1937-05-13 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 18, 1937.

WHOLE WORLD JOINS EMPIRE

XIN CELEBRATION

Vatican Ignores The Italian Boycott

London, To-day. Messages from foreign lands, no less than from all parts of the British Empire, report enthusiastic celebrations on the occasion of the Coronation.

Special church services were held in many centres, notably in Washington and Paris. In the French capital the service was attended by the President, M. Albert Lebrun and his wife.

IN ADDITION TO A BRITISH THANKSGIVING SERVICE IN BUENOS AIRES, A SOLEMN MASS WAS HELD IN THE CATHEDRAL AND WAS ATTENDED BY THE PRESIDENT, MINISTERS OF STATE AND THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

The Governor-General of thel Netherlands East Indies attend- ed a special service at Batavia.

In Rome all the Bri 3h colony in the Italian capital, which has been reduced since the days of sanctions from 1,300 to 700, were invited to a Coronation garden party at the British Embassy, where the British Ambassador, Sir Eric Drum- mond, distributed Coronation sou- venirs.

ITALIAN BOYCOTT

news-

PICKPOCKETS ACTIVE IN THE CROWDS

Thirty-three Arrested Yesterday

The cooler weather prevailing to-| day has greatly lightened the work of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade and enquiries at the Head

the heat,

as

ADM. LE BIGOT

Taking Command Of French Navy In Far East

STEEL STRIKE ORDERED

Pittsburgh Mills To Be Closed

Pittsburgh, To-day. Admiral Le Bigot, who was retrial Organisation workers in two A strike of Committee of Indus- cently appointed Commander-in-factories owned by the Jones Chief of the French Naval forces Laughlin Steel Corporation here, in the Far East, is passing through employing. 27,000 men, has been or the Colony to-morrow in the M.Mdered to begin at 11 o'clock (New liner Aramis, bound for Shanghai. York time) by Mr. Philip Murray, East Squadron, the Lamotte Pic-ganising committee.

Flagship of the other French Far Chairman of the steel workers or-

[quet is now in Shanghai and Ad-

miral Le Bigot will take over com-ordered by the Supreme Court to The Corporation was recently mand from Admiral Esteva there.

comply with the Wagner Labour Relations Act.

JAPAN'S GIFT

To Relatives Of Air Disaster Victims

Berlin, To-day.

The "Hamada," a Japanese charit- able endowment in Tokyo, has placed the sum of 5,000 yen at the disposal of the German Govern- ment for distribution to the rela tives of those who lost their lives in the Hindenburg disaster,

The Reich Government has cabled its thanks to the President of the Harada endowment for the gift-Trans-Ocean.

Fair To Showery

The Royal Observatory

.. Conferences” with C.I.O. leaders |followed but the company refused to enter a signed agreement, claim- ing that the Act did not require it to do so.

The union therefore decided to call a strike-Reuter.

FRANCO-POLISH

RELATIONS

Colonel Beck To Stop Over In Paris

Paris," To-day. The Polish Foreign Minister, Co- lonel Joseph Beck, will visit Paris when he leaves London after the Coronation ceremonies: A M

While in the French capital he All the newspapers in Rome, un-

will hold conversations with the der instruction, completely boycotted quarters revealed there were no the Coronation. Many Romans, how-cases of fainting or collapse, due to that pressure is highest in the Paci- It is expected that a new Franco- reports Foreign Minister, M. Yvon Delbos. ever, bought the Vatican

occurred yesterday fic to the south-east of the Bonins, Polish trade treaty will be signed paper "Observatore," which ignor-

though there were a number of and is relatively low over Manchuria when Colonel Beck arrives. Nego ed the Italian boycott and published cases which were dealt on the spot and South China. Forecast:S. tiations for such a treaty have been a long and cordial account of the

by members, of minor injuries

or variable winds, light to moderate; going on for several months.. Coronation.

caused, mostly to children, in the fair to showery.

Trans-Ocean. From Brussels the President of commotion during the processions. the Chamber telegraphed

There were a few minor accid- Speaker of the House of Commons, ents, of people knocked down by extending best wishes to the King.

to the!

"The Chamber is convinced that the Parliamentary institutions of Great Britain will continue to fav our, by the example they give the world, the development of human liberty and progress,' says the mes-

sage.

Brigade and enquiries at the Head- slow moving cars but no serious mishap is reported.

Pickpockets have been busy and this morning no fewer than 33 were charged before the Magistrates at the Central Police Court. In Kow- loon the number was not so great as While the Norwegian motor-vessel the processions and illuminations Venus was crossing the North Sea attracted most of the people to the from Newcastle to Bergen, the cap-

Island. tain proposed Their Majesties' health at lunch-time.

TONGUES OF FIRE

From the loneliest Arctic outpost to the largest cities, says a message from Ottawa, the Coronation was celebrated throughout Canada.

Last night a. coast to coast chain

BASQUE FRONT

FIGHTING

Republican Attack

Repulsed

Salamanca, To-day.

of beacons at fifty-mile intervals An insurgent communique reports passed a Coronation message in ton- that the rebels continue to hold the gues of fire across the Dominion.

upper hand on the Basque front.

Yesterday they repelled an attack by large Republican forces at Cir Lord leruelo de Bricis, on the Santander

Every centre held a ceremony or service to bless the new reign. The Governor-General, Tweedsmuir, reviewed picked troops front. în Ottawa and massed bands played the National Anthem.

Ten thousand acorns shipped to Canada from the New Forest were planted in many parts of Canada. Reuter.

Mr. Thomas Hodgson

has retired

Loyalist bombers are reported to have carried out a successful raid on Toledo, while a Barcelona report states that other Republican aero planes dropped their deadly cargos on a munitions factory in Sabina- nigo and on the fortifications of Saragossa-Trans-Ocean.

after ringing the bell of York Minis- Fishing in the Bay of Islands, -New ter for 60 years, but after 60 years Zealand, Mr. M. W. Dowding, an Eng- Mr. James Potts is still singing in lishman, landed а thresher shark the choir of Hexham Abbey.

weighing 992ib.a world record.

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