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King And Queen May Cross Atlantic
On Liner
London, Apr. 11. The Government is reported to be considering a change of travelling plans for the King and Queen whereby they will cross the Atlantie on the Empress at Britain instead of LBS. Re- pulso for their visit to Canada.
tension The Mediterranean wakes it aupne that HALS. Repulse will be required on the spol. The vessel is now at Gibraltar "shaklug down" pre- paratory to the Royal voyage,— United PrenS,
England
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London, Apr. 11. There was brilliant, sunshine in London and other part of the coun- try yesterday, and holiday enjoyed themselves thoroughly. By noon, the temperature
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European Tension Parsists
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
PREMIER SAID TO HAVE SENT NOTE TO MUSSOLINI.
London, Apr. 11. According to rumours prevalent in political circles here Inst evening Mr. Chamberlain addressed a personal note to Signor Mussolini in reply to a mesage from Il Duce received by the British Premier on Eastern Sunday.
that
From the comments of diplomatic According to the paper's Ramie cor- and political correspondents In to respondent Italian diplomatic circles day's morning edittona, it appears assure that incorporation of Albania-
Mr. Chumberlain's refusal to in the Italian-empire will very short- denounce the Anglo-Italian ngreely be an accomplished fact, ment to a large extent is due to the The correspondent further states personal message from Il Duce which that rumours current in Rome men- was communicated to Mr. Chamber- tion the end of April as the probable Inin by the Italian Charge d'Affaires date of King Victor Emmanuel's In London, Signor Crolta, during the coronation in Tirana, The King will, Easter holidays.
It is believed, subsequently be re- This message is characterised as presented in Albania by a viceroy the rat of a number of assurances Trans-Ocean, made by Italy in the Albanian ques- tlon.-7'rans-Ocean.
Soviel Called In
London, Apr. 11. The Soviet Ambassador called at the Foreign Office this morning and stayed for more than half an hour.
In Paris the Soviet Ambassador ogain called on the Foreign Minister, M. Georges Bonnet, this morning- Reuter Bulletin,
Through
The Telegraph"
50 YEARS AGO
Flore are Is Love portant events
April 12, 10. of the many
have happened;
11-
Dyott Collapses
Tientsin, Apr. 11.
Mr. II. F. Dyolt, Chairman of the British Chamber of Com- merce, who was rescued on April 3 from the
of
bandits who abducted him on March 17, collapsed to-day and was sent to hospital-Reuter, --
Turkey
Premier's Statement Approved
- Press is Alarmed
April 12, 1939.
Britain And China
Tokyo Sees
No Change In Policy
Tokyo, Apr. 11.
The British Government's policy
towards China remains unchanged. SUMMER
Sir Robert Craigle, the Drillsh Am- baszader China, told Japanese newspapermen upon his arrival at Kobe from Shanghai last night. The Ambasador arrived nt Kobe Monday aboard the N.Y.K. Ener Terukuni Maru. Stopping aboard overnight, the Ambassador will re- turn to Tokyo to-day.
on
The Ambassador said that his trip to Shanghai had no political object, He added that a week's trip would not be enough to taille in detail with Sir Archibald Clark Kerr In Shang- hel.-Dornei.
Newspaper Opinion
Istanbul, Apr. 11. The Turkish press, which so far has been restrained in its comments on the international situation, is now i giving free expression of alarm.
Tokyo, Apr. 11. Leading newspapers point out the
Commenting on the Kerr-Craigie danger which is threatening all the conversations In Shanghal, the Balkan countries and exhort them to Kolumin Shimbun observes that an unite and co-operate if they were agreement of views was apparently to prevent the dire consequences. reached on the possibility and ad- The Foreign Minister, Sarajoglou, visability of mediation on the part of who was chief of the Turkish delega- Great Britain, consequently the Hon at the marriage festivities at
L: British Teheras, has cancelled his departure paper expects a change
polley. there because of the serious turn in events in Europe-Reuter.
TURKISH POLICY
The Kokumint ascribes the British anxiety for termination of the Sino- Pant with Italy Possible
Ankara, Apr. 11. Japancer hostilities to two reasons; The Premier emphasised to-day | the European London, Apr. 11.
situation revolving Albania Italian action in British and French warships are within the past half century:-The dis- that the National Assembly of Tur-round reported to be massing off the en- covery of the vivetric telegraph, and key was taiting ensures was 66 de trance to the Adriatic, while Mr. bestie lighting: the unification of off the events which the nation might Lez1 annexation of Texas: possibly have to face. He declared Neville
Italy; Chamberlain seeks
acquisition of California and the dễ that, thanks to powerful army, the minute diplomatic deal with:
covery of gold: the French Revolution
which for this year.
