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VIOLENT COUNTER-ATTACK
CLARION CALL BY METAXAS
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General Metaxas yes- terday addressed the fol- lowing proclamation to the Greek army praising their magnificent stand against the Italian forces.
"To-day your steel hearts are defending the sacred soil of the motherland. I salute you most warmly.
"I believed that, every Greek, from the King to the humblest citizen; proudly backs you.
"Remember you have a glorious opportunity of writing your hames in golden letters in the pages of Greek history besides those héroes
of the Marathon, the heroes of
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"SUBMARINE NEAR PANAMA" INVESTIGATION
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The United States Navy last night was investigating reports that an unidentified submarine had been seen near the Gulf of Darien, east of the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal.— International News Service. 0000000000
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Italian Invaders In Bloody Retreat
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IN A VIOLENT COUNTER-ATTACK GREEK MOUNTAIN WARRIORS LAST NIGHT WERE REPORTED TO HAVE THROWN THE NUMERICALLY SUPERIOR ITALIAN INVAD- ERS INTO A BLOODY RETREAT IN SEVERAL SECTORS ON THE NORTHERN FRONT.
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Though reinforced with additional troops, artillery and strafing 'planes, Mussolini's di- LAUNCH IN visions were stopped or turned back in day; CHUNGKING long battles by the resourceful resistance of the Greek troops.
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The first steamer built.
Apparently attempting to disrupt the in Free China was stout defence, Italian 'planes bombed the launched yesterday in ports of Patras and Lepanto, the town of Nav-Chungking without any
ceremony, paktos and the Aegean island of Piraeus. The ship, named Ming Wen, is
Athens had another raid alarm | the Kalamas River for a major, last night as Italian 'planes flew push, to capture the factory town near the city en route to the island of Ioannina, in north-western where it is. believed possible the Greece. Fascist bombers may have attack- ed British bluejackets who have landed at several undisclosed. Greek islands, according to re- ports."
Meanwhile Rome last night claimed that Italian troops were consolidating their positions on
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THE FACT THAT A practical form of Franco-German cooperation, especially re-
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garding colonial and economic matters, form- AGAIN
Rome Bombast
The Fascist forces, supported by 'planes and artillery, were alleged in Rome to have pushed down the west coast to the river's right bank where they came within striking distance of loannina, 30 miles be- low the Albanian frontier.
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Simultaneously Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, arrived in Tirana, capital of Albania, pre- sumably to help direct the Fascist attempt to liquidate the Greek problem and push Britain: from the Acgean and Ionian sections of the east Mediterranean. Inter- national News Service.
owned by the Ming Sung Indus- trial Co..
It cost: $4,000,000 and took 22 Imonths to build. The engines and boiler were imported from Eng- fand, but everything else on board was built out of Chinese material. The steamer will run on the Yangtse and will carry passengers and freight. The company is at present building 15 more ships. Havas.
LONDON HAS A QUIET NIGHT
After an earlier alert, London-. ers heard the earliest "Raiders Passed" signal last night since the extensive night raids began in early September. Buses, “trams and tubes ran to normal schedule.
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Laval continued: “To-day I had talks with the German military and civil authorities.
These talks are the natural me of the historical in torview: between Hitler and
Long Way To Go
"There is still a long way to go before wo attain a settia ment of all problems
"It is not within a few days or weeks that we can repair all the damages and ruins of war. France will Judge us on the re- sults achieved. I will always remember the talks with the Ger man authorities. All along their history our two great peoples have clashed.
"When I saw - Marahat. Po- tain, and the Fuehrer facing each other il realised that our two great: nations could settle
"In the interest of France and Europe we have inaugurated a policy which will enable us to rachieve, our country's recovery...
In all domains, especially, econo- their differences otherwise than mic and colonial, we have already. ; by battles, to envisaged and will continue to "Henceforth France will know examine in what "practical form how to protect herself against our cooperation can serve the foreign influence. She will take interests of France, Germany and by herself full responsibility, for Europea
her actions."-Havas..
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