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American Fleet Causes Berlin Japanese To Hesitate Feat Of

London, To-day.

The fact that there is no news of the expected visit to Berlin of the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, is taken by the foreign affairs corres- pondent of the "Daily Express" to mean that the reported negotiations to convert the Anti- Comintern Pact into a military alliance have broken down.

The correspondent, who asserts that Count Ciano has cancelled his plan to attend Hitler's Reich- stag speech, says that this is the authoritative explanation he has received from Rome. According to the report, Japan has hesitated, her naval authorities being impressed by President Roosevelt's order to concentrate the American Fleet in the Pacific.

However, German diplomacy is still making eleventh-hour efforts to change the Japanese Government's decision.

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London, To-day. The National Council of Labour met yesterday and re- affirmed uncompromising op- position to conscription. Reuter.

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DETENTION CAMP FOR H.K. DELINQUENTS

Describing the deliberations going on "without intermission" in the inner circles of the Jap- anese Government as "momen- tous," "The Times" correspondent in Tokyo says that on balance it is still permissable to expect that whatever Hitler may promise his audience on Friday, he will be unable to say that Japan will fight the Axis battles in the Paci- fic.

The situation of even the fu- ture of the Japanese Cabinet is in the most delicate of balances, the correspondent concludes, Reuter.

AIR SERVICE TO ANKARA

Ankara, To-day.

An agreement relating to the Inauguration of a commercial air route between Berlin and Istanbul was signed yesterday by the Turkish Minister of Communications, M. Ali

Hilmi Cetinkaya and Herr von Win- tordeld, representing Lufthansa. PROPOSALS FOR MODERNIS- The new air route will be opened on ING HONG KONG PRISON AC. | June 1.-Trans-Ocean.

COMMODATION AND PLACING CERTAIN PRISONERS INTO A

"CONCENTRATION CAMP" IN proceed with the construction of a STEAD OF PRISON, HAVE NOW | Detention Camp at REACHED A MORE ADVANCED 180,000.

Government has now decided to

cost

make

algo, propó.

ress-proposals, it may be re-provements at Latchikok Prison, called; were the subject of a It a cost of 850,000, and to build

by the Commissioner of

in isolation block for lepers Mat

- at a cost of $28,000.

-BRITAIN'S·

BUDGET ANALYSED

SHOCKS

An increase in the motor-car h.p. tax from 15/- to 25/- per h.p. Increased duties on sugar and tobacco.

Surtax up by 5 per cent, on in- comes between £2,000 and £8,000; and by ten per cent. on incomes above £8,000,

National debt increased last year by £826,000,000 including loans to Turkey and Czechoslo vakia.

Defence bill is going up by £50,000,000, Original estimate of £580,000,000 has increased already to £630,000,000 and may be more."" SURPRISES

Reduction in entertainment duty.

No increase, in income tax, Estate duties higher in higher levels.

Excise duty on photographie. materials.

Gafencu

London, To-day. IN an interview with Mr. Vernon Bartlett, M.P., the diplomatic corres- pondent of the "News Chronicle," the Ru- manian Foreign Minis- ter, M. Gafencu, dis- counted the inevitability of war.

M. Gafencu declared: "I for one refuse to believe we cannot find a common language in which discuss the possibilities peace."

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Mr. Bartlett himself believes that M. Gafencu is the first For- eign Minister to visit Berlin in recent months without being per- suaded to sign some document which limited his country's inde- pendence.

"One hopes his colleague of the Balkan Pact and the Little En- tento, M. Markovitch, who is visiting Berlin, will remember this notable precedent." Reu- ter.

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