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Raymond Massey, as the villainous Prince Ghul, Roger Livesey and Valerie Hobson in a tense moment from "The Drum," the Alex- ander Korda production now showing at the King's Theatre. Head- ing the east is Sabu, the star of "Elephant Boy,"

JAPANESE SAID ANXIOUS OVER SOVIET CRISIS

Germany Army Expansion

THE GERMAN ARMY IS BEGIN-- |NING YET ANOTHER PERIOD Widespread concern and anxiety OF EXPANSION, FOR THE over the present crisis in relations|CLASS OF CONSCRIPTS WHICH with Soviet Russia was everywhere JOINED THE COLOURS THIS MONTH WAS 100,000 STRONGER evident in Japan last week, an ar- IN THE OLD REICH ALONE rival in Shanghai told "The China THAN THAT OF LAST YEAR. Press."

The army leaders hope for a Those Japanese who have been peaceful winter in which to beat the new material into shape and to long accustomed to talking with

work out the new mobilisation foreigners will privately declare scheme made necessary by recent that the situation is grave changes. Next autumn the num- ber of conscripts will be even fraught with dire con-

greater, for young men from the sequencies, he said.

Sudeten German areas will then be called to the colours."

and

The police are extremely active even more so among their own peo- ple than among foreigners, he added.

The growth of the German army is also revealed by a list of promo-- tions and appointments announced last night. Since the beginning of

International affairs are, there- this year its peace strength has. fore, almost taboo in conversation.increased from 13 to 18 News, of course, is all censored and corps.

the exchange restrictions are rigidly

enforced, the arrival declared.

army

ARMY CORPS COMMANDERS

as

It has even been necessary for The 17th and 18th Army Corps in' Austria, so that groups of foreigners to club to-are stationed gether in order to raise enough ex- there are three new army corps in change to pay the subscription price the old Reich. Gen. Hoth has been

first commanding. of a foreign newspaper. Outside of appointed diplomatic circles foreign maga- officer of one of these, the 15th. zines have become a rare luxury. Recent developments also find ex-·

pression in the appointment of Gen: Kobe and Yokohama appear dead Waeger and Lt-Gen. Raschick as to one who has seen these thriving commandants of the fortifications: metropolises in the past, the on the Upper Rhine and in the Eifel traveller said. Business seems at a district respectively. standstill and soldiers are guarding | The five army groups, with head- the wharves and shipping terminals. quarters in Berlin, Frankfort-on- Main, Dresden, Leipzig and Vienna,

In Osaka, however, the wharves are now commanded by Gens, von are so taken up with the handling Bock von Witzleben, Blaskowitz, of military freight that it is not con- von Reichenau and List. Of these sidered in order for any but a mili- only Gen. von Reichenau occupied tary vessel to apply for docking the same post at the beginning of space. Consequently, all other ves-this year. sels are discharging in the stream.

New army corps commanders are Gen. Strauss, who succeeds Gen. Rare among Japanese officialdom, | Blaskowitz as commander of the one police boarding officer discussed Second Army Corps, with・ head-- the present hostilities. "Our mis-quarters at Stettin, and Gen. Haase, |take,” he told the traveller, "is that who follows Gen. von Witzleben, in: we did not carry on the war to the command of the Third Army Corps. extent we have now in 1982,””.

at Berlin:

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