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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 16, 1939

Library, Supreme Court

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Momentous Conclave Of Cardinals Foreshadowed

LORD CECIL'S

TRIBUTE TO

CHINA'S EFFORT

LONDON, TO-DAY.

Americans May Challenge Italian Predominance

ROME, TO-DAY.

MR. H. A. L. FISHER, WAR SIGNS ARE ARISING THAT THE FORTHCOM- ING CONCLAVE OF CARDINALS WILL BE

LONDON

DEN OF NEW COLLEGE, OX-

FORD, WAS HOST AT A LUN-

CHEON PARTY IN

YESTERDAY TO BRING PRO- MINENTLY BEFORE THE PUB-

LIC THE WORK OF THE IN-

TERNATIONAL STUDENT SER-

TION OF CHINESE UNIVERSI-

TIES AND COLLEGES DESTROY-

ED BY THE WAR.

THE MOST MOMENTOUS IN THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

SOVIET NAVAL

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MISSION OFF TO UNITED STATES

Moscow, To-day.

A Soviet naval mission, headed United States in a few days. by Admiral Isapov, leaves for the-

Exact objects of the mission are not disclosed but it is believed to be connected with the Soviet in- tention to buy modern armour

Fords.

Election of an Italian Pope, though not certain, 're-plate machinery, required in naval

mains most likely.

VICE TO HELP IN RESTORA-The implications thereof are causing some dis- satisfaction, particularly in American circles, who speak of the determined opposition of American Church authorities to what they con- sider the Italian doctrine, namely that election of the Pope is essentially an Italian affair and the Pope must necessarily be Italian.

Principal guests were. Mr. Quo Tai-chi (the Chinese Ambassador), Dr. T. Z. Koo, Viscount Cecil, Sir J. S. Wardlaw-Milne, M.P., Sir

They recall that at the 1922 Denison Ross, Sir Meyrick Hewlett (formerly in the Consular Service conclave there were only two North in China), Mr. Laurence Binyon American Cardinals, and their activities and influence were al- ready strong, but they urged the Mr. Fisher said China was show-claims of the late Belgian Cardinal ing the utmost heroism and deter-Mercier. mination in building up shattered seats of learning in West and South- West China.

and Mr. George Eumorfopolos.

The English branch of the Inter- national Student Service had raised £5,500 in 1938 for this purpose, and promised toỏ contribute another £4,000 this year.

CHINA

RECONSTRUCTION

Dr. Koo brilliantly described the work of national reconstruction in] which China had been engaged in the past thirty years.

This time' there are three Unit-

ed States Cardinals.

If, as is generally expected, an Italian is elected, one possible consequence will be a demand for alteration of the composition of the Sacred College, with a more balanced proportion of various nationalities.

PRESENT DISPROPORTION

EVERTON WIN CUP REPLAY

London, To-day. Everton, playing at Goodison

The present · great interest in British and American armour plate

machinery is believed to be con- nected with the Soviet plan to build heavy ships.

It will be recalled that M.

Kalinin, President of the Soviet Central Executive Committee, in a speech to shipbuilding workers in Leningrad some months ago, stat- ed it was the task of Soviet en- gineering workers to outstrip Bri- tain in shipbuilding. Reuter.

FINANCIAL AID BY BRITAIN TO

Park yesterday, defeated Bir- CHINA

mingham in the F.A. Cup fifth round replay by two goals to one.

The teams drew at Birmingham on Saturday sharing four goals,

A number of League matches were played yesterday, the results of which are as follow:

At present Italy, with forty mil-Villa lion Catholics, has 35 Cardinals: Preston the United States, with twenty They had founded primary schools. accommodating 60,000,000 children, million, three Cardinals: France, and 112 universities and colleges. with forty million, six Cardinals: Brazil, with forty million, one Thirty thousand students were com- pelled to become refugees and had Cardinal: the British Empire, with been rendered homeless by destruc- thirteen million, three Cardinals. tion of universities. Total damage he estimated at £2,000,000.

Students had marched hundreds of miles across China, and already 83 universities and colleges had been or were being rebuilt.

Already 10,000 were accommodat- ed in Chungking, and new centres were rising in Yunnan.

POWER OF ADAPTION

It was a vivid example of China's power of adaption under the great- est difficulties and proof of her resolution that the work ... of “na- tional renaissance would never die.

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As the Holy See must also deal with world affairs the question of administration of Vatican funds enters the controversy, regarding composition of the Sacred College.

Router.

MR. T.L. WONG THROWN

(By “RAPIER”?)

FIRST DIVISION

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Huddersfield

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1 Stoke

SECOND DIVISION

Notts Forest 2 Newcastle

THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH)

*8 Walsall

THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)

Chester

1 Accrington

Exeter

Reuter,

GUAM ISLAND

LONDON, TO-DAY. DOES THE BRITISH GOVERN- ANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE MENT TROPOSE TO OFFER FIN-

NATIONAL RELIEF COMMIS- SION OF THE CHINESE GOV- ERNMENT IN VIEW OF THE BENEFICIAL WORK 'ACCOM- IT'S PLISHED, AS SHOWN IN RECENT REPORT?

This question was put in the House of Commons yesterday by Mr. G. Tomlinson (Labour, Farn- o worth).

The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R.. A. Butler, replied that through their contribution to 2 the League of Nations, His Ma- jesty's Government already contri- bute to anti-epidemiological work of the League in China.--Reuter.

BOMBAY SALE OF LIQUOR TO

FORTIFICATION BE MONOPOLY

Bombay, To-day. Washington, To-day. Although authoritative details

The House of Representatives na-are not available regarding the val affairs committee yesterday re- Bombay Government's Prohibition A new subscription griffin bejected by 14 votes to 5 a motion to decision, it appears that the sale of Lord Cecil said that the Japanese longing to the Lan Stable revealed eliminate Guam Island from the spirits is to become a Government invasion cold not be regarded as out by Mr. T. L Wong, the North-

a bad temper this morning. Taken Naval Aviation Authorisation Bill. monopoly.

The committee then approved a an isolated event. It was but ono

Europeans will be able to buy phase of the. determination – which ern jockey who arrived here only measure, which authorises $68,400,- what the Government considèrs just

aviation sufficient for their own consump was visible under different forms in two days ago, and having complet-000 for new and better other parts of the world to set backed its exercise, it was about to be bases in Alaska, the Caribbean Sea tion. the clock of current progress.

led back to the stable, when, on and the Pacific.-Reuter. the approach of the mafoo, the China

was fighting not solely pony jumped and kicked, with the her own battles but for the cause result that Mr. Wong was unseat of law, order and freedom for the ed. He landed on his back, appaf- whole world; → Reuter,

enly without being hurt.

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During last week, there were altogether 64 traffic accidents in the Colony as the result of which 30 persons were injured.

This ration has not yet been fix- ed.

Liquor permits are to be issued against payment of a standard fee. No Indians will be granted permits except on doctor's orders.-Reuter-