Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1938 — Page 5
FRENCH CHARGE TALY STEPS UP ARMS PROGRAM
Newspapers Continue Their Warning to Prepare for ‘Coming Events.’
PARIS, Dec. 28 (U. P.)—French asserted today that
Italy’s military ‘program in preparation for coming events.” It was alleged that Premier Mussolini was preparing to call up large numbers of individual army d aviation reservists, to be ready
to the maximum, particularly as rerds war munitions. Undeterred by a series of appartly inspited denials of earlier rerts about Italy’s ahd France's tivities in connection with an Italian drive for concessions from France, the newspapers continued their ‘campaign of warning to ench people against dangers head. 1 The newspaper Oeuvre asserted at Premier Mussolini was prearing to use the threat of a Mosuprising against Great Britain 1 event Prime Minister Chamberlain showed readiness to support ance against Italian demands. Denial Believed Inspired Denials which: were believed to be pired were published regarding eports that Italian troops were assing on the French Somaliland rontiers end that Mr. Chamberlain ad been asked to stop off at Paris n his way to Rome to visit Premier ussolini next month. However, it was noted that coinident with the series of denials the vernment announced that the avy dispatch boat D’Iberville was eing sent from Beirut, Lebanese reublic, to Djibouti, French Somaliand, It was denied also that Premier - Daladier’s visit to Corsica and Tunisia would take the form of a naval demonstration. | There. seemed no doubt that the Government had®deliberately reduced the entire scale of the visit in order not to heighten Mediterranean tension or to give offense to Italy. By doing so, it was suggested in diplomatic quarters, Premier Daladler had quietly taken the first step toward opening delicate negotiations ith the Fascist. Government rough Mr. Chamberlain.
Big Escort Had Been Planned
, That M. Daladier was to have en escerted on his visit to Corsica and Tunisia by a convoy of 23 warips there seemed no doubt. Names of the escort vessels had been published and it was planned that more than 40 airplanes should accompany the fleet. Now M. Daladier has ordered that © lonly a cruiser and .six destroyers accompany him and that the airplanes remain at home. Local airplanes will meet the reduced convoy off Corsica. There was evidence, however, that though he had decided to give no ground for offense, M. Daladier in1tended fo be prepared for trouble. It was understood that the garrison of French troops at Djibouti would be increased soon. Also the Government intends to open negotiations with Italy for a definite demarka-
1Somalilgnd and Ethiopia. Dispatches from Cairo said that Hubert Dechamps, Governor-Gen-eral of I'rench Somaliland, had suppressed an effort by Italians in the colony to demenstrate in favor of Italy, and coincidently asked Paris for troop reinforcements. Estimates published here put the | =pench strength in Somaliland at
in Italian East Africa.
Italian Officials Remain Silent
ROME, Dec. 28 (U.P.).—Newspa- . | pers displayed prominently today foreign press reports that France had decided to send reinforcements to French Somaliland. Officials continued silent on the French situation.
Eden as Foreign Minister Discussed
LONDON, Dez. 28 (U.P.).—Anth--ony Eden may be reinstated as For- .| eign Minister of Great Britain if Prime Minister Chamberlain fails to make progress in diplomatic negotiations with Benito Mussolini of Italy next month, it was reported
ay. Particularly because of the new Italiar, campaign against France, a .belief was growing in well-informed
quarters here that the ChamberlainMussolini conference was bound to
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CHUNGKING, China, Dec. 28
coastal commercial areas. The movement may be one of the most significant developments of the Far Eastern struggle, which recently has resulted in mounting Japanese resentment against the United States and Great Britain because of financial aid te China for purchase of agricultural and industrial machinery.
Government in Command
One of the important factors overlooked at present because of the stress of wartime is that the Government has taken charge of the westward movement almost entirely and now controls or supervises almost 90 per cent of the new Western industries.
Szechuan Province, a thousand miles westward from Shanghai, is the center of the new industrial setup, witn most of the factories located at Chungking.
China early learned a costly les-
the Japanese furnish a strong economic foundation for developing and exploiting the country at China’s expense. Chungking, the wartime capital, is assuming ' importance as China's newest industrial center, and with the arrival of the headquarters of several big banks, is now on its way to become the country’s financial center. These banks total 21.
