1939-07-27 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 27, 1989.

EXPLOSIONS AT. POST OFFICE AND CANAL BRIDGE Further I.R.A. Outrages In Liverpool District.

Twenty Sticks Of Dynamite In Letter-Box

London, To-day.

Two further bomb outrages occurred in Liverpool

in the early hours of this morning. In one case a post office was almost completely demolished, the entire front of the building collapsing.

NOW YOU TELL ONE

WARSAW, TO-DAY

WHAT ARE CLAIMED TO BE THE VIEWS OF A PROMINENT BRITISH PUBLICIST ON THE

PEACE CONDITIONS TO BE IM- POSED IN THE EVENT OF BRI- THE NEXT GREAT WAR WERE TAIN COMING OUT VICTOR IN PUBLISHED HERE YESTERDAY IN THE CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER "KURJER WARSZAWSKI":-

The terms of peace would be

It is assumed that the bomb was placed in the in-

terior of the building through the slit in the let-it is stated:--- ter box.

After investigation the police ex- pressed the opinion that at least 20 sticks of dynamite must have been used to cause such a terrific effect.

The post office is situated next to the Adelphi, the biggest theatre in Liverpool, but fortunately the effect of the explosion seems to have been limited to the post of- fice building.

DISAPPROVAL

OF PRESS

METHODS

Sir,

In the second case, the suspen- sion bridge across the Liverpool-tions in the House of Commons In the belief that ques-' Leeds Canal at Green Lane, Mag- relating to Press Posters and hull, seven miles north-east of Liv- Headlines, have not come erpool, suffered considerable dam-

your notice, I append them here- age.

under:--

Nobody appears to have been in- jured.

Parts of the bridge fell into the Canal, making navigation impos- sible.

under

Was

"Sir Percy Hurd (Cons., Devizes) asked the Prime Minister if he aware of the harmful effect upon in- ternational relations of sensational and IMPORTANT LINK

exaggerated newspaper posters and headlines in a section of the press, and Cranes were brought to the scene if in the next of his weekly confer of the explosion to make the canal ences with the Press the Foreign Se- navigable again as quickly as pos-cretary would represent this to them sible, and

with

R view to discovering some to repair the bridge,

re- medy. which is an important link between Liverpool and central Lancashire. -Trans-Ocean.

THE KING-HALL LETTERS

LONDON, TO-DAY:

(1) Heligoland to be returned to

Britain.

ATTEMPT ON

LIFE OF PUPPET NANKING MAYOR

Shanghai, To-day. Another attempt was made yesterday morning to assassin- Kuan-wu, who it will be recalled, ate the Mayor of Nanking, Kao was one of those who narrowly escaped death by drinking poi- soned wine at a banquet given for Japanese and Chinese officials at the Japanese Consulate in Nan- king.

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who

the

is

a

or-

Three shots were fired at (2) The Kiel Canal to be placed Mayor by a man whose identity has

under international control. not been established but (3) Bavaria and Austria to be believed by the Japanese to be

separated from the

Reich member of an anti-Japanese and transformed into a Catho-ganisation. lic German kingdom. (4) Restitution of Czechoslovakia in its historical frontiers. (5) Memel to be returned to

Lithuania.

(6) East Prussia and Danzig to be incorporated into Poland. (7) The Western frontier of the Corridor to be shifted back as far as Kolberg. (8) Upper. Silesia as far as Op- peln to be made over to Po- land.

(9) The Rhine to form the Ger- man-French frontier.-Trans- Ocean.

HAUL OF CAMEL CIGARETTES

Mr. Chamberlain: I am glad to take this opportunity of deprecating the dis- play of posters which contain sensa- tional, exaggerated, or misleading cap- Yeung Yiu-wing, 23, Chiu Kin, tions which are calculated to give rise 27, both unemployed, and · Ho to unnecessary anxiety at home and undesirable reactions abroad. The same observations are not infrequently ap plicable to headlines in a section of the

Press.

The Foreign Secretary, through the THE ACTIVITIES OF COM-news department of the Foreign Of MANDER STEPHEN KING-HALL fice, consistently draws the attention WERE THE SUBJECT OF DIS- of representatives of the Press to these dangers, and I am glad to think that IN THE COMMONS proprietors and editors of newspapers in this country are aware of that, and with some exceptions are headful of the advice offered,

CUSSION

YESTERDAY.

The Opposition wanted to know whether the dispatch of commander King-Hall's circular latter to Ger- many had been the subject of diplo matic conversation between Berlin and London.

Kan, 52, shop master, were charged before Mr. R. Edwards this morning, with receiving stolen property.

Det: Sergeant R. Mcvey said that a large case of Camel cigarettes was stolen from a lorry in Con- naught Road West on Monday. The cigarettes found on first and second defendants were their share, after division among a gang. First de- fendant sold his share to the third defendant for $18.

ence to the exceptions, whether

Sir Percy Hurd asked, with refer-

A fine of $100 or six weeks', the Prime Minister would say why the hard labour was imposed on the Press should not manage its own un- first two, while the third defen- The Parliamentary Under Se-ruly members as did doctors, lawyers, dant, who pleaded not guilty, was

and other people in the professions. cretary in the Foreign Office,

discharged, the Magistrate giving Mr. R. A.Bulter, denied that Mr. Chamberlain: I think the Press him the benefit of the doubt. this had been the case and repeated do, for the most part."

the In calling your attention. to the "categorical denial” given on July 17 by the B.B.C. in its German Prime Minister's disapproval of ing unauthoritative and news programme to the effect that

"Sensational, exaggerated or Commander King-Hall had no con- leading captions which are calculat- nection whatever with the Foreigned to give rise to unnecessary an- Office and that this Ministry "Could xiety" I do earnestly suggest that not be connected in any way with the local Press by refraining from his work nor was in any way res- the issue of such reports and posters

· ponalble for it?”

will render this Colony a very real service.

mis- reports.

distorted

am Sir, Yours faihtfully,

TE PEARCE The

ing Mail" does not all ways agree with the British Prime Ministe whose policies,, too, occa- sionally appear "calculated to give I think there is no gainsaying unnecessary xiety rand, undesir- presentable, ·resoti at home and iling ir Hong Kong hus abroad

itself in the

senti

Two questions, were, left unans wered. One was put by the Liberal member, Mr. Mander, who wanted the fact that to know whether the British govern- tension ment had any objection to the King- been Hall, letters.

The second was put

Aervative member, Mr asked whether it

all to send this Informs many Trana-Ocenti.

of

torted reports fullest agreement

which on ments, expressed have been and, to a large

uppe

otion:

inda nature.

observations

xiety and fears ahdu rather than "stirred up

an allayed

remain puzzled,

letter should

Sublish

Fortunately the Mayor was not

hurt.

Although the Chinese police and the Japanese gendarmerie imme- diately started an extensive search action so far they have not succeed- ed in tracking down the assailant.

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