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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 9, 1988

"CHEAP AND

SHABBY❞

Nazi Attack On British Colonies Statement

TO

"SURRENDER

ANTI-GERMAN PROPAGANDISTS”

Berlin, To-day.

P. AND O. BANK PASSING TO CHARTERED

London, To-day.

The P. and O. Banking Corpor- ation announce that if sharehold- ers approve sale of the undertak- ing to the Chartered Bank at the meeting on Dec, 16, the Charter- ed Bank, after the absorption, will continue to clients and con- stituents of the P. and O. Bank the services and facilities they have hitherto received from the P. and O. Bank.-Reuter.

DALADIER FACES THE CHAMBER

Paris, To-day. Shortly after three o'clock yes- terday afternoon, the Premier, M. Daladier, faced the Chamber of De- puties for the first time since his adoption of the measures which end- ed in the defeat of the general strike.

The House was crowded and the gallerics filled to capacity when M. Herriot, the President of

|- Earlier in the day, deputies and

WEATHER FORECAST the Chamber, opened the session.

"Capitulation to anti-German colonial propagan- dists" is how the official National Socialist or- gan, "Volkischer Beobachter" describes Mr. Malcolm Macdonald's statement on the colon- ial situation in the House of Commons yester- day.

"We regret this," states the paper "because we know that the head of the British Government has an honourable desire for an understanding.into This is nothing less than capitulation because the Secretary of State for Colonies did not close the door completely but to the casual observer he gave that impression and this we regard as a capitulation.”

The paper argues that Mr. Mac- Donald based his negative attitude on grounds refuted at least a hun- dred times by German statesmen and the German press.

Declaring that in view of Mr. MacDonald's apparent deafness it --would-be-well to outline Germany's standpoint once more, the National Socialist organ proceeds:

GERMANY'S CLAIM

(1) The British Government will not be asked to cede an inch of territory because Britain and the British Dominions

our

The Royal Observatory reports journalists had gathered in the that the anticyclone has moved lobbies engaging in lively discus- the Pacific and another of sions on the outstanding questions moderate intensity has developed of the moment.. over China.

A more favourable comment was The depression is now situated heard on the Franco-German de-

in the China Sea about 150 miles

W. S. W. Manila, moving westward, Forecast:-N. E. winds, fresh;

fair.

RUMANIA'S STRUGGLE

WITH IRON GUARD: PROTEST

AGAINST GERMAN RADIO

Bucharest, To-day.

do not possess Thirty-five members of the "death squad" of the banned Fascist Iron Guard organisation have been arrested at Jassy, and three alleged Ger- man agents at Albajulia with codes.

German colonies but only manage them. We Germans regard former colonies as our legal posses- sions because they were taken from us in Versailles under the deliber-

ately false assumption that we are It is understood the Rumanian Government intends, incapable of governing native

coloured races.

(2) It is a point of complete in- difference to us whether other countries are involved in the colonial question. We demand each of our colonies from the countries now holding them and it is not our faults that the British Empire that already possessed more territory than any other nation, should nevertheless have secured for it- self the lion's share of the colonial war booty.

"LAZY EXCUSE" (3) The opinion of the native populations which is regarded as such an important factor at the present moment was not consider- ed when to use Macdonald's own words they were distributed among victor nations "like goods or live-

stock."

claration.

After M. Herriot had informed the Chamber that 50 questions had been tabled, M. Daladier rose to say that he would deal with 18 in-

terpellations appertaining to the

general policy of the Government. Parliamentary circles predict a Government victory when the de- bate is brought to a close to-day- Trans-Ocean.

MEETING ADJOURNED

Paris, To-day. The Chamber reassembled at 8,07 p.m. and adjourned at 3.30 p.m. for 40 minutes.

The reason for the adjournment was that Government found there

were too many interpellations and are now seeking to eliminate those

not dealing with general policy.

Sixty interpellations have already been reduced to 28, but Government desires fewer and also wants a time

limit for the principal speakers of to protest to Germany regarding the German each party.--Trans-Ocean. broadcasts yesterday in which attacks were made on King Carol's regime and the influence IRONICAL on him of Madame Lupescu, his Jewish mis- tress.

FUNERAL OF QUEEN MAUD

London, To-day. Memorial services for Queen

aunt of King: Maud of Norway George VI whose funeral took place in Norway yesterday were held at Marlborough House Chapel and at the Chapel Royal in Saint James',

London.

The thirty-five Iron Guard mem-

ANTI-ITALIAN

bers arrested at Jasay are scholars DEMONSTRATIONS

at the collège there.

They belonged to the Iron Guard organisation of students known as the "Brothers of the Cross," mem- bers of which are alleged to have taken oaths to kill any enemies of the movement, by which is meant officials of King Carol's regime.

Paris, To-day. Ant-Italian demonstrations con- tinued in France and Tunis yesTM terday, the majority of the parti- cipants being young people and students.

They are headed by a law student. In Toulouse, several thousand

Two girls of the same college, in whose rooms Iron Guard literature was found, and who had been pelled from the college, were rested.

ar-

the

students attempted to demonstrate in front of the Italian Consulate and upon being prevented by ex-

police paraded through the streets bearing placards with the words "France demands Sardinia, Sicily and Tripolis." This, of course,

is

stupidity of Italy's claims to Corsica and Tunis.

Other arrests have been made in

The service at Marlborough House the past 24 hours in a number of was private and was confined to other cities in northern Rumania intended ironically showing the members of the Royal Family.

They were naturally not consult-in ed because, as honourable British observers admitted in 1919, they would undoubtedly have decided in favour of Germany, that is provid- ed that such a thing as a plebis- cite was possible in the African bush.

The British Government realises that eveh, to-day a plebiscite would not be possible among the African natives which fact in itself makes this "lazy excuse all the more cheap and shabby."-Trans-Ocean.

The King and Queen drove from Buckingham Palace to attend, and

Reuter.

Numerous small demonstrations other members of the Royal Fami- Captain Davies, of the Royal are reported from Tunis during ly present included Queen Mary, Army Ordnance Corps Depot, Mau- which frequent fistfights and clashes the Duchess of Gloucester, Duchess taukok, has reported the loss occurred between individuals and of Kent with her sister, Princess or theft between August and groups. Demonstratora painted tho Olga, Princess Alice and the Earl November 25, of a measuring in- French tricolor across the

Italian of Athlone, Princess Helena Victoria strument, valued at $16. 188. from emblem on the Italian Consulate and Princess Marie Louise. King his quarters.

building in Tunis.-Trans-Ocean. George of Greece also attended.

At the Chapel Royal the congre- gation included representatives of the ex-Kaiser.

A Chinese woman, Cheung. Shau- hing, was yesterday admitted to Shanghai, To-day. he Diplomatic Corps, and the ser- King George and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mary Hospital, with The U. S. S. Luzon and the Ad-ice was conducted by the Bishop sent a wreath to the funeral in Oslo, injuries to her left foot and thigh, miral Charner which left Nanking of London..

which was attended by the Duke caused when the part of the ver- yesterday, have arrived in Shang- Among those present was Prince of Kent representing King George. andah of No, 112 Sai Wan Ho col-

Frederick of Prussia, representing-British Wireless.

lapsed and struck her....

hai. Reuter.