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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1940, :-
TALKS ON DEFENCE SCHEME
Secrecy Surrounds Meeting At Hague
Lawyers
Object
To Levy
Shanghai, July 20.
Declaring the proposed pro- perty tax both unconstitutional and against the legislative
WESTERN UNION CONVERSATIONS
The Hague, July 19.
Economic Council Meeting
US DEMANDS APOLOGY FROM CZECHS
Prague, July 19,
The United States Military authorities today denied tho Czoch charges that the American CIC had sont spios and assassins into Czechoslovakia and demanded an apology and retraction. The United States Embassy volving a friendly power which in the liberation of announced that it has transmit-exslated
were issued br ted a stiff note to the Czech Czechoslovakia Foreign Office this evening the official press agency without from headquarters in Frank-ons prior word to the Embassy or any other American authorl- furt.
(les," The note stated that no Ameri-
note Geneva, July 10,
The charges which the can military organisation had
were dented
contalhed in Britain's Minister of State, Mr. Hector McNell, and Itussin's thing to do with the alleged lengthy joint comnumique issued terrorist bands which, the Minis-by the Ministries of Interior and representative, M. Arlutiuntan. 1 iries of National Defence and National Defence on Saturday are expected to play leading Interior declared on Saturday afternoon announcing the arrest roles in the six-weeks meeting had been sent into Czechoslovakia of 70 persons on charges of as- of the Economic and Social by Czech refugees and sponsored sassination, espionage
rorism, Council, the first principal or Ly CIC. gan of the United Nations to The note demanded an imme- meet in Europe, which began diate retraction of all charges in-
volving Amerkans met Mr. of experts, to Bold its first mhel- its seventh session here todaynology to the American authorl-ed the communique under ban-
The Foreign. Ministars of the five Western Union
countrios Britain, France and the Benelux- met secretly here today and were believed to bo discussing a plan to build, with the United Statos, a "North Atlantic regional defenco” schomo.
1
policy of the Chinese Govern- The Ministers are meeting for two days as the Con- ment, the Shanghai Lawyers
sultative Council of the Western Union, creat- Association has sent a petition
ed in Paris lost April.
to the Legislative Yuan, urging
rejection of the measure.
Proposed by 40 members of
bri and
and fer- whose operations were said to be directed by Crock CIC agents and CIC itself.
Prague Sunday papers display. The 18-member Council had a ties.
ner headlines such as "American
to murder expressedt "astonishment agents sent in record agenda of 50 items, and among the conterence reports to that, charges such a these in- Czecha."--United Press. ******* [be studied are those on freedom
Envoys of Canada, South, the Ministers set up a committee the Legghdative Yuan, the draft Africa and Australlo property tax h
passed initial Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Se-ng today, to erordinate financial examination of the Investigation Committee and is to be presented retary, and the British delega- and trading problems between the now to the Yuan's general meet-tion ni dinner last night at the ve antions. Reuter, ing in Nanking, either today or British Embassy. (The Domin-
10morrow.
The jitlest
jons of New Zealand, Indta and represented charged that in Pakistan are not spite of lufty phrases in which diplomatically at The Hague). been No aflei statement has the text of the proposed law is touched, the application of such made on the Pereign Ministers
a levy could not but be inequit-nda, but they ere expected to discuss the Berlin crisis as well uble and impractical.
The levy will be disastrous to as the seven-power talks the country and to the
people Ring
now
on In Washington for North Atlantic serional defence
nu will in all probability cause in which the United States and o flight of
capital out of Chinn,
Canrda would bolster the exit- the petition arki
Under the proposed new law, Bit Wester Union plan.
capital and property would both cuty
be taxel. The law has been de- scribed by opposing legislators us almed at sooking the poor.com Reuter.
CZECH GENERAL A FUGITIVE
to
They are also expected diecuss trade between the five atates; travel facilities; and a report on coltatoration in the. overseas territories dependent Belgium Britain, France, on and Holland.
This morning's session opened with n
Duteli Welcome by the Foreign Minister, Baron
V
Boetzerluer Van Oosterho,,"
to which the French Minister, M. Georges replied,
Foreign Bidault, to the referring to meet- Ing its a step towards realis- Int Washington, July 19.
the conn
objectives of Czechoslovakia's most senior peace and reconstruction-"u Army general, Antonin Bohumil step taken in the first place by Hasal, was reported today to we five and perhaps, later, with have fled to the American oe-others." cupation zone of Germany.
weeks ago,
to
Observers speculated on who- United States Government other M. Bidault's refrence cials anid he escaped several others joining the Western Union reflected a decision already taken to widen the scope of the alliance or whether it merely expressed the hope that the example of the Western Union would spread to other parts of Europe.
Social
M. Vaclav Majer, former Czech Food Minister and leader of the anti-Communist wing In the Czechoslovak
Democrat Parly, arrived at London Airp today from Frankfurt affer es- eaping from Prague during the Sokol Youth Festival.
He reached The United States
Zone
of Ger
Germany last week.
M. Maler, who declined to re- veal the methor of his excope. undisclosed left by car for an
destination. During the war, he zerved as a Czechoslovak Army officer in Britain. --Reuter.
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Opening the seventh session, Dr. Charles Malik, of the Lebanon, President of the Coun- that the cil, today. declared United Nations, Security Council, with its highly political nature. would become superBuous of the
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