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一拜體:城四廿月四英非香 MONDAY,

No. 10008

APRIL 24, 1939. 日五初三

DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY IN EUROPE

ITALY'S MANOEUVRES FOR

VICTORY

Re-grouping Of

Balkan States

•

BELGRADE,

Apr. 23.

IR

BALKAN ALLIES

LONDON, APR. 23.

SI NEVILE. HENDERSON, THE BRITISH

AMBASSADOR TO BERLIN, LEFT LONDON THE IMMEDIATE THIS AFTERNOON TO RETURN TO BERLIN. results of the Venice

While Sir Nevilo Henderson had not been conversations between Italy and Jugo-Slavia expected to return to Berlin before May, well- are expected to be as informed circles emphasise that no political significance is attached to the fact that he is returning immediately.

follow:

A re-grouping of the powers

In the Dangbe basin and south- eastern Europe,

2-That the Yuro-Slavian polled

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In future be dominated by the most intimate co-operation with Italy.

However, it is, learned that Yugo-Slavia will not join the anti-Comintern pact immediate- ly. It is believed that a friend ship pact between Hungary and Yugo-Slavia will be formed with-

in a few weeks.-United Press.

Concern In France.

PARIS, Apr. 23, French political eircles ba- lieve the Italo-Yugoslav con- versations at Venice will produce

considerable effects.

Informed quarters understand that during the Venice talks, Haly sought Yugo-Slavia's recognition of the Albanian issue, while Yugo-Slavia asked Italy's re-affirmation of the treaty of amity concluded in Murch,

1037.

It is pointed out that Italy is en- deavouring to adjust relations be

tween Hungary and Yugo-Slavia and, following the Venice conversations, the

Foreign Minister, will proceed to a new agreement for with the Hun-

M

to sign

Budapest to rapprochement garian Government.

French circus confirm that Yugo- Slavia's adhesion to the anti- Comintern pact has been discussed between the Italian and Yugo- Slavian Foreign Ministers at Venice.

Prince Paul, the Prince Regent of Yugo-Slavia, will pay an official visit to Rome at the end of May. Domel,

Pact Not Signed

Paris, Apr. 24, The fact that no new agreement hus apparently

signed as a been result of the Italo-Yugo-Slav talks in Venice is noted with interest.

It is belleved that Yugo-Slavia is still hesitating to accept the offers of

the Axis Powers.

the

The offers are reported here to be withdrawnt of Hungarian claims against Yugo-Slavia, and guarantees of non-aggression from Italy and Germany, provided Yugo-Slavin joins the anti-Comintern Pact, reorganises her army under Itailan and German supervis.on, and accepts L com- mercial treaty with Italy.-Reuter.

Deck Boy On Arson Charge

It is understood that the French Ambassador will also return to Berlin in two or three days time.

To-day's communique on the Venice talks, states "Reuter's" diplomatic correspondent, has been noted in London as a further indication of the line of friendship which is being developed between Yugo-Slavia and Italy. PRESSURE versus promises

According to foreign observers, Yugo-Slavia's attitude is governed by considerations that Axis pressure is stronger than promises from countries further afield.

Italy's interest in the Adriatic and in an integral Yugo-Slavia is a guarantee in face of possible pressure

from the North.

The general antipathy of the Yugo-Slav people to the Axis is also stressed.

LONDON TALKS

M. Gafencu, the Rumanian Foreign Minister will confer with Viscount Halifax to-morrow morning, and with Mr. Chamberlain in the afternoon.

It is expected that M. Gafencu will report on the progress of

YUGO-SLAVS Rumanian contacts with Turkey,

TO JOIN THE AXIS

Reported Adherence To Anti-Comintern

ROME, Apr. 23. YUGO-SLAVIA will adhere to the anti-Comintern pact the Yugo-Slav Foreign Minister, M. Marcovic, is understood to have replied to the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Clano, during the course of their conversations at Venice on Saturday.

