THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 21, 1988
JAPAN'S INSISTENCE ON WHANGPOO CONTROL
London, To-day.
In the Commons, Mr. Haslam asked for the result of the negotiations between the Consular Body in Shanghai and the Japanese authorities. for the resumption of dredging by the Whampoa Conservancy Board and for the return of their vessels still detained.
He enquired if there were any surplus dredgers now available at Singapore which could be loaned for this service.
Mr. Butler replied that accord- ing to the latest information, nego-| tiations in the matter still con- tinue.
ANGLO-GERMAN DEBTS
NEGOTIATIONS
London, To-day.
The Japanese require that the Conservancy Works should still be carried on under Japanese Naval, and Military control and that other Anglo-German negotiations for important members of the per- the settlement of the Austrian sonnel shall be nominated by the debts problem, have made more Japanese authorities.
favourable progress during the week-end, according to informed quarters here which declare that Britain as well as Germany, in- timated their willingness make concesions so that a set- tlement acceptable to both par- ties may be reached in the course of the present week.
In these circumstances there are obvious objections to the proposal to lend dredgers from Singapore.
Reuter,
BRITISH SHIPS HIT IN AIR RAID
to
the advis- settlement
It is asserted that ability of reaching, a with Germany was stressed above all by the British Fisheries Indus- try which pointed out that last year Germany purchased no less than 33 per cent. of the total haul of the British herring fleet under the terms of the Anglo-German Agreement of 1934, although Ger- The British steamer, Thorpe Bay, many is in a position to fully was damaged by a bomb in a Na-satisfy herself for her own require- tionalist air raid on Barcelona, ac-ments.
Barcelona, To-day..
cording to a communique which adds A favourable turn in the Anglo- that there is intense insurgent pres-German negotiations is indicated sure on all sectors of the Levant by an announcement in the press front, but the Republicans are that a delegation of German finan- standing firm.-Reuter.
'cial experts will, at the British Government's request, leave Berlin for London in order to take part in the discussions..
.
Forty bombs were dropped yes- terday in Barcelona harbour, with the result that two British ships and one American ship were slight-acterised by the "Times," which The present position is char- ly damaged by bomb-splinters.
England, desires to avoid the ex- writes that Germany, no less than change clearing system in the in- terest of commercial relations be- Ocean. tween the two countries. Trans-
In the same dispatch it is re- ported that 177 British subjects are at the present being held by General Franco as prisoners of war.
The British Government hopes that arrangements may be made for their release in the near future.-- Reuter.
JAPAN'S "DOPE" OFFENSIVE IN CHINA
SEVERAL EXPERTS
London, To-day.
A number of German financial experts are arriving in London to- day to resume negotiations on the questions arising out of the Aus- trian debts, begun in Berlin in May.
Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, chief Economic Advisor to the United Kingdom Government, was the principal British representative.
Chengchow, To-day.
Negotiations were adjourned at With operations in Honan halted Whitsuntide, but since then there by the great flood, the Japanese had been an exchange of Notes be Command is transferring Japanese tween the two Governments. troops from the Lunghai front to, A preliminary meeting between Anhwel to assist in the attempted Sir Frederick Leith-Ross and other land and upriver drive to Hankow. Treasury officials and the German Japanese troops movements on the experts will take place on Wednes- eastern section of the Lunghai Rail-day. way and the Tientsin-Pukow Rail-ast week, falling a settlement, the As announced in the Commons way south of Hsuchow have been British Government are in
na posi Some 10,000 troops of the formeran Payments Agreement, without tion, to denounce, the Anglo-Ger Itagaki Division massed at Hsu-
notice any after June 30. chow are awaiting transportation.
British. Wireless. Small units remain to garrison-ím-| portant towns
extensive.
Swatow, To-day.
Large quantities of military sup plies are also being transported and Nine Japanese warships are an 200 tanks have been sent down the chored off Namao and the south Tientsin-Pukow Railway. Central (harbour of Chadyang,
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