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MEXICO REJECTS BRITISH DEMAND Expropriation Of Oil Lands In Public Interest Note Regarded As "Protest"
TELEGRAPH,
Mexico City, April 13. President Cardenas' reply re- fusing the British Government's request to return the expro- priated oil properties, states that expropriation was carried out on the ground of public interest. The Mexican Government could not admit that the severity of the measure was disproportionate to the exigencies of the situation.
The note vigorously denies the British Government statement that had a political the expropriation character, and adds that the Mexican entity, Eagle Company, as a national
THURSDAY, APRIL
14, 1938.
JAPANESE HOLD, ON
NORTH CHINA AREAS PRECARIOUS
Hankow, April 14.
Japan's precarious hold on North China was revealed by a military expert, who has just returned from an adventurous trip to northern Hopei, northern Shansi, and southern Suiyuan.
Despite her early military successes, Japan's actual gains in this vast territory, the expert stated, are merely empty, walled cities and highways and railways, three or four miles from which are Chinese forces which have sworn not to cross the Yellow River but to remain and carry on the fight.
where
ROOSEVELT
DEFENDS TAX BILLS
Demands Senate Be Over-Ridden
In 17 less densely-populated dis-i tricts in northern Hupel, including Kooyang, Askuo, Tacheng, Wenan and Hsinchen, which are bounded by the Peiping-Hankow Railway on the west, the Tientsin-Pukow Rallway on the cast, the Tsangchow-Shih- chlachwang highway on the south, and the Tientsin-Puoting highway on the north, the people are still able to live in peace. Not a single Japan- ese soldier is seen in these districts,
farmers have; the Chinese
their was subject to the laws of Mexico, wh
armed themselves to protect and was not entitled to redress by land and homes, the expert asserted. mountainous foreign diplomatic intervention. In 27 districts in the
The Mexican Government regards region
Washington, April 13. the region on Hopel-Shansi-Sulyuan the British note simply us a protest.re
Urging reteation of the principle of bound by the Pelping-Hon- border. that the action of
Tatung-Pu- The note constituted a
Peiping-Sulyuan,
Railways, foreign oll
ways, fewer the undistributed profits tax, which and Chengtai chow in face of the than a dozen of them are occu./the Senate eliminated, and the re- moval of the Senate's modifications contempt of decision of the highest tribunal in the pied by small groups of Japanese who land (this refers to the upholding by
by confine themselves to their fortresses of the capital gains tax, President Senator Pat Harrison and Represen- the Supreme Court of the Mexico in the walled cities on account of the Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter to Labour Board's ruling against the frequent surprise attacks from the tative Robert L. Doughton, Chairman
The Mexican Govern- Chinese. companies). The
Internal Even in eastern Hopel there are 10 and vice-Chairman respectively of failure to promote un under-
the Joint Committee on ment's
units, which, sup- Revenue Taxation, said: standing was due to the companies Chinese moblie
of economic ported by
have con- the peasants, resistance and the claims
"Modifications are shown by ex- incapacity to pay the amounts given stantly harassed the Japanese along
perience to be desirable, and partleu- against them by the High Court. The the Polping-Liaoning Railway.
of resistance was to During the past four months, the larly exemption of small corporations The principle of principal
purpose of the Mexican Government expert disclosed, the Japanese forces should be made.
In North China have, at one time or the undistributed profits tax, is sound economic and political difficulties.
another, attempted lo "annihilate" and should be retained." DETERMINED TO PAY
Senator Harrison said: "The Pres!- The note concludes by pointing out the Chinese troops und mobile units that Mexico's
determination to pay in these regions. Immediately after
views expressed in this letter do not for the expropriated properties as they occupied Taiyuan, they sent 20,-dent is entitled to his views.
the 000 troops to conduct "mopping up" been publicly declared throughout the
capacity Mexico's
to
is operations in the border regions of coincide with the overwhelming senti- world.
pay is ก real and certain fact, therefore it Shansi, Suiyuan and Hopei, but their ment of the Senate."
