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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940
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VIOLENT DUEL OF BIG
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OFFICIAL U.S. LOAN ATTITUDE
Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of Treasury, agrees that Britain is a "good risk," he told his press conference in Wash- ington yesterday referring to the statement by Mr. Jesse Jones, Federal Loan Administrator, the previ ous day.
Asked when. Britain would re- quire credits Mr. Morgenthau re- plied: "If I knew the answer it would not have been necessary for Sir Frederick Phillips, the British Treasury official, to come
* over."
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BIG CREDIT FOR ARGENTINA
A $100,000,000 credit is being plan- ned for Argentina by the United States. Treasury and the Ex- port and Import Bank, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secre- tary of Treasury, an- nounced in Washing- ton yesterday.
He added this total included $50 million from the Treasury's Stabilisation Fund to stabilise the dollar- peso exchange rate.
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Mr. Morgenthau added that: so far as he knew Sir Frederick had [British
come to the United States only available in the United States, and finances and resources to -present-actual information on [not to request a loan-Reuter."
HITLER PUTTING OUT NEW PEACE FEELERS
THE IMPOSSIBILITY of making peace with Nazi Germany was expressed in the House of Commons yesterday by Mr. Clement
Spitfires Scatter
Raiders In
In All Directions
FORMATIONS OF MESSERSCHMIDTS WHICH CROSSED THE SOUTH-EAST COAST OF ENGLAND YESTERDAY WERE SCATTER- ED IN ALL DIRECTIONS BY SPITFIRES WHICH CHASED THEM RIGHT ACROSS THE CHANNEL.
Bombs were dropped on one town but did no serious damage, while an unsuccessful attempt was
RAIDS ON
GRAZIANI
also made to bomb some small ships in the Channel BASES
but the ships replied so effectively that the raiders were driven off.
selves.
chmidt 109's off the Kent coast In the Western Desert,.. In the evening heavy without a single loss to them- El Adem, Sollum and Sidi gun fire shook Channel
A Polish flying officer shot down Barani were bombed on towns as British and Ger- his second machine in five days. Tuesday night, stated an man long-range guns Reuter. De duel across the Straits of fought a violent artillery
Air Ministry news bulletin yesterday.
Dover.
The cannonade was continu- ing with unabated force after shelling had been in progress over an hour, an
FRENCHMEN WOUNDED
-- Aircraft of a Rhodesian squa, dron successfully raided stores and dumps on the road east of Chelga. The dumps were burnt out.
A direct hit completely wreck- Two French railway employees ed the railway station building at The number of enemy aircraft were wounded, 14 Annamite and Adarte, while goods, trucks on destroyed off the British coast yes-three Chinese workmen killed sidings and a group of huts in the terday was 15, including an enemy and 30 Annamites wounded station were also badly damaged. bomber shot down off the south-when eight Japanese planes, west coast.
One of our reconnaissance air- coming from bases in French craft failed to return but with this The remainder were destroyed. Indo-China, on Tuesday raided exception all these operations were in combats in the south-east, Tchechuen station and yards on carried out without Iass-Reuter. states an Air Ministry com- the Yunnan railway 150 kilome- munique.
....
Two British aircraft were lost but one pilot is safe,,
One Squadron Gets Eight
tarday shot down eight Messers- One squadron of Spitfires yes-
KING AT
Attlee, Lord Privy Seal and Deputy Leader of SOUTHAMPTON
the House of Commons.
He said that we cannot make 1 peace with a' people who ɖo" not- accept the beginnings, of modern civilisation,
"We linte to Gee mangled bodies. and ruined homes, but, there is. something worse than killing the
soul'
Surrep AND POMPEY
From time to time, tioun feelers are put out by Hit. fer between, his fits of blind fury marked by terror-bombings and propagando predictions of even tual German demination.
During the last week, German
tres north of Hokow, the Indo- men, It was stated in Chung- China frontier station
king yesterday, are Castes and Names of the wounded French- Clement-Reuter.
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terrigerator is triple-acting for The new refrigerator operates new-perfect preservation of all. types of food.
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The King yesterday saw what the Nazi bombers had done to Southamp-partments body and that is killing. the propaganda has been saying that ton, and standing by the vide three pre
Britain's Industry is crippled, her bombed civic centre he dry all cities destroyed, most of her ship-chatted to air raid ward- ping sunk and her Empire on the verge of disintegration.
ens when the air raid alarm sounded and a single Nazi spotting There is once again talk in Ger- and the world that the. Empire high while bursts of A:A Having tried to convince Britain plane was seen flying man-inspired quarters of the will ta destroyed if the war con- possibilities of a negotiated peace. tinues much longer, Hitler Ima-shells appeared around,
gines that he has produced the The King went on to Porta- Hitler The Peacemaker!ight frame of mind to save him- mouth, where again, there
self from the fate that awaits him an air raid during the Royal
visit.
Hitler was thus given in ad- vance the British answer to new peace feelers which he is putting out, semi-official sources In-Lon-. The Endangered don commented yesterday evening.
Was
Thus, a Budapest report spoke
move for German mediation But the fact that Germany The King saw some of the the Italo-Grook “war."
should be canvassing the possibill-men, who brought over the ro ties of a compromise peace is cently, acquired American...... de- taken as more confirmation that stroyers,
Other reports were a bit vaguer
spoke of a "general settle
London, the symptoms are
well recognised.
it is not Britain but Germany hor- Thousands of sailors and work self which is in n very danger-men choored ns the King walked our-position, -- Reuter,
through the: dockyards
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