NETHERLANDS AMAPANESETEH
an
NAVAL
MODERNISING TAUNCHES DEFENCES
The Hague, Saturday. Defences along the Netherlands frontiers will be completed by April 1 next year, according to an official Government statement
Osaka, Yesterday.
Four new ships, for the Jap anese Navy have been launched this week, including an aircraft- carrier, Kyuki, a seaplane carrier (from the Kare yard), and two first-class destroyers-Out, Own Correspondent
during the budget debate on the KING LEOPOLD'S
war estimates to-day.
The frontier defences, it was revealed, would consist largely
APPEAL TO
of casement batteries, at GREAT BRITAIN
the
bridgeheads of large rivers, and equipment of these casements with the requisite guns.
London, Saturday. Emphasis on the intimate and friendly relations between Belgian and Britam is paid by the Daily Telegraph this morning in a lead- UNDERGROUND HANGARS ing article on the visit to London
of the King of the Belgians.
It was also arounced that the decentralisation of military aerodromes had engaged the close attention of the Govern
ment:
Installation of subterranean aeroplane hangars had, in most cases, proved impractica ble, owing to the nature of the
SOT:
Moreover, the Government had decided against building hangars of concrete.
As for equipment of the army, it was declared that with the purchase of equipment for tanks and armoured cars, envis aged in the budget, mechanisa tion of the army would be ac complished Trans-Ocean
The appeal to the British people made by King Leopold in his two public speeches to re- member its responsibility to the world, went far beyond the limits of utterances customary on such occasions.
The appeal was all the more remarkable because it came from the monarch of a country whose Prime Minister was en- trusted by Britain and France with the weighty task of an economic mission, and who had himself succeeded in giving his country a new independent sta tus.
SOVIET INTEREST Journal, shows that Belgium will
IN SPAIN WANES
Milan, Saturday.
That the Soviet Governmen has informed the Republicar Spanish Government that, with the Japanese threat at home, Moscow can no longer supply Spain with munitions, is the report appearing in Popolo d'Italia" to-day.
This means, says the paper, that Soviet interest in the Spanish con- flict is waning, and that assistance in volunteers and supplies will now cease- Trans-Ocean.
King Leopold's visit, says the
continue to work with other na tions for world progress. Trans-Ocean.”
HUNGARY AND GERMANY
Bucharest, Saturday. The Hungarian Prime Minister, Dr. Kalman Daranyi, and the For- eign Minister, Dr. Koloman de Kanya, are visiting Germany, ac- cording to an official statement.
The statement adds that this 15 fresh proof of the friendship be tween Hungary and Germany Reuter
1STAR
TO-DAY ONLY
QUE
THE
LAST TWO DAYS
GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION.
ON THE SCREEN
SHO WOW
OF
SHUWS!
WINGHEL
BERNIE ALICE FAYE!
WEDNESDAY.
"A Paramount
Picture
ON THE STAGE
CIRCLE
OF
DEATH
Before
Very
With
Moto
Jack Benny in
"ARTISTS AND MODELS
ORIENTAL
2MORE TO-DAY TO-MORROW
A CLEVER - COMEDY WITH AN ALL STAR CAST:
You'l
U'S DIZZY
JEAN
DAFFY
ARTHUR
EDWARD
ARNOLD
EXTRA
and
RDINARY ADDED FEATURE! PARAMOUNTS SENSATIONAL NEWS REEL
BOMBING OF NANKING
TOUNDING THRILL SHOTS OF CHINA JAPAN WAR !
GARY COOPER
JEAN ARTHUR
Cecil B. De Milles
THE PLAINSMAN
TO
Kay Francis in "STOLEN HOLIDAY
With Claude Rains
THUR
© MARTINET,
THINGS TO COME"
IL G. Well's mighty spectacle of the future,
VR
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.