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No. 91,985
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1940
HITLER'S RUSH
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TO FLORENCE EXPLAINED
Mussolini Wary Of PLANE FIRED
Double-Cross
FRANCO WILL KEEP SPAIN OUT OF WAR
That General Franco will not be disappointed in his known desire to keep Spain out of war, re- mains the prevailing sentiment in well-in- formed quarters in Madrid.-Reuter.
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ENEMY RAIDERS
IT IS NOW REVEALED THAT HITLER'S RUSH VISIT TÕ FLORENCE WAS FOR THE PURPOSE OF HEALING A RIFT IN THE AXIS LUTE THREATENING AS A RESULT OF HITLER'S NE- GOTIATIONS WITH M. LAVAL.
ON NEAR HONG KONG
On her flight to Hong Kong, an air liner, the identity of which cannot be con- firmed, was fired at
Reuter's Zurich correspondent says that MINING OF Japanese Air, bot
the one inescapable fact emerging from the news, both from Berlin and Rome, is that re-
GREEK
cent events have compelled Hitler to adopt WATERS
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The mining of strategic Greek waters was an-
the unaccustomed role of “appeaser,” but whether with better effect than the appeasers of yester-ève is still conjectural.
Having in the first place failed in his at-nounced by the British tempt to persuade Italy to sacrifice her terri-Admiralty in London yes-
terday.. torial claims against France, Hitler has been On the west, all waters have faced with further Italian recalcitrance in op-been rendered dangerous east of posing any active or passive assistance of France in the war, which Mussolini feared Enemy raider forma- tions which attempted a might entitle Petain to equal partnership with surprise daylight attack Italy in Germony's "New Order.
SCATTERED for
̈under cover of banks of dense clouds over the j south-east coast area yes- terday, were again foiled by British fighters.
As they few in from the sea, RAF machines closed with them. and scattered them into disorder. and retreat.
Reports received up to 4 p.m. (G.M.T.) yesterday show that five enemy aircraft. had been destroyed and that four British fighters were missing.
MYSTERY TRIP OF U.S.
WARSHIPS
The mysterious depar-
line drawn roughly round the
teries at Namtau last evening. 0.0000
TURKISH POLICY
Ministers representing west coasts of the Islands of the Balkan States met at the Ionian Sea) and thence liz Levkas, Cephalonia and Zante (in the Egyptian Ministry of
Cape Katakolo on the mainland.
Greek Foreign Affairs in Cairo on Tuesday in order This means that the gulfs of Patras and Corinth, and the ap- to discuss the situation. Then came Hitler's hasty visit proaches to them have to Florence which was followed mined.
been arising from the Italian On the east by significantly soothing German Greece, the Gulf of Aegina has invasion of Greece. newspaper paragraphs, like, that been mined north and west of The Turkish Minister, Sevki in the "Ze tung", which asserted the line between Cape Spadi and Alhan, is understood to have hat while France has been offer- Cape Collona.
declared that Turkey was in
of
ed participation in the Axis sys- The Gulf of Corinth Hites deep-ccmplete agreement with Britain tem if she broke with Britain,|ly into the Greek mainland, and regarding present and future, ac-- Germany had promised her no- the isthmus only a few miles wide tlon. He added that Turkey's thing regarding the later peace.
separates its head from the head non-participation in the hostili- From that change of tone, the of the Gulf of Aegina. The ties, for the present might well Italian Press became noticeably principal port on the Gulf of be favourable to the general
Aegina is Piraeus which serves situation, rather then her par Athens. Reuter.
ticipation-Router i
calmer.
The Double-Cross?
Political observers deduce
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It was also officially announced ture, under sealed order, therefore that though. Italian that two more enemy. aircraft of five United States de-claims may be put in the back- were shot down on Tuesday,
ground while "appeasement" making a total of thirty for the stroyers, seventeen bom-directed to France, Germany has bers and one seaplane assured Italy that her claims will Final figures are not completed, tender, from Key West, The conclusions drawn but seven enemy aircraft had been destroyed over Britain up
has led to much specula-
day.
to last evening according to tion in Washington. the latest official statement. Four British planes are missing. - Reuter.
ITALIAN OUTRAGE REVEALED
The mystery, was heightened when Colonel Knox, Secretary of the Navy, Smilingly refused to state the destination of the flotilla.
Rumour is busy suggesting that the ships are bound for the French -island" of Martini- que, wher, the difference of opinion between the pro-Vichy -and the anti-Vichy. · partisans Is reported to be nearing a climax.
have due consideration later.
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that, firstly, Germany's offer to France la more gen- erous that the original offer; secondly, that France is
feft uncertain whether a temporary peace will be modified later to satisfy Italy; thirdly.. that France's bargaining. position dependa upon Britain's sistance.
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THATMAN ITALIAN – BUB- While the five destroyers would MARINE WAS RESPONSIBLE be inadequate to seize the island FOR THE UNPROVOKED if the French Navy offered re- FIRE BROKE OUT AT MOUNT: PRACE-TIME SINKING OF THE sistance, it is known that other AUSTIN BARRACKS: SHORTLY BREEK CRUISER "HELLE” OFF American units including new | AFTER 3 AM: TO-DAY, AND THE ISLAND OF TINOS LAST cruisers, are in the Porto Rico SEVERE DAMAGE WAS CAUS- FAUGUST, WAS REVEALED BY région.Reuter,
THE GREEK NAVY HIGH.COM; MAND YESTERDAY."
„Fragments of two torpedoes i ploked up after “the attack were found by experts to be of Italian ́manufacture.
TWO TRAWLERS
SUNK BY MINES
·ED TO THE STOREROOM IN. WHICH THE OUTBREAK ORI-' CINATED.
Two Bre appliances from the Central Fire Station and one from the Peak Fire Station were sent
" The Admiralty has announced | out.
The announcement was 'not | that "two trawlers,^ -- the "Wave The fire was extinguished with- made carlier "for reasons, of policy | Flower" and the "Joseph Buxton" in three-quarters of an hour of which no longer exist," adds the have been sunk by enemy mines, the arrival of fre appliances, communique. — Reuter, V
No-one was injurea:
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