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JAPANESE

MENACES WING

Japanese Taierchwang Offensive Breaks Down

HITLER TALKS

WITH IL DUCE TO BE SECRET

Rome, To-day...

Authoritative quarters here are inclined to believe that the talks between Hitler and Mussolini will be conducted in all their details in a strictly confidential fashion.

In this case it is unlikely that the official communique 'dealing with the points of discussion will be issued at the conclusion of the Fuehrer's visit to Italy.

Consequently the big detach- ment of 143 Germans and 160 other foreign journalists will, off

devote necessity, be obliged to

Severe Fighting In EXTENSIVE AIR

West Shantung

Hankow, To-day.

The breach in the Japanese lines east of Taier-

The

EXPANSION BY FRANCE

PARIS, TO-DAY.

:

THE PRESS LAST NIGHT

L

chwang has imperilled the position of the Jap- THE AIR MINISTER, M. LA- anese forces in the Hsinlungshi sector, accord-CHAMBRE, ANNOUNCED TO ing to reports telephoned from Hsuchow this THAT AN EXTENSIVE AIR morning, stating that the Japanese offensive CONSTRUCTION PLAN HAD has broken down and that the Chinese troops INSTALMENT OF WHICH IS are now violently counter-attacking.

general advance in the Pihsien area is con- tinuing, although the Japanese are fighting desperate rearguard actions.

J

LEEN DRAWN UP, THE FIRST

DUE TO BE COMPLETED IN THE SPRING OF 1939.

If the air staff then considered

that the number of planes construct- ed was insufficient for the coun

try's needs, planes would be bought abroad.

M. Lachambre revealed that since had he became Air Minister he

000,000-francs-from-the-3,000,-

In the meantime, severe fight- onslaught failed completely and their reports to the accounts of the numerous military and other ing has broken out in West that the Chinese lines held firm.

Other reports state that given orders amounting to 1,600,- events, which figure so promin-Shantung, where Japanese me-

units launched an at-Liangsang, only fifteen · miles ently in the diary of the visit. chanised

tuck in the direction of King- from Peiping, was occupied by a |000,0000 francs, at his disposal. hsiang. It is claimed that the force of Chinese guerillas yester- He had decided to order

day. The Peiping-Hankow Rail-different prototypes of planes. in- way in that vicinity was torn up. Jstead of one, in order to facilitate

Our Own Correspondent. mass production. Reuter...

BERLIN-ROME AXIS

It is intimated in reliable quar-

this friendship ters that precisely at this mo-justification for ment when the Pact with Britain between Germany and Italy.

This friendship, it declares, is has been concluded and the pre- liminary conversations with Europe's only system of interna- France have been inaugurated, tional solidarity which has regis- Italy is intent on proving to Ger-tered positive and concrete results. most effec- many and to the rest of the world It is indisputably the that the policy of close German-tive system for achieving Euro- Italian co-operation remains un-pean appeasement.

KEYNOTE OF TALKS altered and that the two tries will continue in future to act This, in fact, supplies the key- in unison in handling, issues of note to the nature of the conversa- mutual concern,

tions which will be conducted be- "Popolo di Roma" finds his-tween Hitler and Mussolini and-be- torical, political and psychological (Continued on Page 24)

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