1938-01-20 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 20, 1938.

BRITAIN'S

AIR

DEFENCE

ACROSS SOUTH CHINA SEA Four Squadrons At Singapore To Be Expanded

Full Extent Of New Programme Not Revealed

London, To-day.

BRITISH-

RAILWAY

RECEIPTS

London, To-day. Traffic returns of the chief rail- ways in England for the first two weeks of the New Year, show a

·total increase of £190,000 compar- ed with the same period last year. Part of the increase is accounted for by the 5 per cent. increase in passenger and freight fares.—

Reuter.

With reference to the increase in Singapore's air force, announced yesterday, it is learned in London that the present strength of air units in Singapore amounts to four squadrons, two of which, totalling twelve machines each, are! torpedo bomber squadrons, and the other two flyingboat squadrons of four machines each. The total to which Singapore air strength will even- tually be increased is unknown, but since the beginning of Britain's air expansion, strength-The "Star" Ferry Company, ening of the air force in Singapore has been envisaged.

MOSCOW

TAKES ACTION

TO AVERT CRISIS

Moscow, To-day.

A decree ordering immediate cessation of indiscriminate whole

STAR FERRY'S BIGGER DIVIDEND

Limited. report that, sub- ject to audit, the amount at Credit of Profit and Loss Account for the year ended 81st December 1937

The Singapore flying .boats have a range of 1,000 miles with-is out refuelling.

In the event of emergency, less amount of Interim Di- they could, by using existing fa-

vidend paid at $2.00 per share cilities at Kuching, Kudat and elsewhere on the Borneo coast, throw a reconnaisance patrol! practically across

the

South The amount brought forward

ing

China Sea, thus giving ample from the year 1986 be- warning of any impending attack against Singapore, whether by!

EVEN BACK

DOOR CLOSED SAYS KAWAGOE

Shanghai, To-day.

The Japanese - Ambassador to China, Mr. Kawagoe, told pressmen here yesterday that he will leave China for Tokyo within the next few days s"in accordance with in- structions from my Government.”

The Councillor of the Embassy, Mr. Hidaka, and other members of the Embassy staff, will remain in China.

These officials, Mr. Kawagoe stated, will remain in China “not in order to negotiate with the Chinese Central Government but merely to discuss with other di- plomatic representatives in Shanghai, diplomatic matters $467,024.78 that may have to be examined in

future."

Mr. Kawagoe declared that not even the back door for resumption 160,000.00 of negotiations between China and $297,024,78 Japan had been left open, and that the Chinese Central Government, "if it should. reconsider its attitude in future, will then have to deal with the new administration of China and not with Japan."

16,828.00

“A new regime,” he said, “will shortly be established in Central China."Trans-Ocean.

naval units or by an attempt to the total now available for land, troops on the long eastern distribution is

$813,852.78 coastline of the mainland.

Air reinforcements can speedi-abnormal conditions which existed in the This Company has benefited from the sale expulsions from the Communist ly be sent to Singapore from In- latter part of 1937, and at the forth- A Meeting of the Hong Kong Party is explained by the official dia and. Iraq-Reuter. newspaper "Pravda."

coming Yearly Meeting of Sharehold-University

The decree provides for dis- BALLOON BARRAGE per share

DEFENCE

London, To-day.

es-

position within three months of cases of tens of thousands of Party members who have appeal- ed against expulsions instigated by local Party leaders, prohibits discharge from work for loss of

· It is understood that the Party membership, and orders tablishment of a depot in connec- reinstatement within fifteen days tion with the proposed balloon bar- of all who have lost their posi-|rage--part of the air defence of Lon- tions.

don-at Kenton, Middlesex, is un- The decree does not terminate der consideration by the Air Minis- the "purge."

try.-British Wireless.

OVER-ZEALOUS

de-

On the contrary, "Pravda" clarea, the struggle against the -Trotskyites-is-not-finished, and all the

free and unfree-enemies-of- Party must be stamped out, but it means ̈reinstatement of innocents expelled by over-zealous provincial Party bosses.

JEWS SENTENCED TO DEATH

Jerusalem, To-day. For the first time since the estab- lishment of the military courts in At the same time, wide publicity Jerusalem, two Jews were sentenc- is given to the resolution of theed to death yesterday for carrying Supreme Court ordering enforce-firearms and ammunition. ment of the guarantee of the right Up to the present time only Arabs to work.

had been sentenced for offences of Persons discharged for incompe- this nature. Trana-Ocean, tence must be found other employ- ment.

JUDICIAL ATTITUDE

MR. SUN FO

The decrees are held as ushering IN MOSCOW

the end of bureaucratic bossism, and a more judicial attitude is ex- pected for persons suspected of po- litical unreliability.

Citizens will be freed of respon- sibility for the political crimes their relatives.Reuter.

of

VAGUE CHARGES

Moscow, To-day, The decree of the Central Exe- cutive Committee on expulsions of Farty members, is given great pro-

Moscow, To-day. Mr. Sun Fo, who is on a special mission, has arrived here. Reuter. minence in all the newspapers.

The papers criticise ⠀⠀ strongly Party officials who have expelled] members on the vague charge of their being "enemies of the people."

"Pravda" calls these local of ficials “wolves in sheep's clothing.

Trans-Ocean.

To pay a Final Dividend of

To carry forward

ers the Directors will recommend ap-will be held on Monday at 8.45 p.m. Engineering Society propriations as follows:

in Room “K” when Mr. Eric Wong- $300,000.00 tape, B.Sc., A.M.L.C.E., A.M.I. 13,852.78 Struct. E,, will deliver a lecture en- "The Chien Tang River Bridge, Hangchow."

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