BATTLE OVER PALESTINE AT
ZURICH AND GENEVA
Zionists Agree To Discuss Issue With Britam
MR. ORMSBY GORE
ON VIOLENCE
Geneva, To-day.
A certain amount of criticism was levelled at
ALFONSO'S NIECE TO BE WED
Lausanne, To-day. Ex-King Alfonso of Spain is at
Great Britain at yesterday's meeting of the League present in Lausanne to attend the of Nations permanent Mandates Commission, which is discussing the Palestine Report.
Mr. Ormsby-Gore, the British Secretary for the Colonies, replied that the view that Britain was seeking to evade her responsibilities under the
forthcoming wedding of his niece, Princess Dolores de Bourbon d'Or- leans with the Polish Prince An- gust Czartoryski Trans-Ocean. -
Mandate and to make the League and the Man- BOMB OUTRAGE
dates Commission responsible for her policy, com- pletely misrepresented the British attitude.
The fact should not be lost sight|tional information to the Mandates of that Britain was administering Commission on the outbreaks of the mandate on behalf of the League. violence in Palestine and the
VICTIM DIES OF INJURIES
methods used in suppressing them. Ng Ping-kam, who was criti- - ZIONIST CONGRESS
He concluded by referring to the cally injured in the “gift” bomb British plan as not only offering outrage in Mongkok yesterday Meanwhile at Zurich, the decision the most hopeful prospect of over-evening, died in the Kowloon of the Zionist Congress that the coming the fundamental causes of Hospital at 2:55 this morning. proceedings of its political.
1 commis-condict but as also helping the sion should be held in secret, means Arabs and Jews to realise that the debate on the proposed national independence. partition of Palestine will also
held in secret.
be Ocean.
was
The next public session, it announced yesterday, will not be held before Monday.
Speakers who favoured open ses- sions argued that after the speeches made resterday by Mr. Weizman and Mr. Ussishkin, President of the Congress, there were no more secrets left to be disclosed, especially as Mr. Weizmann expressed himself in favour of a modified partition plan.
UNITY NECESSARY
FRANCE AND
FAULKNER
COLLISION DAMAGE
The
London, To-day.
destroyer flotilla leader HMS. Fanikner, which collided with a British freighter in a thick fog of Ushant on Wednes day, arrived at Portsmouth yes- terday
On examination, it was found that destroyer was only slight- ly damaged in the upper deck and that no important equipment Was
The steamer, whic
only damaged, proceeded on her to Hull
kner was on her way, with estroyers, the north coast. pain fo relieve other British rships which have been there in connection with the non-intervention patrol scheme Renter
SIR WILFRID JACKSON
their
Ng, who prior to his return to Trans-Hong Kong about su-years ago,}
was a restaurant-keeper in San Francisco, was severely injured, when he opened a parcel delivered to his house in Mongkok, directly opposite the Chinese YMCA at Sir Wilfrid Jackson, Governor- about 7.45 p.m. yesterday.
Designate of British Guiana, who has been staying at Government Remaining members of his House since his arrival on Wednes- family who were present, received day, leaves to-day for Canada in treatment at the Kowloon Hospital the Empress of Japan, on his way but were not detained.
to Georgetow
ANGLO-ITALIAN
PEACE MOVES
London, To-day. Messages from Paris reporting French press comment on the ex- change of letters between Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Signor The advocates of closed sessions, Mussolini show there is general however, contended that open de appreciation in France that in the bates on partition might lead to a nature of the case and by virtue of split in the Zionist movement at a the established principles of Bri- time when unity was necessary. tish foreign policy nothing deroga- Yesterday's vote is interpreted in tory to the friendly understanding Zurich, according to the Jewish tele-which exists between the British graphic agency, as possibly fore-and French goverments is in- shadowing adoption by the Con-volved in the more cordial atmos- gress of the Weizmann resolution phere which should result in the favouring partition in principle.
- Reuter.
POWER TO NEGOTIATE
relations between London and Rome from the premier's corres- pondence.
The attitude of the majority of French commentators is warmly
After a long and earnest debate, welcomed in London where the dis- the Zionist labour faction-adopted position evident for some time in a- a resolution în favour of empower-certain quarter, to regard the im- ing the executive to negotiate with provement of a country's relations Britain on the partition proposal, in one direction as necessarity in order to clarify the details.
The outcome of the negotiations would then be submitted to a new Zionist Congress.
NO COMMITMENT
The resolution declares that the
has no right to commit it
implying their deterioration in an other, is strongly deprecated.
The Foreign Secretary's speeches have repeatedly emphasised the desire of His Majesty's ment to promote and friendly relations all an equally strong that new friendships shall
the Zionist organisation to secured at the plan affecting the Mandate un- British Wireless.
til the new Congress has pronounc-
ed on the question.
The labour party is the strongest single element in the Congress, and represents 40 per cent of the whole.
Beuter.
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