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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 12, 1940.

ALBANIAN OIL WELLS MENACED BY GREEK ADVANCE

PAN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF ITALIAN OIL SUPPLIES IS MENACED BY THE GREEK PUSH IN NORTH ALBANIA DIRECTED, TO- WARDS THE SKUMBI RIVER VALLEY.

The Devoli River region is threatened and this is of the utmost consequence to Italy, for from that region comes at least half of Italy's peacetime oil requirements.

Though this proportion is re- duced owing to wartime. con-.. sumption this Albanian source

has increased in importance bes RICH WILL

cause of Italy's geographical position, and lier susceptibility to blockade.

GET NO

FAVOURS

"For 'over + decade before Mussolini drove out King Zog and seized his country, Italy had shown - great interest and spent much money on the do- velopment of this oll field.

Nobody can have a holiday in Italian interests began prospect- a defence or protected aren ing as long ago as 1925.

Real

leasing a house or estate, -progress was visible in 1933 owners of such property cannot be

when the Italian Government voted 200 million lire for deve-this ban o seasonal letting.

compensated for any loss from loping Albanian oil resources.

by. and

This pronouncement is made

KUNMING

BOMBED YESTERDAY

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA (MAIL")

Fifteen Japanese aircraft flew over Kunming yesterday noon, dropping bombs

on the outskirts of the city Koi Hsien was also reported to have been bombed of the same time by a dif- ferent squadron.

Both cities suffered a few casualties and some damage Our Own Correspondent..

poor

passionate grounds-can be pro- duced...

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I am afraid no exception 'can be made in a case like that raised

Fipeline Near Valona from the war Office arising from by your correspondent, and I am

a case of a two months let of a, sure you will appreciate that it

The building of a pipeline to house and fishings and shooting would be contrary to all democra- the little oil port near Valonain a coast defence area in thetic principles if, while passes are was inaugurated and in January, North of Scotland having had to being refused to tourists, hikers 1936, the first drop of crude oil be cancelled because the military and holidaymakers of the humbler was carried along this 46-mile authorities refused permits to the sort, they were at the same time ripeline. to the obvious delight English lessees, as they canis to be granted to persons more for of Mussolini.

within the category of "holiday- tunately placed financially, who mokers."

are in a position to rent a house or estate.

On the seizure of Albaniaj in 1938 abrolute control of this o'l Industry constituted one of Italy's chier economic gains and development was pressed forward with even greater in- tensity.

Several hundred wells were mink and becms clear that Italy regarded - Albanian oil (s a vital, constituent in her ecoño- mic bloodstream.

So fast was development push- ed that in 1939 Italy was ob- taining 15 000 tons of oil month- ly compared with only 1,000 five years earlier.

Feverish Activity

there

In the past 12 months has been feverish activity In the Devoli Valley, presumably as a result of the locking of the Mediterranean by the Royal Navy, which has prevented Ita- lian imports of oil from other parts of the world.-Reuter.

DECREE RESCINDED

A decree nisi, granted last Oc o-- ber to Mrs. Florence May Manser, of Tankerton, Kent, on the mis taken presumption that her hus- band Mr. Charles Hubert Manser, was dead, was rescinded by Mr. Justice Langton-in, the Divorce Court

My Manser, in fact, was alive, and when the King's Proctor brought the matter before the Court on August 9 he was prestilt listening to the intervention pro- -ceedings.

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Mrs. Manser's case was that she. last saw her husband in 1931. She icde efforis, to trace him, and his last-known address was at Bear Road, Brighton,

Giving judgment, Mr. Jus tice Langton said the interven- Mon by ine King's Proctor·raiserl an interesting and important point;: under Section 8 of the Matrimoni- al Causes Act, 1937.

The faces out of which the in- tervention arose.were not in: dis- pute. The parties were married In 1922. In June dust year Mrs. Manser presented "a pétition for divorce on the ground of the de- sertion of her husband, but this was refused as the parting took place under a deed of separation, and was therefore by mutual con- sent...

"I am not without sympathy for Mrs. Maiser, who appears to have been, to all intents and purposes, deserted by her husband although. debarred from setting up that de sertion as a ground for the dissolu- tion of her marriage," said the Judge

No Exceptions

He pads that there is no pro- Sir Edward Grigg, M.P., Parúa-house or estate owners in such

vision made for compensation for. mentary, Secretary to the War circumstances, and that "financial Ofice, states in a letter to Sirloss of this kind is, of course not Murdoch Macdonald, M.P.;

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