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Thailand
'Planes Downed
A communique issued by Admiral Decoux's headquarters in Hanoi claims that on Friday French fighter planes brought down two Thai 'planes in flames during a bombing attack on Siem-
reap.
French planes bombed Prach- inbur, on the Aranya-Bangkok railway, and also Oubon, Sizaket, Prachimbouri and Srakeo,
Admiral
Decoux categorically denies news published that French 'planes intended to bomb Bangkok on Friday. Reuter.
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CACHE OF NAZI ARMS IN COSTA RICO
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The San Jose (Costa Rico) authorities yes- terday announced the discovery of a big cache of light arms stamped with the swastika at a point 45 miles south of San Jose.
Several
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ing.
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GERMANY STILL
TALKING INVASION
AXIS PROPAGANDA is concentrating more and more deeply on an “invasion of Britain" angle.
Saturday's reference by Dr. Goebbels to a coming offensive was followed yesterday by a German radio commentator's statement that "what doesn't happen in a year may happen
in a month.'
JAPAN SETS UP REPRISAL COUNCIL
Moving to counteract what the Japanese term
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An action appears to be taking place in the Me-
A German offensive in the Balkans, says the correspondent, will meet with resistance from Bulgaria and Greece and possibly willditerranean between Bri- result in a conflict of interests between Ger-
| many and Russia.
Meanwhile, as soon as Germany inoves in Europe, Japan will move in the Pacific and also in the southern Pacific, partly to carry out her southwards expan- sion plan and partly to support Germany.
Encouraging Thailand's at- tack on southern French Indo- China, it is stated that Japan will at an opportune moment reize Salgon and southern Indo. China.
The correspondent
attaches
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tish and Italian naval units, but no official in- formation is yet forth- coming in London.
The Italian High Command' has issued an announcement claiming that a British cruiser was suak and two Bri.ish destroyers badly damaged "in a running naval battle in the Mediterranean."
The Italian High Command communique adds that a direct hit was scored on a big cruiser.
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SER-
trip to England "as a private citi-
Mr. Wendell Willkie, de- LESS
ADMIRAL SIR ANDREW CUN- feated Presidential candi- NINGHAM'S FULL REPORT much signficance to the presence date, yesterday endorsed REACHES THE ADMIRALTY. Apparently realising that forces
in German mission of a large are driving Germany to take some Japan, as well as to the visit of President Roosevelt's VICE. desperate action, he continued: -
a Japanese military mission to Lend-and-Lease Bill for **Britain will be beaten long be-
Berlin, expressing the opinion fore American help can become
Japan will British Aid, qualifying his zen," Mr. Willkie sald he was go- that Germany and effective.
"You know what I mean if I shortly intensity warfare in the approval only with the reing, with the permission of Mr. of Cordell Hull; the Secretary Reuter, southern Pacific. -
commendation that a time
State. limit should be set to the
It is believed, the motive of the visit is to demonstrate American President's powers.
solidarity to Britain. Internation- Announcing his forthcoming al News Service.
mention the word-invasion."
Italy adopted the same line, and, writing in "Telegrafo," Signor Ansaldo says:-
"Germany has always had the greatest confidence in her ability to land in England.
"The people of the United States will find they are wrong In believing that Germany wlit give up her Invasion plans," Reuter.
Anglo-American "guerilla London
tactics" in "secret anti- Japanese trade, the Ja-
•panese · Government
is
The Main
Target
proposing to organise a wartime Trade Council.
coordinate The Council would measures to guarantee the freedom of Japan's trade in the western Pacific and would meet a possible For the second night in Anglo-American attempt to dis-
succession London, ap- rupt Far Eastern trade channels,
the Tokyo Miyako Shim peared to be the main bun!! to
The projected Council would target of the German air
last force
fof; the Minister
War
dropped
British
China Squadron
The R.A.F. is to have a fighter squadron named "The British China Squa dron," 'planes for the squadron being purchas ed by funds contributed to the Shanghai Voluntary War Contribution Fund.
This has come about by a mes- sage received by the British Em bassy from the Foreign Office asit- ing if there was any likelihood of the Fund reaching £100,000 and saying that for that figure it would") be po
iter planes, to be iden- donors in Chiff
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