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BULGARIA'S ASSOCIATION PARISIANS
WITH AXIS EXPLAINED BOYCOTTING Government To Maintain Peaceful Policy Of Yore
LONDON, March 3 (Reuter)-According to the German news agency. Professor File, the Bulgarian Prime Minister, in sistement on the German entry into Bulgaria, said: "The Reich Government has expressed considerations of the existing treaties of friendship we have concluded with our neighbours which em- phasise the pestafal policies of Bulgaria.
GERMANS
NAZI PROPAGANDA OPENLY DERIDED
GENERAL
Germany's U-Boat Threats Analysed By Naval Expert
.
LONDON. March 3 (Reuter) Hitler's new war on". Britain's sea-horne commerce may be expected to be launched with be- tween 129 U-boats actualy svall able for service but the attack can be maintained "by only one third of that number, says the Sunday Times naval correspondent.
Some highly· exaggerated figures about the output of new beats from German yards have been put into circulation, he says, Drobably from Berlin sa move in the war of nervER
A total ranging from 400 to on active service in any one week, 1,000 cratt has been mentioned. one thira resting and the
other
NEW YORK, Mar. 9 (Reuter) ---- Derision and boycott are being used most effectively by the people of Paris as weapons against the Germans in the French capi-! tal, according to messages reach-
It may be as well to`say definitely one third undergoing extensive ing the New York Times.
and unequivocally that such repairs The Germans no longer dare figures are fantastic. They are a to break through the food queues multiplication by five or ten of of housewives outside the shes
the possible
output of German
and carry of food as they did shipbuilding yards in
a few months ago.
manth spurt.
a twelve-
be mass- Correspon- work de.
"HITLER'S MISTAKE" ON VIEW!
LONDON. Mar.
3 - (BWS)
"In the present European situation, after weighing all the circumstances, and led, above all, by the wish to safeguard the vital rights of our people and the country, and after receiving assurances that the existing law and order in the country would be maintained in the highest degree, the Bulgarian Government has decided to agree to the request of the Reich Government,
Because of Naxi propaganda, Submarines cannot The Bulgarian Government de state that the British Minister to the puble is losing the habit of produced writes the clares that the presence of Ger-Bulgara, Mr. George Rendei, was reading the newspapers or going
dent. There is much man troops in the country in no received by King Boris yesterday to cinemas, but when they do manding skilled and patient handi way changes the peaceful poller afternoon and that the British they enrage the Germans by their work. Furthermore, the supply of of Bulgaria, who is determined to military attache bas Neft Hul-ancers and derisive laughter at killed worker's is limited and refrain from any attack and from garia.
the news filmas.
there is no
evidence that any measures that threaten the
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Boycotting takes the form of Nass have recruited extra hands interests of anyone.
SOFIA, Mar. 3 (Reuter)While avoiding the slightest
from the
they have *The Bulgarian Government feel German troops continued to march with the Germana,
over-run
Exhibited by A.RP workers this that their action will be rightly cross the frontier, Bulgaria yes- Correspondents add that every- Finally there is the problem
bomb, which is one of the largest. understood by all and approved terday began celebrations of her body listens to the news bulletins space. The number of building dropped on Eritain, bas raised
National Independence Day.
Ave broadcast daily in French from slips on which Germany can lay nearly £30 dally in The German news agency adds Sofia la perfectly calm and
yesterday as | London, "Loyalty to England is down vessels of 200 to 300 feet in
thousands of that the Bulgarian Chamber han usual farge crowds are strolling striking. The people dream of length is pretty accurately known, people, some whose homes might *approved «and accepted the state- on the main streets in brilliant nothing but British victory. and even though, the yards of oc- have been shattered had the
ment of the Prime Minister by an sunshine
Only twice have the Germans cupied countries were used, there bomb exploded, queued us to absolute majority.
cung dared to sound the alert. it is were still not enough to "nave taken,
by the Balkan people.“
All public buildings are
contact
countries
the
01
Called "Hitler's Mistake,” a. -12- foot. bomb which failed to explode when dropped on an East Anglian town has proved A most clent collector of money.
and
see it.
Renter's diplomatic correspon with Bulgarian dags and there stated, because when warning was anything ke 600 teels in the past in a Weapons Week campaign.
dent learna that the Bulgarian little to remind the people of the given of British planes overhead, year. Minister in London has telegrap-momentous happenings behind the Parisians displayed so much joy hically tendered his resignation to scenes except the occasional ap-that the Germans now deem it the Bulgarian Government,
pearance of uniformed German wiser to keep them uninformed. troops
AUDIENCE OF KING VICHY, Mar. 3 (Reuter)---Dia- patches received here from Softa;
HITLER'S TELEGRAM LONDON, March 3 (Reuter)-! Herr Hitler yesterday sent a tele- kram to King Boris, saying: "I beg
REPRESSION OF your Majesty to accept my most
FREE FRENCH MOVEMENT
cordial wishes for your well-being and for the happy future of Bul- garia in this hour in which Bul-
BIG GULF
At a general calculation there might have been a programme of [150 new U-boats in hard in recent months. But between the blue
CONCENTRATED print and the ship at ses there is
ATTACK ON COLOGNE
la big zaif, as the German Navy i found in the last war when it was able to complete about only half the boats for which contrasts were optimistically placed.
We may, I think (says the for- respondent) expect that Hitler's
garia has reaffirmed attachment Target Area Lit By new ar an sea-borne commerce
Countless Fires
to Germany, Italy and Japan."
JAP. CONGRATULATIONS TOKYO, Mar. 3 (Reuter)-Con- LONDON, Mar.
