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Report Now Believed To Be Without Foundation

NEW REICH Height Of Crisis

NOTE TO VATICAN

Passing

Rome, To-day. Honour Satisfied Appears To

Be German Attitude

CHINA

WORRIED IN FALL OF HAYASHI

SHANGHAI, TO-DAY.

THE RESIGNATION OF THE HAYASHI GOVERNMENT UN- THE PRESSURES OF THE JAPANESE MILITARY CHIEFS, IS MADE THE FEA TURE OF THE CHINESE

Germany calls the Va- tican to account in a new

It is believed now that earlier reports of the Note which was handed

bombardment of Cartagena, in addition to Almeira, DER to the Holy See on Satur-are without foundation. No confirmation has been day.

received from any source and there is a complete According to reliable informa- absence of information of casualties or damage. tion, the new Note-accuses the Grave as the situation remains, belief is grow Vatican of jeopardising relations between Germany and the Holy ing that the height of the crisis for the present is NEWSPAPERS TO DAY. See as result of the attitude passed, and that Germany, having carried out a Reports from Tokyo, inter adopted in the case of Cardinal single act of reprisal and proclaimed liberty of ac-preting the political trend in Mundelein, following the latter's

Farded as reactionary at “insulting" remarks concerning tion, will take no further drastic steps unless there Japan, which is generally the German people and their occurs a further incident interpreted as provoca- considerably

than the Deutschland

leader.

The Note says, according to well- informed quarters here, that the

tion.

Germa

Almeira and

Valencia re-asserts that the Deutschland open- and the subsequent

bombardment. German Government had expected ed fire on Government planes before she was bomb-other developments in the Span

ed.

and

the that

ish situation.

that the Vatican would have sought to handle the matter so that no

Chinese opinion is that the COMMUNISM ACCUSED damage might have resulted to the

GERMAN. TENSION EASES

The German papers discuss why signation of General Hayashi bodes relationship between Church

Berlin, To-day. State. In other words,

The tremendous tension that pre-Germany has withdrawn from the no good to China,

General Hayashi is considered to Vatican would have disassociated vailed in Germany at the first an-Non-Intervention control, and two itself from the utterances of Car-nouncement of the Deutschland in- reasons are put forward (1) Bol- have been too vacillating to enforce dinal Mundelein, and following incident" has been greatly lessened at shevism has a hand in the matter, a "strong China policy," but the Бе ternational usages, expressed its re- the measures of reprisal taken by standing discreetly behind the new government is expected to grets.

the German authorities with such "legitimate" Valencia Government, firmer to the impairment, of Sino- lightning-like effect.

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concurs

"TIT FOR TAT” Instead of doing so, the Note goes The man in the street on,

the Vatican left the representa with political quarters in regarding tions that had been made by the the situation as grave. Although German Ambassador unanswered, highly enraged at first, he has whilst remarking that the Cardinal hoisted the flag with its drapery of had merely given "tit for tat." mourning, because he bewails the The German Government is, there-loss of life that has been caused. fore, obliged to come to the conclu- But the man in the street is at one sion that the Holy See not only fail-with political circles here in believ- ed to reprimand the person guilty of these public attacks, made on the Head of the German State; but even condoned them. The Vatican, the Note concludes, must realise that so long as these things are not re- medied, its unexpected attitude will serve to eliminate all prerequisites for a normal development of rela-ing that, the German counterblow tions between the German Govern- having been struck with ruthless ment and the Vatican.

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OTHER EVENTS IN DEUTSCHLAND INCIDENT

IN PAGES 2, 6 & 7.

Trans-energy in an action, which it is of-

OVER THE ALPS BY GLIDER

Berlin, To-day. Six German glider aeroplanes ssfully crossed the Alps" inst Sunday, They started, from Salz- burg and landed safely near, Udine. One of the gliders was piloted by the woman air captain. Fraulein Reitoch Trans-Ocean.

ficially stated, is now concluded, it is unlikely that the situation will become more gravo, šeoing that the Valencia Government must now be convinced of Germany's firm rosolu- tion.::

The “Berliner Lokal Anzei- ger" says that the atmosphere that spread over Europe like the menace of a storm, will be cleared up by the energetic and speedy action of reprisal taken by the German authorities!

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