London, Jan. 16.
Council at Buckingham Palace when ie King this morning held a Privy he handed the seals of office of the War Ministry to Mr. Oliver Stanley.
Well-informed quarters meanwhile reveal that important conversations are now taking place in London between M. Raoul Dautry, French Minister of Armaments and Mr. Leslie Burgin British War Supplies Minister. These conversations are a continuation of the talks in Paris during Mr. Purgin's visit there last last month-They aim to put into effect the principle of ce-operation established between the two governments. M. Dautry, it is added, came to London with an important number of experts to cover the technical side of the armaments question.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain will preside at a luncheon in honour of M. Dautry tomorrow, thus indicating the importance which the Prime Minister attaches to this essential.form of co-
The "Asahi Shimbun" today warned thet American and Japanese negotiations could not be resumed because local conditions would prevent the reopening of the Yangtze River.
"American and Japanese talks are not in a position to be resumed as the opening of the Yengtze cannot be realized because of local conditions and Mr. Hachiro Arita (Foreign Minister) will devise proper measures without haste," the "Asahi" said. ever, ing in ah unofficial capa-A Foreign Office spokesman, how-
city, seid the reopening of the Yangtze would be effected as soon as possible and there was "nothing to the reports that Japan intends reversing her decision" on reopening the river to third Power navigation as far as Nanking.
The announcement by the former Foreign Minister, Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, to Mr. Joseph C. Grew, U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo, last month that the opening would take place in about two months' time "still holds good," the Gaimusho spokesman said,
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