Toland, and the Balkan coun- tries, and the German attitude,

Apparently the tenor of the German argument was that it was quite un- | necessary --for-Rumania-lo join - the anti-aggression bloc, that she had more to fear from joining with 2 Russia than from Germany or Hungary, and

that Germany would be prepared to Britain had done, provided Rumania

guarantee Humanla's frontiers វាន

after

not make the pact reciprocal. An earlier message says that M. Gafencu,

talks with M. Tatarescu in Paris last night, arrived at Victoria at 5.20 p.m. to-day, accom- panied by M. Tilea, the Rumanian Minister to London, who met him at

Folkestone.

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Simon's £1,266,000,000 Budget

THE

Will Set New Tax Record

LONDON, Apr. 24.

"HE 1939-40 budget which Sir John Simon will present to the House of

Commons on Tuesday will set peacetime records.

It will provide for £580,000,000 for defence purposes.

PREMIER PLAYING

WITH FIRE?

Sir John is expected

to estimate the total

budget at £1,266,000,000 which is more than 25 cent. over per national income.

the

The Air Force gets the

New "Appeasement" lion's share with £208,000,-

Move Reported

Nevile

Henderson, the

Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, the

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Sequel To Gutting and Yugo-Slavie's withdrawal from Minister, Count Clano, and the Yugo-reply to President Roosevelt's pence

Of French Ship

on

LE HAVRE, Apr. 23. The examining magistrate to- day indicted a deck boy on the S.S. Paris, Cesar Franck, charges of voluntary Incen- diorism.

The charges carry the death penalty if he is convicted.

According to the allegations, Franck falled to make his rounds during his watch, especially at 10 p.m. when the Aro alorm Was Bounded.

United Press.

Walla Walla Catches Fire

000.

Four Men On Murder Charge

JAPANESE

PLANES START NEW RAIDS

quarters here.

New Arterial Link Under Construction

•

A $50,000 HIGHWAY project now under construc- tion .in Kowloon will provide, when completed, a main vehicular road in the built-up area second in im- portance only to Nathan Road.

The plan consists of the ex- tension of Argyle Street to Sai- kong Road.

When it is completed Kowloon City, Kai Tak, upper Prince Ed-

ward Road and the Customs Pass road will

be linked directly to Mongkok and Yaumati by a wide roadway capable of carrying four lanes of speedy trame.

In addition to providing faster vehicular communications between Nathan Road and the eastern areas of the mainland, the new highway will considerably relieve congestion on the Chatham Road and Prince Rond routes.

Edward

From Nathan Road the new route will proceed to Kowloon City along Waterloo Road to Argyle Street, and thence along Argyle Street to Salkong Road.

Now Bus Routes

The "Telegraph" understands that at least two motor-bus routes will be diverted from Prince Edward Road to Argyle Street when the scheme is completed. One of these bus routes will be from Yaumoti Ferry to Kow- loon City, the second from the Stor Ferry to Kowloon City,

Existing methods of traffic control at the Nathan-Waterloo Road and Waterloo Road-Argyle Street Junc- tlons may have to be augmented when the Argyle Street extension is completed.

Removing A Hill

Extension of Argyle Street to Kowloon City necessitates the entire removal of a large hill at Salkong Road.

The rock and earth from this hili. which is being removed by hand, is being used for a large reclamation scheme in the vicinity of the Kowloon City Polic

Police Station.

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The opening up the Argyle. Street area to through traffic has been responsible for remarkable building cast of developments in the Waterloo Rond;

Thirty-six flats are under construc-

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area

Which will

A further site has been prepared The airfield and military establish for a Mental Hospital, next door to ments at Neislang in south-western the Kowloon Hospital. Honan were severely bombed and fire was started at three places, the communique claims.

LATEST

SHANGHAI, Apr. 24. JAPANESE naval aircraft have re-started wide-spread activity in Central and South LONDON, Apr. 24.

