THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1939.
Recommendation For British Shipping In The Orient
PRESIDENT'S BID TO END
COAL STRIKE
Washington, To-day.
House between coal operators and
GOVERNMENT
STUDY NOT COMPLETED
London, To-day.
The conference at the White The Government has not yet completed considera-
miners has ended.
The
conference was called by
FRENCH
MINISTERS MEETING
Paris, To-day.
The Council of Ministers is meeting to-morrow (Thursday). morning under the presidency of the President, M. Albert Lebrum.
tion of the Report of the Imperial Shipping-Reuter. Committee on British shipping in the Orient.
President Roosevelt in an endea Mr. Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, MAN WHO PREYED
vour to end the widespread coal
strike.
First statement issued after the
meeting was by Mr. John Lewis to the effect that the negotiators are
announced this in the House of Commons yes-
terday in reply to a question from Mr. Ben ON WOMEN'S
Smith (Labour, Rotherhithe).
meeting again to-day in New York. Steps were being taken, added Mr. Stanley, to as-
Later President Roosevelt told his daily press conference that he asked the representatives of the coal owners and miners to agree on a plan by Wednesday night under which the mining industry would resume immediately. ---- Reu- ter.
GOERING BOUND FOR SPAIN
Rome, To-day. Field-Marshal Hermann Goering, the Nazi Air Minister, left San Remo yesterday by sea for Valen- cin. It is stated he is en routé to} Hamburg.
The steamer on which he is travelling is accompanied by two German destroyers,--Trans-Ocean.
BATTLESHIPS
LEAVE BREST
Paris, To-day.. The British battleships Royal Sovereign and Royal Oak left Brest yesterday morning after a stay of, several days in the French naval port.
The presence of the British war- ships in Brest led to many demon- strations of Anglo-French ship-Trans-Ocean.
certain the views of the Governments in other parts of the British Commonwealth.
had been in the hands of the Minis-
Mr. Ben Smith said the Report' ter a good many months now, and a month ago Mr, Stanley promised he would look seriously into the matter.
Was it not a fact that the. Ja- panese were taking trade from this country through their intercourse with the Dominions, he asked.
Would the Minister expedite the Report and also get into communica- tion with the Dominions, as recom- mended by the Committee?
REASON FOR DELAY
Mr. Stanley replied that they were getting into communication with the Dominions.
Reason for the delay was due to the fact that they had been con- sidering proposals of their own to assist liner services.
SALVAGE OF
HISTORIC BRIG TO BE TRIED
Paris, To-day.
company
an-
SPECTACLES!
Munich, To-day.
Great public interest is at pre- sent being taken in the acts of a strange kind of law-breaker whose sole misdeed has consisted in tear- ing spectacles from the faces of women in the streets and destroy- ing the glasses either by trampling them under foot or laying them on tramway lines.
For many months the police in The French salvage
Munich tried in vain to arrest the "Opera" will, the newspapers
culprit, but as the man always nounce, shortly make the attempt to made these attacks at night and salvage the wreck of the
always in
.different parts of the French brig "Telemaque" which sank
city, and as he did not molest any in the Seine estuary
person for weeks, his identity re- off Quillebauf in the year 1789, at the time of
mained a mystery. the
French revolution, during stormflood.
a
A copy of the ship's which still exists shows that
manifest the cargo of the "Telemaque" included They were waiting to see how
a large number of gold and silver those proposals fitted in with the bars and other valuables amongst Report.-Reuter.
ONLY TOO GLAD -WHEN
London, To-day.. Asked in the House of Commons. friend-yesterday whether in view of the declaration by Hitler that he de- sires, the peaceful evolution of the European tension, the Government proposed to resume, the Anglo-Ġer- man trade discussions, the Presi dent of the Board of Trade, Mr. Oliver Stanley, replied that when the tension abated he would be only A number of Slovak newspapers, too glad to see the discussions re- including the official organ, have newed with a view to been banned in Hungary.
improving Trans- Anglo-German trade relations.
Reuter.
PAPERS BANNED
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Budapest, To-day,
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them a necklace which belonged to Queen Marie Antoinette.-Trans- Ocean.
HUGE GERMAN
BARTER DEAL WITH CHINA?
New York, To-day. A Sino-German barter deal, involving an exchange of commodities to the value of $10,000,000 a month, has been reported to the Depart- ment of Commerce from Shanghai. Reuter.
CHINESE ATTACK
MANHWEI
Ningkuo, To-day. Chuantsiao, west of Pukow,
has been recovered by, Chinese forces.
The Chinese dispersed the Japanese garrison following. street fighting.
now
The Chinese inits which broke into Anking, have retired owing to the arrival of large Japanese-reinforcements. The opposing forces now face
The Munich police, however, made widespread -plans and at the same time through the press warn- ed women against allowing strange men to accompany them on their way as the mysterious lawbreaker was accustomed to do.
BOASTS OF NUMBER
Finally the police succeeded in catching the culprit who turned out to be about 40 years of age and in regular and remunerative employment and who appears never in his life to have stolen anything but spectacles belonging to women.
He admitted his guilt without apparent shame boasting of the great number of spectacles he had taken from women and girls and ¡declaring that he had wanted to do stolen articles. nothing else than to destroy the
The court has ordered a medical examination of the culprit in order to arrive at a solution of this strange criminal-
enigma.
psychological
Trans-Ocean.
JAPANESE RAIDS ON FOOCHOW
Foochow, To-day. Heavy property damage was caused by Japanese planes in two severe air raids on Foo- chow on Monday.
Hundreds of houses in the busy sections of the city wereTM destroyed. Central News.
each other in the villages out- side the west gate-Central News.
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