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PALESTINE-BITTER YEARS OF STRIFE: CONFLICT BETWEEN RIGHT AND RIGHT
Queen Kisses The
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S ROYAL TOUR:
COMMONS' STATEMENT Wartime Promises: Breach Of Faith Repudiated
LONDON, May 23 (Reuter)—Initiating the debate on the Government's Palestine policy, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary of State for the Colonies, sald that the Government wished that it was possible to present the policy under different circumstances.
When the House last debated on Palestine, it was hoped, despite the bitter years of strife, that there was still a possibility of some understanding between the Arabs and the Jews regarding the future, but that hope had been dashed, so the Government had come for- ward with its own policy.
Was
not
countless genera-
“Quins"
BIG WELCOME IN ONTARIO
THEIR MAJESTIES DELIGHTED WITH
THE CITY TORONTO, MAY 23 (REUTER)—–—– THEIR MAJESTIES ARRIVED
It was the Royal Com- But that Palestine mission which had visited empty. In 1918 there was a popu~ HERE AND WERE OFFICIALLY Palestine in 1937 which had lation of 600,000 Arabs, whose an- said" that the conflict which cestors had been in undisturbed WELCOMED TO THE had arisen there between the ccupation for Jews and the Arabs was not
tions, a conflict between right and "wrong, but a conflict between
right and right.
PRU- VINCIAL LEGISLATURE BY MR. MITCHELL HEPBURN, PREMIER OF ONTARIO, to whom the King said that the Queen and he were delighted to visit the elty, and that they regretted that they could not stay longer to see more of it.
NEW JAPANESE DEMANDS IN TIENTSIN
PEKING. May 23 (Renter)— According to the semi-officia]
press in Tientsin, the Japanese authorities have delivered new demands on the British Council in Tientsin, including the en- gagement of Japanese advisers by the Council, a joint search by British police and Japanese gendarmes for terrorists and for the extradition of any arrested terrorists to the Jap anese.
The press report adds that the Japanese authorities have under contemplation the taking over of the concessions in Tientsin by the provisional Government, the supervision of their councils by the Japanese Authorities 2.3 well as the encirclement of the concessions to reduce their importance.
EMPIRE DAY MESSAGE
PROMISES TO ARABS Specifying the promises made to the Arabs, Mr. MacDonald declared That was true. To come to MacMahon Correspondence, but to that he was not referring to the judgment between the claims of a later promise. When the 'Balfour scarlet and gold uniformed Dra- Their Majesties were escorted by the two parties in those circum- Declaration was made he said it goons and received a tremendous commensurate with our privileges stances and to find a firm line of came as a shock to the Arab world welcome during their 23-mile drive is the greatness of our respon- so the British Government sent a through the streets, the whole route sibilities. Upon the courageous
justice between them was indeed
Continued from Pare 1
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Japan's Demands:
SHANGHAI AND KULANGSU
FIRM BRITISH AND AMERICAN · REPLIES
LONDON, May 23 (Reuter) In the House of Commons yesterday, replying to Mr. Arthur Henderson (Lab.), who was seeking information about the situation in the International Settlements in
WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1939. -PACE 9
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PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;
&
SHANGHAI
APTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS LIMITED,
In amoriation with the Grand Hotel des Wagons like Poking
Shanghal and Amoy, Mr. R. NEW LAUNCH FOR
A.
Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, recalled that the Japanese Govern- ment had recently put for- ward suggestions for a re- vision of the land regulations
in the International Settle- ment of Shanghai and the constitution of the Chinese courts there.
In reply, Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador to Japan, had made it clear to the Japanese Gov- ernment that, while His Majesty's Government would be ready, in consultation with the other powers interested, to participate in nego- tlations regarding any revision "needed. conditions in the Shanghai ares were so far from normal.
PRES. QUEZON.
Fastest Diesel Of Size Built At Kowloon Docks
Trials were run sh Monday of a fast Diesel launch special- ly designed by Messrs, John I. Thornycroft and Co., Limited
'to
the order of President- 'Mannel Quezon, of the Com- ⚫monwealth of the "Philippine
Islands.
