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Cabinet And Anglo-Soviet Negotiations
London, May 24.
The Cabinet met this morning to discuss the
BALKAN BLOC PARLEYS
Berlin, May 24.
in
A significant new phase in the political developments
Fouth- eastern Europe has been inaugurated, necording to the Belgrade corres- pondent of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, by a meeting of the Forelgr of Yugo-Slavin and Ministers Rumania,
A
Although the reporis about the in- pending creation of a new alliance of south-eastern European countres to Balken endangered entente are described by Yugo-Slay circles as premature, it is
Angle-Soviet negotia-replace lons. Lord Halifax, Foreign Secre tary, arrived in London shortly be fore the meeting, which he attended. -Reuter Bulletin.
TERMS OF AGREEMENT
London, May 24.
the
ly true that both undovated- |
Rumania are striving to
and and
to set up a a now Balican constellation based on a polley of strict neutrality, It Is realised that this policy is designed to re-
whole and cannot afford to ignore Bulgariu.
In a final spurt before the Whit-present Balkan interest considered sa Bun recess, the British Cabinet is meeting fo-day to consider the pro- posals which
Lord Halifax has brought back from Geneva,
The cardinal points forming the basis
of the Geneva negotiations have already been made known in London, According to The Times they are In keeping more or less
Circumstances might demand the new Balkon bloc with creation of the exclusion of Turkey, as Berlin takes the view that by alliance with Britain this Power has virtually re- nounced its adhesion to the Balkan by abandoning its position of with the French formula for a com-eutrality. It is presumed in Eerlin promise and may be defined as fol-
that the meeting between M. Gatencu lows:
nd M. Cincar Markovic is expressly the Soviet designed to form a new neutrol con- Union will issue a joint declarationstellation of Balkan Powers with the of Bulgaria and to the effect that any act of aggrez possible inclusion sion committed against one of themAlbanin-Trans-Ocean. will be regarded as an attack upon
Britain, France
and
all of them, and as regards un execut-
tion of this pledge of assistance ench
is willing to bring it into Im- smaller Stutes A report on the whose independence has been guaran- which have teed as well as those not yet received a guarantee of this sort
is to be drawn up for the pur- pase of allocating the spheres of in- fcrest on one hand to France and Britain and on the other hand to the Soviet Union.
The creation of possibilities consultation
ponte operation,
developments.
for
of unforeseen in face
Thursday,
New Danzig Incident
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Danzig. May. 24. There was a further incident this morning. when a German chauffeur driving into Danzig from Elbing alleged that he was fired on, but not hit, after having passed the Polish customs officials-United Press. SENATE'S TURN TO PROTEST
"Danzig, MayTM Z The Senate has handed a strong protest on the incident to Lisa Polish representative also si Danzle. They havO handed an answer to the Total protests on the Gruchner In- eldent, denying German rea- ponsibility. They therefore de- mand arrest of the Pole allered to have been responsible... United Press.
Pootung Strike
BRITISH
SOLDIERS POSTED
Shanghai, May 24. Following the presentation of a virtual Japanese ultimatum, coupled with the despatch of Japanese Army forces, the British landing party which was sent on May 21 to the British-owned Lun Chang Mill in Poolung across. the Whangpoo River from Shanghal
outbreak of upon
labour trouble has been withdrawn,
COLLECT ANOD
VINYWηu ⱭNY ⱭNYTO
London, May 24. Poland and Rumania lave agreed to extend their long standing mutual--Domei.
ssistance puct, originally directed against Russia, to cover attacks from
JAPAN'S SHANGHAI
Reconstruction Cost Heavy
Shanghai, May 24..
arrangements, With preliminary including the appropriation of land, making steady progress, the Greater Shanghai city plan enters, upon the stage of actual construction from June 1 under the joint auspices of the Reformed Government, the China Affairs Board and the Shanghai Real Estate Company,
The first stage of the six-year plan, will provide for the construction of residential and shopping quartera in Civic the area south-east of the Centre at Kangwan. Applications for hullding lots will be received from June 1,
Preparations for the construction of electric power, water-supply, gas and telephone equipment are being;
About made by various concerns. 4,000 buildings will be erected in the specified area of about 300,000 tsubo,
During the period of six years, an industrial zone will be established in the Woosung Creek area, applicants for factory construction are increas- ing steadily.
