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FEAR OF JOINT FOREIGN INTERVENTION TO STOP JAPAN

Tokyo, To-day.

Fear of joint intervention in the Sino-Japanese con- flict by Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet, was expressed by Mr. Shimada, an executive member of the Seiyukai Party, in an address to the convention of parliamentary members of the party yesterday.

MR. ROPER'S SUCCESSOR

Washington, To-day.

President Roosevelt has ap- pointed Mr. Harry L. Hopkins as Secretary of Commerce in suc- cession to Mr. Daniel Roper, who resigned.

The convention was held prior to the meeting of the Diet to-- day.

Mr. Shimada said the situation to-day was serious and compar able, to that at the time of the triple intervention by Russia, France and Germany following the Sino-Japanese War of 1894- 95.

He denounced as especially outrageous the attitude of the Soviet, "which openly tramples on Japan's treaty rights and re- sorts to unwarrantable provoca- tion." Reuter.

Mr. Hopkins at present is Ad- ministrator of the Works Progress Colonel F. C. Harrington has Administration,

the Federall been appointed to succeed Mr. Hop-

kins in this capacity.-Reuter.

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Barcelona, To-day.

The Republicans admit that the Nationalists have pushed a new offensive on the Catalan it has front, but claim that resulted in no material gains. It is alleged in Barcelona that Italian troops participated in the push.-Reuter.

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Berlin, To-day.

"We stand entirely by our viewpoint," Reuter was in- formed in well-informed po- litical circles regarding America's rejection of Ger- many's demand for an apo- logy for the Ickes speech. Although it appears there is no question of a diplomatic rupture, the Foreign Office would not be satisfied until a formal explanation from the White House is forth- coming.

It is explained that the matter needs the closest study and it is suggested that an official statement on the matter will be issued.

The newspapers, mean- while, have not printed the news of the German protest nor the American reply.

The "Berliner Lokalan- seizure, the only paper offer criticism, says it had been thought that someone would have come forward in America or Britain to query Ickes but "Roosevelt's colla- borator apparently possesses a charter to exceed Jewish provocation by more provo- cation."-Reuter.

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