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AUSTRALIA'S CHOIGEST
BUTTER
UNITED STATES SANCTIONS TALK
MAISKY AND PEACE FRONT
Copenhagen, To-day.
"I have not been instructed to convey a message to Mr. Chamberlain or to anybody else," said the Soviet Ambas- sador to London, M. Maisky, when he made a short stop- over here, and was questioned by Danish journalists.
He said that Soviet Russia- was prepared to deliver war material and planes to the western Democracies if they were attacked. Soviet Rus- sia, he concluded, had sub- mitted proposals to Britain and was now waiting for a reply.
Trans-Ocean
SIGNIFICANT TOUR BY REICH ARMY CHIEF
Rome, To-day.
The Commander in Chief of the
A speech of unusual gravity by the Prime Minister
who declared that slight weight in one direc-
tion or another may determine whether war breaks out;
Mr. Churchill's dictum on the Hitler speech, expect-
ed at 7 p.m. (Hong Kong Time): "If he utters réassurances I for one will not believe them until they are confirmed by deeds;"
Overwhelming endorsement of conscription in the House of Commons, despite the Labour Party's Opposition;
Discussion in the Senate of a resolution to place an embargo on all exports to Japan, except agri- cultural products;
·MILLION
UNDER ARMS IN POLAND
Warsaw, To-day; Poland has one million men un- der, arma, it is 'atated by the Gov- ernment organ.
These are the first figures of the mobilisation of Poland pu- blished, and
The million is composed of 400,« 000 active troops and 600,000′ re- servos. Yans-Ocean.
NO ITALIAN
Commencement of the passage of the United States REPLY TO PRES.
fleet into the Pacific;
Gathering tension in Europe, with the German
press indulging in a violent anti-British cam- paign are the high-spots of to-day's news,
Gravity of the general situation are of a very tangled, nature."
ROOSEVELT
Rome, To-day.
Formal Italian answer to the
is indicated by the decision of Mr. Another comment is that “Only Roosevelt massage will not be com- de Valera to cancel his visit the the incidents in March induced municated, it is reported in well- United States, following important England to do something beyond informed circles. talks
the Ben Mr. Chamberlain 'and protesting-at the possible cost of "The recent speech of Mussolini
High Commissioner in the Anglo-German Naval Treaty" and the Reichstag address of the London, and by the announcement Both the Anglo-Turkish and An- German Chancellor will provide that the King and Queen will pro-glo-Soviet Agreements are reported a sufficient reply, it is declared. ceed to Canada in the Empress of to be near satisfactory conclusion. Trans-Ocean,
Australia.
Bitterness aroused in Germany TIME THE VITAL FACTOR IN THE AIR
by the British conscription decision is revealed in caustic press com- ment, with indications that. Ger- many, may, now, denounce, the..
- An- glo-German naval treaty.
The "Nachtausgabe describes the conscription measure as "Bluff
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