Meanwhile, it is revealed that in recent months an average of 1,300 Japanese monthly have arrived in Central China-Domet.
JAPANESE REASONING
Tokyo, May 24. Vernacular papers carry an inter- Foreign Office spoken- view with man who asserted that the Settle ments are under Chinese sovereignty, although that sovereignty has been temporarily suspended under foreign administration. Therefore since Japan is fighting China, Japan is en- British Army authorities an-litied to suppress anti-Japanism Foreign circles in London statenounced that a British Army officer within the Settlements, even though that staff talks have been held in and 20 men have replaced the naval may be necessary to use force.-- Warsaw lo settle technicalities
landing party at the Lun Chong United Press, co-operation towards this end.
clsewhere.
for
MIII.
MARINES' REPLACÉMENT
Shanghai, May 24.
May 25,
1939.
Brussels Hails Dutch Queen
Brussels, May 24. Peace was the keynote, of the peeches exchanged between Queen
the Wilhelmina and famous. Burgomaster Max when
the
Queen was welcomed at Brussels towṛi hall.
The Burgomaster stressed the necessity for the small States to cums together to help each other before the menaces of brutal them forces. Isolation...for would mean death.
Replying
Queen Wilhelmina ith that in the present troubled times they must favour every- thing contributing. to... the general well-being of humanity and work for peace amongst all nations-Reuter.
PACIFISM DOUBTS OF A PARSON
Doubls as to the efficacy of paci fism in preventing war at the present- time were expressed by the Rev. F, Short in an address to the Peace Pledge Union at its weekly meeting yesterday nt the Shop.
Challenge Book
Merely to confront the world with refusal to fight, even if that refusal be accompanied with a disinterested offer of arbitration and enquiry. seemed to him, he said, to neglect the fact that force wisely controlled and used, could be one of the factors which would make for the peace of the world in some such limited sense as the "law" makes for the peace of the individual.
The following the address:
are extracts from
I have no doubt that the peace | which is in the mind of God will re- move the evil of War, and all other ills to which man is subject.
Nor have I any doubt that wor can ever be the instrument of God's pence. At its worst, as the instru "NO FOREIGN MEDDLING"
ment of The altitude of these countries to
aggression, it is the negation British naval authorities say the any Anglo-Franco-Soviet alliance, naval landing party landed at the
Tokyo, May 24. and trustration of the Divine pur- described favourable, provided
"Japan is determined to eliminate pose; at its best-for it is Inaccurate Ford Halifax again asked the Soviet that it does not involve their enter-Lun Chong Mill on May 20, coin-unil-Japanese clements from foreign and unfoir to evaluate all wars at
agreement with
cident, with unconfirmed Chinese re-settlements and concessions in China onc low level-lt is a negative pre- ports that Nanking agents were pro-! ther he could induce the Soviet For-Soviet, which would be interpreted moling strikes against British owned) y military force," a Japanese For-ventive of injustice.
Industry.
The Daily Express learns that Ambassador, M. Maisky, to see wheng into an
eign Commissar, M. Molotoff, to pay
a visit to London.-Trans-Ocean.
VIRTUAL AGREEMENT
Paris, Moy PA.
as hostile to Germany.
the
As far as Poland is concerned, it is stated that she regards her rela- It is significant that the Japanese tions with Russia sufficiently
press predicted "further unrest among covered by the Polish-Soviet Non-British employees," after which the un-aggression Pact of 1932-unless some strike spread to the Pal Lien King agreement could be reached by which Creek Print Works which is under she might obtain arms from Russia the same ownership as the Lun Chong and communications through Russia Mill.
The newspapers are almost animous la declaring that as a re- sult of talks between Lord Halifax and M. Malsky, Soviet Ambassador 'to London, in Geneva the Anglo- Soviet Agreement for co-operation to resist aggression in Europe is al- ready an accomplished fact.-Reuter.
FRENCH SATISFACTION
Paris, May 24.
