1937-09-29 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1937.

BRITAIN C PERTURBED BY JUNK MASSACRE

LONDON, TO-DAY.

BRITISH OFFICIAL QUAR- ARE STATED TO BE MUCH PERTURBED AT THE NEWS OF THE JAPANESE SUBMARINE ATTACK ON FISHING

THE CHINESE FLEET, SINCE THE OPINION IS GAINING GROUND THAT SOME OF THE FISHERMEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WERE BRITISH SUBJECTS.

It is stated in political circles that if the fears of the British Govern ment in this respect should be confirmed, a vigorous protest will addressed to the Japanese Gov- ernment

is also stated that the British Government would demand full com pensation for the families of such of the victims as might have been British subjects.

NO MORE NOTES FOR WPB-

The "Daily Herald" demands that Britain and the United States forbid

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Another striking picture of devastation taken in Canton showing the havoc wreaked in the homes non-combatants by Japanese airmen

BATTLE OF THE BOYNE

Account By Eye- Witness Found

the exportation of all goods to An ere-witness's account of the Japan, "since it is only by economic Battle of the Boyne, written on pressure that Japanese barbarism parchment by a Protestant clergy- can be brought to an end, and not man, has been discovered in Coun- by the despatch of Notes, of which more than enough are already in the wastepaper basket of the Foreign Office in Tokyo."Trans-Ocean.

SHE WANTS NEW DEAL FOR MOTHER-IN-LAW

ty Down. It carries a comprehen- sive plan of the battlefield, and de- clares that the losses were fewer than are generallys given

800 or 900 on the Irish side and 200 on the English side, of whom 100 were Dutch.

more

not

The writer declares that King William mercifully stopped the pursuit, thus preventing further

MYSTERY PLANE OVER BRITISH SHIP

Capt. E. Holmes,-master of the British s.s. Lyeemoon, local agents Wo Fat Shing, reports that at 9.08. a.m. yesterday morning, whilst proceeding to Hong Kong from Saigon, a seaplane with red. white and blue markings passed his vessel, returned and circled se- veral times and then made off to wards a Danish, ship about 10 miles to the N. E.

After repeating the procedure, it disappeared in an easterly

direction.

Suez Canal Figures

Paris, To-day

NATIVES "VOICEY

BOX"

Magistrate Hears A Summons

A native chief of Tanganyika, proud of a new "voicey box" he had brought, invited Mr. Ernest Haw- kins, a local magistrate, to listen-in.

Mr. Hawkins, turning the knobs, amed in to London, and immediate- ly heard an S.O.S. message, appeal- ing to his brother, who was motor- ing in England, to go to a hospital, where his mother was dangerously

Mr. Hawkins ran out of the chief's home to the nearest airport, and reached England eight days later, happy to find his mother re- covering

his is 1,320,000 tons more than ponding period of

1936.-

It is announced that the total Mobilisation of mothers-in-law is killing.

tonnage of all ships in ballast pass- among the most impressive of this

ing through the Suez Canal in the week's strange happenings in

The Battle of the Boyne was first six months of this year in the America The genius behind the fought in July, 1690, between Wil-amounted to 3,035,000 tons. move is Mrs. Nellie Howard, off

liam L and James II. The former Amarillo, Texas, who thinks that had an army of British and Dutch mother-in-law jokes have gone too soldiers, with 2 regiment of far

Huguenot refugees. King James's She has obtained a State charter army was mainly Irish, with some for an organisation named the Na- English and French officers. After tional Association of Mother-in-Law a sharp fight the Irish were Clubs

defeated, and James fled to France. Clubs for mother-in-law will be An obelisk near Drogheda mark the founded all over the country. They scene of the battle.

will try to teach the world that the

mother-in-law is human and the 150TH ANNIVERSARY-

true friend to her son-in-law.

MAGISTRATES HOLD

THE BABY

"OF AUSTRALIA

Snubs From Britain

In days when talk of cementing

During the hearing of a ma-the bonds of Empire is very rife trimonial case at Middlesbrough there is one good brand of cement Police Court Justice literally held available, namely, the exchanging

the baby

of visits.

The case was being held before Feeling is very sour in two male magistrates, Councillors because, under one excuse or an- Sydney T.- Briggs and T Meeham, and other, invitations to the com- when it was apparent that both memoration next year in Sydney of man and wife were adamant in the the 150th anniversary of the found- refusal to be reconciled the magising of Australia has been declined. trates decided to hear the case pri- There will be no Royal represen- vately in their retiring-room.

tative, no British Government re- presentative, no Imperial elder

The woman had brought with her

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her eight-months-old baby, and in statesman, no famous naval or mil

order to keep it quiet the magis-tary man, no Royal Navy warship. trates took turns at nursing it Australia is puzzled to account for while the other endeavoured to per this series of snubs.

gain

the couple, to come together

Councillor Briggs used his watch

to interest, the child and Councillor impossible that the couple could be fecham showed himself expert in reconciled, they agreed to bury the the art of child nursing.

hatchet and left the court together

Eventually, when it had seemed smiling with their baby,

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