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HITCH IN HITLER'S PLANS
(By Reuter's Diplomatic Correspondent)
Thousand Prisoners
ACCORDING TO A REPORT FROM THE *************** YUGOSLAV FRONTIER, RECEIVED IN BEL-
Greek resistance to Italy WELL-FORTIFIED GRADE LAST EVENING, THE ITALIAN OF.
seems to have caused ́ hitch in Hitler's plans.
to
his
A week ago. it appeared from rumours that he was going announce the completion of "new order in Europe" and com- offensive bine it with a peace against Britain, with the possible hope that it might be accepted in London and with the stronger hope that it might cause Sension in America on the of the presidential elections.
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There is still a possibility his trying a peace offensive America but the rest of his have grandiose plan seems to been shelved for the moment. Reuter.
GREEK LINE OF RESISTANCE
are
The Italian troops finding them- selves up against a well-fortified line of resistance, it was ad- mitted over Rome radio last evening, says Reuter.
PETAIN REPLIES TO ROOSEVELT
:
FENSIVE AGAINST THE WESTERN GAP OF JANINA HAS BEEN REPELLED..
DIES DOWN Tights by single-air-
craft over some, districts in the southern half of England is the Air Minis- try's description of enemy air activity yesterday morning and afternoon.
The communique 'adds that re-
that a few bombs were drop¬
ped but damage was not serious.
A thousand Italians have been taken pri-ports received up to 4 p.m. indi- soner and many tanks captured, while large Italian units are in a dangerous position.
“HE'S AS BIG A LIAR AS AN ITALIAN | COMMUNIQUE, IS THE NEW TAGWIN,
ATHENS.
Athenians are jeering at the Rome radio report that Italian planes heavily bombed Piraeus on Saturday, since many had seen the Italian machines scuttling away as fast as they could without dropping any bombs as soon as three Greek fighters appeared.
In some cases, enemy aircraft dived from the clouds and de- livered short bursts of machine- gun fire causing a small numbër of casualties. 2016
One enemy bomber was down and one British fighter missing-Reuter
PANDIT NEHRU REFUSES TO PLEAD
Pandit Nehru, whe 77 a arrest- ed for making an antar speech in furtherance of Mr Gandhi's
anti-war campaign, refused to plead when his trial opened at Corakhpuri yesterday on charges under the Defence of India Re- The proceedings were adjourn ed until to-day-Reuter
A meteorological phenomenon has also appar ently taken place at the front, as an Italian com-ulations. munique claims that torrential rain is flooding their front line while the Greek trenches are bone-dry.
A Rome story of the lynching p
MARSHAL PETAIN has sent a personal letter to of British air force afficers follow-Greek newspapers yesterday. President Roosevelt in answer to the latter's mes-ing their release from internment The newspapers point out that in Greece is also going down well by illegally using the Greek co- in Athens,
Blours the Italiaris were able to The facts are that the officers elude British vigilance and patrol mobbed by a cheering the Adriatic freely. Reuter.. crowd,
sage to him some ten days ago, according to the offi- cial German news agency yesterday. The agency added that the text of the letter has not been pub- lished.
RED ARMY TO HAVE N.C.O.S
The non-commissioned officer system is to be in-
Meanwhile In Washington, M. Henry Haye, the Vichy Govern- ment's Ambassador to the United States, has arranged to see the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, to-day, according to a Washington telegram.
The visit is presumably in or der to present Marshal Petain's reply to President Roosevelt's re- cent message which is: believed to have been concerned with the question of French collaboration with Germany-Reuter,
POLITICAL
troduced into the Soviet ASSASSINS
army immediately, it was announced in
yesterday.
Moscow RELEASED
Object is to strengthen,
cipline and increase the a of junior officers.
Tomeo Sagoya, the young Ja dis-panese who in 1930, Shot md ily mortally wounded: Premier Hamaguchi, was among 133 good conduct prisoners released? yes-
were
Salonika Attack
Two hundred civilians, many of them children, were killed in two big Italian air raids on Salonika on Saturday afternoon.
Despite a gallant defence Greek fighters 20 Italian bombers attacked the refugee quarter in Salonika. The full death-roll is still unknown.
by
In the first official recognition of heroism the King of Greece visited the bedside of Captain Couzuyanis, who was severely wounded while machine-gunning Italian troops from his 'plane, and promoted him major.
Italian Methods Of Warfare
Photographs of an Italian sea- plane, bearing Grock, markings, which was forced to landat Cephalonia before the outbreak of the Italo-Greek hos Ilities, were prominently published in
· PETAIN'S NAME INVIOLATE
• Ranks to be introduced are cor- terday on parole, under an am- Doral, --lance-sergeant, sergeant, nesty granted by the Emperor on sentor sorgoant and warrant the occasion of the commemarn- officers,
my tion of the 2,000th year of the em.ls part of Japanese Empire.
Persons insulting the head of of Marshal | The released men also include the French State will be, punish- (Commissar for Sub-Lt: Kamamoto, who parti ed in future by three months to cipated in the revolutionary out- two years imprisonment or a fine After three years, burvice, non-break in Tokyo. In February of 1,000 to 3,000 francs, according may be 1930 and two members of the to a Geneva message to the Cer- so-called Blood Brotherhood Lea=|mņu news agency quoted by gue-Reuter
Reuter this morning.
The new tho, rofoi
"Timoshenkoj
Dafaños,
commisioned off.
promoted
of Junior
FUSHIMI MARU EVACUATING JAPS. The Japanese liner "Fushimi Maru," now at Galway, will sail to-morrow carrying Japanese na tionals from Britain. Reuter,
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