Paris, Mar. 27, 'The French Government, decided Jat a meeting held here yesterday' to spend $40,000,000 on plans for' the defence of Paris against alr attack. The meeting was. attended by all members of the Cabinet, the heads of the various Paris Departments and the local police chiefs. The expenditure will Include:—Provision of gas masks, 200,000,000 franes; Construction of additional xas-proof shelters, 135,000,000 francs: Improvement of air raid shelters, 100,000,000. franes.
It was also decided to introduce a vill "immediately to' authorize 3 special tax in the Seine Department lof Paris for the provision of funds for improving. the roads out of Paris Jand thus facilitating the evacuation Jor the capital in an emergeney.—
{they had been carried a considerable distance. and' the results were full Jof encouragement to those who, like His Majesty's Government, regarded Jappeasement in Europe as the objec: tive to which the efforts of all men of goodwill should be directed, Just before the conversations were opened. the Ialian Government. Informed Britain of their aeceplance of the formula for the withdrawal of} volunteers {rom Spain and the granting of belligerent rights to the two Parties in the Spanish elvil_ wai Turning to Spain, Mr. Chamberlain said that he was fully alive to the repeated serious infringements non-intervention, but they still con-[sidered that non-intervention afforded the best_means of avoiding a major conflagration.
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