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"Drink No Coffee" Lawlessness In Italians Told Hongkew Area
ROME, May. 10—“Drink no, moro coffco" is the order given to Italians by Signor Achille Storage,' secretary of the Fascist Party, in the ometat Gazette to-day.
Britain Tells Japan
Of Difficulties
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LONDON, May 10-During ques- tion-time in the House of Commons to-day.
Sir John Haslam asked
"In this manner," he says, "wo whether the attention of the Japan- ahall get even with those countries ese Government had been called to who will not exchange coffee for our the dimculties experienced by the goods, but which insist upon money Shanghal Municipal Coupell in pre- in advance."—Trans-Octan.
serving law and order in the Settle- ment, owing to the chootle conditions and lawlessness prevailing in the
districts Jupanese-controlled
sur- BOMBAY, May 10-Dr. Hjalmar rounding the Settlement. To-day's Sales:-010 tona.
Schacht, former President of the
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JAPAN'S POLICY
TOKYO, May 11. UNDER THE caption "New Inde- pendent. Diplomacy," the "Kokumin Shimbun" declares that although! Japan is bound with Germany and Italy in the anti-Comintern front Japanese national sentiment feels no great need for co-operation with Germany and Iinly in suppressing Comintern activities.
Declaring that the Totalitarianism system in Germany and Italy has not appealed to Japanese imagination, the paper belleves that Japanese
Battles are not
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paper understands that the sympathy and community of interests between Japan and the European Powere provide the bases for their friendship and the friendly senti- ments
felt hv
the Japanese nation Germany and Italy will soon if the latter supplies arms or granting loans to Chiria.
The Japanese nation will distin- Kuish friendly Powers from indirect foes on the basis of whether, they will co-operate with Japan in the building up of a new order in East Asia, the "Kokumin Shimbun" con- tinues.
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Situation Worsens
Moscow, May 11.
In an editorial to-day, the Izvestia eltes "o turn for 'hte worse in the whole political situation as a result of Hitler's pronouncement in the Reichstag."
"The Soviet has held and will continue to hold that if Britain and France really want to create a barrier against aggression in Europe, a united front of mutual assistance should be created primarily of the threa principle powers in
Franco and the Europe-Britain,
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cd.
Diplomatic circles here interpret this as meaning that the Italian Foreign Minister has possibly induced the German Foreign Minister not to precipitate a Danzig crisis.
In some quarters it is interpreted as meaning that Hitler has decided to use "wearing down" tactics against Poland instead of a trontal attack.- United Press.
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