THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 6, 1989
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Early Agreement STATEMENT
With Soviet Expected
London, To-day.
The Soviet reply has been received in London; the
texts were presented to the British and French Ambassadors in Moscow on Friday.
PROMISED TO COMMONS
London, To-day.
Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, Par liamentary Under-Secretary for the Admiralty, will make a state- ment in the House of Commons to-morrow on the Thetis disaster. -Reuter.
The British Government is carefully studying the THETIS DISASTER
reply, which conforms with the points made in
M. Molotov's speech last week.
The next move, Reuter understands, is finding a
KING SENDS
formula for meeting the Soviet condition that MESSAGE OF tri-partite guarantees be given to the Baltic
states, although the latter have made plain they CONDOLENCES
do not desire guarantees by anyone, on the ground that their safety lies in complete neu- trality.
Japanese
Admit
Spear Incident
Peiping, To-day. THE Japanese spokes-
man has now admit-
London, To-day.
The King and Queen in a message Other important points in M.
to the First Lord of the Admiralty Molotov's speech do not seem to
express their deep sympathy with present the same difficulty. The
the relatives of victims of the ca- conclusion of a purely defensive tastrophe of the submarine Thetis. mutual assistance pact between
her Queen Mary also conveyed the three countries is unques-condolences to the First Lord of
the Admiralty.-Trans-Ocean.
The King's message to Lord Stanhope reads:
tioned.
been
It is confidently expected that the form and extent of imme- diate effective assistance to be
"The Queen and I have given in the event of aggression greatly distressed to hear of the on states other than France, Bri-disaster to the Thetis, which has tain and Russia will be satisfac- torily settled."
The British Government is not |publishing the text of the note.-
Reuter.
ted that the Japanese WAR ON OPIUM
Army at Kalgan has
been holding Lieutenant- SMOKING AT
Colonel C. R. Spear, the
British Military Attache, CHUNGKING
since May 26.
Lieutenant-Colonel Spear was expected from Chungking at the end of
Tuesday May and on (May 30) the Japanese press car- ried a story about a mysterious foreigner, claiming to be a Third Power military attache, who had been arrested north of Kalgan on May 26 and who had been taken| to Kalgan.
CHUNGKING, TO-DAY. ALL OPIUM SMOKERS IN CHUNGKING HAVE TO GIVE DRUG HABIT BE- UP THE FORE JULY 1, UNDER RE- GULATIONS ANNOUNCED BY -KUO-KUAN, HO GENERAL MAYOR OF THE CITY.
Even addicts possessing limit- Lieutenant-Colonel Spear was ed licences for the purchase, and known to be carrying a passport, to smoke, opium are now to be but there has been no admission forbidden this privilege under by the Japanese that they were holding a Britisher until to-day.
The Japanese spokesman in Peiping, explaining the arrest, said that anyone coming from the Chinese lines was treated as a spy.
Reuter.
[No explanation is given of the ar- rest of Lieut, Cooper, who was sent to negotiate with the Japanese authorities at Kalgan; and did not come from the Chinese lines, but from Peiping].
JAPANESE WAR CASUALTIES
Chungking, To-day. Large numbers of disabled Ja- panese soldiers recently arrived from the front left for Japan by the Asahi Maru on Saturday, states a Shanghai report,--Central News.
the new laws which form part of a nation-wide drive to rid China of opium smoking within a year.
Reuter.
UNLICENCED BOY:
DRIVER
A 17-year-old Portuguese school- boy of Kimberley Road, was fined $10 at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for driving a car without a licence.
Traffic Sub-Inspector P. Y. Tsai, who prosecuted, said his attention was drawn to the car owing to the bad manner in which the vehicle was driven along Gascoigne Road, Owing to the lad's age, the Traffic Department could not issue him 'with a driving licence.
been attended by the sad loss of so many lives. Please convey our deep sympathy to the relatives of
those on board."
Reuter.
BRITAIN
MOURNS THETIS VICTIMS
London, To-day.
Britain to-day mourned the 99 men of H.M. Submarine Thetis. In village churches, in cathedrals and on board warships special prayers were offered up.
A special signal from the Com- mander-in-Chief of the Home. Fleet, Admiral Sir Charles Forbes, called 30,000 naval ratings to a special me- morial service on board every ship and at all naval shore establish- ments at Portland; a religious ser- vice was held over the spot where the Thetis lies by those still present who participated in the attempt to save the lives of her crew.-Reuter.
ROBBERY IN N.T.
Making a hole in the roof of the building, three armed robbers en- tered the Tung Yik Grocery Shop at Ping Shan, New Territories, early this morning.
Chung Sheung, 62, master of the shop was awakened by shouts from his wife. The robbers knocked the man to the ground and after ran- sacking the place for about 15 minutes decamped with $100, in cluding $50 in Chinese currency.
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