THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 2, 1938.
ITALIAN MINISTER TO ALBANIA KILLED IN SHOCKING AIR TRAGEDY
Rome, To-day.
Djafer Villa, the Albanian Minister in Rome, is among the nineteen killed in an Italian air liner which crashed in the mountains near Fromia] yesterday.
The ill-fated air liner carried 14 passengers and five crew, and the dead include a Briton, Samuel Bretstaff, an American, Helen Lind- heim, four Germans, a Greek, and a Danziger.
FOOD CONTROL IN BRITAIN
London, Yesterday.
The other passengers were a German architect, the director of an Austrian newspaper, and two Italian newsreel photographers.
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The "Daily Herald" comments favourably on the Board of Tradethe announcement of the progress of plans for food control in an em- ergency, indicating the complete satisfaction of all parties with Government's efforts in this direc-
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Mr. J. R. Clynes, who was Food Controller during the war, warm ly endorses the proposals, parti- cularly those which provide that wholesale provision merchants will become Government contrac- tors in the event of an outbreak of war and will be obliged to sell at fixed prices. Trans-Ocean..
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Cairo, To-day. Arrangements have been made, according to a report published in the local newspaper “Alahram”. yesterday for concluding a tri- partite pact between Egypt, Greece and Turkey for regulating the questions affecting the Eastern Mediterranean.
The pact, it is stated, will be paragraphed and initialled follow- ing the impending visit of King Farouk to the Turkish capital. Trans-Ocean.
MACAO BROADCASTS TO BE RESUMED
·Macao, To-day.
The Macao Broadcasting Station which had not functioned since the last typhoon, of September 2nd, has recently undergone extensive re- pairs and appreciable improvement.
The station will be resuming to day and an interesting programme has been arranged.
The station which was previous
BODIES SCATTERED
The machine struck the moun- tainside at 2.20 in the afternoon and immediately burst into flames.
The force of the impact caused the plane to turn over, and peasants who hurried to the spot, found the bodies 100 yards apart.
M. Villa, Albanian Minister, could only be identified by his gold [watch.
The Albanian Consul-General in also Rome, Signor Pugni,, was among the dead. Both had been attending King Zogu's wedding in Tirana.
The plane carried jewellery from a Paris firm for Countess Geraldine Apponyi's wedding present choice. The remainder, worth £20,000, was destroyed. Reuter.
MR. BUTLER'S RESIGNATION FROM I.L.O.
Geneva, Yesterday.
The governing body of the International Labour Office, at a private meeting to-day, dis- cussed the resignation of the British director of the office, Mr. Harold. Butler.
It is stated that the governing | body will consider, the question of Mr. Butler's successor at its next meeting on May 31.
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Political circles in Geneva are of the opinion that Mr. Butler's resignation forms part of a plan of far-reaching changes in leading positions in the League of Nations, In this connection, it is rumour- ed that the Secretary-General, M. Joseph Avenol, may sign. Trans-Ocean..
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HOLIDAY
Burgos, Yesterday. May 2 has been declared a na tional holiday by the insurgent Minister of Interior--to -com- memorate the first national rising in Spatiainst Napoleon, which May 1808.-Trans- began Ocean
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