THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 4, 1939.
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BRITAIN'S WAR CABINET CHOSEN
CHURCHILL IN
BUT EDEN AMONG
OTHER MINISTERS
LONDON, TO-DAY.
THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN KECONSTITUTED,
AND THE WAN CABINET CONSISTS OF!
Prime Minister
Chancenor or the EXCnequer: Foreign Arraırs: verence Co-oramation: tars Lora of the Admiralty: Secretary Tor War: Secretary for Air: Lord Privy Seal: Minister without
Portfolio:
Mr. Neville Chamberlain
Sir John Simon Lord nallax Loro Unameld
Mr. Winston Churchill Iur. Lesile more-Beusha Sir Kingsley Wood Sir Samuel Hoare Lord Hankey
Sir Samuel Hoare displaces Sir John Anderson.
There are further Ministerial appointments outside the
VISCOUNT GORT TO
HITLER
BE C.IN.C.
London, To-day. General Viscount Gort: has been appointed Com- mander-in-Chief of the British armies.
General Sir Edmund Ironside, replaces General Gort as Chief of the Im- perial General Staff. Reuter.
ICE CRUISER
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Cabinet, and therefore Sir John Anderson's name will IN DIAMETER
probably appear on the further list of new Ministers to be issued.
Mr... Chamberlain invited Sir Archi- bald Sinclair, Leader of the Liberal Opposition, to accept Cabinet office, but after consultation with the Liber- als, Sir Archibald informed the Prime Minister that he and his friends con- sidered they could render better ser- vice to the nation and the Govern-
ment by supporting all necessary war measures from an independent posi- tion.
AT THE INTERNMENT "CAMP"
It is learned that, at least The first meeting of the War Ca- for the time being, no action binet took place yesterday.-Reuter. for internment of German women residents in the Co- lony is being taken.
COMMONS TO STAY
IN LONDON
London, To-day. The Conservative Chief Whip stat- ed in the House of Commons yester- day that the seat of Government would remain in London as long as possible.
He expected the House to meet at a subsequent date.-Reuter.
It is officially announced that Mr. Anthony Eden is to be Dominions Se- cretary, with other supplementary tasks of a special nature.
Lord Stanhope, from the Admiralty, becomes Lord President of the Coun- cil.-Reuter.
It is announced that until fur-. ther advice, telegrams are accept- ed from the public at sender's risk. Urgent telegrams cannot be. accepted from the British Empire.
The menfolk, totalling over 100, are housed on the top floor of La Salle College, and visiting days are expected to be authorised when the "camp" which is under the charge of Major Gorden, of the Middlesex Regiment, has been satisfactorily organised.
Sentries are on guard, provided by the Royal Scots, and the barbed-wired barricade, completely surrounding the College, is nearly completed.
At intervals, high watching-posts for sentries have been erected.
No official information is yet forth- coming regarding the arrangements to be made for visiting and so on.
It is learned that Czechs in the Colony who had registered with the German Consulate and chang- ed their passports for German passports are being interned. Those who refused to recognise the German establishment of a Protectorate are not being sub- jected to internment.
ONLY ONE
EXHORTS TROOPS IN WEST
London, To-day.
Herr Hitler has issued &
message to the German forces on the Western Front, manning the Siegfried Line,
declaring that he knows he
can look to them to uphold
the honour of the German
Army.
""I am
determined," he
Chicago. said, "to break the ring the
The largest pneumatic rubber tires British have made round in the world have been designed to carry an "ice cruiser" across Antarc
tic wastes, the Research Foundation Germany."
of the Armour Institute of Technology has announced.
He is reported to have left
Harold Vagtborg, Director of the subsequently for the Polish
Foundation, said an order for six of front. the immense tires had been placed
with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, and delivery was expected about the middle of August.
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd will use the snow cruiser on the Govern- ment's land-claiming expedition to the South Pole late this year.
In designing the tires carry the tank-like vehicle across the which will
snow crevices, Armour engineers de- cided upon a thickness of 12 ply, about twice that of the ordinary heavy, dutý automobile tire.
on
The tires will be 10 feet in diame- ter, weighing between 1,200 and 1,500 pounds. A derrick top of the snow cruiser and a hydraulic arrange- ment to lift the axle will be used in changing them. *.
Reuter.
RECORD TRIP
The Jardine steamer "Wing Sang" came into Hong Kong this morning having made the trip from Shanghai in her record time of 60 hours.
It is understood that she has been "requisitioned" or chartered for official purposes.
FREIGHT RATES INCREASED HERE
An announcement issued to ship- pers in Hong Kong by the China Homeward Freight Conference states that as from to-day all rates are in- Engineers said the chief problem increased by 20 per cent; all contracts designing the tires was to insure а are cancelled forthwith, all forward large enough contact surface between bookings are cancelled, but cargo for the tire and the ice and snow to ob- shipment in September may be re- tain the proper co-efficient of fric-booked at old rates. tion. There will be 12 square feet of All central booking office arrange- contact..
ments are cancelled and all freight must be prepaid, ship lost or not lost.
ONE. CONCLUSION
Washington, To-day.
A wonderful impression of calmness and sincerity has been created by Mr. Chamberlain's speech and the instructions broadcast by the B.B.C., declared a responsible American official yesterday..
The official added that once again the American people contrast the voice of Britain with that of Germany. -
“From such a comparison our people can only draw one conclusion- ~ and the people of Britain know what that conclusion is," he declared.
Reuter
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