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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 7, 1988.

GENERAL SMUTS URGES REFORMED LEAGUE

With Standing Committee Of Great Powers

Alliance System Broken Down: Way of Escape

Johannesburg, To-day.

"Back to a reformed League must be our policy," declared General Smuts, Deputy Premier of the South African Government in his Armis- tice anniversary broadcast which was relayed from Daventry last night.

General Smuts said that the alliance

once more broken efforts should be Powers back to the

MINORITIES NOW RESTIVE IN RUMANIA

Budapest, To-day. King Carol is particularly anxious to settle the uncertain political situation in Rumania before he

visits England on November 15, according to persistent reports otherwise, it is stated, he will not be able to come to grips with poli- tics before December 1.

down and he made to bring League.

showed

system had urged that the great

The present position was one of extreme danger and urgency. The Hitler-Chamberlain conversations deter- that Hitler had mined the furtherance of his na- tional policy through war unless Czechoslovakia had given way.

The calamity had been averted through Mr. Chamberlain's last minute intervention, but in recent years nations have developed the habit of lawless actions, which can- not continue without calamity.

WAY OF ESCAPE

The only way of escape is through international order.

The League Council in the past has been too unwieldy and the

League has been weakened by de- sertions. General Smuts finally urg- ed a Standing Committee of the great Powers be a permanent part of the League machinery.-Reuter.

The broadcast of "The Gun- powder Plot. Was it a frame-up?" will be heard here, from London, to-night at 8.10 p.m.

Many quarters are urging the formation of a Government of Na- tional Union which, it is thought, will be specially useful when the various minorities are demanding voiced recently by the German greater freedom.

"Saxons" of Transylvania.

A cry for special treatment was ter.

Admiral Smirnov Comes Under Purge

Moscow, To-day.

Reu-

It is believed in well-informed quarters that Smir- nov, who has been replaced as Naval Commis- sar by Frinovsky, has been arrested. Smirnov is said to be responsible for the unsatis- factory conditions now reigning in the Soviet Navy.

He is the third naval chief to that our navy. has been purged con- have been removed since October clusively of all enemies." last year.

In a recent article the newspaper Frinovsky took an active part in of Red Fleet stated: "The Soviet the recent purge and reorganisa- secret service has destroyed a nest ton of the Soviet's Far Eastern of enemies of the people who have Army, which led to removal of long operated in the navy, but it is Marshal Bluecher and several other

Reuter. a great political mistake to believe high commanders,

PRETTY FIRST BRITISH AIR HOSTESS. The first British air hostess, and the only one serving on a Continental air route, is Miss Laurie Steele, a slim 26 years old brunette. She has just taken up her job on the Dutch KLM lines, and part of her new-du- ties will be to travel from Croydon with passengers who change to an Australia-bound plane at Armsterdam. Miss Steele was former- ly a stewardess with Airlines of Australia. Photo shows Miss Lau- rie Steele waving goodbye as a Continent-bound plane left Croydon carrying her as stewardess. (Copyright),

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