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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 14, 1987.

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Meeting At St. James's EMPIRE DEFENCE PRINCIPAL ITEM ON THE AGENDA

London, To-day.

Foreign affairs and defence are the principal items on the agenda of the Imperial Conference, which opens at St. James' Palace this morning.

These subjects will be discussed mainly by the heads of the various Empire delegations, and the debate is expected to last for some time.

Palace To-day

Palace

Refugees Must Leave Modern

Gibraltar

Gibraltar, To-day.

All Spanish refugees in Gibral- tar have been warned by the authorities that they will be re- quired to leave the Rock in the near future.

Sojourn permits are being care- fully inspected with the object, it is stated, of reducing the foreign population to a mini- mum.— Trans-Ocean, ·

GROWTH OF

SUGGESTIONS THAT THE CONFERENCE IS TO LAY PROFITS TAXES

DOWN IMPERIAL FOREIGN POLICY AS A RESULT OF THE DISCUSSIONS ARE DISCOUNTED IN WELL-INFORMED CIRCLES.

It is pointed out that the talks are intended to continue the con- tacts between the British Em- pire Governments and, by per- sonal contact and discussion, to strengthen the existing good re- lations.

Suggestions that the Con- ference will formulate an Em- pire, defence policy are also scouted.

of

in-

It is intended that the heads delegations should exchange formation and views on problems confronting the different parts of the Empire. Reuter.

MANY CHILDREN GET LOST

IN PROCESSIONS

Police Provide Buns

And "Pop"

Industrial Leaders'

Proposals.

Comedy In Etiquette

Polish-Rumanian

"Crisis

Warsaw, To-day; The knotty problem of eti- quette which arose in relations between Poland and Rumania has just been solved by proce dure somewhat similar to the proverbial Judgment of Solo-

mon.

Some time ago it had been decid- ed that the Polish President - and King Carol of Rumania should ex- change visits to emphasise the

MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S friendship between the two coun-

ASSURANCE

London, To-day.

A memorandum drawn up by lead- ing British economic bodies makes certain recommendations concern ing the manner of levying the new

tries.

prece-

The vexed question of dence, however, arose.

Should the Polish President King Carol make the first visit?

PROBLEM SOLVED

A large number of children stray-national defence contribution and ex- The President had been longer ed from their elders or got lost in presses uneasiness at the proposals in office, but there was the que

quea- the processions of the last two days.in their original form.

tion of whether King Carol's royal They were taken to the different The memorandum, which wasrank gave him automatic prece- Police stations and enquiries from signed, inter alia, by many Cham-dence the three principal ones showed|bers of Commerce, the Federation

The problem has been solved by that an average of ten daily found of British Industries, the Chamber DEFENCE FIRST

their way to each station. All of Shipping and Trade, the British sending Prince Michael, Heir to

the Throne, to Warsaw, The first meeting of the Imperial were later claimed by relatives. Iron and Steel Manufacturers A- Conference will be held to-day. It "Most. of the children were sociation and by several mineowners The young Prince will arrive in is seven years since the statesmen brought in crying, but we managed associations, was handed to the the Polish capital on May 24 bear- of the Commonwealth have formal-to keep them quiet by feeding them Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. |ing an invitation from King Carol **ly conferred in London and in the with buns and 'pop'," said a Police Neville Chamberlain, yesterday, 1 to the President to visit Bucharest

realm of foreign affairs and de-offieer at one of the stations.

Mr. Chamberlain promised the on June 7 or June 8. fence, which subjects will rank

¡delegation which called on him with King Carol will visit Poland in first in the Imperial Conference

the memorandum that their views the Autumn, when the Polish army agenda, the situation has under-

would receive most careful examina manoeuvres are taking place, gone many changes even since the

tion Trans-Ocean.

Trans-Ocean.

ANGLO-GERMAN

· CONVERSATIONS

informal discussion which took Von Blomberg Sees Eden

place between the Prime Ministers assembled in London for the Jubi lee in 1935.

The presence of Sir Thomas

·Inskip, in the United Kingdom de- legation, which is representative of all sections forming the National Government, indicates that the ordination aspects of defence prob lems will not be neglected.

CO-

OTTAWA PACTS Constitutional and trade matters for discussion, while important, are rather of a routine character and will not arouse the same public interest as these aspects of. Im- perial affairs have in the past.

And Premier

London, To-day. The German Minister for De- fence, Field-Marshal von Blomberg, who was the official Reich repre- sentative at the Coronation, visited the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, and the Premier, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, yesterday morning.

He had a long conversation with both statesmen.-Trans-Ocean.

Coronation Medals

Arrive

Special medals, issued by

the

It has been agreed that questions Royal Mint-in commemoration of arising from the agreements made

the Coronation of His Majesty The

The large silver medals failed to arrive, but the other two are on Bale at the local Post Offices; the

at the Imperial Economic Conference King, arrived in the Colony to-day. at Ottawa in 1932 can best be dealt with in discussions between the in- dividual Empire governmenta con- cerned. The conference is not ex- pected to last for more than four Treasury, The China Emporium weeks.

Limited, Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Freres and Sin- Limited, Sennet Cere's. The bronze, 1in. cost $1.00 The silver,11⁄4ìn., cost

Burma is making its first appear- ance at an Imperial Conference table as a separate entity. On the other hand the Irish Free State will be absent from this year's discus- sions. British Wireless:

$2.50.

Forthcoming Wedding

The forthcoming marriage of A commercial treaty between Great Miss Ina Mercia Adelaide Dunnett, Britain and Cuba Was signed at of No. 3, Minden Avenue, and' Mr. Arthur Cecil Ellis, insurance official,

Havana.

A daughter has been born to Frau residing at the Peninsula Hotel, has Goebbels, wife of the German Minister: of Propaganda.

been announced.

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