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WHITEAWAY'S
On Baltic Coast POLISH ATTITUDE
KAUNAS, May 1.—It is learned that
important
German naval and artillery manoeuvres will begin along the Memel coast to-morrow.
The first line of fortifications intended to defend the new German territory of Memel has been completed.-Reuter.
13-POWER BLOC READY TO FACE ANY AGGRESSOR
NEGOTIATIONS
LONDON, May 1. DESIGNED to bring
Russia and Turkey into a closely interlocked "peace front" are nearing completion.
The leaders hope that the negotiations proceeding in London, Paris, Moscow, Warsaw and Istanbul will result in a bloc of 13 active and four passive members, with Britain, France, Russia, Poland and Turkey as the keystone nations.-United Press.
Palestine Proposals
"Negotiations between
His Majesty's Government and the Soviet are being conducted with the utmost
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Etellgoland
NORWAY
SWEDEN
AGAINST GERMANY
STIFFENS Military
THE KEYS
MEMEL
DANZIG
HAMBURG
POLISH CORRIDOR
POLAND
GERMANY
(ELABEIJANGER |
RLENINGRAD
MOSCOW.
V. S. 5. R.
LONDON, May 1.
- THE USUALLY well-informed Berlin Correspondent of the "Daily Mail" re- ports to-day that Herr Hitler has given
Poland fourteen days in which to meet the German demands enumerated in his speech to the Reichstag last Friday.
These demands are:
1.-Cession of Danzig to the Reich;
Training Bill In Commons
LONDON, May 1.
THE
RESERVE AND AUXILIARY FORCES BILL, just published, cur- tails the procedure neces- sary in calling up Army
The bill empowers the Ad- miralty, War Office and Air
2.-Provision of a military road through the reserves. Polish Corridor from Germany to East Prussia, Germany to enjoy extra-territorial rights in the area Ministry, under an Order in adjoining the road.
Council, to call up members of the reserves and auxiliary forces German newspapers have intensified their attacks if necessary to ensure prepared- on Poland, and their venom is especially directed towards ness for the defence of the
despatch," declared Mr. FOUR DEAD Keys to Baltic Colonel Josef Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister.
a-i
Chamberlain in reply to question in the House of
Considered Commons to-day.
CAIRO, May 1.
IT IS UNDERSTOOD that the British Cabinet this mora- ing studied definite proposals for
at
The Promier confirmed that he had received the Soviet proposals and
hinted
Polish and Rumanian reluctance to accept help from the Soviet as being
a settlement of the Palestine one of the difficulties in the problem, drawn up at the final meeting last night by the Palestinian Arabs and
repre-
negotiations.
The Secretary for War, Mr. Leslie
IN JAPAN EARTHQUAKE
Northern Prefectures Rocked By Shock
TOKYO, May 2. FOUR PERSONS were so far known to have been killed, five sentatives of the Arab States, Hore-Belishn, during the Arst read injured and three missing as the who were joined, for the
ing of the Reserve and Military result of the severe earthquake first
Forces Bill, nld he is overhauling which rocked the northwestern time by Indian Moslems.
nobilisation measures.
Mr. Chamberinin also repeated-the part of Japan, including Akita The proposed settlement, which British pledges to protect Egypt and Aomori Prefectures and was handed to the British Embassy, against foreign attack-United Press. Hakodate, yesterday afternoon. Includes the following four points,
Firstly, in order that normality be restored, a National Government, with Palestine Ministers assisted by British advisers sholl be formed.
with high posts, when possible, filled by qualled natives.
"Friendly" Talks
London, May 1. The talk between Viscount Halifax and . Mulsky, following the latter's retura from Moscow, is described in authoritative quarters as being "long Secondly, Jewish emigration shall and friendly", though conjectures re- be limited to a further 75,000, includ-garding the date whereby negotiations ing the illegal immigrants, over a five with Soviel-Russin will be complete year period, the Jewish population are said to be pure guesswork.
