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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 6, 1939.

SOVIET AIMS IN WEST SUMMED UP IN LONDON: ARMED NEUTRALITY WHILE CURBING REICH

London, Sept. 28. CONTINUED ARMED NEUTRALITY in Western *Europe and hegemony in the Balkan and Baltic States were -the two guiding lights of Soviet Russia's foreign policy, a ¿consensus of opinion in political quarters showed to-day.

Moscow, observers contacted by Havas stated, intended to maintain a strong neutral policy in the West and, at the same time, launch intensive diplomatic action to establish hegemony in the Balkans, the region of the Black Sea, and the northern European States.

LITHUANIA AND SOVIET

Rige, To-day.

The Lithuanian Government is re-

ported to be resolved in principle to accept the Soviet proposal for con- the Romny-Vilna-Libau Railway and siderably increased trade, transit on

the return of the ethnographically Lithuanian part of the Vilna district.

---Reuter.

TWO AIR BASES

Kaunas, To-day.

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SERVICE MINISTERS TO MAKE STATEMENTS

London, To-day,

Mr. Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons that Sir Kingsley, Wood, the Secretary of Btate for Air, will make a state- ment on the war' in the air on Tuesday, and the Secretary of State for War, Mr. Hore-Belisha, on Thursday.

Mr. Chamberlain's customary weekly review will be made on Wednesday.-Router.

SINGAPORE QUOTAS

Singapore, To-day.

Should diplomatic action prove insufficient to extend “Soviet influence in the desired directions, the political quar- iters continued, Russia might "resort to stronger methods."

Italy's Reaction Interesting

The domestic tin quota for the last Italy's reaction to the Soviet's ad-

quarter of this year, which was fixed vance

According to reliable unofficial in-at 43 per cent. on Sept. 26, has been was uncertain, the political formation, the Soviet military pro-raised to 60 per cent., the same figure quarters added, and it was held posposals made to M. Urbsys by Moscow, as the international quota. sible that Signor Benito Mussolini include a mutual assistance pact and would not watch M. Stalin's rise to two-bases for the Soviet air force in greater power without taking a hand] Lithuania. Reuter. in the game.

In attaining her aims, Russia would seek to brush aside not only Anglo- French influence, but also German influence. She wished to compel Germany to centre all efforts in the West, away from the regions border ing on the U.S.S.R.

Turkey Must Also Give Way

Soviet diplomacy, the observers said, aimed to have Turkey limit her influence in the Balkans, maintain neutrality there, protect the Black Sea to Moscow's benefit and take no action against Germany which would imperil the Balkan balance of power.

Some quarters also declared that it was difficult to belleve Herr Hitler would docitely swal- low the bitter pill that his partner, M. Stalin, has. In store for him. German onconomic Influence in Eastern Europe was indispensable to German war alms. German peace proposals would be Turkey, outside the Balkans, how-immediately turned down by France ever, would be allowed to respect all aid Great Britain, it was stated, but her treaty obligations to France and observers wondered whether, as Ger- Great Britain. Thus she would be man reports hinted, M. Stalin would deft free to take any desired action in support the Reich beyond mere pre the Mediterranean, where the U.S.S.R.sentation of the peace terms. has

no interest. The Dardanelles, Rassage to the strategic Black Sea, would nevertheless have to be closed to all war operations.

As regards Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, these` political quarters added, Soviet Russia wished them to form a neutral Balkan bloc under ..Soviet-Turkish influence.

In pursuance of this aim, Rumania. might have to cede Dorbrudja to Bul-. garia while the problem of sovereignty

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REPLY EXPECTED SOON

Moscow, To-day, Lithuanian Foreign Minister, who returned home on Wednesday, is expected to return to Moscow very soon with his Government's reply to the Soviet military proposals.-Reuter.

TOTALISATOR

BETTING BANNEDY

London, To-day.

The Racecourse Betting Control Board have decided not to allow total- isator betting in Scotland this year

Soviet Russia's attitude toward the Allies remained strictly neutral, ob- servers summed up, unless the Allies attempted to exert pressure in the Black Sea region. M. Ivan Maisky Reuter. Soviet Ambassador to Britain, was understood to have spoken somewhat along these lines to Lord Halifax, British. Foreign Secretary, when they met yesterday.-Havas.

over Bessarabia would be postponed TRICK THEY

a while if Rumania agreed to heed

advice from Moscow.

Concessions to Reich

HAVE AT THE MARKET

Germany, Havas learned, would be considered by Moscow to be entitled to economic concessions in the Bal- A trick of poultry dealers revealed kans-but only on condition that such the forcing of food down the throats concessions did not amount to an of chickens to make them weigh .economic monopoly in Germany's heavier was at Kowloon this morning favour, which might imperil Soviet before Mr. Q:A. A. Macfadyen when hegemony.

Lai Leung, 39, and. Chu Mul-chun, 37, poultry dealer, were charged with cruelty. They were each fined $7, or seven days.

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A Polish buffer State might created between the Reich and the U.S.S.R., but Russia would not fur- ther such a scheme unless she по It was stated that first accused was longer wanted to exert pressure on paid to force rice mixed with said, Adolf Hitler, these observers declar-down chickens' throats.

ed. Russia would extend her, in-

They were caught yesterday in a

Auence over Esthonia and perhaps Waterloo Road stall." Latvia, but would leave Lithuania an open field for German cultivation.

From the same, sources, Havas un- derstood that M. Joset Stalin intend- ed to carry through his plans in peace, unless he met with stiff opposi- tion, in which case be would adopt a stronger course of action.

N.Z. BANS STRIKES

"Wellington (N.Z.), To-day.

No such opposition was expected by Soviet quarters from Germany, at any rate, for they appeared confident that -Berlin would have to placate the The New Zealand Government has USSR. even though its own field of declared illegal strikes and lock-outs, expansion in the east was being cut and new machinery is being set up to down. Germany, it was said here, settle labour disputes. had to have her hands free in the West whatever the cost in the Bal- kans.

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The Labour Minister, Mr. · P. Webb, stated yesterday that nothing would be allowed to restrict the ful- lest production of goods in the pre-

If M. Stalin achieved all his plans, political circles summed up, he would sent emergency-Reuter.

have

SOVIET SIGNS. PACT WITH LATVIA

Moscow, To-day.

compelled. Adolf Hitler to abandon the very objectives in the Balkans for which he launched the European Wax M. Stalin also would have restricted Turkish action, und nullify Turkish influence in the The Soviet-Latvian Pact of mutual

Balkans.

assistance has been signed:

Reuter.

The domestic rubber quota has been raised to 72 per cent.

It is learned that neither Britain nor the Netherlands East Indies in- tends to terminate the tin quota agree- ment.-Reuter.

CZECH ARMY IN FRANCE

Paris, To-day.

The Czech army in France is to be reconstituted under an agreement signed by the French Premier, M. Daladier, and the Foreign Minister in the Provisional Czech Government, M. Osuky.-Reuter.

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