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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 12, 1940

IMPORTANT JOINT DECLARATION BY CZECHS AND POLES

AN IMPORTANT joint declaration by DIAMOND

the Polish Government and the Provisional

Government of Czechoslovakia was publish- RING

ed in London yesterday.

It announces, the determination of the ARREST

two governments to enter into a political and economic association which they envisage as providing an example and a basis for a new post-war order in Central Europe open to other countries in that region and affording a guarantee of stability.

Charles Onslow, 40, des- cribed as unemployed, was charged before Mr. G. T. Lowry this morn- ing, with unlawful posses- sion of two diamond

Official quarters in London have of the intellectual class and all rings. hailed the conclusion of this manifestations of cultural life, the It was stated that defendant agreement with the warmest satis-spollation of

the treasures of faction and it can be said that science and art and the persecu- was searched on information in his Majesty's Government re-tion of all religious beliefs, are un- Queen's Road Central gard it as a happy augury of a paralleled in all human history.afternoon better state of affairs in liberated Europe..

At

Burning Appeal

phasised that the agreement is "They offer striking example of were given to him by

tickets

a man

on the of November 7. and pawn tickets for the rings were found in his possession. When questioned, he said the the same time,

it is em-

spontaneous and owes nothing to the spirit.and methods of

the named Li. any other Government.

Germanic new order.

Sgt. Cullinan said that as de- Diplomatic circles applaud the "Our two Governments address fendant was in possession of the spirit in which the representatives this burning appeal to all free pawn tickets and no other person the rings without of two States which have learnt people immune from the German could redeem

defendant was a cruel lesson in common and terror that in the measure of their the tickets,

charged with possession of the whose peoples now suffer com-strength they should help the na- mon martyrdom have brushed tiens allied in the struggle for the rings. aside all obstacles raised up by freedom of all nations and the de-

in order to make a bold imagina-present monstrous nightmare.”— tive stroke toward the building of | British Wireless.

past misunderstanding or errors liverance of the world from its

a happier and better future for their two countries and the whole of central Europe.

The text of the declaration is as follows:

JUNKMASTER FINED

One of the rings was pawned for $80 and the other for $30.

Defendant was remanded further enquiries.

.

ARMS FOUND INS CHAI WAN HILLS

for

Charged with possession of arms and ammunition without a licence. and with possession of dangerous goods, Chan Fat, 40, An application for confiscation master

of a trading junk, was of a revolver and five rounds of aned $40 by Mr. E. Himsworth at ammunition and 82 rounds of Kowloon this morning.

rifle ammunition was granted

Inflexible Faith

"Imbued with inflexible faith that the heroic struggle now being waged by Britain together with her allies, against German tyran- Accused was alleged to have by Mr. K. M. A. Barnett this ny will end in the final defea had a rifle, 118 rounds of am-morning.

ammunition

of the forces of evil and des-munition, 29 sticks of dynamite, The arms and truction; animated by profound and four detonators on board his were found by Sgt. Dinsdale dur- conviction that the future order

junk at Cheung Sha Wan lasting a patrol in Chai Wan Gap,

are

of the world must be based on Thursday. the cooperation of all elements which recognise the principles of freedom and Justice as constituting the moral foundation of all our common civilisation; the two Gov- ernments consider it imperative to declare solemnly even now that Poland and Czechoslovakia, closing once and for all the period of past recriminations and disputes and, taking into consideration the community of their fundamental interest, are determined on the conclusion of this war to enter as independent and sovereign States into a closer political and econo- mic association which would be-

antee of its stability.

near Chai Wan Village; yesterday.

QUESTION ON BRITISH WAR

GRAVES ANSWERED

WHAT IS THE STATE of the cemeteries and

come the basis of a new order memorials to the Empire's million 1914-1918 dead? in Central Europe and a guar- This question was answered, in part, by Sir "Moreover, both Governments Fabian Ware, Chairman of the Imperial War express the hope that in this co-Graves Commission in a broadcast yesterday. operation, based on respect for thei freedom of nations, its principles of democracy and the dignity of man, they will also be joined by other countries in that part of the European continent.

Comical Farce

"In all parts of the world turn of 1914, is untouched. save two," said Sir Fabian Ware, The Australian Memorial. at "our work is proceeding. nor-Villers-Bretonneux is damaged mally. The exceptions are Oc- but still firmly erect, with shell cupled France and Flanders, holes piercing. the panels which where three-quarters of the Em bearhames of 11,000 Australian pire's dead are commemorated. | missing. re-There work has stopped.

"The two Governments are

In short, there-is reason to be- solved already now to cooperate Some-a few-memorials may lieve that no damage in France closely for defence of their com- have been obliterated, If so or Belgium is beyond repair. That mon interests and for the pro- we have accurate surveys which repair will be carried out, be- paration of the future association will enable them to be recoh- cause, by the irony of fate, the

structed in detail.

endowment fund ensuring per.

of the two countries.

"The two Governments stigmatise) "Others we know Have been the comical farce which the lea- damaged, the headstones batter-manent maintenance of our ceme. ders of Nazi Germany are en-ed by machine-gun fire, the great teries and the memorials of the deavouring to stage by proclaim-cross of sacrifice chipped and last war was completed just as

the British ing themselves bullders of a new gashed, but still standing

Expeditionary Force Arm,

was retiring from France in this European order.

carrying its scars of war,

war.

The hypocrisy of these asser. "Most of them are undamaged tions is most clearly revealed in but neglected, overgrown with It was then that this provision the light of German endeavours weeds, the Inwns unkept, flower was finally made for carrying on "Britisti aiming at the destruction of our beds tangled and disordered. In our work permanently. two anclont nations which have some, wooden crosses mark the Wireless.

contributed their

- in

DR. SUN YAT-SEN'S

Important graves of the New B.E.F. thare to the commun treasure others, "in the foremost. rows, of human civilisation. ...

stand stout wooden crosses súr- The violence and cruelty to mounted, by German helmets which our two nations are being where our enemies, have

been

BIRTHDAY subjected, expulsions of the na- buried, ... tive population from large areas Of the great "missing" mc- All Chinese schools, colleges of its secular homelands, the morials we are told Menin Gate and universities in Hong Kong banishing of hundreds of thou is battered but standing. The closed to-day and a representa- sands of men and women to the Canadian Memorial at Vimy, is tive meeting of Chinese bodies. interior of Germany for forced | apparently undamaged.

was held in the King's Theatre

labour, mass execution' and de- Not Beyond Repair... at 9 am, to commemorate the birthday anniversary of the late

portations to concentration camps,

the plundering of public and pri- |- La Ferte's memorial, commem- Dr. Sun Yat-acn; Father of the Vate property, the extermination'orating the Mons Retreat and re- [Chinese Repablic."