SLASHING ATTACK ON ATTACK ON PALESTINE REPORT
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Division Not Intelligent, Says Mr. Lloyd George
LAMENTABLE ADMISSION
LONDON, JULY 18.
MR. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, FAMOUS, 73-YEAR-OLD BRITISH `STATESMAN, KEEN AND EFFECTIVE DEBATER, IS ONCE AGAIN IN *THE LIMELIGHT THIS TIME AS A CRITIC OF THE ROYAL COM- MISSION REPORT ON PALESTINE.
A slashing attack on the Pales- tine Report is made by Mr. Lloyd George in an article in the "Sun- day Express" describing it as a lamentable admission that Britain owing to feebleness, vacillation and pusilanimity in ber administrators has failed to carry out the great mission. The Zionists to whom a national home was promised will have to be satisfied with a mutilat- ed, land of Canaan without. Zion, Bethlehem and Judea.
Mr. Lloyd George pays tribute to the Jewish settlements which have not only prospered themselves but diffused prosperity throughout Canaan. Trade had 'leapt up and wages of the Arab labourers were trebled. Their health had im- proved by the elimination of malaria by the Jewish health sex- vices. The Jews had poured over £77,000,000 capital into a land ind proverished for centuries by Arab and Turkish neglect, ineficiency and corruption. Even if the part!- tion is inevitable the division pro- posed in the Report is not intelli- gent,
Mr. Lloyd George
Palestine Partition
Protest
Arab Mobs Block Baghdad Streets
Baghdad, July 17,
A gigantic demonstration" by 50,000. Arabs of all classes and professions was held here to-day against the proposed partition of Palestine.
HỒNG H KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 19, 1937.
ACTIVITY IN
ARAGON FRONT Catalans & Insurgents Come To Grips
The
'Hendaye, July 17, Government offensive !! West Madrid appears to have ex- hausted itself and the centre of activity to-day has shifted to the Aragon front where the insurgents and Catalans have been facing each other without any real al- teration in their respective poal- tlons since the beginning of the
War
Yesterday 15,000 Catalan troops with thirty tanks and sixteen aeroplanes began to attack insur- gent positions in North Buesca.
While Barcelona claims that im- portant advance was made, Sala- manca declares that the attacks had falled completely with loss of hundreds of men- Reuter.
SUCCESSOR TO
SEN. ROBINSON
BRITAIN CANNOT AFFORD TO REMAIN UNARMED
Prime Minister Refers To Spanish Situation And Armament
London, July 17.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, in a speech at Middles- brough this afternoon rëferred to the unanimous request of the Non-Intervention Committee to the British Government to pro- pose a plan for dealing with the Spanish situation. He said he did not believe such a tribute had ever been paid to the im partiality and single-mindedness of a great power. The task they were asked to undertake was one of great difficulty and delicacy but in the interests of general peace the Government undertook it and with promptitude produced a series of proposals which, he was glad to say, had been accepted by ail nations as a basis of discussion.
After alluding to improved trad-1 ing conditions throughout the coun- try and expressing satisfaction that workers were getting their share of it, he said that he thought the country could congratulate itself that when the need for rearma- ment came the "revenue had ex- panded so much that they were able to take up the task without undue atrain. His wish was that see the futility of spending all this money on armaments because they were afraid of each other instead of apending on better food, education
Split In President's all nations would soon
Party Widens
GLOOM OVER PEIPING
Situation In
North China
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and other things which made for the comfort of the people.
Before they could see that day' those tears must be removed. If they succeeded in that armaments would disappear. Meantime this: country could not afford to remain unarmed in a world where every- one else was arming to the teeth. Everyone knew that Britain's arms would never be used for pur- poses of aggression but any who contemplated aggression would na- turally pause when the power.and resources of a Britain fully armed were seen-British Wireless,
SPREADING
GROUND" FOR
RUMOURS
Enquiries from officers and pas- sengers on board the President Coolidge intimated that with con- | dicting reports, from strife-torn North China, Shanghai was no more than a spreading ground for rumours. in spite of which the city dwellers remained calm but tense.
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Washington, July 18. The split in the President's party over the choice of a successor to Seastor Robinson as leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate Is widening and is being aggrs- vated by the very bitter feeling engendered by the Supreme Court BLA.
