The Archive · 1938

Questions Raised

London, Oct. 18.

Several meetings of the Cabinet are to be held in the near future to cope with all the outstanding questions, the first taking place tomorrow.

The German problem naturally dominates all other matters.

London will have to decide whether to leave Czechoslovakia to her fate £s a satellite of Berlin. The question of Germany's colonial claims also is one which will have to be ex-

Mrs. E. Van den Berg, wife of Mr. J. Van den Berg, local Netherlands Consul arrived yesterday in the s. Conte Biancamano. ae King and Queen, accompanied by Princess Elizabeth and Princess "Margaret, left Ballater in the Royal train this afternoon on their way back to London from Balmoral.

A TOTAL of 1,800 Chinese domiciled in. Siam, says a report to the "Ta Wan Pao," have been repatriated by the Siamese Government, and arrived in Swatow recently.

Carra Serge de Witt, a Russian architect, was married in London on Monday to Princess Marie-Clotilde Napoleon, sister of Prince Napoleon-Bonaparte, pretender to the French Imperial throne.

Ho Feng-ling, originally a candidate for the post of "mayor" of Shanghai, says a report to the "Ta Ying Yeh Pao," is reported to have arrived in Shanghai. It is reported that he is slated for the post of commander of the Shanghai-Woosung Garrison.

Tur Municipal Council has been notified that Mr. V. Niskanen, Consul-General for Finland, has been appointed as Chairman of the Consular Body Committee for the inspection of municipal goals upon the departure of Dr. J. Krysinski, Acting Consul-General for Poland.

Cor. J. C. Fegan, Fourth Regiment, US. Marine Corps, will pay an official call on Mr. C. S. Franklin, Chairman of the Municipal Council, at the Administration Building at 11 a.m. on October 19. The customary guard of honour will be provided by the S.V.C. amined shotty as will the issue of an eventual air pact with Berlin and its threats to British aviation, and its Relation with the Anglo-German naval treaty.

The fate of the Anglo-Italian agreement will have to be settled: can the withdraws] of ten thousand Italian volunteers from Nationalist Spain permit the enforcement of the April 16 agreement? It seems that it is on the fate of the Balearic Islands, still undecided, that this question will depend Then there is the problem of Palestines where a general Arsb revolt may break out at any moment, and it is considered that. the pipe-line bringing oil from the Persian Gulf to. Haifa is indispensable to British national defence. Will it be decided to resist the Arzb$ or to negotiate with them? it does not seem that the report by the Woodhead Commission which recently carried out an investigation in Palestine, will be ready for tomorrow's meeting. It is rumoured that the report opposes the partition of the country.

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