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FRENCH ARMY IN INDO-CHINA REORGANIZED

Very Successful Manoeuvres Held

HANOI, Feb. 6 (Havas)—The French Indo-China Argy has Just completed manoeuvres in the Kamjot region of Cambod- gia on the right bank of the Mekong River. The manoeu- vres were the first to take place following the thorough re-organization” of ' Indo- China's army last year.

PERSONNEL DOUBLED

GENERAL

Huge Drive For Arms Production ARMS EMBARGO In Britain AGAINST JAPAN

CO - OPERATION. BY

WORKERS

URGED BY I.P.C.

CHUNGKING, Feb. 6 (Central) -Lord R Cecil, President of the LONDON, Feb. 6 (Reuter)-The International Peace Campaign, determination of "British workers has sent cable messages to the to help the Government in its new ¦ American Committee for Non- huge drive for arms production participation in the Japanese Ag- was expressed yesterday by thegression and the American Amalgamated Engineering Bulon, branch of the International Peace Representatives of the Union Campaign" urging them to exert visited the Minister of Labour, Mr. | their efforts to prevent any Ernest Brown, who explained to modus vivendi after the expira- them the details of the new effort. tion of the Japanese-American Treaty of Commerce and Naviga: tlon "or 1911 and to effect an arms embargo against Japan,

AMBITIOUS PROGRAMME ME. Fred Smith, Secretary of the Union, said. “It is one of the most ambitious programmes I have ever seen." The Government, he said, asked the Union to help them to get the labour which would be. needed and "we have given an undertaking to do everything pos- sible to assist.”

The Minister, Mr. Smith revealed. placed before them "a document which he wishes them to examine and a further meeting will be held

in from ten to fourteen days' time, VAST LABOUR

"Fantastic Anti-Soviet Inventions"

PRESS BUREAU WARNING

The Government is concentra- LONDON, Jan. 4-Asserting that ting on. Its arms drive and vast"fantastic anti-Boviet inventions". labour, torce will be required. The concerning the progress of the war Government very much appreciated in Finland are being circulated what the Trade Unions Ead from Helsingfors and other already done Mr. Smith concluded Scandinavian capitals, the Soviet Embassy's Press Bureau warns against "nasty conclusions based on doubtful evidence."

Mosley Makes A Charge

The Press Bureau also attacked

reports of civilian casualties re- sulting from air raids on unforti- fed towns, which it'said had been

RECENT HECKLING described in "rid terms,"

IN COMMONS MANCHESTER, Feb. 6 (Kenter) Sir Oswald Mostes. Fuchrer of the British Union of Fascists, in speech yesterday denied the allegations made in the House of Commons that his sister-in-law, Miss Enity Mitford, had been aiding the enemy.

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A CHARGE

He also charged that a man. believed to be a Mosley, adherent, who Interrupted the recent speech The Army was numerically by Mr. Winston Churchill, at doubled as far as material and Manchester, was taken backstage equipment and renewed facilities and there mercilessly beaten. were created in Indo-China for The Conservative Party spokes- ensuring that the Army would man denied this have a supply of ammunition.

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The Bureau said, "reports of a leading news agency Dec. 29 esti- mate civilian casualties at only 100 killed and: 100 wounded."

The statement, which did not identify the news agency, added:

*"The absurdity of accusations against the Red Air Force are seen in comparison with the 72 killed and 3,637 wounded in a Japanese air raid on Chungking." Ne

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The statement asserted numerous discrepancies had ap peared in reports from Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, and elsewhere,

Commenting on sorles that Russian troops were inadequately equipped, the statement said that oną, newspaper, had printed a pie- ture of the Finnish General, Kurt alleged captured Russian air pilot Martti Wallenius, talking to an

who wore tattered garments.

Special attention was devoted to out under the direction of one of the Air Force, and numerous the ablest war chiefs, the Gover training personnel were engaged nor-General, M. Carroux. and for training recruits. "

showed entirely satisfactory re- salts during the recently complet-helmet such as all. Soviet Allers "The pilot was not wearing a

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The statement also said that the Russian cruiser Koff had first been reported sunk, then disabled and, finally towed into the harbor of Tallinn by three Estonian tugs. In refutation the Bureau quoted an Estonian Army officer as sayingTM the Kiro had not been in Tal- linn since mid-October,

WOMEN SPIES ARRESTED IN SWITZERLAND

BERNE, Feb. 6 (Raufar)--å woman of foreign nationality, Ifving in a hotel at LanisaaIN 8, was arrested in connection with a Swiss exploriage case, sccord- ing to the Lausanne Gazette.

Another woman, believed to be German Hving in Basle, and a maif were arrested in a hotel at Often yesterday on suspicion of spying,

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KATINAS, FED 6 (Keuter)-A Koenigsberg dispatch, says that thirty-two Germans, including eigh Municipal officia's tried before a Special Court in Keonigsberg on charges involving the illegal granting and receiving of ration cards.

One official was sentenced to death, twenty-seven others were sentenced to terms of hard labour varying from two months to fifteen years and the remaining four were acquitted,

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