1939-08-12 — Page 24

More Protests To Lord Halifax

London, To-day. TELEGRAMS of protest to Lord Halifax, the For- eign Secretary, followed the decision of the British Government to hand over to the Japan- ese controlled Chinese administration of Tien- tsin the four Chinese suspects detained in the British Concession there.

JAPANESE

ACTION AGAINST SHANGHAI JEWS

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Reuter, referring to the sudden action taken against the Jews Shanghai, cabled by the "China yesterday Mail's" correspondent

afternoon, says that the Japanese spokesman justified the step on the as acute ground that there was housing shortage in Hong Kong as a result of the 1937 hostilities.

He also said that the Jewish po- pulation in the Japanese-occupied the area was already one-tenth of Japanese population and it was fear- ed that friction might occur between the two communities.

The action of Professor Norman Bentwich and Miss Margery Fry, who informed Lord Halifax they were applying to the British Courts in China for a writ of habeas corpus, is endorsed by the London Trades Council, which also sent a telegram to Lord Halifax, and by the China Campaign Committee, which points out that "certain death" awaits the suspects.-Reu- ter.

BOMBING ON C.K.R.

Several farmers were wounded Kowloon-Canton Line along - the north of Shumchun yesterday morn

raided ing when Japanese planes the area. Namtau was also visited but no bombs were dropped there.

sion are very overcrowded.

There are already 18,000 Jewish The measure threatens a serious

the refugees in Shanghai and five situation as other parts of Settlement and the French Conces- thousand more are expected.

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London, To-day. Reports on Thursday night's great blackout of 28 counties indicate that the measures. taken were largely successful. Defects revealed were of a character easily remediable under war conditions.

A third mishap to aircraft since the beginning of the air exer- cises in which 1,300 aeroplanes have been engaged, occurred when a Fairey Battle bomber crashed in flames near Cran- field, two of the occupants being killed, and one badly in- jured.-British Wireless.

Paris, To-day. A

8 report circulated by

the French news agency that

Minister had Reich Foreign sent a personal message to M. Georges Bonnet, the French Foreign Minister, in which he demanded that France could discontinue interfering in East European affairs, is corrected officially by the Quai d'Orsay."

"The personal message" of the Reich Foreign Minister had. been an answer to a "verbal note" given to the German Am- bassador in Paris on July 1 which contained the French at- titude to the Danzig dispute.

The message from von Rib- bentrop had not been a personal M. Bonnet one but reached through the German Ambassa- dor a few days later; it was a at- definition of the German titude to the same problem.

The visit. of the German Am- bassador to M. Bonnet on Tues- day was connected in no way with this

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Salzburg, To-day. Count Ciano returned to the Hotel Salzburg last night, after spending nine hours with Joa- chim von Ribbentrop, who ac- Salz- companied him back to burg, driving 20 miles through mountainous country.

They dined together at the famous "White Horse Inn," on Wolfgang Lake, and to-day are to the Alps driving across Berchtesgaden, where they will be received by Hitler.

It is believed that Forster, the Danzig Gaulieter, will join them this evening at an open- Shakes- air performance of peare's "Much Ado about No- thing" at Salzburg.

The official communique says they will continue their talks to-day.

Reuter.

Berlin, To-day. The time having come when the right and honour of one of the Axis partners is menaced by force, the Foreign Minis- ters of Germany and Italy have come together to examine the joint measures to be taken, declares Goering's paper, "Na- tional - Zeitung," commenting on the Ciano-Ribbentrop talks. --Reuter.

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