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ITALY TO CALL BALKANS CONFERENCE?

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Italy may soon`sum- mon a meeting of the Balkan States to which, however, only Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia will be invited, the Swiss pa- per "Basler Nachrich- ten" reports.

One of the aims of the conference, which will examine "all still- unsettled questions," will be the study of the probable attitude of Turkey and Greece. Havas..

SOVIET RECALLS ATTACHE

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BREWING

Greeks Mass Men DARING

Along Border

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THE BALKAN “MELTING". POT" HAS

| STARTED TO BUBBLE FIERCELY AGAIN, WITH REPORTS OF HEAVY GREEK CONCEN- TRATIONS TO OPPOSE ITALIAN DESIGNS AND HUNGARIAN ALLEGATIONS OF FUR- THER RUMANIAN ATROCITIES.

The possibility that Germany and Italy "may be compelled" to intervene is not hav ing a very calming effect.

FRENCH WOUNDED REACH HOME

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With 50,000 soldiers massed along her Alban- ian frontier, Greece is ready to oppose any Ita- lian territorial ambitions, according to informed ob- servers in Budapest.

Greece, however, is said to he seeking a compromise with Bulgaria.

Political quarters have learned A number of French wounded

that a Greek diplomatic mission soldiers who fought heroically in has arrived secretly in Sofia, the the Battle of Elanders have ar- Bulgar capital, and is prepared to (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")

rived in Marseillés from an undis-offer Bulgaria a corridor to the

Aegean Sea similar to the COLONEL IVAN GUSHANKO,

old SOVIET MILITARY ATTACHE closed British port on board

"Polish Corridor" to the Baltic. IN TOKYO, HAS BEEN ORDER- French steamer.

Meanwhile, Balkan tension has ED TO RETURN TO MOSCOW TO REPORT ON THE TRIPLE The wounded were accompanied by a small detachment of soldiers ALLIANCE. |: The-Colonel left Tsuruga

far of the French 43rd Infantry who Vladivostok on board the s.s. brought back their gloriously torn Harbin Maru. He is expected to flag- return early next month.

The troops rendered honours Political circles in Japan are while the wounded were transfer- following his visit to Moscow with red to trains which took them to great interest.—Havas.

hospitals-Havas.

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SPAIN MAY DEMAND GIBRALTAR

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SPAIN MAY forward to London in the near future a formal demand for the "return of Gibraltar” in the opinion of the French newspaper "Le Temps.

Such a demand was probably discussed by Senor Suner during the course of his visit to Berlin and Rome.

"Le Temps" continues:-

Although details are not ob tainable. It is persistently indicat- ed In Madrid, that Spain is not asking for any territorios which are not clearly Spanish.

not even definita terms for a future agreement were worked

out."

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THREE CASES OF CHOLERA

S.O.S. SIGNAL FLASHED BY BRITISH TANKER

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A New York mes- sage says that Mac- kay Radio has picked up an "SOS" signal from the tanker - Bri- tish General, report- ing that she had been torpedoed and was sinking rapidly 600 miles west of Land's End.

A vessel of 6,985 tons gross, the British General is a petroleum tanker owned by the British Tanker Co., Ltd. of London. She was built at Newcastle in 1922. -International News Service.

increased to its highest level since Hungary occupied Upper Transyl- vania, with allegations of Ruman- ian atrocities, including the 're- ported - machine-gunning of 38 Hungarian inmates of a concen- | ¡0000 trution.camp.

A now Balkan crisis appears to he brewing swiftly, and this "may impel" "re-Intervention by Germany and Italy..

Among the atrocity allegations is one of a reported bloody sup- pression of a mutiny of prisoners in a camp at Vitisca against the poor and insufficient food supplied to them.

Rumanian soldiers are said to have rushed into the camp, and fired a volley, at the mutinous crowd, killing 38 of them.

It is further alleged in Budapest that the police of the Lupeny coal- mines Killed two Hungarian bodies to Impress, other Hungar

miners and publicly hanged their lans in Lower Transylvania.. International News Service.

Italian Reticence (BPÉCIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”) Italian official quarters show considerable reticence in com menting on the Brenner meeting. the Rome correspondent of the Belgrade paper. "Politicas" re- ports.n

The correpondent says he un- Nevertheless, the same Spanish

derstands, however, that the de urcès assert that Spain is not Only three cases of cholera cisions reached "do not affect ouncing her historiq part in were reported on Saturday and South-Eastern Europe" and, that Mediterranean and Africa Sunday two from Kowloon and the talks mainly dealt with which are imposed on her by her one from Shaukiwani.

Spain and North Africa. Havas, There were also 44 cases of

NAVAL FEAT

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One of the most daring naval feats of the war has been disclosed by the safe return to. Alexandria, of the British warship which carried out the operation.

The warship was sent to bom- bard Italian naval and air bases at St. Amplia, in the Dodecanese Islands,

It stale along the fortified shores under cover of darkness, and opened up at almost point- blank range.

After a bombardment which" caught the. Italian defences en- tirely unawares and inflicted heavy damage, the warship slip- ped through the ring of fire open ed up too late by the Italian shore batteries, and escaped unscatched.

The big guns of the ship are reported to have caused

· tremendous havoc at St. Amă plia. International News Bar- vice.

NO CHANGE (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") France's position in Indo-China regarding Thailand. will not be changed following a recent state- ment made by the Thai Minister to the United States on Satur 000000000. day authorised circles in Vichy

state. Havas. ́.

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