THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 3, 1941.
BULGARIAN PARLIAMENT
MEETING IN SECRET: NOT AN ALLY OF AXIS
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"} THOUSANDS OF German troops are completing the occupation of all strategic points in Bulgaria, while the Bulgarian Par- liament meets in secret session.
King Boris yesterday bid farewell to Mr. George Rendel, the British Minister.
M. Filoff, the Premier, on hi return from Vienna, told Parlia ment that "the Nazi occupation Į aims at the maintenance of peвOT and calm in the Bolkans "
The Nazis are hurriedly equip- Iping Sofla and other centres with batteries of A.A. guns, apparently in the momentary expectation of} British bombers.
EGYPTIANS THANKED
A PRESS MESSAGE FROM CAIRO STATES THAT GENER- AL WAVELL HAS ADDRESSED A LETTER TO THE EGYPTIAN PREMIER AT A TIME WHEN AN IMPORTANT STAGE IN OUR
It is believed that Mr. Render informed King Boris that Bri ,tain considers Bulgarian terri
Lory subject to attack. The British Military
Attache of yesterday for Cairo to report | AFRICA HAS CONCLUDED,”
To the Middle East Command,
Not An Ally
PERMANENT
RUMANIAN BLACK-OUT
Rumania will be blacked-out each night from 8.30 to 6.30 in the morning from last night, ac- cording to a Bucharest message quoted by Reuter.
OPERATIONS IN NORTH WEATHER FORECAST
General Wavell expressed The Royal Observatory reports thanks for the help and coopera- [that a moderate anticyclong cuvers tion received from the Egyptian | China and the neighbouring seas, mihtary authorities during the pressure being highest not th-west of Shantung.
M Filoff declared that Germany | campingn In Libya which. 11+ Fas not demanded anything con- | said, had facilitated the task of Melang with Burigana's peter the Imperial Army in securing the oohey and recognises the validity | defenes, at Egypt.
*all Bulgarian commitment ... Hussen Sony Pasha replied ex-
and undertaking to convey {contents to the authorities
He emphasised that Bulgaria is pre ang aj prvisation of the letter cerned.--British Wireless. nat a military ally of Germany,
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