THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 12, 1937.
GERMANY'S
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CONDITIONS FOR PROPOSED NEW WESTERN PACT
Death Of Franco-Russian Military Understanding
His Majesty's New Civil List
London, To-day.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Stan- ley Baldwin, announced in the House of Commons yesterday. that the King's message regard- ing the Civil List will be brought to the House of Parliament dur- ing the next few days.Reuter.
AN INDEPENDENT
REPLY TO BRITAIN
BELIEVED TO OFFER STRONG OBJECTIONS
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Berlin, To-day.
Although Germany's reply to the British Lo- carno memorandum will probably be presented to-
Japan's New Gesture
TOKYO, TO-DAY. "JAPAN RESPECTS THE IN- OF
POSITION CHINA AND MONGOLIA.”
This was the announcement made THE NOTE WILL PROBABLY CONTAIN THE OBJECTION in the Lower House by the Foreign THAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE ARE NOT WILLING TO RE- Minister, Mr. Sato, in reply to an LEASE BELGIUM FROM THE ONE-SIDED LOCARNO PACT, interpellation this morning. THOUGH HERR HITLER HAS GIVEN A GUARANTEE TO BEL-
day it is not expected to appreciably advance nego-DEPENDENT tiations towards a western pact.
COURSE · U.S. And The Spanish GIUM, THE NETHERLANDS AND SWITZERLAND IN VARI-
Civil War
Washington, To-day. It is well-known that the United States Government is pursuing an independent course in respect of the Spanish War.
So declared the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, yesterday in a comment on the suggestion made in the British Parliament that the United States should be invited to join the Spanish non-in- tervention agreement.-Reuter.
U.S. KIDNAPPING TRIAL
Weiss And Schlossman Found Guilty
Brooklyn To-day. At the re-trial Harry Weiss and Martin Schlossman, were yes terday found guilty of kidnapping Apul Wendel, who figured promin- tly in the Lindbergh baby trial.
The jury had disagreed at the previous trial in February.
Weiss and Schlossman face a sentence of twenty years to life.
A third defendant has already pleaded guilty. Reuter.
Leung Sam, remanded yesterday
when convicted of receiving a quantity of cable stolen from the Great Northern Telegraph Co. at Blue Pool Road, this morning ad- mitted a previous conviction and was sentenced by to six months' imprisonment.
OUS GUISES.
He hoped that negotiations with China would progress on the basis of full understanding, China ex- ANOTHER OBJECTION WILL PROBABLY BE THAT THE pressing her apprehensions and
Japan elucidating her claims- FRANCO-SOVIET PACT IS STILL IN EXISTENCE.
BOTH OBJECTIONS WOULD HAVE TO BE REMOVED BE-Reuter. FORE ANY PROGRESS COULD BE MADE TOWARDS A WEST- ERN PACT.
A semi-official communique em- phasises that a western pact must be purely a western pact.
Germany would not make objections to this provided
full
The fact that not even the out- lines of a new western pact can yet be discerned, although" a year has passed since Herr Hitler announced. Germany's willingness
It's time for spot of
a
that various European Powers to co-operate in a general Euro-Beehive Brandy
an-
abolished the principal of mi- litary assistance to one other, and strove for honest. peace guarantees.
pean settlement, causes the cal correspondent of the "Dien aus Deutschland" to examine the situation which existed when Ger- many revoked the Locarno Pact.
French And Soviet
out
The communique does not define what Germany would consider hon- est peace guarantees, says Reuter. Trans-Ocean says that presenta- tion of the German reply to the
The correspondent points British Government's memoran-that at that time there was hardly dum of November last would not anything left of the original con- exactly be welcome to British of tents of the Locarno Pact. Even ficial quarters at the present mo- its spirit had vanished. ment.
“Inopportune”
the
The assertion repeated in British newspapers recently that a reply from Germany is not to be expected for the time being,"is
By conclusion of a pact with the
After
Soviet, France had violated the that
spirit and letter of the original Locarno, while Britain, which was
Before
the
daily
thankless
the only guarantor under the
expressed the task original pact, had expressed the
wish that British security should
be guaranteed under the Pact
evidently inspired by the fear that
Granting of this request, he says, Germany might give a reply at a moment which would be regarded would have completely altered as inopportune by the British Gov-Italy's obligations as defined in the ernment.
original Locarno Pact.
Britain, it is pointed out in Berlin, has not yet found a sam tisfactory answer to the ques- tion of what should be Bel- gium's future status in the new western pact.
Belgian Anxiety
Anxiety which close French co- operation with Russia had caused in Belgium, compelled the latter to take a step which was not pro-)
EARLIER INDEPENDENCE vided for in the Locarno plete After
FOR PHILIPPINES
****__ Washington, To-day, The question of advancing the date of com- plete independence of the Philippines, as asked in a newspaper interview by President Manuel Que zon, might arise during the forthcoming conver sations between United States Government offic and the Philippine Mission.
So stated the Secretar
State, Mr. Cordell Hull day
he opinion
United States-Philippin might be accomp
namely to declare its neutrality.
Pact, complete
After citing these facts the orrespondent stresses that Germany does not ob
clusion of a new
be inch
the
game
round
Before
the
shoot
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