1939-08-11 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 11, 1939.

INSTRUCTIONS

REACH CRAIGIE

With Japanese -U.P. MAN-

Impatience At Its Height

Tokyo, To-day.

on

The Anglo-Japanese negotiations may now be re- sumed after reaching a critical stage as a re- sult of Japanese impatience. The Japanese military delegates have announced their intention of returning to Tientsin Monday if the talks are not resumed by then, and Mr. Kato is reported by Reuter to have in- timated that should Sir Robert Craigie's in- structions arrive after the departure of the Army delegates, Japan would use her own

ORDERED

TO LEAVE ITALY

Rome, To-day. H. R. Ekins, the correspondent in Rome of United Press, has been expelled from Italy, and the office of the United Press has been clos ed for an indefinite period by or- der of Signor Mussolini.

This action has been taken, it is stated, because of the United Press report that Il Duce had had a heart attack.

Ekins is leaving Italy. by noon to-day. Reuter.

judgment on whether it was worth while re- MAN IN IRON

suming the conversations.

RUMANIA CALLS TEN CLASSES TO COLOURS

Bucharest, To-day.

Four Rumanian Army Corps out of seven are to be brought up to war-strength on August 15 by the calling up of ten classes of reserves, it was an- nounced yesterday.

Rumania will then have half a million troops under arms.

On September 15, yet more classes are to be called to the colours.

Troops will be concentrated mainly along the Western fron- tier and in Dobruja,

Re-armament in Rumania is being continued with all pos- sible. haste.

M. Calinescu, the Prime Min- ister, who is also in charge of the War Ministry, made a tour of inspection during the last few days in the company of the Minister of Munitions of the arms and ammunition fac- tories of Ploesti, Sinaís, Brasov and Facaras.

The two Ministers then pro- ceeded to the Western frontier country to inspect the forti- fications on which work is in progress at the moment. Trans-Ocean.

The British Embassy in Tokyo has now announced that new in- structions have been received from London, so that the resump- tion of Anglo-Japanese negotia- tions would be possible.

A decision about the date for beginning the new deliberations wil be reached to-day.

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LONDON DISCUSSION

LUNG MARRIED YESTERDAY

Chicago, To-day.

A marriage licence was issued

In the meantime, the purport yesterday to Fred Snite, the fam- 1of the conversations between

ous "Iron Lung" man, and Miss Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secre- Teresa Larkin, aged 25, who is tary, and Dr. Quo Tai-chi, the Chinese Ambassador, yesterday described as an old friend of the morning is being kept a close se-family: cret in official quarters.

They were married yesterday Neither from English nor from morning in the Snite home. Fred Chinese sources is anything to be Snite remained in the "iron lung" learned about the matter.

throughout the service.

In non-official quarters, how- The honeymoon will be spent in ever, hints.

are dropped that a trailer specially equipped to leave little doubt that most of carry “iron lung" apparatus. the time during the 50-minute| Reuter conversation was devoted to deal-

ing with economic questions.

How far these are directly con- cerned with the Anglo-Japanese Tokyo conversations is a matter for pure speculation.

ANTHRACITE MINES

It is, however, known that not. only the Foreign Office but also the economic experts of the Bri- tish Government are engaged in- tensively on the consideration of the unsolved problem of the an- thracite mines of the Anglo- Chinese Finance and Commercial Corporation in Honan.

The Peiping puppet government has demanded that the corpora- tion surrender its rights to it.

In London, it is asserted that this is the first attempt by Chin- ese quarters inspired by the Jap anese to expropriate British pro-

GUERILLA COUP AT perty in the territory occupied by

KAIFENG

Chengchow, To-day

the Japanese. Trans-Ocean.

LORD HALIFAX

Chinese mobile units broke Into LEAVES LONDON

Kaifeng, on the night of August 6,

London, To-day.

and dynamited the Japanese Army's Lord Halifax, who had spent two Intelligence Office. Many Japanese days at the Foreign Office, return were killed and wounded.

ed to Yorkshire yesterday after noon.

Kaifeng was thrown into great confusion. The Japanese immedi ately enforced curfew and conduct ed a house-to-house search.

He will be back in London next week for a few days.

While in the north, the Foreign The Kaifeng-Tunghau... highway Secretary will, of course," be in was badly damaged by the guerillas. constant touch with the Foreigh

-Central News.

Office.-British Wireless.

RIBBENTROP AND CSAKY

Budapest, To-day.

In contradiction of reports "in certain foreign papers,” it was au- thoritatively declared yesterday evening that at the meeting be- tween von Ribbentrop, the Reich Foreign Minister, and Count Csaky, the Hungarian Foreign Minister, the question of a military pact be- tween the Reich and Hungary was not brought up for discussion. Trans-Ocean.

WELFARE WORK FOR MINERS

LONDON, TO-DAY,

LAST YEAR WAS A RECORD YEAR FOR MINERS' WELFARE WORK IN THE UNITED KING- DOM, AND PARTICULARLY' IN REGARD TO THE PROVISION OF PITHEAD BATHS.

Baths were provided last year for another 55,600 men, bringing the total affected since the in- auguration of the movement to 328,000..

In addition to the provision of pithead baths, the miners' welfare

fund had spent nearly £5,620,000 to

ate on recreational and cultural

·ctivities, while over £3,500,000 has been contributed to convalescent homes for miners, hospitals, am- bulante and nursing services.

Last year expenditure totalled £1,264,302 bringing the aggregate of grants since the beginning of the fund to £16,386,706,--British Wireless...

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