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MR. CHURCHILL DEMANDS RESUSCITATION OF LEAGUE With The Power Anp Determination To Fight

Combination To Stave Off

Threat of War

London, To-day.

WANG KEH-MIN-CASE AGAINST

BACK IN

PEIPING

Peiping, To-day. Wang Keh-min, head of the "provisional government," arriv ed back here from Tokyo by air yesterday.

Mr. Winston Churchill, in a speech at Manchester last night, outlined proposals to make the League of Nations all-powerful against the operation, union of the Peiping

aggressor.

He said the plan to ward off a devastating war lay in a single sentence arm and stand by the Covenant of the League.

While in Tokyo he interviewed most members of the Cabinet on such subjects as economic co-

and Nanking “governments” and Japanese recognition of this body. |—Reuter.

GOVERNMENT

Mr. Churchill suggested that Britain and France

say to the smaller menaced States: "We are not WORKSHOPS FOR

SOLDIER DISMISSED

Holding that the evidence of the three witnesses for the prosecution was unsatisfactory and in some in- stances contradictory, Mr. H. R. Butters, after hearing the witnesses for the defendant, dismissed the case against Private Hugh Kilpa- trick, who was charged yesterday with the theft of six bottles of whiskey and two bottles of brandy, from the Neptune Cafe, Gloucester Road.

The first witness this morning was Lui Kwai-ching, a dancing girl, who stated that she saw Kil-

danced with her for 25 minutes

going to help you if you are not going to help OLD ARSENAL YARD patrick some time after nine. He yourselves. Are you prepared to take special OLD ARSENAL

service in defence of the Covenant?”

Churchill declared: "If we

Plans for the conversion of cer-after midnight. She did not know tain buildings in the old Arsenal if he left the hall. The manager, said defendant Yard including the Kong-chow,

could rally ten well-armed States DORSETSHIRE and, as workshopsisting Electrical arrived after nine o'clock and left

bound to resist aggression, we would be so strong that the danger- would be warded off. The Danu- bian states could be mopped up one by one, but together they have en- ormous strength."

He also mentioned Russia, Po- land and the Baltic and Scandina- vian countries.

NOT ENCIRCLEMENT -

He said he did not mean encircle- ment of Germany. "We ask no se- curity for ourselves that we are not prepared to extend to Germany. Let her join the club and share its privileges and safeguards."

The alternative was to give Ger- her colonies with a free many hand to spread the Nazi system in Central Europe.

"After an interval we would be drawn into war against an anta gonist overwhelmingly powerful and we would find ourselves with- out_a_friend."-Reuter.

LEFT ARMY BUT FAILED TO GET JOB

Frank Wain, aged 22, a native of Stockport, was this morning com- mitted to the House of Detention when charged with being a vagrant. Defendant had purchased his dis- charge from the Army to obtain em- ployment here but the job did not materialise.

COLLISION IN

KING'S ROAD

Private J. S. Hart, R.A.S.C., was this morning summoned before Mi H. R. Butters for driving a motor lorry in King's Road on April 21 without due care and caution.

TRAGEDY

The rating of H.M.S. Dorset- shire, who was shot dead un- der circumstances. not yet ex- plained, was Leading Seaman Robert E. Dickinson, of Devon- port, the naval authorities dis- closed the morning.

It was also indicated that an inquest was held at Cairns, Queensland, and it is presum- ably

a result of the finding that the Dorsetshire is speed- ing to Hong Kong for further investigations.

PASTEURISATION

OF MILK

of

Approval of the by-laws made by the Urban-Council-at-its-last-meet- ing, requiring pasteurisation all milk supplies in the Colony, and taking effect as from January 1,

1939, will be moved in Legislative

Council on Thursday.

REFUGEE

COSTS

Bringing the total to over $23,- 500, a further supplementary grant of $13,600 to the Tung Wah Hos- pital, covering expenditure by the hospital during the first three months of 1938 for the care and

repatriation of Chinese refugees, is

being presented for, approval to the

Finance Committee of Legislative

Council.

CROWN COUNSEL

At Thursday's meeting of the A tricycle driver said that .de-Legislative Council, a resolution fendant drove on the wrong side of will be submitted to change. the the road and ran into his vehicle. style of the office of “Assistant At- Defendant stated that when he was torney General" to that of "Crown about 40 yards from the tricycle, Counsel" for all purposes. complainant attempted to cross the road. Defendant sounded his horn

Workshop in the old Sailors and at closing time. He did not notice Soldiers Home are under consider-whether he stayed there all the

while or left the hall. ation by Government.

The cost will be in the region of Privates John Ellison and J. $24,000 and a vote for this sum will Coyle both stated that they were be requested of the Finance Com-with defendant from 10 o'clock that mittee on Thursday.

night till 1 a.m. They were dan-

It is held to be most important cing that evening and were all that the old Sailors and Soldier seated round the same table. They Home should be vacated and de-were certain that defendant did molished before the next typhoon not leave the hall till closing time. season in view of its unsafe condi-

tion. The completion of the road|

alignment and the straightening of ings vacated by the Admiralty in the Tramway which forms the re- the former Arsenal Yard. It is the maining part of the Praya East further proposed, in view of Reclamation

com-congestion of storage space

Scheme to be

at

pleted is also dependent on this Hung Hom due to the recent exten- sion of the Wireless Station, to ac- demolition.

It is proposed to accommodate]commodate the Furniture Work- the Electrical Workshop in build-1shop in adjacent buildings.

TRAVEL

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The road from Sheung Shui which appeared to cause complain-Muk Fu Ferry is to be widened and ant to lose his head and swerve.. surfaced at a cost of $103,717. The Defendant could not avert the accf-explanation given is that through

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traffic on the road has: made work necessary.

The case was dismissed..

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