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TO-MORROW"BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940"
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 28, 1941.
GOVERNMENT PLANS FOR QUICKER SHIP TURNABOUT
AN APPEAL TO DOCKERS to "help us beat
Hitler" was made by Mr. Ernest Bevin, Minister of
Labour, announcing in London yesterday a new scheme for dock labour on Merseyside which will{ improve and speed up working conditions.
Mr. Bevin said that transport has now become a key factor and the organisation of transport would determine the duration of this struggle.
EARLE INCIDENT
ANGERS BERLIN
"We are aiming," he said, "at a 40 per cent quicker turn round of ships and clearances at ports.
want to appeal to my friends. the dockers, to help us beat Hitler."
Mr. Bevin added that the Mer- seyside scheme Will start Un March 10 and will be applied later | to Clyde ports, and continued:
"We must secure a quicker turn round and a bigger output if we THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF are to cope not merely with the THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE) attack that is be ng made Dow YESTERDAY SHARPLY AT but with the attack with which TACKED THE AMERICAN we are threatened in a very short MINISTER AT SOFIA, MR. time."
"Reuter.
GEORGE EARLE, FOR HIS AL. LEGED PRO-BRITISH ATTI- TUDE, AND COMPLAINS OF THE SIMILAR ATTITUDE OTHER DIPLOMATS.
UNITED
OF STATES
AUSTRALIA AND RUMANIA
Australia has severed trading relations with Rumania, which Mr. Earle was the victim of an¦ has been declared enemy terri. assault by Nazis in restaurant|tory, according to an
announce-
in Sofia, when he requested the ment in Canberra yesterday. orchestra to play the song "Tip- This is in conformity with the perary," which aroused the age recent extension of the British of the Germans present.
blockade to Rumana.
German military officer threw a champagne bottle at Mr. Earle who retaliated by knocking him down.
A further echo of the fracas in a Sotia cafe, in which the United States Minister, Mr. Earle, and a German officer were involved. was neard when the German ja question yesterday requested the Bulgarian authorities to allow him to take legal proceedings against Mr. Earle.
A Sofia despatch to the Italian news agency gives this informa-
Reuter.
NO DELAY TO BE COUNTENANCED
AT WHITE HOUSE
"In order that we shall not be guilty of a minute's more delay than can be prevented when Congress passes the Lease and Lend Bill, President Roose- velt will continue his series of conferences with the chiefs of the War, Navy, State and Treasury
depart- ments.
The President's se- cretary, Mr. Stephen Early, made this state- ment yesterday and added that much work remained to be done in getting the Ad- ministration to handle the aid to Britain pro- gramme. Reuter.
AXIS IN OPERATION
IN ECONOMIC FIELD
THE WORKING OF THE AXIS in the econo-
tion but makes no mention of the mic field is revealed in a despatch yesterday froni
result of the Gerinan's request. Reuter
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The despatch states that in accordance with the Italo-German economic agreement, which regulates from time to time clearing payments for the current year, Italo-German commercial exchanges are ex- pected to reach a total of about 1,000,000,000 reichs- marks in both directions.
Guiding principle in the nego-steel to Italy will be more than tiations has been to satisfy all doubled. requirements essential tu war economic demands in which the combined demands of the Axis are regarded as one unit.
Italy will increase shipments of agricultural raw products as well as sulphur and mercury to Germany.
A special agreement also pro- The whole of Italy's coal re. vides for the sending to Germany quirements, amounting to about of a further 205,000 Italian work 12,000,000 tons last year, will men, mainly metal workers, mak- be completely covered by Gerling the total of Italian workmen in Germany in the current year Gein.any's deliveries of iron and 315,000.--Reutry,
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