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GERMANY'S
AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
MILITARY
DISPLAY ON BORDER
Will Hitler Be Satisfied With Cabinet Re-Shuffle?
-POPE MAY INTERVENE
ON BOMBING
OF CIVILIANS
Paris, To-day. Negotiations are under way be- tween the French Government and the Holy See for mediation of the Pope at Barcelona and Sa- lamanca in order to prevent fur- ther bombing and shelling of "open" towns in Spain.
en
Some days ago,, the French Pre- mier announced that he had tak- the initiative in such action and had invited other nations to support the French suggestion.— Trans-Ocean.
DANGER TO SHIPPING OR ANOTHER BLUFF
Shanghai, To-day. Conditions
on the Yangtse are still fraught with danger to shipping. according to Japanese reports.
Yesterday, they
state,
twenty
Chinese junks, on board of which were Chinese irregulars, attacked Japanese ships near Kiangyin.
FOUR SWEEPING DEMANDS MADE AT BERCHESGADEN
Making Austria A Virtual Vassal
State
Vienna, To-day.
With troops along the Austrian border and Dr. Schuschnigg's capitulation, the question now is whether Germany will be satisfied with what has been done by Chancellor' Schuschnigg in reconstituting the Austrian Cabinet.
It
SURPRISE GUERILLA RAID ON PAOTING
Peiping, To-day. Strong detachments of Chinese irregulars equipped with artillery, launched a surprise attack on Paotingfu, on the Peiping-Hankow Rail- way.
The irregulars got to within 15
is pointed out that Herr Hitler made other sweep-kilometres of Paotingfu, but finally
ing demands at the Berchtesgaden meeting retreated into the hills. which Dr. Schuschnigg was compelled to reject because they would have made Austria virtual-terday to Peiping after a motor- ly a vassal state of Germany.
A foreigner who returned yes-
car tour to Taiyuan, capital of Shansi, said that on the road run-
Herr Hitler required Austria to have a pro- ning from Shichiachuang to Fao-
German foreign policy entirely depending the Reich,
on tingfu, parallel to the railway, he saw no signs of Chinese irregulars,
To join the Anti-Comintern Pact, To agree to military co-operation, and To abandon all thought of friendship with
Czecho-Slovakia,
It is believed that Dr. Schusch-|
The Japanese had to rush rein-nigg found less support than usual forcements to the spot before the in Italy, owing to Signor Musso- Chinese "fleet" was dispersed.
The presence of floating mines in the Yangtse is also reported by the Japanese.“
lini's preoccupation with Britain..
As an alternative 'concession - to Germany, Dr. Schuschnigg offered the Nazis a Cabinet reshuffle, and
Some quarters express sceptic-it was in fulfilment of this offer ism of these reports, considering that the Cabinet was reconstruct- they may be merely a pretext for led.--Reuter. forbidding British ships to steam up the Yangtse. Trans-Ocean.
ITALIAN PLANE
DISASTER
Rome, To-day.
VIENNA GATHERING
C
The Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, has invited
NEW
CONSIGNMENT
"OF
LADIES'
the leader of the Fatherland Front GOLF CLUBS
to meet him in Vienna, together with all members of the Cabinet.
The Austro-German develop-
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There is still no news of the IMPORTANCE
Italian commercial seaplane which left Cadiz and has not been heard of since.
OF CHANGE
Vienna, To-day.
It is now fairly certain that the machine crashed in the Mediter- Correspondents emphasise the ranean in the fearful storms rag- importance of the appointment of ing for the past few days, and that Dr. Guido Schmidt, who is describ- the fourteen passengers were alled as Germanophile, as
Minister.
killed,
Foreign
he has Foreign
Italian naval and air force units They point out that conducted an extensive tooth-comb hitherto been Assistant search for the missing craft with- Minister, while Dr. Schuschnigg out success. Trans-Ocean.
was Foreign Minister Reuter,
The road, he said, was. quite
heard safe, but he
sounds of
artillery fire further west, which confirms reports of irregular activity.—Trans-Ocean.
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