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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1938.

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CHAMBERLAIN WILL GO

But Not Until The Autumn Of Next Year

Prediction Of

Resignation And

General Election

London, To-day.

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, in- tends to resign from his post in 1939 after a general election which will probably be held in the autumn of that year.

So declares the political correspondent of the "Evening Standard," who points out that Mr. Chamberlain will then be 70 years old.

JUNK PIRACY INCIDENT

A minor piracy incident occur- red off Ching Chau in Chinese Territory on Saturday morning. A junk owned by Tam Wing-vip was boarded by five men, carrying guns, revolvers and daggers, who herded the crew into the hold. One man who resisted was stabbed in the arm. The pirates ransacked the junk and took away money and jewellery, and four pigs, to a total value of $400. They left in their own boat for Tao Lin

The exact date of the Prime Minister's resignation, however, will depend on further develop- ments in the foreign situation, says

the correspondent.

SIMON OR INSKIP

That is, Mr. Chamberlain will re-

BROADBENT ITALY'S PACT IN SINGAPORE

Singapore, To-day.

H. F. Broadbent, who is at- tempting to break the New Zea- land-London solo fight record, reached: Singapore yesterday and took off soon after to his flight-Reiter.

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JAPANESE POPULATION IN · NANKING GROWS

Nanking, To-day. The Japanese population in Nan king has been increasing rapidly since the former Chinese capital was occupied by Japanese troops.

WITH EGYPT PUBLISHED

Cairo, To-day.

The text of the agreement be tween Italy, on the one hand, and Britain and Egypt on the other, was published here on Sunday.

The agreement was signed on be- balf of Egypt by the Egyptian. Minister in Rome.

The correspondence between the Egyptian Minister in Rome,» Lord Perth (the British Ambassador) and Count Ciano (Italian Foreign Minister) is also published.

SUEZ CANAL

The local Japanese press asserts that the Japanese colony in Nan-and British Governments reassure In this correspondence the Italian gerd his mission as completed if he king is now nearly 1,000 as com- the Egyptian Government that the succeeds in supplementing the Angning of hostilities

pared with 200 before the begin-Suez Canal Agreement of October lo-Italian Agreement by an agree Trans-Ocean.

last year. 29, 1888, which declares that free ment with Germany.

According to the correspondent, Sir John Simon (who is now 58) and Sir Thomas Inskip (now 52) are considered most likely candi- dates for the Premiership among the elder statesmen if Mr. Cham- berlain should decide to offer his resignation in the autumn of next reaching Shau-year-Trans-Ocean.

reported the wounded man,

The master on kiwan yesterday, piracy and the Wong Tai, was admitted Queen Mary Hospital.

SHEKLUNG

BRIDGE REPAIRS NOT COMPLETED

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The "China Mail" was officially informed this morning that tempor- ary repairs to Sheklung bridge have not yet been completed and it is still necessary to ferry railway pas- sengers across the East River this point.

COMMUNAL RIOTS IN BOMBAY

Bombay, To-day. British troops are reported to be under stand-by orders and a curfew has been imposed in the native dis- tricts owing to a serious communal disturbance yesterday.

The cause of the clash is uncer- tain, but seven were killed and over fifty injured, according to reliable reports. The police charged the mobs with lathis and on two occa- sions fred warning shots over the It is hoped that through trafic heads of demonstrators. Trans- will be restored in a day or two. Ocean.

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War Psychosis In Senate Naval Affairs Report On Building Plans

Washington, To-day. The Report of the Senate naval affairs committee on the United States $1,560,000,000 naval ex- pansion programme, urges prompt passage of the measure. The Report gives warning that with its present armaments, the United States could be defeat- ed or conquered without a military conquest. "Without a navy capable of con-, be captured and used against us as

advance bases. trolling the seas against an enemy,

“There would be nothing to pre- effective blockade of our foreign vent establishment of bases forcibly commerce can be established and

necessary in this hemisphere, maintained thousands of miles from whence, as from aircraft-carriers, our coasts well beyond the range repeated bombing raids can be de- of aircraft.

spatched against our highly indus "Our outlying possessions would trialised areas"-Reuter.

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"MANCHUKUO" ENVOY IN ROME

Rome, To-day.

passage through the Canal be guar- anteed to all powers at all times, in time of war as well as in time of peace, remains unaffected by the Anglo-Italian Agreement.

They also

assure Egypt that Nile will be fully respected by the the Egyptian interests regarding two countries. --Trans-Ocean.

Hsu Shao-ching, first Manchu- kuo Minister to Italy, arrived here!-- yesterday afternoon.

In a statement to the press th: a "great honour," and added he diplomat expressed his gratification would do everything in his power that he had been chosen as first to promote and strengthen friend- diplomatic representative of Man-ly relations which exist between chukuo abroad.

Italy and Manchukuo. Trans-

He declared the appointment was Ocean.

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