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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
JAPAN TRYING TO FORCE BREACH?
POLISH BORDER Warning Given
By 'Manchester Guardian'
INCIDENT
ALLEGATIONS
Danzig, To-day.
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Another serious incident IS alleged by the German news agencies to have occurred "a few days ago,"
The German report says that
young
London, To-day.
If it were possible to find one good reason why Japan should wish to provoke an open breach with Britain, one would be forced to say that it is now her evident intention, says the “Man- chester Guardian” in a leading article this morning.
members of the German The journal asks: Is Britain, which has done no more than the United States and rather less than Germany to help China, singled out for hatred for any particular reason?
minority were trying to cross the Polish frontier into East Prussia when they were arrested by Polish frontier guards.
On the way to Graudenz, where
they were led, one of them, a Ger- Is she merely a convenient scapegoat for Japan's
man named Stiemer, attempted to
escape.
Polish guards fired, wounding him in the leg.
The German report says that the leg had to be amputated and that Stiemer died yesterday in Graudenz Hospital.-Trans-Ocean.
LIVESTOCK POISONED BY DETONATOR FUMES
Paris, To-day.
failure?
happen if this policy is allowed to continue.
CONSULTATION URGED The British Government should consult with the French and Amer- Governments, whose interests have suffered equally.
If Japan compensating Germany for her refusal to join the Axis by carrying on a campaign of pin- pricks in the Far East, or has Mr. Chamberlain's policy of appease-ican ment suggested to the Japanese leaders that Britain can really be driven out of China by threats.
The
The newspaper adds: Certain ly it is time to call a halt. Japanese Government be held res- ponsible and warned what
ANGLO-FRENCH
Fifty cows, numerous goats and LIAISON IN
sheep, were poisoned on Saturday
by fumes caused-by-an-explosion-
of a large store of detonators at
Fort Mont Verdun, near Lyons.
The detonators, being of faulty
FAR EAST
may
construction, were ordered to be In view of the close liaison
destroyed by the military authori-which ties:
The fumes affected meadows. Trans-Ocean.
IMMIGRATION
now
exists between France and Great Britain in nearby Europe (states a communiqué re- leased by the Navy this morn- ing); Vice-Admiral Decoux, Commander-in-Chief- of the French Naval Forces in the Far East; Lieutenant-General Mar- tin, General Officer Commanding
EMBARGO URGED French Troops in Indo-China; and
Complet Washington, To-day.
A
embargo on immi the United States was. proposed in a broadcast address last night by Senator Reynolds, one of the leading solutionists.
He also proposed the registration of all foreigners, the taking of their fingerprints, and the deportation of all criminals as well as undesirable aliens. Trans-Ocean.
Colonel Deveze, of the French Air Staff, have been invited to end visit Singapore towards the of this month to examine Local Defence Measures.
In this connection, it may be noted, as already reported in the "China Mail," that Admiral Sir Percy, Noble, the Commander-in- Chief of the China Station, sails for Singapore on Friday noon in H.M.S. Kent.
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TYPHOID-
EPIDEMIC IN AMERICAN SCHOOL
Washington, To-day.
A serious outbreak of typhoid fever has occurred among Wash- ington school children, supposed to be connected with the eating of sandwiches "exposed too long to the sun in the school yard.”
Seventeen children have died and more than a hundred are very ill-Trans-Ocean.
NUDE WOMAN SENT FOR OBSERVATION
Yiu Sau-ying, the woman found nude on military ground, who al leged that a European soldier had torn all her clothing off, in Murray Path near the Detention Barracks,
rest this morning, charged-with- was again before Mr. R. A. D, For-
trespassing.
The journal concludes it would be the greatest possible mistake to
Defendant's uncle told the Court suffer aggression in the Far East that she had no relatives working in return for promises of neu-in or near that vicinity. trality in European quarrels, for promises are breakable and Japan She was remanded for a week, for
is not in Europe but in the Far observation. East. Reuter.
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