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No. 32,163
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1941
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SECOND ED
INSIST ON
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BUTTER
SIGNIFICANT BRENNER TALKS
Hitler Summons Italian Puppets Caustic Fuehrer Not Likely Germans Turkish To Grant Further
Comment
Caustic comment on the references by Ad- miral Darlan, Vichy Vice-| Premier, to Turkey in his statement on Saturday appeared yesterday in the Turkish newspaper "Ulus," cited by Ankara radio.
"It would be better for Darlun to choose his weapons, whether sharp or blunt from his DWW cupboard and leave Turkey alone," the puper said.
or
"In making one pretext after another for disgraceful accusa- tions against Britain, Darlan lets himself be cd. wittingly otherwise, into # distortion of the facts in connection with the history of the Turkish war of independence.
"If it is an error it is inexcus- able because the greater part of· the forces of invasion at that time were composed of contin- gents of the French army."
Reuler.
ARMY CHIEFS
AT BRENNER
PASS MEETING
According to Lyons radio both the Ger- man and Italian Commanders-in- Chief, Marshal Keitel and General Caval- lero, were present dur- ing part of the dis- cussions between Hit- ler and Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
The discussions lasted five hours with a brief interval for lunch.--Reuter.
Favours
Rushing 'Planes
The passage of German warplanes eastward to Syria from the Nazis' newly occupied Aegean bases has been augment- ed greatly during the past five days, according to reports from Turkey's
YESTERDAY'S MEETING BETWEEN HIT- LER AND MUSSOLINI, WITH THE ATTEN- DANT FOREIGN MINISTERS, AT THE BREN- NER FASS, IS SIGNIFICANT AS SHOWING THE NECESSITY FOR FURTHER CO-ORDINATION BETWEEN THE TWO AXIS POWERS, WRITES REUTER'S DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT.
Italy has now been at Germany's orders and mercy for many months and it was doubt-southern frontier, states less to hear Hitler's fresh instructions that Mussolini and Count Ciano were summoned to the Brenner Pass.
It is over three months! since the Fuehrer accord- ed Il Duce the favour of a personal interview and it
noticeable that the official news of the meet- first given out ing was from Rome.
GERMANS GRAPHIC STORY OF
ON FRENCH CORNWALL'S FIGHT
VESSEL
The French ship "Win- nipeg" (8,379 tons) has; been intercepted by the
WITH SEA RAIDER
A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION of scenes Royal Netherlands war- during the action in which the cruiser H.M.S. ship "Van Kinsbergen" in Cornwall sank a German raider in the Indian West Indian waters, says Ocean was given in Capetown yesterday by a a Royal Netherlands naval communique issued South African member of the ship's crew. by the Admiralty in Lon- He said that early on the morning of May don yesterday.
8 Cornwall's 'planes located the ship 65 miles The "Winnipeg" salled from Marseilles and had
aaway and course was altered to intercept it. aboard over 200 Germans bound At about 3 p.m. the next day the raider was
ca led
Dakar. When intercepted she had
for Martinique.
Reason for the presence of these Germans is not at all clear und is "now undergoing examination.-
Reuter:
WESTERN
DESERT ACTIVITY
only some 25 miles away.
raider well and truly and She was gradually overhauledolew up. and by 7 p.m. was ordered to heave to. No notice was taken and a warning shot was Ared, upon, which the raider, which was posing as a Norwegian...ship, holsted the Nazi fing, dropped the flaps concealing her guns and fired a broadside..
For about 15 minutes we listered to the crash of guns and
she
of
Sank In Seconds
"The rear half of the ship was, anveloped in a cloud smoke" which towarad, tomà height of about 2,000 feet" Owing to the large amount of explosive the ship carried she blew up and sank within less than
minute.
Next job was picking up aur BRITISH & TROOPS HAVE the whistling of enemy shellsvivors, among whom were a num AGAIN BEEN ACTIVE IN THE overhead and around us and then ber of British seamen who were TOBRUK AND SOLLUM AREAS, a cheer went up as we hit the prisoners of the raider. SAYS YESTERDAY'S ··~COM- MUNIQUE FROM A BRITISHI GENERAL HEADQUARTERS IN CAIRO
The narrator 'concluded by say- ing that Cornwall suffered only #uperficial damage. and the only
In Baghdad, the altuation is casualties were two men with
In Abyssinia, operations are rapidly returning to normal and splinter wounds, not serious. - continuing in the
asra
Reuter
While nothing definite is known in London regarding the purpose of the meeting, it is thought there that Mussolini is even less likely than usual to be the gainer by it. Limit Of Generosity
the Columbia "Broadcast« ing System correspondent in Ankara.
Some estimates place the total planes at 200,
All available information fron Syria itself, adds the commenta
the tor, indicates that
French command and the colonial troops are rapidly digging in for a fight. There seems to be little like- lihood that Hitler will be in the
The French authorities are mood to support whatever granting no passport visas either claims on France Mussolini still to Palestine or Iraq-Reuter. pretends to nourish in view of
the "sweet
reasonableness" of
Vichy.
It is still more
ther any hopes
doubtful whe- Mussolini might have of reaping an advantage Hitler's carve-up will be
from
granted.
NEW GOVERNMENT
The
IN IRAQ
Regent of Iraq, Abdul Illah, now restored to power, has A ridiculous Croatian crown charged Jemil Pasha to form a for the nephew of the King of new Government, according to a Italy is probably the limit of Hit- Badhdad telegram to Vichy quot- ler's generosity. Reuter.
ed by Reuter,
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