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ADOLF HITLER EXCELS HIMSELF
"Fanatical And Diabolical," He Means Mr. Churchill! HALF IRAQ EUROPE'S MALIGNED MATSUOKA AIR FORCE 'COOING DOVE' GIVES WEARY OF
REICHSTAG SPEECH TRAVEL?
DESTROYED
Half the Iraqi air force --has been destroyed or put out of action, according to a special R.A.F. con- munique issued in Cairo last night.
The communique stated that bomber aircraft of the R.A.F. car- ried out another heavy attack of the Iraqi aerodrome at Munscat Rashid yesterday.
Severe damage was caused te aerodrome buildings and work. shops and at least 22 Iraqi air. craft put out of action.
OC-
A number of air combats curred resulting in several hostile aircraft being disabled.
A railway line was bombed and an armoured train turned back. Many raids were made on Iraqi gun positions, mechanised units and troop concentrations outside Habbaniyah and many direct hits
obtained. These targets! were bombed throughout the day.
were
Direct Hits
In a later raid on Monscar Ras- hid aerodrome direct hits were registered on sheds, buildings and aircraft.
Two fraql fighters attempting to interoept oursbombers were "shot down. Our aircraft re- turned safely to base.
The 25 Iraqi aircraft destroyed would appear to represent half the Iraqi air force, which at the outbreak of war on September 3, 1939, numbered 50, including 35 front-line machines.-Reuter.
VICTORY AT TOBRUK
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A BRITISH VICTORY IN THE
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THE USUAL DIATRIBE AGAINST MR. CHURCHILL, WITH AN AD- DITIONAL ACCUSATION AGAINST “SO-CALLED DEMOCRACIES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE OCEAN,” WAS DELIVERED BY HITLER IN A SPEECH AT THE REICHSTAG SESSION IN BERLIN LAST EVENING.
LONDON GETS
ALERT AFTER
8-DAY LULL
London had a night alert for the second night in succession after a lull of eight days.
gunfire
WOS time
No heard for some after the alarm.
Raiders were report- ed over several parts of Britain.-Reuter.
AMERICA'S
SHIPPING EFFORT
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Hitler's arrival at the Reichstag building was heralded by the playing of "Deutschland Uber Alles.” After two-minute pause Hitler entered the hall and all members of the Reichstag rose to their feet.
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The members stood in memory of some dozen members who have fallen in the battle.
Discarding suggestions that he should go to the United States, Mr. Matsuoka, in an interview at Kyoto yesterday, asserted it would be far more appropriate for Pre- sident Roosevelt or . Mr. to Cordell Hull to come Tokyo to learn about con- ditions existing in the Orient.
"I have studied America. I know Americans. I can grasp the
The names of the fallen were read out by real situation now existing in the Goering.
Hitler began speaking shortly after 6 p.m. and was greeted with tremendous applause and shouts of "Steg Heil."
Hitler said: "At a time when not deeds are everything I do intend to come before you more than absolutely necessary.
"I turned to you for the first time at the outbreak of war, when thanks to the Franco-British con- spiracy against peace, every at- tempt at a settlement with Po- land, otherwise certainly possible, had failed.
-
“Small Clique!”
SANCTUARY
VIOLATED
BY IRAQIS
United States but I doubt whe- ther President Roosevelt or Mr. Hull can grasp the true situation in the Far East.
"] believe Japanese-American problems could easily be solved if President Roosevelt or Mr. Hull visited Japan rather than my go- ing to the United States."-Reu-
ter.
R.A.F. station at Hab- baniyah, it was revealed When tension in Iraq in Simla yesterday. became acute, Rashid Alif That "sanctuary” was promptly offered facilities to the rounding the station.
violated by the Iraq forces' nur-"
British Minister for the The Imperial troops now in
Iraq, despite overt provocation by. Iraqi troops, are occupying only certain points essential to fulfil- ment of the Anglo-Iraq Treaty
"All my attempts to reach with Britain a particularly permanent removal of British women and friendly cooperation were and children from Bagh- clique, which turned down every dad to the shelter of the
frustrated by the wish of a small
Germany proposal for an under- standing.
"Moving spirit of this plan, as fanatical as it was diaboli- WASHINGTON EXPERTS DE- cal, to get war at any price. CLARE THAT 1,000,000 TONS OF was, even at that time, Chur- SHIPPING, HALF OF WHAT chill and his assistants, men PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT who now form his Government, ORDERED, WILL BE AVAIL- "The strongest open and con- ABLE WITHIN A MONTH, FOUR cealed support was accorded these
so-called MONTHS BEFORE SCHEDULE, efforts by the
great
The Administration is to speed Democracies on both sides of the THREE-DAY BATTLE
action in the House of Repre- ocean. TOBRUK IS CLAIMED
to "At a time when discontent CAIRO, WITH AN ASSERTION Sentatives to-day of the Bill
bring 500,000 tong of foreign was increasing among nations, re- FIGHTING HAS DIED THAT
shipping under immediate Ameri-sponsible men there, with their DOWN.
jurisdiction. The Bill will failing art of government, can After suffering terrible losses
be probably
passed in the Axis columns were forced to weeks. International News Ser- problems for which there
three sidered they could best
vice.
recoll for reinforcement and re- formation after defeat in a day- Jong series of attacks.-Interna- tional News Service.
RAMSAY MUIR
OF
PASSES
HEAVY RAID
ON MALTA
terms, it was stated in Simla-
LONDON
SYDNEY
MANILA
con- master
Was
SAN FRANCISCO
no longer any other solution by a successful war.
"Behind them stood the international Jewish banks exchanges,"
great and
Peace Offer
Referring to his so-called peace fer after the fall of, France, Two separate waves of mongers succeeded in Inducing Her said-the-” European ware SAY MUIR, ONE OF THE enemy aircraft heavily populations to continue the strug- MINENT. MEMBERS raided Malta on Saturday gle, and as once before they were LIBERAL PARTYSAND
again ready to sacrifice the blood of: nations without periple in the
WRITER ON is night.
TORICAL" "POLITICAL,”""""MUNI- Bombs were dropped "'Indis- | interests of their gold! : CIPAL AND ECONOMIC SUB- criminately, damaging civilian MJECTS... ·DIED YESTERDAY Land: Government property.
AGED-60-
--Two German bombers were,
He resigned his University pro- brought down for certain and a fessorship and became Member of third damaged
Parliament and Chairman of the A few people were killed and National Liberal Federation for a few seriously injured. -- Reu-
Referring to the attack on Yugoriavla and: Greece,: Hitler "wald the operation was greatly facilitated" by, the sympathetic arcistance of Hungary, and the loyal attitude of Rumania, without which, it would, have,
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