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TWELVE DIVISIONS OF Greeks Capture Klisura:
GERMAN TROOPS ON
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WAY TO RUMANIA
ANKARA, JAN. 10 (REUTER) — BETWEEN TEN AND 12
HAVE DIVISIONS OF GERMAN TROOPS
ALREADY REACHED ROMANIA OR ARE ON THE WAY. By the middle of February, the total garrison of German troops in that country is expected to reach 15 or 16 divisions.
:
To this information sent to Ankara from trustworthy sources is
are now on the Ru added a report that six German divisions manian-Russian frontier.
Oil Plants Bombed
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It was revealed in London yes- terday that in a recent raid on Brest a Wellington bomber "got out of control as a result of AA fire vertical to and dropped almost about 100 feet of the water. The pilot and second pilot managed to pull the plane out of the dive and gunters on the ground stopped firing because they thought the machine was crashing.
Turkish military observers are of the opinion that additional troops are going to Rumania because of the difficult internal situation there and because of the tension between Germany and Russla..
It is not thought that' they point to the campaign in 'the Balkans for two reasons. They are, that at least 35 to 40 divisions would be required and that such a campaign anyway could not be a decisive factor in the war against Britain.
ALL IS QUIET-
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Monarch And Premier
Loudly Cheered
KING GEORGE and GENERAL METAXAS, PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE, were loudly cheered when they appeared on the bal- cony of the Palace in Athens to respond to the rejoicing of the Greeks over the capture of KLISTRA, mays a London message.
time.
Klisura has been the chief objective of the Greeks for some
General Metaxas. In a statement, said that be understood that several mounta'n passes in the region had also been taken and that the Italians were retreating in disorder.
The Greeks have now advanced a few miles further to Berat.
Kilsura is important because it stands on the road to. Berat and its, capture now leaves the Italian
eft dank exposed.
and from there it turns north-east. For some time now the weather in Albania has been extremely bad and it is not likely that the future uperations will be more than Incal
encounters.
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This fact makes the feat of the
Klisura is an important place in the Drid Valley, and its capture capture of Klisura all the more had been a slow and tedious task. creditable to the Greeks who have This capture opens à new way long lines of communication to to Valona. The Greek advance maintain.
+ About 12 or took place on Thursday over
15 Italian planes front of about six miles and they raided Malta yesterday but "were took seven officers and 300 men met by British fighters who shot as prisoners in addition to guns down four of the machines while
A.A. fre accounted for another.
The British fighters were not
BUCHAREST, Jan. 10 Reuter) Contrary to reports published abroad. there
Is mo Indication whatever here of serious dis-and. equipment.
turbances in Rumania.
The Greek front now runs from
When the gunners discovered All is quiet in Bucharest and the Adriatic coast east to Kilsura damaged.
their mistake they started firing there is no sign of internal strife. again but the British bomber Should such a strife exist, it did dropped more bombs before flying not develop to such an extent as safely home.
to have become pubile knowledge INITIATIVE MUST COME
BOMBS ON WALES
BŪRIS RECEIVES" FILOFF Bombs were dropped over widely'
SOFIA, Jan. 10 (Reuter)-King separated districts in England and Boris has received the Premier, M. Wales on Thursday, adds the Lon-Filoft, following the latter's return don message.
from Vienna,
Rumours of impending Cabinet changes are denied.
Houses" and shops were damaged but there were no casualties.
One of the raiders was, shot down by night fighters. These ralds were mostly carried out by single bombers and followed three nights when there was no enemy activity over Britain.
The Germans scattered five bombs over London on Thursday
night but these were put out be-
fore they did any damage.
S'hai Rice Profiteers Gaoled
FROM DICTATORS
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Two air raid alarms' were sound- doctrine, he said, had been handed dictators that they will regard the ed for the first time during day- down by a French writer through help we are giving to the de-
light
Switzerland yesterday, the famous Carl Marx.
mocracies as an act of war. When states a London message. the dictators want to make war
An alarm was also sounded at an act Zurich. they will not wait for of war on our part,'
AT LIBERTY
EFFICIENT VIOLENCE "A good many things can be done by violence as long as there Is no effective resistance and one
LONDON, Jan. 10 (BWS)-Pre- thing. It cannot do is to succeed
"Mr. Roosevelt meant by thissident Roosevelt's personal re- when it comes up akanst more passage that if Hitler wants to take presentative in Britain, Mr. Harry efficient violence.
