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RATIFICATION OF PACT MAY BE POSTPONED

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FRENCH CONVERSATIONS

THE CROSS OF MERCY

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Congress-Held

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 9. 1936

SARRAUT DEMANDS To-day's Short Story

FIRM STAND BY

FRANCE

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CAP0

By Paul Horgan

Dunat's appeal led to an Inter-

"CAUSE OF PEACE"

NHE guest conductors had) The sparkle and rustle of the national Congress at Geneva in

Tanished their casurements people al in anence when There would be no peace in; Paris: Unwonted activity pre-1863 when the nations agreed upon

His Europe and there would no longer and the last series of the con-Mr. Zweiborgen, the concert mas- Tailed all yesterday at the Quaia Red Cross Convention.

At the be international relations if this cert season was about to openter, lifted his bow and went "p'ik. 'Orsay, when M: Flandia not only vision filled many minds.

The Doctor was standing in the held very exhaustive deliberations sign of the Red Cross on a white method was to become general. The return of the resident con- plk" on his music rack.

his pink bands with his own Cabinet colleagues round the Swiss dag reversed and in opposing it "we are serving ductor was the signal for an

together at the level of his shirt! but also towards midday received the rifle stayed its rattle. the the cause of European peace. The outbreak of critical weighings wings, patting

Sir cannon held its tongue, and even single fact alone that troops have among the orchestra players.

It was even a recognised kind stud and weighing himself first. on British Ambassador, George Clerk, for a lengthy con- Mars himself observed an armis-been installed along the Rhine

forbids negotiations. We are not of entertainment to get old Mr.one foor and then the other. The versation. At almost the identical tice.

From the seeds thus planted 70 prepared to allow Strasbourg to Niederpreum, the flactist, started men arose, choir by choir, and Mr. hour Mr Anthony Eden received

conductor was known everywhere. Jing with the rest of them. the French Ambassador. M. Cor-years ago, the Red Cross-emerg-fall under the menace of German on the Doctor," as the permanent Niederpreum found himself stand- His face weat furiously red and reaching triumphant from its baptism cannons. is due to biz. Mr. Eden

ex-Down in the tuning-room under the "Herr Hitler has made an France-Prussian of, fire in the Faris to-morrow.

out of the Franco-Soviet stage the double-bass player said: hot, but now that he was up he to"Well, the old man will stage one must stay, though how he came to At 4.50 yesterday the Italian South African, and Balkan Wars cuse

stand he couldn't imaginey With at the Quai has Yollowed magnificently into pact. but his real aim was Ambassador arrived

Mr. Niederpreum wrung his burning eyes he watched the Doc- d'Orsay, and some time later, the a world-wide enterprise of mercy choose the time when the French of his comebacks to-night."

enllaborated in by 67 separate people might be divided by the

hands hands with exasperation, ter begin his pontifical stroll from American envoy.

general election. national societies.

In The Great War

"declare in the name of the while the gathering musicians the proscenium to the centre of

in-winked and grinned. It was

the Great War which French Government that we brought with it the realisation of tend to see maintained the essen- what an immense power the Redjtial guarantees of French and Bel- Paris: An international confer Cross had become. Then the ser- gian security provided by the Lo-throw him out! But, really, it is ence of the Locarno Rowers will vice of mercy kept 400 doctors carno Paet.".

begin at Tuesday

ይ

International Conference

on constantly busy. Its ambulances the transported 10,000.000 casualties.

the Quai d'Orsay

nder forenook

chairmanship

of M. Flandin. It brought new hope to thousands states a communique by the Coun- of prisoners of war, and after the eil of Ministers issued yesterday. Armistice shouldered the gigantic Great Britain will be represented task of repatriating the 650,000! by Mr. Anthony Eden. Belgium prisoners still on enemy soil. by M. Van Zeeland, and Italy by Signor Cerruti.

Every penny of the $20,000,000 -

"But, my dear vriends." he said. anywhere but America they would

impossible for a man vithout music in him to conduct such an orches- tra as this one! He is in love with

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TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be The Brate.' by Olaf Stapledon.

