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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

BUTTER

MR. BUTLER GIVES AN

-LAND MINE-

UNDER ARMY TRUCK

Jerusalem, To-day.

A soldier was killed and five wounded when a land mine exploded under a military trolley patrolling the Jeru salem-Lydda railway Ramleh yesterday.

near

A 24-hour curfew was

subsequently

imposed at

Ramleh. Reuter.

PITTMAN PRICE FOR SILVER UNTHINKABLE

New York, To-day.

TO

ASSURANCE

KOO OVER TEN

DR.

Geneva, To-day.

Before the Chinese resolution was passed by the League Council yesterday a short statement was made by M. Charveriat, the French dele- gate, expressing France's sympathy with China.

He said they were prepared to participate in all

efforts to restore peace in China.

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JAPAN'S BILL

Mr. Jordan (New Zealand) referred to the fact

that 30,000,000 were starving in China. The Russian delegate said. he wished to associate himself with the request put forward by China.:

Mr. R. A. Butler (Britain) said he believed that all Governments at Geneva were in profound sym- pathy with China in her sufferings. He added that since the last meeting of, the Council the British Government had been considering

FOR CHINA WAR

Tokyo, To-day.

MILLION PEOPLE DESTITUTE

London, To-day.

A least 10,000,000 people in Shantung, Shansi, and Hopei are

destitute, stated Dr. H. R. Wil-

liamson, chairman of the Shan- tung Relief Committee, at the conference of British missionary societies in London yesterday.

Dr. Williamson has just return- ed from investigations in North China.

There are

only twenty Mission hospitals in those provinces deal- ing with hundreds of thousands of patients who do not even have money for food, he added.-Reuter.

DR. KOO RUMOUR

The extraordinary Army Bridget certain proposals set out by China, for 1939-1940 is expected to come These had been examined with before the Diet early in February,

Paris, To-day. No mention is made in connec- great care and there was now the and is likely to exceed 5,000,-

Nothing is known at the Chin- tion with Senator Key Pittman's prospect of giving such satisfaction

1000,000 yen.

ese Embassy here of a report silver proposal of the question of to the Chinese wishes "as circum-

The extraordinary budget in- from Tokyo that Dr. Wellington seignorage, which at present is 50 stances permitted."-Reuter.

cludes provision for the China Koo, Ambassador to France and per cent.

Thus it appears that Senator Pittman proposes full statutory price for domestic silver.

Bullion circles

are of opinion

that the matter of seignorage was purposely left open for Congres- sional bargaining.

DR. WELLINGTON fighting, Japanese troops sta- chief delegate to the League of

KOO HOPEFUL

Geneva, To-day.

Dr. Wellington Koo, the chief

All agree that payment of the Chinese delegate, in a statement to full $1.29 an ounce is unthinkable, Reuter before his departure for and that the Bill will never be

enacted unless modified.-Reuter.

WOMAN JOINS SOVIET CABINET

MOSCOW, TO-DAY.

Paris yesterday, said:

"My impression is that the con- sultations referred to in the Chin- ese resolution will begin in the near future.

"The statement made by Mr. Butler (the British delegate) was satisfactory as indicating that the British Government is ready to give financial aid to China..

"In the meantime all members POLINA ZHEMSHÜZHINA, of the League will be informed of WIFE OF THE PREMIER, M. my request of January 17 which MOLOTOFF, HAS BEEN AP. Included a demand for an embargo POINTED COMMISSAR FOR THE on aeroplanes and petrol,” -— Réu- FISHING INDUSTRY, THE NEW-ter.

LY CREATED POST THE FUNC-

TIONS OF WHICH WERE FORTIFICATION

FORMERLY PART OF THE COMMISSARIAT FOR FOOD “AND INDUSTRIES.

RUMOUR DENIED

She is thus the first woman

Paris, To-day. member of the Cabinet and the Reports emanating from for- First Lady of the Land in her own| eign sources that fortifications right, although nominálly out are being erected on the Franco- ranked by Lenin's widow..`

Spanish frontier against the pos- Madame Zhemshezhina was pre-sibility of French intervention, viously head of the cosmetics in-are declared by the General Staff dustry which she built up person- here to be entirely untrue, ally.

Reuter,

Rauber.

tioned in Manchukuo, the five- Nations, has been appointed For- year rearmament plan and a new eign Minister by General Chiang armaments

which Kai-shek. programme starts in the next financial year.

-Reuter.

Dr. Koo returns to Paris from Geneva on Monday-Reuter.

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