PLANS WRECKED

Evening Star, Issue 23352, 23 August 1939, Page 11

PLANS WRECKED

JAPANESE ADHERENCE TO AXIS AMBASSADOR IN ROME TO CALL ON GIANO ROME, August 22. (Received August 23, at 8 a.m.) The Japanese Ambassador is calling on Count Ciano, as the pact wrecks the plans for Japan’s adherence to the Axis. PREMIER AND WAR MINISTER CONFER TOXIO, August 22. (Received August 23, at 8 a.m.) Baron Hiranuma and General Itagaki conferred on the new; situation arising from the Russo-German pact. RUSSIA NOW EXPECTED TO MOVE IN THE EAST PEKING, August 22. (Received August 23, at 8 a.m.) Russia is expected to drive towards China now that she is free of Europe. It is considered that Japan has learned a hitter lesson of the value of antiComintern assurances. CHINESE EXPECT RUSSIAN SUPPORT REINFORCEMENTS FOR MANCHUKUO CHUNGKING, August 22. (Received August 23, at 8 a.m.) The Chinese expect strong Russian support. The Soviet is already sending reinforcements to Manchukuo. HUNGARIAN OPINION

POLAND’S FATE SEALED BUDAPEST, August 22. It is considered that Poland’s fate is sealed, and that Western Powers are now unable to assist any small Powers in the east of Europe. RUMANIA EXPECTS CRISIS LONDON, August 22. A message from Bucharest says it is considered that Poland might well lay down her arms. A crisis is expected on August 25. HERR FOERSTER JUBILANT " FREE CITY NEARING ITS END" DANZIG, August 22. (Received August 23, at 8 a.m.) Herr Foerster, addressing German jurists, said: “ You will he able to say that you were the last body to-meet in the so-called Free City, which is nearing its end.” Herr Foerster was in excellent spirits. DR FRANK'S IDEAS HITLER AS BRINGER OF PEACE DANZIG, August 22. (Received! August 23, at 8 a.m.) Dr Frank, addressing jurists, said Herr Hitler, by bringing Danzig to the Reich, would lay the basis for a legal community and peaceful nations and would avert the danger of a war destroying Europe’s culture. The allied associated Potvers which had established Danzig would no longer exist. GERMAN RESERVISTS SUDDEN CALL ON MORE MEN BERLIN, August 22. (Received August 23, at 8 a.m.) More German army reservists were called up suddenly. RUMOURS HEARD IN SOFIA CHARGES AGAINST M. STALIN SOFIA, August 22. (Received August 23, at 8 a.m.) Reports of a possible Russo-German rapprochement had been circulating in Sofia for days. M. Riskilnikov, former Soviet Minister at Sofia, in a letter to the Bulgarian newspaper ‘ Utro,’ declared that M. Stalin had destroyed the Communist party, established a personal autocracy, and continued to undermine the authority of the military leaders, despite the threatening international situation.