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TURKISH RUMOURS
ARE DENIED ANKARA, Apr. 2 Reuter)-The main topic of the Press is the report. subsequently formally denied in London, that the Aliles have asked Turkey to allow the passage of warships through the Dardanelles.
BREAD FOR THE SOLDIERS-Bread, a most important item in the diet of Frenchmen, is seen here being loaded on to a railway car prior to being sent to the troops at the front.
Territorials In Front Lines
DEPRIVE GERMANS OF GRAMOPHONE LONDON, April 3 Retter)-The- first battalion of Territorials to be in direct contact with the Ger- mans are the Northamptonshire
NAZI REIGN "Unwarranted OF TERROR Excitement"
RANDOM SHOOTING OVER EUROPEAN MAP
IN WARSAW
PARIS, April 2, (Reuter)--The PARIS, April 3 (Reuter)-Re- Foreign Office has issued a com- ports of alleged German- methods munique regarding "the unwer- of terror and extermination 1p by a map of Europe which figur- ranted excitement" caused abroad pear in the official Polish Journal ed in the background of a photo- published in Paris.
graph taken at the Ministry of Finance during the recent meet-
Regiment who are already holding the provinces "incorporated" into ing betweeri M. Paul Reynaud and
outpost, positions in front of the Maginot Line.
It is stated that this terror a - tained its maximum, intensity in the German Reich: The average daily killings taking place in War- saw during the month of March people found in the streets after is estimated at from 10 to 15, and
8 p.m. are shot.
ORDER TO LICK CARS!
The Territorials, amateur civi- llan soldiers cf peace tine, now form part of the regular Army They have had their full share of patrol work. "and although they have had no engagements with! the enemy yet, they have pene- It is declared that torture is the trated deep into No Man's Land. order of the day in the prisons Their first prize was a German and it is alleged that the Mayor gramophone which is being sent of Bydgoszcz was ordered to clean to the Regiment's Headquarters in motor cars belonging to the Ges England. The gramophone was tapo by licking them and when found by a patrol in a cottage that he protested, against this he was had been used by German troops. shot. With the machine were 2 records and a radia set,
"The patrol took "away the gra- mophone and records but when they went back the next night they found that the Germans had. in the meantime, returned to the
Mr. Sumner Welles.
This map has been represented as showing how the Allles Intend
by carving up Europe and recon- to "shape the future of Europe”
stituting
Czecho- an enlarged Slovakia, Poland, and Austria.
ITALIANS AGITATED
out that the map is merely one The French communique points
showing Europe's frontiers as they were "before Germany's repeated aggressions during the past few years."
It is further stated that the
In the reproduction of the map Nazis are
the photographer touched up cer-} especially implacable | against religious orders and contain frontier lines, thus leading to gregations. and Poles
misapprehension in. the Italian permitted to marry.
press, which is agitated at the ap- parent inclusion of Trieste in Aus-- tria,
are not
cottage and that the radio set was EGYPT EXTENDS
gone.
NEW CHINESE CONSULATE
A FRIENDLY HAND
CHUNGKING; Apr. 3 (Central) CAIRU. April 3 Reuter)After -The Executive Yuan meeting a two-day meeting of the Ward yesterday decided to elevate the.(Egyptian Nationalist) Party, status of the Chinese Vice-Consu-Nahas Pasha, Party leader, hand- late In Bombay to that of Con-ed a manifesto to Sir Miles Lamp- sulate. This is necessitated by son, the British Ambassador, em- the Increased number of Chinese phasising the unanimity with residents in that city.
which Egypt extended the hand uf friendship to Britain, and her GERMAN WRECK eagerness to offer ali possible help
OFF. DENMARK
tu avoid any possibility of Egypt being stabbed in the back COPENHAGEN, Apr. 2 (Reuter) At the same time, however, the The Ministry "of Foreign Affairs manifesto asked for tangible has issued a communique stating proof of Britain's willingness to that the wreck of the Edmund respect Egypt's interests once the Hugo Stinnes," the German war success is fully concluded, freighter which was. sunk by a British submarine, is lying one and a half sea miles of
that
the
Danish coast,
13 within Danish territorial waters.
The communique adds that the Danish Minister in London has been instructed to make
repre- sentations to the British Govern ment
NEW SINKIANG GOVERNOR
CHUNGKING, Apr. 3 (Central) Gen., Bheng Shih-tsal, Defence Commissioner for the Sinklang Border, was formally appointed Chairman of the Sinklang Pro- vificial Government by the Execu- tive Yuan at Its regular meeting yesterday.
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A decision to petition the Na- tional Government to issue mandate commending the late Sinkiang Governor, Mr. Li Yeng, who passed away,last month, was also reached in the meeting.
CHINA SOCIETY
BERLIN, April 3 (Reuter)-The German news agency reports: "Some hours ago Heinkel bombers once more paid a memorable visit to the British naval base at Scapa Flow. The first planes have al- Responsible quarters emphasise ready returned and are over Heli-Turkey's loyal adherence to all golarid
her pledges, and that she will scrupulously abserve the Mon- treux Convention and allow no belligerent warships to pass the Chinese Art and Archaeology `at.! Straits while she la outside the
"According to radio reports so far, received several English war- ships were attacked with heavy bombs,
"Some ships sustained direct war.. hits, others were damaged, by ex- plosions vicinity.
their immediate GRAF SPEE CREW "One ship developed a list and LEAVE BUENOS AIRES
from another dense smoke and names appeared."
London, the Admiralty laconically announces: "No ship was hit or damaged.”
ELECTION
LONDON, Apr. 2 (Reuter)-Dr. Perceval W. Yetis. Professor of
London. University since 1932, has been elected Chairman of 'the China Society in succession to Bir Denison Ross,...
A Bridge and Mah Jong Drive, BUENOS AIRES: Apr, 2 (Reu-organized by the Ladies Working teri-Fifty: more German sailora Centre at the Club de Recreio from the Graf Spee left Buenos took place on April 1; and realized Aires today for internment in the $200 for the British War, Or- Interior of Argentine.
ganisation Fund.
A message from Rome states that the photograph was repro- duced prominently today in most of the newspapers with bitter anti-French and anti-Eritish com- ments.
VICTORY MARCH IN WELLINGTON
WELLINGTON, Apr. 2 (Reuter) Four hundred officers and men of H.M.S. Achilles, the New Zea- land cruiser of Graf Spee battle fame, took part in a triumphal march through the streets of Wellington today.
Large crowds turned out to welcome them and Mr. Peter Fraser, the new Prime Minister. made a speech of welcome.
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