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Germany's Campaign Of Blackmail "DO NOT FORGET Against Neutrals Is
Any Vessel Attempting To Approach Britain Will Be Destroyed
LONDON, Nov. 25 (Reuter) The German authorities have intensified the campaign of blackmail of neutrals into assisting them to evade the British blockade, states the 'special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph in Copen-.
hagen.
The correspondent learns that German agents are at present "negotiating" in at least five neutral countries with this end in view.
The Nazi arguments are simple in the extreme. Bri- tain wishes to blockade Germany," state the Nazis, and therefore Germany is free to take "counter-measures.”
BELGIAN NOTE
Any cargo or passenger ves- sel attempting to approach BRUSSELS, Nov. 29 (Reuter)— Britain will be mined or tor-Although there has been no official announcement regarding the con- pedoed, whether a neutral or
tent of the Belgian note. to Bri-i not.
tain, usually reliable sources state that it is pouched on "the strong- est diplomatic terms."
If the neutrals care to „eo- operate with Germany she will be ready to take greatly in- creased supplies to compensate them for the loss of British and French trade.
PAYMENT?
Payment will, of course, be on long-term credit basis and a settle- ment måde "when Germany has won the war."
In the Balkans, German re- presentatives are finding the going difficult. The Nazi efforts, however, are not being relaxed.
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Meanwhile, increased "per- suasion" is being brought to bear on countries closer to the Reich.
"TRUMP CARDS" Negotiations with Sweden are be- Ing conducted with two trump
eards" in the German hand.
One is the threat to lay mines inside the Swedish four-mile limit. which would throttle Swedish coastal commerce.
The second is to ruin Swedish trade with Britain by sinking or seizing all Swedish vessels attempting to approach British harbours.
The
TRADE DIFFICULTY
correspondent learns in Stockholm that the greatest diffi-
According to these quarters, the note says that the pro- posed ban on German exports is contrary to international law und to the "Paris Treaty of 1857, which defines maritime practice during wartime. Whether or not the Germans have illegally laid mines, this is no basis for such reprisals which vitally affect neutrals, the note is said to continue.
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It is only an additional inter- ference with Belgium's lawful rights.
JAPANESE PROTEST
Intensified:
M. Tatarescu, who has been entrusted with the formation of a new Rumanian Govern- ment.
HITLER HOLDS ANOTHER WAR -
PARLEY
LUNDUN, Nov, 25 (Reuter) -Hitler
another has had lengthy conference in Berlin with his navy, army' and air force chiefs.
One of those present was Major- General Todt, Inspector-General of Roads,
Major-General Todt was respon- sible for the construction of the TOKYO, NOV. 25 (Reuter)-The Siegfried Line, for which he was
made a Major-General Japanese Ambassador in London
An Amsterdam report suggests has been instructed to lodge a vigorous protest regarding the Br-that Hitler discussed the building of an eastern wall from the Baltic tish: measures pf retaliation
to Slovakia as a defence against against Germany.
is Russian allies!
The Foreign Office spokesman sald Japan epuld not acquiesce in the proposition to prevent exports from Germany to Japan.
He added that Japan would
CHINA"
By
Help Of LPC.
In Australia CHUNGKING, Nov. 25 (Central) "The war Europe makes it: more than ever important that we do not forget China." was the gist of a decision reached at a recent meeting in Melbourne of the Australian Council of the In- ternational Peace Campaign, which has done a great deal of work for the Help China movement,
A plan for a campaign to ren- der greater assistance to China In 1940 has been drawn up by the will be Australian I. P. C. and ready for approval by the next meeting, of the Council which will meet on November 30.
the to
The campaign will be launched on a large scale, possibly in coming spring, and bids fair result in the raising of a fair amount of relief funds and in an even stronger wave of sympathy for China.
EMBARGO ON EXPORTS TO JAPAN?
U.S. SENATOR'S ·
PREDICTION.
General Georges, French Chief of the General Staff.
