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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

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JAPANESE ADMIT

ADVANCE

·HALF A MILLION SANDBAGS

An Interesting item is included in votes to be submitted to the Finance Committee of Legislative Council to-morrow.

It is proposed to purchase im- mediately 500,000 sandbags at a cost of $89,750. The bags are ex- pected to last for 20 years if pro- perly stored..

ADMIRAL LORD CHATFIELD FOR CABINET ?

London, To-day.

HAS BEEN

SLOWED UP GOVERNMENT TO

Confusing reports concerning developments in the

CHANGE POLICY

East River fighting continue to pour in, but re- IN PALESTINE

reliably accurate information is impossible to

obtain.

LONDON, TO-DAY.

NEW PROPOSALS FOR PALES- TINE WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE CABINET TO-DAY BY THE

SECRETARY FOR THE CO-

It is significant, however, that Japanese official ac- counts comment on the destruction · of com- munications by retreating Chinese including LONIES, MR. MALCOLM MAC- bridges, the rising of rivers and creeks due to DONAID, ACCORDING TO THE heavy rain, and muddy terrain, all making pro-

gress extremely difficult.

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It is also notable that no claim to have made any important advance has been made by Japanese officials Admiral Lord Chatfield is named since the announcement that Pok British propaganda disseminated by the "Evening Standard" as like-Lo had been taken and that Ja- from outside, and

the post of panese mobile troops were within 1 to be given Minister for Coordination of De-five miles of Tsengshing. fence in succession to Sir Thomas Inskip.

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Initiation of negotiations direct-

“DAILY TELEGRAPH.”

The proposals involve abandon- ment of the scheme of partition in the light of the Woodhead Partition Committee, which the newspaper. understands is reported to be nor. fully neither equitable practicable.

The new proposals include ed ultimately at establishment of a stern action to restore order,

On the Chinese side, it is insist-unified State under British guidance ed that heavy fighting is raging to enable Jews and Arabs to work Lord Chatfield has held the com- in the neighbourhood of Pok Loin harmony-Reuter.

and It is known from reliable inde- pendent sources that Kwangs)|

mand of

both

Home and Me-t ›diterranean Fleets and has likewise

occupied the post of Sea Lord.

In the event of his appointment, adds the "Evening Standard," ว

troops are now passing through

Canton Into the East River district at the rate of ten thousand a day.

Japanese naval aircraft continue special Ministry of Munitions will their intense activity, concentrating

be created and placed under the their attention on breaking un the control of Sir John Trans-Ocean.

Anderson.

TWO JAPANESE BOMBERS COLLIDE, CRASH

Chinese lines of communications. though unimpeachable sources con- tinue to report the machine-gun- ning of buses on the Shekki high- way and of the Shekki-Canton tow- boat yesterday,

NEW FRENCH ENVOY FOR BERLIN

Paris, To-day.

The French Government has

collision between two Jap- ́anese bombing planes returning from a visit to Namyung is an- nounced in an official communique cially asked the German Gov- ernment's agreement to the ap pointment of M. “Coulondre, Am- bassador to Mosgow, as successor

released by the Japanese Consul- até-General.

Both planes crashed, at a point to the French Ambassador to about 18 kilometres south of Berlin, M. Francol-Poncet, who Shlukwan, and 14 members of has been accredited as first French the crews are presumed to have Ambassador

been killed.

perors of:

“King and Em-

6-Ocean.

Drastic means to check anti-

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