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CHARLIE CHAPLIN “MODERN TIMES”
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936
SOUTH-WEST STAND DRAGON BOAT
SUPPORTED
FAVOURABLE MESSAGES
RECEIVED
RESISTANCE MUST BE MADE
FESTIVAL
Fatal Accident At Canton
NINE PEOPLE DROWNED
[From Our Own Correspondent] Canton, Yesterday. Nine persons were drowned fol-i lowing, the aver-tuming of a [From Our Own Correspondenti
Canton, Yesterday. dragon boat on Tuesday morning, Declarations and telegrams in support of the South-west it was ascertained last night. An stand were received here to-day from overseas organisations and earlier report incorrectly stated public bodies in North China. These messages are in favour of that 60 persons lost their lives.
The dragon boat carried 140 men the anti-Japanese resistance, as broadcast by the military au-
on board. Of Fong Chen, the thorities in Kwangtung and Kwangsi.....
South-west leaders are much encouraged upon receipt of boat met a revenue launch, whose these telegrams, which came here late owing to outport, censor-wash upset an already over-loaded ship and to the belated arrival of the South-west telegrams, boat.
were able to Heretofore, high officials were uncertain of the reactions to their The survivors
swim, and succeeded in clamber- political platform.
The reported agreement of ing aboard other craft nearby. General
boat Sung Cheh-yuan, The crew of the dragon Chairman of the Charhar Poli-jhad their navigating experience Tuesday! tical Council, to the demands of in the creeks, and on the Japanese to create indepen-they had their first taste of the several dent Customs administrations deep river. There were Jin Tientsin and Peiping will cases of collision and ramming strengthen the viewpoint of the among dragon boats in different South-west that resistance parts of the river, but no fatalities against Japanese aggression were reported.
£477 UNDER FLOOR Finder Who Hoped For Reward
While repairing floor-boards at a house in Byron-street, Leeds, Thomas Harrison Speight, aged 53, a joiner, found an old tin box containing £477 in £1 Hoping for a reward, he took the box and contents away in his tool bag.
cannot be further put off. notes.
Speight told this story later to the Leeds stipendiary magis- trate, Mr. Horace Marshall, when he was charged with stealing the money.
Mrs. Rebecca Brooklyn declared that the money represented her life savings.
Mr. Marshall said he believed Speight's story and discharged him.
JURY'S VERDICT CRITICISED
Woman And Children Who Were Gassed
"WE EXCLUDE MURDER OR SUICIDE
To make known their cause,
the
existing
OXFORD
Women Also To Be Admitted
the South-west leaders RIVAL UNION AT Jembark upon intensive publicity work. An American news agency will circulate interviews and manifestoes of the South- west in the same manner 23 arranged with agencies.
The South-west platform is Oxford Oxford undergradu- theoretically sound. Many
lates who are dissatisfied with public bodies in North Chiria
what they term the "red" ten- have criticised Nanking for failing to put up 2 stiff stand dencies of the Oxford Union are against Japan and are support-planning to form a rival union. To this women will be admitted. The ing the Canton programme.
present union was founded in 1824.
The scheme is revealed by Mr. Keith Briant, editor of the Isis, he Oxford undergraduate journal. In a leading article, he writes:"
GREATEST DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM PRESENTED
(Continued from Page 1.)
The budget plank states: "We are determined to reduce the ex- penses of government, to balance the budget and to reduce the na tional debt at the earliest pos- sible moment.”
SOUND CURRENCY The jury's verdict at the in-
The currency plank states: "We quest on a mother and three chil dren who were found dead in a approvepf the objective of a per-
criticised by manently gas-filled room was
sound currency,
the Coroner at Hammersmith last stabilised as to prevent the former wide fuctuations in value." There month.
is no mention of gold, silver or war debts.
The victims were Mrs. Dorothy Violet Warwick, aged 34, and her children, aged 8, 2% and 1.
The jury returned a verdict of death by misadventure, and said
The Civil Service plank includes the immediate extension of the
the civil service principle to all non- policy-making positions in Federal service.
