Minor Affairs Cut Out From Jurisdiction Tokyo, Dec. 8.
"Metropolitan newspapers today praised the Premier, Prince Ayamaro Konoye, for finally solving the que: tion of revising the list of matters to be referred to the Privy Council for approval. "His pre dec were not able to settle this problem, the press said, Changes were effected by a joint committee representing the government and Privy Council which decided to strike off the agenda the changes in the personnel of.minor officials of the Korean and For-
French Press Report on Conversations Paris, Dec. 8.
Questions affecting Spain, Italy's claims on France, the position of Jews in the Reich and the German policy in central and Eastern Europe were among those raised at the conversations between Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, and M. Georges Bonnet, French Foreign Minister, according to the Paris press today.
1t is understood from well-informed quarters that Tunis was mentioned and that Herr von Ribbentrop said that it was purely a Franco-Italian question.
It is not for Germany, he is understood to have said, either to oppose the eventual claims of Italy or to support her, Herr von Ribbentrop, it is stated, pointed out that the Berlin-Rome Axis was a bond of common outlook but it applied to general matters and not to specific questions in which Germany was not directly concerned.
According to M. Bousard, writing in the Petit Journal, M. Bonnet raised the question as to whether Germany, in order to encourage Jewish emigration, would permit the.expelled Jews to take a little money with them.—Reuter. 5 mosan—Governments-General the Governments of Saghalien Prefecture, South Pacific Mandated Islands and the Kwantung Leased Territory.
Changes in the personnel òf var ous governmental department se taries also were removed from the jurisdiction of the council.
The committee limited the matters to be brought before the Privy Council to the creation or abolition of diplomatic establishments abroad, creation or abolition of provincial governments, decrees or regulations to be promulgated by the Korean or Formosan Governments-General creation or abolition of bureaux or boards in the government, and other special matters to be referred by the Emperor, including a declaration of Helen Vinson Sues Fred Perry For Divorce
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