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GERMANY SENDS NEW NOTE TO PRAGUE Alleges Further Air Violation Of Border
GERMAN- MINELAYER
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Berlin, To-day.
It is reported that a German minelayer foundered yesterday morning.
It is believed the vessel sank in the Baltic Sea, but no details have been published.
Four members of the crew of 30 are missing.-Reuter.
H.M.S. AMAZON HOLED INTORPEDO PRACTICE
London, To-day. The destroyer, Amazon, which it was officially announced yester- day was holed by a torpedo during exercises_off_Portland during the week, returned to Portsmouth un- der her own steam in the afternoon. and was docked for examination.
It is understood the damage is not serious but the destroyer had her plates pierced just below the waterline on the starboard beam and the impact opened an oil tank with the result that a con- siderable quantity of oil was 'wasted.
The accident occurred during torpedo. practice.
Vienna Report On German Troop Movements
London, To-day.
It is understood that the German Government pro-
BLUECHER IN
MOSCOW FOR
SUN FO VISIT
Moscow, To-day,
Reuter is reliably informed that
tested to the Czecho-Slovakian Government on Dr. Sun Fo, China's special envoy Thursday, and again yesterday, against "con-to Europe, yesterday obtained tinual frontier violations by Czech planes,” ac- cording to a report from Prague.
It is semi-officially reported from Vienna that not only have German troops not been reinforced on the German-Czech border but regiments sent from Germany to Austria have been re- called in the last few days:
Berlin, To-day.
A fresh case of alleged fron- tier violation by a Czech military aeroplane is reported from Ger-
man sources in Vienna.
The report states that a Czech air force plane appeared over the town and frontier station of
Geneund.
PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN
After flying over Bleilegen the frontier station. Bridge, the plane circled low over
that an observer leant out of the It is alleged by the Germans plane and took photographs. Reuter.
ITALY'S STAND
Rome, To-day. Italy's position in the Czecho- Slovakian question is discussed in a long editorial in the semi- official "Giornale d'Italia."
The paper denies the French
The torpedo was not fitted with a collision head which is used to press reports of alleged differ- prevent damage when firing defences of opinion between Italy liberately at a target because in and Germany regarding Czecho- this case the exercises were be-Slovakia. ing carried out with the intention of firing below the vessel.
The political friendship be- tween Germany and Italy is un- The Amazon belongs to the changeable. The Rome Berlin Vernon flotilla. There was no axis is functioning in any, direc- personal injury. British Wire- tion, the semi-official organ de- less.
clares. Trans-Ocean.
WRITTEN PROTEST
Prague, To-day. For the second time the Ger- man Minister in Prague, Dr. Eisenlohr, has lodged a protest against Czechian frontier viola- tions..
RIOTING IN JAMAICA
"Kingston (Jamaica), To-day.
Dr. Eisenlohr, called on the Rioting began again in the Spanish Czechian Foreign Minister, Dr. town yesterday as the result of the Krofts, yesterday and handed alleged shooting of a number of him a written protest together strikers by special constables on a with a list of occasions on which sugar plantation,
frontier violations had occurred. Demonstrators attempted to storm Dr. Krofta apologised for the the gaol but after a two-hour battle Czechian Government and pro- the police finally dispersed the mised to have investigations crowd. Reber.
made. Trans Ocean.
Reuter. 3,200 ITALIAN CASUALTIES IN FIVE DAYS
Rome, To-day.
Italian casualties in Spain in
transit visas to Denmark and the Scandinavian countries.
a few days accompanied by his Dr. Sun Fo expected to leave in son, Mr. Sun Tse-kiang, and the Moscow, Mr. Wei Ming, Chinese charge d'affaires in
Marshal Bluecher, commander- in-chief of the Red Army in the Far East, is also reported to be in Moscow, his visit coinciding with that of Dr. Sun Fo- Reuter.
AIR MAIL STILL DELAYED
The Imperial Airways plane is the battle on the southern Ebro still delayed at Bangkok owing front between March 19 and to the non-arrival of the main March 24, were officially an-line plane, and it is now certain nounced yesterday,
that the air mail from London During this short period, 700 will not arrive to-day. officers and men were killed, It is possible that the mail will 2,500 wounded and 16 are miss-come through some time to- ing.- Reuter
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