Three possibilities of the Bill are envisaged, all of which leave President Roosevelt's chances, ül winning out this Session as very
tion may have to offer concessions: remote. Firstly, the administra-
secondly, the opponents may mus- It is believed that if the agree- The demonstrators formed them-
ter enough vote to return the Bill selves Into
Japanese banks and cotton, mills to the Judiciary committee thus
ment for the evacuation of the completely blocked the principal, other year; thirdly, the
à procesaton, which side-tracking it for at least an-
29th
In Shanghai were instructed by Army Garrison is reached
their home offices to be prepared streets, and carried banners and may follow the ordinary
1500 Japanese troops in Tungchow, streamers bearing anti-Jewish in-within the agreed Umit but even alble anti-Japanese outburst
debate are ready to rush to Peiping im-
to take emergency measures in case course mediately to deal with any poscrisis should become aggravated. the present Sino-Japanese scriptions.
by If the Senate vote favours the Fre-the soldierly populace. sident, the Bill may not reach the
The financial institutions were House of Representatives.
directed to be cautious in their. Chinese military circles admit commitments, while the textile that difference have artsen with firms received orders, to draw up
London, July 18..
terras but emphasized that this their staffs. The battle for the majority the leaders of the 29th Army over-plans for the evacuation of women won by D. L Burney lately Cadet The King's Prize, Bisley. Wis
Dallas, Texas, July 18, leadership in. the Senate
John Woodruff broke the world
does not impair the solidarity of rages the attitude towards the Japanese and children among the families of in the Cambridge University O.T.C. record for the 800 metres when he
the Army generally.-
and son of Colonel Birney. The covered the distance in 1 minute The tense situation in North winner is 23 years old and is arti-47 8/10 seconds thus lowering tho China alsó brought about a heavy cled to a solicitor. He won the record of 1 minute 49 7/10 zecondé increase of telegrams from Shang- Silver Medal yesterday with the set up by. Elroy Robinson last hai to cities near the trouble highest aggregate in the second week when, beating the half-mile centres. As a result messages to state. 2nd/Lt. Smith, 80th Low-record.~~~ the Northern cities, according to land, RA. was second with a score Reuter. reports of the Shanghai Telegraph of 281- Office, were delayed on account of Reuter.
Out of the British costly war- time effort the Arabs got freedom over territory much more extensive than that ruled over by an Im- posing Empire of Assyrian Kings. Finally, the writer scouts the sug gestion that two races, languages and religions cannot live in amnity in the same country and cites India where the Congress and Imperialist Parties alike accept the theals that an Aryan, Semite, Hindu, Muslim, "Buddhist and Christian can live toget' r and share the government in one great community. He also The demonstration was organized cites the case of South Africa; also by student clubs of the various of Canada where the Briton,universities. French, Protestant and Catholic
Saud, of Saudi-Arabia, King Farukh round Benators Bartley and Har
Telegrams were sent to King ton of Egypt, the ruler of the Yemen,rison both of whom are in favour the Shah of Iran and the President of the B but the latter is con- of Syria, protesting against `the proposed partition and remindingents Bill
sidered acceptable by the oppon- | Reuter. all Arabs of their duty to fight
Reater. against the plan.
live side by side and jointly govern the country.- Reuter."
LEAGUE SESSION
Geneva, July 16. The League Secretary General received from the United Kingdom Government a letter announcing a communication to the Permanent Mandates Commission of the Re- port of the Royal Commission on Palestine also the United Kingdom Government's conclusions on re- port. The Government asks that the question be placed on the agenda of the League Council's September Session and that mean- while the Mandates Commission consider the documents at the Session to begin July 30,- British Wireless Service.
Palestine Partition For League
Geneva, July 17. The Permanent Mandates Com- mittee of the League of Nations, which meets on July 30, will examine the Report of the British
CAPITAL REDUCED BY £23,000,000
The reduction of the capital of
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SHOPS CLOSED Telegrams of protest were also cent to the League of Nations and foreign lezations in Iraq.
Shops owned by some 60.000 Jews living in Baghdad were closed from early morning.
The Fremier issued an appeal for order, while the chief of police forbade the carrying of weapons, even by policemen.- Franzeccan News Service.
