1938-07-19 — Page 24

M. BONNET HAS COMMENT ON BUSY DAY PRIOR MANCHUKUO TO ROYAL VISIT BORDER AFFAIR

Paris, To-day.

Unless. Germany and Italy Foreign Minister, M. Bonnet will leave Paris for Boulgone this create a storm in Europe, Japan morning, accompanied by the Bri will probably not venture armed tish Ambassador, Sir Eric conflict with a third country now Phipps, and the Military and Na- that she is fully occupied with

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val Air Attaches of the British the Sino-Japanese hostilities, STOP PRESS

Embassy, to welcome the King opines the local “Shun Pao" in and Queen of England on their an editorial to-day commenting on the latest "Soviet-Manchu- arrival in France.

M. Bonnet, who will have but kuo" border incident. little time for the routine matters The incident, the journal pre- during the visit of the Royal Pair, dicts, will remain an unsettled spent an extremely busy afternoon yesterday.

After exchanging with the Tur- kish Ambassador letters relating to the Turkish debts settlement, he received the Czech Minister and discussed with the latter the latest developments in the Czech question.

issue just as has the French oc- cupation of the Paracel Islands.

The paper sees in Soviet's latest move, a blow to Japan's plan for future military operations against Vladisvotok on land. The area under dispute is strategical- ly situated.

U.S. CURRENCY TALKS Later in the afternoon, M. The "Lih Pao" and the "Wah .Bonnet had another conference with Kiu Yat Po," on the other hand, the American Ambassador, discuss-both hold the view that the "in- ing, it is believed various matters (cident" is merely another Japan- connected with the preparation of ese move to divert the attention the negotiations on the currency of her people to a foreign issue question which will begin when as anti-war sentiment at home the United States Secretary of has reached an uncontrollable the Treasury, Mr. Morgenthau, ar- height. Central: News. rives in Paris.

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M. Bonnet, whose first important conference with Lord Halifax is ate on the basis on which he proposes scheduled to take place on Wednes-to conduct the negotiations

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day, moreover, received the Presi- the British Foreign Secretary. dents of the Chamber and the Sen-Trans-Ocean..

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Twenty-seven Japanese bombers and pursuit planes raided Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang this morn- ing. The alarm was sounded at thehen mine Japanese 8.30a.m.

bombers were sighted over · Wu- chang on their way to Hankow. Six of them heavily bombed Han- yang, where a huge fire is raging and the other turned turned to the east over Wuchang.

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Shortly afterwards, eighteen Ja- panese bombers in two flights came from the same direction heading straight for the Hankow drome which they bombed, but the missiles landed at the eastern end of the aerodrome.

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- Chinese pursuit planes engaged the Japanese pur- suit planes in fierce dogfights above Hankow. They were so low that machine-gun fire was clearly au- dible. Reuter,

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FORCES BEING RUSHED TO MANCHUKUO BORDER

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ritory near Changkufeng, which has recently occupied by Soviet soldier, belongs to Russia.

On the basis of the Treaty of 1886, in which the frontier between Manchukuo and Russia is deter- declares

mined, the Fore but

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that the territory now held by the Russian troops belongs to Manchu- kuo

|* The Japanese, Ambassador to Soviet Russia, Shigemitsu, has re- turned to Moscow from a European tour, to conduct the negotiations in connection with the frontier inci- dent in Manchukuo.

The Japanese Government, in the meantime, made a renewed protest in Moscow, rejecting the assertion of Deputy Foreign Commission that Changkufeng is Russian terri- tory.

The Soviet Russian Consul Gen- eral in Harbin has been recalled to

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