The only thing this aid to us as an act of war be Hopkins, who arrived in London It can do then is to run away and is at liberty to do so," sald last night during an enemy alr CHUNGKING, Jan. 10 (Central) that is why I think that the Fas-Mr. Steed. "No wonder Hern raid, is losing no time in making While anti-aircraft guns were in-Determined to check the sky-cist commanders ran true to form Hitler has been slow to take up contact with the British Statemen. action over the south of England rocketing rice price in Shanghai, at Bardia.
and answer. this challenge, He This morning he had Interviews there was a vivid white flash in the Shanghat Municipal Council is Mr. Steed went on to refer to may try to answer it still and Mr. with Lord Halifax and Mr. Eden, the sky which shook heuses many reported to have despatched police President Roosevelt's message to Roosevelt is ready to reply to him the Foreign Secretary. ...miles away.
and detectives to investigate the the Congress.
directly or indirectly. "I it was a coincidence," he stocks of various rice shops and
"The initiative is now with the their buying and selling prices.
said, "that it came a day after dictators-they know what they The manager of the Ta Teh Rice the Bardia victory it was certainly are up against, and, unlike Crom Shop on Cheklang Road was sen- a good coincidence that the world well's soldiers; they do not like tenced to ten months' imprison should have heard Mr. Roosevelt what they know. "At this moment, ment on a charge of selling Sai- define the four essentials of human Herr Hitler is pordering on the gon rice above the prices fixed by values to which the people of the question when and how? the S.M.C.
LETTERS CHARKED
Nearly 30 pillar-boxes were buried in the debris during, the recent fire raid on the City of London The boxes had to be dug up and it was found that many of the parcels and letters were charred. Those which were not too badly burnt and on which addresses were still legible were carefully put together and sent for delivery.
Packages and letters taken from these boxes have been marked "delayed by enemy action."
·OVAL DAMAGED
The Oval, the famous Test cric-
80 CZECHS DEAD
IN EXPLOSION
The news of the accidental des truction of a German-controlled factory in Czechoslovakia has now reached London.
It is stated to have occurred on
ket ground, was damaged during a Christmas Eve when three violent recent German raid Some of the explosions were heard. stands were destroyed but the ac- Most of the workers were Czechs tual pitch was untouched, says a and 80 of them are reported to London message.
have been killed.
Further Strengthening Of British Ring
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There is also news of two Italian Mr. Spender's, reference to trans- etreats in East Africa both on the port of supplies across the Medi-
tidan frontier.
terranean seems to refer to the ralds
At Kasala, British patrol activi- es have resulted in the town be- evacuated by the Italians."
GARRISON EVACUATE
byssinian tribesmen have com-
United States and the democracles are looking forward in the future.
freedom of speech and expres sion everywhere; freedom and the right to worship God everywhere; freedom from want; and freedom from fear.
DEFINITE BASIS
"This is
"There is no question that Bardia and the victories of General Wavell in Africa have had an affect on Hitler but I do not think this is a moment tor complacency and cock- suredness,
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 10 (Reuter)- The Nanking Government bas ordered all Nanking controlled in- stitutions in Shanghai to collect dues and pay wages to their "staffs in notes of the new Central Bank. Among the institutions affected is the Chinese Court in the French Concession.
velt's pledge to support that re sistance,
.
"Herr Hitler must now be pon
"But while Germany's military dering how to avoid the same definite basis for strength may remain intact his collapse that brought the victorious the kind of world which is attain morale has been broken. And German armies of the Spring of able in our time and is the antiwhat has broken it is the British 1915 to their defeat in the Autumn thesis of the new order of tyranny which the dictators are seeking to will to resist and President Roose-or, 1918.” create,
"The most essential of thest four is freedom from fear-free. dom from fear is the arst condi-
tion to set up in the new world so as to give the people, whom Hitler and Mussolini have beaten into submission an indication of
Blank Cheque Legislation
For Roosevelt's Plan
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what they can expect from those that it was the duty of the United Both the German and Italian who will give them the freedom states to give full aid in the newspapers and the radio - have of speech, the freedom of worship struggle in which democracy was now commented on Mr. Roosevelt's and freedom from want.
Bow engaged.
"The people of the United States are not frightened by anything that the dictators can do."
speech to the Congress.
A feeling in favour of giving It was only on Thursday that Britain more assistance is con- the Germans informed their pec- tinuing to grow. In a latest gallupple that such a speech had been Mr. Steed went on to quote a poll the question was asked whe-made.
from passage
Mr. Roosevelt's ther the United States, should keep
In general, the Nazi comment
by the British Air Force near the town of Garagub. It is now learn-speech in which the President sald cut of war or help Britain even at has been more sober than that
that Americans were vitally con- the risk of war.;
Everywhere a majority favour- ed helping Britain in all cir- cumstances.
The voting, varied from 78 per
ed that simultaneously with the cerned in the defence of freedom British advance when the Italiana and determined to send to Britain were rolling back along the coast ships, tanks, planes and guns. ed the Italians to evacuate a the Italian troops at Garagub were President Roosevelt had said "This
ison in the same vicinity and isolated and for the last month is our pledge and in the fulfilment cent. in favour in the South to 55 Abyssinians are reported to be nothing
of this purpose we will not be per cent. in favour in the Central intimidated by the threats of the States.
