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British Government Condemned:
GENEVA, Aug. 16 (Reuter), -BRITAIN'S White Paper policy for Palestine was con- demned as an "attack on our basic rights in Palestine and an attempt to reverse the trend of Jewish history" by Dr. Chaim Weizmann delivering his Presi- dential address at the opening of the 21st Zionist Congress.
Dr. Weizmann stated he was reluctantly compelled to say that the British Govern- ment had gone back on their promises.
"Great Britain loving free- dom, hating injustice and per- secution, has stood as our friend. We cherish that friendship and retain our re- gard for, and faith in Creat Britain in spite of efforts made by the present Secretary for the Colonies (Mr. Malcolm Mac- Donald) and others, to destroy
it.
Our quarrel is not with Great Britain but with those responsible for her present Palestine policy."
NATIONAL REGISTER AS CENSUS Preparations Now Completed
LONDON, Aug. 16, (Reuter). -Preparations for a National Register to operate in the event of war have now been made in accordance with a decision an- nounced by the Lord Privy Seal in the House of Commons in December, it was disclosed in Press conference at Somerset House.
It was stated that some months ago preparations had already reached a stage from which they could be rapidly perfected in an emergency. and since then they had been fully completed.
The preparations fall under two heads; firstly, the initial compilation
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DA LAVANT THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1939. 日三月七:
BORDER ALL QUIET THIS MORNING STATE POLICE
Japanese Sentries Can Do Anything
Face-Slapping Of
U.S. Woman Denied
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"'
PEIPING, Aug. 16 (UP). charged that -Communists -THE Japanese spokesman are using the anti-British campaign for political pur- poses to drag America into the dispute. He said that thore was no American
woman slapped at Tientsin, adding "I was there Monday and Tuesday in the capacity of spokesman and did not hear of the case."
Asked what right the sentries had to slap anybody the spokes- alluwed to. de anything in
man replied "The centries execution of their duties, but you |must remember Japanese soldiers
are very simple."
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Serious U.S. Attitude WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UP).- At a press conference to-day Mr.) of State, commented extensively on Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary developments in the Orient.
TAICHAN
BAY
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DAY.
GHATAU KRISTUM
SHENRYSHUT
CANLING
*NIMWAN
KAWAI
TAYITYAN
HRABOUR
Japanese Said
TOLD
To Have Imposed
12 Hour Curfew
THE BORDER this morning was quiet, although it is believed that the Japanese forces will resume their opera- their control on the Chinese side of the tions before the day is out to extend frontier as far as Shataukok.
H
Mendelssohn Bank
Failure Echo
FINANCIAL SLUMP AVERTED
Europe's Narrow Escape
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, Aug. 16 (UP),~~~
IN the opinion of stock market| commentators the • "Demo-
cracies" escaped by inchça a merciless slump following the sensational suspension of Mon- delssohn
& Company
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WHITEAWAY'S SALE
Germany Wants Direct Negotiations With Poland
ROME, Aug. 16 (Reutor),-DIRECT_nogotiations be tween Germany and Poland as the only way of reaching a peaceful solution of the Danzig problem are advocated in the Press with a unanimity that suggests official inspiration.
The "Giornale d'Italia” says that Polish independence is not threatened and the Poles have nothing to lose by negotia- tions with Germany but if instead they prefer war, they will be risking their whole existence and in a general war let them remember that Italy will do her duty as a member of the Axis. The Democratic Press speaks, of possible" con- : ference and compromises but there are rights which need no conference and which must be satisfied, says the newspaper.
Poland's New Request To Britain
Permanent Military Alliance Wanted
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"
PARIS, Aug. 16 (UP),—It is reported here that liabilities of 294,000,000 florins. under which Britain would guarantee the independence of with [Poland has asked Britain for a permanent military alliance Actually, for a variety of more or
less accidental reasons, the declines Poland's neighbours as well as Poland itself.
were moderate,
Firstly, the London banks quietly closed out all current commitments
with Mendelssohns four or five weeks Lord Baldwin On- ago although it is believed £4,000,000 worth of French
that and
Belgian government securities were
and quickly steadied.
purchased from the Bank of France. However, the market was reassured
Lucky Paris Bourse
Difficulty Of Democratic Government
Diplomatic sources here be- lieve such a guarantee would include Lithuania, Rumania, Hungary and possibly Slovakia.
