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· AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
EUROPE MARKS TIME:
DIPLOMATS
NEW ITALIAN BATTLESHIP
Rome, To-day.
The keel was laid yesterday of
a now Italian battleship of 35,000 tons.
The ship is being constructed in a Naples yard.-Trans-Ocean.
DEPLORABLE CONSEQUENCES OF "TIMES" LEADER
LONDON, TO-DAY.
CONFER
TURKEY TO BE THREAT TO
INCLUDED IN
BOMB THE
ALLIANCE SYSTEM? ULSTER EXPRESS
London, To-day.
London, To-day.
Scotland Yard. are keeping a
The international situation in Europe can be de- scribed as marking time as the full effect of Great Britain's guarantee to Poland becomes close watch in anticipation of fur- apparent.
ther activities s by the Irish Repub-
The European press is still studying the implica-lican Army.
tions of Mr. Chamberlain's House of Commons Following receipt of a warning
were played on
statement, and press reports state that Turkey bombed, guards
that the Ulster Express was to be
is now to be offered a Franco-British guaran-bridges and at various points tee.
along the track.
Passengers carrying parcels were There is less tension now in Danzig, where fears searched, and the train was exam- have lessened following Mr. Chamberlain's em-ined thoroughly. Nothing was phatic declaration. Hitler is still cruising in the In Belfast, Irish police searched North Sea and is not expected back in Germany two Channel steamers, on one of before to-night. Reports of a British offer to
Turkey are quoted in a Trans- NAZI FORCES
Ocean message from Istanbul.
Trans-Ocean says the offer is to be made in case of an Italian at- tack upon Turkey.
THE "DEPLORABLE CON- SEQUENCES" OF THE LEAD-
ING ARTICLE IN "THE TIMES" AND OF A COMMENTARY ON THE INTERNATIONAL SITUA-
TION BY A BRITISH NEWS
AGENCY, WERE MENTIONED
BY SEVERAL LONDON NEWS-tions continue.
PAPERS EDITORIALLY YES-
TERDAY.
The "News Chronicle" said the "Times" statement that there were "mental reservations" in the Bri-
TALKS IN PARIS
Meanwhile, diplomatic consulta-
In Paris yesterday, the Soviet Ambassador, M. Suritz, called on the French Foreign Minister, M. Georges Bonnet.
Earlier in the day, the British tish guarantee to Poland, cabled, to Ambassador, Sir Eric Phipps, call- Waraaw by a British news agency,ed at the Quai d'Orsay to discuss had created something akin to con- the Anglo-Polish talks in London. sternation in the Polish capital.
The Polish Ambassadør in London, reveals the paper, was instructed to make a special call on the British Foreign Office as a result,
SOVIET HELP
Ocean) that M. Bonnet asked the It is understood (says Trans-
Boviet Ambassador for Russian Only after official reassurance had promises of a certain measure of been given by Lord Halifax was assistance for Poland and Rumania Warsaw satisfied.
in the event of an attack on these ↑countries.
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More Secure told the form of delfystles of food
materi
ON YUGO-SLAV FRONTIER
London, To-day.
A further increase of Germani troop movements is reported by
found.
which a fire broke out Little damage was done.
the Geneva correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph.” -
The correspondent states that heavy German forces have been massed on the Yugo-Slav frontler, in Austria, and also in Memel.
Most of the units, he says, con- sist of motorised heavy artillery.
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