1937-05-29 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 29, 1937,

LEAGUE DEBATE ON

ON SPAIN

Soviet Prepared To Support Armistice Plan

Western Pact Talks At Geneva.

Geneva, To-day.

The Franco-British declaration in regard to Belgium was discussed by the League Council meeting yes- terday evening.

Mr. Anthony Eden (British For- eign Secretary) and M. Yvon Delbos (French Foreign Minister) pointed out that they had not lost hope that a new Western Pact will be con- cluded to replace the machinery of Locarno.

Mr. Eden said he hoped the nego- tiations with Belgium,

So happily concluded, would lead to further negotiations and closer collabora- tion of all interested countries.

M. Delbos said he would continue the efforts towards attaining con- solidation of the general peace of Europe by means of wide European understanding.

M. Spaak, the Belgian Foreign

Minister, reiterated Belgium's deter- mination to defend her territory and prevent its use for operations against any other State. Reuter.

DR. GOEBBELS ON CATHOLIC

CHURCH Violent Attack On- Morals

Berlin, To-day,

The fiercest attack ever made on

Professor Adler's Death In Street

London, To-day. Professor Alfred Adler, the famous Viennese psychologist, collapsed and died in the street yesterday at Aberdeen, where he was delivering a series of lec- tures. Reuter.

WAR ON TAX EVASION

PRES. ROOSEVELT'S CAMPAIGN

Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt intends to ask Congress to legislate to check evasion of income tax by small group of wealthy per-

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sons.

The President made this intima- tion at a press conference yester- day, and added that taxes evaded

amounted to millions of dollars.

According to the "New York Evening Journal," some prominent wealthy Americans have been transferring their banking ac-

Senor del Vayo's Charge Against Italians

Geneva, To-day.

The Spanish appeal in regard to foreign inter- vention in the civil war was debated by the League Council yesterday evening.

Mr. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secre- tary, said the Governments of Europe could not be satisfied that the objectives of the non-interven- tion committee were realised until the last foreigner was withdrawn from Spain and that country was allowed to settle her own destinies.

REFERRING TO THE NON-INTERVENTION COMMITTEE'S SCHEME FOR WITHDRAWAL OF VOLUNTEERS, HE SAID THEY WERE NOW IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE POWERS PRINCIPALLY CONCERNED, SO THAT A JOINT APPROACH COULD BE MADE TO THE TWO PARTIES IN SPAIN.

until

SOVIET DECISION

Hitherto no such approach had

From Moscow it is reported that been made, nor would it be made

the Governments repre- the Soviet agrees in principle to sented on

the non-intervention the British proposal for a truce în committee agreed to plans for Spain, but insists that the insur- hostilities-first and counts or establishing corporations withdrawal of volunteers and to gents cease

first withdraw all foreign troops, including Moors. Reuter,

in British territory, such as Can- ada, Newfoundland and the West Indies, in order to avoid the American income tax.-Reuter.

CHIANG TO TRAIN OFFICERS

temporary cessation of hostilities to enable it to be carried out.

The replies hitherto received in no way precluded the possibility of agreement.

SPAIN'S CASE

Senor del Vayo, presenting the Nanking, To-day. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek Spanish case, said that if the end Spain could not the morals of the Catholic Church will take charge of the military of-League was to have a future, the

struggle in last ficers' training class at Kuling this

without the was broadcast

League adopting 2 in Germany, night by the Reich Minister for year. It is learned that each di-

clear and firm position. vision will send a number of its Propaganda, Dr. Joseph Goebbels.

officers to Kuling for further train- Dr. Goebbels uttered a plain

Our Own warning that most drastic steps ing in the Summer. would be taken against high digni- Correspondent. taries of the Catholic Church in Germany if Catholics in Germany or abroad continued to utter criti- cisms of the morality of the trials now proceeding in Germany.-Reu- ter.

Mr. W. A. Jones, who recently arrived in Hong Kong from Eng- land, has been appointed to be an

Assistant Crown Solicitor. He is to act as Assistant Land Officer and Deputy Registrar of Marriages.

THE GLOUCESTER

FAREWELL

OUR "PATCHED-UP LIVES”

"Danger To Future Of Race"

Lord Dawson of Penn, speaking at a conference on the care of the tuberculous at Overseas House, Lon- don, referred to the movement in England towards an improved stan- dard of physical fitness. ference was called by the Overseas League and the Papworth Village Settlement.

The con-

Spaniards were fighting not only for national independence but for the freedom of all people who did not, wish to become vic- tims of totalitarian tyranny. Referring to the presence of Ita-

"If we are to have a fit race,' lian forces in Spain; he said that said Lord Dawson, "we must have according to Spanish figures, there the care of all people suffering from were from 75,000 to 80,000 Italian communicable diseases. The care and after-care of an open case of He declared settlement of the tuberculosis is not only an act of conflict could only be reached by mercy-I was almost going to say full restoration of national justice to the unfortunate indivi- sovereignty of power which ex-dual concerned; it is a necessity for pressed the will of the people as the health of the community.” manifested in the 1986 elections.

General Yip Shiu, Divisional Commander of the 160th. Division of the 4th. Route Army, has been invited by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to a personal interview troops in Spain. and left Hong Kong for Shanghai en route to Kuling in the Empress of Russia.

Major Stanley Jarvis, M. C. has been awarded the Efficiency Medal in regard to the H.K.V.D.C., the "Government Gazette" announces.

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TWO DUTIES

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M. Delbos, the French Foreign Minister, urged that the Council

had two duties.

Firstly, to prevent the atrocities of war from falling on innocent victims, and

The growth of knowledge and so- cial consciousness had led to the saving of many lives which in pre- vious generations would have been removed by death. But they must not forget that therein lay a danger for the future of the race.

Begetters Of Children

"Lives that are merely patched up," he added, "are not good beget- Secondly, to recall foreign comters of children for the next genera batants in Spain.

tion, and the more patched up lives you save the greater risk you run

M. Maxim Litvinoff, the Soviet Foreign Commissar, said the

“It is not an argument for not fact that the Spanish Govern

doing justice to the full to the patch- ment had to struggle not only led-up life, but it is a case for do- sgainst rebellion but foreign in- tervention, constituted a threat to general peace.

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ing everything to separate the that could be cured from that which [could only be patched up.”

If this attempt at intervention The latter needed a kindly shelter, was allowed to pass with impunity, but without any effort artificially to there would be no guarantee that restore them to an active commun- it would not be repeated in theity in which they were unfitted near future.

take a part.