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Show France-Britain May Hold j Balearic Isles for Spainj By Associated Pre Premier Camille Chaute-mpt, Foreign Minister Yvun Dclbot and Defense Minuter Edouard Daladier conferred in Parn today to out- line France'! stand on the Spanish civil war following Premier Mui-tini's Mui-tini's refusal to Join France and Britain in tri-power conference on withdrawal of "volunteers" in Spanish armies. French foreign office technicians. it was learned, have discussed the possibility of inviting Italy to Join with Britain and Franco in occupying occupy-ing the Spanish Bales rics in the Mediterranean to safeguard the islands for ultimate government by Spain, without referring to the fact I they are convinced that Italian soldiers sol-diers and sailors already are firmly installed there. The occupation would he in line i with French and British wishes to safeguard Mediterranean trade routes and to prevent any possible domination of the Baletfrk-s by a foreign country. Francs considered throwing open her Pyrenees frontier to allow arms and volunteers to go to the Valencia Valen-cia government - a step raised as a possibility aimed to break a stalemate stale-mate in the Anglo-French-Italian Mediterranean crisis. Reports Italy planned to rush thousands of troops to Spain to bring about a quick Insurgent victory vic-tory were denied flatly by Italian I authorities. Rome said these re- ports were ths result of soviet propaganda. In Washington. Soviet Russia and Italy remained unknown but potentially poten-tially important factors in a projected pro-jected nine-power conference to consider action to end ths 8i no-Japanese no-Japanese war, Jr WM speculation whether Russia, not a signatory to the nine I power treaty which guarantees China's territorial integrity, would be asked to attend the conference. A visit to the state department in Washington by the Belgium ambaa-sador ambaa-sador prompted predictions today Jin authoritative quarters that Brus-jsels Brus-jsels was being considered as the; 'place for the forthcoming nine-power nine-power conference. .Shanghai dispatches reported that ! more than half of Chinas fiWOoO-'000 fiWOoO-'000 "liberty loan bonds" to help ft-t nance the undeclared war with. ! Japan had been subscribed today. In Mexico City President Laxaxoj Cardenas made public the text of a letter ststing Mexico's social and international doctrine in the face of developments in Europe over the) Spanish civil war and in the far east. The letter has been sent to Mexico's Mex-ico's delegate at the League of Na-I tions, Isidro Fabeia, emphasizing the need of a tribunal to arbitrate territorial disputes and to prevent I "aggressions against peoples defending de-fending their integrity and autonomy." auton-omy." MADRID. Oot. U One of the heaviest artillery battles heard on the Madrid fronts in months turned into a general shelling of Madrid itself today. |