1939-06-03 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 8, 1939.

PROTEST BY FOREIGN KREISLER TO BE A EMIR SENDS HEIR

OFFICE TO B.B.C.

Talk On France And

Danzig

The Foreign Office is understood to have made strong representations to the B.B.C. concerning passages in a talk on France's attitude to the present international situation which the B.B.C. broadcast.

The talk was given by Mr. Percy Philip, an English journalist in Paris who frequently broadcasts on matters affecting France. He is chief correspondent in France of an American daily newspaper and is a former president of the Anglo- American Préss Association in

Paris.

FRENCHMAN

an

Fritz Kreisler, the violinist, ex-' pects shortly to be a naturalised Frenchman. In

interview in "Paris-Midi" he states that he has applied for naturalisation papers and that he was immediately given

the promise of French nationality.

Kreisler, who was born in Vienna in 1875, was the pupil of Massard and Delibes at the Paris Conserva- toire.

TO SERVE TURKEY

:

'You Cease To By

1

My Son'

NEW U.S. CAR COSTS LESS THAN £70

Two Cylinders, 50 m.p.h.

A two-cylinder car with a

top

The Crown Prince of Transjordan, Emir Naib, has arrived in Angora speed of 50 m.p.h., petrol consump-

and

to begin three years' service in the tion of 50 miles per gallon, Turkish army.

costing less than £70, has been placed on the market by Powel Crosley, a Cincinnati manufacturer. It can be turned out at the rate of 200 daily.

This had been arranged by Emir Abdullah, the ruler of Transjordon, and Gen. Ineunu, the Turkish Presi- dent, when they met in London dur- ing the Coronation of King George

VI.

A deep friendship now binds Emir Abdullah and Gen. Ineunu, and in token of this the Turkish Presi- dent has appointed Emir Naib as his own aide-de-camp, with the rank of major.

Exception is believed to have been taken by the Foreign Office made to Danzig. One of these was: to references which Mr. Philip "It is giving away no stable secrets, and telling the opponents nothing they do not know, to say. that France will not willingly fight to Emir Naib said that before prevent Danzig from again becom- leaving Amman for Angora his ing a German town.”

father said to him: "From to-day

The car, weighing 9251b, is only 10ft long from bumper to bumper, with a wheel base of 80 inches. It has three speeds, four-wheel brakes and safety-glass windows. Its petrol tank holds four gallons.

you cease to be my son and become the son of Gen. Ineunu."

He emphasised the cordial re- lations between Turkey and the Arab world;

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