MUSSOLINI ON THE SOIL
"JAPAN WILL PROTECT RIGHTS"
Tokyo, To-day.
ROME, TO-DAY. MUSSOLINI YESTERDAY RECEIVED IN THE PALACE VENEZIA, 600 SETTLERS FROM THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PROVINCES AS WELL AS FROM SARDINIA, fishing rights in WHO THE DUCE CONGRA- TULATED ON THEIR PION- EER WORK IN DEVELOPING THE WEALTH OF THE SOIL.
The Japanese Foreign Office has, according to the Domei News Agency, been informed by the Ambassador in Moscow that his further conversation with M. Litvinoff concerning the Far East
I'm રી short speech, Mussolini stressed that the numerical propor- tion of the inhabitants of rural to those of urban areas must not be modified to the detriment of the former and at least 50 per cent. of the Italian nation should depend on agriculture for their livelihood.
Countries in which agriculture was neglected were condemned to see the number of their unemployed constantly increasing.
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had had no result.
Political circles consequently do not expect an agreement. The News Agency adds that
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CLOSE COOPERATION
London, To-day.
The British Government's desire The strength of a nation was in- to cooperate more closely with the separable from the numerical United States in regard to Japan's strength of its population which claims in the Far East was voiced must be intimately bound up within the House of Commons yesterday. the soil-Trans-Ocean.
by the Under Secretary of State, Mr. R. A. Butler, in an affirmative reply to the question as to whether the British Government, in view of the existing tension between London and Tokyo, did not con- sider it advisable to enter into closer A.S.P., the Assistant Director of relations with Washington.--Trans-
Among police officers who re turned from leave by the 9.8. Carthage, was Mr. F. W. Shaftain,
Criminal investigation.
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