Satisfaction is expressed in French circles at the very definite reports from Geneva that an agreement In principle has been reached between Lord Hallfax and. M. Maisky regard ing the Anglo-Soviet assistance part.
It is realised, however, that Anal upproval of the governments in Lon- don and Moscow must yet be ab- talned-Reuler Bulletin.
DARDANELLES QUESTION
Paris, May 24.
in war time.-Reuter Special.
62 Entombed
day,
"as the activity of those cle-
eign Office spokesman declared to- It bars the way to aggression; it
which confront humanity; it can cats is directed by the Kuomintangan never solve the real problems at its conclusion, with and must be regarded as part of the bring man
scales admittedly heavily weighted, Chinese operations."
"We shall tolerate, therefore, no to the place where justice may be foreign meddling in our efforts to done, and the decisive problems of
peoples resolved. That Japan participates
ad- in deal with them," he said. ministration of international settle- a right to send The British naval landing partyments, giver her from the Lun Chong Mill landed at troeps when required, the spokesman the strikebound British owned China claimed.Reuter, Printing and Finishing Company's Pai Lien King Creek Paint Works; also 011 Pootung Point, thereby actually reinforcing the British The International Settlements or
position.
Loter.
ALL CHINESE TERRITORY
lule to reas statecraft-the
FUTILITY OF WAR The end of a war can never be the end of the action; it is the pre- oppor- tunity to garner out of its tragedy the hope of God's pence. That it bas almost always, if not invariably, Tokyo, May. 24..
failed to achieve a place which is more than an interruption of strife- foreign Concessions at Kulangsu,
Indication of the difficulties Shanghal and Tientsin essentially are
which war itself engenders, and of The British Coilsulate has, an-not the territories of foreign Powers the utter futility of war as a means nounced that the British agreed to and the Chinese sovereignty over of settling disputes between nations, withdraw the naval landing party them has not been repealed, but is It follows that I am interested in from the Pol Lien King Creek Works only subject to administrative U.S.S. Brooklyn, May 23.
Frankly,
I have no essential, the The US.S. Brooklyn is en route to after the Japanese army assumed res-gulations by the Powers concerned, all that makes.
for maintaining order. a spokesman of the Foreign Office banish war there is one e Portsmouth to assist in the rescue of ponsibility the
Squalus. However, they did not agree to with-declared. to-day. sunken submarine
in Patchy weather and log have delay draw the British army party from
the Lun Chong MIL-United Press.
Men Wait To Be Rescued
ed progress.
The Brooklyn is carrying 3,000 feet of air hose to be used for the Squalus crew in the event of their oxygen becoming exhausted.
It is expected that the Brooklyn will become the headquarters the rescue work.-Untied Press.
for
the
Queen Mary's Restless Night
London, May 24..
Marl- from
A medical report
re-
While state of wor cxials China the Chinese sovereignty in the occupied area folla under Japan- ese control and it naturally follows that the Settlements and Concessions in the area come under Japanese control, the spokesman further in- dicated.
י
war
unnecessary. that to
recovery of the sense of God and. the acceptance of responsible religion,
The guilt of war is on us all. Its shade and degree may vary, but no prople in the world is free from res- ponsibility for past wars, nor free from acceptance, within its life of factors that make for war. PACIFIST IDEAL
the
A new aspect is given to the Anglo- Soviet negotiations by a despatch in which the special correspondent of the Petit Journal,
cabling
from
It is at the same time quic na- Angora, claims to be in a position to
tural that in the event of the Chi- "The pacifist has his place, he state that one of the main objects of
nese engaging, in positive activity in helds aloft the torch of the ideal of the recent visit of the Soviet Assistant
the foreign areas, they should be peace, he ensures man never forgels Commissar for Foreign Affairs, M.
RESCUE WORK AT DAWN
eliminated.
that there is in goal other than that Potemkin, to Turkey and the Balkan
Portsmouth, May 23.
Declaring that unti-Japanese ter- of war, and there is a road other than countries, was to submit a plan aim-
that rorism and propaganda under. the
of strife. But I doubt if the The submarine Squalus with 59 ing at bringing the Black Sea and
ever existing circumstances
will Dardanelles under Soviet control, to men aboard is on the floor af
represent pacifist
the dynamic the exclusion of British influence.
