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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 8, 1989.

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NEUTRALITY ACT BATTLE IN SENATE FORESHADOWED 34 Sign An Anti-Roosevelt Declaration.

Filibustering Threat

Washington, To-day.

Senator Hiram Johnson, representing San Fran- cisco, stated yesterday that 34 Senators have signed a declaration that they will fight any change in the existing Neutrality Law "by every honourable and legitimate means at our command.”

The declaration reads: "We are unalterably oppos- ed to repeal or modification of the present Neu- trality Law.

“We are against discretion being lodged in the hand of any Chief Executive to determine the aggressor or aggressors in any war abroad. "We believe in the true neutrality of our nation in

the case of any armed conflict.

The declaration is interpreted as

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a threat to engage in a prolonged AMERICAN

debate of the Administration's neu- trality proposals.

Some Senators are said to have

ANTARCTIC

considered it an open threat to fill- EXPEDITION

.

buster (delaying by obstructionist tactics).

NOT PERTURBED

Washington, To-day.

The American Government is pre- Administration Senators are not paring plans for an Antarctic Ex- greatly perturbed by Senator John-pedition. son's move.

They assert that his influence is

not what it used to be, and profess increasing confidence that Pre- sident Roosevelt will ultimately get his way, while at the same time ad- mitting that protracted and bitter debates are likely-Reuter.

NO AMERICAN LOANS ABROAD

TRIPLE

ALLIANCE DISCUSSION

Moscow, To-day,

It is understood that new in- structions were received yester-" day from London and Paris in connexion with the negotiations for a triple alliance.

The British and French Ambus- sadors will now seek an interview with M. Molotov, the Soviet For- eign Commissar, to-day-Reuter,

H.K. EXCHANGE FUND REPORT

CHAMBERLAIN POSTPONES STATEMENT ON

DANZIG

-London, To-day.

Mr. Neville Chamberlain's state- ment on Danzig, which was ex- pected yesterday, will now be made on Monday.

Reason for postponement of the announcement is that the Polish Ambassador, Count Raczyniski, who is now in Warsaw, will not return to London till Sunday evening.

The official report on the opera-

The Ambassador will be received tions of the Hong Kong Ex- by Lord Halifax, the Foreign change Fund, covering the period Secretary, to whom he will give an from June 30, 1938, to December account of his conversations with 31, 1938, state that the Fund Polish statesmen. purchased a small quantity of si ver subsidiary coins to be re- fined and marketed.

The British Cabinet considers it necessary to be in possession of the Ambassador's report before Mr.

It was not found necessary for Chamberlain makes his statement the Fund to operate in the local in the House of Commons. Trans-

Ocean. exchange market during the period.

On 31st December, 1938, the CHIEF OF NEW

Certificates of Indebtedness out- standing amounted to $191,134,-

887 which is equivalent to AUXILIARY

The Expedition will be directed |£11,945,930 at 1s. 3d. the middle by Admiral Byrd, the famous An-market rate on that day; the tarctic explorer, and it will start total assets of the Fund amount- probably in September..

ed to £13,035,370 of which 73.06 Congress last week appropriated per cent. was held in gilt edged US$340,000 for the expedition and sterling securities, 26.85 per cent. it is expected that private donors on deposit in London at call or will contribute an equal amount.

short notice and .09 per cent. in

Admiral Byrd is now in Washing-silver. ton and is discussing details of the expedition with the treasury de- partment and the department of the interior,

Despatch of an expedition is re- garded as tantamount to claiming of the Antarctic regions discovered WASHINGTON, TO-DAY. by Admiral Byrd and Lincoln Ells- IT IS AUTHORITATIVELY worth, for the United States. REPORTED THAT ADMINIS- It is declared that these regions. TRATION LEADERS HAVE are of strategic importance and it AGREED TO ELIMINATE THE is believed, moreover, that they con- PROPOSED SUM OF $500,000,-Itain great mineral wealth.~Trans- 000 FOR FOREIGN LOANS Ocean. FROM PRESIDENT ROOSE-

VELT'S SPENDING PRO-

GRAMME.

Instead, the Export and Import AMERICA'S NEW

Bank may be permitted a capital increase of $100,000,000, with the proviso that the funds only be used for financing exports and that none be lent to foreign gov- ertiments. Reuter.

CHINESE ENTER KONGMOON

Shiuhing, To-day.

Chinese regular forces with the

guerillas are reported to have

ing:

Kongmoon.

headquar rant was Іовьев. in utside

orthern ate of Sunwul Central News.

NAVY CHIEF

Washington, To-day. The Senate adjourned yesterday as a mark of respect on learning of the death of. Mr. Claude Swanson, Secretary of Navy.

Meanwhile, Mr. Charles Edison, Assistant Secretary of Navy, au- tomatically succeeds Mr. Swanson,

Reuter

COMINTERN QUIESCENT

cow-To-day.

FAMOUS FILMS FOR POSTERITY

Walt Disney's First Effort

GERMAN PICTURE OF JUTLAND

FIRE SERVICE

The appointment of Mr. D. H. Blake, the well-known local solici- tor, as Superintendent of the new Auxiliary Fire Service, is announc- ed in the "Gazette,"

Other appointments, etc. gazet- ted, include the following:

Hon. Mr. W. J. Carrie to act as Colonial Secretary.

Mr. H. R. Butters to act as Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

Mr. A. B. Purves to act as Direc- bor of Public Works,

Mr. A. el Arculli to be a Mem- ber of the Board of Education for a further period.

Mr. Li Tse-fong to be tempor arily an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council.

About 300 films have been added to the National Film Library of the Bri- Lieut. M. I. de Ville resigned his tish Film Institute during the - past nine months. The library now has m′′ its collection more than 1,000 Alms, of a total length of more than 2,000,000 feet,

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commission in the H.K.V.D.C.

Miss Chang Tak-kwan to be Public Vaccinator.

assumed

Mr. R. M. Lavalle Recent acquisitions include an inter-charge of the Argentine Consulate. esting group of British films' made at the close of the silent period. Two of The Deputy Director of Health these, "The Lodger," produced in 1920 Services to be a member of the and "Downhill," produced in 1927, both Town Planning Board. of the famous British director, Alfred featuring Ivor Novello, are early works Hitchcock,

trick-films made by Starevitch, inven-

I the puppet film. It includes his Another film of the group, "Blighty first essay of this kind, "The Beatle's Was directed in 1927 by Adrian Brunel, Deception," made in 1912.. Involving with Ellaline Terrins, Lilian Hall- the use of model, insects, which are Davies and Godfrey Winn in the cast, slowly moved stage by stage just as It was an attempt to portray British the film cartoonist moves his drawings, life o on the home front during the war, it created a sensation when first is- Of the same period is "When Fleet aued, N

"Little Red Riding

Meets Fleety also 1927, produced in When Walt Disney was working at Germany but made by a mixed English publicity films for the Kansas. Slide, and German cast headed by Bernard Company, in 1928 he devoted his spare Goatske and Henry Stuart. It is a film time to making of the Battle of Jutland and was come Hood. This tim mended the time by Earl Jellicoc. been discovered

TRICK FILM SUN Library

filmis, acquired ono of the his cont most interesting is an early Rene Clair of cartoon. filmi made in 1924, The Phantom of the the Mailin Rouge." This, is important for

of the fits-uns of milinie exposure, which was the popular in the French films of that pié period.

be; con-

The library has

lection of other

obby of which has the National Film kay secured Disney the Oswald series. first set him on

"ary has now rld of

of 00

supplied to