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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, 1 APRIL

1938.

CZECHO - SLOVAKIA READY TO RISE IN WHITE HATS

ARMS AGAINST ANY AGGRESSION

Nation Would Regard Any Outside Interference As Intolerable

French Assurances of "IN-AGAIN, OUT-AGAIN” PREMIER

Integrity Has

Stiffened Opposition

By Webb Miller

United Press Staff Correspondent

(Copyright, 1938, by United Press)

PRAGUE, CZECHO-SLOVAKIA. CZECHO-SLOVAKIA WILL RESIST BY EVERY-MEANS— DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY-ADOLF HITLER'S IMPLIED IN- TENT OF BRINGING 3,500,000 OF ITS CITIZENS UNDER A NAZI PROTECTORATE.

I am able to-day to outline, on the highest authority, the attitude of this nation which stands in the path of Hitler's "Drive to the East." Government ministers have refrained from issuing formal statements because. of the delicacy of the Middle European situation, but this is how Czecho-Slovakia feels:

1. It regards Hiller's proposed protectorate over Germans who live in other European countries as an unprecedented and intolerable Interference in the Internal affairs of this nation.

2. It has received assurance from Paris that if Germany attacks Cacchio- France will spring to arms in its defence. Czecho-Slovakia, Slovakia and France are bound by a close military alliance.

3. It has informed the German minister that the Czecho-Slovakian government's reaction to Hitler's Reichstag speech, in which he an- nounced a protectorate over 10,000,000 Eiermans who live in con- tinental nations ontside Germany, was highly disagreeable.

Outwardly all is peaceful and calm here in the capital of Well-dressed crowds pro- the last democracy in the Balkans. menade on the broad thoroughfares in the winter sunshine. Motion picture theatres and cafes are crowded. But the Czechs know that at any time the blow may fall on them just as it did on Austria.

EMPIRE NEWS

DIVORCE REFORM IN CANADA

Ottawa.

The government makes no attempt to minimise the gravity of the situation. Gen. Ludwig Krejci, chief of the general staff, called in the military correspon-

OF FRANCE IN HAPPY MOOD

Smiling after having solved one of the innumerable French críacs,

dents of Prague newspapers and Leon Blum "in-again, out-again" Premier enjoys the vlow from a window told them that the nation had in his house with Vincent Auriol who became Co-ordination Minister in to be prepared for "a brutal, his short-lived presidency of the counell.

quick attack without warning,

by motorised forces, assisted by

an air force." He added that Czecho-Slovakin had to be pre- pared to fight alone for the first

the

A bill which includes desertion, days of the struggle, to give her cruelty, and insanity as grounds for allies time to mobilise.

By the end of February, divorce, instead of adultery only, was introduced in the Senate yester-German government had made no day, Quebec is not affected by the diplomatic representations to Czecho- Hitler's Reichstag measure, as in this province divorce Slovakia since

apeech, but the German minister did Is not recognised.

generally modelled on call at the foreign office and Inquire bill The is

lines the British Matrimonial about the reaction of this govern- the

of

ment. He received the straight for- Causes Act of last year.

State Medicine-Major Power, ward reply that the speech had made

National a disagreeable impression, Minister of Pensions and Health, told the House of Commans that State medicine was not accept-

to Canadians.

being us able.to.

The Government wished Socialistic

co-ordination to control health by rather than by regimentation. Post- war pensions work with a system of State-controlled medicine had proved of any such the ineffectiveness scheme. AUSTRALIA

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OFFICIAL 'EDITORIAL Heretofore, the strongest the gov- ernment has gone in revealing lis policy, is an editorial, officially in- spired, which appeared in the gov crnment newspaper, Prager Presse.

It read:

"Not only Czecho-Slovakia but all other countries, whether close or

Malayan Pensioners Have

Sir Andrew As Guest

Tributes On Jaffna Visit

A reception given by Malayan pensioners was one of the features of Sir Andrew Caldecott's recent tour of Ceylon the first since he was appointed Governor of that Colony.

Many tributes to Sir Andrews' work as Chief Secretary, F.M.S., and Colonial Secretary, S.S., in recent years were paid at a Jaffna function, at which an address was presented by the pensioners.

Vast Drug Ring Is Unmasked

Complaint Leads To

Paris Arrests

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"We may recall with pardonable pride," stated, this address, "your high sense-of-justice. and fair..play in all your dealings with our countrymen. who contributed not a little to the de- velopment of the Malay States.

"They were able to give of their

they had the kindly direction and supervision of efficient British officers, of whom Your Excellency may well be said to have been the most dis- tintinguished.

bost in the service of the States, for

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distant neighbours of Germany, will U.S. resist with all means available the could Germany theory whereby claim the right to interfere in un- other its borders. Only one institu-

Eight

have is competent to intervene in that

persons Sydney. respect and that is the League of arrested by the Paris police

"It is a benign providence that has When the Italian slemmer Romolo, Nations.

"It would certainly be wrong to following revelations about the

"drug ring" blessed Ceylon, at this critical period Crown Colony 300 immigrants with 0,780 tons,

Europe on board, assume that application of foreign activities of from Southern

administration to a democratic gov ernment, with a Governor of your reached Fremantle, Western Aus-intervention is a suitable means for operating on the Continent and of her transition from tralia, 100 passengers left the vessel. bringing about the peaceful solution in the United States.