Italian Position

the business of vaving a stick, vhen the stage, pausing three times on he candt read score vithout the way to embrace the house with WILLING, BUT HAMPERED Schmidt to" play it for him over his regard, and bow, shaking his

BY SANCTIONS

and over on the biano till he should beautiful, white hair in humility

as zs false

his musicianship, learn .. Paris: It is understood that the The musicians kept coming in. thought the flautist. expended by the British Red Cross Italian Ambassador, acting under and listening to the gong of A. When he reached the dais the of the Govern- and tuning their instruments. It Docter held out his arms to his emotionally, seating them. M. Flandin consequently will during these years relieved its full the instructions

M. Flandin was a busy, fraternal moment, and men not be in a position to attend the quota of suffering. The American ment. has informed

spent $120,000,000 in that the Italian Government in-they talked above the savelling and Mr. Niederpreum put his flute on and his lap and folded his arms. He deliberations of the Committee of Red Cross

the tends faithfully to assume the the mooing of their fiddles Eighteen in Geneva on Tuesday, 25 lands, and by the end of

could feel his pulse bulging in. membership tetalled obligations imposed on Italy as a horns. but will be represented by M. War its Paul-Boncour. M. Flandin must 35,000,000, or nearly one-third of guarantor of the Locarno Treaty. Suddenly Schmidt, the Doctor's hasty beats through his

in From top to toe he surveyed the At the same time Signor Cerruti secretary and assistant, came be in the Chamber on Tuesday the US population.

that if sanctionist and held up his hands for atten-conductor, inviting his hatred to Governed independently by its pointed out

its fullest fury. when the French Government in-

Germany were tion. on Central Committee, each national measures against

"Look at him," he said inwardly. tends to make a declaration

pon at Geneva Italy "Boys," he said. "I thought may- the measures taken by Germany. Red Cross Society is aliated to decided

in a delicate be it would be nice if we all stood "He's got his hair brushed

fists.

up

On Thursday 1 Flandin intends the League of. Red Cross Societies would find herself to be present at the opening of the and is guided by the decisions of position, as she herself is the ob-up to-night when the Doctor came straight above his ears to make Senate debate on the ratiscation the International Committee

of the Franco-Soviet pact

Official Communique Issued-

Parliament known as

national Conference. Geneva every four years.

Aeroplane Ambulances

GERMAN MEMORANDUM FOUND INACCEPTABLE

оп

at ject of international sanctions.

POLISH SUPPORT

out He says he doesn't like those it stand out soft and pretty. He's things, but I think inside he would got that light over the dais so bis If we stand up. head vill look like an angel's. Bah!

CORNERSTONE their wide beams, and the fan of he has only one idea of music, and

OF PEACE

the auditorium opened and colour-that is to be graceful like a danc- His vaistcoat has led with a

Mr.ing master. huge audience, Niederpreum at his desk with the pearl buttons, and he has his pants other flutes, resolved to' sit still pleated so he can bend at the knee' when the orchestra arose for, the in the three-four time and stil Doctor's appearance.

Crossi Geneva The World Red

the Inter- London: Poland has given the appreciate it.

meets

at French Ambassador at Warsaw as-when he comes out, now, just when He's got a tie like an Englishman, ¡surances that she will faithfully Mr. Zweiborgen taps on his rack flaring out and that collar is too carry out her obligations under the for attention, if we all rise? You tight, so he'll look young and new waist- "If war can never be humanised. Franco-Polish alliance, according to see. the Doctor hasn't been with healthy. He's got a at least it will not be the fault of well-informed Polish quarters in us for five months now, you know." line, I'll bet it's corsets, and now Later, up on the stage, with the when he takes up the stick his the Red Cross. Its Geneva Re London-Reuter.

rest on hands look like a voman's, because great lights seeming to Paris: At 2 p.m. yesterday an search Institute has recently been the de-working on new ways of protect- official communique

Council of ing civilian populations from gas liberations of the Ministers was issued, stating that attacks. And it is a far cry from ambulance the Ministers met in the forenoon the first mobile field at the Elysee Palace under the the Napoleonic Wars to the new may chairmanship of President Le-aeroplane ambulances which brun, M. Flandin making a state-prove to be so valuable in a vast! ment on the whole international roadless land such as Abyssinia.

Crass While the British Red political situation.

The Council of Ministers then unit, which left London, about two memoran-months ago, is working away be! examined the German dum, which it found inacceptable, hind the Abyssinian lines, the passing a motion to convene forth-Italian branch of the same great with the League of Nations Coun- organisation labours in the same a consulation of the spirit on the other side of the -cil and Locarno Powers,, as provided for battlefield. It may well be that the The future of Italy will hang more in the Locarne Pact itself. consultation will take place in upon the efforts of

and nurses than upon the acts of Paris on Tuesday.

The

General Mussolini,

Africa's Armoury

War Minister,

taken to ensure safety. taken im-

Of Situation

"FRENCH INACCURACIES"

those doctors

LOCARNO PACT'S POSITION

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