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NO FAITH IN POWERS' GUARANTEE Norway Will Seek Own Preservation

OSLO, Mar. 19. NORWAY WILL not request or scok her security to be guaranteed by Great Britain or any other group of Powers, de- clared M. C. J. Hambro, Presl- dent of the Norwegian Parlin address to-day, in

ment in an

which he emphasised Norway's

determination to preserve her neutrality.

M. Hambro referred to the proposal

made in the British House of Com- mons

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

LEAGUE OF LOVING

PEACE

March 20, 1939.

FIGHTING CONTINUES

COUNTRIES. Ruthenians Defend

LONDON, MAR. 19.

BETWEEN

T IS LEARNED THAT THE CABINET YESTERDAY AGREED THAT

THERE SHOULD BE AN IMMEDIATE CONTACT GREAT BRITAIN AND PEACE-LOVING COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD,

Mr. Neville Chamberlain left Downing Street at 5.50 p.m. to-day and drove to Buckingham Palace for an audience with the King, to whom he reported on the latest developments in the European situation.

Two

or three hundred people were in

Downing Street and cheered the Premier as he

that Great Britain should drove away. guarantee the independence of the Scandinavian countries,

He stated: "We have never be

lieved in the value of such guarantees, and to-duy, faith in promises of sup- port from other Powers is weaker than ever before.

"Our neutrality policy cannot be based on Intee feelings of security which would arise as a result of such

The Premier remained with the King for just

Another New Clipper

Their Homeland

WARSAW, Mar. 19. SANGUINARY CLASHES between Hungarian troops and the Ruthenian defence organisa- tion "Sic" continued to-day, according to reports from special correspondents.

It is declared that the Hungarians have adopted more cautious tactics,

and are advancing slowly, taking ne

chaices. Orders have been given that any Ukrainian caught with a weapon in his hand is to be shot on sight..

A pitched battle took place near Ranovo during which the Hungarians lost ten saldiers.

A Hungarian company advanced into an ambush and was machine- Ukrainians were Hunned, but the Anally driven across the Rumanian frontier,

over an hour, and then drove back to Downing Boeing Arrival Set According to

Street.

CABINET MEET CALLED

Viscount Halifax re-visited Downing Street

a guaranice, but must be founded on at 4.45 p.m. and remained for two hours with the

our own abilly and will to defend

our neutrality against all sides. One-Prime Minister. alded neutrality ceases to be neu- trality."

He concluded with the remark that the Norwegian will for neutrality

could be best expressed in times of peace through strengthening their defence forces, since it was only thus that a feeling of cecurity in Europe can be strengthened-Trans-Ocean.

POLAND'S CONFIDENCE

Warsaw, Mar, 10.

broadenstin

President Moscieli.

A Cabinet meeting will be held to-morrow. Viscount Halifax, Sir Kingsley Wood, and Mr. Oliver Stanley called this morning to see the Premier, while Lord Chatfield, and Sir Thomas Inskip called afternoon.

this

For Next Friday

THE PAN AMERICAN AIR-

reports, the Hun-

100 garlans lost

men and the Ukrainians 70 in a battle for the pos- pession of the capital of the district of Hlust.

The Ukrainious were

the but Jacked adequate They weapons and ammunition. were finally forced to retreat nerose a swamp in

In which many sank and vere drowned.

majority.

WAYS super-Clipper flying boat No. 19, the second to be finished by the Boeing Corpora- tion, is due, to arrive at Hong- kong at 12.30 p.m. on Friday, Before the arrival of the Hun- The giant 74-passenger plane is garians, the Ukrainians were said to crew of eleven. The have massacred a considerable num- carrying a

only mail and freight, and no passen-

fight is in the nature of a test one,

The first passenger night of the era being carried, super-Cilppers to Itongkong will be the first week in April, leaving San The local office of the company 10- day confirmed the report that two of the new Clippers have been de- finitely assigned

to the Hongkong service.

Viscount Halifax and Mr. Oliver Stanley paid a Francisco on March 29. second visit in the afternoon.

to-day, emphasised Poland's conf-SOVIET ENVOY ACTIVE dence in the strength of her army, and concluded with the words:

"We have created a free and in- dependent Poland, and it shall re- mala Independent and self-reliant, and we shall not entrust our future protection."-Reuter

to

anybody's

Special.

It is also reported that M. Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador, spent half an hour with Viscount Halifax at the Foreign Office this afternoon.