.
FATAL MISHAP
IN WANCHAI
Blind Man Knocked
d
Down By Tram
A blind man was knocked down by a tramcar at the junction of Hennessy Road and Johnston Road on May 6 and subsequently died from a fractured skuli at the Queen Mary Hospital.
As a sequel to the accident, an Inquest was held at the Central Court yesterday. Mr. R. A. D. Forrest sat as Coroner, while
that negotiations cannot be initia- Company, follows the plans and sent for the police
The launch, constructed by the Acting Sub-Inspector Clarke, of Hongkong ted at present with any prospect specification submitted by Messrs.
and Whampoa Dock the Traffic Department, was pre-
Mr. J. K. Leghorn, Workshop of success and that the question John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd. Superintendent of the Tramway
as dificult a task as the House messenger to Jeddah to explain to being lined with ex-servicemen shouldering of those responsibil... | appeared to them to be one which | This-craft is reputed to be the fast. Co., testified that the brakes of
and allies.
favour
ever had to perform.
Sheriff Hussein that the. British and regulars. BORN IN TUMULT OF WAR Government looked with "The situation in Palestine was upon the return of the Jews to ceremony, Their Majesties received At the City Hall, in an open-air born in a tumult of war when the Palestine and that the Government the city's homage in the presence great nations of the earth were was determined that no obstacle of thousands of spectators engaged in deadly struggle, and should be placed in the way of this were searching around for friends return, but that this would only Parliament where huge crowds had They then drove to the Provincial These two peoples were interest-bir with the economic and politi-
be allowed so far as was compati-gathered for hours. et from the point of view of cal freedom of the existing popula-
THE QUINS 1 settlement in Palestine-the Arabs
An atmosphere of gravity sur- tion. and the Jews.
rounded the presentation of the It added that the British Gov-Dionne Quintuplets, each of whom ernment was determined that no was given a blue coat by the Queen. people in Palestine, should be sub- They gave the Queen a signed Ject to another. This was the photograph and then each child Eame Government of which Mr. embraced
the Queen with Balfour was still the Foreign Seere-resounding kiss, which the Queen tary and therefore, there could returned. have been no misunderstanding.
Largely on the strength of a promise made to them by His Majesty's Government,
each played a certain part in the war. Each took certain risks for the allied cause. This ques- tion, then, was a matter of honour.
The good name of Great Britain
a
Afterwards the Quintuplets were these assurances meant that the Mr. Hepburn, who was accompanied Surely, declared Mr. MacDonald, introduced Into the Legislature by was involved. The obligations con-Jewish National Home in Palestine by their parents. Dr. "Dafoe and tracted towards the Jews and did not mean a Jewish State nurses in a procession, which was Avabs during the war were debts against the wishes of the Arab solemn until the last child entered of honour which could not be paid population.
the chamber and raised cheers and laughter by insisting on waying and nearly. toppled over by looking upwards into the galleries.
in counterfeit coinage.
CHARGE REPUDIATED
In some quarters in the last few
days the Government had been
charged with breaking promises
The Government confidently re- pudlate that:
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GOVERNMENT CONSISTENCY.
Mr. MacDonald claimed that the Government was acting
consistently
thsolutely
with the war pledges made" to the" Jews and the Arabs. Referring
il
tp Immigration,
of the
Mr. MacDonald dealt sympathetl-which Mr. MacDonald said cally with the Jewish claims and Government had also been charg- then turned to the Arab case and ed with breach of promise, the Co- declared:
no
"There is
doubt that physically we could force on the Arabs in Palestine any kind of Jewish national home, but we could not do that with any moral justification. We must keep our promises to the Jews. but must also keep faith with the Arab world."
BALFOUR PROMISE
ties deperid the solidarity and in- with it the future peace and pros- tegrity of the British Empire, and perity of the world.
