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DOCTRINE OF FUTURE STATEMENT OF EUROPE
"The doctrine of the future Europe consisting of five or six federated blocs working together,; and working in such a way that no one bloc would ever be in a posi- tion to achieve hegemony in Europe, was very well received in America and
"SOME GRAVITY"
President Roosevelt is expected to make a statement "of some gravity" to the na- tion this week, says Reuter from Washing-
ton.
NO SPECIAL
was found to be highly MESSAGE
reassuring."
Polish General Sikorsky, the Premier, who has recently return- ed to Britain from the United! ANY States, made this terday.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DOES NOT EXPECT TO SEND SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS IN THE NEAR statement yes- FUTURE.
He announced this at his press General Sikorsky discussed conference yesterday, thus disap- with President Roosevelt this pointing upwards of 100 journal- They had jammed a peaceful and its present. plan to ensure prosperous Europe, and General the President's office for what was Sikorsky says America is deep-"xpected to be a momentous con- ference, in expectation of an indi- ly interested in after the war
cation from the President of " reconstruction of Europe.
big decision."--Reuter.
He also told a reporter "All of- ficial matters which I went over to raise have been satisfactorily. settled.
"In Canada we hove signed several agreements of a milliary as well as a financial character, as
a result of which, within a month or two, military camps will be in being in Canada."-Reuter.
Patience Urged
"Within the next week the success or failure of
FALLUJAH CAPTURE
Nazis Face Tough
Proposition
THE GERMAN ATTACK ON CRETE, WHICH BEGAN JUST BE- FORE DAWN YESTERDAY MORNING AND WHICH WAS PREFACED ON MONDAY BY A HEAVY AIR BOMBARDMENT, HAD BEEN EX- PECTED, AND THE APPOINTMENT OF MAJOR-GENERAL FREY- BERG, V.C., AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, TOGETHER WITH REIN. FORCEMENT OF THE DEFENCES AND MANPOWER, WERE INDICA- TIONS OF ALLIED PREPAREDNESS.
Crete is a considerable menace to the GERMAN land, but its capture will prove extremely ATTACK
enemy because of its proximity to the main-
difficult.
Lacking sea power, Germany must rely SMASHED
Germany
on air-borne troops, lacking landing grounds
-the island is very mountainous · must rely on parachute troops.
Use of engineless gliders, which can land more easily on uneven around, was a surprise move, but not caught the defenders were unawares.
The British and Allied forces are assisted in the island's de- fence by the warlike Cretan
whose hillsmen,
womenfolk
even
accustomed to the
аге
to protect their homes.
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The fall of Italy's last big_stronghold in East Africa, Amba Alagi, was followed by the announce- ment in Cairo that a new attempt by two German- Italian armoured columns to invade Egypt was smashed.
British Imperial mechanised
constant necessity of fighting WAR MATERIAL SENT FROM troops and low-swooping R.A.F. SYRIA HAS NOT GONE and South African bombers ham- Axis columns back Led by "The captains of the THROUGH TURKISH TERRI- mered the Hills." such
HolyTORY,
-International News Captain AS
ACCORDING
A into Libya. TO George, who had killed 10 men USUALLY RELIABLE SOURCE Service. when he was still only nine IN CAIRO YESTERDAY. years old, and the thrack-bearded This source reveals the war ma- giant Captain Tan, the hillsmen terial was sent by rail to Aleppo, where it was unloaded and trans- ferred to a fleet of Iraqi lorries which conveyed the material by road to Mosul.--Reuter.
IMPORTANT are banded together armed chiefly
The
great strategic value of the Iraqi town of Fallujah, captured by the
with knives and swords.
THEY CONSTITUTE
A
FORMIDABLE "HOME GUARD" AND INTELLIGENCE SERVICE, AND CAN BE RELIED UPON TO
DEAL WITH ANY NAZI PARA- British from the rebels, is CHUTISTS UNFORTUNATE ΤΟ FALL INTO stressed in Cairo military
REUTER. circles.
Fallujah Bridge is the only crossing of the Euphrates between Habbaniyah and Baghdad.
traffic
Had this narrow, one-way
bridge been destroyed- and it is thought that the rebels the negotiations in Bata-had mined it-Habbaniyah would cut off from British
ENOUGH THEIR HANDS
Great
Emotion
The Rome correspon-
of the
"Basler
via will probably become have been
land-borne reinforcements, and clear," declares the Tokyo since the Euphrates is in full
Shimbun" "Asahi
this food, would have caused consi- dent
derable embarrassment to British Nachrichten," writing of morning.
operations in this area. Reuter.
the Duke of Aosta, says: "The capitulation has caused great sorrow and profound emotion"
The newspaper counsels Japan to "hold on to patience and pru-) dence; since the question of estab-| lishing a co-prosperity sphere al! over East Asia is essentially of a peaceful nature."
that the It urges, meanwhile, Netherlands East Indies recon- sider its polloy "to cope with the swiftly changing situation in the
world.".
Reuter..
GERMAN GROUND STAFF AT ALEPPO
CONFIRMED
AS GOVERNOR Rome.
OF MALTA
in
had Rome
hoped that the Duke's prolonged resistance would have prevented the British with- drawing troops for use in Libya,
However,
to according
the
| MAJOR-GENERAL SIR WIL- "National Zeitung," Berlin circles LIAM GEORGE SHEDDEN say the Duke's capitulation is un- DOBBIE KNOWN AS THE Important because the main part MODERN GORDONOWING of the British forces in Abyssinia TO HIS RELIGIOUS FERVOUR, had withdrawn long ago and sent Aleppo airport, in Syria, is oC HAS, THE COLONIAL OFFICE to Libya and Iraq. — Reuter cupied by a German ground stuff, ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY, Cand all the 20 or more Syrian aft- BEEN APPOINTED GOVERNOR the troops In April, 1940, with the axception of a short period in ports" are available for German OF MALTA. use, says the Ankara correspon- Sir William has been adminis- May, 1940, immediately before dent of the Columbia Broadcasting tering the Government of Malta General Sir Charles. Bonham- qupled „by, Benterum sore he assumed command of Carter left the colony-Reuter.
LOSS OF "CAMITO” The sinking of the Royal Naval Auxiliary vessel "Camito" announced by the Admiralty London yesterday, says Reuter.
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