London, Apr. 30.
Contrary to expectations, when tue For Eastern question came up for discussion in the Anglo-French conversations, consideration was not iven to the possibility of eventual mediation.
Apparently the only aspect dis cussed was the Japanese occupation of the Spratly Islands. in the South China Seas, in which France has an interest.
It Is understood that Great Britain is making certain. representations to the French Government, which France has undertaken to consider ith a view to Great Britain be associated in any action which France might take—Reut Wedding Guests in Plane Disaster Rome, May 2.
All nineteen occupants of an air liner aving from Tirana to Rome met death yesterday in the worst disaster in the history of Ballan civil aviation, Most of the victims were burnt An official account of the tragedy shows that the plane, belonging. to the "Ala Litloria Company, left Brindisi at 11.35 yesterday. Atrocious weather was encountered over the Appenines and, at 22 in the afternoon, the machine crashed on a mountain side and immediately caught fre.
The force of the impact as the plane hit the ground caused the liner fo turn over. Peasants who hurried {0 the spot, found that the bodies of the occupants had been' hurled hundred yards apart.
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