THE CHINA MAIL, PTEMBER 14, 1937.
AGA KHAN PRESIDING AT LEAGUE ASSEMBLY
League
Geneva, To-day. The Aga Khan was yesterday elected President of the Assembly by 42 out of 49 votes. The Mediterranean anti-
· piracy agreement will be sign- ed at Nyon to-day, all Powers represented having accepted the proposals.
Palestine will probably be the only subject on the League Assemb- Ir's agenda to-day, when the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, is expected to make an im- portant speech possibly submitting a new proposal
PARTITION PRINCIPLE It is expected that the British Government will be authorised to work out a scheme based on the principle of partition.
The Polish Foreign Minister, Col. Joseph Beck, had a long interview with Mr. Eden yesterday on the Palestinian question, the conversa- tion revealing a large measure of agreement-Beater.
AGA KHAN'S SPEECH
-POPE'S
DONATION FOR FAR EAST
Rome, To-day.
The Pope has given a sum of money, amount of which is not known but is stated to be const derable, for assistance of Catho- lic missionaries at Shanghai
The Vatican has also sent
to money
assist missionaries working in Peiping on behalf of Chinese refugees-Reuter.
NEW FIRE ALARM SYSTEM FOR LONDON
London, To-day.
A new fire alarm system, design- ed to eliminate false calls due to faults and involving technical about 9,000 miles of needless runs by fire engines each year, has un- dergone satisfactory trial in an îm- Portant London area and the ex- tension of the system to the whole of London is likely.
The new system is of the closed circuit code signalling type în street which all the apparatus
The Aga Khan, in his first að-boxes, gongs, recorders and battery
form a single series circuit.
dress as President of the League Assembly, declared himself to be an ardent believer in the principles The pulling of a handle at a box of the League, which were more causes a code number to be punch- universal in scope than ever before. Jed on a tape machine at the Fire
Although the League had unfor-Station making a permanent tunately lost some of its members cord, while a bell rings in the during the last few years, never-watch room, the word "Fire" is il- a switchboard and theless other countries kept coming luminated on to knock at the door.
red lamps flash.-British Wireless.
Among the new countries they were pleased to welcome were Tur- key, Iran, Afghanistan and Egypt.
-Trans-Ocean.
DANISH QUEEN IN HOSPITAL AT SKAGEN
Queen
Copenhagen, To-day.
Alexandrine of Denmark
re-
SPANISH PREMIER'S PLEA FOR LEAGUE
London, To-day.
At the opening of the 18th. As- was suddenly taken ill with an at-sembly of the League of Nations at tack of colic last night shortly after Geneva yesterday, the President of her arrival at Skagen.
the Council, the Spanish Premier, She is now lying in hospital at Senor Negrin, said that although Skagen, where doctors are in con- the events in Spain were a matter stant attendance.
of the gravest international
CON-
Result of the medical examinationcern he did not intend to refer to is not yet known-Trans-Ocean..
AN OPERATION
Skagen, To-day.
them but would content himself with offering the greetings of the Spanish Government in the eyes of which
The Queen of Denmark has un-the League system was the only dergone an internal operation after hopeful form for the organisation of her sidden removal to hospital in international relations. an ambulance...
King Christian was present in "If we, and those who think like the hospital at the time of the operus, do all we can to maintain and ation.
strengthen it, the League will prove
A bulletin does not mention Her a true foundation for the peace and Majesty's condition after the oper-prosperity of the world. ation Reuter
"Let us hope that our delibera tions and resolutions bear witness to your resolve that international
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