FRANCE AND SANCTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 10

FRANCE AND SANCTIONS

REPORTED OPINION

"USELESS AND DANGEROUS"

BRITISH SITUATION CAUSES

UNEASINESS

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LONDON, June 14. The "Daily Mail's" Paris correspondent believes that the French Government regards the maintenance of sanctions as useless and dangerous, and that the Foreign Minister, M. Delbos, is therefore anxious to meet Mr. Anthony Eden before the end of this month to discuss the situation. The "Manchester Guardian's" Paris correspondent says that the British Cabinet situation is creating uneasiness. Mr. Neville Chamberlains speech at the 1900 Club and rumours of Mr. Eden's resignation are interpreted as signs of England's abandonment of collective security, the very policy M. Blum had hoped to pursue hand in hand with Britain.

POLICE ATTACKED . SPANISH VILLAGE MURDERER ESCAPES MADRID, June 13. Three civil guards were passing Socialist headquarters in the village of Palenciana when the inmates rushed out, attacked them, and dragged one named Manuel Jiminez into the building, where he was maltreated and finally decapitated. The other guards unavaihngly attempted to force an entrance, exchanging shots and wounding several inmates, two of whom were sent to hosPolice reinforcements arrived and arrested 22 persons, including the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor, but the assailant who actually beheaded Jiminez escaped.

CRICKET AVERAGES DEMPSTER SOW ON TOP VERITY'S DISTINCTION (Received June 15, 11 a.m.l LONDON, June 14. C. S. Dempster (New Zealand), the Leicestershire captain, is now at the head of the English first-class county cricket averages, being -ahead of Leyland (Yorkshire). Verity (Yorkshire) is easily the leading bowler and also occupies third place in the batting averages. J _ II „,„ TJ _ batting.

Runs. Av'ge. Dempster (Leicester) ... 505 72.14 Leyland (Yorkshire) ... -02 70.-0 Verity (Yorkshire) ... -72 68.00 Fishlock (Surrey) 822 63.23 Gimblett (Somerset) .... '94 61.07 Kimpton (Oxford) 670 56.33 Keeton (Notts) 556 55.60 Holmes (Surrey) 829 0a.26 Fagg (Kent) Harris (Notts) 524 T. N. Pearce (Essex) .. 653 50.23 Duckfield (Glamorgan) . 536 48.72 Others include: Fifteenth, Paynter (Lancashire), 619, 44.21; eighteenth, James Langridge (Sussex), 635, 42.33; twenty-third, Hardstaff (Nottinghamshire). 372. 41.33; twenty-fifth, Hendren (Middlesex), 765, 40.26; thirty-ninth,! Turnbull (Glamorgan), 459, 35.30. bowling. Wickets. Av'ge. Verity (Yorkshire) 82 9.30 Copson (Derby) 49 12.34 Smailes (Yorkshire) .... 30 13.83 Robins (Middlesex) 40 14.20 Larwood (Notts) 34 14.94 J. Smith (Leicester) .. 41 16.70 Hollies (Warwick) .... 22 17.00 Mayer (Warwick) 24 !7;45 Perks (Worcester 43 17.48 Geary (Leicester) 32 17.93 Gover (Surrey) 75 17.98 Bowes (Yorkshire) 28 18.00 Nichols (Essex) 33 18.06 Peebles (Middlesex) .... 28 18.35 Freeman (Kent) 47 18.63 Allen (Middlesex) is eighteenth with twenty-three wickets at an average of 20.17. R,\ IN STOPS PLAY COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP (Received June 15. 11.S0 a.m.) LONDON, June 14. Rain fell throughout the country and, as a result, there was no play in the following county cricket matches:— Surrey, v. Essex, Derbyshire y, Yorkshire, Lancashire v. Middlesex, Worcestershire v. Hampshire, Oxford University v. Leicestershire, Cambridge University v. Free Foresters, and Nottinghamshire v. Indians.

In other matches the scores were: Gloucestershire, 16 for one against Glamorgan; Somerset 169 (Freeman six for 60) v. Kent 22 for 1; Sussex 199 for four (Cox 66, Cook 80) v. Warwickshire.

VISITOR TO ENGLAND SHEIK OF BAHREIN • British Official Wireless.) (Received June 15, .10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, June 13. The Sheik of Bahrein, accompanied by his two sons, is arriving in England tomorrow and will be the guest of the British Government for a fortnight. During this time he will be invested by the King with the insignia of Knight Commander of the Indian Empire, an honour which was conferred upon him in 1935.

The sheik, who has been ruler of Bahrein since 1923, visited England unofficially in 1925. He will meet the Secretary for India, Lord Zetland, at the India Office on Monday, and during his stay he will pay visits to the Fleet at Portsmouth, to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, to the Royal Air Force display at Hendon, dnd to the Aldershot Tattoo. He will attend the Trooping of the Colour on June 23.

Arrangements have also been made for him to. see. over the liner Queen Mary.

Bahrein ("Two Seas") is the largest of a group of islands half-way up the Persian Gulf near the Arab coast, and is the headquarters of extensive pearl fisheries and a distributing centre for the adjacent mainland. Bahrein has been in treaty relations with the Government of India since 1820. In 1880 the ruler engaged not to make treaties with any other State, and in 1923 the active control of affairs was handed over to the present ruler, the Sheik Sir Hamid bin Isa A 1 Khalifah, K.C.1.E.. C.S.I.