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RUSSIANS BOMB GIRL SKATER
A Finnish schoolgirl skating on a lake was attacked by two Russian bombers and machine- gunned, according to Paris radio.
She dived into the anów, and the pilot, unable to BOC. her, bombed the place where she last stood. She escaped.
TIENTSIN TARIFF DISCLOSURE
LONDON, TO-DAY.
WAR SACRIFICES. MUST PRODUCE SOLID RESULT
London, To-day. SPEAKING AT A LUNCHEON in London yesterday Sir John Simon said that just two years ago Germany marched into Austria. Almost exactly one year ago Hitler, in breach of the most solemn assurances given six months before, invaded Czecho-Slovakia.
Within a few weeks Britain and France gave their joint as- surance to Poland that if she were attacked they would not stand idly by.
It was the measure of the ignor ance and folly by which Hitler was advised that he believed they would not keep their word.
Now there was a deep, intense and MR. I. C. HANNÁH (CONS. BIL-Juniversal determination and resolve STON)' ASKED IN THE HOUSE OF in the free Democracies. of Britain COMMONS YESTERDAY WHETHER and France, who were both passion- THE PRIME MINISTER' -WAS ately devoted to peace, to see the AWARE THAT THERE WAS A RE- war through. Such unanimity in GULAR TARIFF LEVIED BY THE support of the war was a very strik- JAPANESE ARMY ON ALL CHIIN- ing and impressive fact. ESE ENTERING THE BRITISH CONCESSION AT TIENTSIN, RE- ON SULTING IN A HEAVY TAX BRITISH MERCHANDISE.
Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said reports were current to this effect.
The chancellor of the Excho- .quer went on to say there could
be no future for free
In men
·Europe unless. Nazi domination was effectively curbed.. Peace must include the restoration of freedom to Czechs and Poles but His Majesty's Government had fre- the most difficult and at the quently made representations to the time most essential Japanese Government on the injury that there should be effective guar- caused to British interests by the re-untees that there would be no renewal
movements strictions on
of
of Nazi aggression in future. chandise in this area. Reuter..
mer-
COST OF THE WAR
London, To-day.
same
ALIENS GET THE BEER
Aliens detained in Britain are to be
allowed new privileges, the Home Secretary announced.
They will be allowed a pint of ale every day; or, if they prefer it, stout, cider or a "half bottle of wine.
The prisoners-all are regarded as hostile allens will also be allowed to wear their own clothes, to write and receive letters, to smoke and to do work for wages.
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CONTRAST; condition was,
Until war began, wounded men of the last war in the Garter Home, Richmond, Star and were given a pint of beer every day, When war was declared the beer was stopped for economy reasons. There were protests.
· PROMISES NO GOOD
A verbal promise to that effect would hardly inspire confidence, for verbal promises had been broken by Hitler in the past.
which
Now the men get their beer three days a week.
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QUESTION: Is it better to be an enemy alien of this war than a wound- thinked British soldier of the last?
It was these circumstances made them say it was impossible to reach any settlement as long as Hit- with him are in power. The durabil- fer and those colleagues who ity of the settlement was as important as its contents.
must.
When the Commons yes- terday afternoon went into the committee of supply the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the vote, of a credit for £700,000,000 for wartime ex- penditure, gave several de- tails of Government expendi-ple which should arise out of ture on the war.
war there will be living room for all-for the German people no less than for the rest."-British Wireless.
Sir John Simon recalled that on September 1 the House had authoris- ed a vote of credit of £500,000,000 to cover outlay likely to be increas- ed in the near future. Up to March 9 the amount which had been spent out of this sum was in the neighbour- hood of £300,000,000, he said, and "so far as one could see at the end of the financial year there would pro- bably be short spending thing between seventy and a hundred millions out of the five hundred mil- lions authorized."-British Wireless.
of some-
HER LIFE A MISERY
"We are sacrificing so much— in manhood, trade, wealth and social progress that we · make really certain the sacrifice produces a solid result. And in that new world of free peo-
the
“CONSEQUENCES NO MIND CAN FORESEE”
BOUND OVER FOR ATTACK
On seeing him cutting trees in their field yesterday, Wong employer's Kwong, Wong Pun and eight others attacked Ho Ming, 22, and injured
him.
Ho Ming had to be removed to hospital, while his assailants were tak- en to the police station.
The injured man was awarded $2, compensation,
At Kowloon to-day before Mr. E. Vatican City, To-day, Political, economic and moral tur-Himsworth, they were charged with moils have started reprecussions the assault and bound over. consequences of which no mind can to foresee, said the Pope, referring the international situation, in his al- locution_to_members of the Sacred College who came to congratulate him on the first anniversary of his en- thronement.-Reuter.
