NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4800, 21 June 1939, Page 8

NEWS AND NOTES

The Japanese Domei news agency at Shanghai reports that Japanese authorities have issued a statement that if Britain retaliates with economic action Japan will be released from her obligation to protect and respect British property in China.

Penniless, and with their worldly possessions in a brown paper bag, a young married couple stowed away at Wellington in the Awatea and announced their presence to Captain Davy late on the first night out. They claim to be Australians, but cannot furnish the immigration authorities with conclusive proof, and are being detained on board the liner.

“The Times” Tokyo correspondent states that the Japanese Foreign Office informed the Press that if the British will co-operate “we can deal with any question together,” but the spokesman would not define co-oper-ation nor restrict it to matters of peace and security.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Chamberlain stated that the Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, received the Japanese Ambassador and discussed the questions at issue in Tientsin. He also stated that Sir Robert Craigic, British Ambassador to Japan, was endeavouring at Tokyo to clarify the situation.

Richard Crooks arrived from Melbourne on Monday for the Sydney season. He told interviewers that he still possessed his New Zealand four shillings and he intended to retain them. He had instructed his New Zealand solicitor to invest the money he had earned there because he had not received one penny of it so far.

Speaking in the House of Commons the Foreign Under-Secretary, Mr. R. A. Butler, said that he understood no recent German military developments of special significance have occurred in Slovakia.

Mr. Herbert Morrison, M.P. (Lab., Hackney) in a speech at Salisbury, said that Japan was doing things which must cause the predecessors of Mr. Chamberlain to turn in their graves. The difficulties in China were the direct result of the Government’s foreign policy since 1931.

Richard Omerod, 31, of Lancaster, was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude at Liverpool Assizes. He pleaded guilty to causing a Mills bomb to explode in Lancaster police station.

Messages from all countries continue to arrive expressing sympathy in connection with the loss of the submarine Phenix. Earl Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralty, has telegraphed on behalf of the British Admiralty. Herr Hitler has telegraphed his sympathy to M. le Brun, President of France.

“Is a farmer without any income entitled to the dole?” asked a member of the audience at a meeting at Oreti, Southland, addressed by Mr. W. W. iMulholland, Dominion president of the Farmers’ Union. The question provoked some laughter and Mr. Mulholland remarked that officially there was no dole. The only provision which could be called a dole was for unemployment relief. “I don’t think you could class a farmer as unemployed even if he had no income,” Mr. Mulholland said.