The Budget does not in-China, attacking Neisiang in tion opposite the Kowloon Hospital DIPLOMATIC circles attach clude the provision for the southwestern Honan, Lishui and for Mr. Eu Tong-sen. the well-known considerable significance to the payment

Chuhsien in Chekiang Province, millionaire, eighteen of these fals of the United

being already occupied by tenants: Klenow in northern Fukien,

In addition Humphreys Estates Ltd. M. Gnfencu on the platform, where Sir

Viscount Halifax cordially greeted sudden departure for Berlin of States war debts.

Yushan and Kweiki in eastern are now constructing & further cigh- the Polish and Turkish Ambassadors, British Ambassador to Germany.

It is believed that Sir John castern Chekiang, and Foochow to these new buildings a large area

Kiangai, Chenhai and Ningpo in teen flats.

On the opposite side of the rond the Greek Minister, und members of It is understood that, ncing on will not Increase the basic the Rumanian Legation The Yugo-Slay Foreign Minister

were instructions from Prime Minister income tax, although he may cording to a communique issued the Kowloon Hospital,

capital of Fukien Province, ac- has been reclaimed for extensions to also informed the Italian Foreign assenbed.--Reuter. Minister that a non-aggression pact

Foreign Secretary, Sir Henderson increase the surtax on the higher by the Japanese Fleet Head- commence this year. will be concluded between Yugo-

will open important negotiations with bracketted incomes, and also Slavin and Hungary early in May,

Venice, Apr. 23, the German Foreign Minister. Berr place indirect taxes on tea, sugar: informed quarters further reveal-

The following offelal statement Joachim von Ribbentrop, at Berlin. and tobacco.-United Press. Foreign Minister Clano proposed was issued here to-day concerning

negotiations between

Ambassador Henderson was three measures during his first con- the

Count versation with the visiting Yuga-Clano the Italian Foreign Minister, called last month in protest against of Czecho- Slav Foreign Minister on Saturday, and M. Markovitch, the Yugo-Slav the German annexation The three proposals are conclusion of Foreign Minister.

Ordered to demolish the Chinese Slovakia. His unexpected return to a non-aggression pact between Yugo- "In the course of conversations that Herr Hitler's momentous speech be- Berlin is held significant in view of

airfields in the three provinces of Slavia and Ilungary, Yugo-Slavia's took place in Venice on April 22-und fore the Reichstag in April 28 in

Cheklang, Klangsi and Fuicico, raid- adhesion to the pact, 23

Ing units of the naval air force dealt between the Italian Foreign

henvy. damage to the Chinese the League of Nations,

aerodromes and defence equipment Stay Foreign Minister, M. Cincar "ppeal. It is understood that Yurt Markovitch, various questions in-

FOUR MEN appeared at the at Lishui, Chuhsien, Kicnow, Yushan Slavia has ignored the British and teresting to the two neighbours, and the Foreign: Secretary, Lord Hallfes, Kowloon Magistracy this after- and weiki... French proposals for participation | befriended States concerning the conferred with Ambassador Hender-noon, charged with the murder in the Joint front against the present siliation and the recent son on Friday night and the decision of a villager at Chuen Lung vil German-Italian axis---Domet, events in Albania were discussed to send the

A separate squadron.ralding Chen- Ambassador back to

hai and Ningpo at the estuary of the exhaustively. Aligned With Dictators

Berlin was reached on Saturday night, lage, Taun Wan.

The accused are Tong Sat, 35; Chieftang River in Hongchow Bay, "As a result, new und particularly it was revealed in informed quarters. Teang Lung, 32; Teang Pak-shing, 29, wrecked the forts at Welyuan and VENICE, Apr. 23.-Jugo-Slavla has cordial relations are existing between

Apr. 23-Kho Sin-kie, and Tsang Sheng. The first three are neighbouring milllary works, the China's leading tennis player, was been formally aligned with the dicta Italy and Yugo-Slavia, a cordiality,

featured in two finals here today torships.

described as bean-curdlers, the latter communique continues, that since the conclusion of the

Operating in South China, Japanese when he won the Italian Men's The Government has agreed to Belgrade part which secured peace in

ns a shop-keeper.