It is sinted that the whole position ultimately not to exceed a third of
the total population,
Official reports reaching the Home Office say that 104 houses have col- lapsed completely and 200 others have collapsed partially in the city of{ Funagawa, In Akita Prefecture, which was the most severely hit,
Twelve houses were destroyed in a fire which broke out following the carthquake in the port city in Akita Prefecture.
The Government authorities im-
regarding the current negotiations mediately dispatched 30 police and was discussed during the conversa- three physicians to the stricken dis- Thirdly, sale of land to Jews to lions, and secount taken of the views triet to co-operate in rescue workts. be subject to conditions agreed upon of other countries associated with the The railway lines which were tem- by the National Government
High Commissioner,
and anti-aggression measures.
porarily blocked following the earth- | Official quarters are reticent con- quake have been reopened to traffic cerning the details of the Anglo- later in the evening-Domel, Fourthly, a National Assembly, re-Russian negotiations, which are stated presentative of all the population, be|to be taking place in an encouraging convened after three years to and hopeful spirit. examine and draft a constitution.
White Paper Soon
It is stated that the question of the application of the British gwor-j antee to Poland, and the German suggestions regarding Danzig, to-
A London message says that itgether with the Polishi rejoinder.
is understood the now suggestions It is declared in authoritative circles from Cairo were considered by that the question of the British
Japanese Keep
Kici Canal now being widened, allows German Fleet from North Sea to Baltic.
Narrow dirait exit to the North Sea flanked by neutral Denmark and Powers, Sweden
German push' eastward would bottle up the Soviet Navy in the Eastern Ballic.
ran
already Danzig,
by Narks, dominates Polish exit
FAMILIAR TACTICS
It is pointed out in this connection that. Germany is now closely following the tactics adopted befoze the march into both the Sudetenland and Czecho-Slovakia.
Most of the reports concern of the alleged ill-treatment Germans by Poles..
Diplomatic, observers believe, that the cituation bears careful watching, and claim that all the indications point to the growing German-Polish tension as being part of the German scheme for a lightning thrust.
to the ses at the Corridor NO JUSTIFICATION
port of Gdynia.
Memel, new German naval base and only port available to Lithuania.
Strategic Aland Islands, now neutralised. Finlands wants to fortify them as second Heligoland.
Stalin 'Canal, finished · 1934, links Russian Navy in White Sea and Baltic.
Short Boviot coastline ("Russia's window in Europe'') 'heavily fortified and a forbidden aren.
SPEECH IS IGNORED
There is absolutely no justification,
It is pointed out for Hitler's attack on Poland in his Relchstag speech.
Colonel Beck is expected to point
AIR-LINER DRAMA
Pilots Attacked By
Giant Panda
realm.
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The bill contains sateguards similar. to the Military Training Bill regard-, ing the reinstatement of persons call- ed up, and the penalties to be applied.
Reuter.
to employers for non-compliance-
.;
Text Of Bill
London, May 1 The text of the Conscription Bill, officially styled the Military Training Bill, shows that both the Admiralty and Air Force may: take a certain percentage of those called in,
The Admiralty is empowered to establish a special reserve to which selected men will be attached. There is no need for special powers for the air force, which already, possesses an Auxillary reserve.
The Bill provides that the King, by Jan Order in Council, may direct the bill to be applied to Northern Ireland, with any modifications and adapta Chinations as may-be-specified.
It is unlikely that such an order
PITTSBURGH; Pen., May 1. A GIANT PANDA from China made a savage attack on three will be issued, except in a special out to the Polish Parliament this flying officers aboard an air-liner emergency, or war.
that en route to the Bronx Zoo to-day resident" in Britain will come within.
Eire citizens who are "ordinarily
week that Hitler's arcuzailon
Poland broke the Non-Aggression
Pact between the two countries land all but caused the plane to the terms of the Bill, as, like citizens in other Dominions, they are mem- PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.
not in accordance with the facts. be wrecked.
