WASHINGTON The United States Senate met at 11:00 Washington time, 16:00 GMT, today and took up the neutrality bill again.

LONDON Several Paris newspapers say Joseph Stalin has refused Germany military aid and turned down a German request for a fleet of 2,000 warplanes, according to a London report.

MELBOURNE The Australian Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, says his Government's only election promise on the subject was no conscription for service overseas, and that it is keeping that promise, according to a message from Melbourne.

COPENHAGEN Germany has asked Scandinavian shippers to send their ships through the Kiel Canal so that it can check them for contraband more easily, the Berlin correspondent of the Danish newspaper Politiken reports.

ANKARA Arrangements have been concluded for a joint British and French loan of £60,000,000 to Turkey, the Ankara correspondent of the Daily Mail reports.

DUBLIN Six prisoners in Mountjoy prison in Dublin tried to blow their way out with gelignite at exercise time, the Dublin correspondent of the Daily Mail reports.

LONDON The commander of a German submarine that sank the French steamer Vermont, of 5,186 tons, lectured her crew in French on the advantages of an alliance between France and Germany, according to a London report.

NEW DELHI The Working Committee of the Indian National Congress has called on Congress ministers to resign because of the Viceroy's statement on India's future, according to a message from New Delhi.

LONDON The Polish Embassy in Paris has denied that Poland ever used or received supplies of poison gas, a London radio broadcast said last night.

PARIS All Polish diplomatic representatives abroad have protested to the governments they serve in against plebiscites in the Polish territory occupied by the Soviet Union, the Paris correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company reports.

BERLIN The German Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, has repeated in a radio speech his charge that Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, was responsible for sinking the liner Athenia, according to a message from Berlin.

WASHINGTON Administration leaders are predicting a victory by 25 votes for the neutrality bill in the Senate, the Washington correspondent of the New York Times reports.

WASHINGTON The Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, says he knows nothing of a reported British plan to recognize a German government seated in London, the Washington correspondent of the Associated Press of America reports.

PARIS The French positions on the Western Front are now almost everywhere inside French territory, apart from one or two observation points near the Warndt Forest, the Paris correspondent of The Times reports.

COPENHAGEN The bodies of 50 crew of the German mine patrol vessel Este 701 have been found on a reef at Aegholm Island, north of the Danish island of Møn, according to a message from Copenhagen.

SHANGHAI General Itagaki of the Japanese Army has agreed to give Wang Ching-wei wide powers to negotiate a peace with Chiang Kai-shek, according to reports from Shanghai.

LONDON Franz von Papen, the German Ambassador to Turkey, has been ordered to return to Turkey immediately to point out the grave consequences of its pact with Britain, Paris radio says, according to a London report.

LONDON A U-boat commander ordered the crew of the sunken British steamer Sneaton to wave and cheer while one of his officers photographed them, survivors said on reaching a British port.

BERLIN The German High Command says there are no special developments on the Western Front apart from minor artillery activity, scouting and patrolling, the Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain reports.

BERLIN Adolf Hitler's conference with Germany's state governors and Nazi Party district leaders shows he is putting war decisions of the utmost importance before them, the Berlin correspondent of the Amsterdam newspaper De Telegraaf says.

COPENHAGEN Farmers and fishermen in north Jutland say they saw a naval battle between unidentified warships off the Danish coast, according to a message from Copenhagen.

STOCKHOLM The Swedish parliament, the Riksdag, has voted supplementary credits of £22,300,000, most of it for defence, according to a message from Stockholm.

LONDON British fighters intercepted two German aircraft off the south-east coast of Scotland early yesterday afternoon and shot one of them down, the Air Ministry announced in London.