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BRITAIN'S ROLE

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London, Apr. 1. To-day Europe faces a situation graver than any since August, 1914. Mr. Eden and Lord Halifax are returning from Parts to report to the Cabinet, and the meetings of the Locarno Powers and the League Council to which France bhd appealed are to be held to London,

The British delegates have found the French Government resolved

to enter into no negotiations with Germany while German troops occupy the demilitarised zone of the Rhine. M. Sartaut's speech in The Chamber scarcely prepared the world for that quititude, for, while expressing a justifiable indigna- tion at the German action, it em- bodied the conviction that a set- Llement could be found on the Iines of International law without resort to force and did not reject negotiations. As a preliminary to such negotiations it has become clear that France

requires that Herr Hitler shall retire the power- ful force which, it is now known. he has moved into the Rhine ter-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS; FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA'S PROMISES

Emir's Appeal For A New State

Jerusalem, March 29.

has been

This dramatic move made by the Emir Abdullah, ruler of the British mandated territory of Transjordan.

ROYAL AIR FORCE

Airman Pilots

com-

will

KWANGTUNG'S COAL MINES

Exploitation Plans

Canton. struction works, the Kwangtung Alongside of its many recon- Provincial Government is rushing preparations for the ex- ploitation of the coal mines near

thern Kwangtung.

now

An agreement has been signed between the provincial government and the Sino-British Boxer In- demnity Refund Commission for a loan of £90,000 as initiation funds for the purpose.

London, March 31. A paragraph added to the King's Regulations and

Air Council In- structions provides that airmen specially enlisted for training as News that an appeal has been pilots will be classified as leading Kouyatung in Juyuan hsien, sou- made to Great Britain for the aircraftmon while under training. creation of an Arab State, once on the satisfactory completion of the dream of Lawrence of Arabia training they will be promoted to has caused considerable excitement sergeant, but will be strictly on here.

probation until confirmed in rank. They will be eligible for con- firmation when they have six months' pleted

satisfactory probation in the rank, and take precedence among other ser- geants according to the date of

confirmation. their they

Should 1 directly entered airman pilot be not recommended for confirmation At the expiration of the of

proba- Syria and Transjordan.

tionary period the Air Ministry Alternatively. It is suggested that will decide whether that period Transjordan and Palestine, both of shall be extended or whether he

Should them British mandated territories, shall be discharged. should be united and a

directly entered airman pilot hold- treaty drafted between Britain and theng the rank of sergeant be re- new State on the lines of the An- duced below that rank for any gio-Iraq Treaty.

cause he will be discharged.

He is "stated to have sent A message to the British authorities expressing the wish that should ask the French Government to grant an Arab union in the French mandated territory

It such a State is not establish-

ritory. A blundering indiscretioned, the Emir is quoted as saying: has become a "dangerous menace Transjordan wil reluctantly be forced to follow in the steps of 'Arab Nationalists in Egypt and Syrla."

to peace.

IN THE MIDST OF ALARM In the midst of the alarm that has been aroused in France and not less in Belgium, with its dark memories of invasion in 1914, the part of the British Government is clearly marked out. Already full assurance has been given that in the event of invasion the whole British power will stand behint France and Belgium. That guar- antee should be safeguard

against precipitate action on eith- side of the frontier., Having made our position clear, we can bring to bear, in London every power, of conciliation and persuasion to en able the League machinery. to deal with the situation. Although Germany has made negotiation terribly difficult by the tearing up of the Locarno Pact, negotiation must be tried. In the words Mr. Eden, "no opportunity must be missed that offers hope." No coun try in Europe, and least of all France, desires war. Starting from that fixed point, the belief cannot be relinquished that from a situation of grave danger there may be obtained some xurer toundation of security.

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HITLER'S SUDDEN ACTION Herr Hitler's sudden acilon on the Rhine has given to the debate ou the White Paper an added note

Que Case In Private of intensity. The Commons might

Dockyard

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty was again plied with questions in the House of Commons on March 11 regarding sabotage in the Dockyards.

Mr. Louis Smith (Con., Sheffield) asked the estimated cost of mak- Ing good the recent different acts of sabotage in the Dockyards?