COMMONSENSE OF
TUG-OF-WAR OVER HANDBAG
Mrs. C. M. Remedios, of Argyle Street, had a "tug-of-war" with a
WE MAY FIGHT A FINNISH WAR -SWISS GENERAL
A`Swiss Army Chlef told his soldiers that Switzerland, may some day be called upon to fight the same kind of war" as the Finns
This is the opinion of General- issimo Henri Guisan, who spoke at the Swiss national ski cham- plonship.
The Finns, he said, are a "tiny liberty-loving nation, fighting a |huga ogre—an ogre that eats its young like a crocodile. Bki-ere are the backbone, of her Army." -Associated Press.
SKATERS GUARD FRONT
skaters
French and Swiss armed rolled out barrels on to the ice on Lake les Brenets, in the Jura Moun- taing, to mark the frontier.
Civilian skaters were crossing and recrossing' the frozen Franco-Swiss frontier
lake which part of the
forms, In their sport. The lake froze over, and was filled with several hundred French and Swiss skaters.
Hortilled' border officers tried vainly to separate the skaters with foot soldiers, but these slipped and slid so much in chasing the skaters, who made a joke of the whole af- fair, that the troops were recalled.
FRONTIER MARKED
After a conference between French and Swiss officers in the region, the mid-lake frontier was marked with barrels and skating patrols of twenty armed soldiers were created on each side.
The soldiers were ordered to keep all skaters on their own side of the
barrel frontier and to break up all attempts at conversation across the ice.
PUBLIC FOR CHURCHILL
Mr. Churchill is easily the most popular candidate for Prime Minister, Mr. Eden second-and nobody else in the running.
While there is talk in the lobbles that Sir John Simon will be the next holder of that office, his name, in a recent survey of public opinion, was
of mentioned less often than those Mosley, Lansbury, Arthur Salter, Wells
THROUGH BACKACHE ANGLO-ITALIAN ACCORD snatcher yesterday afternoon in Soares and Joad!
Pain So Bad She Could Scarcely Walk
Avenue, resulting in slight injuries stated this to her fingers, it was
These results are referred to in "Us," a weekly intelligence service published by Mass-Observation, of
Buenos Aires, To-day. The newspaper "Nacion" applauds the-commonsense of the ́solution of the morning at Kowloon when Lam Hol, which the first number has just been Anglo-Italian coal shipments dispute. The journal "El Dia de la Plate" considers the solution a victory for Britain weakening Italo-German ties.
Three years of horrible suffering and then at last glorious relief! This woman feels it her duty to tell other sufferers how she got back her health. -Reuter, Here in her letter she tells her story:-ins
TIBET'S THANKS
to
Shanghai, To-day, The Regent of Tibet has wired Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the Chin- ese National Government, expressing thanks on behalf of the new
23, was sentenced to four months' hard labour and 10 strokes and re- commended for banishment.
Lam Hoi succeeded in getting the bag from Mrs. Remedios but was arrested by a passer-by.
COURT SYMPATHISES Stating that he was forced to beg when he had no money to renew his hawking licence, Leung Man, 58, was this morning awarded $4 from the Poor
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The kidneys are the filters of the human machine, If they become slug- gish, impurifies accumulate and find their way into the blood-stream. The six salts in Kruschen will coax your kidneys back to healthy, normal action so that they will rid your blood-stream of every particle of poisonous wast matter. As an immediate result will experience inyous, reli those old dragging pains.
Dalai
SCHACHT GOING TO SWEDEN ON MISSION
Stockholm, To-day. According to the newspaper Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, of the German Reichs- being sent here on a special
Rều
by Ms. E. Himsworth at Kowloon when he was charged with begging.
- PARKING OVERTIME
produced.
"What do you think about Oliver Stanley?" was the question put to a cross-section of people at the height of the Bolisha crials. One in twenty were in favour of him as War Minis- ter, but the overwhelming majority (59 per cont.) simply couldn't an- 、awer the question at all
This is the highest percentage negative, don't know, answers, ever
corded.
SALT SURTAX IN SZECHUAN
the
Shanghai, To-day. With a view to reorganising Mr. K. S. Kjaer, of Dina House, was administration of the salt surtax, the summoned before Mr. H. G. Sheldon, Finance Ministry of the Chinese Goy- K.C., this morning, for parking over-ernment has decided to take over time in Chater Road on February 26. control of salt mines in Szechuen A fine of $5 was imposed,”
Mr. A. S. Mitchell, of Union Insur ance Society of Canton, was fined $5 for a similar offence.
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