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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 21, 1989.

AMERICAN SOIL POLISH-GERMAN

EXPERT IN PALESTINE

LONDON, TO-DAY.

PALESTINE IS BEING VISIT-

DISPUTE: POPE'S INTERVENTION

Vatican City, To-day. Monsignor Cortesi, the Papal ED BY THE GREATEST EXPERT IN THE WORLD ON SOIL ERO- Nuncio in Warsaw, had a long con- SION PROBLEMS, AN AMERI-ference yesterday with the Cardinal

CAN, DOCTOR LOWDERMILK, WHO IS CHIEF OF RESEARCH OF THE SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Dr. Lowdermilk was invited by the Palestine Government to tour

Secretary of State.

According to official reports, Mon- signor Cortesi's journey to Rome was connected solely with the no- mination of seven new Bishops in Poland.

the country, and he has spent some. However, according to other re- weeks in making his observationsports, Mons. Cortesi bears a reply not only in Palestine itself but also to the Pope's recent suggestions for in the Negeb and the Akaba area settlement of Danzig and of Trans-Jordan.

German-Polish problems.

Questions he is investigating, which bear upon relations between land cultivation and erosion of the soil and proper conservation both of soil and water, are of particular importance to Palestine, where the Arab population has increased un- der British administration from 600,000 to more than a million.

The prosperity and happiness of

general

Polish circles categorically deny any that Mons. Cortesi brought plan from Colonel Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister. Reuter.

WAS THETIS

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this large and increasing population SABOTAGE VICTIM? M.G.M. Picture

depends directly upon scientific utilisation of available land and

Washington, To-day.

water resources, and it is in con- A resolution for appointment

nection with this that Dr. Lowder- milk's advice will be so valuable.

of a Congressional committee to investigate the possibility that

Thetis and Phenix was

due to

It will be recalled that the re-loss of the submarine Squalus, cent statement of policy for Pales- tinė, issued by the British Govern- ment at the same time as announc-sabotage, has been introduced in

the Senate by Senator Barbour. ing that the High Commissioner was being given power to prohibit and regulate the transfer of land, made clear that the policy of the Government would be directed to- wards development of the land and improvement where possible of me- thods of cultivation.

In the light of such development it would be open to the High Com- missioner should he be satisfied that the rights and position of the Arab population would not be pre- judiced contrary to the obligations laid upon the mandatory by article six of the mandate to review and modify prohibition or restriction of land transfers.-British Wireless.

OPERATION ON LABOUR LEADER

The solution suggests that a committee be directed to investi- gate the whole question of activi- ties of foreign spies in the Unit- ed States. Reuter.

FIRST FILM OF ROYAL TOUR

the

The first films to be received in Hong Kong of the Royal tour of Canada are due to arrive by Clipper this afternoon, having been rushed from the United States by M.G.M.

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The film is to be shown at the

from Cathay Theatre to-day o'clock to 11 o'clock, with a showing| every half hour.

To-morrow, the Cathay Theatre will show the film again, from 2:30 11 p.m., also every half p.m. to

hour. London, To-day.

The major operation which the Opposition leader in the Commons, Mr. Clement Attlee, yesterday un-

derwent in a London nursing home, CHINA DEBATE ON

is stated to have been successful, and Mr. Attlee's condition is satis- factory.

THURSDAY

London, To-day.

He was taken ill at the time of the Annual Conference of the La-

Mr. A. C. Moreing, M. P. (Con- bour Party at Whitsun, and has not been able to resume his Parlia,servative Member for Preston) will initiate the debate on Thursday on mentary duties. He underwent

the situation, in China, with parti- minor operation a few weeks ago.

cular reference to Tientsin.-Reuter. -British Wireless.

"NIKS

&

PREMIER'S PARTY

London, To-day.

The Prime Minister and Mrs. Chamberlain gave a luncheon party at 10 Downing Street yesterday in honour of the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harwood.

Guests included the High Com- missioner fória Canada and Mrs. Vincent Massey, Admiral Sir Dud- Toy Pound and Sir Arthur Edding- ton-British Wireless,

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