NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4805, 3 July 1939, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

The Japanese have carried out their threat to intensify the Tientsin blockade, says the Hongkongcorrespondent of the Daily Telegraph. They have closed all the barriers and electrified 22 miles of entanglements, permitting entrances but no exits to the British and French concessions.

A rebellious House of Representatives killed President Roosevelt's hopes for revision of the neutrality law at this session, when it adopted legislation virtually re-enacting the present law, including the Republi-can-sponsored provision for an arms embargo from which, however, American warplanes are excluded.. The vote was 200 to 188.

• The French Ambassador to Warsaw conferred with the French Prime minister, M. Daladier, says a message from Paris. It is believed that he brought the latest conditions on which Poland is prepared to negotiate.' Tentative discussions between Poland and Germany are unconfirmedly reported to have been initiated.

While alarmist speculations regarding Danzig are discounted and deprecated in London, official quarters have made it clear that the situation is closely and continuously watched in consultation with the French Government. Neither in Paris nor u London, however, do the events whici are known to have occurred nor developments which are forecast with or without foundation in reports froni abroad, call for any new decision.

' The British National Council of Labour has appealed to the German people denouncing German ganda lies and urging the workers to insist that disputes be settled without war. The appeal is being broadcast from secret Continental stations and is being distributed throughout Poland and also through underground .stations throughout Germany, the.. British Broadcasting Corporation is broadcasting it in German, French and Italian. It is headed: "Why Kill Each Other?" and uncompromisingly supports Viscount Halifax.