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MATERIAL BEING COLLECTED FOR A VIOLENT EXPLOSION

IN A QUITE SPECIAL DEGREE THERE IS

A FEELING THAT MATERIAL IS BEING COL: SOLDIER IN

LECTED FOR A GREAT EXPLOSION, SAYS THE "STOCKHOLM HANDELS-TIDNINGEN.”

The impression that great happenings are in preparation is singularly strong and the atmosphere is loaded with dynamite.

It would require unshakable self-posses- Sion in Mr. Matsuoka not to notice the annoy- ing events during his visits to Berlin and Rame.

JAPAN HAS NO "AGGRESSIVE DESIGNS"

Colonel Jiro Saito, new] chief of the Japanese

Just As the honoured guest reaches Berlin, Yugoslavia creeps from the snare thrown over her head.

It would be remarkable if the superstitious Italians should not think Mr. Matsuoka has an evil

eye.

CHILDREN'S COURT

AFTER APPEARING AT EN- FIELD JUVENILE COURT A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD ARMY

PRIVATE ACCUSED OF BEING AD DESERTER WARY ESCORT

REMAND-

was

He had been brought before the adult court, where his age given as eighteen. When it was learned that his real age is sixteen he was handed over to the juvénile court,

His mother said her boy. had volunteered. giving his age as eighteen. She had sent a copy of his birth certificate to his. com- manding officer. It was the sec- and time he had run away from the Army.

Since the misfortune, of Yuge slavia changing her attitude coincided with his arrival In Berlin, his visit to Italy. wan celebrated by the loss of thred-i Italian cruisers and three de Near East is done by a hand... stroyers. How the battleship' turn.

fared is not clear.

It could not be easy for Mus-

The

"Svenska Dagbladet" points out that Mr. Matsuoka was expected in Berlin- at a time when the Axia, was scor- Ing one diplomatic, success after another, and the Axis Pact was

· signatura», securing new

A0 the Yugoslav coup was a fatal welcome.

military mission in south-solini to feel himself easy under ern French Indo-China, these circumstances when he re-

ceived the honoured guest. in his first interview since assumption of his duties, Right: Sovereignly told the "Associated However the occupation of the Press" that no Nippon bottom of the sea may be, the garrison troops will arrive right sovereignly by the British. BUT THIS MISFORTUNE IS Em-NOTHING COMPARED TO THE this region "unless pire's centre at Cairo than in REVERSE FOR GERMANY'S

in there is an outbreak of Far Eastern war which is not likely unless America provokes a conflict.”

The colonel, an expert on Siam- ese military affairs and for a long time a resident of Honolulu, de- clared "Japan has no aggressive aspirations southward from here." He added Japanese does not desire! to declare war on any country "and thus a Far Eastern war de- pends upon America's attitude and action in the Far East. Am- erica at the present time has a selfish attitude of interfering in Asia and Europe."

The Nippon officer, who termed

surface of the sea is controlled

Mr. Eden is more in the

London, and the Japanese will BALKAN PLAN WHICH THE YUGOSLAV REGIME find it hard to get an impression NEW that British expulsion from the CONSTITUTES. REUTER.

LLOYD GEORGE WARNS AGAINST VICTORY DAZZLE

THE MINISTER of Agriculture said in the himself pro-American," scoffed Commons. yesterday that since 1914 the amount of at reports that Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka while arable land under crops had actually decreased by in Berlin may throw over the Axis 42 million acres. For every thousand acres of friendship as a result of deter- cultivated land in the last war there were 1195 mined American aid to England. human beings to be fed and the figure was now He claimed Japan was seeking a stronger Axis relationship.

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for a policy of American-British

Referring to United States aid to Britain, Colonel Saito asked "why should America send sons and

Moreover, there had been a general decline in sweethearts to fight in an unpro- the fertility of British soil taking the country as a whole. Between the outbreak of the last war and this-war the production of fodder and root crops for livestock had fallen by no less than one third.

fitable European conflict?"

Meanwhile Saigon authorities denied Tokyo reports that the Hanoi French colonial government

was preparing to give native. Indo- China its independence.

In the last war 2,300,000 acres, farming practice all promising re- had been ploughed up. By next sults of scientific research. Spring it was expected that

SANDBAGS SLASHED 3,750,000 acres would be ploughed

up.

IN THE BLACK-OUT He did not think anyone could

legitimately say the farming com- munity had not made a remark- Sandbag slashing in Cambridgeable contribution. is, causing concern to the authori- As regards labour, the Secretary ties. Bags of sand which have for War last week lent him 3,000 been tied in pairs to lamp-posts-mambers of the Pioneer Corps all over the town as part of the There were a certain number of fire-fighting precautions have been conscientious objectors, and allens cut during the black-out and left on the job and they still had on the pavement,

hopes they might get some Ger- man prisoners.

In one district more than fifty have been damaged.

- Meat: Shortage

with regard to future policy he said there was bound to be a meat shortage. The shortage of im- ported meati, would continue „for several months and British, agri- culture would have to step into the breach to make good the short- age to maintain the meat ration of the people.

We should have, to keep up Cour dairy herds, gatting, rid of poor, yielders. There, would have to baja slight reduction of mbat cattle. GARDENER Numbers of sheep would have to be kept up and there would have to be ploughing up of grassland, an in- a good deals more

better cultivation. tensifed drainage, campaign and

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In an appeal to the public the Parks And Goff Chief Constable, Mr. R. J. Pear- son said: "Apart from the riska Speaking of parks, golf courses, caused if the sandbags should; be and derelict land, he had come to required in an emergency, the the conclusion it was better to use loose sandbags are an obvious available labour machinery and danger to pedestrians and other fertilisers increasing the produg road users at night.'

tion of existing arable land að compared with possible production

Mr. Lloyd George; speaking in which might be obtained by bring-:| the debates, kald that, in this ing such land under cultivation; grave hour the life of the na- ** In the last seven months'agri tion depended on agriculture. cultural committees, had done. We were rejoicing in stories of nearly, as much for reclaiming the most brillant victories on land as the Italian Government land, at sea and in the air that had done. In 13 years in ra- had ever, illumined the military. olaiming the Pontine Marshes annals of this country. They- A new body was to be created dazzled our eyes but we, must which would be concerned to de+ take.care they did not blind vise methods of incorporating info | — British Wireless!

Tendes a JENK IN THE MINEFIELD

Lam Lap Ming, master of a trading Junk, was this morning fined $20 by Commander J, Jolly for anchoring. In the Tathong. Channel Minefield. The junk was 'carrying-a-cargo of 1,500-tips of kerosene,