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-RUSSIA REJECTS

NAZI REQUEST

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Stockholm, To-day.

Press reports state that Count von Schulenburg, the. 'German Ambassador in Moscow, asked M. Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Commissar, to allow German warships to use Murmansk and also the Murmansk-Leningrad rallway.

M. Molotov is said to have re- fused, asserting Russia wished to remain aloof from the northern confilct-Havas.

ODD FACTS IN GERMAN INTERNEE CASE

A case with strange features came before Mr. R. Edwards this morning.

Two Germans, from the Internment Camp, were charged with being va- grant in the Colony,

They Walter Katz, 22.

were Askar Grosz, 35, and

Gratz pleaded guilty, while Katz told the Court that he had $17.50 in Chinese money and $8 in H.K. cur- rency. He also had money in Shang- hai.

Sergeant H. A. Taylor, of the Special Branch,

Court told the

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(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Paris, To-day.

The French Minister to Denmark, accompanied by the whole French colony in

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Copenhagen, has arrived STOP PRESS

here.

He confirmed that all British, French and Polish diplomatic staffs have now left Denmark, but other nationals of the three countries were compelled to remain behind, including a few news- paper correspondents,

Polish diplomats were allowed to leave Copenhagen only after their British and French colleagues de- clared they would not leave without them.

Then Danish Foreign Ministry facilitated the diplomats' departure.— Havas.

ON WESTERN FRONT Paris, To-day.

Last night's French war communi- que stated that on several points of the front west of the Vosges enemy infantry units, supported by artillery, tried to force our lines.

They were repulsed and losses. Reuter.

suffered

on

that defendants were released from the Internment Camp Saturday morning, and were lat- er arrested on instructions.

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He asked the Court to withdraw the charge against second defendant.

Grotz was ordere tɔ be sent to the House of Detention!

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London, To-day. Japan, has been secretly build- ing a

vast fleet of super-dread- noughts greatly exceeding the size of any British or American bat tleships in servico, according to reliable information reaching na- val and diplomatic circles In York Washington, says the New correspondent of the "Dally Mall." "Japan is expected to an- nounce a tremendous secret fleet soon. It was intended to spring it on the world as one of the big- gest, naval shocks in recent his- tory, but now the information has leaked out in Tokyo," says the cor- respondant.

naval

"Japanese

construction has been kept secret for some time, though it was believed that they were building three, pos-. sibly four, battleships of between 40,000 and 60,000 tons, some of which would soon be ready for service."

"Now it is learned that Japan is rushing to completion certain- ly eight, possible twelve of these super-dreadnoughts."-Reuter.

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