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FRENCH PROBE DEEP INTO GERMAN LINES
NAZI MASS MURDER HORROR
Paris, To-day.
Over 130 people, in- cluding two doctors, 17 women and a boy of 14, were shot dead by Nazi troops in a mass murder at Wawer and near Anin, according to. reports reaching official Polish sources in Paris.
The murder was a reprisal because two men wanted by the police shot two German soldiers who were about to arrest them in a restaurant Wawer.
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The commanding officer immediate- ly ordered one inhabitant in 10 in Wa- wer and Anin to be shot.
Familles were dragged from houses and machinegunned and the owner of the restaurant was hang-
ed.
PARIS, TO-DAY.
AS THE FRENCH COMMAND CONTINUES TO
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London, To-day.
A series of explosions at sea shook towns on the East Coast of England last night.
Lifeboats stood by but hither- to have not been called out.- Reuter,
SOUND AND PROBE THE GERMAN LINES, SHAPING
PATROL ACTIVITY ON THE WESTERN FRONT IS INCREASING.
During the past 24 hours three patrols advanced into No-Mai's Land between the Moselle and the Saar and thence penetrated the German lines.
All returned with much interesting Information and without being challenged or engaged by the Ger-
mans.
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At five or six points along Rhine, in northern Alsace and northed in Parle, where it is thought that
between Infantry and due to transport difficulties. manning the casemates of the Sieg- | Reuter.
OF THINGS TO COME
London, To-day.
"This time the decision will be fought out," Nazi
of Strasbourg, there have been lively any suspension may be only partial Propaganda Minister exchanges of fire
fried and Maginot Lines.
Air operations are still practically
all owing to the weather.
"ALL QUIET"
PARIS, TO-DAY.
No activity is reported on the Allied QUES ARE STILL REPORTING ALL
made a short reconnaissance flight in lower Alsace.
Goebbels told responsible chiefs of the German pro-
THE FRENCH WAR COMMUNI-paganda service, accord- side but a solitary German plane QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. ing to the German wire-
Wednesday morning's communique less. said there was nothing to report, and a communique the same night sald the day was quiet on the whole; there was some infantry fire on the Rhine. -Reuter.
Reports of the suspension of leave In the German army are not confirm•
|CHUNGKING STAND-
LONDON, TO-DAY. WITH REFERENCE TO REPORTS
GERMAN VERSION
Berlin, To-day. A High Command communique states: "There were no special events on the western front except for slight
artillery fire between Mettlach and the
The Germans also stopped a train FROM TOKYO THAT THE JAPAN pedition east of the Moselle developed
and shot one passenger in five.
It is added that 72 Poles were also killed in a similar mass murder near -Cracow.-Router.
FRENCH RAID SOVIET BUREAU
Paris, To-day. ́
The Soviet Ambassador has lodged a protest against a French police raid on the premises of the Soviet Trade Bureau in Paris.
ESE GOVERNMENT MIGHT NOT BE AVERSE TO THE PARTICIPA TION OF GENERAL CHIANG KAI- SHEK IN A CHINESE GOVERNMENT INCLUDING MR. WANG CHING- WEI, AN AUTHORITATIVE SPOKES- MAN IN LONDON WAS ASKED WHETHER THE SUBJECT WAS RAISED IN THE BRITISH AMBAS- SADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH
Palatinate Forest and some reconnais- sance activity. One reconnoitring ex-
into a lively action, and one German soldier fell."-Reuter.
attitude of the German people "dur- Dr. Goebbels drew a picture of the
weeks of waiting for the Ing these great decision which will have to be settled definitely this time.”
Concluding, Dr. Goebbels said: "There is only one pro- blem in the forefront and
that is the problem of how we shall win the war. All other
problems must be subordin- ate to this." Reuter.
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The spokesman replied that while the no information was available on
seemed most subjects discussed it
had Improbable that this suggestion been mentioned.
His protest says that members of alone capable of dealing with such a The Chungking Government Was the Bureau were detained while the
suggestion; moreover the Chungking search was being made and that some
Government had repeatedly made documents were seized. He demands plain its attitude towards suggestions the return of the documents-Reuter. of collaboration with Japan.-Reuter.
ARMANISTAN IMPORTANT
SUNK
LAS PALMA, TO-DAY.
THE CAPTAIN AND CREW OF 83 OF THE BRITISH FREIGHTER: ARMANISTAN - WERE LANDED HERE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT BY THE SPANISH MOTORSHIP, ON, TEABRIL.
The 'Armanistan was torpedoed without warning by a U-boat 30 miles off. Lisbon on Feb. 3. The whole crew were' rescued.
Three Laschr~ seamen, wi were woungled by the explosion. akan to Hospital-Beuter.
MEETING
IN ROME
Rome, To-day.
The Supreme Defence Council is meeting to-day under the Presidency. of Signor Mussolini and impé ant military questions will be discussed, according to the Stéfan! Agency.
The meeting will be attended by the heads of the armed forces and President of the Civil Mobilisation
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