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Show FRANCE SEI1DS VARCRAFT TO SMJIMAST Series of Clashes Call' Forth Naval Action; Maneuvers Due PARIS, Jan. 14 (AP) The French navy today ordered three. submarines lo Syria, where rioting against French rule has broken out, while France's Mediterranean and Atlantic At-lantic fleets made ready for extensive ex-tensive war games off Africa's northwestern coast. ' Ths maneuvers will coincide with the regular spring cruise of ths British horn fleet In the Mediterranean. Mediter-ranean. Although they were announced an-nounced December 31, the French maneurers were regarded here a an Impresalre aftermath of the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks In Rome, largely concerned with the Mediterranean and Spain. French spokesmen maintained today to-day that the Rome talks cams to nothing. ' Strength to Be Shown The French and British naval, moves. It was pointed out, will provide pro-vide an Imposing display of the sea power of the two democracies In waters Involved la their current Iseues with Italy. The British fleet leaves Its home ports Tuesday. Next day the French Mediterranean fleet wi tea Testis Test-is and ths AUantlo fleet will steam from Brest to combine In ths At lantlo off French Morocco. Ths three submarines are to sail from Toulon also Wednesday for Beirut, chief port for Syria and Lebanon, which are restless under the French mandate. Syrian nationalist agitation for Immsdiata separation from French rule led te a series ef clashes In Damascus and other towns last night and today In which at least 21 persons were Injured. Demand Independence Four tbounsand students demanding demand-ing Immediate Independence paraded parad-ed through Damascus this morning. All schools were closed. A meeting of nationalist students In the village of Douma last night ended In a shooting affray. Franco In 1934 made treaties promising Syria and Lebanon Independence Inde-pendence In IMS, but aha has not ratified these pacta. Because of disturbed dis-turbed - Mediterranean conditions she now Intends to revise them and keep a military and naval foothold In Syria; It was announced that General Maurice Gamelln, chief of etaff of national defense, would leave Thursday Thurs-day for an Inspection of coastal defenses In Algeria and French Morocco. Mo-rocco. He will be accompanied by Rear Admiral Jean Darlan, chief of staff of ths navy, Duce Promises to Help In Refugge Problem ROME, Jan. 14 UP Premier Mussolini Mus-solini agreed In his talks with Prime Minister Chamberlain to cooperate la the world effort to solvs the (Contlnuon1 an Pis Two) (Column Six I FRENCH CRAFT SENTTO SYRIA (Continue front Pege On I Jewish refugee problem, British circle cir-cle disclosed today. This waa aeen as the tola eon-creta eon-creta achievement of th visit, although al-though tha laaciit press asserted It had opened tha way to new European Euro-pean and Mediterranean equilibrium. equilib-rium. In atatement to tha Italian prea before hia departure Chamberlain declared he waa "mora than aver convinced of th food faith and good will of tha Italian government" and that hia viait would prove fruitful fruit-ful "for European collaboration." Chamberlain eaid lie had not come to Rome for specific accord, "but; rather to obtain through personal contacts more intimate understanding understand-ing of the points of view of the two countries. "That objective ha been fully realised," he said. Preaident Roosevelt's view on th Issue were believed to have been touched upon, but it was understood under-stood that tha solution of the problem prob-lem would be explored later through normal diplomatio channels. Spain waa tha only other subject discussed at length, British sourcee said. But all that Chamberlain was abl to obtain from hi host on this store waa U duces "willing-nee" "willing-nee" to abid by the nonintervention noninterven-tion committee agreement for withdrawal with-drawal of foreign troop from the civil war. This agreement provide for the granting of belligerent right to Spaniah combatants after substantial substan-tial foreign withdrawals on a proportionate pro-portionate basis from each aid. There wa no vidence, however, that Muaaolinl had promised to cease aiding Generalissimo Francisco Fran-cisco Franco. |