THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 4, 1941.
RECALL
OF
Ubracy, Suprema Coxat
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ITALIAN
NAVAL ATTACHE DEMANDED Non Persona
Persona Grata" To American Government Axis Ships May Be Forfeited To The United States
· POSSIBLE ACTION TO FORFEIT THE SEIZED AXIS SHIPS TO THE UNITED STATES IS BEING “STUDIED" BY MR. HENRY MOR- GENTHAU, SECRETARY OF TREASURY, AND MR. ROBERT JACKSON, ATTORNEY-GEN- ERAL, ANNOUNCED MR. MORGENTHAU IN WASHINGTON YESTERDAY.
Meanwhile Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, acting on President Roosevelt's orders, yesterday sent a Note to the Italian Ambassa dor demanding the immediate recall of the Italian naval attache in Washington, Ad- miral Alberto Lais.
It is alleged that Ad-
miral Lais was connected AT THE
with the sabotage of Ita-
lian ships in American RIGHT
ports.
The Note, as published by the State Department, says Admiral Lais
is "persona non grata to 'this Government as naval at- tache of the Royal Italien Em- passy in Washington.”
It requests "your Excellency's Government to withdraw him in mediately from the United States."
MOMENT
ENVELOPED
IN ITS OWN SMOKE
A 21-year-old Spitfire pilot who has already won
the D.F.C., with a ser- geant pilot shot down a
JU88 into the English
Channel early yesterday.
They intercepted the JUBA about three miles off Beachy Head when
ying only 300 Icet above water, Both attacked.
NAZI SEAMEN REFUSE
TO PLEAD
Ten German sailors, handcuffed in pairs, were charged before the Federal Court in Boston yesterday with sabotage aboard their tanker, which has been seized by the United States
thorities.
The accused
refused to plead. Reuter.
Ou-
men
STOCK EXCHANGE CHEERFUL
the The London Stock Exchange was cheerful and mostly frm
Return fire from the rear gun-yesterday, especially industrials.
ITALIAN SHIP'S DASH TO BRAZIL
The Italian freighter Himalaya (6,240 tons) arrived in Rio de Janeiro yesterday direct froni Somaliland.
Camouflaged, but unarned, she is the second Italian ship to ac- rive in Rio since the war.
The German freighter Babitonga (4.422 tons) cleared the customs at Santos (Brazil) on Wednesday with a cargo of fuel, and is ex- pected to leave soon.
a
Feverish preparations for depar- ture are still reported from north Brazilian port where seven Italian cargo ships are laid up. — Reuter.
BROADCASTS
TO ITALIANS
ner was soon silenced. The raider where gains were widespread Italians in East Africa with irons and steels prominent, are now hearing the facts but the markets closed quieter.
smoking violently, was forced down to 20 feet, then hit the
appeared.
mines advanced.
The
water, turned on its back and dis- Gilt-cdged were firmly held, and of the war situation.
oils and home rails were also A daily news bulletin in Italian A equadron leader who shat
little changed,
in Kaffirs were ir is being broadcast Italian down a JU88 on Monday was regularly lower but African gold Somaliland and in Abyssinia from standing by in a Hurricane yee-
Coppers were ; Nairobi. terday morning when a Dornier
more active. Japanese and Brazi-
British authorities have 215 appeared near his acro-
fian bonds were good among for- started an Italian newspaper in drome at 6,000 feet.
The Hur eign issues where there was some Mogadiscio, which gives the main ricane pilot Immediately took off buying. Chinese Customs Loans war news, including British, Ger- were also good. Wall Street gen-man and Italian communiques.- the erally was firm. Reuter.
and attacked the raider.
Two terrible blows have been struck at the Italian fleet, says the "Goteborg Posten," and the latest victory should have as immediate effect that any veloped in its own smoke. tion is being taken because of further serious threat The squadron leader said:
"It had fallen to half its ori-
The Note continues that the ac-
various facts and circumstances
Pleces began to Ay off Dornier and it was soun
en-
which have come to the attention against British communi-ginal height when it limped into of this Government connecting Ad- cations in the eastern cloud. It had already Jeltisorted miral Lais with the commission Mediterranean has been without the load I doubt if
its bombs in a field but even by certain persons of acts in vio- lation of the laws of the United countered.
could get back to base.”—British States."
Wireless,
Germans Next?
The President has decided that. the continued presence of Admir-| al Lais "would no longer be agree- able to this Government," Note added.
the
Mr. Hull said at his press con- ference he was unable now to take up the question whether sim- lar action might be taken against any German official in the Unit- ed States.-Reuter,
GERMAN SOCIALIST MOVEMENT
It is not necessary to describe in detail the
repercussions this will have in the Balkans.
The Italians, with a reduced fleet, should have entirely lost the appetite to take the risks of another open fight with Admir- al Cunningham's fleet.
The victory came also at the right moment, since it has been do not hesitate seen that the Vichy Government Darlan's threat into operation. -- to put Admiral
Reuter.
OFFICERS' FOOD ABC
it
KEEPING UP A BOLD FACE
A PREDICTION. THAT THE AXIS PACT WOULD LAST FOR A CENTURY WAS MADE BY MR. MATSUOKA, THE JAPAN- ESE FOREIGN MINISTER, BE- FORE LEAVING ROME FOR BERLIN YESTERDAY, AC- CORDING TO A ROME DES- PATCH TO THE DOMEI NEWS AGENCY.
Mr. Matsuoka said the Pact differed from ordinary alliances "In nine months the which were inspired by the com- Army can make a man fit mon interests of the signatories, to take his place as a first-as it is based upon the ideal of creating a 'new world order which German Socialist or-class chef in any hotel in was shared by the three powers.
-Reuter. ganisations in Britain London." have banded together "to So claims Lieutenant-Quarter- fight Hitler and his allies master R. H. Garrood,
teaching officers at a Northern with all means at our dis- Command training centre how to ENEMY AIR posal," according to a make an army march to victory joint declaration issued in London yesterday.
on its stomach.
who is
In six months he has taught 450 Army and ATS messing-officers the secrets of appetising cookery.
All officers sent for a ten-day course at this training centre are not enthusiastic about it when they first go, but the lieutenant ouertermaster has an answer for
Til declaration states: "Ger- mans Bogialists in Britain are
conviction that the mill defeat and overthrow of the reline, the Anal subjuga of German Nazism and the them.
ion of the social basis of Hitler'a dictatorship are indis- pensable conditions to permanent Bunce, of, the reconstruction of Europe and of a Democratic and Socialist future for Germany.”... Reuter.
· GIFTS FROM CHINA A further gift of £10,000 from British communities in China,
They'll Be Happy “You have an important Job In the "Army: The whole rts- ponsibility of unit massing resta with the messing, officer. If he "does his job properly everybody will be happy, and the men will Hays pleasure" in doing their 10wn jobs properly."
LOSSES
The following are figures from official communiques of British for and enemy aircraft losses the month of March:
Over Britain-and British coastal waters the Germans, lost 71 and the British six
Over Germany and enemy oc- lost 16 and the British 45. cupled territories the Germans
At sea the Germans lost three, the British none-British Wire- less..
make a man a really useful cook. Men who have been-hotel pro-After three months training he' making a total of £123,000, is prietors and caterers in civilian | becomes a really first-class cook. acknowledged with · grateful | life are amazed at what the Army (In Inine months the - Army scán
ants by the Minister of Airy / cook is taught to-day.
make a man ft to take his place raft), Production, says Reuter. In six weeks," says Lieutenant-asa, arst-class chef in any hotel
Tortion.
Quartermaster. Gurrood, we can in London.
Reuter.
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