Danzig Discussed
The French Foreiga Minister to-day conferred with the Prime Minister after which his had a conversation with the United States Ambassador, Mr. William Bullitt.
It is belleved
ho gave the Ambas- sador complete Information regarding the Danzig situation.
The Paris Bourse, which was more! vulnerable, was saved from a heavy slump by the lucky fact that the Bourse was closed on the Monday and Tuesday for Assumption Day, thereby
Actually Paris is now in the midst your Age 16 (Reu- too serious, well informed diplomatie ters view the situation as being not of a strong rising market for French the British people united 8 settlement-o atrials whether that French Investors have already material resources and believing Government bonds and it is belloved never before, absorbed unknowingly millions of
powerful inference on September 2.
"If the situation is grave, it is no
Unity Is Big Need Although semi-official French quar-
authorities have imposed a curfew on the border between 6 pm.poweri con and 6 am, nightly and are preventing any sort of movement across the border either to or from the Chinese side. The police authorities in the New Territories could not confirm this report, and contented themselves by stating that the situation on the border at the present is completely quiet. However, it is a fact that on the
Hongkong side of the frontier, it is impossible to reach the border, police He said his Department had ce-cordons preventing access therio. ceived a full report on the Tientsin slapping Incident.
However, he
Refugees Return
on the
would make no comment uniil a reply The refugee congestion had been received from the Japanese, Canton-Hongkong road has now been but he assured the press
relieved, and quite a number of that the people who fled into British territory United States had the matter
very yesterday have since returned across much under consideration.
the border,
Referring to the report that the of the Register; secondly, the main-State Department had approved the tenance and subsequent operation of export of a Douglas plane to Japan. the Register.
Mr. Welles emphasised that the United States policy of opposing the
Mr. Todd Says No Threat To Supplies
Economic Methods To Save Peace
U.S. Gesture To Germany Possible
›
Census As Alternative
Fears that the Japanese operations Anics of planes to countries which on the border would seriously affect, The compilation is planned on
bomb civilian countries is unchanged, it not completely stop food supplies;
NEW YORK, Aug. 18 (Reu- census lines and executive arrange-
but the contract Involved was con-from Kwangtung to Hongkong, were ter)-IF ments have been made to serve the cluded prior to such announcement scoffed at by Mr. R. R. Todd, chair- comes, the American Govern- A favourable time dual purpose of the compilation of
of the State Department's policy. man of the Urban Council the Register in an emergency, and Replying to
when query as to the interviewed by the "Telegraph" this ment is ready to use their alternatively of taking the 1941 een-United States position regarding the morning.
economic means-including the sus if there is no emergency.
To facilitate
Japanese proposals to revise the
extension of credits to Germany enumeration
in an alatus of the Shangbal Municipal the size of the districts Council, Mr. Welles referred to the emergency, has been reduced
the total
United States memorandum number of districts in Britain will
which was sent to be over 80,000. The enumerators of which the United States maintained Јарал on May 17 in these districts are now complete with-
that present conditions were
"The operation on the border will in a few hundred. All the schedules, favourable for consideration of the have no effect at all upon vegetable
So
forms and books of instructions proposals.
PLEASE Turn To Page 12.
More Police To Cope With I.R.A. -Terrorism
Women Arrested
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”* ·
not
He declared: "The position as re-to promote their own concep- rds vegetables is quite normal, Intion of solid peace, according to act during this last week supplies have been, if anything, above normal. an "Associated Press" report
from Washington.
PLEASE Turn To Page 12.
WHAT HITLER TOLD
DR. BURKHARDT~
PARIS, Aug. 16 (Reuler)ACCORDING to French diplomatic cir- cies, Herr Hiller, in his interview with Dr. Burkhardt at Berchtesgaden, reminded the League Commissioner of the plan to which he had referred in his Reichstag speech on April 28.
francs worth of Government bonds in our hearts that on the issue more grave then it was before the which were quietly dumped on the depends ultimately the freedom authoritative source.
