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War
Forced To Fight On Two Fronts
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demand for the release or M. Laval, the latter had not been brought back into the Govern- ment, Mr. Bartlett said that the most important men in the Vichy Government now were Admiral Darian and General Huntziger.
"The Turks made it clear that any
uneasy balance in the Balkans would bring them, into the war against the dis- turber," said Mr. Bartlett, “but it is now possible that he may decide to risk' this."
It
Both of them were probably
Mr. Bartlett expressed the view against the handing over of the that these reports of troops move French Fleet to the Germans and ments and, so "an in the Balkans though Admiral Darian was very had to be studied very closely to anti-British, because the British get at their significance. He felt were compelled to sink a few of that if these troop movements had his ships, it was not certain that really taken place in the countries he was not anti-German as well. named, the reports would not have "The next possible move for passed the censorship in the coun- Herr Hitler was to try and give tries from which they came. Italy direct military help through was therefore likely that the Ger- the Balkans." said Mr. Bartlett man Government itself was behind "That might have been an advan- these reports. tage to Italy. because until Italy is wiped out of the war, most of our suppites to the Near East have to go round by the Cape of Good Hope. However, we have now re- ceived supplies from an unexpect- ed source on the spot the tanks, riftes, etc., which have been cap- tured in the Western Desert.
TROOP MOVEMENTS Mr. Bartlett commented next on the possibility of German troops being sent through the Balkans and said that Herr Hitler's first attempt to persuade the Balkan countries to permit this bad proved a failure.
CHINESE CHAMBER PETITION
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"All this shows that easiest way In which Herr Hitler can give Signor Musso- lini help is by air," said Mr. Bartlett. "The
presence of German airmen in Italy in large numbers will make great difference to the British position. There is no ase deny- ing that. Italy has been using very poor machines against us, but the German air force is much better and will be more of a nuisance.
TWO-FRONT WAR
TURKEY
COMBATS RUMOUR-
MONGERS
ANKARA, Jan 7 (Reuter)-The
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1941.
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In order to curb activities likely to injure public morale. the Government announced a measure under which de- featists and rumour-mongers will be tried by military tribunals without prior re- ference to elvil judiciary,
The news of the British victory
Bardia Was greeted by the Turks with unconcealed joy and their satisfaction is enhanced by the recollection that it was from Turkey that Italy gained her Libyan possessions.
Newspapers describe Genera! Wavell as "scooping up the Ita lans with a ladle".
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INWARD MAILS
Australia and Manila,
From
Mr. Cordell Eull, U. S. Secretary United-Kingdom and Straits
That is why the capture of of State, sald that one result of Bardia is so important, because it Mr. Roosevelt's speech of more has turned the Eastern Mediter=| sld" for the democracies will be ranean into a British sea and the that a number of planes being German point of view must be re-built for the U. S, Army will be membered. Herr Hitler will now released for Greece, says a Lon be forced to do what he has al- don message.
to fight a war on two fronts.
of the continued Greek advance.
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the Italian position in Tepelini is cisco date, 13th December) "On the Near East front he will becoming more difficult because USA, and Manila-(San Francisco date, 14th De- The Chinese General Chamber have difficulty in maintaining his of Commerce will forward Gov-lines of communication, but the ernment with another petition to German machines will presumably
from bases In postpone enforcement of the Im-operate migration Ordinance until Feb. 15 against the Greeks,
"To help the Italians in Libya, in view of the Chinese New Year festival. This decision was reach- however, the German planes will ed at the monthly meeting of have to be sent across the Medi- Committee members held yester-terranean and the British Navy day afternoon,
It is recalled that the Chinese body presented a petition to the authorities in December, but it was rejected.
was member
Italy STRYCHNINE
FOR THE SIGHT
will be more keenly on the watch, Drs. Clifford P. Seltz (University especially when they know that of Alabama! and Charles M. Herr Hitler is involved.
Rosenthal (Long Island.College of notice that the Rome radio Medicine) put men into an "alt-
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dregs that we breathe in
If she is left alone, otherwise he the region below the stratosphere. would not involve himself in a war on two fronts."
