JAP. DIVERS COMPETING WITH AUSSIES
Tokyo, To-day.
With the pearl fishing season in the Arafura Sea, off the northern coast of Australia, close at hand, over a thousand Japanese divers are getting ready to leave for the fishing grounds, to reinforce the twelve hundred already there.
Most of them will proceed first, to Palao (Pelow) Island, in the Carolines, and there embark on
NO FORMAL GUARANTEE SAYS LONDON
LONDON, TO-DAY. OFFICIAL CIRCLES HERE
MAINTAIN RESERVE IN RE GARD TO THE ÉVENTS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, AND CON- CERNING THE QUESTION OF
BRITISH
GUARANTEE OF
CZECHOSLOVAK TERRITORY IT IS POINTED OUT IN INFORM- ED QUARTERS THAT NO FOR-
MAL GUARANTEE EVER HAS
BEEN GIVEN.
It is moreover emphasised that any such a guarantee could relate solely to foreign aggression against
60-ton luggers for the fishing Czechoslovakia" and not to a dis-
grounds.
integration of the Czechoslovak It is estimated that Japanese Republic from internal causes. It pearlers every season collect from is added that for the time being three to four thousand tons of British interests are not affected pearl-shell from the depths of the by the happenings in Bratislavā. ocean. Exports of the shell to the The British Government it is United States and Europe are stated is in close touch with Paris valued at more than £600,000 an-ou the subject of developments in nually, with prices rising steadily. Czechoslovakia but no concrete
N.Y.K. STEAMER
proposals regarding eventual steps The Nippon Yusen Kaisha has to be taken by either Government decided to place the 5,500-ton |have yet been made. steamer Bengal Maru on a special service in connection with the the Czechoslovak Government con- pearl fisheries, states the "Miyako cerning the situation has yet been Shimbun."
received here. Trans-Ocean.
With lower costs and a special aptitude for diving to unusual depths, the Japanese almost mono- polise the valuable pearl-fishing ground off the northern coast of
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More so may this be said of second-hand binoculars which also form a small part of the stock of
HLINKA GUARDS CHIEF OUSTED
Prague, To-day.
The Chief of Staff of the Hlinka Guards, Colonel Murgac, has been dismissed from office by the newly appointed Slovak Premier, Karl Sidor, according to a report broad- cast by the Prague radio.
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As grounds for this action Col. Murgac's speech broadcast from Vienna on Saturday is cited. Col. Murgac called. Dr. Sidor a traitor who had betrayed the Slovaks to the Czechs, and demanded a free and independent Slovakia.
Deputy Paul Carnogarsky has been appointed new chief of the Hlinka guards. Trans-Ocean.
No official communication from RELEASED BY
GENERAL MIAJA
Jerusalem, To-day. A landmine explosion near Hai- Australia, the Australian interests | fa yesterday killed two Jewish finding competition difficult.-Reu- | farmers and seriously wounded,
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Press messages received from Madrid late last night state that the city is still perfectly calm, though fighting between the Defence Junta and Communists is continuing out- side Madrid.
The streets are again full of peo- plo, walking freely where only the day before street battles were rag- ing.
A Madrid radio announcement says that General Miaja has releas- ed between 1,000 and 2,000 pri- soners held by the Communists.
CZECH CLASH WITH SLOVAKS
Prague, To-day.
According to a report from Bratislava, a meeting of Hlinka Guards last night end- ed in complete disorder.
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Troops were called out and charged the crowds with fixed bayonets, Reuter.
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