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Enemy Plane Over The Shetlands
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ANTI AIRCRAFT FIRE HEARD
LONDON, NOT. 25 (Reuter)
Was
An en my plane, believed to be a Heinkel bomber, sighted over the Shetlands this afternoon, Anti-aircraft fire was heard, but no air raid warnings were sound-
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This is the third visit by enemy aircraft to the Shetlands this week. Four hundred miles south, in the Clyde area, the air raid wam- WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (Reuter)ing was sounded at about --Senator Fittman, Chahman of o'clock this afternoon. the Senate Foreign Relations Com- No planes were sighted and the mittee, predicts that Congress will all clear went half an hour later.
authorising the
CRASII INTO SEA approve his bill
Fishermen who arrived back in a Scottish port today said they He adds that he desires the re-saw what they believed to be an
President to place an embargo on exports to Japan.
establishment of peaceful condi-aeroplane crash into the sea last tions in the Orient, "but I see no night.
occasion for acts or even expres- One of the fishermen declared: slons of appeasement on behalf of "We were about 30 malies out when the United States towards Japan we heard the sound of an engine, "We then saw`a big flame in the We might be even charged now
"The Factories Act provisions, re- stricting workers under 16 in the felt hat industry to 44 hours a with being guilty of appeasement sky which shot to the sea and
disappeared.”
be compelled to take appropriate week, took effect on Oct.,, 1. counter-measures Japan's im- portant interests are injured by Britain's action.
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SWEDISH DEMARCHE STOCKHOLM, Nov. 25 (Reuter)-
culty is being" felt in Swedish trade It is officially announced that circles as a result of the detention Sweden has made a serious de- of a large number of Swedish ves-marche in London respecting the sels by German warships...
Intensification of economic war-
Particularly resented is the Ger-fare man detention of vessels in ballast: The demarche emphasised the and steamers proceeding to South grave consequences which Britain's
America
DUTCH PROTEST
THE HAGUE. Nov. 26 (Reuter)-
decision to stop German exports would have on the maritime trade of neutral countries.
NORWAY'S ATTITUDE OSLO, NOV.
25 (Reuter)-The
so far," he declared.
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RETENTION OF MAJOR PORTION Officers
OF U.S. FLEET IN THE PACIFIC
DEATH OF SIR TOM BRIDGES
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Former Governor Of South Australia
The Netherlands Government has Norwegian Foreign Minister stated decided to protest to Germany re-today that neutrals in the Oslo garding the Venlo incident. The group may make separate repre- LONDON, Nov. 26 (Reuter) Government. expresses the viewsentations to the belligerents re-The death has occurred of Lieut.- that the statement Issued by the arding the intensification of the General Sir George Official German News Agency show war on the high seas. that German organisations were. There would be no collective
involved in the incident.
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protest, he added.
ANOTHER NAZI FAIRY TALE MORE ABOUT GERMANY'S SECRET "PEACE PROPOSALS"
LONDON, Nov. 25 (Reuter)-The Rotterdam correspondent of The Times says he learns that the German peace proposals which the British agents. Captain Stevens and Mr. Best, were examining when they were kidnapped had as their basis the maintenance of the pre- sent regime in Germany, with Hitler as Fuehrers
This disposes entirely of the suggestion that the British agents' contact with persons in Germany had any aim at revolution in Ger-
many.
Tom Moles-
worth Bridges, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. D.S.O., F.R.G.S.. D.Sc., DDL, in his 68th year. He was Governor of South Australia from 1922 to 1927: He was Colonel of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. 9th Light Horse and 43rd Austrailan
Infantry.
A Commander of the Legion of Honour, the deceased held the Order of Leopold. Dannebrog: Croix de Guerre; Order la Couronne; American Distinguished Service Medal, etc,
ADVOCATED
Disturbed Conditions In Far East
A NEW CORPS
Wear "Z20"
LTD.
Sealed specimens of the correct shades of Army khak!, Air Force blue, and Admiralty blue have) been sent by the War Office, Air
MORE OUTRAGES BY I.R.A.
