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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1939.

BRITAIN SIGNS MUTUAL ASSISTANCE PACT WITH POLAND: ALL-EMBRACING

London, To-day.

TO GO INTO BATTLE

CAN AGREEMENT for mutual assistance between NAZI PROPAGANDISTS

Great Britain and Poland was signed at the For- eign Office yesterday by the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, and the Polish Ambassador, Count Raczynski.

لملاح

The agreement consists of eight articles laying down the circumstances in which the parties will come to each other's assistance,

pushed by the Reich was the creation

Berlin, Aug. 21. Among latest, military preparations,

and air forces. to-day of two propaganda companies which will be attached to the land

and reports from the front in

These companies are to be formed of newspapermen

a way as to buoy the population's mo who, in war, will draft communiques and stenographers

rale.

such

A Foreign Office statement says that agreement between the United Kingdom and Poland was reached during the visit to London last Spring of Col. Beck, the Polish For- eign Minister, and was announced in the House of Com-istry's Press Bureau and chief of the mcns on April 6.

military and of the contracting

It adds that it is a source of lively the competent naval, satisfaction to both governments that air authorities the negotiations for the present agree-parties. ment have been so speedily and satis- factorily concluded.

Article One provides that should one of the contracting parties become engaged in hostilities with a European power as a consequence of aggression by the latter, the other party will immediately give the party contracting engaged in hostilities all the support and assistance in its power.

.

INDIRECT AGGRESSION

EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION

an ex-

in-

change of complete and speedy in-

Article Five provides for formation concerning

any dependence of the contracting par- ment which might threaten the

develop-

Article Six lays down contracting parties will communicate that the to each other the terms of any mutual assistance against aggression

which they have already given or may

in

ties.

Article Two states that the provi-future give to other States. -sions of Article One also apply in the event of any action by a

which

European Article power

clearly threatened -directly or indirectly the independence of one of the contracting parties and was of such a nature that the party in question considered it

resist with its armed forces.

vital

to

Should one of the contracting par-

Seven provides should the contracting parties be that engaged in hostilities, in con- sequence of application of the present agreement, they will not conclude an armistice or treaty of peace except by mutual ment.

agree-

Article Eight provides

Dr. Orlovius, head of the Air Min air force propaganda .company, part to-day in aerial exercises Bernau.

that the

five

ties become engaged in hostilities with agreement remain in force for

a European power in consequence of years subject to six months' denun~ action by that power which threaten-ciation.-Reuter.

ed the independence ΟΙ

neutrality

of another European State in such a

way as to constitute a clear

to the security of

menace

that contracting.

party, the provisions of Article One will apply, without prejudice, how- ever to the rights of the other

European State concerned.

ECONOMIC PENETRATION

CALIFORNIA AND

OREGON RAVAGED BY FIRES

took

at

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TREASURES REMOVED

FROM LONDON

London, To-day.

Priceless documents and his- toric treasures have been remov. ad from Westminster Abbey and taken to places of safety in the country.

Objects removed included the historic Coronation Chair, which Sovereigns are crowned.

In Workmen carefully stored the treasures in crates and loaded them in lorries under the sur- veillance of a police guard.- Reuter.

LEGAL ACTION POSSIBLE AGAINST BUND IN U.S.

Washington, Aug. 20. pro- The Nazi German-American Bund

and and its

affiliated organizations,

The chief of the land forces paganda company, Dr. Metzger, members of the staff of official D.N.B.gether with the Communist Party in to- news agency, took part in exercises the United States, would shortly be at Potsdam last week.

The writers

subject to legal action by the Depart- thus mobilized have the rank of interpreter officers. tin Dies, head of the Committee

willment of Justice, Representative Mar- -Havas.

of Inquiry into Un-American Activities, forecast to-day.

NATIONAL SECURITY REGULATIONS

Canberra, To-day.

The two groups would be charged, he said, with violation of the whereby all organizations and agents law of foreign Governments must register with the State Department, giving full details of their activities,

Comprehensive national security re- gulations gazetted yesterday provide given before his Committee incontest- Mr. Dies emphasized that evidenco emergency powers for, inter alia, the ably proved that both the Bund and -protection of

Government property.

and the Communist Party were agents of foreign Governments. If both

San Francisco, Aug. 20. At least 600 people were left home- un-less to-day, by ravaging forest fires

Article Three provides that should

a European power attempt to

dermine the independence of one of in several regions of California. and

the contracting parties by

processes Oregon.

of economic penetration or other way, the contracting parties will gon, was completely destroyed support each other in resistance

in any The small town of Pie Ridge, Ore- and

such attempts.

Should the European concerned thereupon embark

power

on

hostilities against one of the con- tracting parties, the provisions of Article One will apply.

to about 100 farms there were razed to the ground or else seriously damaged by the fires.

P

defence works

are and be

They also provide for the requisi- taken before the Federal Court tion of goods and vehicles and the taking over of control of ships sentenced

for found guilty, their leaders may and aircraft.-Reuter.

long prison-terms,——

By this evening, the outlook was more hopeful for fire-fighting squads announced that they had succeeded in blocking the sweeping advance of the

Article Four states that the methods blazes, which have caused damage es applying to the undertaking of mutual timated in several millions of dollars. assistance are established between-Havas.

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