JAPANESE NAVAL CHANGES
Tokyo, To-day.
ANGLO-AUSTRIAN COOPERATION
London, To-day
An Anglo-Austrian exchange of
was
Several important changes in views on economic matters the naval command were official started yesterday between the ly announced by the Navy Minis-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, and the Austrian try this morning.
Admiral Nagano, former com-Finance Minister, Dr. Neumeyer. mander of the combined fleet, is! First meeting was held in the transferred to the Military Coun-House of Commons and lasted an
hour cil.
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reticent re- Admiral Yoshida, former com- Official circles are mander of the 2nd Squadron, is garding matters discussed, but in promoted commander-in-chief of the City it is supposed that the of closer Anglo- the combined fleet and the Far possibility
economic co-operation Eastern squadron.
Admiral Shimada is appointed commander of the 2nd Squadron.— Our Own Correspondent.
RUSSIANS IN TROUBLE
Austrian
was discussed.
Eventual granting of a
British credit to Austria is envisaged in some quarters Frans-Ocean.
POLAND'S LATEST SOVIET STORY
Warsaw, To-day.
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THE CHINA MAH, DECEMBER
Big Scheme For Fortress At Hawaii
Honolulu, To-day.
THE United States is planning a big scheme for strengthening the defences of Hawaii, accord- cording to a message from Washington. The scheme, which would involve enormous expen- diture, includes underground chambers for storage of munitions, oil and fuel. addition there will be emergency underground hangars for planes, while large barracks for the strong American garrison would be built on the island of Oabu.
In
SOVIET'S THIRD FIVE YEAR PLAN
Nicola Nikilich Viazem, aged 33,
No bachelors will in future be unemployed Russian seaman, was this morning charged before Mr. employed in the Soviet diplomatic R. Edwards with stowing away on service, nor will Russian diplomats the ss. Kungchow, and with enter-abroad be allowed to take their ing the Colony with a valid pass-wives and families with them
This is the latest tale told by the port.
Polish press, the implication being apparently that men with family year, ties in Russia will be more under "Pravda.” the power of Moscow-Trans-
He was fined $50, or six weeks, and an expulsion order was made against him.
j
American
High officers of the army and navy here refused- comment on the report
to
in Washington, naval and army circles state that defensive mea-t sures on a moderate scale only are being undertaken at Hawaii, where a large new aerodrome is being con- Moscow, To-day.
the structed for headquarters of Soviet Russia's industrial pro-American air arm in the islands duction in 1938, the first year of the
Only $500,000 has been spent this third Five-Year Plan, is to be 15.3
year, they point out, and appropria- tion for defence of the Pacific per cent. higher than that to this
states the newspaper Coast and Hawaii for five years is this programme only $15,000,000, still having three years to go.
QUITE REASSURING The possibility that in view of disturbed conditions in the Pacific, Value of production in 1938 is an increase in the five-years plan expected to be 84,300,000,000. roube will be asked in 1938, is not to be
ruled out, but generally speaking { les.
"Pravda” says that in competition the authorities believe that the pre- with Capitalism the amount of work] sent state of the defences is "quite Reports from North China re-performed is the most important reassuring." Reuter. veal another day of inactivity in thing-Trans-Ocean.
Sergei Ivanovich Kiloroff,✨ a Russian, was, charged with Ocean. vagrancy before Mr. R. Edwards
this morning, but was remanded NORTH INACTIVITY
for 24 hours as he said he was staying with friends in Hillwood Road. It was stated that he had been warned several times by the Police to leave the Colony.
SETTLED
Shanghai, To-day.
PARIS EXHIBITION the Yellow River region.
Paris, To-day.
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The programme for next year al- so provides for an increase of Iper cent. in wages.
German Revenue
LUNCH WITH KING
London, To-day.
Troop movements on both sides A bill authorising reopening of have practically ceased, and in- General Han
Berlin, To-day: the Paris Exhibition in 1938, was dications are that
Total German revenue from taxa- M. Camille Chautemps and M. tabled by the Minister of Com Fu-chu's forces have all been merce yesterday.
moved to prepared positions in tion for October this year exceeds Yvon Delbos lunched with the King The bill fixes maximum expenses readiness to meet any Japanese that of October, 1935, by more than and Queen at the conclusion of yes Our 170,500,000 reichsmarks Trans- terday's conference with their Bri~ in this connexion at 450,000,000 | advance south of the river.
Ocean.
tish colleagues. Trans-Ocean. francs--Renter
Own Correspondent.
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