THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 14, 1940.
HITLER'S DILIGENT BID
SOVIET TO AXIS
TO SECURE
Second Talk With Molotov Lasts 3 Hours No Clue To Progress
HITLER SEEMS TO BE PUTTING. ON HIS PERSONAL MAGNETISM AT FULL STRENGTH IN ORDER TO BRING M. MOLOTOV TO AN AMENABLE FRAME OF MIND IN THE BER- LIN TALKS.
Few diplomatic visitors to Berlin have en-' goged Hitler's personal attention -so long. M. Molotov's visit to the Chancellery yester- day lasted for over four hours, and his talks with Herr Hitler lasted three hours of this time.
They also talked at length at a Juncheon which Hitler gave in M. Molotov's honcur.
At the official conversations after the luncheon,
present
Secretary of the Russian Em- hassy in Berlin acted es interp prcters.
to Moletoy was "snall is it
The luncheon Ribbentrop !
M. edicially described as Dekanozov, the Soviet Deputy luncheon party.”.
was
Foreign Minister.
well as
The Councillor of the German Embassy In Moscow and .the
U.S. NAVAL YARDS
"A Small Party"
It was held in the old Reich (Chancellry and the guests includ- ed some of M. Molotov's suite, Ribbentrop,.General Keitel, Gocb- bels, Dr. Ley (chief of the Labour Front). Dietrich (the Reich Press "the commander of
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE Chic) and
at
Five child survivors from a torpedoed evacuee ship. Ken- neth Sparks, Howard Clayton. Harry Steele, Qerak Capel and William Short, seen kitted up with their life-saving equip mant aboard the rescue ship. (Copyright. Fox).
Italian
Retreat
In Two
Sectors
Hitler's bodyguard and others." According to the latest The United States national de-ocol, called for M. Molotov
Von Doernberg, Chief of Pro- reports from Greece, the fence programme is a "full year the Belvendre Palace and drove Italians are retreating in ahead of schedule," Colonel Frank with him to the Chanceliry' where two sectors in the face of, Knox, Secretary for the Navy, the guard-presented arms. Hitler told reporters after
Greek inspecting rected the guests in the flower- determined
at- the navy yard at Boston (Massa- deciced reception room of his own tacks. chusetts) yesterday.
apartments.
In the Pirklus sector. remnants į Colonel Knox added: "In 1941 Photographs were taken for the of the Alvini division are report- we shall be getting 26 new ships, Press and newsreels. Molotoved to be struggling back including two battleships and Fat at Hitler's right hand at Konitsa. 15 miles north of the
one aircraft carrier." Reuter. lunch. Reuter.
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place where they received their first set-back.
This will take them back over the frontler into Albania, and they are leaving hehind equip- ment and prisoners to awell the numbers already taken by the Greeks.
The other area is on the Adria- tic. Here, Italian advance patrols penetrated between the Kalamas and Acheron rivers, some 25 miles in from the coast.
Greece
The latest news from says that the Ifalians have been pushed back towards the Kalamas River, and that Greek troops ad- (the vancing from the Acheron "Styx" of mythology) have cer- tainly reached Masaraki, eight miles from the Kalamas River. Rcuter.
NORWAY
GROWING RESTLESS
According to the Stock- holm correspondents of
SINKING OF "BREMEN" DENIED
A report from the United States to the effect that the giant German liner "Bre- men" has been sunk is denied by the official German News Agency, which says the report is devoid of founda- tion. Reuter.
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STOP PRESS
An official announcement is. made in London of the deci-
of sion to create the office Commander-in-Chief in the Far East. The notification states:---
"In view of the state which has been reached in the de- fence depositions in territor- ies in the Far East for the
the
protection of which His Ma- jesty's Government in United Kingdom is responsi- ble and in order to ensure co- ordinated control, it has been decided to appoint a Com- mander-in-Chief in the Far East who will have under his command the General Officers commanding Malaya, Burma
and Hong Kong and the Air Officer Commanding in the Far East.
"The New C.1.C. will con- sult and cooperate with the Naval Commanders-in-Chler-- in China and the East Indies and with the Commander-in- Chicf. India. It will also be his duty to maintain close touch with Governors of Burma and the Colonies con- . cerned and communicate with His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Aus- tralia and New Zealand on all matters of inttrest to them.
He will also be responsible for keeping in touch with de- fence matters with His Ma- jesty's representatives in for eigh countries in or concerned with the Far East."
Swiss newspapers, a move HUNT FOR ment is growing among
officials in Norway to de- RAIDER
monstrate their disrespect
for their new masters.
It is now certain that a
The "National Zeitung" reports German raider laid the that all officials of the entire ad mines which sank a Bri- ministrative district of Brandu have been dismissed for "Go tish and an American Slow conduct and the adininis- ship last Friday, stated Mr. C. E. Hughes, Minis- Similar disobedience is report-ter of the Navy, in Mel- ed from many other ports of Nor-bourne yesterday.
tration of the district 'has: been
completely disclosed,
way, Reuter.
The Minister added that the mints were laid “quite recently." The raider must be within cer- Tlie, prefix., "special"! to telegrams: is Įthiré fad us and naval and air] used by the “Sunday · Herald and patrols are searching diligently.~|- "China" Mall" to indicate news which cuter:
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BIRTH
RASCHLE - On 13th November,
1940, at the French Hospital Hong Kong to Edith, wife of Rud. E. Raschle, a son.
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