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LONDON, TO-DAY.

IT IS PROBABLY TRUE THAT IN JAPAN THEY NO LONGER EXPECT VICTORY, EITHER THROUGH BATTLE OR THE SEIZURE OF TERRITORY, WRITES THE "MANCHESTER GUARDIAN."

SEE WELLES Their hope is for China to fall to them at last by sheer

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AMSTERDAM, TO-DAY.

SOMEWHAT BELATEDLY THE BERLIN NEWSPAPERS AND WIRE- LESS HAVE ANNOUNCED THE FORTHCOMING VISIT ΤΟ THE NAZI CAPITAL OF MR. SUMNER WELLES, THE U.S. UNDER SECRE- TARY OF STATE.

exhaustion and disunity.

The sufferings in China are certainly immense and may be worse. Nevertheless so greatly are the rulers of the people changed since the days when they were the tools of any strong unscrupulous foreign power unt their essential unity persists despite everything the Japanese an do.

What arms have not accomplished the Japanese think they cán achieve by statecraft. that

The correspondent of the "Nieuwe Botterdamsche Courant" learns

becomes, with Japan's

Wang Ching-wei,

Nearing End Of Economic Tether

Washington, To-day.

According to information

NO OFFICIAL INTIMATION

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Washington, To-day. Mr. Cordell Hull declined to comment last night on the Nazi clalm to the right to

torpado American ships which are divert- ed to British control bases.

"We have no official informa- told

tlon on the subject," he journalists. Havas.

NAZI-SOVIET

instrument for establishing reaching Government cir- MILITARY

Mr. Welles will be received by Hiteral Chiang Kai-shek surrenders and The plan is simplicity itself. Gen- ler, Joachim von Ribbentrop (the Foreign Minister) and Field-Marshal Goering.

Meanwhile in Rome, the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Clano, gave! an audience to the U.S. Ambassador, Mr. William Phillips, and examined questions dealing with Mr. Welles' visit. Havas.

No Official Support For Report

her "new order" in East Asla.

The only difficulty is that the plan seems to have no particular relation to the facts. Reuter,

CAUCASUS

London, To-day. TROOP

The "News Chronicle" reports that the Pope has asked his agents in London, Paris and Berlin to sound out reactions to the forthcoming tour of U.S. Under-secretary of State Mr. Sumner Welles.

Enquiries at the Apostolic Delega- tion office in London do not support the report-Reuter,

SHOULD EMBASSY BE MOVED?

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London, To-day. Another aspect of the China situation will be rais- ed in the House of Commons on Feb. 20 when Mr. Rupert de la Bere (Conservative,

MOVEMENTS

RUMOURED

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") LONDON, TO-DAY. PERSISTENT BUT UNCONFIRM- ED RUMOURS ASSERT THAT RUS- 8IA 18 MASSING TROOPS IN THE CAUCASUS, ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY OF THE STRATEGIC BAKU OILFIELDS AND THE BAKU. BATUM PIPE-LINE.

IT IS RECALLED THAT BIMILAR CONCENTRATIONS WERE MADE LAST YEAR BUT THE RED TROOPS WERE WITHDRAWN AS A FRIEND- LY GESTURE TO TURKEY AFTER THE VISIT TO MOSCOW OF THE TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER. HAVAB.

MAERSK

Evesham) will ask the Pre- BOAT SUNK

mier if the Government will consider moving the British Embassy in China.

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") OSLO, TO-DAY.

Mr. de la Bere will point out that

THE CREW OF THE MAERSK the American and Russian Embassies | LINE *- FREIGHTER CHASTINE enjoy a more favourable position by MAERSK WERE RESCUED AFTER reason of their geographical proximity THE SHIP WAS-TORPEDOED BY A to the headquarters of the Chinese NORTH SEA WHILE ON THE WAY GERMAN SUBMARINE IN THE Government.

TO DENMARK FROM MOROCCO.

All 30 hands and officers are safe. —Havas.

He will ask whether the British Government will not seek the saine easy access for commercial and poli- tical negotiations-Havas

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The Chastine Maersk, a vessel of 5,177 tons, was built in 1823 and last visited Hong Kong last year. She ORT>-North-East | is a sister-ship of the Nicoline Maersk, which is now lying at Kowloon Docks,

cles here, Japan's economic

future is being more and ALLIANCE?

more threatened-especially by labour shortages, the rise

London, To-day.

It is reported here that a Nazi-

in the cost of living, and the Soviet military #greement has been

possibility of inflation.

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signed and will become effective if the war spreads to the Balkans, Near

The termination of the American-East or Scandinavia Reuter.

Japanese trade treaty and the threat of-an-embargo are causing added dis-" location.

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Berlin, To-day.

Reports of a miltary agreement are not confirmed in Berlin, where well- The Japanese are said to be order-informed quarters suggest the rumours ing heavy purchases of ore, tin, copper, etc., in view of a possible embargo

soun.

were "prepared in London to frighten Scandinavia."--Reuter.

Varlous currency measures have

The proposal for a Government been suggested, one being that che lottery has, it is understood, been re- ques should be used instead of cash. 'jected by the Cabinet-Reuter.

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