FRENCH "MAP" AROUSES EXCITEMENT IN ROME: STORM IN A TEACUP
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 3, 1940
PARIS, TO-DAY, DANES AND
THE FOREIGN OFFICE HAS ISSUED A COMMUNI-
QUE REGARDING "UNWARRANTED EXCITE A WRECK
MENT" CAUSED ABROAD BY THE FRONTIERS APPEARING ON A MAP OF EUROPE WHICH FIGURES IN THE BACKGROUND OF A PHOTO GRAPH TAKEN AT THE FINANCE MINISTRY
Copenhagen, To-day,
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has
wreck of the Nazi steamer "Edmund issued a communique stating that the Hugo Stinnes" is lying one and a half that is,
DURING THE RECENT MEETING BETWEEN M.miles off the Danish coast,
within Danish territorial waters.
· PAUL REYNAUD AND MR. SUMNER WELLES. This map has been represented as showing how the Allies intend "to shape the future of Europe," carving up Europe and reconstituting an enlarged Czecho- Slovakia, Poland and Austria.
The French communique points out that the map is merely one showing Europe's frontiers as they were "be- fore Germany's repeated aggressions in the past few years."
of the, map touched up cer-
In the reproduction the photographer
tain frontier lines, thus leading to misapprehension in the Italian press which was agitated at the apparent Inclusion of. Trieste in Austria..
In Rome yesterday the photograph was reproduced prominently in most
of the Italian newspapers with bitter
The communique adds that the Danish Minister in London has been
instructed to make representations to
the British Government.
*** The
Reuter.
"Edmund Hugo Stinnes"
scuttled herself when challenged by a British submarine outside Danish territorial waters.
MOLOTOV'S SPEECH
DISTURBING
TO THE NEUTRALS
BERNE, TO-DAY.
anti-French and anti-British com-THE BERLIN CORRESPONDENT OF THE “BASLER” ments-Reuter.
TERRIERS
.
IN THE FRONT LINE
London, To-day.
SAYS: “IN DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES M. MOLO- TOV'S ATTITUDE IS REGARDED AS DESTRUC- TIVE OF ALL HOPES WHICH WERE THRUST INTO THE FOREGROUND AFTER THE BRENNER. MEETING."
In Rome, the "Osservatore Romano," the Vatican organ, describes M. Molotov's speech as disquieting for all countries.
RUSSIA
The first battalion of Terri- MORAL EMBARGO torials to be in direct contact with the Germans is the Northamptonshire Regiment, which is already holding out- post positions in front of the Maginot Line.
amateur
who
The Territorials are the civilian soldiers of peace-time are now part of the regular army.
They have had their full share of patrol work and although they have had no engagements with the enemy, No
Man's Land.
APPEALS IN VAIN
Washington, To-day. During an hour's confer- with the they have penetrated deep into ence yesterday
Their first "prize" is a German Secretary of State, Mr. Cor- gramophone, which is being sent dell Hull, it is believed the Ambassador, M. to the Regiment's headquarters in Soviet England. The gramophone was found during Oumansky, tried to shake his It was in a cottage used determination to retain the a patrol. by the Germans, and with it were "moral embargo" against The patrol took the gramophone shipments of aircraft and and records, but when they went aircraft material to Russia. back, the next night, they found the
them Germans had been' before and the radio set had gone-Reuter.
22 records and a radio set.
CHENGTE INCIDENT SETTLED
-
Peiping, To-day. The British Embassy au- thorities have been instruct- ed not to take further action in connection with the attack by a mob on a party of Bri- tons at Chengte:
The meeting was requested by M. Oumansky.
dis-
It is not confirmed that they
cussed the embargo but Mr. Cordell Hull afterwards stated the embargo was still effective against any coun- try in the world that incurred its pen- alties.
HOW THE CANADIAN TROOPS VOTED
Ottawa, To-day.
The number of seats held by the various parties In Canada have not been affected by the vot- Ing of the Canadian troops In
Britain.