Lord Stanley replied: The cost of making good the damage was in every case insignificant, but it will be obvious that this is no measure of the seriousness the consequences which might have arisen.

listen to Mr. Lansbury advocating the upholding of peace by shed- ding every scrap of defence and admire his courage, but it was, to the grave warnings of M, Wins- ton Churchill that it gave its ad- herence. Behind all this discus-

EMIR'S SURPRISE MOVE Such a move comes

as

3 sur-

prise from the Emir, whom Colonel Lawrence, in "The Sever. Pillars of Wisdom," contrasted with his more energetic younger brother, the late King Feisal of Iraq.

During the war in the Near East the Emir appeared to Colonel Law- rence as a man of too casual, a

character to play an important part in the formation of an Arab

State,"

now

But the Emir, who owes his poiltion to the British, has caused disquiet in official quarters of Jerusalem.

The Arabs contend that the Bri- tish authorities promised them a pan-Arab federation, and that de- finite pledges Were conveyed through Colonel Lawrence.

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CORONATION MAY BE.

TELEVISED

B.B.C. Make Plans

London: Apr. 1. The Coronation next year may be relevised by the B.B.C.

The new station will be in ope-

ration.

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Mr. Sidney Moseley, a television ploneer, speaking at London ¡uncheon yesterday, said he had learned on good authority that the

be ceremony might

shown on

#lon is the vast change in Euro- cinema screens and in the open.

pean conditions made by the re- arming of Germany. Since the arrival of Herr Hitler, asserted Mr. Churchill, Germany has spent dicen hundred millions sterling en warlike preparations. Beside that Agure the si indefinite sum which the House of Commons may be called on to vote seems in significant, enough.

There is manifest in the House. as in the country, a deep anxiety Mr. Louis Smith aisq asked

as to the adequacy of the Govern whether, as far as Admiralty re-ment plans in regard to the Co- ordination of the defence pro- gramme and the right utilisation of the sources of supply. Sir John Simon told the Commons that he is still ignorant regarding the

cords show, there had been re- cently any acts of sabotage in "private Dockyards carrying out:

Admiralty work? .

Lord Stanley: One act in which sabotage is possible has recently occurred i private Dockyard carrying out Admiralty work, and is under consideration.

Lieut-Com. Fletcher (Soc., Nuneaton) asked the Parliament- ary Secretary to the Admiralty if he could make a statement that no naval ratings had been con- cerned in recent acts of sabotage in his Majesty's ships, and 80 reassure public opinion that these acts did not represent any stale of grievance or discontent among naval ratings.

RESPONSIBILITY NOT KNOWN

Lord Stanley: Investigations do not reveal the responsibility for the damage. There is no reason whatever to belleve that any state of grievance or discontent exists ameng naval ratings or Dockyard- meni.

Mr. Thurtle (Soc., Shoreditch) asked the Parliamentary Secretary, to the Admiralty ir, in view of the considerable number of stokers who had been discharged from the Royal Navy in recent years on account of diseases of the chest, he would calise a special inquiry to be made na to the possiblity of improving the conditions under which stokers have to work in order to minimize the risk to which their heath u 'expoked

task, aneth doors be

person of the Minister who is be responsible for organisation. That is a matter about which the Government must quickly make up ita, mind. Until the man is up- pointed, and the exact nature of the machinery which he is, to

"By the time the ceremony takes place it will be possible to have. televisors at different points of the procession," Mr. Moseley told the "Dully Mirror" later.

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IRISH BISHOP CONDEMNS MURDER OF ADMIRAL

Landon, March 28. Dr. Casey, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ross, has sent to the priests of this dlöcese a letter to be read in all churches to-morrow. condemning the murder of Vice- admiral Henry Boyle Somerville, who was shot dead in his house at Castle-townshend, Co. Cork, Tuesday.

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"An appalling crime has beerf committed among us," says the Bishop. "I do most emphatically condemn this outrage. It was a weli-planned, carefully thought

out.

crime.

and deliberately organised

With a view to facilitating coal transportation, the provincial re- construction authorities are also contemplating the construction of a light railway running from Ju- ytian to Lochang, measuring 15 kilometers in length. From Lo-

chang, the projected line will be linked with the south section the Canton-Hankoy Railway,

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THE INITIAL EXPENSES It is learned that the initial ex- penses for exploiting the mines have been estimated at $300,000 and the railway construction funds at $150,000, totalling $450,000 (Can- £90,000 or approximately $200,000 ton currency). Besides the loan of

(Canton currency) from the Sino- British Boxer Indemnity Refund Commission, the remaining $250,- 000 (Canton currency) will be raised from other sources.

