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YAMAMOTO DECLARES JAPANESE NAVAL PLAN UNALTERABLE
GERMAN APPEAL TO
HAGUE COURT
BUERCKEL REITERATES
PACIFIC POLICY
RUMOURS OF BRITISH TROOPS
FOR SAAR UNFOUNDED
Berlin, To-day.
It is rumoured that Germany intends to ap- peal to The Hague Court in connection with the French military preparations against eventuali- ties in the Saar Basin. Official circles, however, re- fuse to confirm or deny the report-Reuter.
Herr Adolf Hitler's Saar plenipotentiary, Herr Buerckel, has issued an order forbidding Nazi troops to appear in uniform or hold meetings or parades within 25 miles of the Saar frontier France, he states, threatens from January 10 to February 10. military occupation of the Saar.
Reports are spreading of the impending invasion of the Saar by Nazi troops. Herr Buerckel protests against these "most false al- legations" and appeals to the Nazi troops, for the sake of European peace, to show still greater discipline and show the world the unjus tified intentions of the French.
HE CONCLUDES THAT HE WILL INVITE EDITORS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS TO BE THE GUESTS OF THE REICH SO THAT THEY CAN CON- VINCE THEMSELVES THAT THE ALLEGATIONS, AGAINST
REUTER THE NAZI TROOPS ARE WRONG.
ANGLO-GERMAN DEBT
AGREEMENT
American Protest Predicted
Washington, To-day,
London, To-day.
While no official statement is
forthcoming in London in the
Navy planes
For the first time in decades, America's combined battle feels are manoeuvring, In mock battle the- ties off the coast of Alayka. In a great triangle stretching from Hdwall to Puget Sound to Alaska, American warships, submarines and fighting planes will battle mythical" foes which will seek to "capture" the northern territory of the United States. Japan has eyed such movements resentfully in the past. On October 25 the Fleet, comprising £8 vessels, was rushed through the Panama Canal in 39 hourst
FUNDAMENTAL AIMS COUNTERED
OTHERWISE AGREEMENT MIGHT RESULT TECHNICALITIES IRRELEVANT
LONDON, TO-DAY.
THE JAPANESE DELEGATE TO THE NA- VAL CONFERENCE, REAR-ADMIRAL ISO- ROKU YAMAMOTO, INTERVIEWED BY REUTER, YESTERDAY, DECLARED THAT THE JAPANESE HOPE THAT THEIR PROPOSALS WILL BE BETTER UNDER- STOOD BY THE BRITISH AND AMERICANS, BUT, IN THE MEANTIME, JAPAN REMAINS ADAMANT.
"It is possible that the public is under the im- pression that we have a second plan. I say with greatest emphasis, that the fundamental princi- ple in our plan is absolutely unalterable. We have no alternative," he said.
"Possibly our explanation has not been effective in making other delegates cognisant with its real meaning. If other oppor- tunities were given us to explain them, I would avail myself of them.
JAPAN BREAKS TREATY WITH CHINA pistle as to declare that the situation is an absolute dead-
face of the crop of rumours in FRANCE EMERGES regard to the Saar, it is learned
that there is no truth in the re ports that Britain has agreed to send troops should the French be called on to do so.
FROM SHADOW OF
CABINET CRISIS
Moreover, no official approach has Doumergue's Reform It is indicated that the now been made in the British authori-
Bill Adopted Anglo-German debt agreement will ties on the matter. The British form the basis of another protest attitude. is believed to be that by the American State Department Britain only comes into the! "to the German Government against question as a the discrimination against American League, and, realising that the bondholders.
Saar is a danger spot, desires to The outcome will not alter the see the problem satisfactorily American Government's determina- solved.
tion to obtain full payment on
Reuter
member of the M. HERRIOT STILL WAVERS
German bends held by the United GOLD RUSH IN
States.Reuter.
LOCAL DOLLAR IMPROVES
Silver Prices Advance
The local dollar has advanced 1%, opening on demand to-day at- ∙1/736
SZECHUEN
Booklet's Promise Of
Untold Wealth
SHANGHAI POLICE TAKE THE MATTER UP
Shanghai, To-day. Vast mining landa, described
Both spot and forward, silver prices advanced %, closing prices as the richest in the world, have
according to a Chinese booklet
yesterday being 23% and 23%; re-been found in western Szechuen,
spectively.
Paris, To-day. The threatened French political crisis, owing to the Radical Socialist opposition to M. Gaston, Doumergue's constitutional reform pro- proposals, seems to have been averted.
The Cabinel yesterday un- animously adopted M. Dou-. mergue's Reform Bill but M. Edouard Herriot, the Radical-Socialist leader, re- served his final decision un- til to-day, pending a con- sultation with political friends. --- Reuter.
FRANCO-SOVIET RELATIONS
250 NEW YORK BUILDINGS. PARALYSED
Lift Operators Walk, Out
New York, To-day, A strike of lift operators has paralysed work in 260 buildings here. Reuter.
