Lisbon, Nov. 8.
'A claim for a Portuguese mandate over the neutral Tangier zone has been put forward by the director o: the military college here, Gen. de Almeida, who is considered to be one of the Government's closest advisers, Neither France nor Great Britain would, according to the general, need fear any desires for expansion on the part of Portugal. while the latter's close friendship with Britain would afford a guarantee that the importance Gibraltar as one of the key posltions of the British Empire would domain unimpaired.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,
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