THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 18, 1989.
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BRITAIN TAKES FIRMER ATTITUDE IN MOSCOW
Another Meeting With M. Molotov In Few Days
Moscow, To-day. After an eight-day interval the Anglo-French talks with the Soviet Foreign Commissar, M. Molotov, were resumed at the Kremlin last evening.
"The meeting lasted an hour and three quarters but no fundamental changes in the position are re- ported.
It is understood that the Anglo-French reply to the
FRENCH "AIR RAID"
OVER ENGLAND
Paris, Today. About-100: French, bombers are participating in a training fight over England.
Date of, the, flight, is not yet known but the latent report sug-, gests it may be on Wednesday.
It is stated the machines will all be of modern type and will in- clude the most recent products of French factories-Reuter.
latest Soviet proposals was discussed, and the ANGLO-POLISH
Soviet Government is considering it.
Meanwhile a report on the So- viet attitude is being transmitted to London and Paris.
;
Another meeting between the British and French representa-
shortly. Reuter.
NO FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE
Moscow, To-day.
Desperate S Shansi Fighting
CHUNGKING, TO DÂY.
MILITARY TALKS
Warsaw, To-day.
BOMB OUTRAGE IN MORAVIA
Prague, To-day.
A new anti-Semitic bomb outrage and the subsequent discovery of a mutilated body at the spot where the explosion occurred is reported from the town of
in Kremsier Moravia.
According to an information available thus far the explosion oc- curred on Saturday night at the Jewish cemetery of Kremsier.
The explosion was so violent that the cemetery Synagogue was damaged. A short time later a mutilated body was found near the spot where the explosion occurred, and enquiry showed that the body was that of a man of Czech na- tionality from the region of Kutten- berg in Bohemia. Police are in- clined to believe that the man killed by the exploding bomb was the per- petrator of the bomb butrage.
Not far from the cemetery
an
abandoned motorcar with a Czech
number plate was
General Sir Edmund Ironside, Inspector-General of the British Ocean... Oversea Forces, arrived yesterday afternoon at the Warsaw airport
REPORTED YESTERDAY FROM
DESPERATE FIGHTING WAS Okenice from London via Copen- THE PROVINCE OF SHANSİ, WHERE THE JAPANESE
hagen.
For the first time in the course of the Anglo-Franco-Kussian nego tiations, which have now been go- ing on for four months, the Bri- tish Embassy last evening issued a TROOPS ARE SAID TO BE CON- of the Polish General Staff, General He was welcomed by the Chief statement on yesterday's meeting VERGING ON THE THREE Stachievicz, Inspector-General of
between M, Molotov and the British and French representatives.
In a communique, the Embassy announces that "the negotiations have not resulted in any funda- rental change in the situation."- Trans-Ocean.
EMPHATIC BRITISH
PROPOSALS
Moscow, To-day. M. Molotov received the British and French Ambassadors and the special British envoy, Mr. William Strang, at 4 o'clock in the Kremlin.
NEIGHBOURING TOWNS OF the Polish Armed Forces, General CHANGTSE, CHANGCHI AND Norwid-Neugebauer, Assistant War KAOPING
Minister Regalski and the Chief of The Japanese, it is reported, the Polish Air Force, General were employing from 5,000 to 6,000 Kalkus and from the British side men in the offensive, which is pro-by the Charge D'Affaires, Mr. C.J. ceeding in nine different directions Norton, and the military attaché. at once. Some of the Japanese co- lumns are meeting with stubborn Chinese resistance which is inflict ing heavy casualties on the Ja- panese, while others, it is admitted, have reached Changchi and heavy street fighting is in progress.
They are also approaching the Political circles attach special outskirts of Changtse. In the lat importance to yesterday's converter town, however, the Chinese -sation, the diplomatic preparation garrison was said to be in a posi- of which took over a week, and it tion to hold out for a considerable. is believed that the British and time. French negotiators put forward their proposals 'in particularly emphatic manner.
Yesterday's meeting was the ninth since Mr. Strang's arrival in Moscow a month ago. Trans-Ocean.
EMIGRATION OF GERMANS FROM SOUTH TYROL
ROME, TO DAY. THE TRANSFER OF GERMANS
FROM SOUTH TYROL HAS BEEN
General Ironside, who was wear- ing civilian clothes, was accompanied by the Polish military attache in London. The conversations with the Polish General Staff are expect- ed to last four days.-Trans-Ocean.
CENTRAL COMMAND
Warsaw, To-day. Informed circles here believe that General Sir. William Ironside, the Oversea Inspector-General of the Forces, who arrived here yesterday. for consultations with the Polish military authorities, has been sent - JAP. COMMUNICATIONS CUT
to Poland mainly in order to ob- Although what little information tain the Polish General Staff's con- available is far from favourable, sent, to the creation of a central the Chinese High Command at command of British-French-Polish Chungking is still optimistic, de- forces in the event of war. claring that the Chinese had been
This would place the Polish Army compelled for tactical reasons to under the supreme command of the give up certain places, but were Commander-in-Chief of the Allied about to launch far-reaching coun- Armies, presumably General Game- termeasures.
lin.-Trans-Ocean,
From the Toaching-Pingshan railway line, it is reported that the Chinese have succeeded in cutting off Japanese communica- tion lines..
Connections to the Japanese front have been further disturbed by floods at Paoting and Sinhsien.
FASCIST NEWSMAN EXPELLED
Paris, To-day
The Paris correspondent
Nothwithstanding the military Italian paper "Giornale d'Italia,
IN PROGRESS FOR SOME TIME.
successes the Japanese are gaining In view of the special political thought here that the outcome of sion order from the French police
at the moment, it is generally Luigi Pome, has received an conditions, numerous German pea-the present battles in Shansi is by sants had decided to emigrate to the no means certain as yet. Reich. An office was opened' at Bolzano ten days ago to give aid and
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families to be transferred is
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