Holds Own Mother
Prisoner for Ransom
SHANGHAI, Dec. 28 (U. P.).— Tang (Wild Dog) Sung-lin was reported in complete control of Chenkawan village, in Pootung Province, today, holding his own mother prisoner for ransom. Tang and ‘gangster friends” were said to have kidnaped his mother on his sister’s wedding day because she had refused to share her wedding gifts with him. Japanese troops were going to the mother’s rescue.
U. S. Protests Usk of Mission
HANKOW, China, Dec. 28 (U. P.). —The American consulate has protested to Japanese military authorities that property of the American Church Mission in the Wuchang area was converted into a house of
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China Starts Mass Shift of Resources To Unexploited Area
Millions of Dollars Worth of Machinery as Well as Banks to Be Centered at Chungking Because Of War-Learned Lessons.
(U. P) The Chinese Government
—partly with the aid of United States and British loans—is undertaking an almost unprecedented mass transfer of industrial resources into the unexploited provinces of western China. Millions of dollars worth of machinery ahd equipment, hundreds of thousands of laborers, many hundreds of skilled technicians and engineers are moving westward as Japanese bayonets cut off China's great
U. S. NAVY PLANS SOUTH AMERICA TRIP
Cruise: Would Follow Close On Lima Parley.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (U. P.).— The Navy Department said today that it plans to send a division of cruisers on a “good will” trip to South America next spring. Naval officials said that details of the proposed cruise were not yet available but it was understood that
Division No. 7, with the exception of
the Vincennes, probably will make the trip. Other ships ia this division are the San Francisco, the Tus-
ea) gom and the Quincy.
It was said that fhe Vincennes’ overhaul schedule probably would prevent her participation. Such a cruise, following closely upon the Lima conference, would mark the first time in 15 years that a United States naval vessel had rounded South Americe.
SOVIET ORDERS MILAN CONSULATE CLOSED
ROME, Dec. 28 (U. P.).—Soviet Russia has ordered its consulate in Milan closed because of student demonstrations against it, Soviet
| sources said today. At the same
time, Italy was asked to close its consulate at Odessa. During the recent anti-French demonstrations in Milan a group of engineering students appeared at the consulate and tried to batter down the doors. The Soviet consulate protested to Milan authorities, who promptly deplored the incident. The Soviet Embassy in Rome protested to the foreign office and asked for an explanation and apologies. The foreign office failed to answer the note within six days and Moscow ordered the consulate closed.
prostitution Dec. 14, when Japanese soldiers accompanied by Japanese women occupied mission schools and forced Chinese teachers to take refuge in the church, it was learned today.
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1.8, DELEGATES SAIL FOR HOME: ‘INCIDENT’ ENDS
Nazi Newsmen Decide That Peru Didn’t Intend to Snub Them.
LIMA, Peru, Dec. 28 (U. P,).—The United States delegation to the eighth Pan-American Conference sailed for home today on the S. S. Santa Maria with plans for strengthening the declaration of American solidarity against foreign political or military interference. The accord unanimously adopted by the conference after long negotiations to reconcile conflicting views was viewed as highly satisfactory to U. 8. Secretary of State Hull,
PANAMA, Dec. 28 (U. P.). The official airmail stationery of the Pan-American ‘Conference at Lima bears the
watermark “Made in GerHany it was noted here toye
But it was admitted in final conversations before the departure of the delegations that work must be continued in the future to strengthen the agreement and to add concrete achievements to the moral declaration of unity adopted by the 21 American nations at the conference. The conference ended last night, and the United States delegates sail for home in the liner Santa Maria today. Mr. Hull, in a speech at the formal dinner with which the conference ended last night, said: “In this declaration of Lima lies the future of the solidarity of American republics. It rests on the theory and spirit of peoples. .. . it will be determined, under the test of grave events, by the constancy and ardor with which the American republics consecrate themselves to the great and creative task of keeping alive that program of principles which have guided us in our deliberations and on which peace and well being must rest.” Meanwhile, Walter von Simons, chief of Nazi newspaper correspondents at the conference, said that an incident caused by failure of Peruvian officials to invite German reporters to a cocktail party was “closed.” ;
vestigation of the incident Govern-
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Rebel Drive Results in Big Losses
HENDAYE, Dec. 28 (U. Py. ~The Spanish insurgent armies, seeking to close a - powerful military pincers movement on the road to Barcelona, smashed slowly forward in the North today but suffered heavy losses as they hammered at strong Loyalist defense lines in the * South. Italian legionnaires fighting in the armies of Gen. Franco were reported in Loyalist dispatches to have suffered heavy losses in repeated ‘unsuccessful attacks on Govment defense lines in the southern sector where Franco ' is pushing toward Borjas Blancas.
