Washington, Aug, 14.
No real anxiety has so far been felt for the Soviet Trans-Polar fliers, in the opinion of the Soviet Embassy to-day, It is thought at the Embassy that the airmen might have been forced down in some region between the North Pole and Alaska.
The latest reports from Cape Bar-ro North -Alaska. which is near the airmen's scheduled route state that there is a dense fog in that part of the Alaskan Arctic coast, The plane's supply of fuel w be ex! ted at 8 o'clock BS.T. this morning, but the plane should have already landed safely, The airmen are heavily clothed and provided with rations sufficient for several week:
London, Aug. 15.
Japan's instant despatch of warships and aircraft to Shanghai, and th ncerted outburst in the Tokyo pres suggest more than a mere 1" declares the "Sunday in an editorial to-day on the Shanghaj situation.
The conflict, the newspaper states, is not yet "war." Possibly, if the precedent of 1932 is followed, it never will be, The fighting in Shanghai is likely to prove no Jess dangerous to the International Settlement than it did six years ago, the paper continues Few more purposeless conflicts were ever embarked upon. Japan needs peace and her statesmen know it. Her pressing problems are economic and every further advance towards China increases the burdens of her tax-payers and lowers her taxable published in the evening newspapers under splash headlines.
Though the news was received too late for comment,—authoritative circles are of the opinion that the bombings must have been accidental, but nevertheless they have aroused some uneasiness.
The Prime Minister, M. Camille Chautemps, is remaining in Paris, though normally he would have left with others for the Bank Holiday ok-end.—Reuter
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