THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 3, 1938.
OFFICIAL CZECH NEGOTIATIONS
* Prague, To-day,
The Czech Premier, Dr. Milan Hodza, has written to Dr. Kundt appointing to-day for the official opening of the negotiations be tween the Sudéten German dele- gation and Czech Ministers.
The Chamber met yesterday and adjourned sine die after a formal 20-minute session-Renter.
SIR MALCOLM MURRAY IN LAKE TRAGEDY
London, To-day.
LORD AND LADY RUNCIMAN
OFF TO PRAGUE
'London, To-day..
Lord Runciman, who was accom- panied by Lady Runciman, left Vic- toria Station for Paris, en route for the Prague yesterday afternoon. Several members of the staff who will assist him had already left a short time previously by air.
Before entering, the train, Lord Runciman remarked to press.. re- presentatives: "If a man undertakes a job such as this he must be cheerful and optimistic, otherwise he will get no further."
In reply to question, Lord Runci- man said...
It was impossible for him to pre- Lt.-Colonel Sir Malcolm Mur-dict the length of his stay in Cze ray, G.C.V.O., was drowned in choslovakia. In any case, be in- Virginia Water, the artificial lake tended to visit all parts of the in Windsor Great Park, when he country, especially the Sudeten overbalanced in a sailing boat and German area. There the "con- fell into the lake.
trasts" were apparently more Sir Malcolm Murray attained strongly developed than elsewhere. world fame as an Egyptologist --Trans-Ocean.
and is the author of numerous volumes dealing with his many excavations in Egypt, as well of a number of text books on Egyp- tian grammar.--Reuter.
DEMAND FOR GOLD IN LONDON
London, To-day.
NEXT STAGE AFTER EVIAN
London, To-day.
de-
The Inter-Governmental Commit- tee, which the Evian Meeting cided should assemble in London to The persistently strong de-
resume the efforts, with which the mand for gold on the London money Meeting was concerned-namely to market is considered by the "Daily find new homes for the 'refugees Mail" to be caused by rumours of a from Germany and Austria-will new devaluation of the pound sterl-meet in the London at the
ing. The paper stresses that it is Room at the Foreign On Locarno
to-day,
of
possible to put the Pound into line under the Presidency of Lord with the dollar within the frame terton, Leader of the British mem work of the Anglo-American trade bers of the Committee. agreement as the trade agreement Many of the Representatives would rest on a sound basis only if the 32 other Nations who will at-. a fixed relation between the pound tend, arrived in London yesterday. and dollar is established.
-British Wireless. -In--this-connection--the-paper- draws particular attention to the presence of the American Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgen- thau, to which great importance is attached.-Trans-Ocean.
M. MAISKY BACK IN LONDON
London, To-day. As announced in the press, the Soviet Ambassador and Madame Maisky have returned to London from the Soviet Union where they have been on holiday. Wireless.
NEW GOVERNOR OF PUNJAB
London, To-day. Sir Herbert Emerson, who at present is on leave, will be unable for reasons of health to return to India in October to resume the post of Governor of the Punjab, to which he had been re-appointed for a further period of two years. British The King has accordingly ap- proved that Sir Henry Duffield Craik, who is at present Governor of the Punjab during Sir Emer- son's leave, should continue as Hankow. To-day, Governor for this further perlod, Accompanied by practically his British Wireless,
NELSON JOHNSON
entire staff the American Ambassa,
dor in Hankow sailed for, Chung-
king aboard the United States gun-
.
boat Luzon, yesterday Reuter, 20 FOREIGNERS IN
་་
HANKOW TRAIN
What has been reported to be the last international train
tho
trip from Hankow to Hong Kong, arrived at Kowloon Railway Station at 8.20 this morning aftor eventful, Journey,
While sovoral hundreqja
un
availed themsolves of the oppórtun- ity of coming to Hong Kong, only about 20 European pussonyors die- embarked,
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