President Roosevelt applauded the cannot be said that there has been campaign has been fruitless so far.
a breach
Irregulars were then organised by House of Representatives' provisions ther a denial of justice, or a
to fight the Chinese for the undistributed profits tax, say- of the principles of International law. the Invaders
A New York despatch says that troops, who were entrenched in valing: "Business wil be helped, not However, hurt, by these suggestions."United to the New York Times eya and in the hills. according
me these irregulars huve been of little ¦ Press. between Mr. F. W. negotiations
use to the Japanese who have found Rickett and the Mexican Government.
and disobedient, them "insincero" which have been progressing with the and are therefore afraid to arm them object of Mr. Rickett purchasing the Central News. majority of the oil fields on behalf of American and British interests, have been definitely dropped.-enter.
cause
Anglo-Italian Treaty Ready To Be Signed'
London, "Apr. 13.
It is reliably stated that Bri- tain and Italy will sign an agree- ment in Rome on Saturday, bul formal signature to give effec- tiveness to the agreement must awalt the withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain and the recog- nition of Ethiopla.
Mr. Leslie Hore Belisha, War Minister, confers with Signor Benito Mussolini on April 23, after which he will hold a con- ference in Paris-United Press. A Reuter message from Rome confirms the above report, stating that the Anglo-itallan agreement has been completed, and will be signed at noon on Saturday.
SOON TO WED
Fired
At
Shots Danish Minister Found "Blanks"
Copenhagen, Apr. 13.
the shots It is learned that which were fired at the Minister of Justice in the House Parliament were tridges.
blank
of саг-
When the Minister of Justice. WAS making a speech in the Lower House, it is understood that a Nazi youth, sing in the Visitors Gallery, rose and fired two nhols at the Minister without effect
Later the polico arrested a number of youths, including the suspected "assassin."-Reuter Bulletin.
"PUMP-PRIMING" ÎN U.5.
The
Washington, Apr. 13. After a conference with his econmic advisers, President F. D. Roosevelt, it
Is understood, decided on "pump- priming", including a vote of $1,500,- 000,000 for public work and $1,250,- 000,000 for rellef work for the
000,000 for R.F.C. loans
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seven months of the next fiscal year. On the other hand, there is $1,500,
to States. ntes, municipalities and business houses, $60,000,000 for the retention of the Civilian Conservation Corps Camps, and also rural relief appropriations. Thus the total outlay will reach $5,000,000,000.-Reuter.
MINIMUM WAGE AND
HOUR BILL·
Washington, Apr. 13. Representative Mary T. Norton to- day presented to the House a Labour Wage and Hour Bill, to establish a 40 cents an hour minimum wage, and o 40 hour maximum week,
Meanwhile Mr. John Lewis, lender of the Committee of Industrial Or ganisation, has demanded that the Administration provide the leadership to break the deadlock over the wage and hour controversy.—United Press.
OPIUM FOUND IN PRESERVED FRUIT Revenue Officers on duty on the
CARRIED ORE IN Sheung Wan Wharf, Connaught Road
FALSE WAISTCOATS West, yesterday, discovered that some preserved fruits carried by a man
A man and a woman were this named Cheung Chol, 30, contained
morning ned by Mr. R. Edwards at The forthcoming wedding is an opium.
Arrested, Cheung was to-day fined the Central Magistracy for importing nounced of Mr. Joseph Turner, linen manufacturer, e/o P. O. Box 05, $20 or three weeks hard labour when unmanifested cargo, wolfram ore, Swatow, and Miss Geneva Margaret he was charged before Mr. R. Ed-Into Hongkong. Both of them were Dye, medical missionary doctor, of wards at the Central Magistracy arrested on ships and the ore was raw found concealed in false waistcoats, Bixby Memorial Hospital, Kilyang, with unlawful possession of via Śwatow.
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