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ITALY SEEKS ONLY LEAGUE ADMISSION OF "JURIDICAL ERROR"

STRIKERS BECOME BOLDER AT Lifting Of

LIEGE: AGITATORS AT WORK

SOVIET AND JAPAN

Proposed New Fishing Convention

Moscow, To-day. - The Ja- panese reply to the Soviet proposals of April 26 for the conclusion of a new Soviet- Japanese faking convention was submitted yesterday by the Japanese Charge d'Afcires. A new Soviet push establish- ed on the north-eastern. route is foreshadowed by the establishment of a special ad- ministration to deal with the question-Reuter.

sea

TRIBUTES PAID

ATTEMPT TO STORM

MUNITIONS STORE

GRAVE ANXIETY CONCERNING RAILWAY LINE

GHENT DOCKERS STRIKE

Brussels, To-day.

The strike situation remains delicate. Hopes were being built on the fact of M. Van Zeeland's presiding at a meeting of the more important em- ployers' and workmen's organisations yesterday with a view to obtaining industrial peace.

Liege remains the most disturbed centre, but the strikers are not attempting stay-in tactics. A few armoured-cars and cars strikers overturned milk lorries and the situation took a grave turn. Later when the strikers tried to raid a small arms factory the police drave them off and arrested 15 people.

TO COLLEAGUE carrying machine-guns patrolled the streets, and after that some

Late Mr. C. Bulmer Johnson

"As a

newcomer

SUPREME COURT CEREMONY

to the Colony I had not the privilege of knowing the deceased gentle intimately: "my inter Kran course with him was, unfortun- ately, confined to official, mat- ters. But it was sufficient to enable me to realise that hel combined a sense of humour

with an acute mind, which al- ways tends to lighten business dealings," said the Acting

Chief Justice, Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden, who sat with Mr. Jus

ary measure.

Gangs were going about the city trying to hold up traffic, causing the necessity for several police charges for the pur pose of dispersing them. The big stores closed as a precaution- Nearly all the dockers at Ghent are out and are anxious to secure the same concessions as their Antwerp colleagues, of 2s. | a day and no overtime. About 4,500 wagons are standing- idle at Antwerp. Reuter's Bulletin Şervice.

STRIKE POSITION IN FRANCE

Paris Situation Much

The Same

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"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Paris, To-day.

*

Sanctions Sufficient Proof.

TO-DAY'S DEBATE IN COMMONS

FIGHTING SPEECH BY

ANTHONY EDEN

ATTITUDE OF DOMINIONS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE

Enited States Senators Hiram Johnson, left, and Key Pittman, right, are here shown in the meeting room of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as deliberations were begun for the drafting

of the new London Naval Treaty.

London, To-day.

A formal decision in favour of discontinuing sanctions, if such a course represents the gen- eral feeling at Geneva, is believed to have been taken at yesterday's weekly Cabinet meeting. The Ministers having already agreed in principle to this policy, it was believed that yesterday's meeting would have been largely occupied with the attitude of the Dominions, especially in view of General Hertzog's reaffirmation on Tuesday night of South Africa's adherence to the policy of

INCREASED TENSION sanctions.

IN PALESTINE

BRITISH POLICE CAR

AMBUSHED

In the meantime observers are waiting to see what effect` the prospective raising of sanctions will have on Italy's foreign policy. According to Rome messages, though the removal of sanctions is taken as certain, official circles are not willing to dis- cuss Italian collaboration in Europe until the sanctions are ac tually lifted, and hence, even if it were announced in the House of Commons to-day that Britain will propose their removal, Italy will not attend at Montreux on June 22 The sanctions cannot be removed before, this date...

Brussels: A series of grave incidents was reported from Liege yesterday, and they

It is not yet clear whether Haly will be satisfied with the re- clearly indicate that the strike

London, To-day-The Palestine Arab mission, led by Jemal moval of sanctions or will seek to obtain a reversal of the Geneva movement in that city is begin-Effendi Husseini, President of the Palestine Arab Party, has ar- judgment holding her the aggressor. Nevertheless Italian ing to assume a distinctly re-rived in London to present the Arab case to the British people observers entertain no doubt about Italy's eventual full collabora- volutionary character. A group The secretary to the party stated that the mission will not negotion in Europesa politics. — Benter. of strikers, incited by agita- tiate officially with the British Government with regard to the Paris: It is understood that! tors, tried to storm a shop where termination of the present situation, as the sole authority for the French viewpoint with re- In France the strike is slow in firearms were sold, but the at- such negotiations rests with the Arab Supreme Committee at gard to the reported decision tice E. H. Williams at the Full Court which was convened this dying down. The situation in tack broke down when the po- morning to take notice of the Paris is much the same as it was lice arrived on the scene and death of Mr. C. Bulmer John at the beginning of the week. In arrested 15 persons.