TRIBULATION AND UNREST
Confronted with International enmities and misunderstandings and widespread human tribulation and unrest, let us remain true to to follow with undaunted courage, our traditions and ideals, prepared the path of duty, wherever it may
lead.
"Never have
the various parts of the Empire been more closely linked in fraternal af- fection, more solid in their sympathies or more matually trustful "than they are to-day. and the whole human family have derived beneût from their friendly co-operation.
AIRPORT Imperial Airways.
NEWS
should await the development. of observations applied, with equal more stable conditions: the same
force.
to the administration of the Chinese courts in the Settle- ed under a ments, which had been establish- ment.
multi-lateral agres-
Mr. Butler continued that it was Government had replied similarly, understood that the United States
KULANGSU LANDING
the representations made to them on the subject of the Settlement in Amoy by Sir Robert Craigie, the Japan- ese Government had replied that the landing Was Ar emergency measure, but as the landing party had largely realized their alm they were: already effecting a gradual withdrawa
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the landing of the United States, Mr. Butler finally recalled that
British and French forces was "with a view to the early re- establishment of the authority of the Kulangau Municipal Council" and said that they would be with-. tion of the Japanese landing party. drawn pari passu with the reduc-
AWAITING REPLY
Mr. Henderson, in a supple- mentary question, asked whe- ther the Japanese demands for an increased meastire of cou- trol had been accepted or re- jected?
Mr. Batler: We are awaiting a final reply from the Japan esu Government.
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ANCHORAGE OF TRUTH "Let s above all hold fast to
Sir Robert Craigle had expressed the anchorage of truth and righdrawal would be expedited
the earnest hope that the with- teousness. Let us each and all, young and old, this Empire Day, in face. of a tendency in many lands to accept a lower standard Mr. Tom Williams argued et faith and conduct, than that that the White Paper destroy- ed the very basis of the Balfour
which has hitherto guided the civilised world, bravely resolve to Declaration and declared that remain steadfastly loyal to the clearly Mr. Balfour visualized faith of our fathers and to those Innial Secretary said that it was
the possibility of a Jewish high principles upon which the State true that the Government said 'in
British Empire has been built up. He quoted Mr. Winston Chur-and without 1922 that immigration should not chill, Lord Milner and President endure, To be true Imperialists' we
which it exceed the economic absorptive Wilson in support of this view and must maintain unshaken our faith cannot capacity of the country, but the declared that the Governmenss In God, in the Empire and in Government could not accept these scheme turned back the wheels of ourselves.-BLEDISLOE. declarations as meaning that they history, had rio moral foundation, were bound for all time in all cir-were wholly inconsistent with the cumstances to maintain that strict terms of the Mandate and" sacrt- principle without a qualification.ficed the moderate Jews and Arabs
Under
to the administrative expediency.
He pleaded with the House not to accept, Mr. MacDonald's reading of Parliament's obliga- tions, which, if accepted, would once more foufeit the confl- dence not only of this country, the Empire and of the United States. added Mr. MacDonald, ing, the work would rival that of
PARTITION PERIOD that the promise meant definitely the tramers of the Indian Con-that a limited part of Palestine Sir Stafford Cripps suggested that Palestine-should- becomea stitution, but because it was a should be temporally set aside Jewish State. Certainly, the posal-difficult task they must not aban-as a Jewish enclave, where Jewish bility of a Jewish State was not don it. excluded. It was far from exclud- cd, because Mr. Lloyd George, who rangements was that the interests ment could be developed in the self-government could be allowed The whole spirit of these ar- to develop while Arab self-govern- was Premier in 1917, assured us of the minority and the majority rest of the country. of that,
"Nevertheless the authors of the secured and that they should be intense
in Palestine should be adequately Balfour Declaration and Mandate satisfied that they were so ade-economic life was carried on. at If during the period of partition did not say a "Jewish State:" they quately secured before completely the end of ten years the two races' development of Arab used a more indefinite expression surrendering the mandatory con- standards would be They recognized that a Jewish trpi of the country.. Settlement in Palestine on a great
much closer and there might be an opportunity Britain. would be satisfied that
there of working together.
