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ITALIAN OFFENSIVE
ON COASTAL SECTOR
BELGRADE SECRET WON'T JOIN AXIS
While the Germans have been pressing Yugo- slavia to sign the tripart- ite pact, well-informed quarters in Belgrade, though emphasising Yugoslavia's desire for
SESSION ON SHIPPING POSITION
The House of Com- mons held yesterday's session in secret to discuss the shipping position, says a Reu- ter despatch from London.
good relations with a HUNGARIAN Germany, insist that any FUNDS
her neighbours, including
"concessions” made to the
Nazis must be "conson- FROZEN
ant with the nation's real interests."
It is thought Yugoslavia may be prepared to accept-
Firstly, an expression of friend- ship and non-aggression, and
Secondly, some instrument giv- ing formal shape to existing ecu- nomic relations between the two countries.
PRESIDENT. ROOSEVELT HAS "FROZEN" ALL HUNGARIAN
IN THE FUNDS
UNITED STATES, ACCORDING TO AN ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BV
Mass Infantry Attacks: Enormous
Losses
Inflicted
THE ITALIANS HAVE ADOPTED MASS INFANTRY ATTACKS WITH TREMENDOUS
FORCES, IN A FUTILE ATTEMPT TO RE-
PULSE THE GREEKS ON THE COASTAL FRONT IN ALBANIA, ACCORDING TO A
GREEK PRESS MINISTRY BULLETIN QUOT-
ED BY ATHENS RADIO LAST NIGHT.
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DANGER TO EIRE
AS THE CRISIS OF THE WAR GREW MORE ACUTE THE DANGER TO IRELAND COR. RESPONDINGLY INCREASED, SAID THE EIRE. PREMIER, MA. EAMONN DE VALERA, SPEAK- ING IN THE DAIL YESTERDAY
The mass attacks were · supported by a heavy artillery bombardment, but despite ON THE VOTE OF ACCOUNTS. frantic efforts no ground was regained.
Finally the Italians' were forced to desist and MR. HENRY MORGENTHAU, retired, leaving the field SECRETARY OF TREASURY, IN strewn with dead and
WASHINGTON YESTERDAY,
Mr. Morgenthau added that the President and the Treasury had Meanwhile, calm prevailed in acted at the request of the State Belgrade yesterday as the Yugo- Department but he declined to slav-German conversations were discuss reasons for the action. continued through normal diplo- | Reuter, matic channels.-Reuter.
America
Takes
Strain
wounded.
Mussolini's
presence in Al- bania is now confirmed by so many prisoners' ɛtatements that it cannot be doubted, the an noncer sald.
JAPAN WANTS NAZI AID IN THE AIR
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)
ONE OF THE OBJECTS of the mission to Ber-
nor in
Mr. de Valera said that from Eire the moment war broke out had been in danger, not because wanted directly or indirectly to injure them, but because the country happened to be placed in such a position that there was a temptation on one side or the other to seize the ter- ritory for military advantage.- Reuter.
The Duce has not succeeded in the belligerents heartening the troops. changing the fortune of war.
The announcer added: "The Duce is returning to Italy on Saturday.
One More Defeat
to take back a "His plan was victory with which to console his disconsolate people,
Instead he will take back one more defeat the heaviest of all together with the maledictions of the battered Italian army.' Reuter.
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Greek Communique
The failure of heavy Italian ut- tacks in Albania is announced in (Continued on Page 16)
CELEBRATIONS BANNED
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"} Public demenstrations in Bang- kok planned for celebrating the conclusion of the Agreement be- tween Thailard and French Indo- China were prohibited by the Police yesterday.
International
Only a few Japanese flags were seen in the city. News Service.
lin of Mr. Matsuoka is to request the establishment PHILCO-DOMESTIC REFRIGERATORS
Responsibility for be- of a German air force in the Orient, it was rumour- tween $300,000,000 and ed in diplomatic circles in Berlin. $350,000,000 worth of un- Mr, Matsuoka is expected to urge the despatch filled British orders for of some 1,500 German aircraft and an equal num- war material and British-ber of German pilots, the 'planes to be flown across owned facilities for muni- Russia and Siberia to Japanese air bases.
tion production in the
United States, may be
transferred to the United CANADA'S
States Government,
This was disclosed in Washing- ton yesterday by a high adminis- trative official, who stated that *negotiations on the subject were proceeding which would relieve some of the pressure on Britain's efforts to raise dollar exchange.
It is estimated that the British own about $100,000,000 worth of munition factories and production facilities in the United States Reuter:
MAGNIFICENT
WAR EFFORT
It is however, pointed out that it is extremely doubtful whether Stalin would allow these 'planes to fly over Soviet territory.
Mr. Matsuoka is also credited with carrying personal messages from the Japanese Emperor to Hitler and Mussolini. It is stated that the German Ambassador to
| Japan, General Ott, on his way to Berlin has already informed his government of Japan's re An increase of four million dol-quests which are regarded as pre- lars in the cost of the British sented by, Japan as the only basis
air training on which they can be expected. Commonwealth scheme was disclosed yesterday to uphold the Tripartite Pact with the announcement, that the International News Service. revised estimate – is place at
one
billion dollars, of which
Canada is providing $583,000,000. WAR DAMAGE BILL MANISTEE SUNK Some details of the big ship-
building programme to be under-
The committee stage of the War
THE AUXILIARY VESSEL taken by the Dominion were also Dumage Bill was completed in “MANISTEE" HAS BEEN SUNK, disclosed, and show that the pro-the Lords yesterday, snysTMn“Brittle="
ACCORDING TO AN ADMIR-gramme included, the building of Wireless message. ALTY COMMUNIQUE IN LON-70 corvettes, 50 minesweepers and DON. YESTERDAY.
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