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 25 (Reu- ter) Five telephone boxes were damaged by three explo- slons and a pillar-box set afire today.
It is believed the incidents were the results of I.R.A. acti- vitles. There were no injuries.
Military Pioneers To Ministry and Admiralty to the uniform in colour," said an 'off-
Ensure Supplies
British Colour Council for official cal of the Council, registration in their Dictionary of Colour Standards, which is the recognised reference for colour determination throughout world,
the
20
"In 1914 there were, far example, some
different shades of military khaki, Now only two are in general use, and we have registered them as Z 20 for officers and Z 21 for other ranks."
The War Office announces the formation of a new Corps-the WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps
These officially approved (Reuter)-Mr. Edison, acting recruiting for, which will open to- Secretary of the U.S. Navy, in day throughout the country. As shades are being copied on colour the age limits will normally be charts and sent to textile and
Through the Colour Coundl, his annual report, advocates confined to men between 35 and dyestuff manufacturers and large Britain has taken the lead in the the retention of the major 50, this new corps is opening its and small talloring concerns all world-wide standardisation of co- portion of the American Fleet ranks to the older man whose de- over Britain and the Empire. in the Pacific as it is afforded stre to serve can now to some con- the maximum opportunity for siderable extent be satisfied, tactical training there.
INABILITY OF ALLIES
Mr. Edison's technical reasons are supported by other and more im- portant considerations, particularly the disturbed conditions in the Far East, with the inability of the Allies to maintain strong naval
SEVERELY WOUNDED General Bridges served in South Africa with the Imperial Light forces there. Horse when be was Beverely wounded. He saw action at Soma-
STRATEGIC REASONS
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land and served in the European For many years America has been War 1914-18 being mentioned in opposed to splitting the navy be- The correspondent continues that by Germany's sudden reversion to despatches seven times and wound-tween the Atlantic and the Facinc the Germans now say that con- friendship with the Soviet.
ed. fessions have been made by Capt.
firm" the latest chapter of the
LATEST ADDITIONS
with preference to keeping it in the He was Head of the British War Pacific for strategic reasons." For
Stevens and Mr. Best, which "cor- BERLIN, NOV. 25 (Reuter) The Mission in the United States and budgetary reasons, a two-ocean German fairy story of Dr. Gicebbels latest additions to the story of Military member of Mr. Balfour's navy cannot be maintained. of sagotage of German, Italian and Elser, the German arrested for al-Mission to America. From 1918 to # Japanese steamers between Nov-leged complicity in the Munich, 1920, General Bridges was Head of bomb explosion, published by the the British Mission Allied Armies ember, 1937, and 1938.
"Voelkischer Boebachter," declares of the Orient. According to Dr. Goebbel's state-that when arrested ser bad ff-
steamers of these three powers.
These documents, the report al-tary Attache at The Hague, Brus- FAIRY TALE
leges, had lists of various ammuni- sels, Copenhagen and Christiania. tion depots, the loading arrange-He was placed on retired pay in
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MILITARY ATTACHE
ment. 15 explosions occurred on teen documents on his person. General Bridges was late M-
INTEREST shifts FROM GILT-EDGED MARKET
LONDON, Nov. 25 (BWS)-City
The Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps has been designed to carry out work the main object of which is to ensure the proper matten- ance of all kinds of supplies to our
armies at home and abroad,
mous
laurs and in advising on colour- combinations for fashions, furni-a WASTE ELIMINATED
shings paints and even lipsticks "This will eliminate the enor-and household dustpans.
Now war has come the Council's waste in materials, dyes and money which occurred in the services are at the disposal of last war, when in the absence of voluntary organisations, as well as colbur standardisation many the three Services, to ensure that uniforms were returned as useless the colours of their uniforms shall simply because they were not be a credit to British industry.
JAPAN REJECTS
BRITISH
PROTEST OVER DARDANUS.
INCIDENT
of the legal ownership of the al- ver stocks in Tientsin, with the result that the conversation merely .emphasised the divergence of the
ANGLO - JAPANESE British and Japanese viewpoints.
