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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 4, 1988.

WHY SOVIET

WERE NOT INVITED

BRITISH LEGION FORCE

LONDON, TO-DAY.

HITLER SIGNS GOLD BOOK AT EGER

Eger, To-day.

DAUGHTER CHAINED UP

""That

she had chained her: THE GOVERNMENT HAS AC-

daughter as she was continually CEPTED THE OFFER OF THE

running away when she should be LONDON, TO-DAY. BRITISH LEGION TO PROVIDE

at work," was the excuse given to Before addressing the population Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Ma- THE REASON WHY THE A, FORCE OF 1,000 VOLUNTEER

FOR DUTY IN yesterday afternoon the German gistracy this morning by. Ho Lai SOVIETS HAD NOT PARTICI-|POLICE

PLEBISCITE AREA PATED IN THE RECENT NEGO-THE

IN Chancellor was welcomed at the ping, 38, a widow, who was charged A Town Hall where he inscribed his with ill-treating, her daughter, TIATIONS OVER

FOR CZECHO-CZECHO-SLOVAKIA SLOVAKIA, WAS EXPLAINED PERIOD OF FROM SIX TO name in the golden book.

Cheung Wai-ling, aged 9. BY THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, EIGHT WEEKS.

Replying to words,of greeting by She was fined $50 or two months* HALIFAX, LORD

THE IN

The volunteers will be under the the Sudeten district leader, Herr imprisonment. HOUSE OF LORDS YESTERDAY. command of Major Featherstone-Wollner, the Fuehrer declared that Inspector Fraser said that at 8 Lord Halifax repeated what he Godley, Chairman of the Legion, at the very beginning of his cam-p.m. yesterday an Indian sergeant had told the Soviet Ambassador a who will be assisted by Sir James paign he was resolved to bring the was on

patrol in Lower Lascar day or two ago, namely that if O'Dowd, Major-General Fitz Patrick ten million Germans in Austria and Row when his attention was

it

Sudetenland back into the Reich.tracted by a crowd of people. war was to be avoided, was and Colonel Wilberforce.

Selection of the Legionaires will "Behind the Germans of Sudeten-found a girl crying bitterly with a necessary to act quickly, and the Government was compelled to re- be made to-day, and those chosen land stands the entire German na-dog chain fastened tightly round. cognise that Hitler and Mussolini will assemble in London to-morrow, tion headed by the defence forces," the chest. The girl said she had would almost certainly decline nego- and will be given their first in-he stated, and expressed gratifica-[been tied up by her mother and tiations at a conference at which structions.

tion that in a few months the army beaten. the Soviet Government was re- A small contingent of the British would also draw recruits from the presented.

Legion will also be sent from Scot-newly acquired territory. land. Trans-Ocean and Reuter.

NO WEAKENING

in

The fact that it was impossible to include the Soviet Government' directly in these conversations no way signified any weakening of our desire, and any more doubtless of that of France, to preserve our understanding and relations the Soviet Government.

with

He offered the sympathy of the House and the country to President Benes and the Czechoslovak peoples.

GRIM DILEMMA

CONSTABLE FOUND leader of the special guards, Herr to a bed post.

IN HEROIN FACTORY

at- Ho

Enquiries revealed that the girl was beaten on Sunday and on Mon- After he and his entourage, day had had her wrist tied by a which included his deputy, Rudolf piece of cord. She managed to Hess, the Reich Foreign Minister, get away and was then chained Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Reich with a dog chain round the chest Her hands were Himmler, and the Chief of the again tied with rope. High Command of the Army, Gen- After three hours, the girl bit eral Keitel, had inscribed their nam- through the rope binding her hands es in the golden book, the Fuehrer and broke the chain from the bed was presented with a historical post. The rope had cut her wrists The chain was only Three Chinese, Chan Chik, Li document dating from the

year very badly.

pemoved at the station when the Ming and Yip Kam-pui, (Police 1315 by Konrad Henlein. constable C141) this morning ap-

During his sojourn in Eger, Hit-flock was unlocked with the key in peared on remand before Mr. R. ler also visited the Hotel Victoria, possession of the mother. Edwards at the Central Magis- which, as the headquarters of the

The girl's father had died seven tracy, charged with possession of Sudeten German Party, was

months after her birth. Defendant 21,800 heroin pills.

siderably damaged by shots fired had a twelve-year-old son.-- from Czech tanks.

