1939-05-17 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1989.

Empress of Australia Due At Quebec at 1 p.m. (H.K.T.)

ANCHORING DOWN

RIVER: LANDING IN MORNING

Quebec, To-day.

To-day no-one can talk of anything but the im-

pending arrival of Their Majesties.

At the present rate of progress the Empress of Aus- tralia should reach the anchorage below the

BUDGE BEATS TILDEN

Wembley, To-day.

Donald Budge, former Wimble- don champion, opened his English professional tour yesterday by beating W. T. (Big Bill) Tilden. The red-haired Californian 'won casily by 6-2, 6—2.-Reuter.

Island of Orleans, nine miles from Quebec, INCIDENTS ON

shortly before midnight (local time).

Some people are planning to drive to the island to

get a glimpse of the Royal squadron overnight.

THREE YEARS FOR WOMAN ON HEROIN CHARGE

Three years hard labour was the sentence imposed on Lo Kui, a woman, by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Macgregor at the Sessions this morning when she pleaded guilty to possession of 7,000 heroin pills on April 11,

When asked by His Honour why she had done such a foolish thing, accused said that a travelling trader left the pills in her house and

When had gone to Macao. asked further why she took the blame, accused said that

at the time she had been sick for 17 days and did not know about the pills. As the trader was away and could not be traced, she had to take the blame.

ATLANTIC FLIGHT DARING

St. John's, To-day. The Swedish airman, Carl Back- man, started yesterday from Bot- wood airport for a transatlantic flight to Sweden in a 90 h.p. single- engined monoplane without wire- less apparatus.-Trans-Ocean.

DEMOBILISATION IN SPAIN

The weather yesterday was beau- tiful, but was expected to be show- ery during the night.

MANCHURIAN BORDER

Hsinking, To-day.

The Empress of Australia will remain in the anchorage until this morning, when she will complete

An ever-growing number of her voyage to historic Wolfe's Cove frontier incidents near Lake terminal, where Their Majesties Neuir Nor between Japanese and will disembark at 10.30 this morn- Manchurian troops and Mongo- ing (local time).

lian bands is occurring.

The King and Queen will be pre- sented to members of the Canadian Cabinet and other high officials in a simple quayside ceremony.

QUEBEC'S WELCOME Thousands of spectators have gathered on the cliffs to hear the Royal Salute of 21 guns fired from the Citadel, official summer resi- where Their Majesties will stay to- dence of the Governor-General,

night (Wednesday).

Quebec's welcome is voiced in all the local newspapers, which have printed coloured supplements and devote columns of space to every imaginable detail of the visit.

Some journals print welcoming verses in French and - English,

FIRST TO GREET KING Mr. Mackenzie King, the Cana- dian Premier, left Ottawa last even- ing, and will be the first to greet Their Majesties as they land on Canadian soil, Mr. Mackenzie King will accompany the King and Queen throughout the tour of the Domin-

ion.

The Minister of Justice, Mr. E. Lapointe, will be in charge in the capital during the Prime Minister's absence.-Reuter.

"RESURRECTION"

A special orchestra formed by Mr. E. G. Pelegatti will support the Choral Group in their performance of Perosi's Oratorio, "The Resur- rection", to-morrow night at the China Fleet Club Theatre. An or- General Franco has issued a de-gan, lent by the Salesian Institute, is also being installed. It will be played by Rev. Fr. Riganti.

Burgos, To-day.'

cree providing for discharge of the 1909 class by the end of May.

Discharge of this class follows

Mongolian detachments which had penetrated into Manchurian territory yesterday were driven out after a battle lasting several hours, and in which aircraft and artillery participated.

The district around Lake Bhir Nor is now garrisoned by strong Japanese and Manchurian detach ments.--Trans-Ocean.

POPE PIUS HOLDS AUDIENCE

Vatican City, To-day. Pope Pius XII received yesterday the Patriarch of Antioch, Mon- signore Kyrill Mogabgad, who was accompanied by numerous Bishops of the Greek-Melchitic rite.

"COLONIAL DEMANDS MUST BE MET"

"Hitler is Britain, but his

must be met."

Vienna, To-day. not unfriendly to colonial demands

This declaration

was made yes-

terday by General Ritter von Epp, head of the Reich Colonial League, in a speech to the League.

General von Epp added: *The former German colonies will be returned, maybe in one year, maybe in ten." Reuter.

NEW PARTY IN INDIA CONGRESS

CALCUTTA, TO-DAY. THE LEFT WING OF THE ALL-INDIA CONGRESS, AT A SESSION PRESIDED OVER BY MR. SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE, DECIDED TO FORM A NEW PARTY WITHIN CONGRESS.

Mr. Bose, who recently resigned from his post as President of Con- gress, explained to the mass meet- ing of 30,000 why the Left Wing had decided to separate.

Ue-

He declared the situation manded the formation of the bloc. -Trans-Ocean.

GUERILLA WORK NEAR PEIPING

Chungking, To-day. Monsignore Cesarini, Assessor of

Chinese guerillas tore up many the Congregation of the Oriental rails and destroyed telegraph poles Church, also attended the recep- at Langfang, on the Peiping- tion.

Tientsin Railway, midway between the two cities, states a Tientsin report.

The Pope welcomed his guests in an address in French and at the close conferred the Apostolic Communication on the line was Benediction on all present as well disrupted for a considerable time. as on all believers on Greek- Japanese troops which arrived Melchitic rite, scattered through-later searched in vain for guerillas. Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and else they are alleged to have slaughter- out Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Venting their wrath on villagers,

where and on their associations, ed some sixty of them. works and collaborators.

News.

The Pope also received in pri- Supreme Apostolic court, Cardinal vate audience the Prefect of the Gasparri, the Prefect of Congrega- tion for Dissemination of Faith, Cardinal Biondi, the Prefect Congregation of Council, Cardinal

Central

LAUNCH COXES FINED

the recent discharge of the 1907 ed her, she replied, "I thought he Marmaggi, the Prefect of Congre For leaving the harbour without and 1908 clas£ 28.-Trans-Ocean, was decent."

away when Robinson first kiss- The case was adjourned.

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gation of Religious Orders, Car- a clearance from the dinal La Puma as well as the Office, Leung Kam-to, coxswain of Apostolic Nuncio in Italy, Mon- steam-launch "Kung Hing" was signore Borgongini-Duca, Trans- fined $10, by the Honourable Com- Ocean.

mander G. F. Hole, Harbour Mas- ter, at the Marine Court this morning.

Kwong Fung, coxswain of the

RADIO FINES steam-launch "Tsuru Maru" was

fined $5 for unlawfully lying out-

Fines of $10 each were to-day side three other launches along- imposed on Mak Chang, living side the ss. Haruna Maru on May at the Green Island Cement, Com-7 last,

pany's quarters, and Mrs. - Chung

Pul-chi, of Kilung. Street, for. pos- licence. Neither set was in good session of wireless-sets without condition."