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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 24, 1989.

Bow Street Case Reveals

Extent Of I.R.A.

I.R.A. Plot

JEWS TO HAND OVER PRECIOUS METALS AND JEWELLERY

Berlin, To-day.

Within a fortnight from to-day," Jews. of German nationality and Jews without nationality must sur- render for sale to municipal pawn- shops all objects in their possession of gold, silver and platinum, well as precious stones and pearls."

A decree to this effect was pub- lished officially yesterday.

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Payment will be made according to instructions by the Minister of Economics. Trans-Ocean.

TREASON BILL PASSES DAIL

-DUBLIN, TO-DAY. THE SECOND READING OF THE TREASON BILL, WAS PASSED IN THE DAIL YES- TERDAY BY 79 VOTES TO TEN.

ARMS DEPOTS

AND

MAGAZINES MENACED

London, To-day.

Lt.-Comm. R. T. H. Fletcher (Labour, Nuneaton) asked in the House of Commons yesterday whe- ther it remains Government policy that there is no need to enlist large numbers of infantry- men with a view to service on the Continent. Mr. Neville Chamberlain replied that the policy

CHIEF

SCOUT'S BIRTHDAY

Nairobi, To-day.

The Chief Scout, Lord Baden- Powell, and Lady Baden-Powell, yesterday celebrated their eighty- second and fiftleth birthdays by attending Girl Guide celebrations at Government House, Nairobi.

The Chief Scout was in excel· lent spirits. Reuter..

FATAL MID-AIR

was to recruit to the establishment of the Army COLLISION

as it appears in the 1939 Army Estimates.

ANOTHER

REFUGEE CAMP

IN TERRITORIES

now in

It is officially disclosed that Eamonn de The Premier, Mr. Valera, had asked for its unanimous fourth refugee camp acceptance in order to safeguard course of erection in the New Ter- their freedom.

ritories along the Man Kam To Road he peaceful, said, but there were signs ahead for some 2,000 or more refugees that might indicate troublous times, at present without shelter in that so they wanted powers to deal with

neighbourhood. possible difficulty.

The country was

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Mr. Cosgrave said the Opposition accepted in principle the Bill but cident; some Labour and some: Independent mem- bers voted against-Reuter.

SOVIET RED ARMY TAKES NEW OATH

Moscow, To-day. The Soviet Red Army yester- day celebrated its "coming of age" day.

On the day of the bombing, in-. sixty-seven wounded were admitted to the hospitals in Kowloon (not including seventeen who were treated as out-patients), only one case being admitted to the

Queen Mary Hospital.

Three of the cases admitted to hospital had been wounded in Bri-

tish territory. The remainder were

from the neighbourhood of Shum and Re- Chun Station, the Casino a fugee Camp and Shum Chun Vil- lage. Many were transferred from the St. John Ambulance Associa- tion Hospital and First Aid Post The day was marked by the en- in the Casino and from the First tire army and navy, from comman-Aid Post manned by the Hong Kong ders down to the rank and dile, tak- Red Swastika Society.

ing a new oath under which each soldier vows to be honest, courage ous, disciplined and vigilant:"

Each man took the oath individu- ally and later signed a paper. Reuter.

VOLUNTEERS

SIX WOUNDED DIE

Six of those wounded in Chinese territory died after arrival at the Kowloon and Kwong Wah Hos- pitals, and this. number of deaths. bas to be added to the twolve who were killed or died of wounds in British territory in the neighbour- hood of the British post at Lo Wu

That establishment was fixed with regard to calls which might be made on the Army in any part of the world.

NEAR KARACHI

Karachi, To-day.

Two pilots, brothers, were kill- ed in the tragic air smash in which

Lt.-Comm. Fletcher asked how two Indian National Airways planes. the reply could be reconciled with were involved yesterday. the statement of Sir Samuel Hoare (Home Secretary) last year that in case of attack on France we should have to co-operate imme- diately.

Mr. Chamberlain, said: "That la a question which I think cannot very well be debated in present

Reuter. circumstances."

The planes collided in mid-air while on a flight to Lahore, and three were killed.

In addition to the pilots, passenger named Davidson was killed Mr. Davidson is report- ed to have been connected with an American oil concern. Reuter.

AMERICAN CLAIM TO BRITISH PACIFIC ISLAND

London, To-day.

On the supplementary estimate for £3,044,000 for the Colonial and Middle Eastern Services in the House of Commons yesterday, the Secretary for Colonies, Mr. Malcolm Macdonald, referred to the sum of £7,500 required for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

Mr. Macdonald explained that the development of air services in recent years had brought into prominence some of the islands hitherto con- sidered of comparatively little importance. Among those which it was anti-position was no follows. Not only ofpated might be of great use as the British but the American Gov- intermediary Innding places in ernment, claimed the island, s trane-Pacific air services, were An Anglo-American agreement There remain at the moment Christmas Island and Canton: Is- had boon reached comparatively re-

cently that we should hold the some twenty-six wounded under land.--- care at the Kowloon Hospital,

There were three islands which land in joint trust for a period of twenty-four at Lai Chi Kok Relief Chinese volunteers in Manchuria Hospital; three at Kwong Wah Hos might be important in connection years, and since then “dikcussions have inflicted extensive damage pital and one at the queen Mary with development of trans-Pacific have been proceeding between the 'upon the Peiping-Liaoning Railway Hospital, making a total of fifty-air services, and consequently woltwo governments in regard to do

WRECK RAILWAYS Bridge.

IN MANCHURIA

Chongchow, To-day.

at Tahuchan and the Antung-Muk-four. den Railway near Fengchong, ac- cording hore.

to

· Mr. Macdonald hoped the negotia- tions might be concluded in the

our future.

had sont them officials of our Co-tails of administration and details lonial Government, and this sum of of carrying out the trust. dispatches recolved Special measures are having to 171600 was required to pay the cost be taken to prevent the introduc-of establishing them in the islands Jupangað reinforcements are betion of smallpox Into these terri- and carrying on their work during

rushed to strategic points tories as a number of cases of the the last two year along communication lines to fore-discaso have been discovered stell further attacks. —

Nawar

Central amongst those crossing into the New Territories from Kwangtung.

JOINT TRUST regard to Canton

At present there were. British and American representatives on the the Island Router.