THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 21, 1938.
ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO END ANGLO-ITALIAN TENSION Count Grandi's Visit To The Foreign Office Mr. Anthony Eden's Condition For Discussions
London, To-day.
A conference between the Italian Ambassador to London, Count Grandi, and the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, on Wednesday is regarded by yesterday morning's papers as the first overture towards the resumption of Anglo-Italian conversations which began last summer but were discontinued when the poli- tical atmosphere became too obscure
eagerness HENDON AIR
The "Daily Express" asserts that the Italian Ambassador: assured Mr. Eden of Italy's eagerness to gée an informal exchange of opin- ions between the leading statesmen of the two countries-resumed.
Mr. Eden emphasised, according to the same paper, that before an actual attempt can be made to improve relations between the two countries through such conversa- tions Italy must cease her anti- British radio propaganda in Near East.
SIR ROBERT VANSITTART
DISPLAYS TO BE
HELD NO MORE
London, To-day."
A decision to discontinue, for the the future, the annual Royal Air- Force displays at Hendon in favour of the development of an Empire Air Day was announced last night by the Air Ministry, which states that the decision has lately been under consideration by the Air Council and that the decision has Mak Hoi-kwan, aged 17, a board-¡ Tse Sui-ki, a postman, was knock- been reached after full examinationer at the Heep Yuen School, was
ed down by bus No. 614 driven by admitted to the Kowloon Hospital Lai Han, in Connaught Road Cen- The decision, which has been
tral yesterday and was admitted to suffering, it is alleged, the Queen Mary Hospital suffering taken with much regret, will be yesterday come operative at once and no dis- from the effects of lysol poisoning. from injuries to the leg and head. play will be held in the present year.
Les Ballets Polonais, Poland's first ballet dancing organisation · for centuries, has opened a short season at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The London Philharmonic Orchestra played the performance. Photo shows-Olga Slavska, and Czeslaw Kenarski the two principals during the wedding scene. (Fox Copyright).
Commenting on the same con- ference about which incidentally no details have been forthcoming, the "Daily Mail" asserts that a desire for better relations with Italy was responsible for the creation of the post of Chief Ad- viser to the British Government on foreign affairs, and a visit by Sir Robert Vansittart to Rome is to be expected in the near future,
the Prospects of a solution to thorny problem of Anglo-Italian relations, has, according to the paper, given rise to a high degree of satisfaction in Italian political circles. Trans-Ocean.
KENNEDY TOWN FIRE
A small fire broke out last night in the Tung On (Cattle Dealer) sheds at the Kennedy Town slaugh- ter house. Two tons of dry hay and about 20 feet of the cattle shed were destroyed. The fire is believ, ed to have started through a light- ed cigarette thrown there by a beg- gar while sleeping on the dry hay The Fire Brigade was called out but only one hydrant was used.
of all the factors involved.
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The statement, after recalling that the display has been held an- nually since 1920, e. plains the rea- sons cluding the unsuitability of other Hendon Aerodrome or any suitable ground for high speed manoeuvres of modern service air- craft and the undesirability of diverting the energy of the Royal Air Force from regular operational training to which the Hendon dis- play has formely conformed, be- fore the recent developments in pow- er and speed why the Air Council
have decided to abandon the dis- play.
DAY TO DAY WORK Attention is called, moreover, to the fact that opportunities for the public to acquaint themselves with the work of the Air Force has been extended by the establishment__in 1934 of the annual Empire Air Day on which large numbers of aero- dromes are thrown open to the pu- blic.
Attendance
at the Empire – Air
REVOLVER STOLEN Day last year was nearly twice as
ABOARD SHIP
great as the attendance at the Hendon Display.
On Empire Air Day, visitors are able to see, in intricate manner, the Dr. B. Harris has reported to the day to day work of the Royal Air police that he lost a S. & W. re- Force, including flying exercises volver, valued at £4, and a camera, under conditions more favourable
unlocked valued at
from an
then it was possible to afford at drawer, in a cabin on board
the Hendon. The -statement concludes Carthage.
that it is the intention of the Air Council fully to maintain and, in- with
deed so far as exigencies of the ser- re- vice permit, extend the scope of Empire Air Day.——British Wireless,
Normal cable connection Shanghai and Japan has been established.
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