The Anglo-Polish Agreement, Col.
Beck is
The 70-lb panda was being flown
emphasise, is not expected to an aggressive pact and contains no to the zoo, when it suddenly wander- clauses which would bring either of al into the control cabin at the end the signatories to the ass
assistance
of of its long chain and mauled the three the other in the event of aggression fight officers
by
the opposite number on Germany. The animat bit the First Officer, The Part is a defensive pact, designed M. S. Cashing, on the hand as he the T.W.A. air to guarantee the integrity of the attempted to land
liner at the Pittsburgh airport, and signatories borters •
The demonstrations in Germany only Cashing's coolness allowed the against Poland. are arousing, consi-machine to be grounded safely. derable anxiety in France, where 1 political circles are closely watching
Danzig.
Sharp Declaration
Meanwhile Captain Don Terry and Pilot Tommy Tomlinson struggled with the punda and eventually sub dued it.
Warsaw, May 1.
Pacified With Bamboo Newspapers close to the Polish
Dr. A, E, Best, of the West China Government to-day discussed the Union University, who was in charge possibility of Feland asserting herself of the pando, was unaware of the by a sharp declaration with regard to incident until the Jiner had been
They tiled Germany's annexation landed.
Couple Apart U.S. Wants Correct nig
the British Cabinet this morning, but guarantee made it perfectly clear that House Of Commons'
the decision of the Cabinet is not nothing has happened to change or to likely to be announced before pub- mitigate 11.—Reuter. lestion of a White Paper embodying
the Government's proposals for a settlement of the Palestine problem.
Orlont Not Included-
Questions
Reply To Note
He added that the German Foreign
LATEST
"Will Fight," Poland Warns Reich
New York, May 1. The Polish Ambasador · to-day salt that 'his Government · had nu-
'make ocurler demands,
Ho, asserted that there can be no
:
Reich Rewards Seyss-Inquart
compromise-United Press.
No British Hint
Rome, May 1. The Polish Embassy to-day issued a denial of the report published in the London newspapers that the British Government had sent a note to Warsaw intimating that the pact Man Who Sold. His recently concluded between England
..
of Czecho-Slovakia and suggested Then he fruitlessly sought for thorised a statement asserting that that, in view of Hitler's new policy plece of fresh bamboo with which to Poland will fight any Nazi attempt towards Poland, Poland must stiffen pacify, the animal..
to take Damig. WASHINGTON, May 1.
The panda “was placed on her policy towards Germany.
Foreign A Ife raid that the Polish MR. CORDELL HULL, This Is interpreted as meaning shortened chain to prevent further Minister will answer Witter's demands
before Secretary of
the LONDON, May 1.
State, to-day that they will refuse to accede to the peregrinations
plane is his speech in the Polish Parliament Well-informed quarters in London
London, May 1. MR. A. C. MORDING asked in indicated that the mere handing German demands for Danzig and the hopped off again. for Newark-United next Friday, and that Poland will
Corridor road, and also' that Poland | PreKS, 14... bellove that if the proposals are de- No attempt has been made by repled, the representatives of the either side to link up the Anglo- the House of Commons to-day of a copy of Herr Hitler's would be less liberal in any proposals Arab States will suggest to the Pale-Soviet talks with the Far East, writes what was the result of the en-Reichstag speech to the United for a compromise.-United Pren. stine Arab lenders that the campaign "Reuter's" diplomalle correspondent quiries into the complaint of a States Embassy would not be. of terrorism should immediately cease, The objectives throughout have Mrs. Sherwin, who had repented. considered as constituting", a and the British plan be accepted. been purely European.
