"I wish from the bottom of my heart that both French and Thal delegates would show at this Tokyo conference for settlement of the dspute such perfect understanding and earnest spirit of cooperation as were manifested at the Saigon conference for cessation of hostilities, so that the dispute may speedily be settled and friendly relations restored between the two countries, thus making an invaluable contribution tower stability of Greater East Asia, Matsuoka said, "The first official ceremony today was at noon when the Secretaries General of the two delegations presented their credentials.
"M. Georges Gautier and Nai Thavi Thavedhikul (secretarjes-general_respectively of the French and Thai delegations), met at the official residence of the Foreign Minister at noon today in the presence of the Secretary-General of the Japanese Delegation, Mr. Ototsugu Saito, They communicated to each other their full powers and found them in good form, after which they discussed with Mr, Saito procedures to be followed hereafter," the statement said—United ress, Detroit, Feb. 7.
Mr. Henry Ford, the automobile magnate, is experimenting on a revolutionary riveting process which may greatly speed up production of warplanes, it was learned yesterday-The new process may reduce the time of labour on planes nearly 50 per cent, it wes revealed.
The new process, plus a wider adaptation of aluminum welding. brought Mr. Ford's prediction of 1.000 planes daily within the range of possibility, according to associates, who envisaged an assembly line one mile
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