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INCREASING ANXIETY

Paris, To-day.

Possible developments in South China are be- ing followed with increasing anxiety in the French newspapers, and the phrase "The Yellow Peril" has been revived.

The phrase appears as the heading on a stiff at- tack on Japan in "Intransigeant," which raises the question as to whether the present war in the Far East will not bring France one day face to face with catastrophe.

Britain, it says, is adopting pre cautionary measures in view of the fact that the Japanese armies are now "only some 95 miles away from Hong Kong," while the Japanese navy, has approached "even nearer."

It may happen, says the paper, that there will come a day when the French possessions in Indo- China are threatened, which would be the case if, for instance, Japan- ese troops were landed on Hainan Island.

One has made a habit of speaking of The Yellow Peril in the future tense, the journal declares, but events are showing that it belongs to the present moment. Trans-Ocean.

STRENGTHENING NAVAL FORCE

London, To-day. Amplifying previous reports re- garding consideration of strength- Jening British forces in the Far East, the diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph says this morning that the exchange of views between London, Washington and Paris. is constant.

Hitherto, there has been no indi cation from Washington that if Br tain reinforced her, naval strength in the Far East, the United States

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Istres, To-day.

The airwoman, Maryse Hilsz, took off at 230 (G.M.T.) yesterday afternoon for Basrah in an at- tempt to beat the women's long- distance record established by the late Amelia Earhart, with a flight of 2,462 miles.

Mlle Hilsz is flying a Candron- Simon plane with a 220-HP. Ren- ault engine given her by the Air Ministry for the attempt Reuter.

YELLOW RIVER.. BARRAGE

Tsmanfu, Yesterday. Chinese and Japanese artillery batteries are still exchanging fire across the Yellow River, but no sustained attempt to cross to the south bank has yet been launched by the Japanese troops.

city, business being almost at a The town is virtually a ghost

standstill, while most of the re-

would take similar action.

Anglo-French discussion has been merely preliminary and tenta-sidents have evacuated...

|tive.

No positive point can be reached unless and until Britain decides that reinforcement has become es- sential.

BRITISH CONSIDERATIONS

In considering her position, Bri- tain will estimate the strength of Chinese resistance and the situa tion of the Japanese army if it presses into the interior.

The Government is also consider- ing how far Japanese policy is die- tated by the military and naval commanders, and the strength of moderate opinion among Tokyo in- dustrialists, traders and economists.

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PRES. HOOVER BREAKING UP

Weakened

Tokyo, To-day

by the battering she has received from

heavy

seas, the giant luxury Imer "President Hoover,

Hotshoto

It is believed in military cir- Fcles here that the Japanese, op- posite the city, will not at- tempt to cross the River until the troops operating on the Pei- ping-Hankow Line reach the Yellow River in that area. Our Own Correspondent.

SAITO BROADCAST

Washington, To-day, While the State-Department formal Note

is expecting

guaranteeing the safety

Americans in China, Mr. the Japanese Am broadcast a

from vo last

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