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TROUBLES IN CHINA Premier's Cryptic Comment In Diet Speech
Plea For Passage CABINET
Of Mobilisation
Measure
Tokyo,
To-day. in the Diet
APPROVES DIRECTION OF ROME TALKS
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CHINESE DRIVE WEDGE INTO JAPANESE LINE
Shanghai, To-day. While the Japanese apparently In his speech on the Mobilisation
continue victoriously to squeeze LONDON, TO-DAY, the Chinese out of Shansi Pro- yesterday, the Premier, Prince Konoye, said
THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES, vince towards the bend of the FORM THE Yellow River, the Chinese forces the law was purely the result of careful inves- DESIGNED TO
BASIS FOR THE IMPENDING operating from Luchow appear tigations conducted by every Cabinet in the ANGLO-ITALIAN NEGOTIA- to have driven a wedge between last ten years, and that its application was ne-TIONS, RECEIVED THE DE- the long drawn out Japanese line cessary in order to overcome unforeseen dif-FINITE APPROVAL OF THE on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, CABINET AT ITS REGULAR separating the Japanese at Nan- ficulties which had arisen from the Sino-Ja- WEDNESDAY SESSION YES- king and Pengpu.
TERDAY panese war. Japan was not the only power to have passed such
a law, which was to be found in the statute end of the week, and it is generally situation is "stationary. books of various European and American expected that the talks will open countries.
BRITAIN AND AUSTRO-GERMAN AGREEMENT
London, To-day.
The Government will continue] to watch what goes on in Aus- tria with the greatest possible. attention and interest.
This was the chief point of im- portance in a statement by the Pre- mier to the House of Commons last night when the question of the Austro-German Agreement was
the
No-one could foresee how war would be conducted in the future, and for this reason, one had to provide for all contingencies and changes which could take place from hour to hour.
The Premier declared that it had been demonstrated since the Great War that a State must be enable to mobilise all its tenchnical and
economic forces as modern warfare called for active co-operation of the whole nation.-Trans-Ocean.
REFLOATING OF
ASAMA MARU
raised on a motion for the adjourn- EXPECTED
ment.
It remained to be seen, said Mr.
Chamberlain, what the practical It is expected that at high tide effect of the agreement might be. on March 18, it will be
found.
In this connection, the Govern- possible to refloat the N.Y.K. ment obviously cannot disinterest liner, Asama Maru. themselves in events in Central She has been on the rocks at Europe if only for the reason that Saiwan Bay since the typhoon of the object of all their policy is to September 2 last, since when assist in the establishment of salvage workers, including 37 greater sense of security and condivers, have blasted away 120 fidence in Europe.”
square metres of rock, five feet thick, from under the ship.
HITLER
It is estimated that the cost. of salvage plus repairs will be well in excess of $4,000,000,"
The Premier said
glad to note from the speech of Herr Hit ler that the Austro-German arrange- ments were to be considered as an extension within the framework of Government of the fully sovereignty the Austro-German Agreement of of Austria. There, he thought, they July, 1986, which included provision must leave the matter for the pre for the recognition by the German sent. Reuter.
The Earl of Ferth, Ambassador to Italy, will return to Rome at the
early next week.
Even if the initial contacts succeed in opening up the pro- spect of ultimate agreement, there still remains the like lihood of negotiations dragging on until the end of April.
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The Japanese spokesman ad- mits that heavy fighting is tak of the railway where he says the ing place in the Chuhsien sector
- Reu- ter.
Chushien is within 20 miles of Pukow
and land forces in Libya, fortifica- tion of certain Italian islands the Mediterranean, Italian forti fications in the Red Sea and cer- tain questions concerning the future: of Lake Tsana, in Abyssinia, which controls Egypt's water supply. air Trans-Ocean.
TALK PROPHECY- According to the “Star,” the pro- gramme of negotiations will clude the question of Italy's
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