at the Paris there are still between son, who passed away War Memorial Hospital on 5,000 and 6.000 'strikers in the en- Tuesday last...

gineering trade. Trans-Ocean Service. Both branches of the legal | profession were fully repre- sented, those present being the

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NEW CENTRAL MARKET

Proposed Provision In Hong Kong

At about noon

a detach- ment of mounted police was seen galloping through the streets at tremendous speed, and a few minutes later it be came known that an alarm call had been received from a railway station, of the Liege, Brussels line, where rioters were trying to wreck the sign- al system. It is said that the police made 50 arrests.

Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, AL- torney-General, Mr. E. P. H Lang, Registrar of the Supreme Court. Mr. T. M. Hazelrigg, Crown Solicitor, Messrs. W. J. Lockhart-Smith, M. J. Abbott, G. P. Murphy, W. H. G.. Hirst, William C. Low, H. J. Milling- ton, W. R. Andrews (members present building housing the strikers strolled round the streets

In view of the fact that the

Yesterday morning numerous

of the staff at the Supreme Central Market is beginning to of Liege and tried to hold up Court), Mr. Eldon Potter, K.Csubside. we

understand

“

that trafic by stopping lorries and

to private cars.

Mr. B. G. Sheldon, K.C., Mr. the Covernment proposes

TENSION AT GHENT Hin-shing Lo, Mr. Leo erect a new market building on D'Almada, jnr., Mr. H. C. Mac-the same site in the near fu

The dockers' strike in Antwerp namara, the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo,ture. Messrs. E. Davidson, D. H It would be possible to repair has now spread to Ghent harbour, but as where all work came to a stand- Blake, E. S. C. Brooks, F. the present building, D'Almada, Sr., A. el Arculli, this would be an expensive pro- still yesterday morning.

it is thought that the workers in the Ghent coal-dealers' H. J. Armstrong, W. A. Mackin-cess,

erection of an entirely new and engineering trade also went lay, J. T. Prior, H S. V. Mossop. D. B. Evans, R. A. Wadeson, building would serve the needs on strike. Trans-Ocean Service. M. W. Lo, C. E. R. Sanderson, of the community better. W. Keith Robinson, Peter Sin.)

DISCUSSION

new Municipal Market ANGLO-SOVIET NAVAL C. Y. Kwan, D. McCallum, D. Las recently been built in Shanghai, and the official circles! Strellet, and F. H. Loseby.

concerned here have shown

THE CHIEF JUSTICE

The

Jerusalem.

AMAZING FLIGHT MADE BY MODEL GLIDER

91.2 Kilometers Covered In 3 Hours 14 Minutes

“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Hamburg. To-day.

A model glider built by a 14- year-old schoolboy established a new world record for distance and duration at the competition on Fischbeck Heath near here, by covering a distance of 1.2 kilometers in 3 hours 14 minutes. After being catapulted into the air by its young owner,"

the model glider gracefully climbed up to an altitude of 1,000 metres, it disappeared in the

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where

A few clouds

bours later report was received from Preetz, in Holstein, which said that a miniature plane had safely landed in a meadow near that village.—-—. Trans-Ocean Service.

VICTORIA HOSPITAL HAS SERVED ITS PURPOSE

A message from the latter that the British Cabinet is in place says that there was in-favour of lifting sanctions is creased tension yesterday, the that, while the Socialist Gov- sixth anniversary of the exe-ernment is not willing to take! cution of three Arab rioters for the initiative, it is prepared, murder in the 1929 disturb-although reluctantly, to follow Britain. Reuter's Bulletin The latest outrages reported Service. from various parts of the coun-

ances.

try include a British police car Debate Awaited With

patrol's being ambushed by Arabs on Tuesday night near Jaffa. The police replied to the

Interest

fire of the Arabs and one Arab NO QUESTION OF MR. EDEN'S

RESIGNATION was killed and another wound-

ed

Bombs damaged the rail- way line near Gaza and a bridge on the Jerusalem-Jaffa line. - Renter.

London:

FATE OF THE

舶

GIRL PAT”?

WRECKAGE ON

CORAL REEFER

GRIM DISCOVERY BY SMALL TRADING CRAFT

Nassau (The Bahamas).