British polley, it is explained, is to ly been refused permission by reply to President Roosevelt's It is believed that if this course is strengthen the forces against aggres- the Japanese to rejoin her peace message... followed, the Arabs would Imme-sion, and, to associate the Soviets husband in Hankow. diately ask to be allowed to assume a with this, while taking into account share in the administration of Pales-the views of other countries like Mr. R. A Butler replied that Mrs. Office sent a copy of the speech to the tine. and to be given responsible Poland and Rumonia, and at the same Sherwin had hitherto been refused a Embassy and then telephoned saying Government posts-Reuter,
time to deprive of substance, Gerpass by the Japanese authorities for that it was the reply to President many's allegation that her encircle-reasons which were not clear, and Roosevelt.
were being further. In- ment is either intended or desired, which
Mr. Cordell Hull also stated that Mr. Moreing then asked: "Is Mr. he expects to receive from Rumania Butler aware that one of the allegain the next few days a proposal for tions against Mr. Sherwin is that he the settlement of her war debts to London, May 1, is anti-Japanese, and is 'it'not a fact the United States-Reuter... Mr. Noville Chamberlain to-day that, in Hankow, Mr. Sherwin helped confirmed in the House of Commons to remove.bombs that the Chinese left Some anxiety is felt for the safety that the British, Government had re-behind to impede the Japanese, and of M. Gilbert Denis, the French celved certain proposals from the doesn't this show that the Japanese aviator, who is attempting a record-Soviet Government..
allegations are, groundless?"", breaking flight from Paris to Saigon.
French Airman Lost
On H.K. Flight?
H
Calcuita, May 1.
Reuter.
Commons Statement
vestigated.
and Poland did not found busted Country To Bondage
latter Government justified in refusing to discuss just and reason- able proposals by the German Gov- ernment.Trans-Ocean.
Poland Will Nót:
-"Negotiato
Paris, May 1. The Polish Government will, ac-
BERLIN, May 1.
See Back Pago: For
Further Late Nows
HERR HITLER has appointed F.B.I. Propaganda
Dr. Seyes-Inquart, the Governor
of Austria, to be a Reich Minis ter.
LONDON, May 19- The Federation of British In
to negotiate with Germany con will be assigned to Dr. Seyss-Inquart, best means of advancing news of (of:a: sub-desritton to consider the cerning Danzig, and the andtlic
Polish and political circies believe that they British iniustrial enterprise and Corridor..
prints will be in connection with the pro-
Flying Boat Crashcording to the "Parin Soir", decline It is announced that special duties dustries announce the appointment
At Mozambique The Premier added that in view of ⠀⠀ Mr. "Butler replied - that these
.
the difficulties, presented by the matters would be taken into con-| M. Denis took off from Karachi at negotiations, which necessitated consideration in the further investiga- 4.50 am, and is now, several hours sultation with other governments, he tions to which he had referred.---. overdue here--Reuter,
was not yet in a position to make a Reuter. : further antoment on the subject, but
-
The
paper states further that im jected reform of the Reich, achievement overness, London, May 1.mediately before the forthcoming The office of Governor of Austria: The sub-committes is to consider All mall and baggage aboard speech of the Polish Foreign Minister has, at the same time, cessed la exit, what part the Federation may lake. the Imperial Airways. Aying-bost in the Sejm, the Polish Ambassador and the eight; recently appointed in assisting the Government now Challenger, which crashed at Moram in Berlin will present a polo to the relations leaders in Austria under campaign on behalf of British indus- bique, while en route to Dar-es-Salem German Foreign Office in which the the provision of a new law, whi|trial propaganda overseas, and other, last and planned, after completing his tions would be pushed forward with "Tho" "m/... Marechal Toffee will from Durban has been recovered, ac- Polish Government will announce henceforth be placed under the direct natierat efforts designed to strengthen flight to Saigon, to continue to Tokyo, the greatest possible speed, Trans-lonyo Hongkong at 8 am, to-morrow cording to Information received by fis refusal to discuss the question control of the Reich Minister of the Britain's place in the world press,– yla Hongkong or Shanghal.
for Shangħal only,
Imperial Airways in London Reuter. Trans-Ocean.
Interior-Trans-Ocean,
Reuter
M. Denis left Paris on Saturday he assured the House that negotin-
Ocean