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Vatican May Call Meeting
For Peace
Vatican
THAILAND SHORTAGE
OF OIL
August 15, 1939.
Appeal May Be Made To Privy Council
four Chinese
on to-morrow or
Paris, Aug. 14.
Shanghai, Aug. 14. There are persistent reports in the
Dramatic developments are expect- Tokyo, Aug. 14. French press of Imminent
ed Assistant Judge Grant Jones of септе The of problem has Intervention in the European crisis,
to His Majesty's Supreme Court far probably a proposal to Italy of a assume serious proportions in Thal-Ching refuses to trant the application Five-Power Conference to establish land as the negotiations between the for a writ of habeas corpus in can-
Government and foreignnection with the new European order and consoll- Thalan date peace. It is alleged that the petroleum companies on questions prisoners at Tientsin. Vatican's Interveniton has already arising from the recent enforcement Mr. Grant Jones is expected to been approved by the Italian Gov-jot the fuel oil control Inw have give his decision ernment and Mussolini.
been disrupted, according to a Bang-Wednesday. It is suggested that Mussolini will kok dispatch to the Japan Times. Fresh instructions have been re- propose a conference in the near
ceived by the legal firm of Ellis and fulure to include Italy, Germany, As a consequence of the suspen-Hays, under which, if the application France, England and Poland; but ex-ston by the two foreign oil com- is refused, an immediate appeal will cluding Russla..
panies, the Asia Petroleum and the be lodged and if necessary the case that It is recalled
the Vatican Standard Vacuum, of oil supply. will eventually be carried to the stunned European capitals Inst spring some shortage has been seen in the Privy Counell in London. Mr. II. A. on the odvisability of intervention oil supply in certain sections of Reets and J. R. Jones, representatives should tension threaten. It was then Thai,
of Ellis and Hays, are now awaiting stated that, while the Vatican made
the Judge's decision.-Renter, no concrete offers, it informed all in-
The Thalan Government hos terested that it reserved the right of nobilized all institutions concerned intervention should it consider penes and is directing strenuous efforts to threat
atened,
fattain smooth distribution. At the The diplomulic correspondent of same time, the Thalan Government L'Intransigant writes, "Mussolini is in now restricting profiteering on the repor
rted to be considering to raise part of merchants ard maintaining this time the colonial problem of re-order in irade.-Doinel. distribution of raw materials, and also, probably, the Fascist Govern-
ment is desirous of this."
It is reported that
Count Ciano
suggested such a plan and it will
probably find an echo in London, for
Y'S
MEN'S TIFFIN
Dr. Shanglin Fu, Professor
of
Italian Ban On English, French Papers
Rome, Aug. 14.
French papers
and All English
On
it would give the Axis a better chance Sociology at the National Sun Yat- of satisfying its ambitions on a grand sen University, who has just return-with the exception of The Times and scale, instead of risking a conflicted from Kunming, will be the speak-the Temps are to be banned in Italy
tiffin of the Y's in the future, it is reported here er at the weekly over Poland.--United Press,
Men's Club at St. Francis lioel on Monday.
Up to now all foreign papers could Thursday, at 1 p.m. His subject will be "The Universitles in the South-be sold and an action of the Govern- western Frontier Territory,"
GIFT TO RED CROSS
Batavia Women Share In Cost of Ambulance
A.R.P. LECTURES
ment to take against publication considered undesirable consisted heretofore In confiscation of the Issues in question, or a ban on the paper for a limited period.
now on all English
and
The Air Raid Precautions Officer French papers are to be absolutely An ambulance, the joint gift of the
announces that a course of A.R.P. banned with the two exceptions, and Batavia Chinese Women's Association Lectures in Chinese will be given on with regard to them the Government and the Hongkong Chinese Women's Tuesdays at 7.30 p.m. at the Y.W. reserves the right to confiscate any Club, was presented to the National C.A., 3de Bonkam Road, from to-issue in the case of articles insulting Red Cross Society of Chint a day. Mr. Chak Tal-kwong will be for falsely representing the Axis
ceremony near Statue Squee Instructor.
afternoon. The ambulance
painee
road-biscuit and bearing the bulge
of the Red Cross, was pre-| Fented to Dr. C. T. Wang, presidenti of the Chinese Red Cross, by Mrs. Li Shu-fan, Vice-President of the Women's Club, who acted in the absence through illuens of the pre- sident, Mrs. M. K. Lo.
Mrs. Li Shu-pul, chairman of the Club, said that, from all reports, the first ambulance donated by the Club some months ngo was doing Hood work In the interior. One outcome of her recent visit to the South Seas was the promise of a donation by the Chinese Women's Association of Batavin of half the cost of the car then being presented. Accepting the gift, Dr. Wang said that the need for ambulances was being increasingly felt because of the enlarged area and scope of the Red Cross operations, and the punishment to which all vehicles were subjected
bad roads and air raids.
by
The Hon. M. K. Lo was one of the speakers.
Those present also included.Mr. | Wang Halao-lai, Mr. Hsu Shih-ying, Dr. O. S. Liu, Dr. T. C. Chung. Dr. C. C. Pang, Mr. K. Szelo, and Dr. C. Y. Wu.
Mr. Churchill In France
PARIS. Aug. 14 (Trans-Ocean) Mr. Winston Churchill arrived at Le Bourget on Monday by air from Eng- land a was received by General Georges of the French Supreme War Council.
Mr. Churchill later left for Stras- bourg accompanied by the French Chief of Staff, General Gamelin. The British statesmun will tour the Maginot Line for three days probably returning home at the end of the week.
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