Royal Commission on Palestine and its proposal to partition of the country, and will prepare an expert memorandum for consideration at the session of the League Council in September.
In British circles it is expected that the Mandates Committee will approve the partition plan, at least in principle.--- Transoceani News Service.
ARAGON FIGHTING
#
Salamanca, July 17.
tinue to maintain their confident The insurgent war bulletins con-
5 YEARS AGO HE WAS A MILLIONAIRE "Broke But Happy"
In a four-roomed rock cottage outside Oklahoma City a man who five years ago was a millionaire lives happily on fish and berries
and on what food he can buy with the proceeds of the poetry he writes.
"I'm broke and I like it," he says. "It cost me £400,000 to get to know myself. No one could run fast enough to give me a million dollars now."
Mr. Everitt W. His bis name. Once he was head of a flourishing ice and cold storage, chain. The business collapsed.
He believes that happiness comes from contentment and that simple living the most effective way of winning contentment.
Marie Antoinette Diamonds Sold To A Maharajah
Marie Antoinette's 20-stone dia-
TALKS IN WHITE HOUSE
Washington, July 18. President Roosevelt summoned Mr. Cordek Hull to lunch and con-
ference so-day in order to discuss
the Far Eastern situation with particular reference to the United States Neutrality Law.
White House officials state that the United States, at present, is not called to take any direction beyond exploring all possibilities involved if the clash spreads.
indicated in a statement that the Mr. Hull, before the deference
part of twenty other American policy cabled earlier, had the sup-
Republica.
Renter
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MILITARY DIVISIONS FROM JAPAN
the lack of facilities to handle the sudden increase.
.Conflicting: reports on the North China situation which could not be confirmed took many forms one of which said, that varied Shanghai Japanese residente had completed arrangements for eva- cuating the city,
Valley to cope with the situation in North China, and reports that 180th division In Kwangtung is to be sent to the North are without foundation.
J
BISLEY MEETING
QUARRY FATALITY
NEW RUNNING RECORD
WESTERN PACT REVIVAL
London, July 17. working on a hillside in a quarry which has receded somewhat in- About 6. p.m. yesterday while The proposed Western Pact,
at Waterloo Road, apposite the to the background of European Kowloon Hospital a stone-breaker affairs in the light of other mare foreman, Hu Sau. azed 48 was urgent matters, again came into workman, Tse Tal, 45, sustained British Government handed to killed by a falling rock. Another the limelight to-day when the injuries on his left leg and was the German Ambassador a Note, removed to the. Kowloon Hospital the contents of which have not where he was detained. It was re-been divulged. ported that his condition was good.
COLONY'S CREDIT BALANCE
Negotiations for a new Western Pact have been going on since the begining of the year.--
traniocean Nevi Service
EARL HAIG STATUE
Nanking. July 18. It is also incorrectly reported Thirty-one Japanese are carrying five divisions
steamers that forty Canton aeroplanes are from placed at the disposal of the Cen- Japan to China." The numbers of tral Authorities. There are only. the divisions are 5th, 6th, 10th, two squadrons of aeroplanes in 12th and 18th. The strength is Canton and are always under the about 100,000 officers and men.. direct command and disposal of
Chinese papers here stated that the Central Authorities.
The latest financial statement Great Britain and the United Those planes are not be trans-shows that Hong Kong's credit
Sir Philip Sassoon replied "No" States have urged Japan' not to ferred elsewhere at present.
balance at the end of April was in the House of Commons to Mr." aggravate the situation In North | Union News.
$14,074,052, compared with $12,- Thurtle, who asked him to refrain China.
897,158 at the end of March. Dur- from taking any steps to have the ing the first four months of the equestrian statue of the late Field year, revenue totalled $11.194,885, Marshal Earl Haig erected in view against $19.798.251 for the same of the lack of unanimity regarding period last year, the respective ex- the merits of this work, and also and $9,744,917,
MORAL SUPPORT SOUGHT
Cable and Wireless (Holding) Ltd.. tone, and the latest coinmunication mond necklace was sold recently and to keep: Whitehali. Informed of the respective governments to Penditure Agures being $10,037.965 of the fact that there is no re-
of Electra House, Victoria E- bankment, from £47,248,583 to £23,649,683 103, was' confirmed" by an order of Mr. Justice Almonda in the Chancery Division recently.