With regard to the constitution, "We exclude definitely suicide the manifesto states that the New jand murder. We think that the Deal
no blame whatever rested with the husband.
will seek a "clarifying
gas valve was knocked down ac-amendment" if practice shows cidentally," the foreman added.
that problems as such as drought, The coroner, Dr. Edwin Smith: foods, minimum wages, maximum hours, child labour, working con- It is your verdict, but not neces-ditions in industry, monopolistic sarily mine. I think it is rather one of the cases in which an open and unfair business practices can- not be adequately handled by the verdict would have met the case
State and the Federal legislatures better.
within the constitution as it now stands.
The husband, Edward Alexander Warwick, a foreman painter, saidį that the family were "legally tres-out a debate.-Reuter. passers" in their two rooms in) Glenthorne-road, Hammersmith, which had been sub-let by a ten- art.
The platform was adopted with-
He slept in the scullery with
NEW CZECH LAWS
(Continued from Page 1)
com-
"Ever since the much-dis- cussed motion was passed in 1933 that this House will under no circumstances fight for King and country,' a great number of undergraduates have refused to "become members of the society.
"While a debating society has every right to select whatever! motions it likes for discussion, it cannot be denied that as al University debating society the union has done itself incalcul able harm by the recent Red Flag motion.
Usdesirable
"If it is undersirable that a minurity should give the out! side world the impression that Oxford is Bolshevik, then the present union must go, and an- other debating society be found- ed on a sounder basis.
"But a debating society in a University town should be more than a social grazing ground for men. For better or for worse, women are now members of the University with equal rights, and they have a right to parti cipate in a debating society. which claims to be a central University: institution."
The scheme had already re-i ceived considerable support, said Mr. Briant recently. It was likely la meeting would be held in the
near future.
PARLEYS
one boy and his wife and the other would defend the rights of the ANGLO-EGYPTIAN three children slept in the bed Hungarian minority by a room Since bailiffs visited them plaint with the League of Na- his wife had "bailiffs on the tions, should Czechoslovakia use brain" and locked her bedroom the National Defence Law to viol door every night.
late the rights of this minority.
Sir M. Lampson To Return To Egypt
M. Krafta declared in his reply
London, To-day. Cider Bottle Found
that such assertions would not deviate the Czechoslovakian Gov- Sir Milex Lampson, High Com- Det-Insptr. Frederick Halton ernment from taking the neces-missioner in Egypt, will return to said that he found a quart cidersary steps for the defence of the Cairo by air to-morrow to resume bottle near Mrs. Warwick's bed. A realm, as provided for by the new conversations with the Egyptian |
Sir Miles arrived small amount of cider was left. It
Defence Law. Czechoslovakia Government. was a very potent brand.
would, in fact, welcome a Hungarin England on June 4 and, has, "I think he continued, "that if fan complaint before the League since been in consultation with she had a quart of cider her brain of Nations, because this would his Government în regard to mat- would have been in such a state provide a favourable opportunity ters which had arisen during the
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hissing of the gas escaping."
(tuation of the minorities in both Egyptian conversations.--British The inspector added that he countries-Trans-Ocean Service. Wireless Service.
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was quite happy and looking for- ward to moving. He thought that the deaths were possibly acci- Idental
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and added: "A further possibility,
Palestine Question In
House Of Commons
any
London, to-day The Colonial Government had no intention of
or countenancing of course, is that all four of them Secretary was asked in the House taking were murdered by somebody who of Commons yesterday what were action inconsistent with the terms took off the gas tap and later put the intentions of the Government of the Mandate or with their re money into the gas meter and left as to passing Palestine over to the sponsibility for safeguarding the them in the bedroom"
Jews for the purpose of establish-rights of all inhabitants Inspir. Hatton said there was ing a free and independent Jewish Palestine, irrespective of race and jas evidence to support that sug, nation Mr. W. B. A Ormsby-religion, British Wireless Ser
gestion
Gore replied that His Majesty's vice
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