1937-07-14 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 14, 1937.

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BRITISH PEACE PLAN READY To Be Kept Secoet Until To-morrow Morning RUMOUR SAYS SMALL

POWERS WILL BE ASKED TO JOIN NAVY PATROLS

London, To-day.

British plans for finding a way out of the non intervention deadlock will be disclosed to nobody until they are circulated among the twenty-six members of the committee to-day.

Representatives on the committee will thereby be enabled to study the plan privately before the plenary session on Friday this week.

The calls made yesterday afternoon by the Ambassadors of France, Germany, Italy and Russia on the Foreign Secretary,

DETAILS TO-MORROW

London, To-day.

TWO ARAB BUCKINGHAM

NEWSPAPERS

SUSPENDED

London, To-day.” Two Arab newspapers in Pa- lestine have been suspended for publishing a manifesto strongly criticising that portion of the Pa- lestine Report dealing with Arab places · of religious -Trans-Ocean.

PALACE CENTENARY

London, To-day.

Yesterday was the centenary of Buckingham Palace as a Royal residence.

The Palace was built 100 years ago for King George IV but he died before its completion.

His successor, William IV, strongly disliked the Palace and

GEORGIAN DEATH refused to live there, h

SENTENCES

IN SOVIET PURGE

Tiflis, To-day. Mdivani, Toroshelidse, Okudsha-

Politicians of that time declar, ed the Government was wasting public money in building a big palace in whch Royalty was not staving, and architects disliked the building

technical grounds.

VICTORIA'S CHOICESPASS When Queen Victoria ascended The British plan for solving the ba, Kuruley, Tschialse, Eliava and the throne she decided to stay at Mr. Eden, at the Foreign Office, non-intervention crisis is expected Karzivadse have been sentenced to Buckingham Palace, and had the latter's request, were to be announced on Thursday. death for treason and other grave place redecorated and altered at a

Yesterday's interviews between political crimes by a special depart-cost of £160,000. Mr. Eden and the foreign Ambas- sadors lasted half an hour each, in

at the merely to inform them of the procedure the British Govern- ment was adopting in circulating the plan.

The terms of the plan, however, were not revealed to the Ambas- sadors. Reuter.

FRENCH BORDER

International Observers

Withdrawn

which period the Foreign Secre- tary revealed the outline of the British plan.

PORTUGAL'S POSITION.

London, To-day. Questioned whether Italian and

ment of the Supreme Court of the Since then all British Sovereigns Georgian Soviet Republic, the "Sarja have used it as the principal Royal Vestacke" announces. The death residence Reuter. sentences were carried out within 24-| hours.

THESSALONIKI NOT SALONIKA

Athens, To-day.

Optimism is felt in informed quarters that the new proposals The most prominent of the ex- will meet..with success. Trans- {ecuted men was Mdivani, who had Ocean.

been a Soviet trade delegate in Paris and Teheran, and who had been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Council of Peoples Commissaries of the Georgian Soviet only in Janu- A presidential decree issued yes- ary, 1936.

terday orders the name of the Greek St. Jean de Luz, To-day. German military delegations had Officers working on international visited Portugal, the Under Secreated by statements made by Radek Thessaloniki.

He was however gravely incrimin-port of Salonika to be changed to control service on the Franco-tary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Pjatakav during the Radek trial.

Letters and cables addressed to Spanish frontier were ordered to Viscount Cranborne, replied in the

All the defendants, except one were the port will not be delivered unless. suspend their labours in accordance negative in the House of Commons with the French decision to bring yesterday.

the new name is used:-Reuter. Georgians-Trans-Ocean. the frontier into line with the Por- tuguese-Spanish frontier.

Lord Cranborne said he had no information that any such visits had The officers were instructed to taken place.--Trans-Ocean. withdraw to neighbouring towns at await resump-

noon yeshould occasion

of

tion arise Most of them were transfer red to Bayonne.

OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE

The Spanish situation, with par- ticular reference to the procedure to be adopted in the efforts to effect a settlement of the non-intervention 1 crisis, was discussed by the Foreign.

Meanwhile, French Guardes Mo- biles, police and plainclothes men are continuing to watch the frontier, where the situation is unchanged in Secretary, Mr. Eden in a series of so far as the passage of arms is interviews this afternoon with the concerned Reuter.

COST OF PARTICIPATION

London, To-day.

(Ambassadors of France, Germany,

Italy and Russia.

The proposals which, in response of the mandate entrusted to her by the unanimous vote of non-interven- That-non-intervention is costing tion committee to endeavour to re- Britain a considerable sum is in- solve the deadlock, are being pre- Government dicated in the auxiliary Budget pub-pared by the British

were not revealed to the Ambassa-

lished yesterday.

The sum of £79,680 is included as dors. British contribution to the non-in- They will be ready to-morrow and tervention fund, and £80,000 is pro- will be handed simultaneously to the vided for maintaining control officers representatives of each of the States on the Portuguese frontier. Trans-members of the committee. Ocean.

RUMOUR THAT SECRETS WERE DISCLOSED"

The terms of the proposals will not be published before Thursday morning. The Government's plan will be formally submitted to the committee on Friday when it is anticipated the representatives o of the various Powers will be în posi- spite of reports to the con-tion to express the views of their trary, rumours are circulating that Governments regarding, it-British Mr. Eden told the Ambassadors, of the new British proposals.

London, To-day.

Wireless.

It is also rumoured that the pro- posals include resumption of sea con- The P. and O. s.s. "Bhutan" left trol with possible par ation Shanghai for this port on the 1 18th ther

un-instant and is due here on the 16th

instant at about 6 a.m.

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