The alleged victim was Teang naval air units on April 21 attacked Singles championship when he beat intensify both political and economic the Adriatic Sea, and the respect of

mainland opposite collaboration with Italy and, Ger- mutual interests, has grown stranger

who was killed on or about the

Quemey M. Tanasescu, of Rumania, by 3-0, many" and to enter into a friendship in all directions.

April 1 in his home at Chuen Lung Jaland, in southern Fuklen, and dia- 6-0, 0-2, 6-3 and was runner-up in It was agreed that

village.

persed Chinese Iroops I pact with Hungary.

occupying the final of the Men's Doubles. co-operation between the two-States,

****]·HAIFA,

In the latter event Kho Sin-kic 24-The Jewish Apr. The official communique was issued and between Germany and Yug-cou

On the application of Inspector A. small villages, to-day, and brought to a climax Stavia, both in political and economic British Government, the High Commen was remanded until April 27. It community have telegraphed the|E Carey, the case against the four

was badly supported by the Italian Davis Cup player G. De Stefan! and Count Clano's two-day conference fields should be Intensified in order.

as a result had to bow to the all- with the Jugo-Slavian Foreign Minato promote the maintenance of peace, missioner for Palestine, the Arch- will be taken in the District Office

and to improve stability in the bishop of Canterbury, His Holiness South Court.

Italian combination of Gina Vido and It is understood that Count Clano Danube basin, jika

the Pope, and others, protesting acted for both; Italy and Germany, i

against the "Inhuman treniment" of relations with Hun-immigrants. "Regarding seeking to create a new Balkan bloc, including Jugo-Slavia, Hungary and gary, the Foreign Ministers examined Ово hundred and eighty Om- together the situation created by migrants were allowed to land yes- Bulgaria-United Press. AN

recent events, and concluded with terday, but were detained in quaren- satisfaction that the trend was, to-

tine.--Reuter. wards fruitful understanding be- the two governments in Belgrade and Budapest." Trans- Maisky For London

ter.

Geiman Triumph. BERLIN, Apr. 24.-The results of tween the Italo-Jugo-Stav talks at Venice are viewed here as a triumph for the Ocean. Axis powers, and a further success in their campaign to shatter the policy of encirclement,

A walla walla proceeding from**** Queen's Pier to the sa. Suital caught firo in the harbour early this morn- Ing.

The flames

were quickly ex- tinguished,

Passengers in the wall walls were Mr. W. E. Kirby, Secretary of the Chiria Coast Officers' Guild and Mr. H. da Liz, Secretary of the Hong kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company

Berlin morning papers carry head- Ines "Encirclement Agitators Turned Dow: Intervention. Efforts Fail."-- United PreKI."

to

London, Apr. 23; M. Maisky, the Russian Ambassador

London,

who is at present PLEASE Turn To Pago 4,

.. Prime Minister Chamberlain and

Doniet.

Jews Protest At

Kwan, “Inhumanity"

1

GIBRALTAR STORES FOOD

GIBRALTAR, Apr. 24.—It is un- nounced that the export of certain foodstuffs has been prohibited in Gibraltar except under licence.

Hangchow Raldi

Raid Out Foochow

Chinese Tennis Ace Wins

ROME,

In a surprise_raid on Foochow on the same day, Japanese ralders blow up the Chinese military workshop M. Cucolli by scores of 4-0, 6-1, 3-0. and important establishments in the city,

A big, fire was caused near the Jending-place, while two Jarge Chineso: steamers were bombed in the harbour-Domel

Alfonso's Property

ANZAC DAY will be observed to morrow by the usual ceremony of inying a wreath on the Cenotaph The object of the prohibition is to Burgos, Apr. 23-A decree, has. steps in memory of members of the ensure that a sufficient reserve of been published regulating Australian und

New Zealand | stacks of all essential foodstuffs will methods whereby the banks and Imperial Forces who fell during the be available at all times, turn

the | administrative authorities will res meat war. The ceremony will take Controller of Supplies will determine. turn Alfonso's property and private place at 11jaan. -

fortune.--United. Press,

-Router,

0-11---Traur-Ocean.

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