PLAYS AT
"WAR ON NERVES"
Demonstrations And Talks To Go Together
Street Parade In Tokyo To-Morrow
Tokyo, To-day.
TSINGTAO Next Big
"Raid" On
SITUATION
Tsingtao, To-day. H.M.S. Lowestoft left Tsingtao on Tuesday, and the only British warship in port is the destroyer H.M.S." Diamond.
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No guards have been posted on the British Consulate-General' by ' the Royal Navy...
Further anti-British demonstra-
Simultaneously with the opening of preliminary tions, inspired by the Japanese,
Anglo-Japanese talks, between Sir Robert Craigie and Mr. Arita, anti-British demon- strations are to be held on Saturday in Tokyo and other large Japanese towns.
are expected to-day and to-mor- row.-Reuter.
ROOSEVELT
The Japanese are also trying to arrange large-scale ANGRY WITH
demonstrations at various points in North China.
In Tokyo, 100,000 anti-British demonstrators will march through the streets and past the war memorial.
IMPORTANT NEW AIDS FOR SHIPPING
NEWS AGENCY
France
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Paris, To-day. DETAILS of the next mass flight of R.A.F. planes over France are given by the newspaper "Excelsior."
The paper says that 200 planes will take part in the flight, and will carry a full load of bombs and ammunition.
Trans-
Two hundred planes with 1,000 men will participate in the "raid.” The heavy bombers will fly to the French Mediterranean coast Washington, To-day. and will continue east of Marseil- President Roosevelt took an un-les until the Italian coast is sight- precedented step yesterday when ed, when the planes will return he issued a formal statement to their bases in England. agency had been "guilty of falsi- metres, will be flown without in- saying that an American news The entire distance, 2,300 kilo fication of the actual facts" in termediate landings. Hull (the Secretary saying that he and Mr. Cordell Ocean.. had disagreed on the language of of State) ques-the projected neutrality message ed as wanting to use forceful lan- President Roosevelt was describ- to Congress, by the President. from
guage in the message, culated yesterday, and said that posed to language calculated to The report referred to was cir- Cordell Hull was said to be op- and Mr.
disagreement between the Presi- anger the Rome-Berlin Axis and It is pointed out that “the Ja-dent and Mr. Cordell Hull was re- further antagonise an already re- decision without which the Anglo- panese people" insist upon a final ported in Administration quarters. bellious Senate, Reuter, Japanese Conference would be lacking all sense.
Political quarters in Tokyo and the Japanese press declare that it will be impossible for Britain, on this occasion, to evade the issue at stake. Britain must give a clear and decisive answer to the tion, whether she is ready to draw the necessary conclusions. the changed situation in China and the Far East.
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London, To-day. Important new aids for British shipping are provided in the British Shipping (Assistance) Bill, the text of which was published yesterday. The Japanese Government could The Bill provides for a five-year not go against this unanimous wish tramp shipping subsidy up to of the "Japanese nation."-Trans- $2,750,000 yearly,, to come into Ocean, operation on January 1, 1940;
Assistance for shipbuilding, in- -cluding $10,000,000 for loans for building cargo-ships, and £2,500,- 000 for grants towards the cost of
BALTIC FLIGHT
building cargo-ships, and financial REPORTS DENIED
help up to £10,000,000 for liner ser- vices up against foreign subsidised competition.
London, To-day.
The Air Ministry officially denies The Bill also confirms the ar- reports that the Air Force is to rangements already operating by make test flights across the Baltic which the Board of Trade can buy
Sea and Denmark and that the merchantman. registered in the Danish Government had already United Kingdom to create a re-given the necessary permission. serve for use in - emergency, Reuter.
JAPS. REFUSE TO MOVE BARRIERS
Shanghai, To-day.
The Air Ministry adds that prac- tice flights of British bombers are solely to be made to France and back Trans-Ocean.
IMPORTANT: PALESTINE ARREST
London, To-day.
The British protest against the. isolation of three British-owned factories by the Japanese was re- jected yesterday by the Japanese telegram from the High Com- military authorities who refused to missioner for Palestine reports that remove the barbed wire fence troops arrested Mansur el Yusef, around the factory buildings, gang leader, and 17 of his gang, The Japanese authorities main-including 4 minon leader,, Salem tain that the British employees of Seheb, in Daburiya, a village east the factories did not comply with of Nazareth........
NORWAY'S
M.
Sole Agents:
the traffic regulations decreed by Thirty-nine rifles were seized, the the Japanese in November last biggest haul yet recorded in year. — Trans-Ocean.
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