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THE CHINA MAIL, FERRUARY 17, 1957,

ONLY PORTUGAL STANDS OUT.

CONTROL SYSTEM FOR SPAIN TO TAKE EFFECT IN MARCH

LONDON, TO-DAY.

A STATEMENT CONCERNING THE FINDINGS OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE NON-INTERVENTION COMMITTEE REGARDING SPAIN WAS ISSUED TO-DAY.

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The statement says that the com-1 Mmmmmmm...ROTH mittee examined the methods by which an agreement in regard to the proposed control plan could-be reached.

After a general exchange. ofi views, the representatives of Brit- ain,

Czecho-Slovakia, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden to recom- and the Soviet agreed mend to the full committee on be half of their governments that be- ginning at mid-night on February 20 the non-intervention agreement be extended to the enlistment in the civil war of persons not off Spanish. nationality.

Austro-German Finance

Vienna, To-day.

It was officially announced to- day that the President of the Austrian National Bank will hold a conference with the Pre- sident of the German Reichs- bank, Dr. Schacht, on Friday. The two bankers will discuss various financial questions affecting both countries. Trans-Ocean.

Details of the restricting methods adopted by the governments con-14+4X331214302810207734-6286XTERN cerned should be-commimicated to

the full committee as soon as pos- APOLOGY FOR

sible.

The control system elaborated by

DESTROYER

the technical experts of the sub- BOMBING -

committee is to be regarded as be ing in force as from February -20, provided that outstanding questions are finally cleared up.

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The control system is to come into operation at mid-night March 6.

The agreement will be submitted to-day to the full committee for its acceptance.-Trans-Ocean.

CAUSED A WAR AT SIX

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”) London, To-day. An expression of regret by the Spanish rebel government has been made to the British Government over the bombing of two British destroyers.

So says the "Daily Express" cor- respondent in Gibraltar in a mes- sage to his paper.

Evidently, the correspondent states, the insurgent plane mistook the destroyers for loyalist ships, all of whom have left Cartagena for an And Worshipped As A unknown destination.

Goddess

Living in a quiet London suburb,

is a woman who, when a girl of six, was carried off and worshipped as a goddess by savages.

To-day, at the age of 71, she is still in regular correspondence with heads of the tribe which abducted her, and she has organised many missionary efforts that brought peace and prosperity to the land in which she was the cause of a wat

The loyalist ships, unknown to the rebel plane, had put back into Cartagena. Trans-Ocean.

WAR HERO'S SUICIDE

Note Which Was Not Read

A Letter left behind by a gassed D.S.O. ex-naval captain, who rammed Her amazing story began in the a German submarine during the war, 'sixties, when Mr. and Mrs. Win-was handed to the widow at a Weald- chester and their six-year-old daughstone (Middlesex) inquest.

ter Mary left Elgin, Scotland,

to

The letter, which was found sealed: seek their fortune in Northern As in the bedroom where the tragedy

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took place, was not read.

Incensed at the "invasion" of the

A verdict of "Suicide while of white people, the natives began aunsound mind” was recorded on the series of raids during which they captain, Evelyn Leonard Boothby murdered and burned.

(60), of Greenways, Kenton. The raiders murdered Mary Win- The widow, Mrs. Margaret Booth- chester's father and mother before by, said that she found her husband her eyes, but were so fascinated by dead covered with the bedclothes and the six-years-old girl that they not with arubber tube in his mouth; only saved her life but carried her He had suffered from insomnia fol- off to their mountain fastness 28 lowing a fall someone to be greatly honoured

His nerves were rather shocked in-

When the news reached London the war. that white settlers had been mur- dered and a British girl taken cap- tive, an expeditionary force was sent under Brigadier General Sir Charles Brownlow

Mary was sent home to England.

NALDERA'S SCHEDULE

The s.s. "Naiders," bringing Home Mais, is due in Hong-Kong about p.m. on Thursday, and will sail for Shanghai and Japan at 2 am on Fri- day

HEALTH STATISTICS

During last week, nine fresh diphtheria cases were reported to the Health Officer. There were four deaths. Dysentery, in the first week of notification, shows five eaths. cases reported with two Two deaths from smallpox occur red.

claimed five victims,

"Typhoid with one fatal case.