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AUSTRALIAN OFFICIAL For Tokio Minisky | Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received September 10, 9.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 9. The Australian, Mr Keith Officer, is going to Australia in the Clipper on September 21, and is arriving in At sf alia on September 28. H-> will remain ten days before going to Tokio to join the Australian Embassy there. AUSTRALIA AND U.S.A. (Received September 10, 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 8. Mr Bloom, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, endorsed the idea of strengthening AustralianAmerican ties. He said that, at present, there was no necessity for a defensive agreement similar to the Canadian-U.S. one, but new developments might make it desirable in future. THE DUTCH INDIES (Received September 10, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 9. The British United Press Batavia correspondent says: The Japanese delegation to the Dutch East Indies is arriving on Friday next. They will find the Dutch East Indies on a virtual war footing, with bomb shelters constructed, and other air raid precautions organised. Volunteer forces that are in training, under martial law, include antiparachute units. There has been great public satisfaction at the arrival of a shipment of Curtis fighter planes from America. INDO-CHINA RUGBY, September 9. French Indo-China, according to reports reaching official quarters in London, has not accepted the Japanese demands for the passage of troops through their territory. There was a further violation by a few Japanese .troops, but this was solved without fighting. ANOTHER DEADLOCK REPORTED (Received September 10, 8.15 p.m.) HANOI, September 9. The French Indo-China-Japanese negotiations are reported to have reached a deadlock, following the departure of two chiefs of the Japanese Mission. French quarters are favourably impressed by the reports of alleged negotiations between Washington and Moscow, •••hich are reagrded as of the highest mportance to Indo-China's future. JAPAN AND SOVIET TOKIO, September 9. The retired Lieutenant-General Yoshitsygu Tatekawa is .Japan's new Ambassador to Moscow. After his retirement from the Army, he headed the Kenkokukai national patriotic organisation. JAPANESE SHIPS. CUT SHORT VOYAGES TO BRITAIN. (Received September 10, 11.10 p.m ' LISBON, September 10. Japanese ships that were bound for England have been ordered to put into Lisbon. Three of them have arrived. Several more are expected.