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HITLER SEEKING DESTRUCTION OF FRANCE

FRENCH STRIKE FEVER WANING

Paris, To-day.

The strike movement is now waning.

The strike committee at Valen- ciennes has ordered uncondition- al resumption of work by 150,- 000 metal workers, while only 534 out of nearly 10,000 continue to strike at Lille.

Shipping companies have offer- ed to reinstate the striking crews provided they return uncondition- ally.

It is expected the offer will be accepted,Reuter.

HUNGARY WANTS PIECE OF RUMANIA

Budapest, To-day. Hungary's claim to that part of Transylvania which was ceded to Rumania in 1919, is voiced in the Conservative organ, "Magyarsag," which has thereby taken the lead

in the matter.

Remarkable Duff Cooper Speech

Paris, To-day.

Mr. A. Duff Cooper, former First Lord of the Admir- alty, speaking at a public lecture here yester- day, said that Germany's programme to-day was far more aggressive than in 1914. "Hitler's programme is the destruction of France,"

he declared.

"All Hitler's promises have been broken, and it would be an error to found the policy of our two

Mr.

countries on yesterday's renewed promises." (A reference to the Franco-German declara- tion).

Duff-Cooper argued that Germany is not so strong militarily as many supposed, and added that the alliance between France and the British Empire was the most powerful in the world.

There was no greater advocate of peace than himself, but war could not be avoided by perpetual concessions.

THE DIFFERENCE

Comparing the democracies and dictatorships, he said that in the

past twenty. years no means had

France to inculcate in young minds been neglected in Britain and

a horror of war, whereas in the last five years beyond the Rhine In the past, Hungarian papers the younger generation had been have been content to throw out taught that war was the noblest of hinta about the future of the Hun- things. garians living outside the country after the Vienna Arbitration

award, but "Magyarsag" now open- ly demands application of the

The former British Cabinet Minister declared that the par-

principle of self-determination for MR. PIROW TELLS

the Hungarian minority Rumania.

in

This minority, it says, must be given the earliest possible oppor- tunity to decide whether it wishes to return to the mother country, or whether it prefers the present status.

HIS STORY

London, To-day. Mr. Pirow, the South African Defence Minister, called on the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, yesterday afternoon. The interview, Political circles hore are inclin- which lasted half an hour, is be ed to see in this move a certain lieved to have been arranged in or- reorganisation of Hungariander to enable Mr. Pirow, to inform policy, brought about by opposition the British Prime Minister of the by Germany to Hungary's demands impressions ho had gathered dur- for the annexation of Carpatho-ing his tour of the European capl- Ukrainia. - Trans-Ocean.

tals. Trans-Ocean.

liamentary and governmental system in Britain had failed dur- ing the Great War and during the September crisis, and was unsuited to the continual crisis we were now going through. He suggested that the French parliamentary system was likewise outmoded, Reuter.

OPEN DOOR CONFERENCE IN TOKYO

Tokyo, To-day. An important diplomatic meet- ing takes places to-day.

Mr. Arita, the Foreign Minis- ter, has invited Sir Robert Crai- gie, British Ambassador, and Mr. Joseph Grew, the American Ambassador, to meet him to-day for an exchange of views and contention on the "open door" equal opportunity principles con- cerning China, on the basis of the Japanese. Government's reply to the American Note on Novem-: bor 18-Renter.

BRITISH SHIP BOMBED

London, To-day. According to reports received here yesterday, the British steam- er "Lake Geneva" was damaged by a bomb dropped by a Spanish Na- tionalist plane during an attack on Alicante. The crew of the steam- er escaped unhurt. The Lake Geneva it will be recalled figured in another incident in October when it was under fire off Barce- lona. Trans-Ocean.

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