THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 10, 1937.
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ALL HOME POST BY AIR
Miss British
Dorothy · Bound, famous tennis player, Those engagement in announced.
Miss Dorothy Round Engaged
London, To-day.
Miss Dorothy Round, the British Wightman Cap. tennis star, yes- terday announced her engagement to Dr. Douglas Little, who hails from her home town of Dudley, in Worcestershire.
Dr. Little is a Scot, and played *for his county at hockey. He is also
a golfer but plays little tennis Reuter.
DR. SCHUSCHNIGG AT NO
MEETS COTTO
IN NO HURRY FOR RESTORATION
Paris, To-day.
“The Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, is in no harry with his ideas for restoration of the Haps- bugs.
"Another eight or ten months can slip by before he does "any- thing
-So declares the French journal- ist, Julius Sauerwein, writing in “Le Soir" yesterday.
He says that he is able to re- veal that Dr. Schuschnigg met Archduke Otto, the sole claim- ant to the Austrian throne, in Switzerland fairly recently. “ On this occasion, he alleges, Archduke Otto outlined cautions plans of campaign.
The plan consisted of setting up close trade. relations with those countries that had seceded from the former Austro-Hungarian Em- pire, and at the same time, giving them the fullest assurances that a
CRUISER SENT monarchist Austria would never
TO SPAIN
Netherlands To Stop Rebel Ship Raids
seek to incorporate any parts of their territory.--Trans-Ocean.
FAMOUS MENING EXPERT DEAD
Sir Albert Kitson
London, To-day.
IN
EXTRA
COST
LONDON, TO-DAY.
THE EXPERIMENTAL AIR SERVICE BETWEEN HONG KONG AND PENANG WILL BE CONTINUED UNTIL ALTER- NATIVE ARRANGEMENTS
ARE POSSIBLE.
It is hoped eventually to im- prove the service in view of the eventual carriage of all first- class mails to and from Hong Kong by air.
So runs an announcement by the Secretary of State for Air, Vis- count Swinton.
TO BE CONTINUED Lord Swindon says it is there- fore proposed to conclude am agreement with Imperial Airways for continuation of the present weekly service in each direction over the route Penang-Saigon-Hue (or Touranne)-Hong Kong.
Continuation of the service will be for a period of twelve months from March 23, but the Secretary of State reserves the right to ter- minate the agreement at a fort- night's notice in the event of other The Archduke Otto.
arrangements. being made for an alternative ...service surveys of the coalfields, and
connecting more important discoveries includ-route, whether for carriage of all Hong Kong with the Empire air ed black and brown coalfields and first-class air mails or otherwise. oil-shale deposits in Nigeria, man-1. HK. SUBSIDY SHARE ganese, diamond and bauxite fields. The maximum
his
subsidy payable
on the Gold Coast, and glacial and in respect of the temporary service fossil beds. Sin
and Tas will be £25,500 for a full year and
pro rata for any lesser period.
T72112
He was
sidyReuter.
Amsterdam, To-day. The Dutch steamer “Tri- ton," on the way from Bar- celona to the Netherlands,
in 1927 and The Hong Kong Government is commended by the Secretary of invited to continue its present con- was stopped in the Straits of The death has occurred at the State for the Colonies for his work tribution of one-sixth of the sub- Gibraltar yesterday by an age of 69 of Sir Albert Kitson, one in Africa. insurgent armed trawler. of the world's greatest authorities The Netherlands vessel was on mining and geology.-Renter. obliged to put in to Ceuta, Sir Albert's outstanding work was where she unloaded her cargo of done in Australia, Nigeria and the 200 tons of piece goods and Gold Coast. In Australia he made 30,000 cases of oranges before detailed topographical and geological she was permitted to continue her voyage.
has been ordered to. Spanish As a sequel to this incident waters to escort Netherlands the Netherlands cruiser "Java" merchantmen.
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