Yesterday, being a bank holiday many people took the opportunity of visiting
seaside, hundreds taking advantage. of the weather to prolong their ex-
the highest recorded
Good
cursions.
and the country
and Despite the many country senside attractions, the London 200 nearly reached record figures, Trame were heavy on all the roads.
The crowds made the best of their stay in the country and rendide and many who delayed their departure until the last moment had to spend the night at Waterloo Station owing to a slight breakdown Southern Railway.
in the
In London the chief attraction at the Zoo was the giant Panda, whose antics delighted the visitors.
Road trafe on the main roads Jeading to London were very heavy,
400
cars passing Reuter Bulletin.
Indo-China
in an hour-
IMPROVING FRENCH DEFENCES
Chungking, Apr. 11. Chinese reports stato that the French authorities have completed plans to erect 250 anti-aircraft guns in Indo-Ching, mainly at Saigon, Helphong and Banol, also a number In the French lensed territoryTMTMTMof Kwangchowan Buy.
It is stated that the increase of re- gular troops in Indo-China has been Empleted from the original 50,000
to 100,000 incl.
altack
therefore,
both
to bear upon
to word dictates that Britain shall concentrate her full force and energier in Europe, and a comparison of notes between the two Ambadors led to the can- clusion that the anti-Japanese sistance of the Chiang Kai-shek re- gime is relatively spent.
The journal believes, that Great Britain will endeavour to bring pressure Japan and China, the tense situation in Europe compelling her to assume a stift attitude towards Japan in pending questions, including those of free navigation of the Yangise, the Chinese Maritime Customs and the Chinese Railways administration, and that on these questions she will in- duce the United States and France to form with her a joint front against Japan.
Jast! Signor Mussolini. Mr. Chamberlain is re- f 1848; the discovery Revul country was capable of warding off ported to be secking on arrangement phone: the discovery of photography; any danger and any agression.
A vote of confidence was taken whereby Italy's occupation of Albanla the laying of cables: the meipation
the Premier's declaration ol would be accepted it Italy gave Drm of Russian sering the establishment of ing
en seen ateam navigation; the overthrow polley, in which he drew attention assurances against 11 Greece and a promise to begin with- of the Hope's temporal power; the to the prezent crisis, the suppression dent of Italian troops from Spain nower into Centre of States in only a few days, and Asing the great Franen-German War in waleh he stated that Turkey's for- mmexliately.
and the unification of Germany; the
polley Ful undergone no in It is believed that if agreement great fivil War and the abolition of cin
The motion was carried with Signor Mussolini is proved to slavery in the United States; the rise change. be impossible, Mr. Chamberlain will and fall of Sapoteon 1, and the est manimously-Reuter.
BULGARIA MAY JOIN announce in the Commons on Thurssment of the French Republic: the
Bucharest, Apr. 11. day that the Government is prepared Niger, and the exploration of interior The Rumanian Foreign Minister, to enter into full mutual defensive Africa,
M. Gafeneu, told newspaper corres alliances with Greece and Turkey,
pondents here that the outcome of his negotiations in Istanbul could be described as highly satisfactory. He was convinced that the negotiations would furnish a favourable basis for
discovery of the saree of the Nile and
It is also forecast that the Govern- Robert Stevenson, engineer.
Fast one is Claise
ment would denounce the Anglo- Glasgow, is the
Italian friendship agreement provid-invention which will drive oeran ships Ing for maintenance of the status quo up, to forty knots.
the Mediterranean.-United Press.
HUNGARIAN MISSION
Landon, Apr. 11.
Dr. Bonique and Fredel, in a comfurther conversations. munication made to the Biological He was now able to say that the Society of Paris, state that the extrae- prospects of getting Bulgaria to join tion of teeth many he rendered pain, the Balkan allance had substantial of the external ear with other.
It is
Thus, in trying to check further advance of the Japanese forces, Bri- wain is likely to advise the Chung- king Government to abandon further resistance against Japan, though it is quite possible that she will heigh- by extending more assistance to the Chungking Government.
The Budapest Correspondent of the leas by spraying the neighbourhoodly imported in the Bucharest ten the theatrical effect of her move
The
London Dail Telegraph reports that the Hungarian Premier, Dr. cathesda of the trigeninus su pro-
dited extends lu the dental nerves, papers that King Carol of Rumania, Teleski, and the Foreign Minister, M. and thus renders the production of the who had interrupted his Easter noli- Csaky, are proceeding to Rome at the
general unues(benta needless,
day nt Sinals to return to Bucharest, end of the week, to hold important
has left again for Baleik to resume conferences with Il Duce and Count
The King of Abyssinia has beenhle vacation-Trans-Ocean. Clane, They will be accompanied | killed in a battle with the, dervishes, by a large number of officials.
