NEWS AND NOTES
The conference on the Sino-Japa-nese dispute opened at Brussels, Dr. Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister, presiding over representatives of 19 nations. Dr. Spaak said that Japan's refusal to attend made the task of the conference most difficult, but he must emphasise that the conference was not a tribunal before which Japan could be haled as a culprit. Pleas to the Government to seize the opportunity of completing a trade agreement with the United States in which New Zealand, Australia and Canada could co-operate, and for a modification of Imperial preference was made in the House of Commons on Mr. Lloyd George's amendment. The body of John Thomas Demsey, aged 39, driver of the transport truck which disappeared on October 11 and was found in the Kingslake Hills district, near Melbourne, was discovered in a sack buried only a few feet from the vehicle. Storm troopers, led by Hitler's Youth, in attacks against Jewish merchants in Danzig, Langfurt and Zoppot, have destroyed goods bought from Jewish shops, which were picketed preparatory to the launching of a street pogrom, in which armed semi-uniformed bands attacked Jews.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4565, 5 November 1937, Page 1
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