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Japan is not under the domination or vassalage of Germany, declares, the “Kokumin Shimbun,” and is ready to welcome Britain if the latter abandons her self-imposed guardianship of the old order and co-operates in construction of the new.
A message from Prague states that the compulsory labour bill wilFbe Introduced. Labour corps will’be organised, beginning with those aged from 1G to 21. A total of 25,000 Czech work- ! crs have gone to Germany. -m ** * * A cable froxn Paris states that an order has been placed at St. Nazaire for the construction of the aircraft carrier Painleve, which will be a sister ship of the Joffre, carrying 40 planes. * * * • Six Roj'al Air Force planes are searching for a British flier, Mr. Littleton Hay, who is c-n route to Singapore from Kuala Lumpur, Malay Peninsula, in a club plane. He is now 48 hours overdue.
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Northern Advocate, 12 May 1939, Page 5
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