After referring to the promise to the Jewish people, Mr. MacDonald mentioned the Balfour Promise of 1817, which declared that "the Government would Use utmost endeavours to
that principle
the Jewish population grew from 80,000 in 1922 to 450,000 to-day. SUMMING UP
Summing up, Mr. MacDonald their said that it would be contrary to see esta- the Mandate if Britain did not be-
blished a National Home for thegin to work nów towards a self-but all parts of Jews in Palestine."
governing institution in Palestine,
"It has sometimes been sus-When it came to constitution fram- gested,"
scale was an experiment, the exin a treaty with Palestine there tent of which must depend upon should be a provision for maintain- certain incalculable factors.
"NATIONAL HOME”
"So deliberately they chose the phrase "National Home," which could mean a Jewishi State in Palestine, but which also might mean something very much less.
"At the time when the Balfour
ing military and air forces sufficient to secure our interests, the use of military facilities, such as. ports and aerodromes, appropriate con- sultations on military matters and mutual assistance
of trouble.
in
Case
LABOUR APPEAL
Mr. Tom Williams, Opposition
Declaration was made, it was mid Labour, moved an official Oppost-
Mr. Noel Baker described the Government's proposals aa surrender to terrorism. Ho al- ered that the disturbances in Palestine were financed and Bided by Italy and Germany and contended that but for outside propaganda the Jews and Arabs would re in har- mony.
STORK REALITIES.
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NORTHBOUND Wednesday: Bangkok, ilongkang,
Hanoi,
Dorade, Della-p.m. Thursday: Bangkok, Hanoi, Hong-
kong
Delphinus-4pm
SOUTHBOUND
Friday: Hanoi, Bangkok. Dorado, Della-7 and 7.30 am. Air France:
„NORTHBOUND YA
France,
Wednesday:*
Hongrong.
Service 12.30 pm.
SOUTHBOUND Saturday: Hanoi France Service 7 am. Pan American Airways:
EASTBOUND
Thursday: USA Manile,
kong.
Honolulu "Clipper-2 p.m.
WESTBOUND.")
Hanot.
NEW CHINESE TELEGRAPH
CODE COMPILED
One of the most useful publica tions of its kind is the new four figure telegraph code, compiled by Mr. Cheung Yin-ts'eung (Jameson Y. Chang), and published by the Mem Mem Telegraphic Code Co., of Hongkong.
her trials, Monday, a speed of 20 designed in Great Britain, and on est Diesel launch of her size so far tramcar No. 94 were in good order.
BELL RUNG Mr. T. H. Simmons, Trafic In- knots was comfortably obtained. spector, stated that, he was stand- To embody the necessary ac-ing near the scene about 7.50 p.m. commodation and engine space the when there was continuous ringing vessel is 48 feet in length with a of a bell. He saw a man walking beam of 10′ 6′′ and a draft of 2 a". across the road. The man, who The hull is of the hard chine type was blind, had apparently heard sheated in Muntz metal. with double skin teak planking, the ringing of the bell, and walk- ed back, but the tram bad, by this time, approached and knocked down the pedestrian.
A passenger on the tramcar,
SPIRAL PROPELLERS This craft is specially equipped
and 18
designed
Atted
Thomycroft
for navigation in shallow waters Tam Yee-kong, told the Court that with specially he heard the ringing of the bell, spiral and shortly afterwards felt a jerk. propellers to avoid damage by He looked out and saw a man lying flotsam. All the fittings are of a in front of the car. particularly light chromium type
Lo Kuen, driver of tramear Na and the lifting weight of the craft 94, said he saw the man walking is approximately & and a half-across the tram track. tong,
He rang The engine incorporates a pair instead of ahead. He applied the the bell but the man walked back of six-cylinder. Thomycroft Diesel brakes, but the vehicle knocked engine of the "RL/6" type, each down the man before the tramcar of which develops 140 BHP. been christened with the name of ture was recorded.
had stopped. This Presidential Launch
A verdict of death by misadven- "Baler" and will be used by Prest- dent Quezon exclusively. I is un- derstood that "Baler" 13 the name of the President's birth place.