Other tenants in the flat were of After remaining ten minutes in knowledge of hearing the girl cry- no assistance as they denied any, the hotel he rejoined the party and continued the trip into Sudeten ter- [ritory.-Trans-Ocean.

*

con-

Faced by a grim dilemma, Pres- Benes had played his part, and his-

Mr. J. B. Prentis, assistant tory would accord to him a special Crown solicitor, told the Court, place for the wisdom of his choice, that at 3.40 p.m. on September 28, for without his decision a European Revenue Officer J. L. Stephens war could not have been avoided. went with a raiding party, to No. Lord Halifax said the Czecho-1, First Street, 2nd floor. When slovak Government, in view of the they knocked at the door, a small economic and financial difficulties boy answered and refused to open, with which it was faced, had asked whereupon they broke down the for a guaranteed loan of £30,000,000. | door, and saw first defendant at A similar request had not been the entrance of a cubicle, second addressed to any other Government defendant inside the r room and

London, To-day. and the matter

The Minister for Foreign Affairs was one which third defendant lying on a bed. obviously called for consideration, During the raid, third defendant of Iraq, Seyyid Tawfik Swaidi, ar- but as this was manifestly an urgent asked Mr. Stephens to let him off. rived last evening in London, where

IRAQ VISIT

ing.

The S.C.A. took a serious view of the case.

Asked if she had anything more the to say, defendant said that girl had once stayed away for a week. Defendant was earning her [living and had no one to look after

the girl.

case the Government had decided to Two baskets, with a lighted he will to-be the guest of the Bri- HEROIN FACTORY

grant a credit of £10,000,000 imme-stove inside, and two trays of tish Government. diately through the Bank of Eng-pills, were found in the kitchen. land.

The case is proceeding.

CHARGE CHANGED

The Foreign Secretary defended the guarantee of the new Czecho- slovak frontier. He said that to guarantee Czechoslovakia's boun- daries when she had large, restless, dissatisfied minorities was one thing Accused of misconducting him and the new guarantee, with those self as a police officer by taking a explosive minorities removed, was gratuity of $8 and two chickens another.-British

Reuter.

Wireless

RAIDED

The Minister's visit, which is connected with problems of Pales- [tine and Syria as well as with poli-

tical and economic relations be- Revenue officers late last night tween England and Iraq, will last raided a house in a village in Tsun about three weeks. Trans-Ocean, Wan, and there found a heroin fac- tory complete with the usual para- phernalia for the manufacture

Mr. Li Chuen-chi, bank manager, pills. winge

at room No. 38, Hotel The factory was not working at residing and from a woman named Leung Choi, Cecil, has reported that on his ar-the time but some 150,000 made of No. 65, Nathan Road, on rival in the Colony by steamer, ly pills were found on the premises. September 29, a Chinese constable, ing at No. 1 wharf, Kowloon, on A man was arrested. Kong Shing, 29, was further re- Saturday, he lost a suit case, con- He will make his appearance at.

NON-PROFESSING manded by Mr. E. Himsworth this taining money, jewellery, and priv. the court of the District Officer,

SUDETENS IN GERMAN HANDS

Eger, To-day:

morning at the Kowloon Magis-ate papers, to the value of $327.

tracy

A new charge of demanding $5 with menaces was preferred and the original charge withdrawn.

Dět.-Sergt. C. Goodwin prosecut- ed; and Mr. C. A. S. Russ appeared for defendant who pleaded not guilty.

At least 200 persons did not share in the jubilation over the entry of Hitler into this town yesterday, these being 200 German Commun- Mr. L. Dunbar, residing at No, 2, ists who had fled to Pilsen but were May Road, has reported

1 to the sent back by the authorities be- Police, that at about 4 a. m. this cause of the inadequate food supply morning, some person entered his in that town.

residence, by an open window in The would-be refugees are now the ground floor, and stole a quan- interned in the railway station tity of jewellery, the value is at waiting room after having been present unknown, and a sum of received by the German police.

It is claimed that they assisted Mr. H. J. Armstrong, of No. 1, the Czech militia in suppressi the May Road, has repor that some Budeten Germa

person- broke int

town. Deoldion.

has not yet

South, to-morrow.

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