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No. 32,164
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1941
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Australia's Choicest BUTTER
SYRIA MOVING TO CLIMAX
Showdown With Vichy Apparently Inevitable
Sabotage R.A.F. FIGHTERS
At San Diego
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The authorities are probing the crash of a $250,000 four - motored bomber which dived into San Diego (Cal.) Bay on Monday, killing four of the crew of five, who were testing the 'plane before delivery to England.
The entre wing assembly was lowed astione
enrefully checked at the Consolidated.
plant for possible evidence of rabotage, while U.S. Anny ex- prits also examined the wreck- ages
A Consolated official hinted!
STRAFE NAZI
TROOP COLUMN
A column of enemy troops and an armed trowler were attacked
by R.A.F. fighters operating over Nor- thern France and the Channel yesterday.
Our aircraft return- ed safely, says last night's Air Ministry communique. Rou-
ter.
NO NEWS FROM HERE TO-DAY
BRITISH TROOPS MOVED TO SYRIA FRONTIERS
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WITH THE FRENCH AUTHORITIES IN MANDATED SYRIA FEVERISHLY PREPARING FOR ALL EVENTUALITIES, AND THE DEMAND IN BRITAIN FOR ACTION AGAINST THAT TERRI- TORY GROWING HOURLY, THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST FOLLOWING THE FALL OF crete is RAPIDLY MOVING TO A CLIMAX, WITH A SHOWDOWN BETWEEN BRITAIN AND VICHY APPARENTLY INEVITABLE.
Several London newspapers yesterday DOMINION reported on reliable authority that German motorised shock troops have landed in Syria, MISSING The briefest communique the "Daily Express" asserting that panzer IN CRETE
at sabotage, saying: "I do not see how the plant's controls; Headquarters in the Middle East could just jau like this one for a very long time says "On all units disembarked from German transports apparently did.” - Interuat onal] fronts thère IN no change in the ! News Service,
situation.**
Reuter.
CHUNGKING RAID: NEARLY 80 DEAD IN ONE DUG OUT
at Latakia after sailing at night through the Italian Dodecanese Islands and along the Turkish coast in order to escape British naval patrols.
The London "Daily Sketch" yesterday demanded an immediate British invasion of Syria, to forestall German occupation of the country and a subsequent push against Bri- tish possessions in the Middle East.
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Feliable reports reaching Lon- REPLACED BY GERMAN don show that General Dentz, the TROOPS. INTERNATIONAL French High Commissioner in NEWS SERVICE. Syria, is pushing preparations for (Continued on Page 16) an emergency, but Vichy, on the
CASUALTIES IN Monday's bombing are probably higher than those in any previous ther hand, is carefully denying raid this year, according to reports from vari- ous quarters in Chungking. Many factors contribute to this misfortune.
Seventy-seven were killed and many in- jured in one dug-out which was constructed not for the populace but for trucks. The dug- out was without any protection at the
entrance.
One bomb landed directly in
all reports both of the landing of German mechanised troops in Syria and that anything unusual is taking place in the country.
However, General Weygand's sudden arrival in Vichy and his subsequent conferences with Mar- shal Petuin and Darlan (which were followed by a lengthy Cab- Inet meeting) is obviously con- nected with the framing of plans for military action, either offen- sive
defensive, in France's overseas territory.
or
an
re-
After the urgent alarm. many
The meeting of the Cabinet was oidered by Marshal Petain as people flocked into the dug-out front of the entrance.
and is for trucks, which enters straight Many junkmen who remained emergency measure,
"de- into the rock for a short distance with their boats were killed and ported to have considered without any turns. It has no their junks blown to bits when velopments threatening to convert other French colonies stones at the entrance such as in many bombs were dropped on the Syria or Yangtse all dug-outs for the populace.
and Chialing River into the next theatres of war."
Germans Taking
* fronts.
Tale Of Heroism
Casualties were high at
populated
Altogether 2,800 New Zealand soldiers are un- accounted for following the Crete evacuation, according to information at present in the posses- sion of the N.Z. Govern-
ment.
This
the
announced by WAE Acting Premier, Mr. Nash, in Wellington yesterday.
Mr. Nash said the majority should probably be correctly re- corded as missing.
Some thousands, he added, had arrived in Egypt from Crete, in-
― Reuter. cluding 768 wounded.
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WINDSOR PARADE
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General Dentz has formally den-
Thursday.
town on the north bank of the led the report that German infan- Chialing River, opposite Chung- try with equipment. disembarked THE KING; AND QUEEN king, where many bombs were at the Syrian port-of Latakia last "ACCOMPANIED BY THE TWO dropped.
PRINCESSES, ATTENDED SAA tale of heroism was told of WAR WEAPONS WEEK an old woman who was killed in PARADE AT WINDSOR CASTLE an attempt to save the life of a YESTERDAY.
small child.
Five thousand, representing all ranks of the Services, took part in the parade.
The old woman, who already was safely sheltered dashed out into the street to bring the child were The King wore the uniform of into the dug-out. Both
Reuter, Admiral of the Fleet. Router killed,
FRENCH REPORTS NOW ADMIT, HOWEVER, THAT -FRENCH-REGIMENTS IN SYRIA- ARE BEING RAPIDLY MOVED SOUTHWARD TOWARDS THE PALESTINE FRONTIER, AND 'IT IS REPORTED THAT THEY ARE BEING PROGRESSIVELY
AND THEN TRY!