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JAPANESE CLAIM

PROGRESS

IN IN SOUTH

Admit Guerillas Are Imperilling Communication

·MANILA

DRIVE

AGAINST ALIENS

Manila, To-day. The Secretary of Labour has ordered the arrest and possible deportation of 7,000 Chinese and 4,000 other aliens who have over- stayed their permit to reside in' the Philippines.

It is also indicated that action may be taken to stamp out irre- gularities resulting from the re- cent influx of immigrants due to the Sino-Japanese war.-Reuter.

ANGLO-U.S. FRONT AGAINST TOTALITARIAN STATES

Chinese Aiming For Another Taierchwang?

Shanghai, To-day.

The Japanese official spokesman this morning claimed that the attack in the Hwai River re- gion was meeting with success, and that the Japanese troops have now firmly established themselves on the north bank.

SECRET LEAGUE DISCUSSION

Geneva, To-day.

A secret session of the League Council in which ques- tions of procedure connected with the Abyssinia problem were dis- cussed, lasted two and one half

hours.

It appears that difficulties have arisen and that the problem was by no means settled. The public ses-

sion for the discussion of China's

appeal to the League will take place

at 11 o'clock on Tuesday morning.

At five o'clock on Tuesday after- noon, Lord Halifax will probably make a statement on the Anglo-

It appears to be confirmed that

comes

It is admitted, however, that the operations in Italian agreement.

south Shantung have been brought to a halt, the chief opposition to the recogni- and a further admission made was that Chin-tion of the Italian Empire ese guerillas are still harassing Pengpu, on the from Senor Del Vayo and that the southern section of the Tientsin-Pukow Rail-Chinese are likewise opposed to recognition, "because recognition would set a dangerous precedent way.

and would compromise the League Communications at this point, peating the Taierchwang coup in in a serious manner.”

The British delegation, however, were cut-last night and again the south. this morning within half an hour Reports from Hankow indicate still displays considerable optimism Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt has des- of repairs having been affected. that Chinese troops from Luchow and expresses the conviction

The Chinese campaign on the are moving eastwards against Lord Halifax will leave Geneva with

free hand for recognition. patched a striking message to the

the T.P.R.just north of Pukow. a southern sector appears to pro-

Trans-Océan. Jewish Convention.

The President declares: "Ex-vide for increasing pressure by preventing supplies cept in so far as we deplore the guerillas, ill-treatment of human beings, from reaching the forces which the domestic policies of other have now extended their lines of to Mengchen, countries are of no concern to the communication

with the object eventually of re- United States.

in- "When, however, alien fluences seek to undermine the foundations of our own institu- tions, we become definitely con- cerned."

Sigmund Livingston, a Chica- go lawyer, speaking at. the Con- vention, accused Nazi Germany of spreading anti-Jewish propa- ganda in the United States 'in an attempt to undermine democracy.

CHINESE NOTE TO LEAGUE

Mr. Bankhead, Speaker of the House of Representatives, stated that the United States, Britain, Ireland and other democratic representative Powers constituted a "Body of public opinion invulnerable in their might against the assaults of any or all of the totalitarian States." Reuter.

CHUNG HWA DISPUTE SETTLED

Geneva, To-day.

Dr. Wellington Koo, the Chinese Ambassador in Paris and Chinese on the League Council has addressed a note. tu oseph Avenol, the General Secre- ary of the League in which it is sserted that the Japanese forces in the Shantung front had resort- ed to the use of poison gas on several occasions.

In the note, Dr. Koo further said that he has come into the posses- sion of an information to the effect that the Japanese are making pre- been parations for a more intensive em- Book ployment of poison gas

em-desperate effort to turn the for- ployees returned to work this morn- tunes of war in their favour"-

A settlement has finally reached in the Chung Hwa Company dispute and all the

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