TYPHOON TOLL
250 PERISH IN INDO-CHINA
Saigon, To-day.
It is now revealed that 250 persons were killed, 5,000 houses wrecked, and cattle and crops over a wide area destroyed, by a typhoon which swept à district 186 mile in length between Vinh and Bon- ga Indo-China, last week. Reater.
Best Prospects, Says GOVERNOR'S HONORARY A.D.C.
M. Herriot
Moscow, To-day.
The London on New York cross-promising untold wealth to inves- rate, which closed on Thursday at, tora. Sponsors of the scheme in- £-U.5.$4.98, closed at - clude ex-Ministers.”: U.S.84.98% yesterday, while the "There would be no poor on
Lieutenant Stephen Everard Skey, New York on London rate closed at earth If the fields were exploit-
8th Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, -U.S.$4.98, as compared with ed." says the booklet, which
has been appointed an honorary U.S.$5.98.
claims that a tremendously large column. of gold, the weight of Striking utterances dwelling on Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the which is unascertainable, has the Franco-Soviet rapproche-Governor. been found. -
ment were made by M. Edouard The Shanghai police are inves- Herriot, leader of the French tigating the matter-Reuter Radical-Socialist Interviewed by
thePravda" yesterday.
FRENCH CRUISER ARRIVES
Rear Admiral Aboard Primanguet
The French rulaer, Primauguet, with Rear Admiral Richard on board, arrived this morning from Shanghai. An official salute of 21 guns was fired, which was returned by Blackhead fort.
At 10 8.m the Senior Noval Officer, Captain El Man H.M.S. Suffolk. made an on board the French salnte of 15 guns was
The vessel is expe in port, for two or "AMERICAN TRA
The
troyer
U.S.8. Bhek HARE
MR. GEORGE LONDON
PROMOTED
Colonial Secretary At Gold Coast
London, To-day.
BILL'S THIRD READING
INTERPRETATION
OF MANCHUKEO
OIL MONOPOLY
AMERICAN STUDIES QUESTION
FOREIGNERS OPPRESSED
London, Today.
The view is taken in certain quarters in London that the esta blishment of the reported oil mono- poly by the Manchukuo Govern ment is a breach of Japan's treaty obligations to China, which the Manchukuo Government pledged herself, to observe.
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Though I dare not be too hopeful of the outcome, I am not If the Jock. There has been no retraction by the Japanese.
ra had submitted plans not running. counter to the funds. mental principle at The Japanese plan, I would have considered
hem in an effort to reach an agreement,
IN THE MEANTIME, JAPAN, COULD NOT AGREE TO DISCUSS TECHNICAL DETAILS SUCH AS QUALITATIVE LIMITATION," REAR-ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO CONCLUDED.
It is understood in Japanese.clr. cles that there is no desire to buil up to naval strength in Americ and Britain On the contrary. while they desire theoretical equality in global tonnage, they are particularly anxious not to ex- tend their programme of construc tion for economic reasons.
The Japanese desire to frame a naval policy on a purely de- fensive basis, hence the wish. to reduce the numbers of large battleships, aircraft car riers and 10,000-ton cruisers, They feel that the naval spheres of Japan, America and Britain are It is felt, in effect that such a all so widely separated that there monopoly being granted to a com- should be no dificulty in accepting pany. 80 per cent. of whose capi-a defensive basis for the new tal is Japanese, is open to objec-treaty. tion as according special privi- leges for a Japanese company.
There is a further point whe ther the proposal does not con- travene Article III of the Wash- ington Treaty. -Reuter.
(Continued on Page #.)
AMERICA CALLED TO ACTION
Foreign Exchange Problem
New York, To-day.
Informal. Scrutiny Continues
A stage has now been reached in naval conversations at which the survey of the proposals, advanced orally by Japan has been completed by both the British and the United States delegations in consultation with the Japanese representatives and with each other, and no arrange
ments have yet been made for for
ther formal discussions between the three interested parties.
Rear Admiral Isoroku Yamamotę was a naval attache at the Japan ese Embassy in - Washington 1980
America Still Favours Existing Treaty
It is understood that the atti- Meanwhile, however, close con tude of the United States still The President of the United tacts are being maintained between favours the renewal of the exist
the
States Import and Export Bank, the members of delegations, and [ing treaty, with only minor ad- London, To-day-The Incite Mr. George N. Peek, in a speech to informal scrutiny of the problems He declared that the future of ment to Disaffection Bill yesterday the Foreign Trade Convention, de is being continued-British Wire Justments, though she would Franco Savieb relations now passed itn third reading in the clared that the Government must less Service. stood on a firm basis and had the House of Commons by 241 votes take action in the field of foreign best of prospects Reuter. to 65-Reuter.
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Tribute To Plane Designers
London, Cathcart Jon and
who in their took fourth
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