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Sino-Japanese Hostilities (Documented) Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan
Public Health and the Leprosy Problem
Finance and Currency (including War measures) Chinese Art
Chinese Army and Navy.
Catholic and Protestant Missions:
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Modern Chinese Industries: Labour.
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The political lobbies are buzzing with rumours as
the result of the developments in Europe and were published in an apparently growing dissatisfaction with the attitude adopted by the Prime Minister. The refusal of Mr. Chamberlain to be hurried into a declaration on Britain's international policy has irritated not only the two Oppositions, the safeguarding of party and state, Labour Party and the Liberals, but also a num-
regarding carryin ber of Government supporters including Mr. Four-Year Plan, t Winston Churchill.
THE NAZI SYSTEM COMES TO AUSTRIA
Vienna, To-day.
Feeling in non-Ministerial
quarters is that the critical situa- tion demands a quick and bold declaration.
It has been persistently .ru- moured that there is a cleavage in the Cabinet regarding the Government's policy, but it is learned, on good authority, that there is no truth in reports of serious Cabinet dissensions.
it compulsory for abroad to enter the consular regis
Another decres former Austrian 7 ment as the. Ausi Government. Dr Minister of Inte with the complete two countries. Meanwhile, Field # mann Goering, in German economic F
For the present, Mr. Chamber- lain is apparently immovably de- has telegraphed to termined to examine the whole Stattholder, Dr.-Ze The German racial and mar- riage laws will become imme-position in consultation with the forming him that th
Dominions and other countries} diately applicable in Austria, it was stated yesterday in officiall before making a declaration that must be of first European im- quarters.
portance. Reuter.
A Joint Criminal Code is shortly be prepared.
COMMONS QUESTIONS
In a Commons answer, the Prime
the British
In the meantime, all non-Aryan lawyers have been ordered to aban-Minister said that no reply was re- don their practices immediately. quired by the French Government to
All Austrian officials must swear their notification to an oath of allegiance or leave their Government of their determination to adhera resolutely to their treaty. posts, says a Hitler decree.
obligations to Czechoslovakia.
He had already stated that His
Jewish officials will be given no opportunity of taking the oath and will, therefore, be automatically ex-Majesty's Government were giving the closest attention to the issues cluded from office-Renter.
involved
GERMAN MISSION BOMBED
Canton, To-day. Cable information has just been received here to the effect that the Kak Kong Station of the German Berlin Mission has again been subjected to a Japanese bombing raid.
In another answer, the Prime Minister said he had no intention of adding anything in the immediate future to what was said by Lord Halifax yesterday and by himself or Monday regarding the Govern- ment's decision upon foreign policy as a result of the consideration of, the new situation which had arisen since 11th March.
TIME DEMANDED Later, when the Prime Minister announced the business of the House! Yesterday morning the Mission's for next week the Opposition Leader girls' school was completely des-said he would have to ask me for troyed, and it is feared that theja discussion on foreign affairs one number of wounded will be very day next week unless the Prime large, although no exact details are Minister had, in the meantime, made. Tyet to hand.
some statement of policy-British It will be recalled that the mis-Wireless. sion was previously subjected to numerous raids that have always pound, where most buildings now reigned havoc in the Mission com- are in ruins.-Trans-Ocean
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