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HAMBURG'S INDUSTRY LEFT IN A SHAMBLES HUNGARY Enormous Toll Of VON PAPEN Damage In Mass OPENS WAR Raids Of R.A.F.
TO SIGN AXIS PACT
It is understood in Bu- dapest that Hungary's signature will be added to the Axis-Japan Pact when Count Teleki and Count Csaky, the Premier and Foreign Minister, arrive in Vienna.to-day.
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OF NERVES
IN TURKEY
Political circles in An-
"HAMBURG HAS LOST ITS VITAL WAR ROLE,” WRITES THE MILITARY CORRESPONDENT OF THE "YORKSHIRE kara are now inclined to POST," ADDING: "THE WEEK-END OPERATIONS ON HAM-expect a new Axis cam- BURG FORM THE GREATEST AIR EFFORT OF THE WAR ON ONE OBJECTIVE,
It is not expected that there: 000000000 will be any protocols of the pact
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detailing military cooperation which might be expected to de- velop between Hungary and Axis.
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In view of the existing operation' such protocols would be superfluous.
It is pointed out that signature of the pact by Hungary would be a formality. It would enable the Germans to beat their pro- paganda. big drum, and 'no change in the situation for Huns gary is expected.
Ministers
The two Hungarian will probably return to Budapest to-morrow. -Reuter
BULGARIA
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DENIES PRESENCE OF NAZI TROOPS
Bulgarian circles in London yesterday denied that there are any German troops in Bulgaria, says Reuter The Berne corres- pondent of the "New York Times alleged that there were five full divisions in Bul- ............
Spain To Join Axisgaria.
Says Rome Talk
"There can be little left of military use in this great port. Naval shipyards and oil storage tanks are wrecked and the works of Blom and Voss extensively damaged."
"Dock sheds have gone up in smoke and sunken ships block the channels. The big oil refinery, with a capacity of 400,000 metric tons, cannot now be of much value.
the
paign of pressure on Tur- key as a sequel to the conversations between Hitler and M. Molotov, the Soviet Premier and Foreign Commissar, Berlin.
According to a despatch from Berlin yesterday the German Ambassador to Turkey, Franz
von Papen, told foreign corres- pondents in the Nazi capital that
a rapprochement with the Axis powers, as well as complete restoration of friendly relations an with the Soviet Union, has be
come an urgent problem for the Turks since M. Molotov's visit.
"The Neuhof power station is thing, serious industry is at on short time and the. slipways of end and workmen have been
Isle of Walteschoief have drafted elsewhere. been destroyed with shipsTM and submarines on them.
Dockside produce markets were destroyed earllor, oil tanks blown up, a vegetable oil factory gutted and the Rhenania Ossag works badly damaged. "Week-end explosions and fires numerous in grain · stores and factories.
were
Shipping Dead “Hamburg · shipping is a dead
A definite agreement CHINA TO
between Spain and the
Axis powers, leading to
some form of activity"
may be daily expected, the Rome correspondent of the "Basler Nachrich- ten" said yesterday.
Political circles in Rome, it is declared, consider that discus- sions have now come to an end and developments will follow.
The Berlin correspondent of the same newspaper. says that the Wilhelmstrasse. in exceeding ly reticent in regard to the visit of Senor Suner, the Spanish-For-
eign Minister, to Gamany, but In-well-informed circles it is stated that the negotiations with Spain are now completed.. Reuter.
CHANNEL GUNS IN ACTION
GERMAN LONG-RANGE
·GUNS-ON THE FRENCH COAST. FIRED ACROSS THE.CHANNEL YESTERDAY FOR NEARLY AN' HOUR.::
any
There are no reports, of casualties or any damage from the Dover area. **** Reuter,
FIGHT
ON TO A JUST PEACE
CHINA'S DETERMINATION to fight on until
a "just and honourable peace" has ben secured was reaffirmed in authoritative Chinese quarters in Chungking yesterday.
It is learned the Government have no know- ledge of any new Japanese peace reports, apart from press reports originating in Tokyo (these stated Japan had decided to attempt direct negotiations with Chungking).
One Chinese commentator yes- terday described these reports as "obviously, a repetition of Japan's earlier manoeuvres to create a false atmosphere beneficial. to her plans."
He added: "The threat to ac cord recognition to the puppet Wang Ching-wel regime in Nan king leaves us cold.
and a half years of war. It also shows Japan still wants a dictated peace."--Reuter.
RIBBENTROP
REACHES VIENNA
Joachim. von Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister, arrived in Vienna by speelal train · from® "It shows how ignorant the.Ja Salzburg last ovoning ten minutes panese are of the grit of the before Count Clano, the Italian Chinese people even after three Foreign Minister. — Reuter,
"Military objectives in the city form a large area closely all that romains grouped and is a blackened shell.
Von Papen hinted that Gør- many and Italy would. respect Turkish Independence and tha Soviets would . abandon any claim to the Dardanelles it
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Turkey accepted the "new or der" which would mean parating herself from Britain
rights and acknowledging the
of the Axis to direct the po-
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"Hamburg as such no longer operates and when our last bom- bers returned to-day the second city of Germany may be said to have lost its vital role in the war. "Its railways have been plough- ed; the Altona electric works and Turkish political quarters stat- the Brembech gasworks heavilyed yesterday that they have full straddled and traffic in the sort-confidence in Turkey's ability to ing yards reduced to chaos." Reuter.
win any war of nerves which the Axis powers care to start.Reuter.
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