THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 30, 1939
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Berlin Silent On Hitler Speech No Inkling Of Reply To Bonnet And Chamberlain
CONFERENCE ON
FRENCH ARMY
SPAIN PROPOSAL SENDS GENERAL NOT FAVOURED TO SOMALILAND
Berlin, To-day.
The intense interest with which Hitler's Reichstag speech to-day is awaited in Germany is enhanced by a complete silence observed by official quarters on the possible contents of this speech, which in the general belief, will be of greatest importance.
Paris, Jan. 20. General Louis Legentilhomme, former commander of the French
forces in Indo-China, was to-day ap-
troops in Somaliland.
13,000 AMERICANS
HALT LOADING OF
IRON FOR JAPAN
Long Beach, Cal. Jan,
demonstrators, Three thousand pointed commander of the French, including many Chinese, paraded through the streets here to-day This marks the first occasion on bearing postera with inscriptions which a military leader the rank of such as "Don't Soil American Hands a general has been sent to French with Chinese Blood" and· "Thou Somaliland.--Havas.
Shalt Not Kill,”
Informed quarters in Berlin are certain that pro- POOTUNG CLASHES during the loading of iron on
posals for an international conference on Spain as suggested by M. Bonnet on Thurs- day, will find little response in Germany,
It is pointed out that, after the Europe since Munich and as if fall of Barcelona, the decision in the old French system of collec- Spain has already definitely gone tive security against Germany in favour of General Franco. could still be continued.”—Trans-
Demands voiced in some French Ocean. papers for occupation of Minorca by France as a safety measure against Italian, troops remaining in Spain after the war's end are rejected in no uncertain manner. "Berliner Tageblatt" and other German papers, commenting on M. Bonnet's speech, regret thật, to all appearances, he did not draw the inevitable political con- sequences arising from the per- fectly clear military situation în Spain.
RECOGNITION OF FACTS
The "Berliner Tageblatt" adds: "The past has shown that hesita- tion to recognize, facts has not helped to lessen controversies. The diplomats of the western Powers have always waited and always were late:"
Other papers critizising M. Bon- net declare that he spoke as "if nothing had changed in Eastern
NANKING PUPPET OFFICIAL SHOT IN SHANGHAI
Chungking, To-day. Adding another name to the list of puppet officials victims of assassins, an unidentified Chin- ese youth entered the Sun Sun Hotel on Nanking Road in Shang- hai and shot and killed Ma Yu- häng, secretary-general of the bogus Nanking Municipal Govern- ment, at seven o'clock last night.
An alarm was raised by the Hotel and police of the Shanghai Municipal Council hurried to the scene. No clue was found.
Ma, who was fatally wounded, was rushed to the Lester Hospi tal for treatment, but died at about nine o'clock
Ma was a Fukienėse, and arriv- ed in Shanghai from Nanking on January: 23. — Central News?
SECRET RADIO
Paris, Jan. 22,
A secret foreign, wirelesą, station has been broadcasting at 8.00 pm 'for the past few days; opening with the announcement. "This is the broadcasting station of free Cor sica" and demanding independence for Corsica, the Jour If Echo, de Paris reported this morning. Havas.
Chungking, To-day. Guerillas operating in Poo- tung, opposite Shanghai, have in- tensified their activities and launched simultaneous attacks on a number of villages. The Jap. anese suffered serious casulties.
Central News.
The manifestation was organized.
vessel bound for Japan.
The loading was interrupted but, no incidents took place.
The demonstration was sponsored by a group which is demanding the cessation of iron shipments to Japan-Havas.
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