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Balkan Pact Sharp German Note ITALY

Signatories Confer

Bucharest, To-day. Latest diplomatic activity in Europe is a meeting of the signatories of the Balkan Pact in Bucharest.

The countries-Greece, Turkey, Rumania and Yugo-Slavia-will be represented by. their respective For- eign Ministers, who will gather for a conference in the Rumanian capital The meeting has been render-

on May 10.

To Vatican

WILL NOT PERMIT CLERGY TO ACT AS SPECIAL CASTE

(SPECIAL TO THE “CHINA MAIL”)

Berlin, To-day.

The German Government's objection to any interference in the Reich's domestic affairs is the main point made in a Note handed to the Vatican by the German Ambassador yesterday.

ACCEPTS CONTROL PLAN

ROME, TO-DAY.

THE NON-INTERVENTION PLAN AND INCREASE IN AIR FORCE EXPENDITURE WERE TWO OF THE ITEMS DISCUSS- ED BY A MEETING OF THE

FASCIST GRAND YESTERDAY.

Pres

COUNCIL

Presided over by Signor Musso- lini, the Council adopted a 'decree THE: NOTE IS IN REPLY TO THE RECENT PAPAL EN-accepting the provisions of the plan for CYCLICAL, WHICH CHARGED GERMANY WITH VIOLATION London non-intervention OF THE CONCORDAT SIGNED BETWEEN BERLIN AND Spain.

ed essential, says a semi-official communique, by recent develop- ments, especially, the Italo-Yugo- Slav Pact and the present nego- | VATICAN. tiations between Yugo-Slavia and Turkey.

A Mediterranean agreement, be- tween Yugo-Slavia, Turkey and Greece on one hand, and Italy on the other, will be discussed, says the communique.

It is also announced that the

The decree forbids the trans- "THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT IS SURPRISED," STATES THE NOTE, "THAT THE VATICAN SHOULD NOT ONLY IN-Port of volunteers to Spain and the TERFERE IN GERMANY'S DOMESTIC AFFAIRS BUT SHOULD export of war material on Italian ALSO INVOKE WORLD CONSCIENCE IN ORDER, AS IT WERE, vessels to Spain and Spanish co- TO CREATE A COMMON FRONT AGAINST THE REICH."

Council also appropriated The Vatican is also applying the sum of 100,000,000 lire for con- standards applicable to democra-struction of a new aerodrome at tic and parliamentary States, Genoa, and the sum of 40,000,000 when it attacks the Reich, and lire for laying a direct cable be- does not seem to realise that the tween Sicily and the mainland. Reich has abandoned liberalistic Trans-Ocean. conceptions.

Polish Foreign Minister, Colonel FRONTIER

Joseph Beck, will visit Bucharest on June 6. Trans-Ocean,

CHURCH INQUIRY

IN SPAIN

Studying "Religious

Persecution

Gibraltar, To-day. The group of English Churchmen, who under the leadership of the Dean of Canterbury, Dr. Johnson, have been visiting various cities in Republican Spain to investigate re- ports of religious persecution, left Madrid yesterday for Valencia.

While in Madrid they held long conferences with General Miaja, the Republican commander-in-chief.

They will sail from Valencia for England-Trans-Ocean.

CORPS IN ITALY

Rome, To-day. Further Italian military precau- tions are seen in the decision arriv- ed at by the Grand Fascist Council yesterday for formation of a special "frontier corps."

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The new corps, says the "Tri- buna," will function separately from the regular Army. Trans- Ocean.

ITALY AND SUGAR CONFERENCE

No Political Motive In Non-Attendance

London, To-day. No political motives lie behind Italy's non-attendance at the Inter-

GRAF ZEPPELIN IN national Sugar Conference.

AIR AGAIN

Her First Flight This Year To S. America

Friedrichshafen, To-day.

So declared the Lord President of the Council, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, who is alsó Chairman of the Coun-

cil, in the House of Commons yes-

terday.

Italy is not an exporter of sugar, he added, and so could have no pos-

The giant airship Graf Zeppelin sible interest in the conference. took off shortly after 8 o'clock yes-Trans-Ocean.

terday evening on the first of this year's flights to South America.

The Zeppelin carried 21 passen- gera and large quantities of mail.

Trans-Ocean

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Local Weather Forecast

The Royal Observatory report that the anti-cyclone remains un- changed over the Pacific to the east of Japan; weak anti-cyclone has developed over the Yangtse Valley |and a depression is moving east-

ward

Manchuria. over South shallow depression.covers Indo- shia.

Forecast:

inds, moderate: cloudy with mist, fog or light rain.

"Only one-third of the popu- lation of Germany belongs to the Roman Catholic Church," says the Note.

Germany has no intention of abolishing Roman Catholicism but on the contrary has granted many concessions to religion. Germany does not permit the Church to constitute

a "State" within a State" or that clergy should function as a “special caste outside the jurisdiction of State."--Trans-Ocean,

the

French Statement

Paris, To-day.

An official denial of the charges that France has broken the non- intervention agreement in. Spain is made in a communique issued by the Foreign Office.

A special meeting of the Cabinet to discuss will be held. to-morro the allegations, it is stated.

Trans-Océan,

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