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“FIFTH COLUMN” ACTIVITIES
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SAYS "TIMES"
London, To-day. ONE FEATURE OF THE German invasion of Nor- way which has attracted special attention was the use of the "Fifth Column,” the Norwegian Nazis within the country.
"The Times" heads an article "Quislings every- where," and goes on to explain this by saying: "There are "Quislings in every country in Europe, men primed beforehand to prepare for the Nazi invasion.” The "Glasgow Herald' says that Russian Bolshevism first developed this system and now the Nazis have developed it still further.
100 DROWNED IN CHINA COAST DISASTER
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Shanghai, To-day.
It is learned that the Chinese steamer Hwamin (600 tona) on the way to Shanghai from the Chusan Islands, ran aground off the Che- klang coast on the night of Satur- day last during a violent storm. The ship sank with the loss about 100 Ilves, Including the cap- tain. Two hundred survivors ar: rived In Bhanghai yesterday,—. Havas.
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GERMAN APPEAL TO ROOSEVELT !
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Berlin, To-day. The Foreign Office mouthpiece, the "Diplomatische Korrespondenz," last night appealed to President Roosevelt to withhold criticism of a "Germany defending her vital living space."
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Both "The Times" and other papers see in the Allied military action powerful antidote to the fear among the neutrals of Nazi threats.
"The Times" also comments that Russia has done Germany
a bad turn över this, because the Allies could not have sent a trained expe. so quickly I one ditionary force had not been prepared for Finland some months ago.
out The Daily Telegraph" points that only last week Nazi Foreign Min- the ister Ribbentrop had said that German forces would see to it that no Briton or Frenchman showed his nose in Norway, for the rest of the war. How foolish that boast reads to-day!
The "Daily Mail" says that Ribben- trop is accustomed to having to swal- low his own words-but until now he has not had to swallow them so quick- ly!
German ""Tourists”
Commenting on the sudden influx of "German tourists" into the Balkans, "The Times" says that it is a "gross violation of international good man- ners" under which these men are giv- en diplomatic passports or papers stating that they are attached to of- ficial missions.
In Yugoslavia, a number of arrests have been made of people suspected of being connected with the Gestapo, and "The Times" comments that the Yu- goslavian police seem to be as alert as the police of Turkey, where paid It suggested that America, having agents of the Reich take on the guise "succeeded with one exception in of harmless businessmen. Reuter. keeping imperialists out of the West-
ern Hemisphere," should sympathise- | LEARN with Germany in similar struggles!— Reuter.
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It is officially announced that April I the official cost of living in dex figure was 78 per cent, above the level of July, 1914, compared with 79 per cent at March 1-Reuter.
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