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November 1, 1940.
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FRANCE NOT TO FIGHT BRITAIN
M. Laval's Assurances Special to the "Telegraph"
VICHY, Oct. 31 (UP),--M. Pierre Laval indicated that France would have no part in a against Britain.
to-day
U.S. To Build Ships U.S. Interest In Vichy
For Britain
OPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UP).
| The Sceretary of the Treasury, Mr.
Henry Morgenthau, said the British
| Government has placed orders with
Policy Answered
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (Reuter).-M. Henri Haye, the American builders for a "large num- French Ambassador, to-day gave the State Department renewed assurance that the United States had nothing to fear from possible developments affecting French possessions in the West-
ern Hemisphere.
ber of new freight ships,
The fact that the Brilsh Govern Mrs. Earl Browder ring with Mr. Suniner Welles, M.
Won't Disclose Details WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (Reuter).
warment had ordered a large number of
freighters from the United States was disclosed by Mr. Henry Morgenthau,
be
To Leave
Talking to pressmen after confer- Haye said he had delivered assurances that negotiations between France, Germany and Italy did not involve Secretary of the Treasury, to-day, WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (Reuter)-the question of any cession of terri whether the orders involved the con-ed departation to Russia of Mrs. many.
He said that he did not know The Department of Justice has order- tory or a separate peace with Ger-
He stressed that collaboration with Germany would colonial as well as economic, but he emphasised that "collabora tion excludes all ideas of aggression."
struction of a new shipyard in the Raissa Berkman Browder, wife of A message received from Vichy last The Vichy Foreign Minister ing France taken at the Florence United States for exclusive British Earl Browder, the Communist leader, night, he said, denied that Geryst stated this when he received the meeting between Hitler and Musso.Use and declined to give details be-on the ground that she entered thehad, made any proposal for formal | press at the Hotel Matignon Inn, are likely to be the subject of yond saying that the British had United States illegally.
Paris to-night.
He warned hig hearers that negotiations between France and Germany would be very dificult ps long as military operations continued.
However, he declared that France! was preparing a precise answer to the German questionnaire and hoped to be able to give an answer soon.
Florence Meeting
ZURICH, Oct. 31 (Beuter)-Deci- sions of capital importance concern-
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Viceroy Of India To Stay
10,000-Ton Vessels
married in
The Browders were Moscow in 1926.
British Garrison In Mr. Arthur Purvis, head of the
Iceland Visited British Purchasing Mission, later ex- plained that he was trying especially
LONDON, Oct. 31 (Reuter). To buy 10,000 ton cargo vessels.
General Viscount Gert, Inspector- The number to be purchased would General of the Forces for Training, LONDON, Oct; 31 (Reuter) Lord depend largely on the number avall-hans returned to England after a Linlithgow's term of office as Viceroy abic. Some might be purchased in fortnight's visit to the troops in Ice- of India is extended for a further Canada but the bulk of business was land, according to a War Office an-
expected to go to American ship nouncement. perlod of a year from April, 1941.
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peace in the negotiations,
M. Haye added that he had not yet ceived any reply from Marshal. Petain to President Roosevelt's message with regard to French Dossessions in the Western Henis- phere.
Former British Judge
In China Dead Sir Frederick Bourne, Judge of his Majesty's Supreme Court at Welhaiwei from 1904 to 1916, died at the Firs, Mayfield, on August 23.
Frederick Samuel Augustus Bourne was born on October 3, 1854, his father being the Rev. S. W. Bourne He was educated at St. Edmund's School, Canterbury, and in 1873 became a clerk in the War Office, Three years later he joined the China
Service
and in 1885-86
wan service exploring the country bordering on Tonking. For his services at Chungking in 1886 he received the thanks of the President of the United States.
Consun speciat
In 1990 he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn, and three yeara later was appointed vice-consul at Canton. He was consul in charge of the Blackburn Commercial Mission In 1890-97. Before being elevated to his judgeship at Weihniwel, he had been from 1901 to 1910 Assistant Judge of his Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Corea at Shanghai.
In 1889 he married Isabel Alice, daughter of the late Rev, Dr. J.
Chalmers, and had two sons and _daughter.
MR. KENNEDY'S FUTURE
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NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (Reuter).— The U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy, may become hend of the Defence Commission, the "Barnic Baruch of the new World War," if President Roosevelt Is elected,
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This is suggested by two noted columnists in the "New York World- Telegram."
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