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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 28, 1938.

ROOSEVELT CRITICISED Anglo-Italian Agreement Approval Condemned

"American People

Feel Differently"

Washington, To-day.

BRITONS LEAVE BARCELONA

Barcelona, To-day. Thirty British subjects were evacuated from Barcelona in a British cruiser yesterday.-Ren-

President Roosevelt's approval of the Anglo-Italian tex Agreement is criticised by the "Washington

Star," the article reflecting the current uncer- MISSING MAN'S

tainty of Americans and the self-questioning in regard to American foreign policy. Claiming that the American people disapprove the President's action, the paper says: "We have witnessed a complete reversal of the United States Government's attitude towards world lawlessness.

"We have condoned the annexa- tion of Ethiopia and Italian inter- vention in Spain, for approval os both acts of brigandage is the ker- nel of the agreement which Mus- solini forced from Mr. Chamber- lain.

FASCIST TACTICS

"From the most exalted place in America, words have been spoker indicating that Fascist tactics ne longer stir indignation in the Unit- ed States Government's breast.

"One ventures to believe that the American people feel differently, and that. Mr. Chamberlain's "real ism" does not prevail here to that extent."-Reuter.

ANGLO-POLISH NAVAL AGREEMENT

London, To-day.

BODY FOUND BURIED

INSURGENT AIR RAIDS ON BARCELONA

Barcelona, To-day-

Two air raids on Barcelona suburbs were carried out by in- ~ surgent aeorplanes yesterday. About 30 bombs were dropped on houses but caused no casualties since the inhabitants had been warned by air alarm.

insur-

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The seaport of Castellon de la Plana, the objective of the present advance of the insurgents, was bombed twice by numerous gent airplanes yesterday. more than 100, bombs. had been A man named Ng Lăn, 34, of Luk dropped by 20 airplanes at 8 o'clock, King village, who had been miss-a second attack was made at 2 ing from his home, in the Shatau-o'clock. The raiders dropped kok district, for some days, was large number of bombs destroying found dead by police yesterday 30 houses and killing and wounding- afternoon, the body having been numerous persons. The towns of buried in the hillside near the vil- Almazora and Villareal, south of lage.

Castellon, were likewise bombed by Police searched the hillside as insurgent planes. Fourteen houses killed Li Wai-shing, a seaman, aged 28, the result of information received, were destroyed, six persons

about 20 wounded. Trans- was this morning bound over for and finding soil recently disturbed, and one year by Mr. H. R. Butters at and buried just below the surface Ocean the Central Magistracy for har-found the body, with marks

violence about the head indicative bouring a 16-year-old girl

Inspector Ellis said defendant of murder or manslaughter.

BOUND OVER FOR HARBOURING GIRL

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was in the habit of visiting his Three persons have been detain- sister who lived in the same flat as ed, it is understood. the girl's mother. After the girl's

grew

disappearance, the mother WEATHER FORECAST

suspicious of defendant's sister and followed her to Kowloon City, where she found her daughter living with defendant, as husband and wife.

The mother had arranged for the girl's marriage to another who she disliked.

man,

CZECH CHANGE OF MIND?

Prague, To-day. The announcement of Czecho- The Royal Observatory reports that a feeble anticyclonic area lies Slovakian rejection of the Sude- over China to the south of the Yang-ten German demands, as put for- tse and extends to the Pacific eastward by Konrád Henlein, which ward of the Bonins, where pre-appeared in the official press and other newspapers last night, was ssure is highest.

The depression is moving east-cancelled from the final editions ward into the Sea of Japan and a of the papers. Defendant said he did not entice secondary is indicated in the vicini-. the girl. She was continually ask-ty of Tokyo. ing him to support her and rent a house for her to live in. The girl

to Kowloon said she went

Defendant was not a married man but the mother objected to the girl marrying him.

The Anglo-Polish naval agree ment, together with the Protocol of Signature and an Exchange o Notes was signed at the Foreign Office yesterday afternoon by the herself. Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. A. Duff Cooper, on the British side, and Count Raczinsk and Capt. Slocklasa, representing the Polish Ministry of Marine. The agree-

GERMAN ARMY FIELD ORDER

City

Berlin, To-day.

Local forecast:-N.. E. moderate; fair.

The rejection announcement was replaced by a brief state- winds,ment that the previous announce-

{ment was incorrect. Reuter.

GERMANY

ment which will be published as a The German infantry regiments When travelling in Germany and on German ships

White Paper runs on similar line:

service reduce your expenses considerably by carrying

to the 1936 London Naval Treat; will not carry knapsacks while mar- and deals with the qualitative limhing or engaged on field tation of naval armaments and an after April 30, in order to render exchange of information on build-the" non-mechanised infantry more ing programmes.-British Wireless.mobile.-Trans-Ocean.

British Air Mission Visit Baltimore

Washington, To-day.

The British air mission visited Baltimore yesterday morning and inspected the Glen Martin aero- plane factory. They returned to Washington in the evening and left almost immediately for the West Coast on their main tour of American air factories.

As though to emphasise the non-

They had an interview with the

political and purely technical na-Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, ture of their task, members of the yesterday.

mission are not making many offi- Though badgered

cial calls in Washington, but are by pressmen, the mission confining themselves to confering good humouredly ences at the British Embassy. nothing-Reuter.

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