Mr. Fergus Morton, E.C., for the company, said it was not a case in which creditors were affected. The position was that certain very large holdings in subsidiary com- panies were not, in the view of the directors, of the value of the figure at which they appeared in the balance-sheet,
The profits had not been sun- clent to pay in full the dividend payable" on its Preference stock, which was one and threequarter years in arrear
The resolutions for the reduction had been passed by overwhelming majorities.
Only one shareholder was repre-
sented in court to opposs the
cheme.
from rebel headquarters to-day at Sotheby's for £15,000. claims the inflicting of severe casualties forces in the Aragon sector, where hanga.
on the Government
four tanks, allegedly of Russlan manufacture, were destroyed,
The buyer, Mr. Wylde, was act- ing for the Maharajah ol Darb
Fighting on the Madrid front is apparently at a temporary stand- still following the recent loyallst offensive, the only military activity being Intense artillery fire- Transocean News Service
the
SWORD FOR LORD DESBOROUGH
A bronze sword recovered from Thames af Taplow is to be presented to Lord Desborough with framed address to mark his re- retirement from the chairmanship
The necklace was sold by the order of the Archiduchess Blanche Princess of Massimo, of Austria and her sister, Beatrix
With it went a genealogical tree sboying through whose ownership' It has passed since Marie Antoin- ette owned it
Each ownership is authenticated by certificates and affidavits.
The famous necklace of 43 black pearls, which formerly belonged to the late Annie Viscountess Com dray, and which was offered by Viscount Cowdray, was withdrawn at 27500.
Sir Knatchbull Hugessen, British Ambassador to China, is remain- ing in Nanking to maintain con- tact with the Chinese authorities
of the latest developments. The British Ambassador paid a second visit to Vice-Minister Hau Mo yesterday. Union News
*** Nanking, July 18. The Chinese Ambassadors in London, Washington and Paris are instructed to draw the attention
which they are accredited of Japanese aggressions in Hopel and to obtain the moral support of the Powers in the present dispute.
The diplomats are making re- SUFFICIENT TROOPS
gular reports on the reactions of Shanghai, July 18. the Powers towards the North There are sufficient troops along China fighting- the Yangtze and Yellow Riverson News.
MR. FRANK MITCHELL
KNIGHTED
Compulsory Cleaning
eral public demand for a memorial in this formende geria
Mr.Thurtle--Does not the Firs Commissioner think it abnormally foolish even for this Government to spend time and money in erect Budapest la reported to be on ing a status which nobody wants? eve of issuing an order compelling Sir Philip Sassoon-I have not housewives to spring-clean their the power to reverse a decision lofts and garrets and clear their taken by this House, I believe Mr, cellars of inflammable material Lansbury, when First Commission- and rubbish, within one month,er of Works, told the sculptor that under penalty or a £30 one he had full sanction to go on with Japan, of course, has long endured an even more drastic regulation.
the work. (Laughter.), Faris, July 16.
out of household goods and a which prescribes a complete turn- with, declares a new Government thorough cleansing of the house the three-inch-thick 'mats 10-
es must be paid fo
another decree authorises mani- Moreover, only one day is allowed The dwelling is then thoroughly decree lasted this evening. and interior once every six months. moved and beaten with canes, cipalities to tax everything al- for the operation. On a given scrubbed and cleaned, ready for ready taxed, by the state, Reuter,
Mr. Frank Herbert Mitchell, who All retired from the post of Assistant Private Secretary to the King on June 11, has been knighted in re- cognition of his services.
After i the Garter Service at Windsor, the King knighted him and invested him with the K.C..
of the Thames Conservancy. Board, be inscribed with the record of V.O.
It was announced at a meeting of Lord Desborough's 41 years' mem-Sir Frank in Secretary of the the Board, that the sword would bership of the Board.
Order of the Garter, and was
ALL TAXES MUST
BE PAID".
day in May and November the the policeman's visit. He arrives woman of the house and her later in the day, inspects opera- maids remove their scanty furai- tions, aproves, sprinkles a little screens which divide the dwelling the Okusama and her sistarits to ture to the street. The light disinfectant, and retires to allow-
into rooms are also taken out and to replace the furniture.
King George V. and King Edward Assistant Private Secretary