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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 12, 1940.
ALBANIAN OIL WELLS MENACED BY GREEK ADVANCE
AN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF ITALIAN
KUNMING
BOMBED
OIL SUPPLIES IS MENACED BY THE GREEK } YESTERDAY PUSH IN NORTH ALBANIA DIRECTED TO | (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") WARDS THE SKUMBI RIVER VALLEY.
The Devoli River region is threatened and this is of the utmost consequence to Italy, for from that region comes at least half of Italy's peacetime oil requirements.'
Though this proportion is re- duced owing to "wartime con- sumption this Albanian source
Fifteen JapaneseTM aircraft flew over Kunming yesterday noon, dropping bombs on the outskirts of the city. Kai Hsien was also reported to have
has increased in importance. be RICH WILL been bombed at the
cause of Italy's geographical position and her susceptibility to blockade.
·For "over 'a' "daodde" before ! Mussalini drove out King Zog and seized
GET NO
file country, italy FAVOURS
had shown great interest and spent much money on the de- velopment of this oll field, Italian interests began prospect ing as long ago as 1925. Real progress was visible in 1933 when the Italian Government voted 200 million lire for deve loping Albanian oil resources.
Fipeline Near. Valona
Nobody can have a holiday in defence or protected area leasing a house or estate, and by owners of such property cannot be compensated for any loss from this ban on seasonal letting..
some time by a dif- ferent squadron.
Both cities suffered a few casualties and some damage. Our Own Correspondent.
passionate grounds-can be pro- duced...
"Fam afraid no exception can This pronouncement is made be made in a case like that raised case of a two months' let of a sure you will appreciate that it from the war Office arising from by your correspondent, and I am
The building of a pipeline to house and fishings and shooting would be contrary to all democra- the little oil port near Valona in a coast defence area in thetic principles if, while passes are. was inaugurated and in January.North of Scotland having had to being refused to tourists, hikers 1936, the first drop of crude oil be cancelled because the military hand holidaymakers of the humbler was carried along this 46-mile authorities refused permits to the sort, they were at the same time pipeline. to the obvious delight English lessees, as they came to be granted to persons inore for- of Mussolini, . .”....
within the category of holiday-tunately placed financially, who are in a position to rent a house or-estate-N
No Exceptions
On the folzurė. of Albania |mokers." In 1938 absolute control of this 'oll-industev, constituted one of Italy's chief economlo gains and development was pressed forward with even greater in tensity. Several hundred wells were mk and it becme clear that. Italy regarded Albanian oil as
Hendes that: there is no pro- vision made for compensation for Sir Edward Grigg; M.P., Parlia-house arestate owners in such mentary Secretary to the War circumstances, and that financial" Office; states In a letter to Sir loss of this kind is, of course not. Murdoch Macdonald, M.P
confined to the North of Scotland Protected Area, but also arises in the defended and evacuated areas.
"No permits are being grant- ed except for business, reasons,
a vital constituent in her ecoño- or where urgent family or come in the south and west
mic bloodstream....
So fast was development push- ed that in 1939 Italy was ob- taining. 15.000 tons of oil month- ly compared with only 1,000 five years earlier,⠀
Feverish Activity
In the past 12 months there has been feverish activity in the Devoli Valley, presumably as a result of the Tocking of the Mediterranean. by the Royal Navy, which has prevented Ita- lian imports of oil from other parts of the world.--Reuter,
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RESCINDED
"A decree nisi, granted last Octo- ber to Mrs. Florence May Manser, "oy Tankerton, Kent, on the mis- taken presumption that hér hus-
· band Mr. Charles: Hubert Manser; was dead, was rescinded by: Mr, Justice Langton in the Divorce Court.
M. Manser, in fact, was alive, and when," the King's Proctor brought the matter, before the Court on August > he was present. listening to the intervention prò- ceedings.
• Mrs Wansers
ease as that she. last uw her husband in 1931.-Shë made efforts to trace him; and his last-known address, was at Bear Road, Brighton..
Glying judgment, Mr. Jus-, |tice Langton said the interven¬ Lon by the King's Proctor raised an interesting and Important point under Section 8 of the Matrimoni-15 al Causes Act, 1997;
The facts out of which the in- tervention arose were not in dis pute. The parties were married in 1922. In June last year, Mrs. Manser presented a petition: for] divorce on the ground of the de sertion of her husband, but this was refused 'as the parting took place under a deed of sepuration and was therefore by mutual con- sent
"I am not without sympathy for Mrs. Manser, who appears to have been, to all intents and purposes, deserted by her husband although debarred from setting up that des
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