KING GUSTAV AND HITLER EXCHANGE LETTERS
Berlin, To-day.
It is announced by the official news agency that Hitler and the King of Sweden had a written ex- change of views on the political situation during the latter half of April.
The agency added: ""The exchange has strengthened the com- plete agreement existing on the question of the future policy of both countries in conformity with statements already announced by the Ger- man and Swedish Gov- ernments." Reuter.
WATCH ON SUEZ CANAL
Cairo, To-day. Ordinances signed yester- day by the Egyptian Prime Minister in his capacity of provide military governor that nobody henceforth is enter allowed to leave or Egypt without a special per-
The true figures of British losses were given by the Prime Minister in his Commons speech last Thursday destroyer Afridi, the loss of which was officially announced yesterday morn-mit. ing-British Wireless.
STRANGE POSTAL PACKET
Anybody possessing firearms and ex- plosives, or material from which bombs and explosives can be made, must de- clare such possession to the authori- ties before May 15 under a penalty not exceeding eight years imprisonment.
An automatic pistol and 43 rounds of ammunition were "posted" in the letter box at the head office of the G.P.O. yesterday afternoon. They were found wrapped up in an old to search private dwellings. newspaper, with no address and no marks of identification.
The authorities are also empowered
NAZIS MOVE TROOPS
TO SOUTH-EAST .. (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") London, -To-day. German The pictures tell, more vividly than
troops concentrated
In civilian Memel and other Baltic porta have any words could, what the population of Norway has to endure. been transferred to regione in south-
according Germany, Elverum is in ruins, while at Aan- | cast dalsnes wreckage is shown piled
correspondent 20 Amsterdam feet high. Reuter.
"Dally Express."—Havas.
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The output of the Suez oil refineries is being stored in huge underground tanks in the desert.-Reuter.
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