Married Men and. Wives to Meet in Hongkong Czechs, Slovaks and Carpatho-Ukrainians met in Moose Hall here last night and started the fight to restore their Czecho-Slovak nation to its former status before the recent German military invasion.
The scene of the meeting was the same in which the original Pittsburgh Pact was drafted in 1918, outlining the proposed Czecho-Slovak state which met with official American approval and support.
Mr. Wendell Stephen Platnek was elected president of the movement and he immediately convoked a national cortvention to be held in Washington on May 15 to establish a permanent organization.—United Press, After being separated for a year and.a. half, though only three days distance apart, married men of the Ist. Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders will be able to greet their families in, Hongkong in the near future. News of this privilege was confirmed by British Army officials in Shanghai yesterday, who stated that confirmation had been received from the War Office after lengthy negotiations.
The married men of the Battalion, about 30 in all, will be given free passage to Hongkong from Shanghai as convenience allows and in the Colony they will meet their wives and families from whom they were abruptly separated to take up emergency duty in Shanghai.
The families of those Seaforths who are due to go home will also be given free passage to the United Kingdom as desired during the year.
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