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CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 26, 1939

ANGLO-TURKISH ACCORD TO COLONIES TO BE RATIFIED NEXT WEEK: LATEST NAZI CANARD

· London, To-day.

THE GERMAN WIRELESS has been quoting an amazing statement about the Anglo-French- Turkish agreement which is alleged to have been taken from an article by the Istanbul cor- respondent of the Paris “Soir.”

FEWER

MUI TSAI

ACCORDING TO THE ANNUAL

REPORT OF THE S.C.A., THE NUM-

BER OF REGISTERED MUITSAI AT WAS THE END OF LAST YEAR 1,102, COMPARED WITH 1,396

AT

The reduction was due to two hav-

the Colony permanently; 35 having married; 23 having been parent or relatives; 110 having obtained employment; 31 hav-

The correspondent is supposed to have written that THE END OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR. Turkey has been promised 500 British aero- ing died; four having absconded; three planes and one-sixth of the petrol production of having left the Mosul district, the cession of Alexandretta restored to and the withdrawal of half the French troops from the Syrian-Turkish border.

entirely

All these allegations are without foundation and it can be de-

finitely stated that they peared in the "Paris Soir."

never ap-

concluded some Turkey and

The cession of Alexandretto was, as is well known, the outcome of a sep- arate agreement months ago between France and has already been put into effect.

regard to

The statement with Mosul oll can only be described as fantastic.

t

The German Wireless also says that the British Government had promised to construct a new port for Turkey

at their own expense. This is entire- ly untrue. --- Reuter.

EARLY RATIFICATION

London. To-day.

The Prime Minister. Mr. Neville

Chamberlain, announced in the House of Commons yesterday the Govern-

ment's intention to ratify the Anglo-

Franco-Turkish Treaty as soon as

.possible.

!.

Instruments of ratification would, he hoped, reach Ankara- next wook.

for

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was procedure The usual treaties to lle in Parliament for days before ratification, but in view of the exceptional circumstances of the present case, they proposed to submit the documents for the King's signature at once. --Reuter.

.STABILISING FACTOR

London. To-day. The Foreign Secretary, Lord Hall- fax, in a speech yesterday, stressed the Importance of the Anglo-Franco- Turkish Alliance as a stabilising in- fluence.-Reuter.

S.C.A. COST IN A YEAR

COST OF

LIVING OF THE POOR

ing been removed from the Register;

84 having remained with the employ- er as a member of the family; and two having been taken into the care of the S.C.A.

JOIN IN AIR TRAINING PLAN?

London, To-day.

of

to

the

The Air Minister, Sir, Kingsley Wood,

asked in the House Commons yesterday afternoon what steps would be taken

the flying services in Crown: Colonies and India, said:

“Organismtlone for flying will be developed to the fullest pos- sible extent all over the Empire.

"The suggestion that the Em- pire air training scheme be ex- tended to the Crown Colonias and India will be carefully consi- dered."-Reuter.

BOARDING-HOUSES IN COLONY

At the end of last year there were a total of 141 boarding houses of all classes in the Colony, according to the annual report of the Secretary Chinese Affairs.

No new licences during the year, re-celled.

June

for

out were taken but 16 were can-

2,558 ADOPTED GIRLS A total of 2,558 girls, adopted for- eign and Chinese children, were gistered at the S.C.A. between 24, 1938, when the regulations gov- Four cholera cases, three in. Vic- erning investment of legal guardian-toria and one in the New Territories, the two typhoid, Afteen dysentery, one ship of adopted daughters with Secretary for Chinese Affairs came into meningitis and 16 T.B. were reported to the Medical Department yesterday. force, on December 31, 1938.

There was a slight and fair- ly steady fall in the prices of commodities included in the | MR. EDEN'S BROADCAST cost of living index, but, ex- cept in the case of oil, prices remained at higher levels than those which obtained in the period immediately prior to the outbreak of Sino-Ja- panese hostilities in July 1937, states the annual re- port of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

In the early part of the year the prices of fish, meat and vegetables were between 10% and 30% above the corresponding figures for the previous year, whilst at the end of the year these prices were 10% or less below the corresponding figures for the previous year. The only vio- lent fluctuation occurred in the case of vegetables, the prices of which rose in October to 80% above the prices for the previous month.

