WILL
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8, 1939.
PREMIER SEEK
TO IMPOSE DISCIPLINE? Repeated Abstentions By Nominal Supporters GERMAN ARMY Chief Whip Asked AMBASSADOR
CELEBRATES AUGUST, 1914
Berlin, To-day:
"Following exact plans and with the precisión of clockwork, the best
army the world has ever seen took the field just 25 years ago to fight for Germany's vital rights," declar- ed the commander of the Grossdeut- schland Regiment, Lt.-Col. Stockhausen, at a ceremony memorating the beginning of War.
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To Furnish A Report
London, To-day.
TO LODGE ONE MORE PROTEST
LONDON, TO-DAY. THE PRIME MINISTER STAT-
BASSADOR
IN TOKYO
AM- HAD
The question has been raised in parliamentary cir- ED IN THE COMMONS YESTER- cles close to the Government whether Mr. DAY THAT THE BRITISH Neville Chamberlain can tolerate without loss BEEN INSTRUCTED TO ENTER of prestige the regularly repeated abstentions A FURTHER VIGOROUS PRO- from voting by nominal followers of the Gov-TION OF ANTI-BRITISH AGITA-
ernment.
TEST AGAINST THE CONTINUA-
TION IN NORTH CHINA.
He also assured members that was maintaining
Soldiers were assembled at every The parliamentarians in question are members of the Government
the Conservative group around Mr. Winston contact with the French and Unit- Churchill, Mr. Anthony Eden, Mr. L. S. Amery ed States Governments. and others.
garrison in Germany to observe the occasion.
In Tutzing, near Munich, where General Ludendorff was buried, a memorial ceremony was held dur- ing which the General's achieve- ments at Liege, Tanuenberg and on the Western front were recalled.
Tattoos were held at every mili- tary garrison in the Reich last night.-Trans-Ocean.
HITLER AT TATTOO
Bayreuth, To-day, Hitler attended a Tattoo of the Bayreuth garrison yesterday in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War.
Hitler later took the march past
BULGAR-SOVIET TRADE TALKS
Moscow, To-day. of 22 members of A group Bulgarian Parliament headed by the Vice Premier, arrived in the Soviet Union yesterday, to discuss with Russian economic experts, the possibilities of extending Soviet- Bulgarian trade.
They will utilise the opportunity
Trans-Ocean.
It is pointed out in London that the recently negotiated formula At the vote on the adjournment which forms the basis for the pre- yesterday, 30 Tories abstained, as gent conversations in Tokyo with a they agreed with the Opposition view to settlement of local issues
recess was too long in
at Tientsin, provided for responsi- view of the international situation.bility on the part of the Japanese The 30 M.P.'s openly opposed the Government for the maintainance Government Chief Whip, who per- of public order in areas in China sonally asked them to vote.
under their control.
that the
.
present
It is understood that the question Continuance of anti-British agi- of application of "stronger mea-tation in those areas on sures of pressure" on these critics lines is inconsistent with the Ja- in their own camp, will be consi- panese undertaking.-British Wire- dered by the Premier.
Mr. Chamberlain has asked the Chief Whip, Capt. David Marges- son, to report to him. Ocean.
Trans-
with Rudolf Hess, Deputy Leader. to visit the Moscow agricultural HEAVY LOSS IN
-Trans-Ocean,
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TOKYO TALKS
CONFINED TO
HEAVY LOSS IN U.S. CONSULATE LOCAL ISSUES ROBBERY
London, To-day. The conversations on Tientsin were the subject of another an- THE LOCAL AMERICAN CON-swer in the Commons yesterday. SULATE WAS ROBBED SOME- Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secre TIME AFTER 5 P.M. ON TUES-tary for Foreign Affairs, was ask- DAY, THE THIEF. ESCAPING ed if support of the Chinese cur- WITH $1,287.20.:
rency had been under discussion Mr. F. C. Fornes, junior, of the in the conversations between the Consular staff, has informed the British Ambassador "and the police that the money was stolen Japanese. Foreign Minister. from one of the drawers of his
.
He replied: "The conversations
desk, into which it was placed on at present proceeding in Tokyo are Tuesday afternoon.
confined to local issues at Tien- re-tsin."
Yesterday morning, on his turn to the office, the theft discovered!
Investigations are proceeding.
ANGLO-SOVIET NEGOTIATIONS
A
London, To-day,
was
press telegram states that the conversations between M. Molotov and the British and French representatives were re- sumed yesterday afternoon,
Intervening in reply to supple- mentaries, which included a direct appeal to him to give a pledge that the Government would not consent to de-legalisation of the Chinese currency, the Prime Minister re- called his full statement on the Far East in the debate on Monday, and declined to go beyond that. British Wireless.
phere at the end is described optimistic.—British Wireless.
“INDIRECT AGGRESSION"
London, To-day.
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According to, this report, it is generally believed in well informed
The Moscow political conversa- circles in Moscow that the conversations are likely to be suspended tions covered formulation of till the arrival of the British and agenda of the forthcoming Staff French military missions, says the talks in Moscow and a further at "Daily Telegraph" this morning. tempt to establish a mutually agree- able definition of indirect aggres sion
The paper says the chief object of the military talks will be solu tion of the problem of what con- conversations lasted an stitutes indirect aggression on the
the atmos-Baltic States. Trans-Ocean,
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