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BRITAIN

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 30, 1988.

MUST BE READY

FOR FURTHER SHOCKS Mr. Anthony Eden's Three-Point Programme Re-Armament Not ARABS IN SHARP ALLEGED PUPPET

Yet On Scale Needed To-Day

London, To-day.

CLASH WITH IN SHANGHAI

BADLY WOUNDED BRITISH TROOPS

Jerusalem, To-day." Twenty-six Arabs were killed,

Even if we have avoided general war, we are like-

ly to ensure further shocks, was the opinion ex-fourteen rifles captured and two pressed by Mr. Anthony Eden, the former For-British soldiers were also killed and an officer and six other ranks were eign Minister, in a speech in London last night. This is not the moment to indulge in discussions wounded in a heavy battle with

about the past. We must look into the present Arabs south of Haifa. and the future to make any helpful sugges-Monday and troops remained in tions possible to meet the emergency.

TWENTY-TWO DIE IN MINE FIRE DISASTER

Breslau, To-day:

Twenty-two miners are stat- ed to have lost their lives in a mine disaster which occurred in the Hans Heinrich pit of the Fuchs mine near Walderburg last night.

A short circuit in a conduct cable caused a fire in the pit and although measures were the taken at once to rescue

in the pit, miners entombed help came too late.

After having recovered bodies of ten miners, the sal. vage squads had to be with- drawn from the burning mine since their own lives were en- dangered.

the

Measures were taken, how- ever, to prevent a further spread. It is declared that there is no hope whatsoever that the 12 miners still entombed in the burning pit are still alive.- Trans-Ocean.

ADMIRAL OFF TO SHANGHAI

Vice Admiral Sir Percy No- ble, Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, will sail from Hong Kong for Shanghai on H.M.S. Kent on Friday, De- cember 2 and expects to return about December 20. Lady No- ble will also be visiting Shang- hai during this period.

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Dr. Bee, of No. 48, Cheung Wan Road, has lost his motor car, No. 8884, stolen last night from the Salisbury car park.

Mr. J. R. Santos, Waterworks Inspector, while Inspecting the meter of No. 199, Prince Edward Road, was bitten by a dog owned by the occupier. He was treated ́at Kowloon Hospital; while the dog was sent to Mautaukok for obaer- vation."

"We now live under conditions in which three powerful State have accepted the doctrine of force as the inspiration of their national policy. In this anarchic state we are forced to live dangerously un- der the constant threat of war, without feeling an assurance that the catastrophe can be avoided.

"No foreign policy, however, well conceived, can alone-solve the the problem in the next year or two.

"The prospect, however, does not mean that is it desperate; but there are grave doubts whether our pre- sent re-armament effort is equal to the present, need.

The encounter commenced on

positions through the night.

In the afternoon of Tuesday it was reported that the troops had again contacted the Arabs and that fighting was continuing. Reuter.

Chungking, To-day. Alleged to have close contacts with the Japanese, Chien Ching- ping, a Chinese resident in Shang- and critically hai, was attacked axes yesterday in his residence in wounded by three assailants with Hart Road in the International Set- tlement.

His wife was also seriously in- jured.

All the assailants escaped.

The victims were rushed to hos- pital and are said to be hovering between life and death.

Chien Ching-ping is another name of Chien Ring-tsing, Director

of National Bonds under the Ministry of Finance of the bogus Nanking regime-Central News.

A fine of $50 was imposed on a reservist Wong Chinese Police Ping-kwen, Street, by Mr. E. Himsworth, at Kowloon, for possession of a wire- less set without a licence.

Choi of Sai Yeung PRETENDED TO BE

ALSEEP

Mr. C. Y. Kwan, of No. 17 Gap Admitting a previous conviction informed the police for a similar offence, Wai Tun, 18, Road, has that between midnight and 4 a.m. before Mr. Q. A, A. Macfadyen this some person entered his residence, morning was charged with snatch- and stole money and a pen, the ing a gold earring from a 51-year- loss being .$75.

old woman in Maple Street yester- day.

was

THREE-FOLD. PROGRAMME Mr. Eden outlined a three-

insisted that we must first make it Sub-Inspector Byron said defen- fold“ programme a foreign

arrested by a constable policy which will unite the na- plain that we vigorously uphold de-dant was

finite standards of international who chased him into a house in tion, speedy and vigorous re-

good faith, and that we will not Tai Nan Street where he pretended armament, and make our faith

be asleep. The earring in the freedom and democracy condone flagrant violations of it, into a practical living thing.

an attempt to obtain some tempor-found in his right hand,

Sentence of nine months' hard With a steadfast determination |ary alleviation.

We will also stand by those to labour was imposed... to see such a programme through, we can face the future with unshak-whom we have given our word, and

those A wooden notice board' was en faith,

act on parallel lines with who are of a similar mind with us. stolen, from outside the entrance of

İSt. Andrew's Church yesterday.

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STAND BY STANDARDS

Regarding diplomacy, Mr. Eden-Reuter.

An enthusiastic gardener in Chiswick, Now that the crisis has passed he has c flowers so that the shelter in no wAY the flowers camouflage the shelter.

rificed part of his flower garden to make an A.R.P. shelter. flaged his garden aleverly in a general' scheme, arranging the garden. general view of the garden, showing how