The two investigators found that the "blind area” widens with
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For
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
1918 SPEECH
|lack of oxygen. Three drops of Manila, Batavia and Sourabayɛ. Mr. Bartlett went on to give a strychnine reduced the size of the quotation from a speech which was delivered in 1918. The quota-area, so that vision was improved. tion was: "Let us be proud and satisfied to be allied with 23 R-
17,500 FEET Seitz's and Rosenthal's experi-
15,000-YEAR-OLD tions in the war against Prussian ments were conducted at a theore-
TREE
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to be fighting side by side with bombs bave sometimes been drop- the world's great and mighty England who ped on German and British towns oldest tree. It is known as "Old does not waver. Everybody, how and at which pursuit planes en- Peter," and was found in the troever ignorant he may be, knows now that Germany wanted this war and carries it on."
pical forest to the north which abounds in strange things
The age of the plant has been set down as 15,000 years.
"That speech, as. I say," de- clared Mr. Bartlett, "was given in 1918. Guess who said it?—
It was "Adolf Hitler's friend Benito Mussolini.”
Freat
gage in combat.
So this department wonders 1, before rising into the blue on a mission of death and destruction,
"British Overseas Airways"
flers who are now waging the Straits and United - Kingdom
Battle of Britain, may soon be Straits. Ceylon, India. East and South Africa. dropping a little strychnine into
Mr. Bartlett concluded his talk machine guns and bombs easier.
their eyes to make sighting of
SHANGHAI, Jan. 7
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FRIDAY
"Old Peter" is a giant macro- zama palm growing on the sum- mit of Tambourine Mountain, in the southeast corner of Queens-with a reference to the great fire land. The State which holds it caused in London a week ago by also provides another puzzle for German raiders, which, he said, Chinese newspapers bere have re- the botanista. It is a
group of
had given them a chance to build ceived a letter from the Nanking Air Mail by Air to Bangoon to connect with the
*British Overseas Airways.” Antarctic beeches, recently dis-better offices and wider streets, al- "Kuomintang" urging support of covered growing on the summit of though the fire itself was terrify the new currenicy otherwise "dras- a peak in the Macpherson Range, ing while it lasted..
one of the highest mountain
chains in Queensland,
to
REMNANTS OF FOREST
The Antarctic beeches are held
be remnants of the forest growths of the last Ice Age and they are said to get their name from the fact that Antarctic ex- plorers have found fossils of the trees amidst the blizzard-swept icy wastes of the Far South.
'tic measures" are threatened,
British Advance Towards
Tobruk
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stated that Marshal Graziani bombs were dropped on shipping straits and Calcutta. has lost half the guns, lorries and n the harbour and large fires were munitions, which were available started.
a place of tople heat, and Tierra One correspondent says that he del Fuego, where the climate moves saw a whole line of prisoners fall
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Botanists have long puzzled over Upon the food' that was given them base in Egypt" stated that three tr Mail by Sea to Singapore to connect with the Reg
Today, it appears, the beeches are found growing in only two or the Army In Libya, besides a The full story of the part played regions in the world. Queensland, substantial part of the army itself. by the Navy in the attack on Bardia is yet to be told, British allors who have returned to their as if they had not eaten for days. battleships took part the monitor the presence of the trees in
From the quiet of Bardia, the Terror. H.MB. Ladybird and an- Queensland, and some hold them Australians can already see the other gunboat. relles of times when this country fires which have been started in : The Terror dropped 300 tons was just emerging from the gla-Tobruk as a result of raids by the cial age.
YUNNAN AGAIN BOMBED BY JAPANESE
KUNMINO, Jan. 7 (Central) Continuing their routine bombing operationis, six Japanese bomb-
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R.A.F. These raids are considered to be the preliminary of operations for a more important attack. For nearly 24 hours, waves after waves of British planes dropped tons of high explosive bombs on Tobruk yesterday.
of shells in the town, while the smaller vessels salled closer in and hammered the shore positions with light guns. These vessels were fired on by the coastal batteries and at- tacked by aircraft.
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Even torpedoes were used, but these made no difference to the TRIPOLI RAIDED
British vessels and none of them Another indication that General were hit. The only casualties were ers, escorted by three puraults, Wavell does not intend to give the caused when a shell exploded close again attacked ал undisclosed Italians rest is shown in the news to one of the gunboats. place in south Yunnan yesterday. that the RAF, raided Tripoll yes- The Italian navy,'did not inter- They dropped scores of misales, erday. This port is close to Italy fere with the attack in any way most of which landed on open and is a very large town. In the and made no attempts to show fields.
course of the raid several tons of themselves."."
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