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Lord Halifax's Revelations to Peers
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
LANCASHIRE COTTON
HORROR OF SWIFT Indian Agreement
AIR BOMBARDMENT
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LONDON, Mar. 20. THE LANCASHIRE cotton industry benefits by the pro- tween Britain and India, signed
RUMOURS THAT THE CZECH GOVERNMENT HERR HITLER TAD ions of a trade agreement be
TO A BLOODLESS OCCUPATION BECAUSE
force for three years.
THREATENED AN IMMEDIATE AND HORrifying air BOMBARD-to-day, and which remains in MENT OF PRAGUE AND OTHER CITIES ARE NOW SEEMINGLY CONFIRMED.
In the House of Lords yesterday, the Foreign Secretary said that it was most probable that the Czechs had been presented with an ultimatum on these lines.
It was difficult to avoid the conclusion, he declared, that the bulk of the incidents that occurred before the German invasion were deliberately evoked, and their effects greatly magnified.
German troops occupied two towns on the evening of March 14 while the Czech President was en route to Berlin for the fateful conference with Hitler.
NO PARTY DIFFERENCES
In face of the grave issues with which Britain is concerned party differences seem to disappear, declared Viscount Halifax amidst cheers when making a statement in the House of Lords last night.
"It is quite true," he continued, "that recent events have been a profound shock to all thinking people in this country, and far outside of it. OCCUPATION OF VILLAGES
"Surely it is not without significance that two towns were occupied by German S.S. detachments on the evening of March 14 while the President and Foreign Minister their way to Herr of Czecho-Slovakia were still on Hitler, and before any discussion had taken place."
Dealing with Herr Hitler's proclamation declaring the former Czech territory to be under German protee- tion, Viscount Halifax said:
"It should be noted that while the head of the administration now to be set up is said to hold the rank of head of the State, and while the protectorate is said to be autonomous and self-governing, there is to be a resident in Prague with full powers to veto legislation. MILITARY GARRISONS
"Foreign affairs, and the protection of nationals abroad devolve on the German Government which will maintain mill- tary garrisons and establishments in the protectorate.
"The protectorate is bound to Germany by a customs union, and the German Government can issue decrees and take any measures for the prescrvation of peace and order.-
LORD HALIFAX
In order to compensate for some preferences on British goods which have now been discontinued, India reduco duties an undertakes to British cotton goods in the first year from 20 per cent. to 15 per cent, nd Valorem, with corresponding reduc- tions on printed goods..
and the
Duties in the subsequent years will depend on the volume of exports of such goods to India, amount of Indian raw cotton taken by the United Kingdom.
Preferences enjoyed in the British taarkets by Indle under the Ottawa agreement (which the new agree- ment supersedes) are, with a few exceptions, continued,
Each party agrees to extend to the other any tariff preferences accorded now, or in the future, to any dominion ar to South Rhodesla. As regards colonial empire, provisions of the Ottawa agreement are generally rilained. Reuter,
Varsity Heads Return To Hongkong
March 21, 1939.
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50 YEARS ACO
March 31, 1829. Wo.read that the now American navy, when completed, wil consist of twenty- two vassale, ranging from the armoured cruiser Mains, carrying 444 mot, down to a first-class torpedo-boat, carrying four officers and eightoon men. Thero will be 678 men on board the twenty. VOR00 officers and mallors and marines. two
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25 YEARS AGO
Messrs. Li Ying-lin, Chen Pin- chuan and Wu Ting-hsin, Presidenta the Universlly, of the Lingnan Europe on the basis of freely accepted University of Canton and the Kwang-
University
respective whereby tung Min Kuo consultations as a means all future differentes might be ad-ly, have returned to Hongkong by Third Justed. That long-term purpose has plane, after attending the been, as we can all observe, disas-National Educational Conference.
Interviewed by the Central News,
March 21, 2014. trously belled by events.
"As to the charge of too readily Mr. Li stated that tthe two most im
The following are the results to date assurances, portant resolutions adopted at the
In tha
Tournament. Lawn Tennis believing Herr Hluter's neither the Premier no Conference were the acceptance of
Chiang Kal-shek's arranged by the ongkong Cricket myself have failed to be acutely Generalissimo
Club the
Championship Bingles conscious of the differences between address at the Conference beliefs and hopes; we have always guiding principles for China's educa- acted with the knowledge that only tion and emphasis on China's educa- with time can hones be converted tional needs during this period of resistance and reconstruction.- inte sure beliefs."
Turning to Herr Hitler's actions, Central News. Viscount Halifax said: "In his ne tions, until after Munich, a case could
be made that Hitler has been true to his own principles-the exclusion of non-Germans from the Reich, etc.- principles which he has now over-
thrown.
"In the inclusion of 8,000,000 Czechs under the German Relch, he surely
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been
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1st RoundA. I. Tomes beat C. R.! Sutherland, & E. Green beat A. E. W. Salt,
2nd Round:-J. U. Ponman beat Capt. A. G. White, A. i. Tumes best 9. E Green.
