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BRITISH WARNING NOTE TO YUGOSLAVIA OF NO EFFECT To Sign Pact
GRAVE ITALIAN LOSSES
Artillery activity was lively on both sides in Al- hania yesterday.
"Several enemy batteries. ilunend," says a Greek Press Ministry statement and the Athen Radio last night.
"In the region of Aons and the An River in the Cental ser-
HONGKONG
With Axis Against POLICE
Country's Wishes MURDER
ALTHOUGH INTIMATIONS FROM BELGRADE SUGGEST THAT THE GESTURE IS TOO LATE AND THAT YUGOSLAVIAN GOVERN- MENT INTENDS TO SURRENDER TO GERMAN PRESSURE AGAINST THE VIGOROUSLY EXPRESSED POPULAR FEELING IN THE COUN- TRY, THE BRITISH MINISTER IN BELGRADE, ON INSTRUCTIONS,
tr, the Itakan, kaneled a local YESTERDAY HANDED
ttack which mit with heavy fire from our line: before it could! of velop The Hans again suf- [ered extremely heavy casualties."
Information given by Italian prisoners confirms that General Cavallero has ceased to com. mand the Italian Army Albania and that General Geloso is the new Commander- in-Chief.
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The prisoners also state that The Second Regiment of the Ber- sagheri was badly smashed up in the battle of Klissura, losing more than fifty per cent. of its effectives. A battalion
B00 Alpine troops was left with only two officers and eighty men. Reuter.
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RECORDS SHATTERED
Shattering all records for passage of legislation, the United States Senate passed the Bill authoris ing the appropriation of $7,000,000,000 to imple-: ment the Lease and Lend Act for aiding the Demo- cracies.
After only half an hour of un- exciting debate. the Bill was pass- ed by 87 votes to nine.
No change was made and so the Act remains in the same form as
it passed last week by the House
of Representatives. It now awaits
the President's signature.-—Reu-
ter...
MOSCOW AND ANKARA AFFIRM FRIENDSHIP
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It is confirmed Moscow that the Turkish Government has handed the So- viet Government о Note
the through Turkish Ambassador in Moscow, giving as- surances similar to those which, it is also confirmed, were re- cently given by Rus- sia to Turkey.
It is possible that the Notes will be published in both capitals simultane- ously. Reuter.
Pro-Nazi
In Charge Of Radio
SHOCK
A Shantung Police con- stable, No. 187, Wong Teh-
A NOTE TO THE YUGOSLAVIAN GOVERN-shing, attached to Gough MENT.
Sir Ronald Campbell's instructions came from Mr. Anthony Eden in Cairo, and it is understood there that the British Note was in the nature of a last moment appeal — and a warning.
The Note states the British attitude once again in clear terms and appeals to the Yugo- slav Government not to betray Yugoslavia's past in the face of rising public opinion.
British official circles in Cairo
comment that the British
Gov-
ernment has repeatedly made it
Greek Protest
Hill Police Station, was found dead at noon yes- terday on the hillside near Kotewall Road, with a stab wound in the neck and the left side of his face mutilated.
It is stated that information had been received by the Police that a large number of persons were cutting trees in the vicinity. at about li a.m. yesterday.
The deceased, together with Sgt. Willerton, was sent to the
from the Willerton separated
deceased.
the
clear that were Yugoslavia to Referring to the report that spot. Near Po Shan Road, Sgt. follow the example of Rumania Yugoslavia's pact agrees to and Bulgaria, she would do her-transport of war materials across self mortal injury and that, in Yugoslavian territory, the Greck no circumstances, could they Press Minister in
not seen The constable was statement # condone the signature of any
again until noon when Sgt. Wil- agreement which would inevitab- (Continued on Page 16) lerton discovered the body. ly range Yugoslavia beside Ger- many and Italy.
It seems doubtful whether the Note will have any effect.
were
It was freely predicted in well-informed quarters in Bel. grade last night that the pact with the Axis would be signed in Vienna to-day (Tuesday) and the Premier and Foreign Minister
expected to leave last night. They were received by the Regent, Prince Paul, late on British Sunday night, and the Note was handed to the Govern- ment by Sir Ronald Campbell yesterday morning.
Vichy Report
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According to
Vichy-con- trolled Lyons Radio, the pact which the Yugoslav Government has apparently agreed to sign will be similar to the Pacts with Powers,
HEAVY RAID Reports reaching Lon- the other minor Axis
ON MALTA
GERMAN-BOMBERS, ~AÇCOM-
with the exception of Paragraph don from Belgrade state Five dealing with the passage of that the Board of Direc- German troops through the coun- tors of the Belgrade Radio try. This, it is believed,
eliminated from the Yugoslavia
The Greeks have had a com-
· LARGEFORMations of Station has been dissolved | documents of adherence, PANIED BY FIGHTERS, PARTI: by order of the Government to make on the develop- CIPATED IN THE RAID ONment and a State Comments, MALTA ON BUNDAY, AND missar installed.
THIRTEEN OF THEIR 'PLANES
WERE DESTROYED, STATES He is stated to be M. Jovano- | been giving patriotic programmes AN R.A.F. COMMUNIQUE, 18- vitch, formerly Chief Censor, and which have stimulated the spirit SUED IN CAIRO.
known for his Pro-German ten- of resistance of the public to the LITTLE DAMAGE WAS DONE | dencies.
Government's policy of conces- |=DURING: THE RAID-REUTER. Recently, Belgrade Radio has slons to Germans
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