LARGE SCALE FRENCH NAVAL MANOEUVRES
PARIS, TO-DAY. FRENCH NAVAL QUARTERS ATTACH THE GREATEST SIGNI- FICANCE TO THE LARGE-SCALE NAVAL MANOUVRES WHICH WILL BEGIN TO-DAY OFF THE COAST OF NORTH AFRICA,
LAUNCHING OF BATTLESHIP RICHELIEU
battleship,
The new French "Richelieu," launched at Brest yea- terday by the wife of one of the dockworkers; will be one of the largest and fastest warships in the world.
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THE PARTICIPATING FLEETS
Actually, the vessel was not LEFT THEIR BASES AT TOULON AND BREST EARLY YESTER~| launched in the strict sense of the
·DAY.
word, as she was set afloat in the dry dock where she had been con-
begun yesterday
Although, as usual, no detailed programme is published, it is stat-structed.
Work Wis ed that the two fleets will meet in the Straits of, Gibraltar and con- afternoon in the same yards on a duct manouvres of several days du- sister battleship, the "Clemenceau." ration. The fleets will later pro-
The two battleships will mount ceed to Casablanca, where a shamjeight 15-inch guns, with a range attack and defence by the coastal of twenty-five miles, and will also batteries will be carried out. have fifteen 6-inch guns.
for combined
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BRITISH FORCES
IN SHARP
CLASHES
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Jerusalem, To-day. Further incidents. including several clashes between Arabs and British troops are again reported to have occurred in all parts of Palestine.
that It is officially announced from after a search of the villages of
General Gamelin, Chief of Gen- eral Staff, and Vide-Admiral Dalan, to Casablanca Chief of Naval Staff, who inspect-ercises including an attack ed defence system of Tunis the sea and defence of the coast Anata and Hizma a clash occurred and Corsica before and during M. | by Moroccan forces.
and General Gamelin Daladier's visit, are now on their
Vice-Ad- way to Morocco, where they will miral Darlan will at the same time inspect the "Moroccan Sea-Front". | study the defence of the Moroccan
This fact reveals that responsible coast. French quarters are attaching ex- tremely great importance to the manouvres.-Trans-Ocean.
80 VESSELS. Nearly 80 vessels will participate in the manoeuvres, including three divi- battleships, 10 cruisers, six Me-sions of destroyers, two flotillas of torpedo boats, two flotillas of sub- and marines and an' aircraft carrier.
COMBINED EXERCISES The French Atlantic and diterranean squadrons are sailing at dawn to-day from Brest Toulon for their winter manoeuvres off the African Coast and Straits of Gibraltar.
After
the exercises
off
the
between Arabs and British troops during which one British officer was slightly wounded.
Arabs fired at two police cars on the Akko-Safet road, seriously wounding one police constable.
On the Halffa-Akko road a Jew was shot and killed by Arabs.
From Jaffa a shooting affray be- Arabs British police and tween was reported, during which Arab was wounded.
one
In Haifa an Arab health ser-
The Atlantic squadron will re- turn in the middle of February, but vice inspector was seriously wound- the Mediterranean squadron willed by a bullet.
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A curfew has been imposed on the population of Akko because an Arab policeman was shot în à cafe there.
from In Kafr Kanna, not far Nazareth, an Arab was found mur- dered.
A passenger train on the fine between Lydda and Jaffa and pri- cars in various vate passenger parts of the country were shot at by irregulars.-Trans-Ocean.
COUNT CZAKY LEAVING BERLIN
Berlin, To-day.
The Hungarian Foreign Minis- ter, Count Czacky, will leave Ber- lin at noon to-day, it is announced here.
Both German and Hungarian cir- cles maintain strict silence as to the outcome of the conversations, although it is evident that satis- factory results were attained.
An official communique will be issued at the termination of the visit.Trans-Ocean.
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New York, To-day. The United States Ambas- sador to China, Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, on returning to report to Washington, said yesterday that the Chinese are "very hopeful of eventual victory."
Mr. Johnson apparently car- ried firsthand information for the State Department from General Chiang Kai-shek and
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