FUTURE OF WORLD
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pg round the fleeing defen-
them.
Was mentioned About
Then came the news at British }R.AF, have also been operat-bombers had destroyed convoga East Africa with raids on north of Garagub. This shows that
M where a power-station and the Italians were trying to make H.K.-CHUNGKING
amarine base were the main their way back tơ Join the main
obives.
Fall these raids British air- crafturned safely.
SPERATE POSITION
Italian forces.
If they go west now they will march right into the arms of the British forces. They will have to
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AIR TRAFFIC RESTRICTED
which usually issues from German. writers but there is a good mea- sure of abuse against the Pre- sident.
One Hamburg paper calls Mr. Roosevelt, "Peace enemy number one, war-prolonger number one, and war profiteer number one."
This last point is taken up by At the luncheon which was given the Italian newspapers who say in honour' of Lord Halifax, the that the United States has ranged new British Ambassador, Mr. herself alongside, Britain because. Winston Churchill declared that she found it lucrative. the future of the world depends on
A FINAL BLOW the relations between the United The spoliation, of the British States and Britain,`-
Empire, it says, which has already America would have as Britain's begun by the United States, will Ambassador EL statesman whose be completed when the Axis heart burns with the fire of re-strikes a final blow. sistance.
This sort of bombast was the
nese as well as the Hongkong he leaves for Washington. If he Bardia would never fall. authorities In a few days.
returns to Britain before the summ-
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CHINA Emporium, Ltd.
Daring Hold-Up Of Whole Village
Buen told police yesterday that he escaped kidnapping by making himself out to be a fokl
{On Thursday afternoon he was in his shop when' ho heard some 40 shole fired and five men caisse fato his shop, xlf armed, and two of them masked. With two of his fokis he was forced :
The that the Italian pust-swing much further west to avoid CHUNGKING, Jan. 10 (Reuter) Mon esperate in Libya because Tobruk and Gazala and the dis-The air traffic between CHUNG- of tinactivity of the Italian tance they will have to walk is 200 KING and HONGKONG will be Mr. Churchill revealed that Lord same to which the Italian public Navy expressed by MR. P. C. milea.
further restricted, when new re Halifax will continue to attend was being treated by Press and SPENT Australian War Minis- The chances of their being mop-gulations are enforced by the Chi-meetings of the War Cabinet until radio when it was believed that
A PIRATE GANG, NUMBERING ter, ith interview at Calcutta, ped-up, therefore, are very high.
SOME 60 MEN descended upon the accord to a London message.
TOO OPTIMISTIC
towalet of Peng Chow, in Mirg Bay Mr. der said, "The Italian LONDON. Jan. 10 (Reuter)-It fà Beginning Jan. 14, all passengers mer he will return with the full It was learned in London yester-Dear the border," on Thursday Fleet apparently not come out pointed out that there may be a going to Hongkong must first ob-functions of a Minister of the day that when Lord Halifax goes afternoon, ransacking
least to try trotect the transport of tendency in Lonav u be too tain a landing permit or a British Crown.
to America, Lord Lloyd, Secretary nine shops, kidnapping 18 persons supplied oss the Mediterranean, optimistic, regarding the position Consulate visa before they will be The NEW YORK TIMES, com-for the Colonies, will be. the Leader and taking property estimated to This Sethich Bignor Mussolini of Italy herself.
allowed to purchase tickets from menting on this, says, "The mo- of the House of Lords. has ofte pasted he would make Even if the whole of Libys were the seroplane companies, while ment is so much later and more A message" from Australia states dollars, an Italian is today less an Ita-occupied by the British forces, it trom Jan. 18, passenger fare will critical than when Lord Lothian that the British Prime Minister, News of this daring hold-up" of
|would not necessarlly
a be increased from $900 to $1,500 arrived in the United States. The Mr. Churchill, has invited Mr. R. a whole village was received by to carry hig safe out of the shor knockout blow for Italy, because
Meanwhile, passengers leaving new Ambassador comes as a G. Menzies, the Australian Pre- the Talpo Police Station yesterday and on to one of four junks par-l she is not dependent on her North Chungking Garrison Headquarters liaison officer between the fight-mler, to visit the United Kingdom through Buen Kwai-sang, master ticipating in the robbery. He saW African colonies, although they, or before can purchase, tickets from ing front and the armoury in the to discuss war problems pertain of the Luen Yick grocery shop several shopmasters being taken
new struggle. airway companies
ing to Australia.
ton board. at Peng Chow. course, are dependent on ber..
Hanes it has ever been
"The is that Britain controls tie
Mediterranean
and, witthat, controls the
key to thigiddle East.
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cost- several tens of thousands, of