Singapore, June 22.
All delegates for the Anglo-French talks. described officially as an "International Defence Conference" have arrived here.
Major-General D. K. MeLeod, General Officer Commanding the British forces in Burma, arrived yesterday evening. He was accompanied by Colonel G. B. Henderson, Deputy-Director of Military Operations and Intelligence of the Army in India. They both arrived by eir.
The gymnasium at the barracks of the lst Battalion of the 2nd Manchester Regiment will be the venue of the full conference. Navy, Army and Air Force sub-committees, however, will meet separately during a greater period of the talks, the Conference re-assembling periodically to correlate the sub-committee's conclusions.
Sir Percy Noble, Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, will preside at the Conference. The utmost secrecy is being maintained regaytling the talks, and extensive measures ave being taken to guard the Conference building.
World Powers, notably rman and Japan, are showing micro: in the Conference.
Among the French delegates are Vice-Admiral Decoux, Cominanderin-Chief of the French Naval Forces in the Far East, Lt.-General Maztin, General Officer Commanding the French forces in French Indo-China, and Colonel Deveze, of the French Ail Staff.—Reuter.
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