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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 14, 1988.

SPANISH

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RESOLUTION

DEFEATED BY COUNCIL

Russia Supports Claims Of Senor Del Vayo

Government Alleged 100:6

Volunteer Ratio

Geneva, To-day.

NORWAY

RECOGNISES ROME EMPIRE

Oslo, To-day. Following the example of Swe- den and Finland, Norway has de- cided to recognise de facto, Ita-

Reuter.

MEXICAN OIL OFFER

The Spanish resolution was defeated in the League lian domination of Ethiopia.

Council yesterday, Russia and Spain voting in favour and Britain, France, Poland and Ru- mania against. Nine other nations abstained. The decision is of considerable importance in that the French Government's adverse vote places it in conflict with its Left Wing supporters. Earlier, replying to Senor del Vayo (Spain), Lord Halifax (Britain) refuted the suggestion that intervention in Spain had taken place only on the anti-Government side.

FRENCH COMMENT ON GENEVA DEBATE

PARIS, TO-DAY. GREAT PROMINENCE WAS GIVEN YESTERDAY IN PARIS NEWSPAPERS TO THE DIFFI-

CULTIES THAT HAVE ARISEN

IN GENEVA.

IN CYNICAL WORDS, SEVER- AL NEWSPAPERS EXPRESS DISAPPOINTMENT THAT NO- THING HAS PASSED OFF AS LORD HALIFAX AND M. BON- NET HAD EXPECTED. '

The Radical Socialist "Oeuvre" speaks of a crisis in Geneva and the Socialist "Populaire" calls the Lea- gue of Nations a corpse with a very tough life. The more one tries to kill him the more one is compelled to worry about him.

Mexico City, To-day.

It is now learned that the Mexi propriated oil companies over can Government is to offer the ex-

GEN. SPEARS' ESTIMATES CHALLENGED

in

Berlin, To-day.

Pointing out that of 3,500,000 Sudetic Germans, about 2,800,000 live in a compact mass situated territory right along the Reichs frontier, the National So- cialist central organ, "Volkischer Beobachter" contests the correct- ness of statements made by the English Conservative M.P., Bri- gadier-General E. L. Spears, who in a letter to the "Times" declar- ed that only 800,000 Sudetic Ger- mans lived in a compact colony and that the rest were scattered over the whole of Czecho- period of ten years, 60 per cent. of Slovakia. Mexico's total output of oil, which The "Volkischer Beobachter" em- He emphasised that the British is about the proportion that Mexi-phasises that it is here a matter Government would continue the co annually exports, after an a of altogether 3,500,000 Germans efforts towards withdrawal of all lowance for local consumption. organised as a State in a manner foreign participants on both sides. It is understood that proceeds o. that would lose nothing from the

The British Government only

the sale above the exported amoun comparison with numerous other na- desired to serve the best interests will be devoted to a special functions in Europe living in closed of the Spanish people, and secure for repayment to the companies o maintenance of peace in Europe. the amount eventually agreed upon

M. George Bonnet (France) spoke briefly to the same effect.

RUSSIAN VIEW

-Reuter.

UNEMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA

Washington, To-day.

national States.

'It is therefore not permissible in this case to speak of £ German "minority."

The Volkischer Beobachter also contests the other statement made

in by General Spears that Ger- many a Czech minority of no less than 400,000 is living.

M. Maxim Litvinoff (Russia) declared that the Soviet was dis- posed to give the just demands of

This statement is said to be quite President Roosevelt yesterday erroneous. In Germany, that is to Spain full satisfaction.

Senor del Vayo declared that stated that the unemployment cen- say in the former Reich territory there were 6,000 volunteers on the sus would show that 5,833,000 werd before the incorporation of Aus- 2,000,000 un-tria, 176,000 Czechoslovak subjects Government side, against 100,000 totally unemployed, italians and a large group of Ger- employed except for emergency were living, and it is believed that mans, and offered to accept an in-work, and 3,200,000 partially unem- no more than 10,000 could have been quiry into his statement.-Reuter.

ployed. Reuter.

TWO CATS GET BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS Buttercup To The Rescue

The Right Wing "Epoque" asks what Moscow is really aiming at. The lives of two cats have been In the moment when the French- saved in Denver (Colorado) by blood Italian Entente is about to be estab-transfusions from their friend lished, every effort is made in Buttercup, a large yellow tom cat. Geneva to protract the Abyssinian affair and similarly regarding the war in Spain, efforts are. made to prolong hostilities.

LE MATIN'S ATTACK

While the "Petit Journal" de- scribes the League of Nations as a "Kingdom of Somnambulists and Parrots", the "Matin" declares with sarcasm: "Lord Halifax and M. Bonnet were told that they should be on their guard in Geneva, for Geneva is an equatorial jungle in which the Tower of Babel is being built.

A short time ago Buttercup be- came ill of feline septicemia, which is fatal in 90 per cent. of the cases. However, he recovered but his two friends Skeezix and Snickelfritz be- came seriously ill and the veteri- narian resorted to blood transfusions in the hope that Buttercup's blood was "armed" against the disease." centimetres of blood from the cat's Dr. A.A. Hermann, drew.80 cubic

body through hollow needle, Within a second the blood Was flowing through the veins of the other two.

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Skeezix and Snickelfritz and But- tercup are all now in excellent condition.

tion" of the tribe of Judah” and "Emperor of Ethiopia.".

"Both of them, however, went up to the tower and, with declarations of their readiness to settle the Me- diterranean conflict and to come to an understanding with Italy, made "At one stroke the answer to really a good start. -

the question whether Italy domin "All that remained to be done ates Abyssinia and whether - 20 then, was to close the debate when members of the League, among them suddenly in the jungle the monkeys five members of the League of Na- of Ariana began skylarking.

tions Council, recognised the Italian

my

“The arrival of a Dervish was an-sovereignty or not, had to be post- nounced calling himself "victorious. poned." Trans-Océan.

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Czechs. -Trans-Ocean.

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