PORTUGAL & CZECHO SLOVAKIA
Berlin, To-day.
Portugal's action in breaking off diplomatic relations with Czecho-Slovakia following the al leged cancellation of arms orders placed in Prague, has caused a sensation in Germany.
After pointing out that it is necessary for Portugal to increase. her armaments as long as the pre- at situation lasts in the Iberian Peninsula, the "Deutsche All- gemeine Zeitung" says there is a flaw in the argument put forward by the Czech Government for can- celling the contract for supply of arms to Portugal.
The Czech Government stated that it was unable to deliver arms to Portugal because of the requir ments of its own rearmament pro gramme, but the Czechs have been
to a number supplying arms countries.
OTHER REASONS
of
The "Berliner Lokalanzeiger" says that Lisbon probably does not go far wrong in supposing that the
PRINCESS MARGARET'S BIRTHDAY
London, To-day
Princess Margaret Rose will be -seven years old on Saturday... Hers will be the second Royal Birthday to be celebrated since the Royal Household moved to Balmoral on August 4th, which was the Queen's birthday-British Wireless.
RUNNING TRAIN RAKED BY MACHINE-GUNS
Barcelona, To-day.
A train running from Moncada
to Barcelona was fired upon by ma- chine-guns from a point near the Itrack
UTTER MADNESS OF Mr. O. M. Green's
Comment On-
Crisis
London, To-day.
Knowing full well that Shanghai is an interna- tional city and the Chinese dislike of the principles of extraterritoriality, the Japanese anchored the flagship Idzumo alongside the Japanese Consulate General, says the well-known "Weekly Review" in an article on Great Britain and the East.
Japan thereby provoked the Chinese to re- taliate in such manner that the peace of the Inter- killed and many national Settlement was seriously endangered.
Several were wounded when the hail of bullets raked the carriages.
Meanwhile a communique issued The world watches the onslaught| in Valencia claims aerial successes with profound regret.
The Japanese have acted on the northern front, where twelve
reasons for cancelling delivery of Republican planes, engaging a su- none of the. Do basso vet in the BRITISH NAVAL
arms to Portugal were other than those given by Prague, and say that the influence exerted on the Czech Government comes from "quarters, held dear by friends of Republican Spain."
The Italian newspapers, says * message from Rome, also give prominence to the dispute.
ITALIAN COMMENT "Giornale d'Italia" says that the resolute action of Lisbon arising out of its sense of wounded honour
should be welcomed by both large and small countries which have participated in non-intervention.
perior force of Nationalist ma-fortunes of Shanghai can be. chines, shot down three and forced different to the outcome. another to land-Trans-Ocean.
Mr. O. M. Green, for many years editor of the "North Chin
RUSSIANS TO STAY IN COLONY
The three Russians, Michael A.
Zakatoff, Pavel Tagunoff, Semen P. Maglin, who were ordered to be sent back to Canton yesterday The Czech action was apparently Colony without passport on Wed- after a charge of arriving in the motivated by suspicion of the ultimate destination of the arms-with another, Michael Chermianin, nesday had been withdrawn, were Trans-Ocean. ·
PRAGUE DENIAL
Prague, To-day.
VISIT TO VENICE
Rome, To-day. Daily News" in Shanghai, in ar Beports in the papers that a Bri- article in the same periodical, tish Naval Squadron from Malta says that the utter madnessof will make a visit to Venice are re- the Japanese military fills
one ceived with gratification here, with incredulous amazement. where the visit is regarded as a Japan has put herself in a posi-friendly gesture". tion from which it is difficult to withdraw without a bad loss
face, while to advance means sink deeper in the bog-Reuter.
Wheat Fund Surplus
of
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On the No Fakir of Ipi
EXECUTIO SPYING
The squadron, commanded by AT IRKU
Rear-Admiral Kennedy Purvis will consist of the cruisers "London", "Shropshire”, “Sussex" and "De- vonshire.” -Trans-Ocean."
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wheat growers under the Wheat Skyist Act of 1932 will be the lowest since were executed the Act came into operation. Pay-day. ments will leave the Wheat Fund Owing to the improved wheat with a surplus of $506,200. Sergeant Loughlin said that price, the deficiency payments to tish Wireless.
charged before Mr. K. Keen this morning with vagrancy.
Answering the Portuguese accu-Maglin was in hospital suffering sation that Czecho-Slovakia, in can- from typhoid, and his instructions celling the Lisbon arms contracts, were to request that the others be had been influenced by a third committed to the House of Deten- Power, a semi-official statement is-'tion.
sued late last night says that "this
accusation must be refuted energe- tically, since throughout the nego-
tiations for the contract no in- Union Insurance
fluence had been exerted from al third. Power to the detriment of Portuguese interests." Trans Ocean.
SKODA SENSATION,
Prague, To-day. An official announcement by Skoda armament works denies
phatically that the Portuguese
ernment ruptured diplomatic rela-
Dividend
The Directors of the Union In-
suzance have declared
Getobes
of Canton, Ltd. Interim Dividend ings per share on year 1937 payable
tions with Czecho-Slovakia because tuguese Government has never nego- of Skoda's refusal to deliver arms tiated with the Skoda works for to Portugal.
delivery of arms and other war ma-
The statement says that the Por-Iterial-Trans Ocean.
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London, To-day.
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