1939-06-24 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1939.

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TURKEY JOINS ANGLO- FRENCH PEACE LINE-UP

Agreements Signed In

Paris And

Ankara

Paris, To-day.

A Franco-Turkish agreement of mutual assistance was signed at the Quai d'Orsay yesterday by M. Georges Bonnet, the Foreign Minister, and the Turkish Ambassador.

At Ankara, an agreement by which France cedes the Sanjak of Alexandretta to Turkey, was signed at the same time.

M. Bonnet, in a statement in Paris after the signing of the

DEATH FOR CURRENCY SMUGGLING

Rome, To-day.

A Bill has been prepared en- acting the death penalty for ma- jor offences against the currency laws.

All such offenders will be dealt with by the Ministry of Finance. -Reuter.

FAREWELL TO PROMINENT INDIAN

About fifty Indian residents at- tended a farewell party given to Mr. Pritam Vaswani by Mr. S. S. Mamak, proprietor of Mamak and Co., at the Gloucester Hotel yester- day afternoon.

Mr. Pritam, who is the proprie- tor of Messrs. Utoomal and Assu- damal Co., Dina House, is sailing to-day on board the s.9. Ranpura for India on nine months' home leave.

ing that someone would come from Chichester to fetch the the words "Rev.

heard or seen of the couple.

ible inscription.

A. Cameron,

agreement, said it followed exactly LONGEST FRENCH cht. Nothing further has been Redcastle Manse,” and an illeg-

the terms of the Anglo-Turkish de- claration of May 12 and marked the solidarity essential for the main- tenance of peace.

The two Governments recognised it was necessary to ensure the estab- lishment of security in the Balkans.

FRENCH DECLARATION

ELECTRIC LINE

Train Travels 363 Miles

At 69 m.p.h.

The longest electrified railway line in France from Paris to Hendaye via Bordeaux, 2 distance of 505 miles — was inaugurated when the While the agreement ceding Al-Tours-Bordeaux section was placed -exandretta to Turkey was being in service.

initialled in Ankara, M. Bonnet is- sued the following declaration:

The Franco-Turkish

A special train of nine Pullman cars, of a total weight of 50 tons, “France declares she has no in- conveying Government and railway - tention of renouncing in favour of officials, left Paris at 7.25 a.m. and a third party the mission she arrived at Bordeaux, 363 miles assumes in Syria and Lebanon." away, at 12.40, having thus main- agreement tained an average speed of just over over Alexandretta has not been 69 m.p.h. published, but a Havas agency des- If this train were run regularly it patch from Ankara says that thewould constitute a world record for withdrawal of French troops from the combination of speed with dis- Alexandretta and handing over of tance, since the run from King's the territory is expected to be com- Cross to Edinburgh, though' 30 pleted by July 22.-Reuter.

miles longer, is performed by steam train at 642 m.p.h., while the world's fastest run, from La Junta to Dodge City, in the United States, at 83,6 m.p.h., is only 2021⁄2 miles long.

DOCTOR WHO IS

IN PRISON

Name To Remain On Register

پر

SPEED REGULATIONS

The general regulations applying to French railways as a whole-pre- vent any immediate increase of speed, though the locomotives would be capable of it.

The longest electrified railway in has left

a single State in Europe is from the to ap- Medical Brenner Pass to Reggio-Calabria in Italy, a total of 620 miles. France has more than 2,000 miles of elec- trified railway lines more than Germany and Austria together, and

Dr. Eric Finch Peck Wormwood Scrubs Prison pear before the General Council. He is serving. an months sentence for unlawfuly killing a woman whom he knocked -down while driving.

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He heard his counsel successful-only a little less than Italy.

The latest official return of elec- ly plead with the council for his tric railways in Britain showed that name to remain on the register in 1936 there were 1,800 miles of After consideration of the case in

electrified track. Since then how- camera, the president, Sir Norman Walker, announced that the coun-ever, many hundreds of miles have

been added, .cil had not seen fit to erase Dr.

Peck's name.

Dr. Peck was registered as of YACHT LEFT FOR A

Wharflane, Bourne End, Bucks,

and he had been summoned to ap- WEEK UNCLAIMED

pear before the council, charged with being convicted at Aylesbury last October of unlawfully killing Mary Ann Price on Sept. 8, 1938, ;and of driving a motor-car while

under the influence of drink.

Apart from the 18-months- sen- tence, Dr.. Peck was sentenced to six months imprisonment on the drink charge; the sentences to run .concurrently.

Mystery Of Couple Who Disappeared

EFFORTS TO TRACE VESSEL'S OWNER

The Isle of Wight police are trying to trace the owner of an Mr. Thomas Carthew, K.C., for 18ft auxiliary yacht named Venus Dr. Peck, said that it was by no which has been lying unclaimed means certain that he would want off Ryde for nearly a week, to practise again, but he might She arrived off the eastern want to. "He wishes you to con- esplanade, and a man and a wo- sider the appalling punishment man with two attache cases land- that he has had d up to date, and ed by a dinghy. They stayed the probably the worst part of it is night in the town, giving the -the knowledge that he has taken name of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, and this woman's

left the following morning say-

The police at Chichester state that no boat resembling the Venus is known in that locality.

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The Venus is a clinker-built yacht painted white with black bottom. She has a three- quarter deck, is rigged with a A suitcase containing a quan- tan mainsail and jib and is fitt- tity of women's clothing was ed with a Brooks single-cylinder found in the cabin. Among other auxiliary engine. She was tow- articles on board were a hurri-ing a 10ft varnished dinghy with and the name "Gramarye" painted on part of a cigarette case bearing the stern. cane lamp, an oil stove

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