The effects of the Anglo-Polish The sailor nuisance along Queen's Shanghai
pact on the traditional friendship be-
Road muld, in our opinion, be easily tween Poland and Hungary, and the remedied, ut by transferring the
Club to West unsettled relations with Rumania, Seamen's
Point, us jare kely to play a prominent partur morning contemporary's curren
in the Rome conference.
pondent suggests, but by the wholesalo removal of the Club and all the both located in West Point to the neighbouring
Kowloon peninsula.
Soon after the visit to Rome, the Hungarian statesmen will visit Berlin in order to emphasise the profound friendship between Hungary anel Germany. Reuter.__
Parks Press Gloomy
Paris. Apx. 11. The press continues to take a gloomy view of the international
JAPANESE PROTEST AT
con-
The Kokumia concludes by point- Ing out that Sir Robert Craigie has already sought an interview with the Foreign Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arila. The Nichindcht Shimbun does not believe that the Kerr-Craigle versations will result in any such change of British polley favourable to Japan. The paper considers that the Shanghai parley was nothing but a gesture against Japan inspired by the European situation.
the
Pointing out that MURDER
Shanghai, Apr. 11,
Dr. S. T. Shih is understood to be the Secretary of the Taiso regime's Japanese Department.
European crisis-will cause the Chungking Gov ernment increased worry, the paper stresses the necessity for Japan to pursue an independent world policy by resolutely opposing the Britisla policy against Japan and aimed at
A batch of 50 of the latest type situation, except for Le Journal in two-mile drive through the principal The Director of the Press Bureau supporting the Chiang Kai-shek re-
which St. Brice writes that the of American pursuit planes which was part of the recent French pur-situation is considerably easier, but chases from America is reported to nevertheless remais serious.
"Back" could riford to amuse himself ashore there to his heart's content, without in the least disturbing the “urbon-dweller-of-Victorin—with Thi
midnight revelry and the dulcet strains from his operatic repertoire, As matters at, present sland, it woubl appear that the entre af attraction for the lenses me in place far enough in one extremity of the town, to allow the men to have and the most crowded thoroughfares of the Japanese forces, Lieutenant-gime-Domei. before they reach their destination. It Colonel Itsuo Mabuchl made a state- no rure deciterence Lo kee in ment alleging the existence Broad daylight dozens of rickshaw oc-
humanity fording itels way through the International Settlement which Shanghai the stowd of business men, bruching are directing the anti-Japanese ac- past the brakering fraternity stationed tivities. He said that the closing of in Queen's Rond, ond Indulging in such agencies was held to be "highly
Brobdinaggcan mirth in the midst of destrable.
be arriving or to have already arrive newspaper, Republique cupied by so many tunring specimens Chungking Government agencies in
that the situation demands "a Hanul veritable" civil
ed in Indo-China.
An aeroplane factory in
mobilisation for capable of producing 150 planes a everyone who is not momentarily
with the armies".. year will be completed in June.
It is further stated that construc-
to work in Kamranh harbour,
Australia
State Funeral For Late Premier
Sydney, Apr. 11,
French Cabinet Meets
Parls, Apr 11 A meeting of the French Cabinet is being held to-day and a fuli meet- Ing of the Cummell of Ministers to- nurrow.-Neuter Bulletin,
HOLLAND READY
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April 12, 1914.
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Serious View Taken
Shanghal, Apr. 11.
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The paper further urges that therealsexx and trafic. it is surely din Licut-Colonel Mabuchl attributed should be conscription in England.
gusting to new inebriated men sporting the killing of S. T. Shih, to the In- Le Jour takes a very gloomy view themselves among respectable citizens, stigation Cambudin, and other coust fortresses
anti-Japanese the is being continued,
and usks why the Italians continue regardless of all decorum and pea publication appearing in the Settio- France is strengthening her milito send so many troops and so much|perty. Then at night the scene tary defence in Indo-China for the material to "conquered" Albanin. doubly hidespx. Fram eight or nine ment. He altered that anti-Japanese o'clock to the amul hours. Queen's publications in Shaoghal are recely- first time in the past 50 years since Reuter,
by Bentlying instructions from the Chungking uonopalised the Sino-French treaty
1885,
drunken sailors, with a guod sprinkling Government agents who are active in whereby Imperial China ceded the
of soldiers of the garrison, wha crue Shanghai and said that both publica- territory to France-United Press.
about in riekstus and yell in all the tions and the Chinese agencies behind key of the musical scale.
them should be closed.
