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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 15, 1939.
Vatican May Call Meeting For Peace
Paris, Aug. 14.
THAILAND Appeal May SHORTAGE Be Made To
Privy Council OF OIL
Tokyo, Aug. 14.
Shanghai. Aug. 14. There are persistent reports in the French press
Dramatic developments are expect- imminent Vatican
edi Arsistant Judge Grant Jones of intervention In the European crials, The oil problem has como to Hin Majesty's Suprame Court for probably a proposal to Italy of anasume serious proportions in That China refuses to grant the application Five-Power Conference to establish land as the negotiations between the for a writ of habeas corpus in con- a new European order and consoll- Thulan Government
and
foreign nection with the four Chinese date peace. It is alleged that the petroleum companies ori questions prisoners at Tientsin. Vatican's intervention has already jarising from the recent enforcement Mr. Grant Jones is expected to been approved by the Italian Gov-jof the fuel oil control law have give his decision on to-morrow or ernment and Mussolini,
been disrupted, according to a Bang-Wednesday, It is suggested that Musolini will kok dispatch to the Japan Times. Fresh instructions have been re- propose a conference In the near
ceived by the legal firm of Ellis and future to include Italy, Germany, As a consequence of the suspen-Hays, under which, if the application France, England and Poland; but ex-sion by the two foreign oil com-la retused,
used, an Immediate appeal with cluding Russia,
panies, the Asia Petroleum and the be lodged and if necessary the care It is recalled that the Vatican Standard Vacuum, of all supply, will eventually be carried to the stunned European capitals inst spring come shoringe has been seen in the Privy Council in Londo!. Mr. IL A. on the advisability of interventional supply in certain sections of Reeks and J. R. Jones, representatives should tension threaten. It was then Thai.
of Ells and Hays, are now awalling stated that, while the Vatican made
the Judge's decision.-Reuter.
The
no concrete offers, it informed all in-
Train Government has terested that it reserved the right of)mobilized all institutions concerned intervention should it consider peace and in directing strenuous efforts to threatened,
Jaltain smooth distribution. At the The diplomatic correspondent of same time, the Thaian Government! Intransigant writes, "Mussolini is is now restricting profileering on the reported to
to be considering to raise part of merchants and maintaining
this time the colonial problem of re-order in trade-Domci, distribution of raw materials, and
alse, probably, the Fascist Gavern-
ment in desirous of this."
It is reported that Count Clano suggested such a plan and it will probably find an eclo
clio in London, for
Y'S MEN'S TIFFIN
Dr. Shanglla Fu, Professor
of
Italian Ban On English, French Papers
Rome, Aug. 11. All English and French papers
It would give the Axis a better chance Sociology at the National Sun Yat with the exception of The Times and of satisfying its ambitions on a grand en University, who has just return. scale, bustead of risking a conflicted from Kuntning, will be the peak-the Temps are to be banned in Italy over Poland:-United Press.
er at the weekly tin of the Y's in the, future, it is reported here on Men's Club at St. Francis Hotel on Monday. Thursday, at I pan. His subject will
LATE NEWS
Another British Protest
SWATOW, Au 15 (Deruci).— Following the recent Kakchino 123- cident, Mr. II. D. Bryan, the Britishi Consut at Swalow, on Sunday Toded a protest with the Japanese consular authorities regarding the Japanese opposition to the landing of British marines, and the stopping of British nationals in the streets./
It is revealed that the Japanese Consul, Mr. Takai, rejected the British representations, pointing out, firstly, that it was still not desirable to per- mit landing of
of British marines in view of the anti-British movement among Chinese citizens; and secondly, that Japanese authorities have been:
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German Plane At Taihoku
TAIHOKU, Aug. 15 (Domel).—The German
passenger plane Junkers JU-52 of the Lufthansa Company, uperating on the Berlin-Dangkok service, arrived here from Hongkong at 10.48 this morning on an extended flight to Tokyo. It lett Hongkong at 7.12 a.m. to-day.
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