THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 3, 1939,
JEWISH EXTREMIST
OUTRAGES IN
PALESTINE
Half Jewish Urban Bus Routes Suppressed
Four Britons And Three Jews Killed
Jerusalem, To-day.
As punishment for a bomb outrage at the Jaffa gate, in which five Arabs were killed and 19 wounded, the military commander has sus- pended three further Jewish bus routes. Thus half the Jewish urban routes have now been
suppressed.
It is announced that their resumption will depend on whether the present succession of outrages
ceases.
The council of the Jerusalem Jewish community has issued a statement expressing horror and .condemnation of the murderous .outrages and appealing for dis- .cipline. Reuter,
Jerusalem, To-day. An entire railway patrol, con- sisting of four British policemen and three Jewish supernumeraries,
was killed by an Arab gang 85
miles north-west of Jerusalem.
OVERWHELMED
The men were in a trolley on the main railway line when an over- whelming number of Arabs attack- .ed.
Five Arabs were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb explosion near the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem.
A large number of telephone
ITALO-GERMAN NAVAL COOPERATION
MILAN, TO-DAY.
AN EXTENSIVE PROGRAM-
ME FOR CO-OPERATION OF
THE ITALIAN AND GERMAN NAVIES WILL BE DRAWN. UP IN THE NEAR FUTURE, AC- .CORDING TO THE "GAZETTA
DEL POPOLO,"
The plan will be similar to that
EGYPT MAY
JOIN MUSLIM PACT
Cairo, To-day.
When the Egyptian Foreign Minister visits Ankara he will dis- cuss Egyptian adhesion to the non-aggression pact between Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Afghanistan which was signed in Teheran on July 9, 1937.
The Egyptian Foreign Minister will also see the Soviet Ambassa- dor in Ankara.-Trans-Ocean.
wires were put out of action as a result of three other bomb out-
rages.
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Reuter,
PROMOTIONS IN VOLUNTEERS
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve the follow- ing promotions in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, with effect from 16th May-
Captain Harry Owen Hughes to be Major.
Captain Evan George Stewart to be Major.
Lieutenant Andrew Brown to be Captain.
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lost in putting the clauses of FRENCH STORE
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pact into operation, the paper states
that a commission under the sup- CHINA EMPORIUM, LTD. .ervision of the two Foreign Minis- ters is in process of formation and will begin work immediately,
of
The visit of the Secretary State in the Air Ministry, Colonel- General Milch, to Italy resulted, ac- cording to the paper in an important agreement regarding co-operation. of the air forces of the two coun- ∙tries in and outside Europe. -
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Significant negotiations · in economic sphere have also been con- cluded or are approaching conclu- :sion.—Trans-Ocean.
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