Hurling a bicycle through a window to send glass flying in all directions, tearing off telephone connections, and knocking furniture a group of more than ten Mohammedans wrecked the offices of the "Hwa Mei Wan Pao." an evening news par Avenue Edward VIL yesterday afternoon as a ptotest against the publication of an article considered insulting to Mohammedanism.
The police were called to the scene and made one arrest, the rerhainder of the wrecking party being still at large. The only injury was suffered by one of the staff members of London, July 17.
Provisions of the London Naval Treaty of 1936 were extended to Germmny and Russia to-day when bilateral naval] agreements between Great Britain and Germany and between Great. Britain and Soviet Russia were signed in London The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anth any Eden, and the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. A. Duff-Cooper, signed for Britain; Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador, for Germany, and and M. Ivan Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador, and the Soviet Naval Attache for Russia.
The treaties require ratification. They will come into force at the same time as the London Naval Treaty and after the two ratifications are exchanged.
The coming into force of the London Naval Treaty awaits the passing of the London Naval Treaty Bill giving authority to the British Government to prohibit firms from building ships outside of treaty limits and compelling them to give information to the British Government about orders for Foreign, Powers, but that measure comes up for the second reading on July 20, and it is anticipated it will readily pass through the remaining stages. France and the United States have already deposited their ratifications, and it will be necessary for the three Dominions concerned and the Government of India also to dep ratifications here.
It is, however, taken for granted that all formalities will soon be disposed. of, and by the end of July the London Naval Treaty and bilatoral treaties will come into force,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.