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NAZI MOTORISED UNITS ITALIAN HEADING FOR FRONTIER DESTROYERS
Yugoslavia Denounced By Wilhelmstrasse Organ
LONDON, April 6 (Reuter)-The German spokesman in Ber- lin said yesterday that the situation is "so critical it can hardly become worse." ..
Reports have been received in London that Yugoslavia has closed the frontiers with Italy, Hungary, Rumania and Bul- Faria.
Squadrons of Yugoslav fighter planes flew over Belgrade all yesterday morning. The country remains ealm...
A vigorous attack Yugoslavia in the
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WAYLAID
GENERAL
AID TO CHINA?
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE AROUSES SPECULATION
WASHINGTON, Apr. 6 (Reuter)-Friday was China Day at the White House though what precisely was discussed and what decis- sdons, if any, reached, at present are unknown..
with behalf of
ONE DESTROYED BY
President Roosevelt, having cleared much work across his desk DIRECT HITS since his return from his holiday, conferred in the afternoon LONDON, Apr. 8 (Reuter) The Mr. Laughlin Currie who recently visited Chungking on success of the attacky by the the President, and considered his comprehensive report. R.A.F.,
in co-operation with the President Roosevelt, asked at his Fleet Air Arm, on five Itällan des-press conference what ideas he
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Meanwhile Washington Famous Dance Band
Leader Killed
troyers in the Red Sen, was des-had about aid for China, Indicated CAFE DE PARIS cribed in a communique from he had nothing to say until he R.&.F. Headquarters in the Middle had talked with Mr. Currle. Enst yesterday.
Active steps to assist China can The Italian warships in Massawa
therefore be expected any time official organ harbour had been
now. ceaselessly DE GAULLE'S of the German Foreign Office watched by RAF. aircraft in case
Diplomatische Politische Korres- they should attempt to escape. REPRESENTATIVE pondenz, yesterday.
When the five destroyers were Yugoslavia is accused of "denying jobserved to have stolen out of the interpreted aa" strengthening Kuo-It was disclosed yesterday that. the ARRESTED:
facts which have been testified to harbour and were
located in the by many witnesses, and with issa- Red Sea, R.A.F. bombers, accom ing the foulest possible insults panied by Fleet Air Arm machines,
Reich newspapers and immediately attacked them.
TWO AGROUND
Foreign Circles In against
S'hai Aroused
|news agencies.”
watching with deepening interest Government, which hitherto are the changes in the Chungking
mintang, rule.
LONDON. April 6 (Reuter)
CHINA'S ECONOMICS
Cafe de Paris, one of London's The creation of Food and Tradesive restaurants, was hit by a bomb most fashionable and most expen- Ministries is seen as a result of Mr. Currie's visit. to China and
during a recent air raid. the strengthening of China's econo- When the bomb fell the restau- of the most im-rant was fulled with diners and portant. measures necessary to dancers. The missile fell just as successfully conclude the war with the dancers were returning n
Executive Committee to continue West Indian Band Japan.
their tables at the conclusion of a The resolution of the Central number. by Ken Johnson and hals!
in Washington.. expelled from China, is welcomed fighting until all Japanese are
This is followed by a Warning A number of bombs fell певт SHANGHAI, Aprile (Keuterschat "Belgrade had better be more one destroyer, while another ex-mics as one M. Egal, head of the Free French careful"
ploded and sank. The crew took movement in Shanghal, has been
to the boats. arrested by the French authori- ties.
He
LS charged with aiding French sailors in Shanghai to join General de Gaulle's Free French forces.
SERE-CROAT UNITY
While the German radio is try Ing to undermine Serb-Crost un- Croatian daily, the Italian press tty by giving five broadcasts
and radio are giving only half
hearted support of Nazi propa ganda
The arrest of M. Egal by the French authorities has produced keen indignation in all circles in
The Relazioni internazionale, or Shanghai, according to the Indean of the Italian Foreign Office.
pendent French news agency.
Several foreign firms have af ready announced
their Intention
to boycott French firms.
it is expected that M. Egal, who at present is detained on the French gunboat Francois Garnier, will be sent to Saigon, where he will be court-martialled on charge of "inciting to desert to the enemy."
to the south of Jedda. Their crews Two others were located aground
also took to the boats.
on the destroyers, setting one on Our aircraft scored direct hits tire.
DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
It exploded with a terrific Fe- Aurt on a balcony immediately above the orchestra. The staircase
Johnson and most of his band
The manifesto emphasising the and balcony were wrecked. AXIS PACT POLICYcessity for the national army JÜHNSON KILLED
being based on unity and discl pline, is seen as the Government were killed resolve not to allow the Commu- nist army or party to make use
CLEARED UP declared yesterday that "a new
War is the least logical, least n
many's lead.
LONDON, Apr.
6 (Router)
Many diners were dazed by the tural and least justified solution." Mr. Matsuoka had a final conver-or the war. situation for ulteri blast while some were killed. bus added that Italy follows Gersation with von Ribbentrop in Ber-ends.
lin yesterday.