Adherents Sentenced gratulations of: Bulgaria's adhesion A multitude 3 (Reuter) -
to the
will be launched with between 100 and 120 boats actually available for service.
of fires and the In Beirut Trial
At first glance that number ap- Tripartite Pact has been sky full of acrid, smoke, was the pears formidable but the number sent by Mr. Matsuoka, Japanese scene again left behind by RAF available is not necessarily the LONDON, March 3 (Reutel Foreign Minister to von Ribben-bombers when, on Saturday night. number active in the front line." Twenty French oficials and off-trop, Count Ciano and M. Popoff, they made a second attack within There are many deductions to be cera in Syria have been sentenced Bulgarian Foreign Minister. a week on the Industrial centre made. For example,. to imprisonment, varying from
NAZI PROTECTION!
of Cologne.
the sub- five months to five years, after a LONDON, March 3 (Reuter)-- On one side of the river and oal for training new crews.
marine school at Kiel needs sever- trial at Beirut 021 charges of The entry of German troops into the wharves on Its banks, huge "conspiracy" against the manda- Bulgaria" was officially admitted industrial buildings were tory Government, reports the Afin Bertin for the first time yes-and tall factories, standing news" agency
terday.
-
ablaze
INTENSIVE TRAINING
It is probable that some 4,000 dark against the flames, made a training and to give even a quar-. hands are undergoing intensive All the accused were arrested A German Foreign Ofice an-good mark at which to atm hearyter of that number experience un- last autumn when measures de-nouncement states: "In agreement | high explosive bombs. signed to repress the Free Frerich with the Bulgarian Government, Guided first by the Rhine and der way for a week, some 20 boats movement were taken.
German troops have just crossed later by the blaze of
must be detached from the fight- General de Larminat, now Hgh the Bulgarian frontier in order to fires, the R.A.F. bombers
ing Beet. That figure is no mere Commissioner for Free French protect Bulgaria from Britain's over in quick succession and con- guess: it is the actual total of the Africa, was among those whose ar- scheme to spread the war to the centrated their attack within school at the height of the 1917 training boata attached to the
Balkans."
countless
came
8001 after 9
in
an Ocen-
between the
campaign.
The whole number of craft lavaliable cannot be maintained at sea at the same time and practieni experience shows that about one-
rest was ordered at that time.
few hours from While the former High Commis- HIGH COMMAND VERSION p.m. until midnight stoner in Syria, Gabriel Puaux. The German High Command Messerschmitt aghters were still held office hast Autumn, the issued the following communique the air and there was "Germans arrested his son in about the entry of German troops sional exchange of fire France and held him as hostage. into Bulgaria:
the British aircraft and made clear to M. PuauX- "As a safeguard against British enemy, but for the most part the third of the available craft can be that the treatment or his son ne- measures in South-Eastern Europe, lighters disappeared at once into pended on how... he repressed the which have become known, forma- the night, Free French movement in Syria.
It was
DARDANELLES SHIPPING
ISTANBUL, Mar. 3 (Reuter) Turkish naval authorities are reported to have issued Instruc- tions to all ships desiring a pass through the Dardanelles that they must henceforth, notify their Identity and ask for a pilot,
BERKELEY SQUARE LONDON, March 3 (BW8) Railings at Berkeley Square except those round the statue and foun- tain, are being removed to make scrap iron for munitions. Berkeley Square was fald out in 1709 as part of the development which took place between 1700-1750 in the Mayfair district.
Naval Bombardment
Of Modun
LONDON, March 3 (BWS) An official inspection of. Modun, five miles inland from Fava, has revealed the accuracy of the naval bombardment reported on Feb.
23.
Besides causing a number of chaualties, damage was done to. enemy buildings and installations were destroyed. Further large stocks of valuable stores and sup- plies have been discovered.
MR. ANTHONY "EDEN IN ATHENS
•
ATHENS, Mar. 3 (Reuter)—Mr. Anthony Eden, "British Foreign Minister; and · General Bir "John Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, arrived here by air · after their conversations in Turkey.
Hons of German troops began
their march into Bulgaria on the German troops were marching March 2 with the consent of the in, they were cheered by the Bu Royal Bulgarian Government. Asgarian people."
Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell (right), head of the British forces in Africa, discussing operations with one of his commanders out- side Bardia, which fell to the Army of the Nip soon stier this. picture was taken. Photo passed by the British censor.
CHINESE TROOPS
IN BURMA
CANARD
DENIED BY CHUNGKING
CHUNGKING, March 3 (Central) -Reports emanating from Japan- Lese sources. that 20,000 Chiriese Itroops have been sent to Burma and 8,000 to Singapore were. forin- ally denied yesterday by a Chinese military spokesman who charac- terised them as "malicious propa. ganda" with the intent of "con fusing the public.
The spokesman pointed out that ance Burma belongs to the Bur- mese and is meanwhile under Bri- tish rule, no Chinese troops can [be sent in without consent of both the British and Burmese Govern (meats
The spokesman recalled that the British authorities have repeated-" y made it known that the British strength in Malaya and Burma is strong enough to cope with sty eventuality in the Far East. "Evi- dently they do not need Chinese troops to move southward to curb the aggressor in the western Paci- fle
The spokesman suspected that the reports were circulated for the purpose of alienating the Chinese British and Burmese against which they should all be on guard.
TURKISH MINISTER TO: CHINA CHUNGKING, March 3 (Central) -After calling on Generalisimo Chiang Kai-shek last Friday, M Emin All Sipahi, Turkish Minister to China, left for Hongkong, by plane yesterday en route to Shang-
days
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