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PREMIER HOPES JAPAN WILL FORMULATE HER GRIEVANCES
Britain Will Take All Steps To Supply Concession
London, To-day.
Answering supplementary questions in the House of Commons on the Far East yesterday, Mr. Neville Chamberlain said in reply to Mr. Arthur Henderson (Labour) that he hoped if Japan had any grievances she would formulate them.
ROOSEVELT AND PRICE OF SILVER
Washington, To-day.
It is reported in Senate quar-
·ters that "President Roosevelt is unwilling to promise to increase the silver price of domestic new- ly-mined metal after June 30, as requested by the silver Senators.
'An inquiry will be made in an effort to break delaying tactics.- Reuter.
SUBMARINE
Replying to Mr. Anthony Eden (Conservative), Mr. Chamberlain said our Ambassador in Tokyo had made it quite plain that the British TRAGEDY: Government was not prepared to acquiesce in the blockade.
THREAT TO EMPLOYEES OF BRITISH FIRMS
CHUNGKING, TO-DAY.
He had also made it clear that they were prepared to take steps which they thought necessary to ensure supplies to British subjects.
Asked if the possibility of con-
U.S. NAVY
SUSPECTS
veying food by air was being con- SABOTAGE
sidered, Mr. Chamberlain maintain-
ed, that the whole situation was under consideration.
LONDON, JUNE 5.
SUBMARINE
SALVAGE IN
HONG KONG
London, To-day.
Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, Par- liamentary Secretary to the Ad- mirulty, was asked in the House- of Commons yesterday what sub- marine salvage facilities existed at Singapore and оп the China Station.
Mr. Shakespeare said that a number of dockyard and private tugs, lighters and mooring, vessels and equipment was available at. Singapore and Hong Kong, and could be used for salvage work ac- cording to the requirements of the particular accident. Reuter.
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FAMOUS BARREL AS COLLECTING BOX
The barrel in which their Majes ties' letters were transferred from the Empress of Australia to the bat- Asked if the Government was SUSPICION THAT SABOTAGE tlecruiser Repulse in mid-Atlantic maintaining. contact with Russia CAUSED THE DEATH DIVE OF on May 9, when they were on their regarding the situation in China, THE UNITED STATES SUB- way to Canada, has been placed out- Mr. Chamberlain replied "No." MARINE SQUALUS IN WHICH side the Royal Exchange. Reuter.
26 MEN WERE KILLED-GREW It was then formally declared AT PORTSMOUTH NAVY YARD, open by the Lord Mayor of London NEW HAMPSHIRE, YESTERDAY Sir Frank Bowater, and the treasur- AS OFFICIALS CLAMPED DOWN er of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, A CENSORSHIP ON ALL FUR- Mr. George Aylwen, as a collecting-- THER INTERVIEWS WITH THE box for the Lord Mayor's Mansion 33 SURVIVORS.
House Fund for rebuilding the
SECOND WEEK
BESIDE THE CHINESE CON STABLES OF THE MUNICIPAL
London, To-day The Japanese blockade of the COUNCIL, CHINESE EMPLOYEES | British Concession has now entered OF BRITISH FIRMS IN THE BRI-upon its second week,
Its severity is in no way diminish- Investigation into the cause of hospital. TISH CONCESSION IN TIENTSIN ed and it is reported that the anti-the submarine's sinking, which has Suitably mounted, the barrel HAVE ALSO RECEIVED THREA-
British campaign is being encourag- already started, is expected to lead stands at the steps of the Exchange, ed in the Chinese press and in other to a nationwide sabotage hunt, which and on the front bears the inscrip- *TENING LETTERS ASKING ways.
will take in all navy yards and muni- tion: "Empress of Australia `THEM TO RESIGN AND EVACU- In his Commons statement yes-tion factories (cables the Sunday May 1939-Repulse." On the top is
a slot. terday the Premier said there been Dispatch New York Correspondent), ATE FROM THE CONCESSION,
no further incidents at the barriers
What the investigators want to ACCORDING TO A TIENTS.N since those he had previously describ- ed to the House, but various in- cidents which had marked enforce-
REPORT.
know is:
1. What caused the defect in the
The British Municipal Council, ment of the blockade had been taken "foolproof” 31in air induction valve the report states, has announced
at of the Squalus's surface motors? (It that it will grant subsidies to those up by the British Ambassador Chinese employees 'who move their Tokyo with the Japanese Foreign was the failure of this valve to close families from the Japanese-con- Minister, who had promised to in-which brought the sea surging in
into the Concession stitute enquiries into various cases and trapped the
of discrimination and ill-treatment fathoms of water.) and also that it will continue to .pay salaries
brought to his notice. to those who are forced to stop work owing to the threat to their families.
trolled area's
TROOPS IN NORTH CHINA
submarine in 40
'PHONE FAILED
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GERMAN QUESTIONED AT R.A.F. DISPLAY
It has been disclosed that an as- sistant air attache at the German Embassy was challenged while tak- ing notes at the R.A.F. Empire Air Day display at Hendon.
During the display a visitor was 2. Why did the buoy telephone ap- | seen making notes about certain air- paratus, which the submarine shot craft and he was questioned by a The eighth day of the Japanese Mr. Chamberlain also informed up to the surface when it sank, fail Flight-Lieutenant attached to the blockade yesterday saw stricter the Commons that of the battalion to operate after one brief conversa- aerodrome. vigilance taken by the British and which forms the British garrison in tion?
On its being discovered who he French Concessions.
North China, rather more than It was a brand new £1,000,000 was the matter was dropped, as the one half was, according to latest ship, Machinists Mate Alfred Prien assistant air attache was within strength returns, now stationed in insists that he pulled the switch to his rights in making notes. There Tientsin.-British Wireless. ·
close the valve, and a light glowed were no war 'planes on the secret on his instrument board indicating list on view at the display. that this was done.
Major-Gen. Ralph von Wenniger,
On account of rumours that White Russians would march into the Concessions, all iron gates of the Concessions were closed from 5 o'clock in the morning, leaving only the side walks open, and all pedestrians were subjected to thorough searches Central News.
F.O. LUNCH TO POLISH MISSIONS
London, To-day.
The Foreign Secretary gave a luncheon party at the Foreign Of- fice yesterday in honour of Colonel A. Koc and the Polish financial and military delegations,
The Prime Minister and the Min- ister for Co-ordination of Defence were among those present.-Bri- tish Wireless.
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London, To-day. It is these questions which are "My assistant air attache had The House of Commons will en-occupying high-rank naval officials, short talk with the Flight-Lieuten- ter to-day on the committee stage and provoking open hints of-sabo-ant and the matter was cleared up of the Finance Bill.-British Wire-tage up and down Portsmouth, New Immedately. They parted as friends less.
and the matter was closed."
The
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FOLLIES-1939
STARRING
Мето-
Joan CRAWFORD
with JAMES.
LEW
LEWIS STONE
STEWART AYRES