The Archive · 1939

League to Examine White Paper

Geneva, June 11

The Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations will soon examine the British Governments White Paper on Palestine.

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Chairman of the Jewish Agency in Palestine, has sent a letter to the Commission in which he stressed that the White Paper was in no way consonant with the Balfour Declaration.

"The British Government's conclusions represent the triumph of might and must appear to the Arab terrierists as a reward for their campaign of violence and to the Jews as a punishment for the moderation shown by them," Dr. Weizmann added. He concluded in expressing the hope that competent organs of the League would not sanction such a policy.—Havas.

Rehabilitation of the sea bathing beach of the former Greater Shanghai Municipality on the east coast of Kaochiaochen in Pootung for the benefit of Japanese residents of Shanghai is planned by the Japanese-operated Shanghai Steam Navigation Company and officials of the Special Municipality, according to the "Tairiku Shimpo."

The sea beach is four kilometres by land from the Kaochiaochen wharf in the northern district of Pootung and faces the ocean at the mouth of. the Yangtze. Several acres of land along the shore will accommodate thousands of bathers. Shallow water for a long distance makes swimming perfectly safe, the paper said.

'A 600-passenger boat operated by the. Shanghai Steam Navigation Company will carry bathers from Shanghai to Kaochiaochen in about one hour and a half. From there they can reach the beach in about 16 minutes.

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