To-day,

A message from Nagua states

that the sight of the British flag Today's debate on flying from a lone coral reef of foreign affairs in the House of the Semana group attracted the Commons is awaited with the

greatest interest

FUTURE STATUS that there is no question of Mr. which on approach found three

OF MALTA

It is learned attention of a small trading craft,

Anthony Eden's resigning. the white men-dead Close by were Foreign Secretaryship. On the suitcases, a Bible and nautical in- contrary, he will make a strong, struments. Near at hand, lying fighting speech explaining and

supporting the Government's badly damaged and ashore on the readiness to drop sanctions.

reef, was a small vessel, which is

•»: {Continued on Page 12) assumed to be the Girl Pat. The

discoverers baried the corpses. KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL

Local Fund Being Considered

The Government has cabled, in- structing the nearest, Justice of the Peace to proceed to Na- gua island by sailing-boat to investigate the wreckage--Res- iter.

To Remain As Naval Base

RUMOURS TO CONTRARY DENIED

The

London, To-day. Governor, in Council, in consultation with the Medical au- Invited at Commons question- thority, has decided that the Vic-time yesterday to make a state- toria Hospital will no longer be ment regarding the future of the London, To-day. The Anglo-needed when the Queen Mary British naval base at Malta, the great interest in the new edifice, Russian Naval talks were resum-Hospital is available sometime in First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir In addressing the gathering, and it is not unlikely that the ed at the Foreign Office yesterday the middle of next year. The Samuel Hoare, said: "I am glad

Proposals for the raising, by the Acting Chief Justice said: proposed new market for Hong morning, when further consider former will therefore be closed of the opportunity of contradict means of public subscription, of

*Mr. Attorney General, It is a Kong will broadly follow theation was given to a number of simultaneously with the opening ing the rumours which have a Hong Kong King George V WATER MAIN BURSTS. very sad matter that this is the lines of the Shanghai building technical points. British Wire-of the latter, and a large measure ceived some publicity, that Malta Memorial Fund have been m fifth occasion during the present being three storeys high and less Service.

of economy is thus anticipated. is to be abandoned as a naval der informal consideration by year on which the Court has sat completely up to date in every

base. The Board of the Ad- the Executive Council and the Remarkable Scenes In miralty have no intention of dis Finance Committee of the

Centre Of London continuing the use of Malta. a Legislative Council for some the principal naval base in the time. It is understood that the

London, To-day. Mediterranean and the headquar-Chamber of Commerce also has

Remarkable scenes followed a ters of the Mediterranean Fleet" the matter under attention.

water main burst in the centre In Hong Kong the English

To a supplementary question as

It is generally felt that the of London yesterday.. system of Coroner's Inquest

to the security of the base, Sir

Neighbouring streets were. purpose of any fund instituted does not obtain, but the Scat-

Samuel Hoare replied: "I would should be the provision of open soon several feet deep with a tish system. of magisterial ex

spaces in congested areas, swirling tide which swept into quiries. It has, however, now Manila, To-day. One-fourth of the Philippine Gavern never say I was fully satisfied

céljars and AMERICAN SENATOR PASSES been arranged that in every ment's expenditure for the year beginning on January 1, 1937, with any defence position, but I though nothing has been decid-shops, flooded

would state categorically that as ed Enquiries are being made brought all traffe to a stand- case in which a Magistrate will be devoted to national defence. The 1937 budget, being in-1] Washington, to dayThe death deems an enquiry unnecessary, troduced into the Assembly this afternoon, estimates expenditure we have no intention whatever of in Ceylon and Malays as to still. The tramway tunnel has occurred of the Democratic the relevant papers will be for- at 64,806,000 pesos, against a revenue of 65,817,000 pesos.

evacuating Malta, we shall cer-what is likely to be done in from Kingsway to the Embank- every practicable those territories, and man-ment was flooded and a disloca- Senator Duncan Fletcher, Chair-warded to the Attorney-General, The expenditure includes 16,000,000 for national defener, tainly take man of the Senate Banking and who has the power to order one compared with 8,000,000 a year ago. The revenue includes 8,000,- means to make its defences secure nouncements respecting the tion of the tramway service re- Currency Committee. He repre-if it appears to him advisable in 000 to 12,000,000 pesos, which it is hoped to raised by new against say possible attack opening of the fund will be sulted over a considerable area.

Renter,

Imade in due course, the public interest. sented Florida-Reuter,

tion at present being contemplated.;

to take notice of the death of a respect.

member of the legal profession of

Hong Kong.

"To-day "we mourn the death of Mr. Charles Bulmer Johnson, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature, England.

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CORONER'S INQUESTS

IN COLONY

PHILIPPINES BUDGET INCREASED ESTIMATES FOR DEFENCE OF ISLANDS

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