A cargo of 40,000 barrels of Mex!- can oil is believed to have been carried by the tanker.—Reuter.
London Confirms Scuttling Caribbean Sea, according to a dispatch from Panama, published in the "New York Times." A went aboard the tanker, says the message, they found'the crew of about forty Germans standing by the lifeboats.
London, Nov. 2.
Naval quarters here confirmed today the announcement made by the "New York Times" that the German tanker Emmy Friedrich was scuttled by her own crew when hailed by a British cruiser in the Caribbean Sea on October 24.4 "The suspicion is held in Admiralty circles that this tanker may have been refuelling one or more German submarines, although the ship's papers stated that the oil on board was bound for Malmo, in "weden—Havas.
Immediate de facto recognition, non-interference in Chinese dom-ostic politics, and formation of a Sino-Japanese economic council to bring about closer economic union between Japan. Manchoukuo and China, are understood by the "Asahi Shimbun" to'form part of Japan's attitude and policy towards the new Chinese regime expected to be established shortly by Mr. Wang Ching-wei.
Japan's basic policy for a settlement of the China Incident, the newspaper asserts, seeks td realize a new order in East Asia by means of both construction and war.
It then mentions the following points as forming Japan's policy' towards the new Wang Ching-wei regime:
l The Japanese Government will give unqualified support to Mr. Wang Ching-weis preparations to establish a new central government in China and will anticipate its early birth.
2. Japan anticipates a smooth, autonomous. development of an independent and free China from the standpoint of Japan's respect of China's sovereignty.
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