THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 2, 1941.
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YUGOSLAVIA ARRESTS PRO-AXIS OFFICIALS
Nazis To Lodge Protest Against
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"Excesses'
THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE SPOKESMAN DECLARED YESTERDAY THAT NO REPRESENTATIONS HAD BEEN MADE IN BELGRADE CONCERNING THE POLICY OF THE NEW YUGO- SLAV GOVERNMENT, IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT IT WAS CUSTOMARY FOR A GOVERNMENT TO THROW OVERBOARD TREATIES MADE BY ITS PREDECESSORS.
and Yugoslavia were re-establish- morning. the des- patch adds, Reuter.
The spokesman added that a protest would be lodged against anti-German ex-ed yesterday cesses, of which he declared "positive news has come to hand."
Extreme reserve was maintained in the Wilhelmstrasse towards conflicting reports. from Yugoslavia and the problems created by the Belgrade situation.
German circles only declared that, in view of the bad state of
Minister Recalled
communications, it is difficult to A number of editors who have judge the situation in Yugoslavia. been kept in the back ground for "Judgment is made even more some time, it continues, have been difficult by the conflicting nature appointed to important functions. of such reports as are arriving."
Nevertheless. the Nazis insist that Yugoslavia's adherence to the Axis Part is not in question
Berlin political ciretes also re- frain from expressing any de- finite opinion,
Important Changes
tion,
since the pact needs no ratillea
Meanwhile, the Yugoslav Min- They emphasised, however, that ister in Moscow, M. Gavrilovitch, the declaration issued by the new left Moscow last night for Yugo-
Belgrade Government dir not slavia in order to assume the of- contain anything of its attitude fee of Minister without Portfolio
in the new Cabinet
towards the Axis Pact.
These circles nevertheless state A Belgrade despatch to the
MR. FRASER TO VISIT ENGLAND
The New Zealand Premier, Mr. Peter Fraser, is to pay
dn official visit to Bri- tain.
He informed Par- liament before it adjourned yesterday for three months that he had accepted Mr. Churchill's invitation to do so. Reuter.
EARLY MORNING
'GROCERY DELIVERY' IN KEREN BATTLE
THE R.A.F.'S NON-STOP relentless bombing of Italian positions in and around Keren was varied by what pilots described as the "early morning grocery delivery."
There were difficulties in supplying some of the British units holding advanced moun-
they have noted Mr. Churchill's Vichy news agency says M Gav-tain positions with food and other supplies.
* remarks.
Yugoslav
appear sti
rovitch left at the urgent re- Government circles quest of General Simovitch and is undecided as to the travelling via Hungary. line they must adopt in their po licy, says a Belgrade message to the official German Agency.
THE MESSAGE EMPHASISES, HOWEVER, THE IMPORTANT CHANGE IN THE YUGOSLAV NEWS AGENCY. WHERE
A
TEMPORARY DIRECTOR NOT- ED FOR HIS PRO-BRITISH
ED
The former Yugoslav Prime Minister, Tsvetkovitch, is still under arrest, according to latest reports from Belgrade received in Vichy.
The news agency in question is lease. the Avala Agency,
Pro-Nazi Arrested
No confirmation has been re- VIEWS, HAS BEEN APPOINT-ceived in the Hungarian capital of earlier radio reports of his re-
The editor of the pro-Nazi newspaper "Vreme." which is published In Yugoslavia, la also reported to have been arrested. Telephonic and
telegraphic
The former manager has been dismissed, and Nstokitch, hitherto director of the newspaper "Prav da," has been appointed in his place.
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GOEBBELS STORY REFUTED
Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Australian Premier, de- nied in London yesterday circulated by
rumours
enemy propagandists that he had told North Ameri- can journalists in London on his return from tour- ing British aircraft fac- tories that "the majority of British aircraft fac- tories had been hit by German bombers."
Mr. Menzies also denied that he described air attacks on these fac- tories as "frightful,"
He said: "The statement is un- true. I visited a number of air- craft factories throughout Britain where I found a happy and hard- working lot of men and women and unimpaired production. The real German air attacks have been on civilians.
"The statement attributed to me is the opposite of what I said."- Reuter.
WHAT IS CHASTITY?
A wife agreed in а separation deed to pay her V.C. husband an an- nuity of £500 so long as he led a chaste life.
In the Chancery Division Mr. A. J. Belsham, for the husband, said the question arose: What is the meaning of chastity in a male?
This, he believed, was the first time the question had been raised before the Court.
British bombers were loadeding in and out of the valleys till with tinned rations and set off, every tin of beef, jam. water There were no parachute contain- and milk was safely delivered. ers handy with which to deliver
One
man made a special run the supplies, and many of the despite A.A. fire to drop surrounding peaks were still held packet of cigarettes. by the Italians, whose batteries Before the R.A.F. operations
The action was brought by cre- against Keren began, the crews put up a flerce barrage.
Defying this hail of steel the were shown an amazing
ditors concerning the estate of Mrs. "sand which every peak and
Dolores Booth, who died in 1938. British pilots, descended to with-map" on
was entered in 50 feet of the ground in or- pass was clearly labeled so that The separation deed
into between her and her husband, the crews to prevent the grocery
knew exactly they had to do and where they V.C., in 1925.
Captain Frederick Charle Booth, bursting on impact and to ensure they landed close to the
eager land forces.
der
Sand...Map
tins
two
Many pilots would make communications between Hungary runs over the delivery area, weav-
had to go.
what
The Court was asked to decide
whether the annuity was payable from the date of the wife's death and whether it was "void for un- certainty" or still operative. Co After 2 consultation between counsel it was agreed that the husband should be entitled to £6,547 in full satisfaction of his claim.
The Air Ministry news service, describing the operations against what experts declared was "the world's toughest military pro- position,"
says the perfect operation of the R.A.F., South African Air Force and Rhodesian air units with the land troops was a prominent factor in the final victory. Reuter..
SHE FED TROOPS-
GAOLED
A young German woman has been sentenced to a month's im- prisonment for giving rolls bread to two French prisoners of war at the place where he work- ed says a dispatch from Kaise. lautern to the New York "Times". ---Reuter. -
Mr. BelƐhami I am very dis-" appointed the question of chas- tity has not been argued, since I spent many hours reading up Jeremy Taylor's "Holy Living and Holy Dying," the only au- thority on chastity I can find: ` Mr. Justice Farwell said the compromise seemed a fair one.
Captain Booth won his V. C. in 1917, when he was a sergeant with the South African Forces. He is now serving in the Pioneer Corps.
From dawn till sunset, averý day....shipping: bringing, food and raw material to Britain is asported by Bunderland aircraft R.A‚F. Hòra is a big convoy, with on wind-tip of, KN, sporting flyingbost just in the ploturo. '(Official · Air Ministry Photograph)
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