Single Handicap "A" Clana
Capt 1st Round:-D. Aubrey Lent Clarke, Capt. Monteith hest Lt. J. 0. Beattie, J. B. Penman heat A. R. Linton. 2nd Round:-A. B. Tours beat L. Murphy, 9. E. Green beat Major Crisp. Singles andicap "3" Clas
1st Round:. Wood beat E. Abraham, F. J. Do Rome baut 1 R. M. Collins, A. Mans Walk-over from P. S. Wiltshire.
End Round:-G. Bagnall boat J. W. Franks, beat F. Devington; Capt. Mint- thews beat F. Bavington, Beat A. E. W.
Salt.
Doubles Handicap
1st Round: Phelips and Marioy beat Salt and May, Joseland and Penman beat Ford and Clarke.
2nd Round:-Col. Dyer and Major Palmiero. Murphy and Sandford best Maas and Sutherland.
RUDELY CONTRADICTED
Tunki, Anhwei, Mar. 20. recalled that Viscount Halifax
For eight years Miss Tang Kwel- Herr Hitler in September last appeal- lin had been with the Chinese Army ed for the principle of self-deter- disguised as a man, and only yester- mination. That principle had now day was her real identity discovered.
rudely
by contradicted
Tang, a 24-year-old girl from sequence of acts which deny the very Hunan, enlisted in the Army in 1939. right on which the Gerinan altitude' She had fought in over 100 battles. During Aghting at Tungkuling, was based
"Whatever is true about the treat-west of Singize on the west shore of "As a result of these several After referring to the recall of the nent of 25,000 Germans, it is impos- Poyang Lake in north Klangsi, last Ambassador to report, able to believe that it could only be autumn, she was a machine-gunner of attached to the 52nd Division. In subjugation
one engagement she was wounded in Czechs, we to believe that Germone arm and leg and was taken to a has entered а new phase base hospital.
after her Dealing with the grounds on count Government, and although I do not directed at the domination of all e Regently need to bounds were Helocopy to ying machine, d, in that Halifax said: "I find it impossible to cherish any exaggerated hopes of on-German peoples? belleve that the sudden decision of what may be the effect, it was right questions are being asked in all parts certain Slovak lenders to break off that protests should have been re- of the world. from Prague was reached indepen-gistered." dently of outside influence."
British
theth by Lip
actions the dismemberment of viscount Halifax said: "I think we Checho-Slovakia may therefore can claim that we have left the German Government in no doubt as be said now to be complete."
attitude of His Majesty's
which
German
Such grave the front-Central News.
"The
of occupation Viscount Halifax then referred to Czecho-Slovaldia has been furthered After giving a further narrative German apologists trying to justify by new methods, and the world has of the events, Viscount Hallfax their action by reference to the past intely seen more than ones, a new declared: It is difficult to avoid history of the Empire, and salt that departure in the field of international the conclusion that the bulk of the the principle on which the British technique. incidents that occurred before the Empire was conducted is self-govern- German invasion were deliberately ment, and wherever we have been, evoked, and their effects greatly we have left a trail of freedom and magnified."
self-government.
Lord Halifax contina.d: "It is not about the necessary to say much assertion that the Czech President freely assented to the subjugation of his people.
SUPPRESSION OF LIBERTY
"Our record hna nothing common with the suppression liberty.
Chinese Coup
In Kirin
10 YEARS AGO
March 21, 1920, Lecturing to the Royal Aeronautical Society, Signor Shacco, inventor of the designed for
with two experiments conducted machines, made for the French Govern- ment bad shown, that, with Afty horeo power, 1,320 pounds could be raised. 5 YEARS AGO
March 21, 1934. Having completed a six weeks whirl- wind tour of 4,000 miles by rail and 2,500 alles by motor Princa George is
to-night to leaving the Union
visit
Chungking. March 21. "Countries are now faced with the
Three hundred Chinese volunteers encouragement of separatism not only in the interests of the separat-attacked the Forest Defence Head-Rhodesla. sl elements, but in the imperial in- quarters in Huntien, Kirin, on March
17, occording to information from Communal service posnosing a very terests of Germany.
Japanese sources.
real value is being performed by tlie "These methods are quite, simple
Four of the guards at the head- Children's Playground Asociation, which in and with growing experience, quite quarters were killed, six wounded as boon entrusted with the handling
of one of the Colony's biggest problem of unnistaltable.
and 23 others were kidnapped. A
that of seeing that adequnts facilitie large quantity of provisions was'
for outdoor recreation are provided for also seized by the volunteers
the younger generation. Bo far, the Central News.
Association has only begun to touch the tringa of the question, but, in the words at Sir Thomas Southern, its ultimate objective is to see that every thickly- own' play- populated district has its ground.
"Have we any assurance that they
DANGER WITHIN
SWIFT AIR BOMBARDMENT "True, we have always recognised will not be employed elsewhere? "In view of the circumstances in that Germany was more interested
in
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we south-eastern Europe than
rules
A. R. P. Warden Lectures
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which he went to Berlin, and be ourselves, but the position is entirely "Every neighbour of Germany is occupation
of Czechb- of parts
changed when wo are confronted now uncertain of to-morrow, and Slovakia which had already taken
which values place, the most sensible people would with the arbitrary suppression of an every country
and sovereignty, conclude that there was little pretence independent sovereign State by arm-national identity
force, and the violation of the stands warned against the
danger at negaliation; that it was
of International from within, Inspired from without. probable that Czechs were presented elementary.
