO RETURN TO THE UNITED KING- DOM TO CONFER WITH HIM AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE.
The British envoys will arrive in England early in April. Sir Percy Lorraine, British Ambassador in Rome, is also expected to be in London on short leave of absence at that time.
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Reuter's diplomatic correspondent states that the Government's decision to consult with the Ambassador Ankora and our Balkan Ministers is neither novel nor surprising.
In the last war it was the fre- quent practice of the Government to call home Ministers to discuss problems in their especial zones. It seems only reasonable, at moment when the Balkans and Near East are so much in the foreground, that British representatives in these
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parts be brought together for an ex- change of views under the aegis of the Foreign Secretary. — Reuter.
*** The diplomatic explanation does not, however, divest the conference of high significance.
THE NAZI
SYMBOL OF CONQUEST
Berlin, To-day..
All administrative offices in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia must in future have a portrait of Hitler hanging along. side that of the President, states a Prague despatch..
The Nazi Government decreed this because it "la dosirous of showing symbolically the position of the Protectorate in relation to that of the great German Reich."
The portrait of the President must hang on the left of Hitler's picture-Reuter.
ALLIED FORCES IN NEAR EAST IN
COMBINED
TRAINING
Cairo, To-day.
FREE FOR ALL IN SHANGHAI
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA, MAIL")
Shanghai, To-day. Seventeen Chinese flour mill workers and one foreign police officer were conveyed to hospital yesterday morn- ing when a free-for-all was staged in a Chinese flour- mill following the engage- ment of new workers.
Old employees threw lime on the new men and the police were sum- moned when the riot threatened to assume worse proportions.
One shot was fired though it cannot be ascertained who fired it. Only one workman was seriously injured and others slightly wounded. Our Own Correspondent.
HIGH DUTCH OFFICIAL SENTENCED
THE TRAINING_AND_CO-ORDINATION of the Allied forces in the Near East is progressing at an accelerated tempo, and the first combined manoeuvres between the British, Indian and Egyptian armies began on Wed-cial nesday.
DRURY LANE The Trans-Jordan Frontier Force is combining with the
REOPENS
London, To-day. Drury Lane Theatre has re-opened, for the first time since war started, and the first performance was a gar- rison treat, prominent stage and screen stars entertaining 2,000 officers, men and women of the Anti-Aircraft Com- mand.
During the performance, a telegram from the King was read; it was in reply to greetings sent to him from the audience.-Reuter.
NEW HEART IN FINLAND
SUMMER TIME FOR TIENTSIN
Emir Abdullah's Arab Legion for the first time. The exercises, which are lasting a week, will extend over the whole of Trans-Jordan, and the once fierce de- | sert raiders who now form a disciplin- ed and loyal desert patrol will have their first experience of co-operation with British troops, staged with all the realism of war.
An emergenoy Staff College
for British officers has been inaugurat- ed in Palestine and Staff courses are already in progress..
Voluntary recruiting in Palestine of Jews for service in France is stead- ily increasing.
YEOMAN ARMY
Large numbers of Britain's young Yeomanry army are arriving in Pales- tine for training and have acquitted themselves well, earning the praise of veteran troops. The more Palestine have
settled conditiona.-In enabled the British
Helsinki, To-day. The formation of the new Finnish Government has put fresh heart into the Finns. They were at first stunned by Russia's immoderate demands, but troops to get down in earnest to real Helsinki is now coming back to nor-training for the first time in two years. mal more people are in the streets-Router.
and hotels, cafes and cinemas are
doing better business.
The new Cabinet is well received. TURKEY AND
It is considered an organisation of specialists well fitted to carry out the reconstruction programme.---Reuter.
CHURCH APPOINTMENT
London, To-day.
The King has approved the ap pointment of Sir Iain Colquhoun, Lord-Lieutenant of Dumbartonshire, as Lord High-Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. - Reuter.
NAZIS
Istanbul, To-day.
The newspaper "Cumhuriyet”” says that: Germany has experimented with many weapons since the outbreak of war, including magnetic mines, all of which were later dropped, except for the peace offensives and the propa- ganda threats of powerful military action which have failed to material-
" The "Ankora -Ului
the Ger "mans" are: misguided in under
COUNT TELEKI LEAVES | 180.
*FOR HOME-
Rome, To-day.
Count Teleki, the Hungarian Pre- mier, left for Budapest yesterday. Reuter.
a war of nerves against the British people, whose nerves are "not" casily affected. Indeed, the paper says, the British
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none!
Tientein, To-day Summer Time will be introduced in the British area here on April 1. Reuter.'
Amsterdam, To-day.
of the Ministry of Econo- A former high Dutch offl-
mics has just received a stiff
prison sentence for giving in-
formation to Germany.
According to the "Telegraaf," he gave information to Germany which led to the sinking of at least one Dutch ship. He also had photographic copies of official Ministry documents in his possession.
He was given 21⁄2 years imprison- ment, his wife 18 months and a chief olerk 2 years. Reuter.
AT
OPENS TO-MORROW THE KING'S
It is one plessure and privilege to present
BETTE DAVIS
in her finest performance, oo-starring with
MIRIAM HOPKINS
in the sensational Wamer Bros. motion picture
"THE OLD MAID”
Based
the
and
the Pulitzer Prize Play by
by Edith Wharton, with a distinguishe
of supporting players, includir
GEO. BRENT
DONALO CRISP - JATOR
· BRYAN LOUISE FAZENDA JANES STEPHENBOR SEROME COWANA WILLIAM LUNDIGAN:
EXCELIA, LOFTUS Directed by
EDMUND GOULDING
By
-BROS.