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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1939.

LABOUR PARTY PERMITS RESERVIST BILL TO GO THROUGH UNCHALLENGED

London, To-day.

"It might be possible to have a government that might use these powers for their own pur- poses," stated Mr. J. J. Lawson (Labour, Ches- ter-le-Street) during the House of Commons debate on the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces Bill yesterday.

Mr. Lawson asked the Secretary for War to go more carefully into the question of reinstatement of men called up.

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He said if these points satisfactorily met the Opposition had no objection to passage of the Bill.

Mr. Duncan Sandys (Conserva- live, Norwood) and Colonel H. L. Nathan (Opposition Labour,

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dwelt on the danger of surprise air attack.

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(Conservative)

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Whether he continued with the vessel as a through passenger to Shanghai or not could not be as-

FOR certained from the local offices, of

Cairo, To-day. The Egyptian Prime Minister yesterday received Air Marshal Balbo, Governor of Libya, and had half an hour's conversation with him.

It is understood that Marshal Balbo assured the Premier of "Italy's friendship for. Egypt."

The Libyan forces, he said, "con- stituted no menace for Egypt!"- Reuter.

LORD HALIFAX

the company. In accordance with

instructions from the head office, the "China Mail" was informed, no information concerning passengers is to be released.

Furthermore, no one with the exception of port officials, members of the company's staff and actual are to be allowed to passengers

Mail board any of the French Line's vessels while they are in port.

A representative of the "China Mail" who endeavoured to secure. a pass was informed that even the Press came under the ban.

INVIOLABLE RULING

M. M. An official of the local

alterna- office said that he had no tive in the matter. The Messageries Maritimes had been ordered by the this

GOING TO GENEVA French Government to make

London, To-day. The Foreign Secretary, Lord Hali- fax, leaves. London on Saturday for Geneva for the League Council meet- ing, which opens on May 15.

Lord Halifax will stay in Paris a few hours en route, and will hold talks with the French Premier, M. Daladier, and Foreign Minister, M. Bonnet-Reuter.

Mrs. W. L.. Cunningham, of 22, Fort Street, reports that between 2.80 and 4.30 yesterday afternoon. fur coat valued at $50 was stolen from her roof.

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So far, Mr. Bertram has not re- gistered at any of the leading Hong Kong hotels, enquiries By the "Ching Mail" reveal. It is, therefore, pro- bable that Mr. Bertram has decid- ed to go on to Shanghai,

Mr. Bertram recently published a book entitled "North China Front.' A New Zealand Rhodes Scholay, Mr. Bertram is one of the handful of keen reporters who have seen the hostilities from a major vantage point with the Chinese Army. He was, in fact, the first Briton to meet Mao Tse-tung, Commander- in-Chief of the Eighth Route Army, in the former Communist Army ..... Shansi.

The Chief Air Raid Warden has Mr. notified the appointment of H. W. Leyden as Head Warden for Hong Kong and Major C. M. Man- ners O.B.E., as Head Warden for Kowloon,

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