TALKS HELD IN
of
The "Yomiuri Shimbun” saya
The newspaper claims that Sir Robert is maintaining a strong attitude "contrary to the intention of his home gove ernment.”
Naz! principles was so sadly shakenmap of the beer hall cellar in Chaplin of St. Oswalds, Vlankney re-war level, to other sections of aid. Men eligible for the corps grr Robert firstly stated the Bri. blockade of the British Concession
Taich, says the report. “RIDICULOUS”
in the county of Lincoln.
TOKYO This object entails the handling at docks, bases, and depots of a
TOKYO, Nov. 25 (Reuter)-The vast amount of stores, and, to en“ | Japanese newspapers feature a 90- Purpose of the whole story, The nents of armaments factories and 1922.
sure the smooth transportation of minute interview between Sir Bo- |
AN ALLEGATION Times correspondent declares, is to exact statements about ammuni- 'General Bridges' only daughter, writers discern encouraging signs create an atmosphere favourable tion deliveries.
Alvilde, is the wife of the Hon. of the shift of interest from the such stores, roads and railways on bert Craigie, the British Ambassa-
lines of communication must be
The "Miyako Shimbun" alleges dor, and the Vice-Minister for a revival" of close relations with They also had parts of a com- Anthony Freskyn Charles Hamby gilt-edged market, in which prices
silver stocks to the Japanese in Italy and Japan, whose faith in plicated machinery for fuses and a Chaplin, son and heir of Viscount are already at a level in reducing maintained in a fit condition. In Foreign Affairs, yesterday after Sir Robest offered to transfer the
the general yield basis to below the addition new roads may require to noon.
exchange for removal of the be constructed and light railways the market, including Home Rails, will realize the importarice of its tish Government's views on the
The Vice-Minister is reported to textiles and certain foreign bonds, duties, and it is hoped that they Terakuni Maru sinking, and have said: "The blockade of the The Idea "circulated by "news
FRENCH TROOPS among which Brad and Argentine will come forward to offer their secondly, officially protested over British and French Concessions is LEAVE SHANGHAI
securities have Agured.
service, Pay and conditions will agencies and governmental offices abroad that Captain Stevens and
War Loan closed yesterday at 92 be the same as for British Infan Mr. Best could have met persona
SHANGHAI, Nov. 20 (Reuter)~~~
TREABURY BILLA :: from German official aircies to According to the China Press, 800
try, and, full detalle can be obtain-
Country.
negotiate peace," is described in French troops, including 60 recent-
Applications for Treasury Bills ed at all recruiting offices.
It must be pointed out, however, The first four riders in the card were: Mr. P. W. Calderara, Mr. Wical circles here as "ridiculous." ly conscripted from local French were again heavy this week, the
The Nazi newspapers continus, to residents, embarked on a French total amount applied for on lenders that men in reserved occupations Minderhoud, Mr. D. Van Der Gaas accuse, the British Becret Service of liner yesterday evening, prepara- for £65,000,000 was £108,310,000. should not apply, but if they are in and Mr. F. Fraser.
responsibility not only for the tory to sailing for Indo-China The average rate per cent. for any doubt they should seek advice The first lady home was Mrs. J.Munich explosion but of acts of where they are relieving a batta-bills at three months was 23/11.46, from their nearest Labour Ex-
change. lion, who are going back to France. against 23/8.01d a week ago. sabotage over a number of years.
PAPER HUNT
A very successful paper bunt was held yesterday by the members of the Cottage Club over Fanling
Monks.
the Dardanus incident.
being carried out, from military, necessity and for the maintenance PROTEST REJECTED
of peace and order,” and the issue. The Vice-Minister rejected the should be treated separately from protest, pointing out that a stato the sliver and other issues, though of hostilities exists in China, which it is possible that both questions the British side recognised under can be solved, simultaneously
though differing in conception." the Arita-Craigle agreement.
After this, says the newspaper, The conversation ended without Sir Robert dealt with the question substantial agreement,