AIR MAIL DELAY Already two days late, the air mail has been delayed another day and is how expected to reach Kai Tak nt

Sir Nevile Henderson arrived in London this after-15 p.m. to-morrow, noon, and he drove straight to the Foreign Office where he had an interview, lasting forty-five minutes, with

Houseboy Gave Viscount Halifax.

Himself Up Robbed European Employers

MR. AND MRS. L. E. LAMMERT of 35 Iankow Rood, Kowloon, were this

at the Kowloon Magistracy morning as complainants in a larceny Tang case against their cookboy,

Hok-fu, who was charged before Mr.

E. Himsworth with theft of $88.23.

Detective Sub-Inspector R. Cun- ningham

In pursuance of his instructions to return to report von Dirksen to Berlin, the German Ambassador, Herr left London this afternoon for Berlin.-Reuter.

Anglo-French-Russian Conference Favoured

"Melody Bee" From Studio

TROOPS POUR ACROSS THE FRONTIER

Munkucevo, Mar. 19. Hungary is still pouring troops into Ruthenia despite completion of the occupation of territory.

ber of Czechs-Trans-Ocean.

Trains carrying troops are leaving! here for Ruthenia three times every hour.

Great activity prevails, not only here, but all along the frontier be- tween Hungary and the Czecho-Slovakin,

former

Young men called to the colours are hastening to rejoin their regi- ments, while peasants, with horses and carts carrying hay are making for the mobilisation centres.

It is stated that during the occupa tion of Ruthenia, the Ilungarians lost 200 dead, and a much larger number wounded.

No serious incidents have been re- ported since completion of the oc-

To-morrow commencing at 9 p.m.cupation, and troops are engaged in ZBW will conduct a "Melody Bee." policing the country. Reuter Special. the first of its kind ever attempted in; Hongkong.

conducted The "Melody Bee" is upon similar lines to a "Spelling Bee" but instead of spelling words the question is to guess the tunes.

Two teams, the Fints and Sharps. have been chosen whilst the compere will be "Eeyore."

HUNGARIANS CREATE

NEW CAPITAL

Budapest, Mer. 19.

M. Andreas Brody, the new Pre- mier of Ruthenia, was received by the Hungarian Premier, Count Teleki to-day.

During the conversation an agree- Over a dozen tunes will be given. ment was reached for Ruthenia to The opening bars of a tune will be receive far-reaching autonomy. played and the members of the teams It was further declded that Mun- will be given 30 seconds in which lokne will become the new capital of) guess its name and also nume the Ruthenia--Trans-Ocean.

LONDON, Mar. 19. ALTHOUGH VARIOUS disclaimers have been received from Berlin and Bucharest with regard to Germany's alleged composer. Bald that the defendant had been employed by Mr. and Mrs. commercial demands against Rumania, the possibility of a Ger-correct name and one mark for the Was customary for Mr-Lam-man threat to Rumania is not to be regarded as dismissed,correct name of the compuser.

Lammert for over a year.

mert to check whatever bills dime from the compradore. At the end of ary she checked bill for February $89.23 and signed it.

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writes a diplomatic observer.

The conclusions reached by the British Government

ag AL

It is understood that the possibility

of collaboration between Britain, France and Russin was discussed la The defendant took the bill to Mr. Lammert's office in Hongkong and result of numerous diplomatic general terms during M. Maisky's conversations cat on Viscount Halifax to-day- collected the money on March 14 and then absconded. It was then found and ministerial out that another store had been over the week-end will not be Reuter, lesuing goods in the name of Mr. known until Mr. Chamberlain Lammert, who had no business con- and Viscount Halifax make con- acetions with the store.

sidered statements to-morrow in

On March 17, the defendant

re-

FULL POWERS FOR DALADIER,

Paris, Mar. 19. The Senate has voted M. Dalmier

Reuter.

One mark will be given for the

Barcelona Killing Is Disclosed

Barcelona, Mar. 10. Barcelona police have discovered in a hiding place, the bodies of 24 doctors and nurses who had been missing.

They had apparently been shot by

capture of Barcelona.-Trans-Ocean.

turned to the house of Mr. Lammeri the House of Commons and tull powers by 200 votes to 17- the Republicans shortly before the and asked to be forgiven for what he House of Lords respectively. had done.

He was advised to go to the police and this he did. He was arrested.

Mr. Himsworth: What did you do with the money?

