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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 15, 1988.
NINE-POWER TREATY
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ANGLO-AMERICAN CO-OPERATION
FIVE KILLED IN DUTCH AIR DISASTER
AMSTERDAM, TO-DAY. THREE OF THE CREW AND TWO. PASSENGERS WERE KILLED WHEN A KL.M. AIR- LINER FROM BERLIN CRASH- ED AS IT WAS ABOUT : TO
PORT YESTERDAY.
The two passengers killed were both Germans.
Mr. Butler
SOUTH AFRICAN
Repeats Himself ATTITUDE
London, To-day.
The British Government at all times is prepared to maintain close touch with the United States in matters of
Under-Secrommon concern, declared_the|
for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, in the House of Commons yesterday.
LAND AT SCHIPHOL AIR-Mr. Butler was replying to Mr. Arthur Henderson (Labour) who asked if the Government is still prepared to co-operate with the United States in re-affirming the principles of the Nine- Power Treaty.
The eleven other occupants of the plane, which carried five crew and 14 passengers, are now in hospital.
They include a New Zealand Mr. woman, who is serious injured, two London men and a Canadian.
Low clouds hindered the pilot, and the machine, of the Douglas type, crashed nose-down, being completely destroyed. It did not, however, catch on fire.
The chief pilot, Duimalaar, was seriously injured.
The passengers were four Bri- tish, eight Germans and two Czechs.-Reuter.
ANGLO-AMERICAN
IN WAR
London, To-day. "South Africa is united in grate-
ful appreciation of what Mr. Cham-
berlain has done for us, for the Commonwealth and for civilisation.”
This message from General Her-
tzog, said Mr. O. Pirow, the South African Defence Minister, yester day was not the least important of his reasons to come to London.
Mr. Pirow was speaking at the South African Club.
He said that his London visit
what South, Africa will do if Bri-
tain is involved in war: \\
“Our attitude to a crisis would
Henderson also asked whether they would co-was closely related to discussion of operate with the United States on the basis that the Sino-Japanese dispute was a matter of con- tinuing concern to them as signatories of that be taken by the people of the Un- treaty.
Mr. Butler referred the question-derson perhaps would find it wider er to his speech in the debate on and better than he thought. November 9.
ABOUT TIME
Mr. Henderson asked whether in view of the fact that the Japanese Government is acting in flagrant opposition to and in contravențion of this treaty, it was not about time, after eighteen months, that something was done.
TRADE AGREEMENT of this treaty, it STILL COMING
Washington, To-day,
on
Mr. Butler said he thought he
clear had made the position November 9.
Mr. Henderson asked whether The Secretary of State. Mr.
Mr. Butler was then merely deal- Cordell Hull, stated yesterday that ing with the question of the open he hoped to sign the Anglo-door, and asked whether the Nine- American trade agreement before Power Treaty not only dealt with this question but also with the in- he left on November 26 for the dependence and territorial inte- Pan-American Conference at Lima.grity of China.
He also stated he hoped to an- nounce some developments in the negotiations for renewal of the American-Canadian trade agree- ment in two or three days, and he hoped to decide shortly whether or not the two agreements would be tied together.
"ESCAPE CLAUSE”
WIDER AND BETTER
asked if Mr. Butler would state
ion through Parliament on its merits," he said,-Reuter.
Mr. Philip Noel-Baker (Labour) JEWS BARRED whether the Government would
Government would FROM GERMAN
UNIVERSITIES
stand by the principles of the Nine- Power Treaty.
Mr. Butler: "Yes, Sir."--Reuter.
FIRE VICTIMS LAID TO REST
Marseilles, To-day.
The funeral of the 73 victims of the catastrophic fire in the famous Cannebiere took place yesterday.
Ten thousand soldiers and police- Mr. Butler again referred Mr. Henderson to his statement on men had been called out to prevent November 9, and thought Mr. Hen-
Officials of the State Department BRITAIN STANDS
WITH AMERICA
said yesterday that the Anglo- American trade agreement would contain an "escape clause,” permit- ting either country to denounce it. if fluctuations in exchange rates were so large as to affect tariff con- cessions.
They stated it would not contain any provisions concerning the Bri- tish War Debt or parity between the Pound and the U.S. Dollar.-- Reuter,
NEVILLE TO STAY AT HOME
London, To-day.
ON CHINA ISSUE
London, To-day.
any possible untoward incidents in
the shape of Communist demonstra-
tions.
The funeral procession was over three kilometres in length and two hours elapsed before the entire pro- cession reached the cemetery Saint Pierre,
Berlin, To-day. The Minister of Education, Bernhard Rust, has telegraphically instructed the Rectors of all Ger- manTM universities to forbid Jews to attend lectures
the or to enter university grounds.
A law is being prepared, accord- ing to which in future no Jew will be admitted to German universities.
-Trans-Ocean,
DEFENCE OF SINGAPORE AND INDIA
Colombo, to-day
For the first time in history, British officers from the Staff Col- lege at Quetta are to work out ex- ercises for the defence of Singapore and India as part of their training course.
The officers, under the direction of of
Major-General Haig, passed through Colombo yesterday en route to Singapore, where they will stay a fortnight-Reuter.
Attention -was drawn in the House of Commons yesterday to
The spectacle of the long line of President Roosevelt's warning to hearses bearing the coffins, which Japan in regard to American trade
with China, by Mr. H. Sutcliffe, were hidden beneath countless Conservative member for Royton,
Mr. Sutcliffe asked whether the wreaths, was most moving. Government associated itself with the American action with the ob- fect of equally protecting British frndesa
| Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secre- tary for Foreign Affairs, replied
You"
were
Walking in the procession representatives of President Lebrun, as well as all leading ecclesiastical, military, naval and civil authorities,
The Prime Minister will not ac-
Upwards. of 'half a million people, company" the King and Queen on „Replying to another question, many of whom had come from vari their visit to Canada and the Mr Butler said the Government ous parts of South France, lined the United States.
had had no communication with route. At the cemetery, Mr. Chamberlain made a state- the United States regarding re- were delivered by the ment to that effect in The Commons assembly of the Brussels Confer. Marseilles, Monsignor Del at question timo yesterday. Bri-ence on the Nine-Power Treaty, by the Minister tish Wireless."
Router.
WASHINGTON INTERESTED IN POGROM
Washington, To-day. The United States Government is observing. Germany's Intest, mea- Lindt, Jews with keen in-
Cordell Hull, the Secre
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