1939-05-10 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1939.

TRAINING FOR ARMY RESERVISTS

M. BLUM

TO MEET

TORY M.P.'S

London, To-day. M. Leon Blum, the French "La- bour leader, who arrived in Lon- don yesterday for discussions with British Labour leaders on the conscription issue, is expected to stay in London for five days.

In addition to Mr. C. R. Attlee and Sir Archibald Sinclair, and British Trade Union Icaders, M. Blum will possibly meet Mr. An- thony

Winston Eden and Mr. Churchill.-Trans-Ocean,

Cordial Soviet

Pact

Talks

London, To-day.

Conditions Of Enduring

Tension

--HORE-BELISHA

London, To-day.

"We live in conditions of enduring tension," declar- ed Mr. Leslie Hore Belisha, the Secretary for War, moving the second reading of the Reserve

MOLOTOV ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Moscow, To-day. Tho newly-appointed Soviet Foreign Commissar, M. Molotov, is expected to make his first speech on the foreign political si- tuation at the end of May before the third plenary meeting of the Supreme Council of the Soviet. —–Trans-Ocean.

and Auxiliary Forces Bill in the House of Com- When The

mons yesterday.

Mr. Hore-Belisha first detailed the present lengthy Hour

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process of mobilisation, and then went on:

"Hostilities to-day are undertaken without notice, Strikes

and most armies in Europe are now kept in varying stages of mobilisation.

Rome, To-day.

the Regular SPEAKING from the "We alone are bound by proce- This would enable

balcony of the Palaz- dure which assures the maximum | Army to train at war strength, and publicity for our defensive prepar- would put it in a position, if ne-zo Venezia after yester- ations, and which by its solemn cessary, to take the field at short day's army parade Mus-

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"

It would also enable the terminology 'imminent national notice.

is training of militia. danger' and 'great emergency'

The personnel of the auxiliary calculated to be misunderstood

called up in the Summer in rota- tion, so that no individual would be "The Bill will remove these dis-in service more than a month.

home.

IT is learned that the abroad and to arouse disquiet at army anti-aircraft units would be

conversations between the British Ambassador, Sir William Seeds, and advantages." the Soviet Foreign Com- missar, M. Molotov, were very cordial.

solini declared:

"The strength of our arms is undoubtedly great, but greater still is the determination of our hearts, and when the hour strikes

Reuter. we shall prove it."

They would be at war stations.

NAVAL PROPOSALS

a number of retired officers would Mr. Hore-Belisha said that reser-

The Admiralty proposed to call be required for six months service. vists hitherto had not been called up for the annual 12 days' train-out 3,800 men of Class "D" of the A certain proportion of the Aux- ing for which they were liable, and Royal, Fleet Reserve in two batches iliary Air Force would be called

not exceeding three up similarly to anti-aircraft units. M. Molotov wants time to con-many were unversed in handling for service

months for each batch.

It was intended to start calling sider the terms of the British pro-modern weapons.

Some 1,500 recent pensioners out persons affected about a month posals.

would be similarly called out, and after the Bill is passed.-Reuter.

There is no reason to suppose that the main line of Russian for- eign policy has undergone any

Reuter. alteration.

HOPEFUL ATTITUDE

London, To-day.

The British press shows op- timism with regard to the Anglo- Soviet discussions.

The "Daily Telegraph" reports

Ambassador that the British

in

Moscow had conversations with M.

Molotoff, the Foreign Commissar, which, although no definite

results

have been reached, justified a hope-

ful attitude. :

The Soviet decision to

new Ambassador: ·to

send a

Warsaw, a

post which had not been filled for

two years, and. to send a Minister.

RESERVIST TRAINING

a

It was now proposed to call up in batches at convenient dates large proportion of the Regular Reserves for a period not exceed- ing three months, as far as could be foreseen.

WEST POINT

TAXI-DANCER STRIKE

to Bucharest, is taken as proof that SOME 50 Chinese taxi-

the Soviet by no means intends to D cold-shoulder collective security. Trans-Ocean,

S.O.S. FROM

BRITISH SHIP

IN SULU SEA

dancers

went on "strike" on Monday Grand night at the Cabaret in the Kwong- chow Hotel, West Point.

Friction over earnings between the manager and the dancing girls is said to have been the cause of the trouble..

The girls, on Monday night, re- Manila, To-day. fused to go home and spent the The British freighter "Linder-night in the dance-hall. They slept bank" has radioed that she is on the floor, on tables and chairs. sinking, and is asking for imme- diate assistance

Yesterday, however, the manage- The message adds that the ment of the Cabaret was taken freighter struck a reef on Arena over by a foreigner and the girls Island in the Sulu Sea, 250 miles returned to their dancing last. south of Manila. Reuter

night.

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