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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 30, 1938.

BRITAIN AND FRANCE TO ATTEMPT TO SOLVE CZECHO-SLOVAKIA ISSUE

London, To-day.

As a result of the complete Anglo-French agree- ment in regard to the necessity of doing the utmost to assist a peaceful settlement of the Czech problem, it is not unlikely, says Renter's diplomatie correspondent, that Britain and France will use their good offices in the capitals of Czecho-Slovakia's neighbours.

It is understood that J. Edouard} Daladier, the French Premier, em-

phasised that France regarded the Czech question as involving the whole of Europe.

The French consider the de- mands of Konrad Henlein, the Ger- man minority leader in Czecho- Slovakia, as comprising a drive towards German hegemony in Cen-

KIDNAP BID BY SEAPLANE

Children Saved By Their Nurse

Despatches from Nassau, in the tral and South-Eastern Europe, Bahamas, report that the police and the French Government re; there have detained for questioning mained determined to assist

Czecho-Slovakia if events made it three men suspected of attempting to kidnap two American children in necessary.-Renter.

a seaplane.

DESTROYERS FOR NAVY

Flotilla May Be Added

Apparently the attempt to abduct the children was made while they were playing in a public park, where they had been taken by their nurse.

Dozens of spectators, watching yacht races in the harbour, saw two men jump from a taxi. into which they tried to force the chil- dren.**

In view of the strong criticisms in Parliament and in the Service itself on the omission of destroy-!

The nurse screamed. Several ers from the Navy building pro-

intervene. gramme for 1938, it is possible people ran forward to

The men fled, making for a seaplane that a fotilla of eight boats will

which was waiting in the harbour. be added.

with a pilot at the controls and

The establishment at present is 13 complete flotillas and four odd the engine running.

Christopher Brown, harbour boats, but one of the flotillas in-

from cluded in the total has not yet been pilot, prevented the plane

taking-off by manœuvring his motor- ordered

boat in front of it and remaining I understand that the Supple-there until the police arrived. mentary Navy Estimate will be presented not later than July. This would permit a start on the bulk of the programme before the end of the year.

JUDGMENT AGAINST STEVE DONOGHUE It is hoped that the position re- garding Japanese constriction will Car Hire By His Wife have become clearer before July. If it has not, our new ships will Judgment was given in Cam probably be built under the bridge County Court against Steve "escape" clauses of the London Donoghue, the ex-jockey, of Treaty

Albany, Piccadilly, W, for 4 168

The

In that case the two-battleships for car hire by his wife. scheduled will substantially exceed The debt, it was stated, was in- the Treaty limit of 35,000 tons, curred in 1935, when Donoghue and and the four big cruisers, origin- his wife were separated Mr. W. ally projected as 8,000-ton ships. Radford, the plaintiff, did not know may be raised to 10,000 tons or that. Last summer, however, Donog more and armed with heavy guns.hne saw Radford, at

TWO HAPPIEST AGES

OF WOMAN

Newmarket

and promised to pay.

Judge Lawson Campbell, giving judgment, said that Donoghue · had been well known to many members of the public for a great number The happiest times in the life of of years, and might be presumed a woman were earliest adolescence, to be in receipt of a considerable when she was beginning to see a income and to live in some style. little beyond the threshold of a narHe held that the taxi journeys row home life, and the first five l years of her married life. -

Mr. Aleck W. Bourne, principal surgeon of Queen Charlotte's Hos pital, made this declaration in a lecture in London.

necessaries for which Done ought to pay.

"I have not heard of any pay- ment being made by defendant to his wife under the deed of separa- Speaking on the influences which tion," he said. “That being = 20, undermine a woman's health, fe defendant said:

sion he cannot plead that provi

been made for her res-

A woman could stand internasonable requirements.” tional troubles, but not unhappi- ness caused by the disturbance of human relationships.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Miss Kathleen Annie Charlesworth Steers to be a Nurs ing Sister, with effect from the 18th April, 1938.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr David Charles Ed- mondston to be a Member of the Exchange Fund Advisory Commit- tee during the absence from - the Colony of Sir Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn, Kt., with effect from 29th April, 1988.