1939-04-29 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 29, 1989.

HITLER'S

Page

AUDIENCE

OF MANY MILLIONS Speech Carried To Every Corner Of Globe

No Surprises In Reply To Roosevelt

Berlin, To-day.

Besides the 888 members of the Reichstag, Hitler had an audience of millions of people, for mi- crophones carried the speech to every corner of the globe.

Practically all Hitler said about President Roose- velt's suggestion was rehearsed beforehand in the press, and contained no surprises.

Everybody knew that Hitler would have nothing to do with

NEW WATERLOO President Roosevelt's suggestion,

BRIDGE FIRE

Blazing Hut Peril To

Centre Pier

TRAFFIC HELD UP OVER RIVER ·

Fire in a carpenter's hut on a wooden gantry endangered the centre pier of the new Waterloo Bridge recently. The hut, which

contained, in addition to tools, coats and other stores, was prae-

and it only remained for him to' explain in detail why he could not accept the American proposal.

It is thought the speech may be a prelude to intensification of Ger- man press criticism of Poland..

Stories of atrocities alleged to have been committed against Ger- mans in Poland havé again been appearing in the Nazi newspapers in the last few days.

NO ANSWER

Political circles are saying that Hitler's promise to give an assur- ance to individual States if they

ROOSEVELT- WILL AVOID REFERENCE

New York, To-day. President Roosevelt will avok all, reference to Hitler's speech in his address on Sunday at the opening-of the World's Fair, it was stated by a White House se- cretary yesterday-Reuter.

REBEL LEADER IN PALESTINE SHOT DEAD

Arabs' "Patriotic Figurehead"

Abdul Rahim el Haj Moham med, so-called "Commander-in- Chief" of the Arab rebels in Falestine, was shot dead while trying to break through a cordon of troops surrounding the village of Sanur, in Samaria.

RECTORY GATES CHAINED UP BY VILLAGERS

Crisis has come again to the rebel parish of Mellis, near Ips- wich, where the villagers forced the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, Dr. Whittingham, to abandon his plan to amalga mate their village church with its neighbour, Burgate.

Now the villagers hear that, in spite of their victory, the rec- tory has been let

Padlocked

Determined that the only ten- ant.ever to cross the threshold of

DO IT NOW!

And Do An Extra Service ! Fill in your Registration Form NOW.

the ivy clad rectory will be their new rector,

Acting on information that a band led by Abdul Rahim and an-

they have chained and pad- other Arab leader, Suleiman Abuļ

locked the entrance gates. Khleifa, was in the village, the "We thought we had won our 1st Battalion the Border Regi battle and that it was all over, ment surrounded the place. but we shall present a united R.A.F. 'planes co-operated with front in this new crisis just as the troops.

we did before," a villager said: A number of Arabs attempted "No one has any 'right to let the ask for one, is in no way an acto break the cordon. The troops rectory without the consent of ceptance of President Roosevelt's opened fire, and Abdul Rahim's the church officials, and the only identity was established only man the village will have there is ргорова!..

after he had been killed.

Khleifa was wounded and tak- en prisoner.

tically burnt out.

Firemen prevented the flames Such an assurance would pre- : spreading to the gantry and other sumably be entirely a matter be- woodwork used in the construction tween Germany and the States cons of the bridge.

cerned, so that any violation there- of would have nothing to do with

Reuter. any third State.

Traffic on the old Waterloo Bridge was suspended while the fire lasted, and hundreds of people │|| who had started to cross were kept on the bridge for nearly half an hour. They spent the time watch- ing the outbreak.

SHE SUES FOR LOST TEMPER

Visit To Mufti'

The official communique states that Abdul Rahim had been ab- sent from Palestine and only re- cently returned. It is believed] that he spent a considerable, time" at Beirut, where the Mufti is in exile.

He always maintained consid- erable independence as one of the two principal leaders of the re-

Members of the Auxiliary Bri- :gade were among the firemen, who

A girl aged twenty-two declar-volt. had difficulty in reaching the gan-ed at Birmingham Assizes that as In a statement issued on Jan. try, which was well out in the

result of injuries received in a 9 the War Office described Abdul river. They coupled long lengths road accident she lost her temper Rahim as "an admirable figure- of hose together and, working their very easily.

head for external propaganda, way over the partially constructed.

Miss Margaret Carless, a which seeks to represent the bridge, succeeded in extinguishing blonde hairdresser, of West- rebellion as a purely patriotic the flames half an hour after the bourne-road, Walsall, Staffs, sued movement." outbreak.

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:-) Dr. Thomas Longmore; of Lich- The statement added that he field-street, Walsall, for damages. disliked intensely "the campaign Mr. Arthur Ward, for Miss of assassination and intimidation Carless, said that in running out waged on moderate Arabs who of the way of Dr. Longmore's might oppose the Mufti's policy." car she was struck by another car.

Youths Give Alarm

Workmen engaged on the con- struction of the bridge aided the firemen, who, just previously, had been engaged on a fire at a paint factory in Cornwall-road, Lambeth. Her injuries included a frac- fured skull, and she was away from work for four months.

ETON COLLEGE PLANS

The alarm was given by two 17- -year-old members of the Auxiliary In the witness box Miss Car- Fire Brigade Sidney R: Hillier, of less said, "I have a terrible tem-Bomb-proof shelters are to be the Brompton-road Fire Station, per now. I think it must be ner- built at Eton College. The schen and B. W. Doe, of the Clerkenwell ves."

for digging trenches in t Station. They are despatch rid Mr. Ward: Were you an oring fields has been abandoned, ørs, and were returning from duty dinary, "equable, and agreeable at the fire at the point factory. } person before the accident?-

Well, I think I was.

Hillier said, We saw smoke The case was adjourned.

coming up thr

-the bridge, so we

separating the ro

footpath and

the

play

The shelters will close

One the boys. houses) line will be built on School Hald,

era in the field alon houses:

ructed

a new rector. *.

"We have found one," and weŊ ́ are waiting for his presentation to be approved by the authorit- ies."

FALSE TEETH

CLEAN AS NEW AFTER 15 YEARS'

USE

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leney: the Governor

Claude Bramall