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QUEMOY ISLAND
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Foochow, To-da
Fenced
PALESTINE
PARTITION
DEFERRED?
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 29, 19
London, To-day. Partition of Palestine
CATHOLIC
CHURCH AND COMMUNISM
Rome, To-day. is to be deferred indefin- The Catholic Church itely, according to the will never think of ally- "Evening Standard.” ing itself to atheistic
Although both the Secretary for
the Colonies and the Foreign Se communism for combat- cretary are still in favour of pat-ing totalitarian powers ting the plan into execution, the or for fighting reaction- opinion is gaining ground within
the Cabinet that the present moary movements, declares ment would be inopportune, and the Vatican organ “Os- might easily involve Britain in dif-servatore Romano," in a
ficulties.
leading article.
GOVERNMENT RETREAT Government retreat in the mat-
It is designed as a reply to Mon- ter, says the paper, will assume the signeür Verdier, Cardinal form of giving the Government shop of Paris. Commission which it had been in- The Church's attitude towards tended to send to Palestine to make communism must be placed beyond concrete proposals for partition, doubt, it avers. Communism – 18 such far-reaching powers as to en- striving to establish a new order of able it to make proposais of a dif- things which is the reverse of ferent kind soon after its arrival Christianity in every particular and in Palestine.
fundamentally opposed to the This, concludes the report, will teachings of the Catholic Church. enable Britain. to defer partition. It would be absurd to suppose, for at least a decade, and to con--the writer of the article goes on
tinue to exercise the Mandate in its that the Church and communisza present form-Trans-Ocean
are capable of finding common ground on which the both might struggle to realize social reforms.
SAME PATH
HEATED DEBATE IN FRENCH SENATE
Paris, Today.
In the struggle for the establish- ment of social justice, the Church will often find itself proceeding along the same path as others who are working for the material wel- fare of the community as a whole. But alliances, particularly if they contain the seed of fateful dissen- sion, are not necessary.
The Catholic Church entirely re- jects all idea of agreements which might mislead Catholics into
sup-
Te
A rather heated debate was a feature of yesterday's Senate dis cussion of the Premier's allowances posing that Communism has
nounced its negative and destruc- for experises.
tive aims and that on the other General Stuhl, 2 Right Wing de-hand might lead Communist massa legate, jumped to his feet. and to believe that Catholicism was pre- Trans- shouted across to where the Pre-pared to hide the truth. mier, M. Camille Chantemps, was} Ocean Te sitting, “The time of dillydallying and half measures is over.”
M. Chantemps rose and asked in reply whether his critic was under the impression the "the time for machine guns has arrived."
The Senator replied that his re- marks referred to the social unrest
HAILE SELASSIE'S APPEAL
London, To-day.
Haile Selassie, former emperor of that was rampant throughout the Abyssinia, has sent telegrams to the country.
the
heads of State of the countries be- The Premier insisted that
longing to the Oslo Convention, ap- Government needed the fullest pealing against the proposal made by
trust and support of Parliament. Trans-Ocean.
the Dutch government to recognize the annexation of Ethiopia by Italy. The League of Nations, although showing itself incapable of stopping
of aggression, he contends, bas
ITALY AND B.B.C.etertheless contributed to the main-
BROADCASTS
Rome, To-day
tenance of peace by upholding im portant principles of non-recogni- - ition
The telegram concludes: behalf of my people, I appeal to you
British broadcasts in the Arabic in the hope that your governme
will be pleased to persevere in its language which, as announced, will traditional policy of defending in- twelve
begin on January 3, are regarded ternational law-Trans-Ocean. prisonment by a milit nearly a fortnight ago, for derelic-by Signor Gayda as “a measure de
which the British paper speaks, tion of official duty and loss of naberately directed against Italy. therefore, are merely
itish tional territory, it was revealed to Signor Gayda points out in an measure against Italy with more or
certain British less aggressive intention.” broadcasts the Although it would be dangerous unter measure for to overstress the importance of the It is stated that when Japan setting off Italian propaganda
the British broadcasts forces attacked Chinmen Island on among the A
ld be followed with careful at-
day.
Mr. Kuang Han was executed on
Dec. 17
editorial that paper calls the first British
Mr. Kuang Han, district magis-Oct. 26, both officials fled upon the After emphatically denying that tention by Italy, who would take trate on Chinmen or Quemoy Island first alarm, "thereby resulting in Italian
was
sentenced to death,
Lt. General Helao Kai-yum
loss of za important point in sou
thern Fukien
Reuter
is directed
action if the broadcasts Signor Gayda should prove provocative counter-measures of
Ocean.
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