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Socialism In New

MEDIATION AND COOPERATION

Profits Tax! IN CHINA

London, To-day.

It is ironical that in the chorus of applause, or at least resignation,

Tokyo, To-day.

Japanese Protest

To S.M.C.

Tokyo, To-day. Another clash looms between the

Under sensational streamer lines, the "Tokyo Japanese Government and

the with which the generality of Mr. Nichi-Nichi" this morning announces that on Bri-Shanghai Municipal Council.

It concerns the transfer of tax- Neville Chamberlain's Budget pro-tain's initiative, negotiations will shortly be open-ation rights in the extension areas surprise (the Growth of Profits Tax) ed with the object of securing Anglo-Japanese Co- of Shanghai. is received in more kindly fashion operation in China and a solution of Sino-Japanese cil, by an agreement initialled on

relations.

posals were received, his one great

by the Opposition than by Govern- ment supporters, both in the lobbies and the press.

A definite minority of Ministeria- lists make no attempt to disguise their hostility, whereas Labour and Liberal members regard it as a 80-

would cialist proposal which vehemently denounced if it had been introduced by a Socialist Gov- ernment.

The Shanghai Municipal Coun-

April 13, transferred the rights to THE NEWSPAPER, ONE OF THE BEST INFORMED OF the Municipality of Greater Shang- THE JAPANESE DAILIES, DECLARES THAT BRITAIN RE- hai.

This was done without the pre- CENTLY NOTIFIED THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT INFORM-

of the Japanese ALLY OF ITS DESIRE TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONS BE-vious knowledge TWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN AND TO EFFECT ANGLO. Government, and it is now learned Office JAPANESE CO-OPERATION FOR REACHING AN ANGLO that the Japanese Foreign be

JAPANESE UNDERSTANDING IN CHINA.

has instructed the acting Consul- General in Shanghai to lodge pro- tests with T

the S. M. C. and the Municipality of Greater Shanghai. The action is described in Tokyo as an "extremely unfriendly move." The agreement transferring the taxation rights was initialled by Mr. Stirling Fessenden, Secretary- General of the Shanghai Municipal Council, and Mr. O. K. Yui, Secre- tary-General of the Municipality of Greater Shanghai.--Reuter.

As the result of the British initiative, diplomaticnegotia-

tions concerning Anglo-Japanese PAREE GOING co-operation in China are about to commence.

GAY AGAIN

The dissentients argue that it is most complicated, unjust and ar- bitrary and will inevitably tend to be passed on and thus increase prices.

negotiations, it is stated, is to The Opposition, however, is not secure the restoration of normal so large as to threaten retreat by enforcement of the Chinese Mari- the Chancellor, particularly as num- times Customs system on the basis erous Conservatives agree that the of the stabilisation of Sino-Japan- Government is entitled to ask: a ese relations. share of the profits its policy is

The primary object of the TONIGHT

MINISTERS CONFER

Paris, To-day.

creating, and also that the tax con- The "Nichi-Nichi" adds that for stitutes an insurance against in the purpose of discussing this ap- dustrial unrest arising from the be-proach, a Three-Minister Confer- lief that Britain's rearmament is ence was held in Tokyo yesterday fall revue theatres and cabarets are Ocean. accompanied by profiteering.

afternoon between the Foreign

The strike in Paris theatres and cinemas, which had threatened to curtail amusement possibilities in the capital, had largely fizzled out last night, only two large boulevard cinemas remaining closed.

still closed but it is announced that Except for the Folies Bergeres, they will reopen to-day.--Trans-

Running through the press. com-Secretary, the War Minister and the ments is sympathy for Mr. Cham-Minister of the Navy, berlain in that he has been depriv- The Foreign Minister is said to ed by an accident of history of the have emphasised during the dis- well-earned fruits of six years of cussion,

necessity also most successful finance.-Reuter. ameliorating Japano-Soviet rela.

tions.

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Small groups of Nazis appear-ter. ed on the streets shouting “Heil Hitler," and police took the names, of about fifty demonstra- tors. No arrests were made:

Swastika flags suddenly appeared in the early morning attached to chimney pots and other inaccessible places, and firemen who were called out to remove the emblems had great difficulty in their task.

Handfuls of tiny paper Swastikas: were also scattered in some of the busiest streets. Trans Ocean..

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