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ADOLF HITLER EXCELS HIMSELF
"Fanatical And Diabolical," He Means Mr. Churchill!
EUROPE'S MALIGNED 'COOING DOVE' GIVES REICHSTAG SPEECH
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.
Hitler's arrival at the Reichstag building was heralded by the playing of "Deutschland Uber Alles." After two-minute pouse Hitler entered the hall and all members of the Reichstag rose to their feet.
HALF IRAQ AIR FORCE DESTROYED
Half the Iraqi air force has been destroyed or put out of action, according to a special R.A.F. com- munique issued in Cairo last night.
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The members stood in memory of some
ALERT AFTER 8-DAY LULL
LONDON GETS Nightsoil
Protest Tactics Continue
London had a night alert for the second night in succession after a lull of eight days.
Was time
No gunfire heard for some after the alarm.
Raiders were report- ed over several parts of Britain.--Reuter.
dozen members who have fallen in the battle. AMERICA'S The names of the fallen were read out by Goering.
Hitler began speaking shortly after 6 pm, and was greeted with tremendous applause and shouts
of "Sieg Heil."
Hitler said: "At a time when not
deeds are everything I do
intend to come before you more than absolutely necessary. The communique stated that "I turned to you for the first bomber aircraft of the R.A.F. car-time at the outbreak of war, when ried out another heavy attack on thanks to the Franco-British con- the Iraqi aerodrome at Moascar spiracy against peace, every at- Rashid yesterday.
tempt at a settlement with Po. land, otherwise certainly possible, had failed.
Severe damage was caused to 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 his were obtained. These targets were bombed throughout the day.
Direct Hits
In a later raid on Moascar Ras- hid aerodrome direct hits were registered on sheds, buildings and aircraft.
re-
Two Iraqi fighters attempting to intercept our bombers were shot down. Our aircraft 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 36 front-line machines.-Reuter,
HEAVY RAID ON MALTA
“Small Clique!"
"All my attempts to reach with Britain a particularly permanent and friendly cooperation frustrated by the wish of a small clique, which turned down every Germany proposal for an under- standing.
were
men
HE DESCRIBED MR. CHUR- CHILL'S DECISION TO SEND TROOPS TO GREECE AS “ONE OF THE FAMOUS STRATE- GICAL BLUNDERS OF THIS WAR."
SHIPPING
EFFORT
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Over a thousand "ex- night-soil coolies," mostly women with babies strap- ped to their backs and trailing children, march- ed through Caine Road this morning to Govern- ment House.
They were only prevented from
the entering
grounds by the arrival, just in time, of the emer- gency unit in full strength, under
and A.S.P. Luscomb Thompson.
A.S.P.
Having ushered the procession beyond the main gate to Govern- ment House, the police blocked all road access with policemen seven deep at key points.
who
Prisoners of war taken in the
Hitler Balkans included;
said: Serbs, exclusive of men of Ger- i WASHINGTON EXPERTS DE- man origin. Croats and Macedon- CLARE THAT 1,000,000 TONS OF Ians -6.298 officers and more SHIPPING, HALF OF WHAT The four representatives than 336,000 men, and
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT had, presumably, been delegated Greeks, 8,000 officers and 210,- ORDERED, WILL BE AVAIL by the marchers to present their were ABLE WITHIN A MONTH, FOUR petition to His Excellency, 000 men.
He declared only two tank MONTHS BEFORE SCHEDULE, advised to see the Colonial Secre- divisions, one Alpine division and
tary or Sir Robert Kotewall. the S.S. Bodyguard were used in
The Administration is to speed Repre- the fighting against the British action in the House of
The advice met with no imme- and Australians in Greece. sentatives to-day of the Bill to diate response, the demonstrators bring 500,000 tons of foreign "parking" themselves on the open shipping under immediate Ameri- ground, between Upper Albert con jurisdiction. The Bill will Road and Garden Road, some of GERMAN LOSSES HITLER probably be passed in three them "weeping and wailing" and ANNOUNCED AS: ARMY, 57 weeks.-International News Ser- others smoking cigarettes OFFICERS AND 1.042 N.C.O.'S vice. AND MEN KILLED, 181 OFFICERS AND 3.571 N.C.O.S AND MEN WOUNDED AND 13 OFFICERS AND 372 N.C.O.'S AND MEN MISSING
Goebbels Bested!
than
"Moving spirit of this plan, as fanatical as it was diaboll. cal, to get war at any price, was, even at that time, Chur- chill and his assistants,
Hit'er added that if Italy ob- who now form his Government, tained territorial and political in- "The strongest open and confluence as a result of the Balkan cealed support was accorded these campaign, "she has more efforts by the so-called great earned it by the great sacrifices Democracies on both sides of the in blood which she has made for
the ocean.
future of the Axis since "At o time when discontent; October last year."
Italian re- The temporary was increasing among nations, re- sponsible men there, with their verses In Libya, Hitler said, failing art of government, cun- were caused by inferiority in
master sidered they could best
tanka and anti-tank guna. problems for which there W&s Hitler drew a definite distinc- Greek people no longer any other solution by tion between the a successful war.
and "the tin top layer of leaders "Behind them stood the great and a King who preferred International Jewish banks and further British policy." exchanges."
Peace Offer Referring to his so-called peace offer after the fall of France, Hiller said the European war mongers succeeded in inducing Two separate waves of populations to continue the strug enemy aircraft heavily gle, and as once before they were again ready to sacrifice the blood raided Malta on Saturday of nations without scruple in the night.
interests of their gold
Bombs were dropped indis criminately, damaging civilian Sand", Government property.
Two German bombers were. brought down for certain and a third damaged. tagge
A few people were killed and a few seriously injured. Reu❤
Referring to the... attack on
to
Paying a tribute to the quality of German weapons and muni- tions. Hitler declared "We must maintain..the lead we now have. German women must make an additional contribution to the national effort."
to the
Calm And Confident Referring presumably United States, Hitler said "If Democratic agitators are counting on choking the National Socialist state with the force of their sys-
* Yugoslavia and Greece, titier tem, and material production, ald the operation was greatly there.con.only be one answer-the facilitated by the sympathetic German people will never again mrsistance of Hungary and the experience a year lkg': 1918. loyal attitude of Rumania, without which it would have been extremely difficult to carry
Force of arms will never make.us, yield, let alone break up. The German soldier will be
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