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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Japan May Yet Burma-China

Join Alliance

Reply To Pact With Soviet

BERLIN, May 25. IT IS believed that the

announcement of a military alliance with Japan or Spain, probably the former, may be the Axis"reply-to-the-Anglo-French negotiations with Russia.

Railway New Line Rapidly Nears Completion

LONDON, May 25.

IN THE House of Commons to-day, Sir Arnold Wilson asked whether the Prime Minister was

aware that the necessary

May 26, 1939.

Conscription Law Passed To Receive The Royal Assent

LONDON, May 25.. THE Conscription Bill was

read for the third time in the House of Lords to-day.

The B was approved and thus

foundation for the railway from delegated to the Royal Commission. Kunming to the Burma frontier The Reserve and Auxiliary Furces for mlies beyond Kunming were Dil was also read for the third time The tone of Japan's congratula- already complete, and whether he and was also approved. tions on the signing of the German- could state to what point it was in Italian treaty recently, and Tokyo's tended to carry it, and when thebo very secretly and rapidly mobills- references to the strengthening of Chinese Government expect to have the anti-Comintern Pact, has attracted trains running. attention here.

The Prime Minister, in a written The Japanese Ambassador is under-reply, said that Viscount Halifax had stood to have seen Herr Joachim von been informed that the embankment; Ribbentrop

number #2

of times work in the direction stated was pro-

ceeding.

recently.

It is hinted that

diMculties the confronting the plan in Japan, are not insurmountable.

Thus the territorial army can now

ed by orders in councit Instead of the former slower process of Royal proclamation--United Press:

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LONDON, May 25-Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, hins an- nounced pastponement In calling up He had received no communication agricultural workers, men engaged from the Chinese Government within the fishing industry, and anthracite regard to their intentions in the miners to the militin until November. matter referred to in the second part] It is announced that 1,600,000 had Some Japanese circles here main-of the questions-Reuter.

volunteered for national service up TO - MORROW to May 20, of which 430,000 were tain that Japan could not, in any

women-teuler, case, remain neutent in the event of European conflagration-Reuter,

LATE NEWS

Bishop Condemns

Air Raids

CHUNGKING, May 20-Mer. F. X. Jantzen, Catholic Bishop of

fter Chungking, announced

the Japanese air- roids:

"Having witnessed these scenes of horror nobody can remain neutral.) It would be a monstrous crime for anyone to ask me to be silent."

Bishop Jantzen made this nn- nouncement amidat ruins in Chung- king in the course of a speech when a motion picture film recording the air raid disaster was being taken by China mation picture studio. He experienced a narrow escape from death when one bumb destroyed the library where he had been reading the Bible.

Following is an English translation of Bishop Jantzan's talk in French: "During the bombing of May 4, the Catholic Mission of Chungking suffer- ed very serious damages. In the demolition

Russian Parliament Meets To-day

Moscow, May 25.

The Supreme Council, probably the most colourful parliament in Europe, begins its first session in 1930 in the former Czarist Thrane Room of the Kremlin to-night.

Iron Lung Boy At Lourdes Pilgrimage To Famous Shrine

LOURDES, May 26 LARGE CROWDS to-day! Twelve-hundred deputies will re- watched the arrival of the iron- present over a hundred races and lung boy, Fred Snite, who is on itussians in kupkl tunles will mingle with re-shawled peasant women and a pilgrimage from the United turbaned. Uzbeks, Turcomans from States.

The party accompanying him in- Central Asia and Siberian Mongols, Cossack Horsemen and Faltimos cluded his parents, two doctors, wearing reindeer coats.

nurses, assistants, and two spare The signal for the proceeding to lungs, which were brought with Snite begin will be the entry of M. Stalin when he crossed the Atlantic lu the and the Inner Cabinet, but M. Stalin Normandie. is unlikely to participate in the de- bates.

Interviewed to-day, his father said

The most important item on the he did not hope for a miracle at agenda will be the foreign policy, and Lourdes, but he did hope for great M. Molotof is expected to make a

spiritual comfort.

Fred Salte has lived in an Irod Jung statement, after which there will be since he was stricken with infantile

general debate on the international situation. M, Molotoff may indicate paralysis in 1930 while flying from the cause of M. Litvinov's resignation, Shanghai to Peiping-Reuter,

Other subjects to be debated in-

Bishop's quarters two bombs of greal power made craters 15 metres wide and destroyed several clude national defence and the third buildings. Under the ruins of these | Ave-year plan. The session will last (* buildings there were buried 25 a week or ten days.—Reuter. persons Including a matron of the Bible School and 15 of her pupils. "In St. Joseph's Parish an hospice for old people and hospital for the poor were destroyed by two bombs causing 18 victins. Two bombs fell at St. Micael's and demolished en- tirely the church and the school being responsible for six victims.

Actress Lost Her Money

King's Birthday Celebrations

The King's birthday parade will be held at Happy Valley on June B.

The Governor, Sir Geoffry North- cote, will review the purade, His

Excellency will arriv

will arrive at the main

entrance to the race course at

Seating accommodation for those "Many Chinese cities have suffered

Ghyslalte, French actress, who desirous of witnessing the parade from terrible air raids. Now Chung-one played with the Comedie Fran- will be provided in the various ell king has been subjected to martyr-

dom. The number of victims either burned or crushed to death in this city is estimated at 8,000. During the night, large sections in the business centre were burnt.

"Having sten these scenes of

The

and raised closures, some of which will be only caise, sold her jewels

2,700 to finance the "robot brain," by lickels obtainable from the Deputy

mathematical gumbling system | Assistant

Assistant Adjutant-General, Ilend-

China Command. "guaranteed" to win at roulette. She querce ried it out in a Portuguese casino, enclosure marked "C" will need no but lost so much that she had to ticket of admission.

The form of ceremonlal will follow borrow money to get back to France.

system.

honour of the King's birthday when the sovereign is not present.

horrors no one can remain neutral. Recently there was a warrant for the that laid down for parades held in It would be a monsterous crime for arrest of-the-mon-who-sold her the anyone to ask me to be silent. Above all considerations, there is the voice of Justice and Humanity. My con- selence is an echo of it. That is why I join all men endowed with human feelings in protesting vehemently against these atrocities which nothing can justify."-Central News.

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Soviet Pessimistic

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