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NOT ARBITRATION,

AXIS WILL IMPOSE BALKAN AGREEMENT

COUNT CIANO was back in Germany yester-- day, and this time he is to be allowed to attend the talks which the Nazi Foreign Minister, Herr Ribben- trop, is to have with

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Count Ciano lunched with Hitler and Ribben- trop yesterday and then left with the latter for Vienna, where the talks are being held.

Count Csaky has already left Budapest for Vienna and the Rumanians were due to leave yes- terday afternoon.

anc

A Berlin spokesman told the press yesterday that Germany and Italy are not going to ar- bitrate between Rumania Hungary. What they will do i to hold the two countries to their task of finding

settle- ment.

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FRANCE'S

CHUNGKING

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AND MOVES IN INDO-CHINA

The Chinese Gov- ernment in Chung: king announces that. in the event of a Ja- panese landing in French Indo-China,

POWER SUPPLY it would at once

JEOPARDISED

So far, Rumania's attitude to SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"), Hungarian demands for Transyl- ivania has remained one of firm refusal, and public feeling against

yielding is as strong as ever.

Two-thirds of France's coal-driven electric powe

On the Hungarian side, it is In-industry must be convert- timated that Hungary will not be satisfied by the exchange of popu-ed into a hydro-electric lations Rumania is said to have system owing to the short- age of coal, says the "Paris Soir," to-day.

proposed. Reuter.

ex-

Bucharest Report To-day's meeting at Vienna is

Of 20 billion kilowatt hours pro- expected to produce quick results, duced throughout France, 9 billion states a message from Bucharest. are thermo-electric while 11 bil-

The German view as

lion are hydro-electric. pressed there is that while the At present, only lignitecoal is Axis has no intention of arbi-jobtainable in sufficient quantity trating it, intends to ensure that and 3 billion kilowatt hours can the Hungarians and Rumanians be maintained by using it. Thel settle their differences without Government has already endorsed, delay.

"take measures for self-de- fence by sending arm- ed forces to Indo- China to deal with the situation."

The statement said that it had been learned that Japan was planning to land troops in the French. colony and to "take other kinds of military: action with a view to attacking Chinese ter-

-Reuter. ritory."

10 plan to raise hydro-electric PRISON FOR

An apparently inspired article power production by 3° billion in the local German newspaper

kilowatt hours and another 3 bil- "Bukarester

Tageblatt" says: lion should be added if the pre- Justice now does not mean this sent kilowatt hour output be for that point of view - it means maintained.

order. Those who still do not understand the spirit of European organisation should know that the Axis powers have the means to carry out their plans."

The Rumanian attitude

ins that negotiations must be

re-

ated on the principle of ex-

change of populations.

FRAUD

The whole problem raises Chan Siu-tat, 27, was charged technical difficulties. Equipment before Mr. G. T. Lowry this. and construction of projects will morning, with fraudulent conver- .cost hundreds of millions of sion of medicine and dental cast- francs.

ings, entrusted to him by a Chin- ese doctor, Chung Mo-sai, in the Luk Kwok Hotel. -Defendant pleaded guilty.

Defendant was given a quantity

Credits To Industry

It is necessary, the paper adds, An inspired article in the Gov-that the Government should fin- of cloth, five shirts, 100 boxes of ernment newspaper "Romania" ance the construction of hydro- gold dental castings, six boxes of describes the principle as having electric plants and also extend dental rubber, a Zenith wireless been indicated to Rumania by the credits to various small industries set, 50 tins of Saccharine, and 30 Axis. Reuter.

+to enable them to use electric boxes of quinine, to deliver in

North Kwangtung.

· Solution Near, Say

Germans

power.

Finally, the paper concludes, Defendant sold the articles, Government control of prices is valued at $1,000; in Des Voeux necessary. Prices must remain Road West, and to the China Dis-` reasonable enough. to bring about pensary. (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL" an increased use of electricity. Defendant was sentenced to

Havas.

'four months' 'hard' labour.

German quarters in Bucharest assert that "the solution of the Rumano-Hungarian dispute over Transylvania is near, despite a Fudden tension in their relations,

a' clash between Rumanian fighter and a Hungar- ian bomber, Havas.

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