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NO REASON FOR
-ALL-TIME- COLD RECORD FOR APRIL
Breaking yesterday's cold wea- ther record for April, the temper- ature fell during the night to 50 degrees, the Royal Observatory revealed this morning.
This is the coldest April regis. tration since official statistics were kept. At 10 o'clock this morning the temperature risen to 54 degrees.
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had
Tokyo, To-day.
OPTIMISM
Germany Now Looks At Situation In Denmark
London, To-day.
Best-informed quarters in London say that there ANTI-FASCIST
is no reason for optimism over the inter- national situation.
They point out that while Germany has apparently
RIOTS IN
dropped Danzig from her list, in face of Polish MEXICO CITY
defiance, she is now turning her attention else- where.
Mexico City. To-day.
The Nazi newspapers, officially inspired, are now Thousands of workers partici- concentrating on the German minority in pated in an anti-Fascist demonstra- Denmark.
tion yesterday when they smashed given the windows of the Spanish
and Casino.
The "National Zeitung," connect- The statement has been ed with Field-Marshal Goering, prominence all over Poland The agreement between Japan yesterday alleged that Germans in has caused a sensation. and the Soviet Union on the Denmark are being treated badly, fisheries question which was and that German nationals there signed last Sunday after five find it very difficult to make a liv- months' negotiations between the ing.
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VITAL INTERESTS
The Warsaw correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that
Two hundred police were called out and dispersed the demonstra- tors. Five were injured.
President Cardenas has ordered Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Germans in Schleswig, says the though no official attempt has been the expulsion of three Falange M. Litvinov, and the Japanese paper, torn away from the Father-made to define the term "Poland's (Fascist) leaders from Mexico. Ambasador in Moscow, is wel-land in 1920, have been subjected vital interests," these undoubtedly comed by political circles, but it to misery and attacks ever since. are Danzig, Lithuania, Hungary Malta. The situation is intoler- is emphasised that the conven- They have been forced to give up and Rumanis,
able." tion is only a preliminary solu- their German "culture," says the In Rome yesterday, the semi- The Italian Minister of Educa- tion attained, in the last resort, paper, and the situation is intoler- official newspaper attacks Britain tion, Signor Bottai, declared in by far-reaching Japanese con-able.
after a long silence.
Rome yesterday that the British cessions.
"Britain," it says, "tried to make non-aggression line-up was direct- Italy a prisoner in the Meditered as much against Italy as against ranean through Gibraltar and Germany.
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This view is also voiced by the Japanese press, which demands that Japan should now insist on a formal and conclusive agreement on the matter.
ALARM AND ANGER Meanwhile, Berlin and Rome are still showing alarm and anger over Mr. Chamberlain's second speech in the House of Commons.
The Berlin correspondent of the "News Chronicle" says that in the The Nationalist "Hochi Shim- absence of Hitler, Nazi officials bum" doubts the sincerity of Mos-are disinclined officially to discuss cow and emphasises that Moscow Mr. Chamberlain's remarks, though regards. Japan as "State Enemy one Wilhelmstrasse official said: No. 1" and aims at weakening "When Hitler hears of this speech Japan wherever she can.
the fat will be in the fire, as after his Wilhelmshaven address, Mr.
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The "Asahi Shimbum” · demande Chamberlain has given him a slap
that the Japanese · Government make no further · concession to Russia in the final settlement of the fisheries question.
in the face,"
The friendly references to Rus- sia by both Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Halifax are regarded in Ber lin as sensational, in view of Hit- ler's views on the threat of Bolshevism.
The "Miako Ehlmbum” says that the view that the provisional set- tlement has dispelled the clouds on the horizon is erroneous and that. ANTI-COMINTERN - MOVE- improvement of Japanese-Russian Hitler will undoudtedly move to relations in consequence can hard-turn the Anti-Comintern Pact (be- ly be expected. Trans-Ocean:
COURT-MARTIAL
of the
DRAY
tween Germany, Italy and Japan) into an open military alliance, some quarters, suggest
In Warsaw yesterday, the leader of the Polish Nationalist Party de- clared: “If Germany, moyen one
foot there, will bo
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