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INSIST ON
Daisy Brand
Australia's Choicest
BUTTER
CONVOYS WITHIN A FORTNIGHT?
Openly Predicted By Members Of U.S. Congress
Slide Towards CATHOLIC
War Gathering
Momentum→
PETAIN DARLAN CLASH COMING
Reports that Marshal Petain has gone to Vichy to confer with Admiral Darlan on the conclusion of the latter's negotia- tions in Paris, are denied in reliable circles, says o Vichy despatch to the German news agency.
The Marshal is staying at his estate at Villeneuve, near Cannes, until the end of the week, it is! stated.
Meanwhile further agreements with Germany are forecast by the Vichy news agency comment- ing on Darlan's agreement with the Nazis.
PRIESTS ARRESTED
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High Vatican quar- ters declared yester- day that 400 Catholic priests have been arrested in the Ger- man area in Slovenio. ---International News Service.
VICTORY
MARCH TO
BERLIN?
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"Without exaggerating the Lord Halifax, British hopes which may be aroused," says the agency, "it is "missable to forecast that this is
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MANY MEmbers of CONGRESS WERE FORECASTING IN WASHINGTON LAST NIGHT THAT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WILL ANNOUNCE CONVOYS WITHIN A FORTNIGHT.
They openly say the President will " res- pond to the growing demand for armed con- voys,” though a minority insist he will refrain because of his declarations that "convoys mean wor“ and his frequent pledges to keep out of the war.
TO THE AVERAGE CONGRESSMAN THE TERRIFIC CAMPAIGN FOR CONVOYS WHICH HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR THE PAST FORT- NIGHT REPRESENTS THE WRITING ON THE WALL.
per-Ambassador to the Unit- They frankly expect the as soon as he believes the
President to order convoys nation is "ready."
only the first, hurdle which will ed States, possibly indi- safely be crossed on the road cated a phase of British opened by Darlan."-Reuter.
Heated Conference
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MARSHAL PETAIN IS PORTED IN LONDON TO HAVE
RE-
ALREADY TAKEN THE FIRST
war aims when, speaking in Chicago yesterday, he expressed regret that the Allies had not marched to! Berlin “last time."
IN FACT, IT IS WIDELY CONSIDERED THAT THE SLIDE TOWARDS UNITED STATES' ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR IS RAPIDLY GAIN- ING MOMENTUM.
NIGHT FIGHTERS IN ACTION NEAR LONDON
London had an air raid warning laté last evening.
Raiders approached from the south coast and, within a few minutes, fighters were seen to engage the Nazi 'planes.
Loter
German
destroyers and long-range | bombers, Lord Halifax asserted that the question of how
·America could best aid Eng- tand was "under discussion."
In New York, Mr. Wendell 'plane was seen retir- Beginning a tour of the tradi- tionally non-interventionist Mid-Willkie, speaking at the Madison
a crowding to the sea rapidly dle West, Lord Halifax said the Square Garden, before
losing height. fate of Britain depends on events upwards of 18,000 denounced the in the Atlantic in the next four doctrine of defeatism and despair
Reuter. Declaring the Battle of the months. International News Ser- and said that Britain will win the war with effective United States Atlantic requires more ships, vice.
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He told a press conference that STEP IN A MOVE AGAINST "Germany has never felt war and ADMIRAL DÄRLAN, WHO HAS has never been invaded." JUST ENGINEERED "A SECOND CAPITULATION BY FRANCE" TO GERMANY.
MARSHAL PETAIN, AFTER A LONG AND HEATED CONFER. ENCE WITH DARLAN, WENT TO HIS ESTATE IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE OSTENSIBLY FOR A REST BUT; ACTUALLY ON A TRIP WHICH HAS "FAR MORE SIGNIFICANCE.”
Economic and industrial CO- operation between France
and Germany will make France an arsenal for the Axis. Under the Darlan plan Germany will receive
HEAVIEST OF WAR
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JAPAN EXPECTED IN SHANGHAI TO KEEP OUT
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THE REACTION OF Americans in Shang- hai to the speeches of Mr. Stimson and Sen- ator Pepper is that Shanghai will not be affected "when the United States enters the
The two hour Axis air raid on war in the near future.” the Suez zone was the war's heaviest and longest.
Violent A.A fire hampered the attack, which damaged railway
erty, highways, telephones
and telegraphs, but the Canal It
self was untouched. - Interna Honal Néwé sférvice.
GENERAL GORT IN * GIBRALTAR
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") General Viscount Gort, the new avernor of Gibraltar, arrived in
braltar yesterday.
Görd. „Gort...will
take-up, his
According to the "China Press" a survey shows that the concensus among Americans is that Japan does not want war with the United States and will keep out despite nominal obligations to the Axis.
small minority, however see full Japan-Axis cooperation, with Shanghal blockaded into a "stary- ing city, and Britons; and Ameri- cans thrown into concentration camp#: 42n
living in Shanghai in the hope of reaching the United States."- With 5,000 awaiting the decision of the U.S. consulate and the rest scraping for the necessary papers and money, their greatest fear is that the United States will enter the war and leave them stranded International
Meanwhile the Stimson epocoh, bas brought, delection, and fear in the Far East Pol than12,000: European refugees News Service.
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