LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1938, Page 8

LATE MESSAGES

LONDON. April IT. Despite the opposition by Mr. Alex under and other members of Parlia meat, the Co-operative Party passec a resolution instructing the Nationa Committee to discuss with the Laboui Party, the methods for the earliest replacement of the present Government in order to secure peace and, safeguard British democracy. LONDON, April 17. The “Telegraph’s” Paris correspondent says: M. Daladier and M. Bonnet will arrive in London to-morrow, and expected to stay forty-eight hours. In addition to> military, naval and air discussions, the conversations will cover every field of international politics, in which Britain and France are interested, especially the British —Italian pact, the Spanish question, and Central Europe problems. It is anticipated that the discussions will be followed up when The’r Majesties visit France in June.

SHANGHAI, April 17. Apparently staking the fate of the North China campaign upon frontally overwhelming the Shantung line toward Hsuchow, the Japanese are abandoning hundreds of miles of territory in Shensi and North Honan, rushing reinforcements to Hsuchow, in order to synchronise the onslaught with the northward drive from Nankin along the Southern Tientsin-Pukow line. LONDON, March 17. Hull cinema operators are joining the London strikers, but performances in London were little affected, owing to substitutions. LONDON, March 17. Hilsinki Yezhov, Chief of the Ogpu, is reported to have arrested seven Generals on charges of plotting to assassinate, by bomb, Stalin and Voroshilov on May 1, when attending a parade in Red Square. The arrested are Yegcrov, former Commissar of De- ‘ fence; Inktorox, local Commander; ; Alhsnis, a former commander of the < Air Force: Kasynin, Commander in the Caucasus; Dybenko, Military Chief j at Leningrad; Bielov, Commander in ■ the Minsk district, and Garbanshev, < who allegedly committed suicide in t gaol. , . c