1938-01-17 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 1938.

POLITICAL

MANOEUVRING

CONTINUES IN PARIS

Page S

No Settlement Reached In Government Crisis

M. BLÜM AS NEXT PREMIER?

Paris, To-day.

After several Ministers had either failed, or had refused, to form a new Cabinet, M. Leon Blum, former Premier and Vice-Premier in the late Chautemps Government, has accepted President Lebrun's request to head a new Ministry.

According to very well-informed circles, it is M. Blum's intention to form a Government cover-

ing a wide range of political groups, including not

only parties of the Popular Front.

M. Blum has asked the parliamentary Social- tions he is about to begin until Monday evening,

ist Party to give him full confidence in the negotia-

when the Party's National Council will meet.

It is believed that M. Blum may

offer the Ministry of Finance to

the Centrist deputy, M. Paul Rey-

naud.

ELYSEE CONFERENCE

It appears that M. Blum was picked by the President as next Premier

after the latter had conferred with M. Albert Sarraut and M. Camille

Chautemps.

While M. Sarraut was conferring

with the President, they were join-

ed by M. Chautemps.

Earlier, M. Blum had paid a se- cond visit to the Elysee. He con- ferred with his Socialist colleagues before and after the visit. At the time he declined to make a state-

ment, then having been summoned by the President only in a consulta- tive capacity.

M. BONNETS FAILURE

Explaining his failure to form a Cabinet, M. George Bonnet, former Finance Minister, told the press that the Socialist group had refus ed not only participation but sup- port, and he was unable to form the government that the Radical Party has encouraged him to Reuter.

form.

CONSULTATION WITH SOCIALISTS

Paris, To-day.

"NATIONAL UNITY”.

GOVERNMENT

Paris, To-day. M. Leon Blum told pressmen late last night that he would like to form a "national unity" government, round the Popular Front. This would men co-opt- ing to Popular Front parties, men hitherto belonging to the opposition who are known for their attachment to democratic principles.

M. Blum said he felt it was necessary at present to give an impression of social peace at home and national force abroad. That was why he was trying to bring about a sort of “poli- tical Matignon agreement.

He was trying to effect na- tional unity in conditions which would not be detrimental to, nor provoke any anxiety in re- gard to republican liberty and social progress.

Communist leaders have told M. Blum that their party is willing to participate in his government. Reuter.

GERMAN'S PROTEST IN ALBERT HALL

Boxing Contest Scene

FRENCH

BUDGET BALANCED

Paris, To-day.

M. Georges Bonnet, former: Fin- ance Minister, referring to the technical improvement in France's finances, stated that the ordinary Budget was balanced and that there was about 7,000,000,000. francs in the Treasury:

Gold reserves available for na- tional defence, he said, werë greater than six months ago. Reuter.

METHODICAL RAIDS IN KWANGTUNG

Canton, To-day. Kwangtung was subjected to more intensive bombing by Japanese aeroplanes yesterday.

Between 35 and 45 planes. took part in relays, according to an official Chinese report. Eleven planes are reported to have been seen over Tungshan, flying in a north-easterly direc- tion, while one squadron of 13 planes and another of 12 ma- chines were reported to have been sighted over Shuntak.......

Later, at about 3 p.m. the Canton-Kowloon Railway was subjected to three attacks by Japanese bombers, and 12 mis- siles were dropped near Nam- kong at 4 p.m.

Twelve bombs were also dropped near Shektai at 5 p.m.

The bridge at Sheklung was also raided, but the track was not damaged in any of the at- tacks.

Canton City itself was not raided, and only one alarm was given, shortly after 1 p.m. -Reuter.

OVER 100 KILLED

FOUR YEARS

HARD IN HEROIN CASE

Remarking that although he had admitted being master of the heroin factory, accused made his offence infinitely worse by employ- ing a 12-year-old lad, the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, sentenced 27-year-old So Ping-sun to four years' hard labour at the Criminal Sessions this morning for the unlawful possession of 48,300 heroin pills, and 397 ounces of pink mass, sufficient for making 39,700 pills.

Li Chuen, aged 19, who together with a 12-year-old lad, was charged with the same. offence was sentenced to three. years' hard labour, but the sentence on the boy was postponed.

The jury were Messrs. A. Wood (Foreman), R. L. Wyllie, E. V. Sousa, L. Landau, A. H. Esmail, Fong King- chew and Cho Chik-sang.

The youth pleaded guilty, but His Lordship said he could not accept the plea as it was doubtful whether the as- cused appreciated the meaning of it.

LARGE-SCALE FACTORY

Mr. E. H. Williams, Assistant At- torney-General, said that on the after- noon of December 23 last, Mr. A. W. Grimmitt, accompanied by Mr. H. A. Taylor, Government Monopoly Analyst and a party, raided the third floor of No. 85, Belchers Street. Accused were found in the rear cubicle in the process: of making heroin pills. The room was being used as a large-scale pill factory as all the paraphernalia. for the manu- facture of the drug were found there, After evidence was given by several witnesses the Chief Justice summed up and pointed out that în connection with - the juvenile the presumption of law was that a person between the age of seven and fourteen years was incapable of crime. of ou

BOY'S SENTENCE: POSTPONED

However, if the jury believed that the boy knew that what he was doing. was wrong and that he deliberately engaged in the making of the pills with the aim of earning money then they would have to return a verdict of guilty.

Without retiring the jury found both the man and the boy guilty.

The Chief Justice then sentenced the two accused as stated above.

Canton, To-day. Reports from outlying districts. indicate that as a result of a series of Japanese air raids yesterday, _over_one_hundred casualties were inflicted on non-combatants in aadmit him.

Yu-Han

Sentence on the boy was postponed until Friday to ascertain whether the Industrial Home would be willing -to

number of towns in the and Kwangkiu Railway zones in- cluding Sheklung, Yuentan Kwan- tan and Whampoa. Extensive damage

caused to railway was

com-

Are You Losing Weight?

Normal weight and a good Five hundred Germans, members tracks, private property and tele-health. Loss of health usually leads to plexion are very closely related to of a tourist party, threatened to graphic and telephone wires-Hua loss of weight and a poor complexion. walk out of the Albert Hall, London, Nan during the first amateur boxing con- test between England and Germany, which was eventually won by Eng- land by seven events to five.

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