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Latest Me's Downed
Two of Germany's latest Messerschmidt fighters the ME 109F
were shot down into the English Channel last evening.
They WPTO among a number which attempted to cross the Kent coast above the cores of cloud bu! were tackled by ramnon-firing Spitfires.
One British fighter is mussing. The Me 109F is a development of last year's ME 109, chief new feature being bigger engine power,
Reuter.
GERMAN KULTUR AT WORK
VICHY DENIES
IN SYRIA
Panzer Divisions And
BASES REPORT 400 'Planes Set For
Reports published
abroad that
French naval
six
bases aside
had been set for joint occupation by Franco - German forces, were formally denied in authorita- tive circles in Vichy the yesterday, says official French News Agency. -Reuter.
U.S. NAVY'S PART IN ANTI-SUB CAMPAIGN
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OUT OF A MULTITUDE OF CONFLICTING REPORTS ON THE SITUATION IN SYRIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST GENERALLY, AS WELL AS AXIS PROPAGANDA DESIGNED TO CONFUSE AND HIDE THE ACTUAL PLANS OF THE GERMAN HIGH COM- MAND, COMES RELIABLE INFORMATION IN LONDON THAT
THE NAZIS HAVE, IN FACT, CONCENTRATED STRONG LAND
AND AIR FORCES IN SYRIA.
Germany, according to this information, MYSTERY is already virtually set, with vast air and land forces in Syria, Libya and Mediterranean island bases, for a swift and strong blow against Britain's strongholds in the Middle
THE UNITED STATES NAVY East.
HAS NOT YET BEEN ABLE TO
I DETERMINE WHETHER THE EXPANSION OF THE UNITED
SUBSTANTIALLY
U.S. NAVY
ORDER
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ISSUED AN EXECUTIVE OR-
DER IN WASHINGTON At least 400 German 'planes and three STATES NAVAL PATROL HAS Panzer divisions, two of them complete with REDUCED light tank units, as well as 200,000 para- Ignoring German THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GER.
SUBMARINE OPERA chutists and other aerial specialists, are threats, the inhabitants MAN of the Greek town of This was stated yesterday by reliably said to have arrived in Syria.
TIONS.
Levadia, 60 miles north-Colonel Frank Knox, Secretary of
Navy, in Washington, west of Athens, began The Germans, he said, were unloading a goods train claiming a tremendous number of sinkings but "hitherto the British carrying supplies which have generally been right" in con- had been seized in that tending that the true figures were much less than the German
area.
It was authoritatively learned
claims.-Reuter.
in Cairo yesterday that Germaning to approach goods trains or police opened Are, killing and warehouses. wounding many, including women Emergency measures have been and children,
decreed in Athens and hundreds Following this incident the of citizens are being sent to German kommandatur ordered courts-martial there to receive the the shooting of anybody attempt-death penalty. Reuter.
NAZIS MAY GET FRENCH BASES
(By Reuter's Naval Correspondent) REPORTS OF FURTHER plans for colla- boration between Vichy and the Nazis were
· current in London yesterday, and though they do not so far find confirmation in official circles, they are interesting indications of German aspirations regarding French resist
ance.
--1
Whether Britain, with large SYRIA WILL RESIST ANY BRI- forces massed on the Syrian fron- TISH ATTACK.
will let
YES-
TERDAY DIRECTING THAT AN UNSPECIFIED NUMBER OF COAST GUARD OFFICERS
ENLISTED AND
MEN BE ΤΟ HELP CERTAIN NAVAL
TRANSFERRED OPERATE VESSELS.
Meanwhile, the Maritime Com- 28 mission has issued a list of
the merchant vessels, including Syria liner America, which have been News acquired for the army and navý.
-Reu'er.
tier, will march into the French- The spokesman added: "But we mandated territory in an attempt hope everybody to beat the Germans to the punch, alone." International remains uncertain.
Service.
In view of the official silence on events in this part of the world,
in however, observers
London said yesterday that this possibility cannot be disregarded.
The British press is still airing arguments for and against a Bri- tish move in Syria.
Vichy Warning
The Daily Express" yesterday urged continued trust in Britain's leaders "to do the right thing in the light of all circumstances," including "the best disposition of the British forces over a wide that any area and the likelihood overt move by Britain might com- pel Vichy to go over completely to the Reich."
MEANWHILE THE VICHY SPOKESMAN YESTERDAY WARNED BRITAIN THAT THE FRENCH ADMINISTRATION IN
SYRIAN TRADE FORBIDDEN
The Egyptian Ministry 'Syria
of
on
Finance has placed the list of countries with which
it is forbidden to trade as "be- ing occupied either by........... Ger- many or Italy."-Reuter.
One of these reports suggests | franche, near Nice, Algiers, Casa- that under the terms of the bianca and Dakar.. Hiller-Darlan agreement. Six
out the South American continent. is 2017 "this Fraport is borna be French naval bases are to
by developments it ́is obvious no more than about 2,000 miles, made available for joint use by
"ly of first class Importance. and would also constitute a the French and German, Fleets.
Possession of Daker, 'would put further mendce to British ship-
The ports mentioned were Sete,
on the Mediterranean coast of German ships at a base where ping from West African ports. France Bebut in free Yet the fistonga between: Africa, and Reuter
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