Half of the The defendant: money was cheated from me by a triend. I spent $10 and there is still $20, I gavi the $20 to my wife and I have $5 ca me."

RATHER A SHOCK

Mr. Himsworth: I suppose he will lose his job.

ke

Mr. Lammer: Well, one doesn't to be hard on him, but I can't see how anything else could be done in view of other items that have been involved. He has always been honest is rather before and very helpful.

Mr. Chamberlain conferred with the King for one hour to-day, and also with Lord Chatfield and all the other defence Ministers.

DEFENCE ACCELERATION

It is learned that one result of yesterday's Cabinet meeting was the decision for an immediate and big acceleration in the re-armament programme,

A further Cabinet meeting has been leed for to-morrow morning.

Meanwhile it is evident that ritain and Frence will not be taken unawares by a further German coup. In non-oMeinl quarters, a con- ference between Britain, France, America, and Russia is favoured, in a shock for thisto happen now. order to frame a general polley to dant over in $110 to be of good to subscribe. behaviour for a year and ordered him to pay t the complainant, through the Cour, $89.23. If the de- fendant could n remit the money he would have to serve two months' bard labour.

FRENCH ENVOY LEAVES

Berlin, Mar. 10. The French Ambassader is leaving for Paris to-night to report on the Central European situation-Renter STRONG SOVIET NOTE

Moscow, Mar. 10. In the course of a note to Germany the legat refusing to recognise validity of the German action In Czecho-Slovakia, M. Maxim Litvinov, the Soviet Forelen Minister declares that the Czecho-Slovak Republic has been one of the few European States where internal tranquility and penceable foreign policy were really secured.

The note declines to belleve that who for. hundreds of any people, your fought to independence, would

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All the papers here report that M.! Teleki and M. Csaky, the Hungarian -Premier and Foreign Minister re spectively, are paying an official THE HONG KONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD

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Gratitude Of Shameen

Navy's Work In Saving Concession

CANTON, Mar. 20.

CENTRAL SHOWROOM:-

KOWLOON SHOWROOM :—

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Constable On

Columbus Serious Charge

AS AN EXPRESSION of America's Discoverer Bribery Allegations and successful efforts of the Takes Last Voyage In Court

Flotilla

CIUDAD TRUJILLO,

Mar. 19.

Amerik Singh, 30, L.S.B. 380, a police officer, was charged before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon

Mr. Hlmsworth bound the defen- which the Balkan States can be asked voluntarily agree to is destructiunthe gradual return to normalcy, is made by commissioning, and was the presence of Dominican officials (cepted, at the Mongkok markel on

While standing outside the King's College, Bonham Road, yesterday, their gratitude for the strenuous Mrs. R. Langley, of St. John Ambulance ficadquarters, had her handbag snatched by an unknown British navy to save Shameen Chinese. The bag and its contents from being reduced to ashes by were valued at $47.

fire in the critical days of last October, a silver plaqué has been THE REMAINS of Christo-Magistracy to-day on four charges of Asin presented to the commander of pher Columbus have been cere-accepting bribes and four of miscon- Empress of arrived at Nagasaki on Saturday at the West River

by moniously removed from the duct an a police officer. 3.30 p.m. and left at 7 am, yesterday, members of the British Associa-marble crypt at the San She is due at Shanghai at 13.30 p.m. tion in Canton.

Domingo Cathedral, where they for Chinese Affairs, applied for the Mr. E. G. Post, of the Secretariat to-day, and leaves for Hongkong ut

The presentation took place aboard had been interred since 1541. 7.30 am. to-morrow.

case to be adjourned for 24 hours H.M.S, Tarantula on the eve of

and had his application granted. The ceremony was carried out In the gunboat's departure for long-

Singh was decused of having ac- kong for

Mr. A. E. Smilth, loeulj and ʼn delegation of United States March 17 a bribe of 00 cents from

one named Wong Wal, a bribe of the Association.

$1.20 from one named Yip Yeung, a An oficial photograph was taken bribe of $1.20 from one panied Yip Throughout the occupailun, the It was recalled that at the end of German army has observed perfect October, when Canton city resembled of the remains, which are under Sau, & bribe of 00 cents from one discipline, and there have been no one vast raging inferno, British blue-air-tight glass. reports of excesses by troops of any Jackets and Shameen residents kept watch day and night in order to category or at any time.

