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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 18, 1941.
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YUGOSLAVIA REJECTS
PROPOSALS
GERMAN
Hitler's Plans
Run Into Setback
IDES OF MARCH FOR HITLER
(By Reuter's Diplomatic Correspondent)
THERE ARE AUTHENTIC INDICATIONS THAT GERMAN PLANS HAVE MET SOME SETBACK IN YUGOSLAVIA AND THE FIRST CONSEQUENCE HAS BEEN TO SLOW DOWN WHATEVER ACTION GERMANY MAY HAVE CONTEMPLATED AGAINST GREECE.
Germany's primary aim of securing the right of transit through the Vardar Valley, and the second alternative of securing Yugo- Commenting on Presi- dent Roosevelt's speech, slavia's benevolent non-belligerency by join- the "Manchester Guard- ing the Axis Pact, both seem to have been ian" said that the predic-resolutely resisted, tion that the Ides of Even a concentration of 60,000 Italian troops in the Dalmatian March might be the days frontier has nut made Belgrade of supreme importance more tractable. for the Axis has turned IT IS NOT SURPRISING
NOT DISPOSED out to be accurate for GERMANY IS
TO EMBARK UPON A MILI- sounds across the Atlantic TARY CAMPAIGN AGAINST
WITH GREECE
NON-BELLI- MRS. MARSH, PROPRIETRESS are rumbling like the
CARNAR- 1OF "KINGSCLERE," GERENT YUGOSLAVIA AS march of the Roman POTENTIAL, MENACE TO HER VON ROAD, APPEARED AS THE COMMUNI~ | COMPLAINANT BEFORE MR. D Legion.
J. N. ANDERSON AT KOWLOON THIS MORNING. WHEN
President Roosevell offers to the Old World more than Canning offered to the New World,
It is not Hitler but Roosevelt who makes the real revolution that will affect the world as the world was affected by the French Revolution.
This new revolution
will establish International co- operation.
LONG LINES OF CATION
IF
ATTEMPTED THEFT
In face of the setback to the HUEN, 24, UNEMPLOYED, WAS
In desperate Italian offensive Albania, however. Hitler must act quickly if his help save Mussolini from as big
as he disaster in Albania in Libya.
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The Italian armies must be in Events have taught nations with a very vulnerable position alter great strength, who were slow to their great losses and it is only accept the responsibility for shar- to be expected that the Greeks ing the government of the world, and the I.A.F. will exploit the not to repeat the same error. Only opportunities of the situation. by the cooperation and leadership Meanwhile, Sir Ronald Camp- of the great Democracies
can bell, British Minister in Belgrade, the world be delivered from ex- had a long interview hausting and paralysing fear. Pre- Tsvetkovitch, the Yugoslav sident Roosevelt's specch makesnier, yesterday, states a Belgrade that rooperation certain, Cen-despatch to the German
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CAN PLEDGES TO BRITAIN MENTIONED IN WASHINGTON YESTERDAY ARE:-
Firstly, the early release to Britain of a further considerable number of over-age des- troyers, and
Secondly, the giving shortly of armed naval aid.
Legislative circles spoke privately but very definitely, regarding destroyers, while the naval aid report was given by William Simms, chief writer on foreign affairs in the Scripps-
Howard newspapers,
Det.-Sgt. A. Bethell, prosecul- ing. stated that at 3.15 pum Thursday.
entered accused back door of the Hotel, and re-
the
moved the pump from the yard He was carrying it through
he was stopped and hall when questioned.
Accused said he had been sent by Dodwell's to take the pump away for repairs,
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MR. SIMMS ADDS IT IS BE- LIEVED IN' WASHINGTON THAT BRITAIN'S HANDS ARE TOO FULL EFFECTIVELY. TO
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