GERMAN POLICY UNCHANGED Little Hope of Agreement On Spanish Control
POINTED -BADEN POWELL-SOVIET'S
COMMENT IN BERLIN
Berlin, To-day.
Semi- official indica- tion that Germany in- tends to stand by the Italo-German plan at to- day's non-intervention committee meeting in London, is contained in a statement issued in Ber- lin yesterday.
The statement says that hasty
AWARDED
PEACE PRIZE
The Hague, To-day. The Nobel Peace Prize, amount- ing to £2,100, has been awarded to Lord Baden Powell for his. extraordinary services to inter- national understanding as a means of promotion of the Boy Scout movement-Reuter:
MOATED
rejection of the plan or attempt STRONG ROOM
to wreck it by menaces with open approval of the Spanish Bolsheviks, would show a lack of the goodwill which is necessary to localise the conflict.
of
The keynote of press comments is pessimism over the chances success at to-day's meeting.
The "Hamburger Fremden blatt" says that the breathing space has elapsed unused. The difference between the two groups is as sharp as ever and a compromise solution is inconceiv- able.
SERIOUS OUTLOOK The "Diplomatische Korrespon- denz" writes that the seriousness of the breakdown in negotiations, which would threaten to make Spain again the centre of danger for the rest of Europe, will escaped nobody.
have
to
pre-
Germany is fully prepared discuss all possibilities and serve and întensify non-interven- tion, and she expects the same at- titude from others. Reuter.
MEETING TO-DAY
IN REICHSBANK
Berlin, To day.
PROTEST ON
AMUR AFFAIR
Moscow, To-day.
An energetic protest was lodged yesterday. by the So- viet Foreign Commissar, M. Maxim Litvinoff, with the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu. Summoning the Ambassador to him. M. Litvinoff criticised the al- leged violation of the recent agree- ment to withdraw troops from the disputed Amur River Islands, Sen- uffa and Bolshoi.
M. Litvinoff insisted that the islands belonged to the So- viet and asserted that the So- viet Government expected the
M. MAXIM' LITVINOFF
CARDINAL PACELLI ON
immediate recall of Manchukuo WAY TO FRANCE
troops.
M. Litvinoff then alleged repeat-
territory and stated that Soviet
Rome, To-day.
The roof will be placed next Tuesday on the new ed Japanese incursions into Soviet extension to the Reichs-frontier guards had been instructed Secretary of State, left Rome
bank, which when com- pleted will be the largest building in Berlin.
under no circumstances to allow violations and to repulse Manchu- kuo, troops with all possible means.
-Reuter.
· Cardinal Pacelli, the Vatican
yesterday for Paris after being received by the Pope in a special farewell audience.
The Cardinal will open the Pon- tifical pavilion at the Paris Ex- hibition and from there will proceed to Lisieux, in Normandy, where he
420,000 Swedish Warships will take part in religious celebra-
The new Bank will cover an area of 680,000 cubic metres,
the 'compared with
cubic metres of the Air Minis- try, at present the largest build- ing in the capital.
The foundations of the new build- ing are 42 feet deep.
The underground strongroom is like an ancient fortress, be ing surrounded by a deep moat which in the event of emer... gency can be immediately flooded by pressing a single
· switch. -
The new extension
be able to
A plenary sitting of the non-in-accommodate 5,500 officials and em- tervention committee is being held ployees
at the Foreign Office this morning with th d it will be
connected
a
old bank building by.
when the representatives of 27 subterranean passage.
the Ocean. states will have before them proposals made by the British and French Governments and by the German and Italian Governments. respectively.
After last week's meeting, of the Chairman's Sub-Committee, a com- munique containing a full report of the discussion which arose when the German and Italian counter- proposals to the Franco-British scheme for reestablishing naval control were presented, was cir culated to the members of the full tall their committee in order that Governments might be fully inform ed of the situation.
COMMONS" STATEMENT
Trans-
LOYALIST DRIVE NEAR
MADRID
Madrid, To-day..
The Government offensive in the northern sector of the Madrid front continues with success, according to a
· loyalist communique. The Republicans have advanc-
· In the Commons yesterday, ed further, capturing a number Lord Cranborne, Under-Secretary of villages, the communique in- for Foreign Affairs stated, in reply sists. to a question, that the : British
The
insurgents, however, Government noted with satisfaction claim that the Government ad- the statements reported to have vance was repulsed with heavy been made recently on behalf of losses.
both parties in the Spanish conflict Heavy fighting is also reported to the effect that they would be prey on the Biscaya front-Reuter pared in certain circumstances to contemplateva “
withdrawal
of
xious that it should be possible to foreign combatants from Spain.
Lord Cranborne added that this proceed with the discussion of the was a matter to which the British detailed measures already before the Government attached the greatest non-intervention committee as soon importance and they were most an-as possible. British Wireless.
Visit Kiel
Berlin, To-day.
tions in honour of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, who was a nun in the Lisieux Convent and is famous in the Catholic world as the little Flower."
The first Swedish Battleship Divi- sion, with the armed ships Serige During the celebrations the Pope and Droffring Victoria and the air-will deliver a broadcast address to plane carrier Gotland, arrived-yes- the assembled pilgrims. terday at the German naval port of It is expected that Cardinal Kiel for a five-day visit.
Pacelli will see a number of politi The Division is commanded by cal personalities during his visit to Rear-Admiral Tamen. Trans-Ocean.France. Trans-Ocean.
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