1938-11-28 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 28, 1938

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PANAMA CANAL TO BE MADE IMPREGNABLE

United Stated Must Look To Her Own Defence

Mr. Woodring's Outline Of Steps Essential

New York, To-day. The Panama Canal must be made impregnable, de- clares the Secretary for War, Mr. Woodring, in his annual report to President Roosevelt.

He adds: “All locks and dams of that vital water- way must be made bomb-proof and the pos- sibility of sabotage by ships' crews must be eliminated. We must greatly augment in the air forces and anti-aircraft artillery of this -zone."

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Declaring that the United States military preparations contemplates no aggression against any Power on earth, Mr. Woodring points out "the protective mobilisation plan of 1917" visualises that, in event of a major war, immediate employment of the initial protec- tive force of approximately 400,000 of the regular army and national guard troops, augmented by such recruitment that the exigencies of the military situation permit.

PROMOTIONS IN

GERMAN ARMY

Berlin, To-day.

A number of important promo- tions in the German defence forces are announced in an official notice issued here to-day.

Mr. Woodring warns that in a defensive situation the United States could not depend on allies is the appointment of Lieutenant- Most noteworthy of these changes holding the battle-line while she General-Guderian, made belated preparations. — Reu-manding the 16th Army Corps, to the post of "Chief of Mobile Troops," an entirely new post.

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hitherto com-

General Guderian will be in com-

CAROL-HITLER mand of all mechanised and motor-

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FLIGHT TO THE TOWNS

Goslar, To-day.

Other appointments have become Bucharest, To-day. necessary through inclusion of That certain clarification has oc-Austria and Sudetenland in curred in the attitude of Rumania | Reich. towards Germany, following the

In a speech at Goslar yester- interview which took place at of 18 army corps, comprising 43 Minister for Agriculture, revealed The army will from now consist¡day, Dr. Walter Darre, German Berchtesgaden between the Fuehrer divisions, 3 mountain and 5 armour-that; in the fifth year of the and King Carol is the opinion ex-ed divisions pressed by the Rumanian ruler

and an independent "drive for increased production” what he passed through- Vienna.

cavalry brigade, distributed over 15 there had been a flight of popu He was

defence zones. able to inform the

lation from the countryside into Fuehrer that his country had no Eighteen army corps are group- trial regions.

the towns, notably into indus intention of becoming, under any ed in six commandos centred in

This had taken place in spite of guidance there had been a big in- crease in the German agricultural production.

circumstances, the vanguard of Berlin, Frankfurt, Dresden, Leip-the fact that as result of State Bolshevist penetration into Europe.zig, Vienna and Hanover.-Trans

The meeting was a step in the Ocean. direction of normalizing economic and political relations between the two countries.-Trans-Ocean.

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SOFIA UNDER

GOOD EXCUSE MARTIAL LAW

Sofia, To-day.

This flight from the countryside, he declared, was such as to jeopar dize the Government's plans for still further augmenting the agricul tural output and resort would have to be had to more intensive mech- anisation of farming.

So Ping Sun, 19, was this morning cautioned by Mr. R. Edwards at the

Dr. Darre disclosed that as com- Central Magistracy, when he was charged with trespassing in Milied under martial law. yesterday.

The Bulgarian capital was plac-pared with 1933 the number of tary ground.

agricultural workers in Germaný This action was taken in order had fallen by 165,000. He estimat- Inspector Flattery said the Mili- to prevent demonstrations against ed that since 1983, from 700,000 to tary Police, arrested defendent at Rumania...... about 3 a. m. this morning, walking

800,000 persons had forsaken the The population was near A. and B. Blocks, Married to

exhorted countryside for industrial centres. remain indoors. Quarters, Murray, Barracks.

The streets From other statements made by and squares of the city were oc- Darre, it seems that the German cupied by strong detachments of Government is preparing new legis- police.

lation designed to combat a further exodus. Trans-Ocean.

Defendant said the road was open to the public in the day time.

Nationalist organisations had Sentence of two weeks hard planned a. procession of 60,000 of labour and 12 strokes-was-imposed their supporters in Sofla alone. on Kan-Ka-sheung, 17, by Mr. R. It is understood that the Bul- A. D. Forrest this morning, for garian Government banned these hing, was admitted to the Kowloon A 83-year-old refugee, Sam Yau- snatching a handbag, and $34 in demonstrations because it feared Hospital with face injuries, after money, from Miss E. Cheung, of the effect they might have on re- he had been knocked down by an the Hong Kong University in Bon lations with Rumania_and_Greece, unknown motor car in the Tai Po ham-Road-

Trans-Ocean.

road yesterday.

CHILE PROTEST TO HITLER

Santiago, To-day. Seventy-five members of Par- liament of all parties have ad- dressed a message to Herr Hitler, protesting in the name of civilisa tion against the persecution of the Jews, demanding that the persecution cease and Jewish rights to life and justice restored. -Reuter.

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