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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 20, 1939)
CHINA MORE CONFIDENT NOW THAN AT BEGINNING OF HOSTILITIES
London, To-day.
Professor P. C. Chang, speaking at the Inter- national Peace Campaign meeting in London, said that China was even more confident over the result of the war than at the beginning. He appealed to peace loving countries to attack the coalition of warmongers' weakest link by help- ing China.
GOLDEN GATE EXHIBITION OPENED
San Francisco,
To-day.
Thousands of people flocked into the Golden Gate Exhibition as soon as the doors were opened at 8 a.m. on Saturday. Thirty-six nations are exhibiting.
He emphasised the close rela- tionship betweeen events in the Far East and Europe.
Was
Professor Chang' said it the "surrender of September în Europe which emboldened .. the Japanese attack .on Canton,. within a few miles of Hong Kong.
The occupation of Hainan was a fresh blow against France; Britain and the United States. It was, he said, the strategic cen- tre for an attack against Hong Kong, Indo-China or the Philip- pines..
The Japanese were now equip ping Hainan as an aeroplane and submarine base, he added. - Réu
The island on. which the Exhibi-ter. tion is being held will eventually be converted into a base for trans- Pacific air liners.-Reuter..
60,000 MILITIA JOIN GENERAL FRANCO
Hendaye, To-day.
HE HELD THE ROYAL SECRETS
Man. who held Royal secrets, Inspector Edmund Dear, retired} last month, after being police chief at Windsor Castle since 1934. He had served twenty-six years in the Metropolitan force.
He had charge of police ar Four thousand additional mili-rangements at the funeral of King tiamen have crossed back into George V and he told a reporter Spain, bringing the total militia how the Duke of Windsor, then now joining General Franco's for- King Edward VIII, paid a sur- ces since the Catalonian collapse to prise visit to St. George's Chapel 60,000.-Reuter.
on the eve of the funeral/
MORETON BAY UNDAMAGED
London, To-day.
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Everything had been arranged when the King called unexpected- ly at the Castle and insisted seeing all for himself. After the funeral King Edward congrat- ulated the inspector on the smoothness of the arrangements.
An Abdication Secret One of Inspector Dear's great- est secrets during his time at the Castle was the Abdication.broad- cast. News of it did not get out
It is learned in London that ex-until a few hours before the
amination of the British liner Moreton Bay, which ran aground outside the Suez Canal and was later refloated, reveals that no dam- age was suffered.
ex-King was due to arrive at the Castle to make his historic speech. Private rooms in the Royal apartment were wired a week be
The liner was granted a certi.fore, but onl ythree men knew ficate of seaworthiness and proceed why the wiring was being done. ed on her voyage.-Reuter.
NIKS
ArGuaranteed, Cue For Hong Kind Foor
On the might of the broadcast the. Castle was closed except to those with very urgent business.
Mr. Dear is succeeded at Wind- sor Castle by Inspector Wyley, of Staines..
FUNERAL OF PORE
Telegraphic information; has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies that to- morrow, Tuesday, has been selected as the day to mark the funeral of Fhis late Holiness Pope Pius XI All Haga on Government buildings. and launches will be flown at half] mast from 8''n.m. to sunset on that day.
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