NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4802, 26 June 1939, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

A letter, signed by the Archbishop of York and 20 Bishops, urges that July 9 be observed throughout the churches as a day of prayer for China. It says that since July, 1937, 1,000,000 Chinese have been killed and 60,000,000 made homeless, and are now refugees.

Mr. Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, replying to a question in regard to Tientsin, said that Britain did not intend immediate retaliation against Japan.

The Japanese are apparently climbing down at Swatow, according to a report from the British United Press correspondent at Tokyo. He says the Japanese Foreign Office spokesman declared that the Japanese Navy’s actions had been grossly misinterpreted.

A communique from Hsinking states that a severe clash occurred between Russians and Japanese on the Manchukuo border. Eighteen Japanese aeroplanes went aloft and brought down 49 of 150 Russian aeroplanes which had crossed the border. Five Japanese machines crashed.

The pact between France and Turkey has been signed. The signatories agree to help each other in case of an act of aggression which might lead to war in the Mediterranean. France affirms her intention of maintaining the mandatory position in Syria.

“The Times” Moscow correspondent says that British and French delegates are pushing on the task of satisfying the Soviet, which maintains that bloodless German domination of the Baltic States by economic and other pressure is equivalent to aggression, just as similar domination of Belgium and Holland could not be tolerated by Britain and France.

Ostensibly convinced that the lending and spending programme of 1938 has been 'insufficient to cope with economic recession, President Roosevelt announced a new lending programme in excess of 3,800,000,000 dollars in order to hasten recovery.