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FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1939
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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
HITLER TO HAVE
FREE HAND IN SPAIN?
COAL STORE- FOR NATIONAL DEFENCE
Washington, To-day.
It is announced that a plan to store 100,000,000 tons of coal for industrial use in the event of a wartime emergency is to be sub- mitted to the planning division of the War Department for consider- ation.
The coal would be stored in under-water trenches near indus. trial centres and supplement America's national defence plans. -Reuter.
CHINA FAILS TO GET EAR OF LEAGUE POWERS
Paris, To-day.
Hitler and Mussolini have reached an agreement PREMIER'S SON
regarding Spain and the Mediterranean, ac- cording to Madame Tabouis, the well-known
political commentator, writing in "POeuvre" UNRUFFLED BY Rome that Germany will support Italy's claim BOMB
Mme. Tabouis says that she has been informed from
to Djibouti and Tunis and delimitarisation of Corsica, which Hitler considers should give Italy a preponderent position in the Mediter-
ranean.
In exchange, Mussolini-reluctant- ly consented to give Hitler what will amount to a free hand in Spain.
Mme. Tabouis adds that as a counterpart, Germany will shortly send General Franco heavy artil- lery, technicians and aeroplanes.— Reuter.
GENEVA, TO-DAY. THE PRIVATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS AT THE LEAGUE YESTERDAY AVOIDED TAKING
HITLER PREPARING ANY DEFINITE LINE EITHER
IMPORTANT SPEECH ON CHINA OR SPAIN, IN SPITE BY OF PRESSURE EXERTED
Berlin, To-day. Hitler is understood to be pre- DR. WELLINGTON KOO AND
paring-a-big-speech for the meet- SENOR DEL VAYO, THE CHIN- ing of the Reichstag, on Jan. 30 ESE AND SPANISH DELE- though 'no official announcement
has yet been made. GATES, RESPECTIVELY.
The speech is likely to be intend-
It is understood that Senor del ed mainly for home consumption, Vayo pressed for condemnation of with a review of the past year's the totalitarian states before a events and some hints as regards committee of six, composed of re- the future-Reuter. presentatives of Spain, Russia,
France, Sweden.
Britain, Belgium and
However, only a vague resolution was drawn up concerning the bom bardment of open towns, which was discussed at the meeting of the League Council last might and will be submitted to the public meet- ing of the Council to-day.
CHINA DISCUSSION
BOMBING RAID
ON CHINA WAR
ARTERY
Peiping, To-day. Japanese fliers appeared for the first time over Paoki, the western terminus of the Lunghai
At a private meeting of six railway, yesterday powers-Latvia, France, Yugo- The town and railway station Slavia, Britain, China and Russia-were bombed although the extent Dr. Wellington Koo pressed his of the damage is not yet known. demands for Sanctions against The town is important from Japan.
the military point of view be- cause it is the point at which the highway to Lanchow and the Soviet meets the railway, and it has been the centre of transfer of extensive Soviet transports. It is understood that the Coun- The Japanese air force has been cil is opposed to pressing China's very active in North China in the claims through the League, pre-past few days, several towns hav- ferring to await, the results of the ing been bombed after a long diplomatic Notes sent by Britain period of tranquillity, and France to Japan.-Reuter. Ocean.
The meeting reached no agree ment, and the League Council at 9.80 last night discussed the matter further.
Trans-
Manager.
London, To-day.
Mr. Frank Chamberlain, the Prime Minister's son, was apparent- ly unperturbed by the bomb ex-
U.S. OFFICIALS ON plosion in the hotel at Tralee where
YANGTSE TRIP
Shanghai, To-day,
he was staying, as later he set out on a shooting trip.
Irish Civic Guards have discover- ed parts of a crude time bomb simi- The U. S. S. Isabel, with Admiral lar to those recently found in Eng- Harry Yarnell, the American com-land. mander-in-chief, and Mr. Clarence
E. Gauss, American consul-general Three detectives have guarded in Shanghai, on board, arrived at Mr. Chamberlain since his arrival Nanking this morning,
at Tralee on Monday.
The Isabel is due in Wuhu to- The Civic Guards believe that morrow in the course of a trip up the attempt was seriously intended. the Yangtse. Reuter.
-Reuter.
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