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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

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VAIN WAIT FOR 'HOPEFUL SIGN'

Long Moscow Talks Fail To Bring Results

London, To-day.

Interested circles in London yesterday waited in vain for a "hopeful sign" from Moscow, where the pact negotiations were resumed at 6 p.m. It caused a great disappointment when in the late evening it became known that "Radio Moscow" had announced that no definite result had been achieved.

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Official British comment was not expected until

to-day.

Lengthy Paris reports are car- ried by English news agencies on French annoyance at the endless delays of the Moscow negotiations.

LONG TALK ON TRIPLE ALLIANCE

Moscow, To-day.

The British Ambassador to Moscow, Sir William Seeds, Sir William Strang,. Foreign Office Expert, and M. Molotov, Soviet -Foreign Minister, had a confer- ence lasting 170 minutes, the longest since negotiations began.

Reuter

THERMOMETER

AGAIN HITS 90

JAP. GARRISON RAIDED

Canton, To-day-

Lungkong about 35 miles to the south of Canton, halfway to the Sunwei District, was raided by two thousand armed Chinese the other day, according to information - ceived here from very reliable sources.

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It is stated that the Chinese looted the whole village, after. they had engaged the small Jap anese garrison, killing between 50 and 60 Japanese troops."

Japanese reinforcements were

vading Chinese retreated.

JAPAN'S ERRORS English papers no longer con- THE THERMOMETER TO-DAY sent from Kowkong and the in-

IN CONDUCT OF CHINA WAR

London, To-day.

"The Times," in a leader on the forthcoming negotiations in Tokyo, reaffirms that only local questions connected with Tientsin can pro- perly be made the subject of Anglo-Japanese talks.

Any attempt to raise a wider issue, like the general principles applying to European Conces- sions and Settlements in Chinese ports, would affect other Powers as well as Britain.

cealed their disappointment last PASSED THE 90 DEGREES MARK| Reuter. week.

Sécret negotiations are alleged FOR THE EIGHTH SUCCESSIVE

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to have taken place during the DAY week-end in--Paris, conducted on behalf of Britain by Lord Lothian,

cyclone covers the Pacific Yesterday, a maximum of 91 de-East of Japan, The the newly-appointed British Am-grees was recorded for the fourth situated about 150 miles to

depression bassador to the United States:

the time since the heat wave began. South of Naha, moving northward. The Royal Observatory's report The northern depression is moving indicates no expectation of a break northward over the Yellow Sea, a In the weather.

depression over S. W. China is sta-

It is understood that the French the pact was the main topic. wish for immediate conclusion of

Lord Lothian is reported to have met

M. Lebrun, President of the American Ambassador, and to France, and Mr. William Bullitt, have been the guest of M. La Chambre, the French Air Commis- stoner, over the week-and-Trang-

Ocean.

DECISIVE IMPORTANCE

Paris, To-day. Soviet Foreign Commissar, M. Mo- The "Temps" reports that the lotoff, and the British and French After enumerating evidences representatives in Moscow were to of Japanese non-success after have another conference at 8 o'clock two years of war, "The Times" last evening. says it is still uncertain whether the Japanese people have yet grasped the implications of their opponent's resolution.

HUNT FOR SCAPEGOATS

To the soldiers, whose miscal culations have been so costly, the foreigner is an obvious scape- goat, yet the real cause

Political quarters in Paris pear to attach a decisive impor- tance to this conference.

Optimiam now displayed in Lon- don is not shared in Frand

Temps. Trans-

FLIGHT OF GOLD TO US RESUMED

It states that a moderate anti-, tionary

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