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WITHDRAWAL OF THE ANZACS FROM GREECE
AXIS
NEXT MOVE?
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Continuation of the German sweep into Greece and Yugoslavia into a campaign to bottle the Mediterranean is up forecast in Budapest.
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Four panzer divisions, totalling! 80,000 men, are reported to on the Franco-Spanish front er for a drive on Gibraltar. which will be carried out simultaneously with efforts to take Suez and Alexandria, กล
base of the British Mediterranean Fleet.
The use of Hungarian, Bul- garian and Rumanian troops to police Yugoslavia and Greece is planned, to free the Axis for blows at Egypt and across Syria to the oilfields.
After a four-day lull, German motorised reinforcements are again being poured into Greece. -International News Service.
(THE ABOVE MESSAGE WAS CUT OFF AT THIS POINT AS IT WAS BEING TELEPHONED FROM BUDAPEST TO BERNE.)
AMERICAS TO REQUISITION FOREIGN SHIPS
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Hailed as of major significance in de- fence of the western hemisphere, 21 Americon Republics have formulated о common policy of requisitioning idle foreign shipping.
The move is aimed to relieve the acute shortage of merchant- men in western hemi- sphere trade, as well as British shipping. International News Service.
Mystery
Woman's
KEEPING THE AXIS
Revelation GUESSING
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A MYSTERIOUS WOMAN, SPEAKNG ON THE WAVELENGTH OF ATHENS RADIO, URGED THE UNITED STATES TO MAKE GOOD ITS PROMISES OF HELP TO GREECE OR TELL GREECE AMERICA IS NOT PRE- PARED.
"Greece has given all her ships so that the Australian and New Zealand troops might not see another Dunkirk. The British left in a fleet of hundreds and thousands of little gasoline-motored ships and mailboats which for long years have been the livelihood of Greece."
CHAMBURG GETS
BABES IN MIRACLE ESCAPE
"BEAUTIFUL" NEW BOMBS
BERLIN AND BREMEN HAVE ALREADY Twenty-seven babies FELT THE FORCE OF BRITAIN'S LATEST had miraculous escapes AND MOST POWERFUL BOMBS. when their home
was
wrecked by a high explo-
Last night it was the turn of Hamburg Germany's second largest city and greatest seaport to experience the devastation they
sive bomb during a Ger- man raid on a north-east coastal town on Saturday can cause. night.
It was a dark moonless
STAFF night when the bombers UNITED
OF THE NURSING NUMBERING EIGHT. THREE
WERE KILLED AND THREE arrived over the target;
but there were
INJURED.
The babies' cots were littered
clear
with glass but none was hurt. patches through the TWÒ NURSES IN AN AD-clouds from which the re- JOINING ROOM WERE BURI- ED UNDER DEBRIS AND KILL- sults of the attack were
ED. REUTER.
NAZIS FINE DIEPPE
visible.
The effect of one explosion was described by a R.A.F. pilot as "a huge, heaving mass like a vol-
STATES WARNED
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The German Foreign
canic eruption which rose and Office spokesman yester-
red
settled down into a great glow fully half a mile in dia- meter."
Terrific
con-
day
warned against American intervention in A FINE OF 1,000,000 FRANCS HAS BEEN IMPOSED ON THE
the war. CHANNEL PORT OF DIEPPE BY | The burst of this particular President Roosevelt's statement THE GERMAN AUTHORITIES bomb was also seen by Ser- that the US would defend BECAUSE A CINEMA - AU-} geant-pilot, in another 'plane who' American interests, by force DIENCE CRIED "DOWN WITH said: "We were ten miles off but necessary, was interpreted in HITLER, DOWN WITH MUSSO-] even at that distance it was, Berlin as a step towards VIINI," ACCORDING TO IN-}·terrific.”
Voying British supplies.. FORMATION REACHING THE Other reports spoken' of fires
"PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS INDEPENDENT. FRENCH NEWS raging in many parts of the city PUTTING HIS FOOT INTO HOT AGENCY. YESTERDAY,
which was enveloped in thick | WATER THROUGH THE AT The shouts were caused by a smoke,
LANTIC PATROLS,” SAID THE propaganda film showing the work Similar results were seen at SPOKESMAN.. of the German and Italian forces.] Bremenhaven where observers In addition to the fine, the saw "bulldings going up in the Dieppo Municipality is now ro- nir" after one, of the R.A.F. quired to provide watchers, to "specials" had been dropped. guard telegraph lines in and about Reuter. the port Reuter.
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The spokesman eald the on- tire Incident was an Anglo- American "sounding of tom toms to drown out repercussions of the Balkan... „disaster."---In": ternational News Service.
The broadcaster, introduced as Mildred Kirker, said she was an Athens newspaper war cor-1 respondent. The transmitter went dead as soon as she had finished.
no explanation,
with
on
The last stand of the Anglo- Greek rearguard took place Mounts Gerania and Kitheron, north of Athens, to cover the final stages of the British with- drawal, which was carried out mainly from the Piraeus, the port of Athens.
After the fall of Thermopylae, which cost the Grmans enormous
losses, a body of British troops,
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As a major part of the aid Britain policy, the United States Adminis- tration has extended to the Atlantic the policy of keeping the Axis guessing as to when and in what circumstances the U.S. Navy might start shoot- ing.
It is felt this policy was so successful in restraining Japan that it is worth trying elsewhere.
The United States is now maintaining silence regarding the movements At antic, and Germany is being of warships in the kept guessing what U.S. warships would do if they sight raiders at- tacking a British convoy.
It is also a secret exactly how far out U.S. warships are operating on their deliberately undefined duties, which are merely termed "protective sur. veillance."
Officials in Washington periodl- reported to have been belleved to be mostly Anzacs, are ca ly continue to announce that cut off. U.S. warships "will defend them- The Germans claim several hun-selves" in the event of attack. dred prisoners were taken.
international News Service. International News Service.
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