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Spokesman's Version Of Imperial Airways Incident 2 MONOPLANES OVER JAPANESE ANCHORAGE

Britain

Not Ready To Grant Parity To Italy

CHASED UNTIL

IDENTITY OF

IDENTIFIED AS BRITISH TERROR VICTIMS

Shanghai, To-day.

The mystery

Shanghai,“ Toxay of the human head

Shang- hai recently, with notices affix

found at various places in announcing that the heads belonged to men who "were executed because of their anti-Japanese

LONDON, TO-DAY, COMMENTING ON LORD Questioned regarding the alleged attack on the ESTABLISHED HALIFAX'S CONSULTATIONS WITH LORD PERTH BRITISH Imperial Airways plane, Delphinus, south of AMBASSADOR IN ROME, THE Hong Kong, the Japanese naval spokesman, at "EVENING. NEWS", SAYS

a press conference this morning, declared that THAT BRITAIN IS NOT PRE- PARED TO CONCEDE ΤΟ

he had no information and knew nothing about ITALY NAVAL PARITY IN any incident concerning the Imperial Airways. THE MEDITERRANEAN, SINCE IN VIEW OF HER EXHe said, however, that on February 21, the day of the alleged attack, a strange plane appeared over the Japanese naval anchorage a consider- able distance from Hong Kong at a height of about 3,500 metres (between 11,000 and 12,000 feet) which was identified as a twin-engined monoplane.

TENSIVE IMPERIAL INTER- ESTS, BRITAIN · MUST MAIN- TAIN A STRONGER FLEET IN THE MEDITERRANEAN THAN ITALY.

With reference to the Abyssinian question, the paper declares that Britain and France are now willing

activit

is now apparently partially solved. The director of the Refuges Re-

lief Camp in Shanghai declared tain that three of the five heads yesterday that he was virtually cer-

found are the heads of former in-

mates of the camp who left to work in Nantao.

Although the identity of some of

He declared that Japanese abandon the practice. to recognise the Italian conquest if planes pursued the machine to- The British authorities replied | the question is settled by thewards Hong Kong until they that these were passenger the decapitated men thus appears League of Nations, and all Italian perceived the British insignia. planes. The spokesman added to be established the police have volunteers are withdrawn from On the same day, another that this was the first time that not yet found the slightest clue monoplane was sighted over the British planes had appeared that might lead to discovery of the anchorage which was also chased over the Japanese naval anchor-terrorists who committed the until it was discovered to be Bri- age. Reuter.

Spain.

COLONIAL DEMANDS

tish.

The paper moreover asserts that negotiations have been go ing on for some time between Britain and France regarding the question of Germany's colonial demands, and that the British the fact that such flights were Government also has already en-"potential causes of friction," tered into consultation with the and requested the British to Dominion Governments regarding this problem.

PROTEST TO HONG KONG

The Japanese authorities drew NEW attention of the British naval

authorities on February 22 to CONSIGNMENT

These consultatious, however, have not yet been concluded, so that it is unlikely that a thorough examination of Germany's colonial demands will be possible. in the course of diplomatic parleys which will take place during the visit to London of the German · Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop. Trans-Ocean.

LONDON NAVAL TALKS

Tokyo, To-day, Domei's London: correspondent telegraphed this morning a state- ment by one of the American re- presentatives in the three-Power Offi

CLOUDY WEATHER val talks, declaring that no

The Royal Observator repo that the anticyclone has move

to the Pacific to the east of

in-

and another is probably developing

over Mongolia. A shallow

sion covers Manchuria

cial conference was contemplated at the present time.

The talks beginning to-day are unofficial in character, the experts of the three countries meeting for au exchange of views,

Any conclusions reached will be submitted to their respective govern.

Local forecast —E. winds, mo- ments for approval. Our Own Cor-

derate; cloudy.

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