Many injuries were caused by Meanwhile German motoriser Ribbentrop was to have seen the reference by the Central Exe- Cabaret grls making last-minute
Simultaneously it is hoped that fragments of broken wine bottles. divisions, camposed of tanks, trucksMr. Matsuoka off when he left, for cutive Committee to faith in the preparations before their floor show and motorcycles, are pouring (Moscow last night. through Hungary towards the A Japanese, report
Democratie form of governmentjescaped miraculously. Yugoslav frontier.
quates Mr. were not merely llp service. and Matsuoka as saying that his visit that as far as exigencies permit the explosion, and many
Help care immediately after to Berlin has cleared up the policy and political education progresses, surviving members of the orches diners, of the Axis Pact. The result, he the Chinese Government will ad-tra and staff were taken across the added. was & Japan
great advantage tu vance steadily towards this ob-road to a hotel, where they were
CALM PREPARATIONS The Hungarian, Defence Minis ter, announcing that no black-out is to be imposed yet in Budapest appealed to the population to take ANKARA, Apr. 6 (Reuter)-Gen-precautions against air raids.
ANGLO-TURKISH STAFF TALKS
jective.
erat Gunduz, Deputy Chief of the Tugoslavia is preparing calmly. ANOTHER ABYSSINIAN TOWN FALLS TO BRITISH TROOPS
Turkish General Staff, gave a lun-Railways have been controlled, cheon yesterday to high British Danube traffic commandeered and officers of the Middle East Com-civilian travel on railways restrict mand who have resumed talks ed.
with the Turkish General Staff. Dr. Matchek, the Croat leader, Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, Ser-arrived in Belgrade ori Friday, and vice attaches of the British Em has been conferring with other bassy and representatives of the leaders. Turkish army, navy and air force were among the guests.
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CAIRO, Apr. 6. (Reuter)-A communique Issued yesterday states sinia, 100 miles to the south of Asmara. that the British and Imperial forces have captured Adowa, in Abys-
another route. Adows was the scene of a disastrous Italian defeat This means that the British have thrust into Abyssinia by yet "by the Ethiopians in 1896.
This is the direction in which! the main body of the Italians re- treated after the fall of Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, towards Addis Ababa,
Meantime, in Western Abyssinia.. marching on at a record-breaking
S'HAI MURDER
TRIAL
pace with hardly a pause after the Prosecution Asks For
capture of Diredawa, the Imperial
forces are advancing astride the,
Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway and
Death Penalty
SHANGHAI, Apr. 6 (Reater)
are now only about 100 miles as Charging Gerald Casement, 22-
the crow files from the Abyssinian capital in this direction.
year-old United States Marine Private, with the first degree
The retreating Italians are said murder
of his 15-months-eld
to be deserting in large numbers. stepson, Floyd Sebastian, Junior,
MASSAWA NEXT?
the District Attorney asked for British troops proceeding down the death penalty at the conclu- the railway from Asmara are now slon of testimony in the trial in sight of Massawa. The the United States Court here yes- Italians are not expected to offer terday.
within
any serious resistance,
The District Attorney said that Casement's alibis were too ac-
Yesterday's Italian High Comcurate and he brought out the mand communique announced that German and Italian troops death of the child and did not facts that Casement concealed. the have entered Benghazi
Motorised columns have pushed further on from Benghazi, it add- ed, without saying how far.
A special German cominunique announces the entry of German troops into the town.
GERMAN PROTEST
TO MEXICO.
call neighbours or a doctor.
case.
The defence attorney, Mr. Har- ris Nelson, summing up the tried to prove that someone un known might have killed--the child, and contended, that the mo tive was not established,
The case was adjourned to to morrow.
LONDON, April 6 (Reuter) LONDON, Apr. 6 (Reuter)-er-members have been killed by Forty-eight Red Cross Society many has protested, to Mexico con- cerning the occupation
enemy action, it was announced of
German merchantship by Mexican vesterday
soldiers and the internment of the.
(Reuter)-- of men
LONDON, April 1
Britain who
crew, Budapest radio declared year he first registr terday.
The Mexican Government is above military age stated to have declined the Ger-may be required to cake..up work man request for the release of the jof national importance, proceeded ship and crew.
yesterday. Mén registering were azert 41 to 43,. inclusive:
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NEW YORK, Apr 8 (Reuter)ni March was a record month for United States plane. prod action. A total of 1,216 aircraft were com- plated during the month, compared with 972 in February 'and" 1,036 in. January
LONDON, April 6 (Reuter) Italian fighter planes raided at aerodrome on the island of Crete yesterday. When one of the Tald- ars was brought down the plot. baled out but his parachute caught fire and he was killed.
cared for.
FIRST AID Nurses and doctors arrived both in ambulances and by taxi. Help- led by uninfured diners at the cafe they rendered first aid to those needing it.
It is reported that particularly good work was done by sotne Canadian soldiers and by a young member of the Fleet Air Art.
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