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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST -
BUTTER
MORE ARMS CHARGES AGAINST HONG KONG Tokyo Offical Attention Again Focussed On Colony
·AMBASSADOR- Alleged Details Of FORTIFICATION
MAKES ENQUIRIES
London, To-day. Trans-Ocean learns from au- thoritative British quarters that -the Ambassador in Berlin, Sir Ne- vile Henderson, has been instruct- ed to "gather information from the German Government regard- ing events in Austria."
There is no question of a Bri- tish demarche to Germany, it is stressed in London. — Trans-
Ocean.
LONDON'S KEEN INTEREST
IN AUSTRIA
London, To-day.
Supplies During February
Tokyo, To-day.
TUNNEL IN N.T. COLLAPSES:
Official attention in Tokyo is again sharply focuss-THREE BURIED
Three coolies employed by the War Department in de- fence works in the New Ter- ritories were buried in the collapse of a tunnel in which they were working yester- day..
ed upon the part which Hong Kong is playing as a channel for the supply of arms and am- munition to China on an enormous scale, follow- ing allegations in the "Asahi Shimbun." Spokesmen of both the War Office and the Foreign Office stated this morning that they were ac- quainted with the figures published in the "Asahi Shimbun," and it was indicated that the Government views the situation with in-seriously injured. creasing disapproval. According to the Hong Kong correspondent of the journal, no fewer than twenty-four ships carrying arms for China have
JAPAN'S HUGE
The extreme impor-'arrived in Hong Kong and dis- MILITARY BUDGET
February 1 and February 15.
tance of the Austrian de-charged their cargoes between velopments is fully real- Twelve of them were British- ised in London.
One of the victims, Yue Yee, was fatally injured and the other two,
when extricated, were found to be
They were sent to the Kowloon Hospital and there detained.
The accident occurred in a hill- side. tunnel in the Hang Hau dis- trict.
the sum of 400,000,000 yen will Tokyo, To-day. be raised by taxation and 4,400,- The Finance Ministry has 000,000 yen by bond issues. ships, it is alleged, the others fixed the supplementary budget After Cabinet approval at the The "Exchange Telegraph" re-including three German, three at 4,800,000,000 yen, according end of February, the budget is
two Dutch, two ports from Vienna that following Norwegian,
American, one Italian and Danish.
the amnesty the next step will be gradual absorption of 30,000 Aug- trian Legionaries who during the past five years have been living in Germany.
one
ALLEGED, FIGURES The correspondent says that full details of their arms cargoes are not available, but the certain figures Then will come stronger economic relations with the Reich and gradual are given as indicative of the ex-
removal of the ban on certain Aus- trian newspapers in Germany.
tent of the trade, asserting that 27 British planes, 26 British tanks, 222 armoured cars, 12 American planes, The “Daily Express” believes that
400 cases of rifles from Britain-aud sooner or later, anschluss (economic Germany, 45 A.A. guns, 20 cases of ugion) will be arranged between machine-guns for aeroplanes, 60 Austria and Germany, since the only two obstacles to this step-Austrian 1,000 tons of aerial bombs are among of ordinary machine-guns,
opposition and Italian insistence on
the war materials imported in the Austrian independence have been last fifteen days.
removed.
cases
The publications of these England, says the paper, has no velations" have caused a sensation" reason to lift a finger to guarantee | in Japan-Our Own. Correspondent.
the independence of Austria.
"We have no right to interfere,
and it is not our task to forbid Germans in the two countries
ite-Trans-Oceân.
JAPANESE
TROOPS FOUGHT TO
NEW PROBLEM FOR A STANDSTILL
ATTACKING ARMY
nów
Hankow, To-day.
In the southern sector of the T.P.R., Chinese troops have suc- ceeded in holding up the Japan- ese advance east and west of Pengpu.
Peiping, To-day. Japanese official reports claim the capture of Weihwei and say that Japanese troops. have now
Much of the fighting was hand- been brought face to face wi
with to-hand, and every yard of ler- three Central Government divi-ritory was fiercely contested. sions. Reuter.
Trans-Ocean.
for
to the "Asahi Shimbun," plus an being sent to the Diet. additional 250,000,000 yen interest payments.
The paper forecasts that the measure will be unanimously. ap-
Reuter
In the supplementary budget, proved.
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