"I am glad the Rumanian Govern-
The Air Raid Precautions Omeer with an aliimatum under the threat conduet."
Referring to the Opposition's state- ment has denied the report that went announces that a course of Air Raid of violence, and they capitulated in order to save their people from the ment that Mr. Chamberlain's policy so far as to speale of an ultimatum, Werden lectures will be given by
nol surprizing that
that the Mr. Chak Tai Kwong in the Chinese horrors of a swift, destructive aerial at Munich was a personal policy, but it is bombardment."
Viscount Halifax sald "if by that is Rumanian and other Governments inngunge at the Chinese Y.W.C.A. Viscount Halifax maintained that meant that it was a policy to which view with the greatest misgivings the Caine Road, commencing at 4.30 p.m.
on Tuesday, March 28, 1939. the plea that Germany is in some the Premier has given every ounce happenings of the past few days,"
Viscount energy, imagination and rezolu
Halifax described the danger from Czecho-Slovakia could of
It le important that those members: not be seriously maintained in any tion he possessed, I should not dis-measures taken to relieve the re- of the publle who intend to volunteer quarter, and he added: "I could wish agree, but if it is suggested that it fugee altuution, and said that the for Air Raid Warden duties should instead that the explanations which was a policy pursued without the Government would continue to do make a point of attending the Brst have been issued and which curry fullest co-operation of myself, as wholever. It could to mitigate the and all subsequent lectures. scant conviction, that the German Foreign Secretary, and of every consequences of recent events, "buti auperior force had been frankly member of His Majesty's Govern it is quite plain that the success of acknowledged as the supreme arbiter, ment, then I must take leave to anything we attempt depends on the that in fact it.wus.
oppuse this with a most emphatic attitude of the German Gavern- contradiction Cloud Ministerial cheers ment." in which members in the House of Commons gallery Joined), **
BRITISH ACTION "In theno circumstances, H Majesty's Government thought It
at immediately to take certain setien." Viscount Halifax then referred to
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The New York "Daily News", in
A SEVERE EARTHQUAKE omelally opened thin golden koy, by Cammodore Frank Elliott, this morning. an editorial to-day, favours celling rocked a wide area of Japan. Guam to Japan as suggested in a February article in the Japan Times including the central part of the main Island, Kyushu and The trial of Renato Cianen, Leonardo Weekly". Bucciction, Claudio Clanca and PRE- Says the "Daily News": "Instead Shikoku at 12:23 o'clock this quale Capasso, charged with conspiracy of tempting Japan into snuffing out Ruainst the life of Bignor Mussolini,
The strongest shock was felt in bulld it into something really big and
and Mumamoto concluded befors a special tribunal to Guam with bombs before we can afternoon.
WAD found not guilty. menacing, why not give up the whole Miyazaki, Oita
Prefectures in Kyushu. At the city. Саравно day.
Claudio Clanca was found guilty, butiden?"
"The Philippines are our weak of Miyazaki chimneys toppled down, mitigating circumstances were held to exist in bla caso and the sentence pass sallent with their neck stuck out in electric wires were soapped and rd was soventeen yours' imprisonment the Pacife where we have no right window-panes wero shattered,
According to an announcement by The elder Clanca and Bucelzlloni were
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H.E. Major General A. E. Grasettonment. The chazgos arose from the one side of the Pacific. Let us sell the Central Meteorological Obser- and Brigadier A. B. Thomson will explosion of a barab in the perties of Guam if Japan will buy it. Let us vatory, the epicentro was. Located in visit Maceo on April 6, probably St. Peter's, Home, In June, 1552 and it spell permanent and complete United the Uga Sea between Shikoku and malding the trip in one of H.ML Ships. was alleged that, inspired by anti-Staten freedom from the Philippines." Kyushu Domel, Faicist leaders in Paris and London,United Press.. they were conspiring to kill Signor Mussolini with a poltan gas Lomb which it was proposed to explode in the Cham her when the Premier was attending
have desired to be on friendly terms Germany's action last week, and it is There were two purposes to the with the German people; our people dimeult to say when it can be easily the Immediate suspension of the visit Munich settlement. First, to effect were not backward in recognising resumed. of Mr. Oliver Stanley and Mr. It. S. o, settlement as fair as might be in in the Versailles Treaty which need-falled to draw a moral from these "The British Government has not In that that there were some mistakes Hudson to Berlin, adding:
all the extremely difficult elresm
events, arid has lost no time in plac- Although it had been hoped His stances at the time of the problem, ed remedying,
"But each time, in the last few ing itself in close practical consulta Majesty's, Government could, directly which was a real one, and for which
contacts was an urgent if years, that has been
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A great pre-German espionage
with wide ramifications ganisation throughout Czecho-Slovakia is claimed to have been unearthed by the police. arroata havo
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