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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 17, 1989

EXPLOSION IN

P. AND O. LINER

Three Killed

& Twenty-Three Injured

London, To-day.

Lloyds, Colombo, says that the Narkunda, on the Australia run of the P. and O., has reported that the explosion in No. 6 hold has caused a fire and several casualties among the crew. Three were killed and no less than 23 were injured. The liner, which was bound from Colombo to Aus- tralia, carried 150 passengers, none of whom were hurt.

ZIONISTS LODGE ANOTHER PROTEST

London, To-day.

The fire is now under control. It is believed that the mails for Ceylon were kept in the hold where explosion occurred.

The police are sceptical of a theory that a bomb was in the hold.

NAZIS'

34,000 WARPLANES!

London, July 10.

"It is learned from a most re liable Hungarian source that the German General Staff recently in- formed the Hungarian authorities that Germany has at present. 94,- 000 war planes," the "Evening Standard" stated to-day. This number the paper added, includes training and obsolete craft.' It is estimated that Germany has 100,- 000 pilots, but a large percentage are not sufficiently trained. Havas.

BOMBS FOUND IN SHANGHAI

Chungking, To-day,

Puppets Do Not Obey The Strings

Chungking, To-day. DISCREPANCY of opinion among the Japanese in hinder- ing the formation of a bogus. "central" govern- ment as proposed by Wang Ching-wei, expell- ed Kuomintang leader.

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One group headed by Lient.- General Kenji Doihara___still_ hopes that Marshal Wu Pei-fu, the erstwhile warlord, will come out to head a puppet government. The explosion was so severe that Two hand-grenades were dis- Another group headed by Gen- one body which was blown for se-covefed in a filling station of the eral Sugiyama, Commander-in- veral yards was found to be unre- Asiatic Petroleum Company near Chief of the Japanese forces in cognisable. The injured are chiefly the intersection of Nanking and North China, continues to sup- Goanese and most of them are Szechwan Roads in Shanghai yes-port the Peiping Provisional terday, according to a report from Government" under Wang Keh- that city.

mín, while a third group favours The bombs failed to explode. the formation of a bogus "cen- The police are making investiga- tral" government. by Wang tions. Central News,

Ching-wei. Central News.

The Brttish Government's deci-suffering from burns. Reuter. sion to suspend Jewish immigration to Palestine for six months from October I was condemned at an

emergency conference convened by MIDDLESEX MAN

the Zionist Federation of British and Ireland, held in London yes- terday.

The conference was attended by over 200 delegates and passed a resolution protesting against the Immigration Ban, declaring that no policy of artificial exclusion can deny to the Jewish people the exercise of its historic and inalien- able right to entry into Palestine.

Reuter.

FIGHTING

ROUND SWATOW

Yungyun, To-day.

Chinese forces on the Chaoan- Swatow sector during the weekend counter-attacked near Chaoan, and claimed momentary ré-possession: of Ampow, seven miles north Swatow on the railway,"

of

Chaoan city was actually re- entered by: Chinese forces by the south gate when they engaged and killed and wounded a large number of the invaders in fierce street ̈fighting.

BOUND OVER

Lance Corporal Ronald Reeves, 23, of the Middlesex Regiment, appeared before Mr. E. Himsworth this morning in connection-with-the incident-in Nathan Road on Friday night, when he was alleged to have broken a taxi-meter in a Kow- loon taxi.

This. morning, Inspector Whelan told the Court that de- fendant had no police record.. A military officer added that Reeves had a very good all- round record in the Middlesex Regiment.

Mr. Himsworth said that, in view of Reeves' good record, he would not impose a fine or prison sentence. He bound him over in the sum of $20 to be of good behaviour and to keep the peace for one year and order- ed him to pay the taxi-cab company $70 by way of com- pensation.

Later, with heavy reinforcements, GERMAN PLANS FOR

`the Japanese forced the Chinese to

withdraw again.

Toposi, which was recaptured on Friday night, remains in Chinese hands.

Central News,

FRENCH MILITARY MILITARY MISSION

Istanbul, To-day. The French Military Mission, con- sisting of

Staff Officers of all three services, has arrived here en

cara to discusa, the "common

urkish defence" plans.

CAMPAIGN IN EMPIRE EXPOSED

Paris, To-day.

The latest development in the

investigations into Nazi propa- ganda attivity in France is the. unconfirmed report that French counter-espionage } agents have gone to Loivion in order to "com. municate "to their British col arues documents in their pos- the propaganda cam- rried out in the

Reuter.

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