The launch will be shipped to steamer. Manilla by the first suitable
COMMUNICATION
has
FORMER S'HAI MAN TELLS OF KULANGSU
FL
"Speaking in London. Mr. O. M
WITH SWATOW CUT Green, former Editor of the "North
porta
Communication by land between China Daily News," said that Chaochowfu and Swatow and be Kulangsu was old training tween Swatow and Kitang is now place and exported tea, dragon's no longer possible according to re-blood and dried centipedes. The
hed reaching here from the Japanese
recently.. threa=". northern coast port. The reports tened the Kulangau Municipal state that both the rall service Council obviously as a test for the and the motor-bus service have International Settlement in Shang- been stopped by order of the ba military authorities.
The British, French and American Where it was formerly possible naval authorities had taken a firm to reach Chaochowfu by railway stand and already half of the or by motor-bus in 13 hours, the Japanese landing party had re-
iver route by the fastest available moved. motor-launches requires four hours Speaking of the Italo-Ger- of travel along the Han Kong man.
military alliance, Mr. river from Amphow, north of Green said that Germany was Swatow.
trying to force Japan into the alliance but the Japanese had everything to lose and though the Japanese militarists were in favour of the pact the Government, Navy and financial magnets would have nothing to do with it.
FIRST CROSSING COMPLETED
Turning to the war. Mr. Green. remarked that the Chinese counter- trans-offensive in South China during
The code is neatly printed on s sheet of paper, 43 inches by 31 LONDON, May 25 (Reuter)-The inches, and consists of 10,000 Chi-Yankee Clipper arrived at Bonth nese characters, systematically ar-ampton from Marseilles completing Hong-ranged according to their radicals, the first crossing of the
thus facilitating ready referenca. Atlantic, air, services. Those who have experienced the dimculty of decoding messages sent under the old five-figure sys- tem, which necessitated the "turn-|
Friday: Manila, U. 8. A. Honolulu Clipper 8:30a.m.
Note: A delay on the main Em-ing over of many pages of the code
pire Route of Imperial Airways has held up the week-end mail for twenty-four hours. It is reported the service from Bangkok. HATE
A
book, will readily appreciate the advantages of the new arrange-
ments.
HONG KONG TIDE TARIS From 94 May to 30 1839. HIGH WATER.
Month
As a further aid to convenience, left late yesterday evening and will the sheet, may be posted on the make an overnight stop in Hanoi wail, thus providing for the busi- and arrive by noon to-day at Kenosa man a means of composing Tak.
and decoding cable messages with the minimum of effort, and with
Wed 34 the saving of a great deal of time. Thur 25 approved by the Ministry of Com- Fri.
The new code has been fully
munications, and the edition of sale. Coples may be obtained at Sun 8 5,000 copies should” and a ready Bat 97 ten cents each from the publishers
without worse
that declaration's purpose was to tion amendment, declaring that Mr. R. A; Butler, replying to the the present rate give the people who had no coun- the Government proposals were debate said that the Government trouble and that Palestine could try a country that had no people." inconsistent with the letter and maintained that by bringing both not be exclusively either Jewish or
Mr. MacDonald said, he wished split of the Mandate and not cal-sides in Palestine up against cer- an Arab State. that the phrase had been as true culated to secure a peaceful and tain stark realities and showing as it was ploturesque, He wished prosperous development of Pales- them that certain of the claims statesmanilke attitude of the Arab Mr. Butler paig a tribute to the Palestine an empty land so, that time and that Parliament should were unrealizable they would bring states representatives at the Lon- its bounds were only the limits set not be committed, pending an ex- them nearer the date for co-opera- don Conference. He was sure that to the remarkable creative work of amination of the proposals by the tion and understanding a devoted people who were build- Mandles Commission of the Lea- The facts were that immigration assist them in the dimeditles these statesmanlike qualities would ing a National Horne.
could not continue indennitely at ahead.
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