Munich Conference," declared one market by erstwhile creditors of the of mankind," declared Earl Bald- Dutch Bank,
win, former Premier of Great Britain, speaking at the banquet of the Congress on Education for Democracy.
Halifax Tells Groonwood LONDON, Aug. 10 (UP),-Lord
Amsterdam's Two Bad Days Amsterdam had a rough two days
Halifax had a 60-minute conversa- tion with Mr. Arthur Grechwood, and The Index of bank shares drifted down from 133.56 to 128.91.
Earl Baldwin added: "In such a regarding Danzig, Count Clano's con- informed him of his latest reports Zurich decided Swiss bank shares conflict we must play our part, and versations with Herr von Ribbentrop were cheap and therefore bought to the end." Democracy was the and the situation at Tokyo. sturdily though at dubious future most dimeult form prices,
"Eccondary
of government' that ever existed. In a Totalitarian Finally the apparent improvement State, no responsibility rested on the in the Danzig situation has so far individual citizen. checked the dreaded
In conclusion the speaker said: "We slump which commonly follows a have shown the world that we have severe blow to independent French ideals no less than the Totalitarian märkets.
States' ideal. Harder of accomplish- ment because they are far higher deals, they involve the co-operation of men of their own tree will endca- vouring to work with God himself in raising mankind."
New British Minister
Mr. Reginald Willig Allen Leeper LONDON. Aug. 10 (Reuter).—
to Bucharest. has been appointed British Minister
is
New Yangtse S.N.O. Appointed
LATEST
European Steals
Charged
Radio Sets By Trick
On three counts with
Mr. Leeper, Australian-born,
London, Aug. 16 (Reuter), Rear- Admiral John G. P. Vivian, has been at present Counsellor in the Foreign appointed Rear-Admiral and Senior stealing radio sets by a trick, Charles The report says that usually Office and Diplomatic Service which Naval Officer of the Yongtse gunboat Percival Archer. aged 25, formerly a reliable source reveals that when or it service he entered in 1917 as a tem- Botilla in succession to Rear Admiral radio salesman, was Germany becomes inclined towards porary clerk, permanent "appeasement", President pointed First Secretary to the Briush
In 1932 he was aP-R. Holt as from October 27.
this morning Roosevelt has it in mind to offer Legation in Warsaw and served in mand about December 20. He will imprisonment on each of the three sentenced by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at The new Admiral will nesume com- the Central Magistracy to two weeks' buy abroad; secondly, American supplies and commodilles for two years until 1929, when he in Shanghai on December 25.
to tinople before returning to Warsaw Ranchi on November 17 and is due such as wheat and cotton, at sub-went back to the Foreign Office, sidised export prices, and probably on credit.
Arstly, credits to erable Germany to the Legations in Riga and Constan- leave England by the P. and Q. liner1 chargesorgt. Allent sald that Archer,
basis.
access
Sunk Air Liner
Is Raised
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its
way
American Retail
Trade Improves
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"' WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UP)
who was born in Hongkong, up- proached the complainant Ma Mak- yee and asked him if he wanted to buy a new radio. Ma nid he would If he could sell his old set and Archer approached a Mr. J. A. Bor- ger and said he knew a friend who had a radio set he would exchange an old one, and Archer took Borger's set and sold it.
Germany, in return, would have.io. agree to progressive disarmament proportionately to disarmament. agreed upon by other nations, and to On that day, the Fuehrer said bers of the Commillee, namely, autarchy and trading on
fake steps to abolish her system of LONDON, Aug. 16 (British Wire- he offered Poland a 25 year non- France and Sweden,
barter less).The Briüsh Airways Ilner The Information regarding aggression treaty in return for Burckhardt's interview with Herr Instalments etc, and could be stopped afternoon with the loss of five lives, retail trade in the United States for it was stated that he went to a
As a safeguard, the credits which crashed Dr. would be advanced to Germany in Copenhagen from London yesterday Commerce, to-day announced that was charged will stealing by bailee, to Mr. Harry Hopkins, Secretary of In the third case, in which Archer which Danzig was to be returned Hitler at Berchtesgaden which was at any time if Germany failed to keep was raised this morning and to the Reich and Germany was contained in this message and was her part in the agreement.