The total · services · vota WRB found to be only 56,942 of the 90,000 or so who are eligible to vote.
troops Fifty percent of the voted Conservative, that is, for the "National Government" par- ty of Dr. Manion which was com
not plaining that the war was being prosecuted with · full-vi- gour.
per
Of the rest of the votes, 41 Liberal cent wero for the Party and 5 per cent for the other partles, Router,
PALESTINE SITUATION HAPPIER
LONDON, TO-DAY.
PALESTINE MESSAGES FROM REACHING AUTHORITATIVE LON- DON
THAT QUARTERS STATE PUBLIC SECURITY IS NORMAL.
The excitement of the earlier part of March has died down and since. March 8 there have been none of the Jewish demonstrations which follow- ed the issue of the land transfer re- gulations.
The reaction of the two principal communities to the Land Regulations has been marked.
That of the Arabs has been very Jewish Press favourable while the does not exceed the bounds of rea- sonable criticism, their leaders realis- Zionist to the ing the harm done
of cause by earlier manifestations the
violence.
The Scandinavian states are warn- any ed once again not to conclude
free- agreement, as even defensive ments are unwelcome to aggre ors.
M. Molotov emphasised that volume of trade between Germany that inferior to and Russia
was
between Rumania and Germany, and of also tried to acquit Bolshevism being an instrument in the hands of Germany.
2.
A Hebrew broadcast transmitter still continues however, from a spot as yet undiscovered, to attack the
conducts Land Regulations and campaign against the police whose duty it was to quell the violence ren- The Soviet Union "will follow dered by the demonstrations, but on Its own policy whether It pleases the whole the economic state of the
This these gentlemen' or not."
country has shown such Improve- warning is not directed only against
that
is ment
bitterness
sensibly the British and French, and these
diminishing.-British Wireless. to words are unlikely
reinforce the Berlin-Moscow solidarity. PARTICULAR GRAVITY The words of Stalin's loudspeaker have a particular gravity at a moment when an attempt is being made show Russia as a country guarantee-
Inaletance on the Bessarabian case question and the Butenko seemed intended to stimulate die- cord.
ing Balkan peace.
to
If Moscow intended to reveal to the world the well-known determination to intrigue in the Balkans, she could not choose more specious motives Poland nd the Baltic States have alread;
value of aggression pacts signed by Soviet Russia,
shown the
TOY REFERENCES
non-
M. Molotov's allusions, to Turkey were icy the fact that the speech Asked specifically' whether the contains no signs of the Intention to cessation of the Russo-Finnish hos renew the Turkish-Soviet negotiations tilities meant the cessation of the means that Moscow has lost all hope embargo, Mr. Hull: sald. there was of unhooking Turkey, from the Anglo- nothing new to be said on the sub-Franco-Turkish ject.
An official interpreted this state- ment as meaning the embargo is still
force-Reuter.
in
NO OFFICIAL STATEMENT (SPECIAL TO (CHINA MAIL") Washington, To-day.
pact.
mutual assistance
Molotov accuses the Allies of organising Finland as a spring- board for aggression against sła whereas Infact, the
Franco-Soviet negotiatlo
for the very reason that the Al- llon did not accept the Soviet de- mands for a free- hand in the
It is learned that an expression of
The Interview yesterday between Baltio and Scandinavian states...... sympathy has been received from the
of State, Mr. Cordell. While the Allies are accused of en Japanese Embassy authorities by the the
to find pretexts for en- | Hull, and the Soviet Ambassador, -1 M.deavou British Embassy in Pelping,
on all aspects of
the conflict the Soviet The Japanese. ilitary pokesman Oumansky,
Rust
man-
"neutral" but E states Fisincernly regrets that ruch
sky did no an incidents hould have occurred
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iples of Savi last Sout
ber.
NORWAY'S
ALARM DIMINISHES
Oslo, To-day.
Considerable satisfaction is expressed in political cir- cles at the tone of Mr. Cham- berlain's speech,
One political commentator told Reuter: "We never really expected that Britain intended to violate Nor- wegian territorial waters by Intercept ing German ships and we are glad to note that the speech appears to be reassuring on that point.
6WEDISH COMMENT:GUS
In Stockholm, Swedish comment on the scanty but it is felt in some Swedish political circles to have been much more moderate than mig have been expected after talk abroad about Scandinavian neutrality.
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