The project of exploiting the coal mines was laid down some years ago by the reconstruction department of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, but owing to the lack of funds...it has been carried out.

The Idea was revived when Mr. Chang Kia-ngau, Minister of Rail- ways, upon his arrival here on an inspection trip last month, sug- gested to the provincial authori- ties that a loan be raised from the Sino-British Boxer Indemnity

"It bore every mark of the crime | Refund Commission for exploiting of a coward who will strike only the coal mines and constructing a when assured of immunity.

light railroad, linking the mining

"It is a sad commentary on our region with Lochang. An applica- notions of public duty that mention for a loan or £90,000 was are to be found who" profess to be accordingly made by the provin- ileve that the public good can be clal authorities, and approved by promoted by crime. But it is the commission.-Central News worse to think that there are, men Agency by mall). who are persuaded or persuade themselves that crime ceases to be crime when clothed with a mantle of pseudo-patriotism,

"I have long been convinced that; most of the present troubles of our people are a divine judgment on past crimes. It looks as if we were determined to rush headlong to the forerunner of destruction, had our ruin, as if madness, which is

come upon our people."

BOMB LESS DEADLY TO BATTLESHIPS THAN GUNFIRE

London, April 1.

"A declaration that it is safer to be in a battleship attacked from

the air than in one being shelled "Portable transmitters 'may

was given to-day by Mr. S. V. handled in the same way as Goodall, one of the senior mem- cameras.

ters of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors.

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"By next season it should also be possible to televise football mat- ches, and chance that next year's Cup Final I believe there is a

may be televised."

A B.B.C. official said: "Televi- sion will possibly enter into the Coronation arrangements. Natur ally the matter of sound broad- casting will be thoroughly gone into, and as television will be in operation, something may be done" in that direction.

It is impossible at present, however, to make any defnite statement.".

OF ROYAL COURTS?

London March 30.

direct is agreed upon, confidence DRAWING-ROOMS INSTEAD in the full plan of re-arming will be wanting. Above all, the whole course of the discussion--and in particular the speeches from the Socialist benches-has re-intorced The question of what arrange- the conviction that supply must be ments are to be made in view of divorced from the planning of de- the abandonment of the Royal fence. The two things cannot be Courts this year because of Court combined under one Minister, and mourning for King George is to be the turning over of industry to its discussed during the next new tasks has assumed the greater days. urgency, since the materials, for defence must be available before they can be utilised.

Lord Stanley: I can assure the Hon Member that constant con- alderation is given to Improving the conditions under which naval personnel work and live. No special inquiry is cons.dered to be necessary.

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Lord Cromer, the Lord Chamber- tain, was back at bls.omice in St. James's Palace yesterday after his

o montis holiday cruise, and it is expected that he will be sum- moned to Buckingham Palace for an audience with the King shortly, when the question of the Courts will come under review.

No decision has been arrived at yet, but it is understood that it is The "Naval and Military Record" certain that there will be no understands that the suspected Courts. Instead, it is possible that sabotage in the private dockyard | afternoon drawing-rooms- máy đó referred to by Lord Stanley was a' | held during the late autumn after case for minor dainage, to a the Court comes out of mourning destroyer at Barrow-In-Furness, * October.

Mr. Goodall. addressing the In-

denied that design was stagant at stitution of Naval Architects,

the Admiralty. He thought that the trend would be to develop the aircraft-carrier type of ship so that it should not be so vulnerable. Referring to the recent full-scale experiments in the British Navy as to the efficacy of airplanes bomb- ing battleships, Mr. Goodall said:

"I have been associated with those experiments. They are sec- ret. But I will let this cat out of the bag.

BATTLESHIPS SAFFR

"If I had to choose between ship that was to be attacked. by being on board a modern capital

modern gun fire, and a modern capital ship to be attacked by bombers, I should have not the slightest hesitation in making my choice.

should watch, I fear, with some pleasure, the air enthusiasts going to the ship that was to be attacked by gun fire."

FIRST WEDDING IN COMMONS CRYPT FOR TEN YEARS

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London, April 2. For the first time in ten years a wedding took place in the Crypt of the House of Commons to-day. The bridegroom "war" Emeritus Professor John Graham Kerr MP. for the Combined Scottish Un'ver- xities, and hid bride way, Mrs Alaa Clapperton,f faul boost ever

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