was the Erst half year totalled $17,800, friend on Saturday fast and said he to receive a route through the fidence, is being examined by these Corridor to East Prussia.
towed to Masnedsund. treated here in the strictest con-
000,000 for the corresponding period. would like to borrow his radio set
General Development
Students Protest To Lord Halifax
PARIS, AU 16
(Reuter),—A | message protesting against the British | decision sito” hand over the · four: | Chinese suspects; în Tlentsin,
sent to Lord Hallax the British"
COUNT CSAKY'S VISIT
TO BERLIN
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
for a party. He was asked to return it the next day, but instead. Archer sold it to a radio store in Hennessy Road,
Archer received a total of $130 for the three sets. Defendant
and
pleaded guilty
when, asked by the magistrate, what
he had done with the money and
LONDON, Aug. 16 (Reuter). -As part of the ceaseless police
Governments as well as by the Polish watch for Irish Republican protested to Dr. Burkhardt against sentative Dr. Burckhardt has also re- The Fuehrer is also said to have Government to whose Danzig repre- Army terrorists, the Home office the tone of the recent Polish note to ported. has granted permission for the the Danzig Senate about the boycott In the assence of authoritative in- Scotland Yard Special (Inves- of the Customs officials by Danzig. formation regarding the purport of tigation) Branch to be increased. discussed between the Fuehrer and tion in the Press.
It is asserted here that the matters. the message, there is much specula- Extra officers have aiready been Dr. Burkhardt were above all ques- posted to several ports in Wales and tions relating to the settlement of the West Coast of England up to loen Incidents, the Commissioner -Lancashire, and later this week, other officer will augment the staffs at being the natural link between the London, the visit is regarded as no International Students Conference
Danzig authorities and the Pales. Fishguard, Holyhead, and Heysham.
more than an item in the General which opened here yesterday and la Information been received that the IRA. deportees may attempt to
Burkhardt's Message
and is night. development of events which are attended by students of 35 countries. been, the guests of Herr Frick for rumours that Hungary recently re- Count Craky, Hungarian Foreign engaging constant study. The at-
Count Csaky, with his wife, have Minister, re-enter the country and others,
I purely private, hitherto unknown to the police, may less).A message received
LONDON, Aug. 18 (British Wire-titude of the British :
The message ass the students Government insist that the British Government the past several days. So far, there jected the 22-point plan which Ger- try to entár England.
from respecting them; has been clearly The polls are not satisfied that High Commissiones in Danzig, by the Foreign Secretary in speeches in Such action would be contrar, to von Ribbentrop during his stay in
Doctor K., Burckhardt League defined by the Prime Minister and prisonerato ha pastor, the Chua 10 indication that Count Caky many offered her, lack confirmation. a phanton
will see either Herr Hitler or Herr the
campaign of terrorism has ended the British Government, whose re- Parliament and remains unchanged. British justice, for it would signify a Salsburg Band 'alapecial watch is being main-presentative at Geneva has regularly Britain would naturally welcome any recognition by member of the tinad on suspects in London. The acted, as rapporteur of the Committee peaceful solution.pl. the Danzig pre-ague of Nations of an aggressor Estent magierta to be detained are two Danzig, has been passed on to the alem which
Purely Private Visit was acceptable to all Power and would have grave interna- Governments of the two other man- PLEASE Turn To Page 4.5.
BERLIN, Aug. 16, (Reuter)-Poll tionat consequeticos,"
tical circles assert that the visit of
SALZBURG, Aug. 16, (UP) --Count Stephen Csaky, the Hungarian Whether he could make any restitu- Foreign Minister and M. Dome Satoday, the Hungarian Minister to Berlin ton, Archer said he had spent all
the money and could make
nerived here to-day with Herr Frick for several days visit at Leopolds In the best-informed quarters in Foreign Minister, to-day by the kwam Palace, planning to attend the opera, "The Barber of Seville to restitution.
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and
until Friday, and it is possible that Count Csaky is staying at Salzburg Herr Hiller may meet him at the Salsburg Festival which Count and Herr Wilhelm Frick, who has held several posts under the Nazi Govern- ment, visited this evening.
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