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MISGIVINGS
SOVIET PACT ANNOUNCEMENT PREDICTED
Paris, To-day.
Political circles here appear to be convinced that Mr. Neville
Britain And The Tokyo Conference
London, To-day.
Chamberlain will announce the con- The Diplomatic Correspondent of "The Times,” re- ferring to the new Japanese dmands, says that
clusion of the Anglo-French pact with the Soviet Union in the course of his statement before the House
of Commons to-day.
This, it is stated, is the reason why no official communique on the final phase of the negotiations was issued on Friday.
Information reaching Paris from London says that the British military delegation to Moscow will be headed by an Admiral of the Fleet and not, as was at first reported, by General Sir Edmund Ironside.
This is believed to indicate the specific roles to Britain and France in their contemplated collaboration with Soviet Russia.
LOGICAL OUTCOME It is the logical outcome of the decision to place the Anglo-French naval forces in the event of war under the supreme command of a Briton, while the supreme command
Mr.
GENERAL ELECTION IN NOVEMBER?
London, To-day.
That the Géneral Election will be held in November is now taken for granted in English political circles.
The "Daily Express" mentions November 16 as the exact date, but adds, "if the world situation permits."-Trans-Ocean,
TOKYO REPORT
the British Government entered on the nego-DENIED BY
tiations on the understanding that they con- cerned solely the Tientsin blockade and its as- sociated problems.
Neville Chamberlain declared at the beginning of the talks · and he is likely to repeat it clear- ly to-day that Great Britain was not going to reverse her foreign policy at the behest of another power.
THE CUSTOMS
Shanghai, To-day.
The Chinese Customs authorities
deny all knowledge of a Tokyo re- port that the Customs duties are
."
to be collected in future in Hua Hsing currency and declare that More than that: Great Britain is-Great Britain, America, France.
while negotiations in this connec not going to cease from a policy to and many others. which she has set herself.
Mr. Chamberlain may be expect. tion have been proceeding, no new To accede to wider Japanese de-ed to clear the way of many doubts decree has been brought to their at- tention and dues to-day are being. mands would mean dropping all and misunderstandings "that support for Chinese currency,
on arisen out of the Anglo-Japanese collected in Chinese National dol-
lars, as before-Reuter. which the Chinese export trade de- "Tokyo Formula.” pends, affecting many. countries
of the combined military forces will TIENTSIN POLICE
be given to a Frenchman, General Gamelin.-Trang-Ocean..
INCIDENT ON
PROBLEMS
Tokyo, To-day,
The British Police Chief in Tien- tsin, Mr. Dennis, arrived here yes-
RUMANIAN BORDER terday forenoon at the wish of the
Budapest, To-day. According to a semi-official an- nouncement, an incident took place on Saturday night on the Hungar ian-Rumanian frontier at Tecsa on Upper Theiss.
-Rumanian frontier guards, it is
British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, to be in readiness to ap- pear as an expert on police ques- tions should the Japanese attack these problems separately as the British authorities expect.Trans- Ocean.
alleged, shot at Hungarian rafts- JUNKERS BOMBER
men, several of the shots hitting the Hungarian Customs House and an Hungarian inn. The Hungarian frontier guards fired a number of blanks. There were no injuries as result of the shootings. Trans- Ocean.
SET RECORD
Berlin, To-day. ernational speed ablished "yesterday 2-engined Junkers bomb-
Three new
orde were
with n
ing plane,
for a distance of
ALGIERS TRAGEDY 2000 with alload of 200 kgs.
Two were Klled and
seriously wounded
of native workers}
ork was bur
French Nor
501 Imí per hour. a two other records, listance of 2000 Ims and 2000 kms also broken..
is equipped with: Jumo Bach of which has
of 1200 h.p.-Trang-Ocean.
have
Great Britain will stand loyally by it as a formula that establish-
ed the facts to be faced in North same loyalty by the Japanese com-a China during a difficult and pro-manders, it could be the basis for a bably transitional time. Given the modus vivendi.-Reuter.
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