NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4814, 24 July 1939, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

“We reject a warlike solution of Danzig by 100 per cent.,” said the official German spokesman in-a special statement. “We maintain our demands for the unconditional return of Danzig to the Reich, but Herr Hitler is convinced that this can be achieved peacefully.

From Berlin, Tokyo and Rome come news of relaxation of tension, but any optimism is not shared in Warsaw, where the German statement is described as a combination of wishful thinking and persistent propaganda.

Rumania has agreed to barter 50,000 railway wagon loads of meat, worth £3,500,000, for armaments from Italy and Germany, the latter to take delivery of 30,000 loads in September. .

The German Ambassador, Graf von Welszek, called on M. Daladier, and complained that the French Press was making unfounded charges against the expelled Nazi, Abetz, and relations between Germany and France might be strained as a result of the present atmosphere of suspicion.

The British United Press correspondent at Tokyo reports that Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambasador, and Mr. Hachiro Arta, Japanese Foreign Minister, agreed on a formula for negotiations over the Tientsin issue. The Ambassador sent a copy of the agreement consisting or a single paragraph to London. •

Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, vetoed a move to ban the sale of arms to Japan, but disclosed that President Roosevelt is willing to consider a Republican proposal to scrap the 1911 treaty of friendship and commerce between the United States and Japan.

Dominated by the prospect of the Government’s heavy borrowing programme, gilt-edged and Dominion issues, failed to participate in the short-lived spurt which other sections of the stock markets staged under the stimulus of the more hopeful international news.