FISHERY SALE AGGRAVATES TOKYO-MOSCOW
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¡PRAGUE-BUCHAREST
RAILWAY
to
Buch. rest, To-day.
between A direct train service
via the Prague and Bucharest Carpatho-Ukrainian capital Chust should, according to an agreement, have been opened yesterday. Un- der the terms of the Vienna arbitra- tion award Hungary had consented through trains passing Tokyo, To-day.
already In the course of the negotiations Hungarian territory but
Sunday all railway traf- concerning Japan's fishing rights in
was suspended between the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan, between the Halmai and Ardov thereby render- Soviet Foreign Commissar, M.ing the through service Letween Litvinoff, and the Japanese Ambas- Czechoslovakia and Rumania sador, Mr. Togo, the former in-possible. formed the Ambassador, according
on fic
im-
Since the north-eastern Rumanian
a
to the semi-official news agency, district of Maramros Szigeth is par- that all fishing grounds hitherto in ticularly affected by the decision of Government, the possession of Japan would be put the Hungarain
been in- Rumanian Minister has up for auction during February.
protest in The news agency states that the structed to lodge Ambassador repeatedly called M. Budapest.-Trans-Ocean. Litvinoff's attention to the fact that Moscow's attitude flagrantly contradicted Japan's guaranteed Treaty rights.
M. Litvinoff's remarks that the sale by auction of the fishing grounds need not interfere with
FRENCH PLANE CRASH
Paris, To-day.
with
aerodrome
of
continuation of the negotiations, A French military plane elicited the reply from the Ambas-three officers and one soldier aboard sador that Moscow must bear full crashed over the responsibility for the eventual break- down of the negotiations and for aggravation of the tension between Japan and the Soviet. Ocean.
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killed
Clomb Bechar, North Africa yes- terday. Two officers were instantaneously while the two other occupants were seriously injured. Trans-Ocean.
Mrs. Churchill of No. 6 Aigburth | Magistracy when summoned for leav- Hall, was this morning fined $5 by ing her car unattended in Pedder Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Street on December. 28.
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1,000 ARRESTS IN SOVIET ON
RUSSIAN XMAS
Pus
JaganH
MOSCOW, TO-DAY. UPWARDS OF ONE THOU SAND PERSONS, MORE THAN ONE HALF OF THEM WOMEN, ARRESTED HERE ON WERE THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX SATUR- DAY, ON CHRISTMA
MOST OF THE PERSONS WERE WERE
DAY
LAST.
ARRESTED
WORSHIPPERS
WHO
UNABLE TO FIND A ROOM IN THE FEW OVER CROWDED CHURCHES STILL LEFT OPEN AND WHO WERE CONSEQUENT- LY OBLIGED TO STAND OUT- SIDE IN ORDER TO PARTICI- PATE IN THE SERVICE AS BEST
THEY COULD.
The police took them into cus- tody on the charge of obstructing also traffic. Several priests were arrested on the charge of carrying on anti-revolutionary propaganda.
The leading paper "Pravda" pu- blishes a number of reports from the the provinces asserting that "churchgoers manifested hostility to the Party."
that
It would appear, however, these manifestations were not con- fined to churchgoers on Christmas for day but have been going on
paper some time past since the brings a report from Udmurtien that a "group of anti-revolutionar- ies have been unmasked who, under the pretext of religion, were con- spiring against the State."
The report adds that this group which was led by a certain Chist yakov has been "liquidated."
The paper in the editorial draws the conclusion that "these and, sim- ilar crimes prove a connection be- tween the worst enemies of the people and the churchgoers."
the The latter are accused by paper of misusing their religion in order to obtain news to deliver to their foreign employers and of hav- ing relations with Trotzkyist and Bucharinist circles. The only means of ridding the Soviet Union of these enemies of the people, concludes the paper, to pitilessly extermin- ate them.-Trans-Ocean.
WEATHER FORECAST
The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone has merged into a fresh anticyclone which has deve- loped over China. Pressure is now highest to the north of the Yangtse Valley,
Local forecast:- N. E. winds, fresh; fair.
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