error on the part of an employee of the conference.
Vatican Organ
Praises Conference
- VATICAN CITY, Dec. 28 (U. P.). —Discussing the moral aspects of
Romano, official Vatican organ, said today: - “The states of both the Americas
‘have left each other on Christmas
Eve with unanimous understanding and reaffirmation of the spiritual unity of their peoples, affinity of institutions, an indisputable desire for peace and a profound sense of humanity, tolerance and respect for the rights and laws of international co-habitation. “The young wisdom of young nations inspires. such words and such warnings that even the old world can listen usefully without humiliating itself.”
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 28 (U. P.). —The Senate, in a secret session today, ratified the compromise agreement of Nov. 12 with the United States providing for compensation for expropriated farm lands owned by Americans.
the Lima conference, Osservatore|
KOUNO SWAYS OLIVE BRANCH TOWARD NAZIS
Recent Victory in Memel and Ukraine Problem Viewed As Reasons.
KOVNO, Lithuania, Dec. 28 (U. P.) ~The Government of Premier Vladas Mironas was reported a1thoritatively today to be inaugurating reluctantly a broad policy of conciliation with Nazi Germany. The new Lithuanian Minister to Germany, Casimir Skirpa, has been instructed to open discussions of the whole field of relations between the two countries and Foreign Minister Joseph Urbsys is expected td go to Berlin early next month for detailed discussions, Reorientation of Lithuania toward active co-operation with Germany is viewed by neutral diplomats here as much more significant than the size of this little Baltic state— smaller than West Virginia and with only 2,500,000 population— would -normally warrant.
Two Major Causes
. There are two reasons for that: First, the recent Nazi election victory in Memel, autonomous seaport state under Lithuanian sovereignty, created an international problem |! because of a threatened campaign for inclusion of Memel in greater
Germany in violation of an international agreement, Second, the geographic position of Lithuania would make her important in event the Nazi-sponsored movement for creation of an independent Ukrainian state led to war in which Germany would be opposed to Poland and Soviet Russia. Because of these factors, Lithuania finds herself playing an unwilling part in a game of international power politics and, because Germany is ciosest and strongest at the present, tending toward the Nazi
orbit in a desperate effort to main-
tain Memel as an autonomous unit under technical rule of Kovno.
Silence Still Greets Rebuke by U. S.
BERLIN, Dec. 28 (U.P) -Con-
tinued silence regarding the rebuke p
with which the United States State Departrnent answered a Nazi protest against attacks on the Third Reich crystallized an impression in diplo-
matic quarters today that the incident would not be made the occasion for further attacks on the United States. This belief led to the further forecast that if American-German relations were brought to the breaking point it would be by further stimulus trom Washington, not from Berlin. Meanwhile, Das Schwarze Korps, organ ¢f the “SS” Storm Troop organization, demanded today that railroads inaugurate “Jim Crow” sleeping cars on passenger trains to segregate Jews, including foreign ones. Nazi officials today began enforcement of regulations barring Jews from living in the same buildings with “Aryans” and expected eventually to result in segregation of Jews in a less desirable section of the capital.
Carol Turns Down ‘Democratic’ Plea
BUCHAREST, Dec. 28 (U.P.).—A demand by Rumania’s largest political party, the Peasants, for restoration of a democratic regime has been turned down by King Carol,
it was| learned today.
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