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AUSTRALIA'S CHOIGEST

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UNITED STATES SANCTIONS TALK

MAISKY AND PEACE FRONT

Copenhagen, To-day.

"I have not been instructed to convey a message to Mr. Chamberlain or to anybody else," said the Soviet Ambas- sador to London, M. Maisky, when he made a short stop- over here, and was questioned by Danish journalists.

He said that Soviet Russia- was prepared to deliver war material and planes to the western Democracies if they were attacked. Soviet Rus- sia, he concluded, had sub- mitted proposals to Britain and was now waiting for a reply.

Trans-Ocean

SIGNIFICANT TOUR BY REICH ARMY CHIEF

Rome, To-day.

The Commander in Chief of the

A speech of unusual gravity by the Prime Minister

who declared that slight weight in one direc-

tion or another may determine whether war breaks out;

Mr. Churchill's dictum on the Hitler speech, expect-

ed at 7 p.m. (Hong Kong Time): "If he utters réassurances I for one will not believe them until they are confirmed by deeds;"

Overwhelming endorsement of conscription in the House of Commons, despite the Labour Party's Opposition;

Discussion in the Senate of a resolution to place an embargo on all exports to Japan, except agri- cultural products;

·MILLION

UNDER ARMS IN POLAND

Warsaw, To-day; Poland has one million men un- der, arma, it is 'atated by the Gov- ernment organ.

These are the first figures of the mobilisation of Poland pu- blished, and

The million is composed of 400,« 000 active troops and 600,000′ re- servos. Yans-Ocean.

NO ITALIAN

Commencement of the passage of the United States REPLY TO PRES.

fleet into the Pacific;

Gathering tension in Europe, with the German

press indulging in a violent anti-British cam- paign are the high-spots of to-day's news,

Gravity of the general situation are of a very tangled, nature."

ROOSEVELT

Rome, To-day.

Formal Italian answer to the

is indicated by the decision of Mr. Another comment is that “Only Roosevelt massage will not be com- de Valera to cancel his visit the the incidents in March induced municated, it is reported in well- United States, following important England to do something beyond informed circles. talks

the Ben Mr. Chamberlain 'and protesting-at the possible cost of "The recent speech of Mussolini

High Commissioner in the Anglo-German Naval Treaty" and the Reichstag address of the London, and by the announcement Both the Anglo-Turkish and An- German Chancellor will provide that the King and Queen will pro-glo-Soviet Agreements are reported a sufficient reply, it is declared. ceed to Canada in the Empress of to be near satisfactory conclusion. Trans-Ocean,

Australia.

Bitterness aroused in Germany TIME THE VITAL FACTOR IN THE AIR

by the British conscription decision is revealed in caustic press com- ment, with indications that. Ger- many, may, now, denounce, the..

- An- glo-German naval treaty.

The "Nachtausgabe describes the conscription measure as "Bluff

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