Paris, Sept, 6.
The Erench Government has decided to take certain "measures of Security" because of the present tension in Europe and the large reinforcements recently concentrated by Germany on the north-west French frontier. bers of the crew are liable to execution.
The Netherlands Consular authorities and the owners of the tug are very reticent regarding the affair.
The vessel hás been in the hands of the Chinese since the middle of August. Its captain is Captain de Schipper.—Reuter.
The Ministry of the Interior has instructed all'prefects and departmental officials at present on holiday to return to their posts, while the War Ministry has ordered a number of reservists to return' to the frontiers.
All Colonial Governors are also returning to their duties.
In addition, leave has been cancelled for all men of artillery and air force units.
The public has been asked not to become nervous over the measures, Which are described as purely of a Precautionary character.—Reuter. Paris, Sept. 6. Paris is neither surprised nor wor-tied over the official announcement that precautionary. security measures have been taken along the Franco-German border. Such measures were expected for some time Informed circles believe that negotiations at Prague will drag on so long as Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's intentions are unknown, All politicians and the press are unanimous in opinions that the issue at stake in Central Europe is not merely that of the German minority n Czechoslovakia but the whole of More than 160 Chinese silk reeling factories or filatures moved from the Yangtszepoo and Hongkew areas into the International Settlement at the Outbreak of the local Sino-Japanese hostilities last year, this number having now increased to. several hundreds more, says the "Yi Pao," The Japanese have repeatedly sought "ce-operation" with the Chinese industrialists, but to no avail, the report adds. ' In the occupied areas such as along the Nanking-Shanghai railway sectors, great difficulties are facing the Japanese in their attempt to revive the Chinese factories, most of which have either beet damaged or are lying disused. the Reich's plan of expansion east and south-east on the Continent, The Sudeten Germans never formed an integral part of Germany and were not "torn away fror the Reich" by the Versailles Treaty... Claims for "German tights" are therefore devoid of any legal or historical. foundation
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