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GERMAN PRESS COMMENT

Rhineland Zone Defences

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

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and contains about of the entire population of the Reich. It is the seat of the most important indus- trial centre. This district, it is now demanded, shall remain un- fortified and defenceless, while on the other hand France began in 1927 to establish an enormous fór- "Oh, well," consoled his symptified zone opposite the German athetic neighbour "such is life.rontier, stretching from Belgium Many a man with wholesale am- Switzerland. bitions has to content himself with a retail business."

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Home."

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TUESDAY, MARCH 17, Anniversaries and Holidays. the equality of rights in the quest. Patrick's Day. tion of security. The line of de-

Clotmas. The mighty engines of the liner

fences, which Germany must re- King's:-"Riffraff." chief throbbed ceaselessly. The engineer wiped a perspiring fore-serve the right of constructing, re- Queen's: "The head as he scowled at the pale-present nothing but measures of the at- defence for the protection of the faced young man with

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UNEASINESS IN ITALY

› Grave European

Situation

any case, the "Korrespon denz" goes on to say, fortifications

cannot be built in a day-they need years. That had been clear- ly shown in France, where the fortifications which were begun in 1927 are still incomplete.

must not be What, moreover, lost out of sight, is the fact that the new German fortifications in the west would never be carried out on the scale of the French ones, when it was considered that ur til now France had spent more than 8 milliard Francs on them. Germany could never af- ford to do that."- Prapantean News Hervice.

CIVIL ESTIMATES IN BRITAIN

Rome, March y3. While officially Italy is said to

London, Mar. 14 regard the outcome of the Londori

The civil estimates for a total of conversatioris between Locarno Powers and the League of Na- £9,400,128, showing an increase of members with £544,382 over the figures for the Council equanimity, the situation is be- current year are issued to-day. ginning to be viewed with a cer- The estimates include the Foreign consular tain uneasiness, owing to the ten-Office, diplomatic and

services, League of Nations. Do- sion created.

minions and Colonial Omces and

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the

Signor Dino Grandi, Italian Ambassador in London, at the meeting of the Locarno Powers, maintained that the situation in Europe was undoubtedly the gra- vest since the Great War.

This was due, he declared, to

essentially

and "arbitrary iniquitous" policy of sanctions followed by the Powers at Cheneva, and as long as the Ethiopian question was unsolved in accord- ance with the dictates of justice nothing could be expected from Italy except an attitude of watch- ful reserve..

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Hendaye, Mar. 14. There was further serious rioting The estimate tof non-effective charges pensions-also issued in Madrid last night when demon- shows a net decrease of £1,001:487strators fired and burned down two large churches in the centre over the current year at a total of

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CHÍNA ART TREASURES

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