He said, "We are constrained to de- clare that there are stiti several de- Heuter's correspondent at Athens re- fects in the policing activities of the ports that the Albanians who occupied Municipal Council, Inasmuch as the villages between Premeti and Alexke Council was to take ample precnu- on the Conte Blancamano on April
attacked by Epirotes, and Amsterdam, Apr. 11. were compelled to withdraw with heavy tlons against outrages of this sort by 25, and 3,000 more are scheduled to adopting measures suggested by the arrive during May on an Italian and Holland's determination under alt loss. clrcumstances
Renter's maintain her ncu-
correspondent u1 Berlin Japanese nuthoritles following the
two German ships. trality was affirmed by the Premier, tates that a communication from the assassination of Chen Loh."-United
Bookings Triple Entente regarding the form of Press.
have been mide in Dr. H. Colijn, in a broadcast to-day reply from the Pawers to the Greek
Europe involving the arrival of re- That, he said, was the sole reason note crones a proposal from the for the military measures taken at Tripte Alllance aiming at the speedy
fugees at the rate of a thousand n A Japanese Embassy spokesman month from June to September, the frontier yesterday. There was evacuation of Southern Albanli by no reason whatever for uneasiness.
An exchange of views in declared this afternoon at a press
tember the number Thousands to-day attendel the
The Premier spoke with great now in progress and it is expected that conference that the Japanese authori-mh means tunt by the end of SepTHE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.
unity of all the Powers will be effected les took a very serious view of the fugees in Shanghal "We without dificulty. State funeral of the late Premier, seriousness and deliberation.
assassination of Dr. Shih. He added
14,000-Reuter. Mr. J. A. Lyons. Many mourners are not afraid of any hostile action
that this is a case of clearly pre- were unable to get seats for the being taken against Holland," he de-
10 YEARS AGO
mediated official 0530ssination. Pontifical High Mass in St. Mary's clared. "We only want to show that
April 12, 1029. Reuter. In appreciation of bis 20 years' gin. Cathedral which was attended by the we are determined to maintain our
service to the Governor-General of Australia, the independence and neutrality in all tuitou
Wah Tung South Wales, circumstances and on all sides.
Hospital as Eye Specialist Consultant, D. W. Munton, G. E. F. Thompson, A. Governors of New Tasmania and Queensland, Sir Enri "There is no ground whatever for Dr. G. Montague liarsten was made the Annelin, J. M. de Rocha, W. S. Luke, recipient of a cheque, the pronnotation W. C. John, R. T. Nelson and T. B. Page
the present Prime Minister, believing that the Government fear being made nt the Hospital by Mr. M. Wilson. and the Premiers of the four States ed a direct threat. Their relations Co, the Chairman of the Council of Members are reminded that their sub- and Federal Ministers,
with all foreign Powers were good. the institution.
scription for 1020 are now lue, and 15 in making the presentation, Mr. Lo should be sent to the lion. Treasurer, The general 'alluation in Europe stated that Dr. Harston" had gratuit. Mr. E. Abraham, c/s Tester and Abra- responsible for special Mary's Cathedral to a destroyer in which will be maintained until tran- lospital in the course of his service,
patients at the ham. Exchange Building, Hongkong. ously treated 00,000 Sydney harbour which is crossing to quillity is restored.
5 YEARS AGO Meanwhile the and had no performed no less than; Devonshire, Tasmania, and was
April 12, 1034. escorted out of the harbour, by 15 people should go quietly about their 5,000 operations.
The starting figures revealing the) extent of the increases in the German planes of the Royal Australian AirWork."-Reuter
The Preldent and Committee of the defence forces estimates would appear Force-Reuter Bulletin.
Vietorin leesan Association were At to provide sufletent
grounit for Bri Home yesterday afternoon to members tain's enquiry as to the precizo menn- and friends at the Helens May Institute, ing of the enlarged appropriations. En and following the reception meeting all, the estimates provide for an ex- was held, during the course, of which penditure of the equivalent of the Church Missionary Association tre 180,000,000-phenomenally heavy are for a country which supposed to be camo murged into one body, under the compulsorily disarmed. About £60,000,- the others?
Victor To Become King
styla and title of the Victoria Diocesan 000,000 is set aside for the Army, bonaurariumR
And Missionary Association.
which by Tranty is limited to 100,000 porilble
Budapest, Apr. 11.
mon; $18,000,000 for the Navy, which is The Eight o'clock Gazette reports honorific
thirty-six ships, nono The following new membora have Umited to English Oxford Dictionary spell-from Rome to-day under big head joined the Kowloon Residents Associa: more than ten thousand tons; and 15- ings of these words will be found on lines that King Victor Emmanuelionessrs... E. Silkstone, D. J.. 080,000 for an Air Force which is not
will accept the crown of Albania. Evans, A. &. R. Botelho, A. C. Jeffreys, supposed to exist. page 9.
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Troops Called Up -
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