This, however, was entirely due to the temporary dislocation of supplles oaused by the Japan- ese Invasion of Bouth China, and by the end of the year the prices of vegetables had fallen to the lowest level, for the year, which was about 8% lower than that WORK UNDERTAKEN BY THE

obtaining at the end' of 1937. SECRETARIAT FOR CHINESE

The price of rice fell steadily AFFAIRS DURING LAST YEAR

throughout the year, for the first COST THE GOVERNMENT A SUM months being not more than OF $141.520.94.

GOVERNMENT REVENUE DERĪV- ED FROM ALL SOURCES BY THE S.C.A. AMOUNTED TO $17.043.10. ACCORDING TO THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS.

It is pointed out that much of the work of the S.C.A. is concerned with the administration of funds that may be called semi-official.

The revenue in these cases is, in very large pari, a matter of volun- tary subscription by the Chinese com- munity and outside the Government estimates, with the expenditure the discretion of the Department and of the various committees, concerned. him."

BROADWOOD ROAD INCIDENT

at

Li Wo, 80, unemployed, was charg«. ed, before Mr. R. A. D. Forrent, this natching a "Kändbag

from Mrs. N.

A knife

Broadwood Road; yesterd

vicinity. -

- Defendant-- hours.

No. 12,

found

hear

9% above the corresponding figures for 1987, "and for the last five months being consistently less than the cor- responding figures for that year.

THIEF WEARS DIAMOND

RING

Mrs. -Wehham, of No. 8A, Car- narvon Road, and Mr. P. Braga, of Gilman's Garage, appeared, as com- plainants, this morning before War. E. Himsworth "when Lai Pang, 25; was charged with "larceny, and sent to prison for one "year""

Lai was arrested. tective im

Jewellery-va Wenham

writer,

and a

ext) at: $800, from Gillman's " Garage on October 1

FINAL

NONE OF US HAS DOUBT OF

OUTCOME

London, To-day.

THE CO-OPERATION of the Dominions and Britain in war time was the theme of a broadcast by the Dominions Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, who at the outset refer- red to the impending presence in London of Cabinet Ministers from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

There would be practical discussions with these ministers from which would result that close co-operation which is their common aim.

Mr. Eden gave as an instance, the development of Empire air power as one of their war time collaborations with the Dominions who had already begun production of practical results. Discussing the hostilities, Mr. Eden said that the war was less than two months old but Hitler' had already lost the Initiative.

“The.. ́aggressor's early ad- vantage la, spent. The road to the east is blocked by Russia or bar- red by Turkey,

SWINGING INTO STRIDE

.

"In the west every passing week Increases the strength of the free de- mocracies. With fast-gathering_mo- mentum we swing into our stride." ·

German attacks on our fleet and merchant men had failed utterly in their purpose:

an

"By comparison with the last war the submarine has proved to be indecisive weapon while the per- centage of losses among U-boats was infinitely higher.

"The Royal Navy and Merchantile Marine have swept and kept the seas.

“The much-horaided German In the west still-, hangs

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•difauit "for all be dreaded" by

wor

now” has (any: one, of

and the evidence is against them documents have been published-the world can judge.

Prague and "In Warsaw, as in scores of other cities, German troops stand as invaders to-day. Every one of them is there in breach of Hitler's pledged word; each is a living token of the German Government's broken faith."

Mr. Eden stressed the success of the British Commonwealth of Na- manner tions, and the spontaneous in which the Dominions had entered the present confilet showed that they shared Britain's love of liberty and hatred of tyranny-Reuter.

Every war had to be fought on two fronts, and the army' in the field depended on the spirit at home.

"Our Democracy is alive and active and is going to win," Mr. Eden déctured. We had witnessed the "progressive international eri- deterioration of

war gagements, which had made inevitable.

PATCHWORK USELESS

A patchwork peace was useless. We had to win not only the itself but also the after-war.

Wa balloved that when wa kad won, a heavy responsibilty would. fall upon.. „Allled “Rewor "Our t

retard to the ultimate for closer(kuropean, unity And Gwidan k

fer loudly declare the The thrust upon them.

world, understanding, før religious tolerance, and for the danál and not the worship of aggreatl

liam."--Router.

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