Atlantic waiting for rescue opera-
tary operations, the spokesman's which will usher in peace, The Moscow plan, according to the tions to begin at 5 am. when they borough House says that Queen Mary part and particle of the Chinese mill-mechanism or French corres
Acheh pondent, can be regard- i will have been submerged for more passed a restless night, partly due statement-asserts that it is.only rea- he seems to me to. fali in.reelism' in to..an Injury to one eye, which,gonable that Japan should resort to two places, in his estimate of the ed as a
of the aspirations than 20 hours..
though painful, gives no cause for military force for the elimination of forces that break the peace of God, which largely dictated the polley of The latest reports from the sub- anxiety.. The general condition is these anti-Japanese influences. In and in bis estimate of the forces that Czarist Russia, and aims at the crea- marine state that all aboard are satisfactory.-Reuter, tion of an alliance formed by those alive but "gold." countries encircling the Black Sea,
Lieutenant Commander C. B. namely
Soviet Russia, Turkey, Momsen, the inventor of the lung used Rumania and Bulgaria.
In submarine rescues, and five divers According to this plan, control of equipped with salvage gear, the Dardanelles would be placed in preparing their equipment under the the hands of a commission, compos glare of flood lights. ed of representatives of these Black Son PoweTS,
arc
such eventualities no foreign inter- make fur vention should ever be permitted, the statement вул.
Another detachment of 13 divers
the crossing to trame while Investi-force in the area. Undoubtedly this in practice would and three officers is arriving soon. lead to a preponderance of Soviet They flew from Washington to New-gations were held and a series of control. Hence, he declares, Tur- port, Rhode Island, and from thence photographs taken.
Queen Mary will celebrate her 72nd birthday on May 26-Trans- Ocean.
to
New London, where
kish circles have been demanding picked up by U.S.S. Brooklyn. an allocation of voles which would
The seas have been very
give Angora parity with Moscow.
were they
rough but
By promising to back the demand following two thunder storms,
wup of God.
reformia of Municipal Councils in cheppard's pledge?
Referring to the arguments that the cluding greater representations for Japan should not be made under the extraordinary period. of the China Affairs, the statement says that these the very extraordinary situation that gives rise to the necessity for creasing the Japanese representation,
Domel.
for a return of the Dobrudja, which they are calmed now by north-east / KING AND QUEEN IN WINNIPEG are only subterfuges, because it is:
was annexed by Rumania,
Potem- M.
.kin is said to have succeeded in in-
teresting Bulgaria in this project.
winds-United Preis.
MEN STILL WELL
Portsmouth, May 24.
In Bucharest the Soviet Deputy Foreign Commissor gave to under- Sixty-two men are still trapped in stand that in exchange for Rumanian the sunken submarine Squalus, which now been submerged for 27 adhesion to the plan, Soviet Russia has
the hours. A message was tapped in
Rumanion
to
recognise
Winnipeg, May 24. Their Majesties are lunching at Government House and will make a lour of the elty to-day,
Scarlet-coated mounted, police will form the guard of honour when the King and Queen arrive,
been
away.
PRESENT COLLIDED AT CROSSING
What is the contribution that London, May 23. Since Japan also shares rights. la Pacifism can make to a world which The responsibility for the accident the International Settlement, it is in includes countries determined to be has not yet been established although accordance with the principles of judge in their own cause, to achieve it is known that the cars collided at jurisprudence that Japan should try their ends by force of arms, and to
when In crossing
the trame light to adjust the odministrative rights in ride roughshod over the moral con-
closed case of the mobilisation of armed viction of
of mankind? showed yellow. The police
The future must discover the ways and the arts of peace-but the pre- sent, will it be
Dick best served by
Disarm
and you will have. no enemies! Unilateral disarmament and defensive weakness have been shown to encourage rather than halt aggres« give action, and I am forced to the In conclusion that Pacifism s not sumciently realistic in its approach to the modem setting of the Issue: of peace and war. War will come because one
or group of Daily Mail New York correspondent countries is determined to take that Their Majesties paid, a surprise So the following rules have visit to the Red Indian Reserve near Issued:
way Can Pacifism stand in its path?
