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CHINA MAIL
FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST. ESTABLISHED 1845.
No. 92,041
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1941
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HIGH FINAL
INSIST ON
Daisy Brand
Australia's Choices.
BUTTER
BLACK SEA FLEET
RUSSIAN
GIVES HINT
Grim
BLITZKRIEG EXPERT TO
TO NAZIS TAKE COMMAND
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was
Russia's powerful Black Sea fleet last night reported in Vichy to be massing off the principal Bulgarian port of Varna, coincident with rumours that German troops for the first time are entering Bulgaria.
Usually reliable quarters in Vichy said Soviet vessels have taken up menacing positions less than 100 miles from the Bulgar- ian-Turkish frontier.
They declared that Germany's reported move in Bulgaria is a direct blow against the Soviet. Reich troops are reported to be attempting to reach Salonika and the Dardanelles in an effort to keep Russia from sending oil and .munitions to Turkey and Greece, VICHY SOURCES ALSO SAID THAT STILL MORE GERMAN TROOPS ARE ENTERING RU- MANIA.
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS SERVICE.
Field-Marshal List, one of Germany's blitzkrieg experts, is to arrive in Rumania shortly with a staff of five generals to take over command of Ger- man troops there, says a Bucharest des- patch received in Belgrade last night.
Marshal List com- manded the Ger- man troops in the Po- lish campaign.
Baron Manfred von Killinger, new German Minister to Rumania, is due in Bucharest on Sunday. Reuter.
Plight Plight Facing
Occupied Countries
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LATEST FIRST-HAND news from Europe was brought to New York yesterday by Miss Anne Morgan, J. P. Morgan's sister, and wai correspondents Merril! Mueller, of Interna- tional News, and Quentin Reynolds, of "Col- lier's Weekly," when the liner "Exeter" ar- rived from Lisbon with 187 passengers.
Miss Morgan declared that people in German-occupied France, where she directed charities of her American Friends of France organisation, badly need food.
an official book
She predicted that in another! He is writing month the plight of people in on the R.A.F. for the reading pu- Nazi-held countries such as France blic of the United States. Holland and "desperate."
Belgium, would
be
Mr. Mueller paid high tribute to British morale and to the "courage, and efficiency of the R.A.F."
America FOUR-MAN BOARD
In Moral TO SPUR U.S.
Alliance
ON THE EVE OF THE ROOSEVELT BUDGET SPEECH, WHICH IS HARDLY LESS IM- PORTANT THAN MONDAY'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, BE- CAUSE CONCRETE PROPOSALS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE PRESI. DENT'S MORE AID TO BRI.
זו
ARMS DRIVE
Mr.
Not Enough
Reynolds who, like Mr. Mueller, has been covering the
GREEK WARSHIPS BOMBARD VALONA
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It was announced in Athens last night that Greek destroyers penetrated the Ita- lian Adriatic defences and blasted the vital base of Valona for the third time, while Bri- tish planes pounded the port with bombs. -International News Service.
TOBRUK
A RAGING
INFERNO
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Tobruk and Tripoli were
bombing of England in recent raging infernos last night months, said the help America so following British air raids as Tobruk's first vital de- fence point fell into the
far has given Britain is "not en- ough."
Mr. Reynolds advocated that
the United States "come Into the hands of swiftly advan-
war 100 per cent."
Miss Morgan, in
cing British forces who
travelling captured El Adem air- through Spain to reach Lisbon, port.
said she was touched by Spain's plight and said Spaniards
It was announced that 40 Ita- "are very hungry and we may have to able by R.A.F. bombs, were cap- lian 'planes, rendered, unservice- do something about it."--Interna- tional News Service.
tured.
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A SUPREME DIRECTORATE for the Unit- HAVE AN H. B.
WILL INDICATE ed States defence programme, to speed up arms_production, was established by Presi-
TAIN POLICY, THE "WASH dent Roosevelt yesterday.
INGTON POST" WRITES THAT THE UNITED STATES HAS EN- TERED INTO A MORAL AND MATERIAL ALLIANCE
The Directorate comprises Mr. William Knudsen, as Director-General; Mr. Sidney BRITAIN, GREECE AND CHINA. Hillman, the Labour leader, as Associate
The paper
WITH
adds that the
President's Message shows its
firm contract.
It is widely agreed in Wash-
Director-General; Mr. Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, and Colonel Frank Knox,
ington that the aggressors Secretary of Navy.
themselves are largely the
architects of the electric re-
volution ·· In United States
policy, because the Italo-Ger-
veyed an open threat to Am- erica, since when the "three powers have been rubbing it In with truculent speeches and three-power military talks in Berlin.
President Roosevelt announced Arsenal Of Democracy that the Directorate had been
mano-Japanese pact first con- : · †glven full" authority to formulate They promised "all that we and execute policies for arma-haye" to fulfil President Roose- |ment production.
velt's order to create an "arsenal [of Democracy" in the United By an Executive Order, Pro- States and called for cooperation sident Roosevelt has established from every person in the country an office of production manage to make that arsenal adequate for: the defence of Democracy and: freedom. Reuter,
It is generally agreed in Washington that the most. important part of the Presi~.
's Mussage is that show-. "the indivisibility between. dica and those countries:
"the new order / sof
Reuter.
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ment for defence, which will be only, nominally under his " con- troli.
Simultaneously President Roose- released to reporters a state- iment signed by all four members of the Directorate in which they
BILL OF HEALTH
Nineteen cases of terculosis,
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