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TORIES

MR.

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 18, 1988.

WORRY

CHAMBERLAIN

PREMIER REFUSES NEW ASSURANCES CON COLONIES

London, To-day.

No definite reply was given by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons yesterday when pressed by his own supporters for assurances regarding the colonial question.

Mr. Chamberlain refused to give new assurances, and in reply to a worried hint that the House might be presented with a fait acompli, such as Munich, merely referred the questioner back to statements by Earl Baldwin.

Cheers greeted a Conservative statement that Ger- many is not fit to undertake the welfare of na- tive populations in view of the anti-Jewish out- rages in the Reich.

BRITISH EMBASSY

IN BUCHAREST?

Bucharest, To-day.

First question put to the Prime Minister was if he would give an assurance that no transference of the mandates in Tanganyika and other African territories formerly under Gorman rule would be effect- ed until adequate financial compen- sation was given to owners of enter- prises and investors who had been engaged in developing the terri- tories.

BALDWIN'S SPEECH

referred

It has been decided, according to the "Timpul," to make the pre- sence of King Carol in London an occasion for raising the British Mr. Chamberlain legation in Bucharest and the questioner to Earl Baldwin's speech Rumanian legation in London to in 1935. the rank of Embassies.

British protection

the

under

The scramble for bread given out by British Tommies in Jeru- palem after the raising of curfew. The crowd, including veiled Mos. lem women and children, are being held back by police and soldiers. The picture was taken in the Via Dolorosa, along which Christ bore His Cross. (Copyright),

AGREEMENT WITH ITALY TO-MORROW

London, To-day. Mr. Chamberlain, in a written reply in the House of Commons yesterday, announced that the Anglo-Italian Agreement would come into force on Wednesday this week-Reuter.

Trans-Ocean adds that Lord Perth, the British Ambassador in ・・ Rome, will hand in new letters of credence made out to the "King of Italy and Emperor of Ethio- pia."

the Royal prerogative and would be referred from and VATICAN AND

mandate,

British

An edict is published in

Earl Baldwin, then Mr. Stanley official Gazette here and enacts tish territory or territory

the Baldwin, had said that .no Bri- that during the absence of King Carol powers will be exercised in the meantime by the Council of Minis-

sovereignty or authority without ters. It is expressly stated, how the fullest regard being paid to the ever, that any appointments or dis-

interests of all sections of the po- missals of State officials carried

pulation in the territories concerned, out by the Council of Ministers during this period will bear a pro-tive): "Does the Prime Minister Mr. R. A. Pilkington (Conserva- visional character only, Trans- not think that the recent happen- Ocean.

IL DUCE'S RACIAL LAW

Rome, To-day,

Ings in Germany_have made it The Vatican has protested to the abundantly clear that Germany is Italian Government against the de- not yet fit to undertake the welfare

EMIGRATION FROM CZECHO-SLOVAKIA

Prague, To-day..

The Czecho-Slovak National Bank is at present examining a plan for financing emigration from Czecho- Slovakia, it is learned from reliable quarters.

The plan is being: considered to place at the disposal of each emigrant in foreign exchange 100,- 000 Czecho-Slovak crowns out of his property if he is willing to pay a duty of 50,000 crowns in cash or Government securities.

Former residents of Sudeten ter- ritory who are now in Czecho- Slovakia and wish to leave, will be higher.-Trans-Ocean.

FOOD SITUATION IN HANKOW ACUTE

Shanghai, To-day. Travelling by special plane from

PRIMATE SUGGESTS of native populations?" (Cheers). cree of the new Italian Racial Law, Hankow, Father Jacquinot. famed

PRAYER

London, To-day,

Mr. Chamberlain gave no reply, forbidding - marriage

for his refugee relief work, retum-

of Italian ed to Shanghai yesterday. He Im•`.

Mr. Chamberlain was then asked "Aryans" with persons of another

whether Parliament would be con-

aulted before any discussions were race,

The Archbishop of Canterbury, initiated with foreign powers

re-

speaking at the Church Assembly Inspecting the transfer of mandated is an unilateral breech of the Con- The Vatican holds that the law

regard to various happenings in or colonial territories. the world, suggested that expression of feelings and thoughts should be

given in a way he thought more ap-

OUGHT TO BE SUFFICIENT

| cordat of 1929.

According to "Osservatore Ro- propriate than the way of public Earl. Baldwin had stated in 1936

The Prime Minister said that mano," the Pope did his utmost to discussions in prayers.

"Let us lay before God the con-mit themselves to any settlement views known in advance, even to that the Government would not com-avoid, animonity by making his tinued violation of his will, such without giving the House full op as the miseries inflicted on the portunity for discussion. people of Spain, the cruel slaughter Replying to the suggestion that tests to Mussolini and the King In China and the recent outbreak of there were already misgivings that

the extent of issuing personal pro- renewed fierce persecution of Jews the House might be presented with that the new laws in Germany.

an accomplished fact, Mr. Cham without the agreement of

were issued berlain thought this

the ought to be sufficient." -- Reuter, Church Reuter,

"

The Assembly then stood in pray" er. Reuter,

mediately called on the French Am»... bassador, M. Paul Neggiar.

It is learned that in the course of

Hankow is acute at present, but the meeting, Father Jacquinot re- vealed that the food situation in

that a happy solution is expected shortly. Reuter.

C.-IN-C. RETURNING

Canton, To-day. The Commander-in-Chief.

China Station, Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble, accompanied by his staff, left Cantonför Hong-Kongon board H.M.S. „Cicala at 8 o'clock this morni✩ ing-Reuter,

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