Many Czecha complain of the prevent buildings on the island from A communique issued at its con activities of Nazis, either German or calching fre-Reuter, Shanghai, Mar, 20. clusion stated that M. Daladler fully Sudeten, some in uniform and others International Settlement taxi com-utilned the first decree under a ponies have discontinued the service Full Powers Bull, which will be sub-not, who have been demanding to see a result of two mitted to the Council of Ministers atrodentials on the street, and molest- to. Hongkow as Chinese chauffeurs being murdered & p.m. to-morrow, and immediately small shopkeepers.

put into execution, in Hongkew during the past week.

As the defendunt said that he thought he could alse the money, Mr. Himsworth rebanded it for 24 And the hours to give him time to money.

Before remanding the defendant, Mr. Himsworth sail that he might vary his order for the repayment of the money by monthly instalments.

DYOTT STILLMISSING.

Tianjin, Mar. 20,

Chinese Chaffeurs Murdered

after gaining that freedomReuter. Siving the whole affair "silent treat-manager of Jardines, and President Congressmen.

ment", and making the best of it.

NO DEMOBILISATION

+

Paris, Mar. 10. The French Cabinet meeting be- gon at 0.50 p., and ended at 8.45

p.m.

It is reported that half of the The "North China Daily News" said to-day that police circles pre-military class due to be demobilised sumed that Japanese and Korean In April will remain with the colours. Another report says that it la rum- ronins were responsible for the mur

that France is calling up ders, this being part of a campaign cured

techniciuna from three; Official confirmation of this story is not available, but there is no doubt that a certain number of men are be- ing called up-Reuter, F**

to discourage foreign competition) milltary Mr. H. F. Dyott, the kidnapped with Japanese taxis and buses operat- cinsecs. Chairman of the Britsh Chamber of ing in Hongkow-Untled Press.

Commerce, has not yt returned.

Meanwhile, British Ind American consular officials have þquested their nationals to evacuate the Japanese- controlled areas—Unitė Press.

HOPE TO GROW PLUMS

London.

Five plum trees have arrived at

Spelling Bee

PRAGUE QUIET ·

Arrests and suleldes continue, as well as the rush for border passes and foreign visas United Press

CANCELLATION OF TRADE PACT URGED

8-YEAR-OLD CHILD Serious Charge Against Coolie

named Lul Tam. He was piso alleg-

The remains will be immured in cd to have misconducted himself no the $5,000,000 Columbus Memorini a police officer by receiving the lighthouse when it is completed in gratulties. 1042-United Presa.

Christopher Columbus died on May

20, 1600. After the funeral service at Valladolid his remains were trans- ferred to the Carthusian monastery of Santa Maria

in de las Cuevas Seville, where the bones of his son Diego were also Isld,

Exhumed in 1542, the bodies of both father and son were taken over sea to apanipla and. Interred in the | Cathedral of San Domingo, | Accord-

to "Encyclopaedia Britannica, however, they no longer remain in San Domingo but were re-transferred to Seville after the Spanish-American War of 1898.

The present beir and representative of the famous explorer is the Duke

London, Mar. 20. Commenting on the Anglo-German trade agreement signed last week by delegations of the Federation of THE ALLEGATION that a girl British Industries and the Relch-

only eight years of age was Industrie, sgruppe

the "Finncio) Nows Bays that the agreement is the victim of a man's lust was held to be irreconcilabla" with the made in the Kowloon Magistracy spirit of the Anglo-American trade this morning. Prague, Mar, 18.

agreement, and regarded as a mozna Foreign correspondents, in Prague, 1 helping Germany out of her

A thirtyone-year-old earth colle, to whom reports of ultimatums, emer-economic dimeulues croated by her Lam Leung, appeared in Court. of Veragya.

Against him the charge was, pre- gency meetings of Cabinets, and re-armament programme. growing tension trickle through, pre It is urged, therefore, that the Bri.ferred of having dedied the girl a

| Mangkok- last Wednesday,"

The Canadian Pacific, round-the- under the Impression that Progue fish. Government cancel the agree to-day, four days after its occupation,ment, and proceed forthwith to adopt given, die man being remanded for arrived at Ball on Sunday at 0 am. Only formal evidence of arrest wax world cruise liner Empress of Britain Engtials Oxford Dictionary anell-Is the quietest spot in Europe, vigorous methods to combat Ger-

The population, whose defiance of many's desperate drive for exports. a week on the application of the and leaves today at 6 pan, she is due Hihe Germans has not Jessened with j—Reuter. Special,

police.

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