"Your dreams of peace
fuda would be of Bessarabia, morse from the Squalus which stated Fort' Willlam, which they passed en
"A man meeting the King should inte the daylight of a world of men, In this way Soviet Russia would be that the condition is satisfactory, but route to Winnipeg-Reuter Bulletin. bow low from the hips, with
the who, gifted with the opportunity to on that it it is getting cold. Nine rescue
GUESTS OF BRITISH EMBASSY arms at the side, heels together, direct their lives towards either the in a position to guarantee the fron
ships are at present at or near the
TO MEET MAJESTIES
neck stiff, when six yards from his arts of war or peace, the ways tiers of these three potential allies.
the scene.-Reuter Bulletin,
walk a evil or good, self interest
rest or dis- this scheme, Commenting on
Majesty. Then he should “ - ༧ --3
Washington, May 23, further three steps towards the King Interested service of their neighbours, Paris newspaper says that the Bri
Lady Lindsay wife of the British watching his face closely. If the choose the one and not the other. tish Government would not give its
Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay. King holds out his hand the man Fart of the price of their choice is support to any project designed to
revealed that the guest list of the must bow again, but not so deeply. exclude Britain from the Dardanelles,
British Embassy's garden party to
The King must always be allowed war, part is unemployment and
poverty, and be given in honour of Their Majes
the reat all
of the to speak first; and the reply should troubles of our day. ties on June 8, includes Eir. John be general, never personal cruce Lewis, President of the
So far as their relationship to God C.L.O Willam Green,
"When presented to the Queen the President of tho Fifty-nine sailors vessels van A.F.O.L., Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan sime performance should be repeat- is concerned the ways of God hold to thwart, and to act off Santander when two vessels sank Colonel Charles Lindbergh, Julig ; ed and it is important never to kiss good: He changes not, and man la
Rockefeller, Jr., Herbert Hoover, her hand.
"On leaving their Majesties two contrary to all that that relationship Wisconsin Fish A trawler with a crew of 49 was Vincent Aator, a member of the
should mean.
MANECESSARY ESFORCE caught in a violent storm near the Dupont family, Mayor La Guardia bows are again in order.
Women are Listructed to follow to the port of Santander and of New York: General John Persh-the procedure, except that they What of their relationship to man; Increase
ing, and their Indies; widows of
man, an
as man to State, ne the United States. ex-Presidents,
pre allowed to curley with the left as man to
State to Stator Isn't it true that in MADISON, WIS
Wis. The coastal guard observed the
foot behind the right, if they wish.
his personal relationships man has Wisconsin, in 1188, reared and accident and a lifeboat immediately Ambassadors to Great Britain and
accepted the
sufficient planted 1,124,002,750 fish and pre-put out to rescue the men of the widows of ex-Ambassadors, United
Prest.
to secure. ends of
the parations are now under way to meet trawler hanging on to the wreckage
· CORRECT ETIQUETTE RULES. or struggling in the water. The fe n minimum quota of billion fish
President Roosevelt has declared, not farve sufficient to secure the Thousands of Americans again for this year, it was reported by boat, however, was unable to combat
have it became known yesterday that ends of Justee to available? No the state conservailun commission. the heavy seas and overturned and written to the State Department la contrary to the rumours circulated more and no less? And if that is so, Of the total 1038 pinning, 9,436,450 sank,
Washington Inquiring about the cor he did not intend to return the visit must you not admit the use of force, trout The crews of both ships were lost, rect eliquette to adort if they should of the King and Queen of England, ever to the point of war, in. the in- were brook, brown and out...
meet the King and Queen, says the Trans-Ocean.
MEREK SE terest of Jurice and freedom? ana 22,238,351 were lake
-Trans-Oceans
DIVERS INVESTIGATE
Portsmouth, May 24.
The Falcon; hoa sent divers over
SPANISH TRAGEDY
It was for this reason that the Bri-side--United Press, tish Government was 50 enger to reach an agreement with Turkey.- Trans-Ocean:"
In heavy seas. ·
Burgos, May 24.
NO RETURN VISIT
Washington, May 24,
free
to
deny
of
・of force? Should
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