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BRITAIN ACCEDES TO ALL SOVIET DEMANDS

NEGOTIATIONS IN MOSCOW TAKE FAVOURABLE TURN

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London, To-day.

256-MILE AIR RACE A STEEL TUBE

WON BY SECONDS AEROPLANE

Flying-Offr. Geoffrey de Havil-

land, chief test pilot of the de Havil- A NEW MULTI-GUN SINGLE- land Aircraft Company, flying a SEATER FIGHTER AEROPLANE, T.K.2, at 165 miles an hour, won the THE MARTIN-BAKER, WHICH London to Isle of Man handicap air IS MAINLY BUILT OF STEEL race by a few seconds. The distance TUBING, LIKE A BICYCLE, WAS was 256 miles.

DEMONSTRATED AT HESTON holder of the record to South Africa

The next pilot was Alex Henshaw, RECENTLY. and back, whose Mew Gull averaged many features and much equipment

It is a low-wing monoplane, with

215 miles an hour.

still secret. the scratcn man,

Third was Capt. E. W. Percival, This aeroplane is a notable in- in another Mew stance of success by a small and

comparatively young company.

The British Government has decided to accede to all the demands made by Moscow in connection with conclusion of a three-power pact to resist aggression. Trans-Ocean learns from well-informed diplomatic

circles that the confidence of the British Goy-Gull

It ernment regarding conclusion of the pact is former Secretary for Air, who pilot-tion, and the parts are easy to make The Marquess of Londonderry, a is designed for widespread produc- based on the fact that the last instructions sented his own machine, finished seventh in small factories, to be assembled to Sir William Seeds (Ambassador in Moscow) of the 19 competitors.

at a central shop. and Mr. William Strang (Foreign Office ex- Attache in London, flew his

Gen. Wenninger, Germän Air The machine is fitted with

own Napier Dagger 24-cylinder engine pert) were to accept the Russian demands al-'plane to the Isle of Man in com- of 1,000 h.p. The engine is air-cool- most in their entirety.

pany with Capt. Spiller, Assistant ed, but is one of in-line form, and Britain and France are

Air Attache, to watch the finish. therefore offers little, if any more, prepared to guarantee the Baltic

resistance to speed than the V-set States.

water-cooled engines "used on Bri- tain's latest fighters in service.

now

On the list of other countries to receive an Anglo-Franco-Soviet guarantee is Luxembourg, 'ported'y at the request of

France.

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FULL AUTHORITY Regarding the Baltic States, the sole point about which the last Soviet objection has not been removed is the question of what

Polish President Says Country

Ready For Anything

Warsaw, To-day,

would happen should one of these On the occasion of "Sea Week" organised through

out Poland by the Maritime and Colonial League, President Moscicki broadcast a speech yesterday to the Polish nation.

countries, as a result of an inner political transformation, change its relations to its neighbours.

However, these difficulties are

not taken very seriously in Lon-Dealing with the importance of Danzig for Poland,

don, since Sir William Seeds has been given full authority to meet the Soviet demands, and even if necessary, to go beyond the last proposal made by the British Government, if by so doing the alliance could be brought to a conclusion quickly.

quickly Trans- Ocean.

'IF MOLOTOFF

INSISTS

London, To-day, Press comments on the Anglo- Soviet negotiations are meagre, al- though the n newspapers are unani- mous in stating that the British Government has decided to con- cede the Soviet demand for a guarantee to the Baltic States.

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the President pointed out that Free City had been closely connected with Poland for many centuries and that three-fourths of Polish for- -eign trade passed through the two ports of

Danzig and Gdynia.

These two ports were not only Poland's gates to oversea countries but ships of all nations who traded

with Poland anchored there.

had returned as an independent State to the Baltic Sea on shores of which she had always lived:

The type that will go into produc-. tion will most likely have a re- tractable undercarriage, and vari able-pitch propeller, but it is remark- able that even without these im- portant items the Martin-Baker is obviously faster than any fighter in the R.A.F. except the Hurricane and the Spitfire.

In a power-dive from 10,000ft,

Capt. Baker, the test pilot, who is 50 years old, exceeded 400 m.p.h.. Strong points are ease of access

the limit of his airspeed indicator:

to every part, the rapidity with which the engine can be removed,

and replacement of any of its guns.

TRAIN THIEF WITH

ANAESTHETIC

Eugene Luneau, an official of the French State Railways, confessed to having committed a series of thefts in expresses after putting sleep with an

passengers to anaesthetic.

For six months he had been on

The new Polish State brought to the shores of the Baltic Sea the On the festival of the Patron blessings of labour and peace, for sick leave, and had made many long Saint of Fishermen, which they the present generation had not night journeys by rail- were celebrating, the attention of wasted; its time and had already and Gdynia and their thoughts all Polès was rivetted on Danzig repaired the greater, part of women reported that when they went out to the men of the Polish navy who were there keeping watch.

READY FOR SACRIFICES

The President described Pomorce and Poland's Baltic Sea coast as The general attitude is well ex-inestimable treasures for the Po- pressed by the "News Chronicle" lish nation since they were indes- which says that Britain is still pensable to Polish national life. sceptical about including the Bal-The louder the enemy voices made tic States in the list of guaranteed themselves heard, the greater nations, but, if M. Molotoff insists would the sacrifices be that Poland upon having these countries in- was resolved to make to defend cluded, he will probably have his those territories. wish gratified. Trans-Ocean,

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neglect from which those shores

had suffered.

This work would be continued not only in the interest of. Poland but of all countries with which Poland entertained economic and cultural relations.

DANGER OF CONFLICT. The President said that they were living at a time of a world's armament race and there was dan- ger of a conflict arising in Baltic area,

During the past two months three were travelling with a middle-aged man in the compartment they had fallen asleep and been robbed of jewellery, furs, ticket and money.

must be increased, and in this con- nection the President mentioned that: the Maritime and Colonial League had received necessary subscriptions for building a new submarine.

The President concluded by affirming that Poland was strong the on land and in the air, and that she desired to be also strong on It was Poland's wish to maintain the sea in order to be able to fulfil peace and order and for this rea- her destiny as maritime power. The President said that Poland son the strength of the Polish navy Trans-Ocean.

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