London, Mar. 28.
In an endeavour to secure the cooperation of industry in Great Britain's acceleration of rearmament, the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, assisted by Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for the Ca-ordination of Defence, conferred yesterday afternoon with a large body of representatives of the National. Confederation of Employers' organizations.
A communique, issued after the conference, said that Mr. Chamber: lain had repeated that it was not his intention to advance specific proposals. Practical steps to be taken to give effect to the Government's wishes were best discussed between employers and the Trade Unions concerned in the particular section of industry affected.
The Prime Minister, the communique stated, had asked the Confederation to meet him.in order to explain his position and to ask their goodwill and support.
Representatives of the Confederation, the communique concluded, had sured Mr. Chamberlain that they would do everything in their power to secure the fullest ce-operation, and they were confident that the Government could count on the goodwill and.|support of all employers.—Reuter.
Beginning next Friday, all railway stations but four in the Shanghai-Nanking-Hangchow area will be renamed, the Chinese pronunciation being displaced by the Japanese, the "Shanghai Mainichi" reported yesterday.
The only stations to retain the original Chinese names will be Shanghai, Nanking, Woosung and Zakow, on the Chientang River.
Carrying its measures a step farther, the new "Reformed Government of the Republic of China" will also, according to the daily, remove all English sign posts at railway stations. They will be replaced by signs bear-the names of stations in the Chinese and Japanese languages.
Shanghai's famous North. Station, destroyed twice in five year will henceforth be known as Shanghai Station, The West Station will be known as West Shanghai.
The measures will affect the ~..anghai - Nanking, Shanghai - Hangchow Soochow-Kashing: and the Nanking-Sungkiapu railways,
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