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·FOUR BRITISH- WOMEN CROSS LINES

Peiping, To-day.

It is confirmed from Japan- ese sources that four British women missionaries from Sian have crossed the Chinese and then the Japanese lines in North Honan.

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They entered Kaifeng en route to Peiping. Reuter.

SIR KINGSLEY WOOD IN AIR MISHAP

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Berlin, To-day.' Hitler and Herr von Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister, who both unexpectedly returned to Berlin in the middle of their holidays, had a meeting in the Chancellery yesterday.

Foremost among many matters they had to discuss is believed to have been the negotiations in Moscow.

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Latest developments there and the British plan

send military experts to the Soviet capital, have convinced official Nazi circles in Berlin that the Anglo-Russian talks must now be taken more seriously.

Hitler and von Ribbentrop are Hitler is returning to Bayreuth also believed to have touched on to-day, and von Ribbentrop resumes ican trade treaty by Washington, denunciation of the Japan-Amer- his holiday at Salzburg on Sunday.

Reuter. which came as an unpleasant sur- prise to Berlin.

The Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, was

involved in a plane mishap when an R.A.F. machine in

As some which he was travelling to North-

sort of compensation for Japan, a "comprehensive agree- ern Ireland, turned back, over the ment on the exchange of goods" Irish Sea owing to bad weather | between Germany and Japan was and made a forced landing at Kirkby-in-Furness, in Lancashire.

The Air Minister and some of the party of high Air Force. offi- cers in the machine were shaken, and the pilot and two members of the crew slightly injured. The latter were taken to hospital;

Sir Kingsley was on the way to Belfast to inspect reserve units of the RAF Northern Ireland,

initialled yesterday.

The agreement involves substan- tial expansion of mutual commerce with the help of German credits.

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Details have not yet been an- nounced, but Nazi political circles say it will to some extent com pensate Japan for what she is losing under the denounced treaty. with the United States.

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DISAGREEMENT IN TOKYO: SIR ROBERT SEEKS INSTRUCTIONS

London, To-day.

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of the "Daily Telegraph" says it is learned in London that on ac- count of the disagreement Tokyo concerning the circulation of currency of the Chiang Kai- she regime in the Tientsin Con-

cessions and the transfer of the Chinese silver stored there, Sir Robert Craigie is seeking new instructions from London.

The c correspondent adds that Britain contends that the cur- Chinese Government and that rency is that recognised by the

which Britain acknowledges as legal tender.

Japan holds that this has im- peded the establishment of notes she is seeking to substitute for the existing currency.

Reuter.

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