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SIX JAPANESE PLANES SHOT DOWN
Lanchow, To-day.
HOLLAND'S NEW MILITARY BUDGET
Amsterdam, To-day:
Scoring another victory in the air, Chinese airmen yesterday Holland's new military Budget shot down six Japanese planes in was accepted by the Upper Cham-
ber yesterday. another spectacular aerial com- bat over Lanchow, capital of Kanan.
During the Debate, the Minister of Defence, van Dijk, revealed
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A squadron of 20 Japanese aircraft raided the city. They were challeng-military aerodromes near Kattwijk in the North Sea, and near Valken- ed by Chinese pursuits.
that Holland will establish NEGOTIATIONS
Three caught fire in mid-air while three others were hit and nose- dived. All the ill-fated machines crashed in the eastern outskirts of Lanchow:
burg on the Dutch-Limburg fron- WITH GERMANY
tier.
Possibilities for purchasing mili- tary planes in the United States were being investigated.. The 200 concrete forts along the frontier would be greatly increased.
Funk.
Berlin, To-day. Mr. G. Ashton-Gwatkin, chief Bombs were dropped on the city.
of the economic department of the British Foreign Office, was According to investigation just completed, nine Japanese planes
Dr. van Dijk, concluding, stress received yesterday afternoon by were shot down during the dogfighted Holland's neutrality policy and, the German Trade Minister, Dr. over Lanchow on February 20 replying to a question concerning
Dutch-British military talks, stat-The lengthy conversation, ac- Twenty-three Japanese airmen were killed. Central News,
ed that these referred merely to cording to well-informed quar- technical information concerning ters, aimed at arranging details armaments in the Far East. Hol- for an Anglo-German industrial land would under all circumsconference planned for the mid- tances retain her policy of in- dle of March next.
After being received by Field- dependence. Trans-Ocean.
marshal Goering Mr. Ashton-
on Saturday. No official com- munique is expected on Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin's Berlin visit. He expressed to pressmen satis- faction with the way things were shaping so far-Trans-Ocean.
MENINGITIS EPIDEMIC
Six further cases of meningitis
were notified to the Medical De AGAIN DENIED Gwatkin, will return to London
partment yesterday. Five were from Victoria.
There were also seven measles, four chickenpox, three diphtheria, two smallpox, and one typhoid
cases.
A vegetable gardener, Chan Wun, living in a shed above Kowloon Tong, was rabbed of $39.84 at about 3,30: a.m. this morning..
Rome, To-day.
Reports of an impending meeting between Adolf Hitler, Mussolini and General Franco is again denied in well-informed quarters here 25 "absolutely groundless rumour.". Trans-Ocean:
Two of the five invaders were armed with long daggers.
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AMERICAN TO BE NEXT POPE?
Washington, To-day.
Great commotion has been caused in political circles here at a report of the Rome correspon- dent of the "New York Times” and other sources, that there is a possibility that the new, Pope will not be an Italian, but that instead Cardinal Villeneuve (Canada) and Cardinal Munde- lein (Chicago) are the most like- ly candidates,
The possibilities of such a deve- lopment are the subject of animated discussion, in which it is emphasis- ed that North America, with its 30 million Roman Catholics, is now the strongest financial mainstay of the Vatican. Trans-Ocean.
TWICE BITTEN
Mr. F. M. Thompson, of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, who lost an overcoat valued at $90 from his office some time last year, has in- formed the police that another, valued at $80, was stolen on Satur- day.
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