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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 31, 1940.
HITLER'S RUSH VISIT
TO FLORENCE EXPLAINED
AIR RAID ALARM IN ATHENS
An air raid alarm was sounded quicker than on the occasion of
in Athens yesterday which lasted former alarms, having been im- for half an hour, from 4.20 p.m.
casualties at
to 4.50 pm. No gunfire was heard pressed by the and no Italian planes appeared Patras, which were largely caus- in the immediate vicinity of the ed by sight-seers remaining
the streets. Greek capital. Reuter.
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When the air-raid warning It is now learned authoritative- was sounded in Athens yester-¡ly that 100 were killed and 280 day, the public reached shelter wounded at Patras.-Reuter.
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Mussolini Wary Of
Double-Cross
IT IS NOW REVEALED THAT HITLER'S RUSH VISIT TO FLORENCE WAS for the PURPOSE OF HEALING A RIFT IN THE AXIS LUTE THREATENING AS A RESULT OF HITLER'S NE- GOTIATIONS WITH M. LÁVAL.
Reuter's Zurich correspondent says that the one inescapable fact emerging from the news, both from Berlin and Rome, is that re- cent events have compelled Hitler to adopt the unaccustomed role of “appeaser," but whether with better effect than the appeasers of yester-eve is still conjectural.
Having in the first place failed in his at- tempt to persuade Italy to sacrifice her terri- torial claims against France, Hitler has been faced with further Italian recalcitrance in op- posing any active or passive assistance of France in the war, which Mussolini feared might entitle Petain to equal partnership with Italy in Germany's "New Order."
Then came Hitler's hasty visit to Florence which was followed by significantly, soothing German newspaper paragraphs,
like that
in the "Zeitung" which asserted that while France has been offer-
ed participation in the Axis sys- tem if she broke with Britain, Germany had promised her no- thing regarding the later peace,
From that change of tone, thei Italian Press became noticeably calmer,
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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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MYSTERY TRIP OF U.S.
MINING OF GREEK WATERS WARSHIPS
The Double-Cross? The mining of strategic
|Greek waters was
The mysterious depor- Political observers deduce
an-ture, under sealed order, therefore that though claims may be put in the back-nounced by the British of five United States de- ground while "appeasement” is Admiralty in London yes- stroyers, seventeen bom- assured Italy that her claims will terday.
|bers and one seaplane
directed to France, Germany has
of
to of the
Rumour' is busy suggesting that the ships are bound for the French leland of Martini- of que, where the difference opinion between the pro-Vichy partisans and the anti-Vichy
have duc. consideration later. On the west, all waters have tender, from Key West, The conclusions drawn are been rendered dangerous east of has led to much specula- that, firstly, Germany's new a line drawn roughly round' the offer to France is more gen- | west coasts of the Islands of tion in Washington. erous that the original offer; Levkas, Cephalonia and Zante (in The mystery secondly, that France is left the Ionian Sea) and
was heightened thence to when Colonel Knox, Secretary of uncertain whether a temporary | Cape Katakolo on the Greek peace will be modified later to mainland.
the Navy, smilingly refused
destination state the satisfy
that Italy; thirdly,
This means France's' bargaining position
that the gulfs of flotilla. Patras and Corinth and the ep- depends
upon. Britain's re- sistance.
proaches to them have been
Ori Hence the discussion
the mined. of
the east detailed execution of the Franco- Greece, the Gulf of Aegina has German collaboration agreement been mined north, and west of may proceed less smoothly than the line between Cape Spadi and
Cape. Collona. `· was at first expected-Reuter.
-The Gulf of Corinth bites deep Italy Successful? ly into the Greek mainland, and the isthmus only a few miles wide Italy's anxiety over the arrange- separates its head from the head ment. Hitler has been trying to of the Gulf of Aegina. The make with the Vichy Government principal port on the Gulf of American units including new is clearly reflected in a Berlin Aegina is Piraeus which serves cruisers are in the Porto,
Rico dispatch to Stefani, the official Athens. ---- Reuter. Italian news agency yesterday. "
The message suggests that the Italians have successfully -objected to any Franco/German -settlement which would deprived Italy of the fruits of victory, in -exchange for French aid against |
Britain.
Quoting authoritative Germin quarters, the message says that in the Hitler talks with Laval and Petain; "not only was no formal agreement reached but no-special problem was even discussed.”.
Must Pay In Full
The talks, it adds, were solely
concerned with "the general plan
of the part which France wishes
to play in the new European Or-
der
The dispatch concludes:- "The new European dispensa tion cannot fail to take account
of the fact that it was France which desired, provoked and lost the war, and that for this she
must pay in full."-Reuter.
TWO TRAWLERS SUNK BY MINES
is reported to be nearing climax.
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While the five destroyers would be inadequate to seize the island if the French Navy offered re- sistance, it is known that other
region. Reuter.
VICHY COMMENT
ON NEW ITALIAN INVASION
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
EVINCING CONSIDERABLE interest in the de- velopments in the Balkans, political circles in Vichy recall that, for the second time in 2,000 years, Ro- man legions sare attempting to force their way through the mountains bordering the Adriatic Sea in order to establish their mastery over the Aegean Sea across the Macedonian Plains.............
on land, the front will extend forming a more or less straight
for over 100 miles between the line. from Vallons and... Ar- Adriatic and Yugoslavia. Owing gyökastro, Albanian ports on the to the mountainous character of Adriatic.hbreton Greece, the attackers will have only two "
"entrances" to the
This highway, reaches tho- Madodonian Plains through the Visleitan Valley; dus geendall
The Admiralty has announced country that two trowlers, the Wave. Firstly, north-east of the Pintus Secondly; · down the highway Flower", and the Joseph Buxton" -mountain-range, from which “andlong the coast leading to the Gulf have been sunit by encary, mines; | important, and strategie", highway of Carinth: across; the province of --Router...
"leads to Salonika” and “ thoroby | Epirus by Way of Yaniha.“-Hayas..