1938-01-26 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 26, 1938.

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NAVY AND ARMY EXPANSION IN UNITED STATESFORESHADOWED President Roosevelt Calls National Defence Parley Special Message To Congress In A Few Days

Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt held a conference yesterday afternoon with members of the House of Re- presentatives naval and military appropria- tions committees, which has given rise to re- ports that the President is considering broad- ening of the naval building programme as well as expansion of the army.

Mr. Andrew J. May, member of the House military committee, earlier had stated: "The whole de- fence lay-out will be under discussion.”

Mr. Fred M. Vinson, of the naval committee, said he expected the Congress Message to

President's would embrace the entire national defence.

After the conference, leaders stated that President Roosevelt was send- ing a special Message to Congress in a few days dealing in broad phrases with national defence.

Mr. May declared that the con- all sections of férence considered

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Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt stated at press conference yesterday that his defence Message to Congress would be ready on Thursday or Friday.

Representative Taylor, chairman of the House appropriations mittee, said the Message would not be startling but added: "The Unit- ed States is getting ready to de- fend itself."

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Mr. Taylor stated that the con- ference with President Roosevelt de- was characterised "by general termination to brace up our pre- paredness."-Reuter.

BARCELONA AGAIN BOMBED

Barcelona, To-day.

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Barcelona was again bombed yes- terday morning when twelve surgent planes dropped thirty bombs in the central and southern part of the city, killing 30 and wounding over 50.

The attack lasted a couple minutes, and the inhabitants

SWEDEN AID FOR WAR VICTIMS

Stockholm, To-day.

A meeting presided over by Sven Hedin, the veteran Swedish explorer, yesterday decided to is- sue a nationwide appeal for funds for necessities and medical stores for Chinese war victims. Reuter.

RADIO WAR IN ARABIC BROADCASTS

London, To-day.

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The British Broadcasting Corpor- ation's Arabic broadcasts are being continually interfered with by "mysterious foreign station" which apparently is systematically endea- vouring to prevent reception of the British broadcasts, according to the "Daily Mail."

The paper asserts that the for- eign station's interference is on the that used by the game wave as

in as B.B.C. and inváriably sets soon as the British broadcasts be-

of the British service practically gin, thus rendering clear reception impossible.

The paper goes on to refer to the "significant fact" that at the time of the Arabic transmissions, broad- had casts of the Italian official wireless

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hardly time to seek cover, so sud-service exactly coincide with that of the of the British broadcast-Trans- den was the appearance

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Ocean.

Another Hankow Refugee Train For Kikunshan Residents

Hankow, To-day

Efforts are being made to arrange another refugee train to leave for the south in the first week of February.

The train will carry some seventy inhabitants, mostly mission- aries of Kikunshan, the popular, mountain resort 125 miles up the Peiping-Hankow Railway from Hankow.

The railway authorities are trying to allocate three coaches,

which are all that are available at present.

An enquiry was received in Hankow yesterday evening from Ichang asking accommodation in this train for an unstated number of persons desiring to evacuate the river port. Reuter.

Harry MacDonald,, a young carpenter from the North, has come down to Woolmer Green, Herts, to create a new industry. He makes all kinds of grotesque figures out of tree trunks, etc. for decorating gardens. Harry great attraction, is making quite a success of this new venture, which is especially to travellers who stop on the road to gaze at these interesting objects. Photo shows Mr. MacDonald with some of his novel fustic' work A hunter and a stag. (Copyright)..

ECONOMIC LEAGUE OF NATIONS

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London, To-day.

Economic The plan of League of Nations" to include the United States is disclosed in the "Evening Standard” in connection with the forthcoming meeting of the League Council in Geneva.

FROM ROME TO RIO

Rome, To-day.

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Actual flying time of the Italian planes from Rome to de Janeiro, where they arrived yes- terday, was 39 hours 85 minutes.

One of the planes was piloted by Bruno Mussolini, son of the Duce-

The "Economic League of Na-Reuter. tions,” the paper suggests, should assemble once a year but not which, however, would be charged at Geneva and would be entirely with taking preliminary steps for

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