The leader of the gang is alleged to wide experience, broad vision and They protested against travelling any of the minorities problem and gen- further in a ship which had one of cral political appeasement. The basis be a Swede named Astrand. He is a large sympathy, lest the present con- her propeller shafta broken, and had of universal peace and international barman by profession, working dur-stitution should be worked in taken 19 instead of 10 days on the law embodies the principle of non-ing the day-time at a well-known bar manner prejudicial to the best in-

Intervention

in the Internul affaire of Colombo-Fremantle.run.

indistrict, und at night at a Bohemian There was an angry scene when the nations. Abandonment of that prin- in the fashionable Champs Elysees teresis of the country.

that they clple would be the end of law and district captain told the passengers would have to pay their own fares to order and the beginning of revolus resort at Montparnasse. He is now in East Australian ports if they left the tion. It would disorganise the re- ship, Ullinately, after inspection of lations between states and ultimately the New York police. The widow of the damage and negotiations with the lead to chaos agents here, it was decided to seek lations." authority of the owners to give the Immigrants passage in another ship.

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REAPING REWARD

"We feel confident that Your Excellency will be able to com- pose successfully the communal The arrests followed a complaint to

and sectional differences which have late marred the harmonious an American judge discovered two

progress" of the Island." months ago that her daughter, who

Sir Andrew in his reply said: had been a student in the Latin DEMOCRACY FIRST

was being supplied with

'Friends from Malaya, you said in quarter,

She insisted Disregarding the 3,500,000 Czecho-heroin from Paris, after her return your address that Jaffnese have con- that she was Slovakian citizens of German birth to the United States. Capable of making only four knots 60 per cent, of whom are sympathetic that the police should make effort. ¡tributed not a litle to the develop- across the Great Bight.

to the Nazis there is a passionate to trace the source of the supplies. ment of the Malay States. With my Degree for Lord Nuffield. The de- attachment to the tenents of de- The French police state that the girl experience of 28 years in Malaya, I Kree of Doctor of Laws has been conmocracy in this nation. More par-had been undergoing a drug curosan bear witness to Jaffna's contribu- ferred on Viscount Nuffield by the Ucularly, it is an attachment to the while in France.

Astrand is alleged to have establish- Snote of the University of Sydney, conception of democracy prevalent

ed connections in Havre through "You, who are now reaping the re American continent. Rester.

on the

whom he was able to keep in touch In Prague, the

railway principal

are looking now healthier, younger hotel

with American ollants. According to ward of your service to that country, station, a

and named for

for Woodrow Wilson. Other the police he was being supplied by a and heppler. streets

аге named for Washington 28-year-old Corsican named Susini,

"You must have felt, after being As we say WEAPONS

and Herbert Hoover. You can buy who was arrested a week ago with

man

named Llegeard. Of the in exile, the call of Jaffna. Calcutta.

"Lindbergh cocktail" in the cafes. With the beginning to-day of the Czechs have made the Central other Ave men arrested three were in English, there is no place like Moslem festival of Moharram, when European crisis the principal topic of Corsicans and two Frenchmen. One, home

"Your promise to promote the cause bis associates as "Napolcon." fanatical feeling is always apt to run conversation in the cafes where they Corticchiato by name, was known to

their beer. Newspapers post

Independent of these arrests the in-of inter-racial brotherhood has de- high, tense situation has developed. sip

clustered vesligations have led to the charging lighted me. Working in Malaya among coincides with the Hindu festival their front pages on bulletin boards

of 14 persons with offences against the Indians, from both north and south, of Holl, celebrated by squrting or and crowds always are throwing red or yellow powder over around them.

Icarned that the government French drug laws. All these persons Chinese, Malays, Japanese, Javanese friendship and brotherhood; which watched with considerable anxiety are believed to have been supplied and others, you have experienced that de many persons possible in honour of the vernal equinox.

should be available among different Apprehension is particularly acute the change in the British cabinet, with drugs by the "ring"

meant a a weakening of

peoples. welcome, therefore, your. in the United Provinces. In Allaha-fearing it

promise." bad, where

there has already been British moral support for Czecho-

been Slovakia

In the event of German tomo disorder, an order has Promulgated forbidding the carrying pressure. There have been significant any weapon by Hindus or Mosleme signs in the last few months that next fortnight. The order also Great Britain's attitude is changing for the

and that London would like to sca limits the number of lathis-staves Czecho-Slovakia show a more com- Speaking at Wellington, Cape Pro- to be carried-in each Moharram cession to 28, This has caused dis- pliant attitude toward Hitler. Some vince, to-day, Mr. O. Pirow, Minis- sallafpotion among Allahabad Mesien:s observers here interpret those algus ter for Railways, Harbours and De- ybo, ka w protest, have decided not to to mean that the British government fence, said that it the Union Castle duction he required was from 628. thinka If Germany's sphere of In Company was not prepared to make od. to 45s. for deciduous fruit, and celebrate the festival.

The Auence is permitted to expand east-substantial reductions in the freight from 47 Bd. to 36. for citrus fruit. Mr. Pirow said that a company Trade A With South

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