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NEW FRANCO-GERMAN CRISIS
Several Persons Shot Trying To Cross Border
BOMBERS
SHOT
DOWN
Americans Given ATLANTIC Orders To Leave
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") SEVERAL WERE SHOT AND MANY OTHERS ARRESTED WHILE TRYING TO Two German bombers CROSS THE DEMARCATION LINE BETWEEN were intercepted and OCCUPIED AND UNOCCUPIED FRANCE YES- shot down into the sea off TERDAY, ACCORDING TO RELIABLE RE- the coast of Britain yes-FORTS IN VICHY LAST NIGHT, terday.
Amid reports of a new German-French TWO BRITISH FIGHTERS RE crisis, the French authorities announced the
TURNING WITH THEIR AM- MUNITION EXHAUSTED WERE
ATTACKED BY A NUMBER OF arrest of Fernand Laurent, director of the "Le Jour," together with his newspaper chauffeur and secretary, as they tried to reach Paris.
ENEMY FIGHTERS AND SHOT DOWN. BOTH PILOTS ARE SAFE.
An Air Ministry communique adds there was a little air acti-
also confirmed, vity by small enemy forces round French officials the coasts of Britain during the the arrest of Mr. Jay Allen, cor day and a few aircraft penetrated respondent of the North Ameri- ) inland, but no bombs are report can Newspaper Alliance, as he at- ed to have been dropped. --Réuter. | legedly entered the occupied zone;
Heavy Casualties At Liverpool And Clydeside
Five hundred were killed and 500 serious- ly injured by German air raids on Merseyside on the two nights of March 12 and 13.
Combined casualties in the Clyde area on March 13 and 14 were approximately 500 kill- ed and 800 seriously injured, says a Reuter de- spatch from London this morning.
MENZIES
GOING TO AMERICA
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International News
day that Mr. R. G. Men-
German
Balkan Strength
According to
neutral
learned in London yester- diplomatic quarters at lu- zies, the Australian Prime stanbul, the German army Minister, has indicated on the Graeco/Bulgarian his intention of visiting border has been increased President Roosevelt in the in order to counter the
British landings hear future.
It was stated that Mr. Menzies | Greece. ill first visit. Dublin: in order to nfer with the Eire Premier, Mr.
Valera.
illegally.
The German news agency re ports from Paris that the U.S. Embassy has requested all American citizens to leave Ger
which man-held France, after their passports will not be valid for that area.
After a series of talks with the German authorities in Paris. Ad- miral Dar'an yesterday returned to Vichy to report to Marshal Pe- tain.
ADMIRAL LEAHY, THE US. AMBASSADOR, HAD A LONG TALK WITH MARSHAL PETAIN YESTERDAY, INTERNATION- AL NEWS SERVICE.
VIOLENT JAPANESE THREAT
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] ANOTHER VIOLENT OUT- BURST CAME OUT FROM THE TOKYO "NICHI NICHI" YES- TERDAY IN AN ARTICLE COM. MENTING ON PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH.
THE "NICHI NICHI" WARN. ED THE UNITED STATES THAT JAPAN WOULD BE FORCED TO FOLLOW HITLER'S COURSE AND SINK ANY SHIPS CROSS- ING THE PACIFIC CARRYING ARMS TO CHUNGKING, — IN- TERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE.
SEQUEL TO RIOT AT SOCCER MATCH
As a further sequel to Satur- day's football riot at the Cani-
drome, a meeting of the Commit- tee of the Shanghai Football As- entire Tung Hwa XI until further
sociation decided to suspend the
in notice.
This increase in troop concen- trations is leading to the belief in Instanbul that the German army intends to strike against Suloniita during the next few days.
At the same time the Commit- lec decided to cancel all remain- ing matches.-Reuter.
“BREMEN” FIRE PUT OUT
The object of the visit to Eire, tes International News, would
The fire which broke out on ilie to add to the arguments to duce the Eire Government to
twenty-million dollar German Jin- ede bases in Eire in order to British quarters at Instanbul er "Bremen" has finally been ex- rengthen British defences against declared that the Imperial troops tinguished, according to -boat attacks on shipping which who have taken up positions in nouncement in Berlin, re expected to Increase: 08 a Greece are fully ready to repulse It is stated by Berlin authori-
whenever and ties that investigations are pro sult of the passage of the Lease any advance ha Lend Bill. International wherever it takes place. Inter-ceeding regarding the cause of the Tews Service,
national News Service,
an on-
Are-International News Service,
GERMANS PUT MORE PRESSURE ON YUGOSLAVIA
Germany last night put more pressure Yugoslavia in
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order
to swing her into the Axis camp before the arrival of Mr. Mat- suoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister, in Berlin.
Turkey, mean- while, disavowed re- ports that she is pre- paring joint military staff talks with Yugo- slavia to present a common
U.S.NAVAL EXERCISE
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The United States Navy Department last night announced extensive sub- marine manoeuvres along. the Atlantic seaboard.
Mr. Sumner Welles, Un- der-Secretary of State, at the same time-confirmed the receipt of information from Britain that a long- range German submarine is en route to American east coast waters.
The Navy announced that for the remainder of this week an undisclosed number of subma- rines will hold exercises in three rtrategic areas along the coast. They will operate in Long Is- land Sound, N.Y., off the Virginia capes and in the Florida Straits. Some destroyers will participate in Florida waters.
ther they bore front
against Germany. -International News Service.
The Navy spokesman character- ised the manoeuvres as "routine" but refused to comment as to whc- any relation to a report to Mr. Sumner Welles by Lord Halifax, the British Ambas- sador, that a large Nazi submarine has slipped through the British blockade en route to operate in. northern American waters.-Inter- national News Service.
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