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FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST ESTABLISHED 1845.
No. 32,169
TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1941
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SECOND ED
INSIST ON
Daisy Brand
Australia's Choicest
BUTTER-
AMERICAN STEAMER TORPEDOED
Sunk By Nazi U-BoatIn South Atlantic
Vichy Admits Snags
The Vichy News Agency |
that states
the Allied Forces are advancing into Syria from three direc- tions.. Two columns are converging on Damascus through Dera and Safed, and the third is following he coast road to Beirut.
It is admitted that the coast advance has reached the River Litani, north of Tyre.
After referring to French re- sistance "against the British and Agency de Gaulle Forces" the adds:
"The British _forces are, However, markedly superior, equip. especially in armoured mont. The difficulties of de- fending the territories of the Lavant for an army waien at its has only weak forces disposal are pointed out in Vichy."
The Agency continues: "Sup plying this army
with not only
arms and munitions but with food and fuel is practically im- possible." Reuter.
FRENCH TROOPS GO OVER TO GEN. DE GAULLE
A considerable number of French officers and men have already come over to the side of the ad- vancing Free French and Imperial troops and a number of others have ceased to fight.
The military spokes- man in Jerusalem re- vealed yesterday that since Sunday the ad- vance has proceeded to an average depth of 35 to 40 miles.
Only scattered cen- tres of resistance were encountered and the number of British casualties is negligi- ble.-Reuter.
HITLER NOT IN A PEACEFUL MOOD
U.S.
MR. JOHN CUDAHY, former Ambassador to Belgium, whose newspaper articles on the last days of King Leopold were read all over the world, has just returned to America from Germany, where he had a 30-
minute interview with Hitler.
Mr. Cudahy, who saw Hitler as a journal- ist, reports that Hitler's attitude was most
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unfriendly. "He gave me the idea he didn't like me at all because 1 was American,'
Germans and Hitler, said Mr.I think we are going to have Cudahy, believe America will something like the Thirty Years come into the war soon.
War,'"
the war is not brought to military conclusion by Detober,
FRENCH TANKER SAID SUNK
Hitler, sald &Mr. Cudahy, did not give an impression, thất ha wanted porode or would.neg tiate for: peaoo, and als he sincerely rega gestion, ofag uparlava America as, fantastio:
SURVIVORS AERIAL PICKED UP IN LIFEBOAT
BATTLES NR. DOVER
AN
OFFICIAL COMMUNI-
QUE STATES: “DURING DAY- LIGHT YESTERDAY THERE WAS SOME ACTIVITY OVER THE STRAITS OF DOVER AND NEAR THE COAST OF KENT AND
ALSO OVER COASTAL DISTRICTS IN SOUTH AND SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND.
Up to 8 pm, there were no re-
THE TORPEDOING OF AN AMERICAN STEAMER, THE “ROBIN MOOR,” BY A GER- MAN SUBMARINE IN THE SOUTH ATLAN- TIC, IS REVEALED IN A REPORT RECEIVED BY THE UNITED STATES NAVY DEPART-ports of bombs dropped. MENT LAST NIGHT," PENDING CONFIRMA- TION OF WHICH THE DEPARTMENT DECLINES TO PUBLISH THE EXACT TEXT OF MESSAGES WHICH WERE INTERCEPTEDtruction cannot be confirmed. One | BY COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS CHAN-
NELS.
In engagements with out fight- ers protecting shipping in the enemy fighters Straits several were seen to be hit and damaged but owing to poor visibility des-
of our fighters was lost."—British Wireless.
JAPANESE
News of the torpedoing, first of an Amer- ican vessel during the present war, originat- ed in a radio message sent by the Brazilian ATTITUDE steamer Osorio, which was then relayed by
STIFFENS the steamer's flags and again relayed by the s.s. Deer Lodge.
The messages reported that the Osorio had found} a lifeboat with survivors clinging to it.
The State Department and the Maritime Commission in Washing ton say they have no information but the latter, in a statement, de- clared it was understood that the
JULIANA AT
WHITE HOUSE
It is
THE JAPANESE FOREIGN [OFFICE'S ATTITUDE REGARD- ING THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES' REPLY TO THE JAP- ANESE TRADE UNDERSTOOD
FORMULA. IS TO HAVE CONSIDERABLY
understood in official STIFFENED Dutch circles in London that AFTER A CAREFUL STUDY President Roosevelt has invited OF THE CONTENTS OF THE Princess Juliana and Prince Bern- DUTCH ANSWER WHEN HIGH hard to spend a day with Mr.FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS: and Mrs. Roosevelt on the occa-MET YESTERDAY, SAYS AN. sion of their forthcoming visit to OFFICIAL JAPANÉSE REPORT the U.S.A. The invitation has QUOTED BY REUTER FROM Robin Moor was owned by the been accepted.-British Wireless. TOKYO. Seas Shipping Company, Incor- porated in New York.
The vessel was carrying gen. eral cargo, including motor- cars, steel and other materials, but no war munitions-Reuter. Though the Robin Moor is not listed in Lloyd's Register, other Robin vesse's, owned by the same company, are all of about 6,500 tons register.
THAILAND WILL STAY NEUTRAL
EVEN IF JAPAN' ENTERED THE WAR THAILAND, AS A NEUTRAL, WOULD CONTINUE TO CARRY ON TRADE" "WITH ALLE COUNTRIES; ́ ́ ́STATED PREMIER SONGGRAM ATA
SPECIAL SESSION OF THE ABBEMBLY CONVENED · TO
RATIFY, THE THAI-INDO- CHINA PEACE TREATY!
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