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PACIFIC WAR VISION
JAPANESE WOULD ATTACK S'PORE
EXPLOSIVE HORROR.
Tokyo Paper
Death Roll Thinks H.K.
Rises To
150
MADRID, TO-DAY.
THE
THE DEATH ROLL IN PENARANDA DE BRACAMONTE
HAS NOW RISEN TO 150, WHILE THE INJURED ARE ESTIMATED AT 1,500.
Rescue work is still being con- tinued, and it is feared that the final number of victims will be much larger.
Is Untenable
Tokyo, To-day.
OLD CUSTOMS REVIVED AT GREENWICH
· London, To-da
Old English customs will be re-
vived when the King visits the
The possibility of an Anglo-Japanese war and its
prospective outcome is discussed by the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, "Yomiuri Shimbun."
this evening..
the Thames in the State
His Majesty will proceed
Barge and will inaugurate the renovated
of the College:
historiet
At a banquet in the officers' mess a baron beef will be carried in hall, while a naval band will play ceremonious procession across the "The Roast Beef of Old England."
Trans-Ocean..
POWDER FACTORY EXPLOSION If such a war should break out, the paper says, the Far East would be the scene of gigantic battles. The paper believes that the Japanese General Staff, in case of such a conflict, has planned an at- tack on. Singapore, where the British Navy would be likely to retire "since Britain would not be able to hold Hong Kong against a Jap- anese attack and would therefore abandon it.” with a contribution of 200,000 pe- their air force and submarines, "g" class" cruisers, including theIn view of probable American
The Japanese, attacking with tleships, 14 "A class" cruisers, 49 "would have no great difficulty in cruisers Belfast and Edinburgh, the paper, the Japanese General conquering the Malay Peninsula!" and seven aircraft-carriers,
and French aid to Britain, says The loss of Singapore would of which are of antiquated type."
"two mean the breaking down of the entire British defence system in the Far East.
A national subscription for the relief of 'dependents of the Victims was opened by General Franco
setas.
J
The town has been evacuated completely and the inhabitants were given shelter in Salamanca and neighbouring towns.
The town of Peneranda de Dra- camonte has become completely uninhabitable; eleven hundred out of 1,800 houses have been destroy- ed.-Trans-Ocean.
NAZIS HOLDING LESS FOREIGN EXCHANGE
Berlin. Today
The paper enumerates British naval strength.
: BRITAIN'S STRENGTH This consists, it says, of 14 bat-
MISUSE OF FRENCH FLAG ALLEGED
The Rechtbank, return dated - Mr-
July 7, that gold
yaslarday, shows NAV
misuse
Shanghai, To-day.
Japanese Consul- sif of the Japanese odged a protest Consul General
the aller flags by Chinese
AMERICAN AID
Staff has prepared a defence plan to meet this contingency, The European tension would Any war with Britain would prevent Britain sending battle-end in favour of Japan, the journal ships and cruisers to the Far East. concludes. Trans-Oceani,
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