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SUCCESSFUL LANDING OF BRITISH
POLICY OF FORCES IN GREECE: TREMENDOUS.
HUNGARY
VICHY, Apr.7 (Reuter)"Eun- Bary's foreign policy which hat always been directed towards peace, is now confronted with events which have resulted in an extension of the war," states a
AERIAL BLITZ BY GERMANY AGAINST GREECE HAS GIVEN FIRST Budapest despatch received here. BLOOD TO THE ROYAL AIR FORCE.
A SMALL FORMATION OF HURRICANES, ALTHOUGH OUTNUMBERED BY TWO TO ONE, DESTROYED FIVE MESSERSCHMITT-109'S IN THE RUPEL PASS AREA ON SUNDAY, STATES A REUTER MESSAGE.
SEVERAL OTHER MESSERSCHMITTS WERE DAMAGED in an action described by the leader of the formation as "MONEY FOR JAM.”
"We spotted a lot of Messerschmitt-109's and weighed in and shot down five for certain, damaging a number of others," he said.. ̈
“SICKENING TECHNIQUE"
OF THE GERMANS
flerr Hitler's spring offensive-préceded by the whole “sickening technique" and "dreary fabrications or distortions" as THE TIMES writes-is analysed by leader writers, who agres that this time aggression. meets a new situation, says Renter.
THE BRITISH PLANES SUFFERED NOT A SINGLE LOSS.
"Now that war has broken out in the neighbourhood, which may constitute a threat to Hungary. Hungary will seek to keep the war
as far as possible from its fron tiers.
UNPRECEDENTED EFFORT BY NAVY
BEHIND THE SUCCESSFUL LANDING OF BRITISH FORCES IN GREECE, LIES- THE STORY OF THE TREMENDOUS AND UNPRECEDENTED EFFORT ON THE PART OF THE BRITISH NAVY..
The Navy's first task was to ensure safe arrival for the troops in the Middle East. This work has been going on ever since the Mediterranean opened as a threatre of war, and as the First Lord of the Admiralty recently mentioned in the House of Com- mons, it was accomplished without the loss of a single man, writes Reuter's Naval cor- respondent.
FUNDAMENTAL navies of the five AIMS OF SOVIET
With the decision to send a fercer phase, it took on this new | Hungary cannot avold troops to Greece, the Navy task. taking certain precautions for the had to face yet another pro- keeping the seas open. was divided In the last war, the work of protection of Hungarian interests."blem of convoy work across among the
from the Middle East and the Powers--today the British Navy is MATSUOKA IN assurance of supplies at a tackling the jobsinglehanded,
MOSCOW
time when it was already fully This latest exploit on the top of FOREIGN POLICY occupied with the safeguard its resources to the uttermost, but its other tasks must have strained MOSCOW, Apr. 7 (Reuter)—Mr.
without serious incident.
Will Be Greeted
British bombers also at- Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign materials from the New World it quietly, and methodically carried Pact With Yugoslavia tacked objectives in Rumania Minister, who left Berlin on Saturmaterials
World out and as far as hitherto known and a German reconnaissance Hitler and Herr von Ribbentrop, At the very moment when the
day evening after seeing Herr to Britain. machine was shot down in arrived here at 11.20 today. Battle of the Atlantic is entering the Athens area on Sunday morning.
The Italian News Agency quotes reports from Bulgaria and Ru-
to the effect mania
The Times adds that the "gra-The general tone in the United vity of the hour does not need States Press and wireless comment
that the emphasis, but though anxious and on German attacks un Yugoslavia suburbs of Sofla and three towns hazardous days are in store, the and Greece, is one of optimism, re-in Western Rumänis, have been comparison with the situation &garding the outcome for the Allies attacked by Yugoslav planes, year ago gives ample grounds for wireless commentators predict- reason to be cautious and to hope. Last April, Herr Hitler was taking ed that American troops would be the first in a well-planned cam
to Yugoslavia that Daign for the destruction of the Britain would ask for them to be principal enemy.”
sent the near future.
sent
Beaufort Pilot Scores
Direct Hit On German
Destroyer On His First Operational Flight
It added that the Rumanian Government made a formal pro- test to the Yugoslav Government or
Badepant reports state that Tugoslav and British planes raid-
The MANCHESTER GUARDIAN
ed objectives In Hungary. The HERALD-TRIBUNE describes writes: "This time we have taken the invasion of Yugoslavia as "the the measure of our treacheorus battle of 1941" and regards the enemy and are ready for him."
Russo-Yugoslav pact to indicate "Having a plan is one thing and that Herr Hitler and M. Stalin are realising it is another."
parting company.
Remarking that for the first time, Herr Hitler has made a de
CHINESE COMMENT
TAKUNGFAO
TEN TANKS DESTROYED "A communique issued in Athens states that the Greeks, destroyed ten German tanks and brought down six German planes.
Greek fortifications resisted vio- lent shelling and dive-bombing ex-
LONDON, Apr.7 (Reuter)-A DIRECT HIT AMID SHIP'S WAS SCORED ON A GERMAN DESTROYER by a pilot of the Coastal Command Beaufort aircraft, after making his first operational flight. He afterwards beat off attacks made by two Messerschmitts,
The Beaufort, says the Air Ministry, sighted three German des- troyers yesterday a few miles off the coast of North-West France.
The pilot dived and released his
Messerschmitts could intercept.
before the torpedo
escorting
The crew saw the torpedo make
claration of war, the DAILY TELE- CHUNGKING, Apr. 7 (Reuter-cept in one instance. Some areas GRAPH says: "Germany's haunt-The official CENTRAL DAILY in national territory were evacuat- ing fear of a war on two fronts. NEWS is sceptical of Germany's ed according to plan in order to a direct hit on one of the destroy- is already a stark reallty. The enances in the Balkans.
avoid useless sacrifice. trust of Greece in a British sup-
The influential
We maintained our port has been fully justified, Yu- goslavia is assured that she will says, "Yugoslavia's departure from not be left to defend her honour the Axly is a British triumph, that and freedom without afd."
the Soviet is drifting away from the Axis is becoming daily clearer. NEW YORK. Apr. 7 (Reuter) With the participation of Greece
U.S. OPTIMISM
Yugoslavs Hurrying
To Serve
and Yugoslavia, Turkey is also be- Ing drawn nearer to the war."
BRITAIN BLAMED TOKYO, Apr. 7 (Reuter)-Britain
is blamed for the Nazi invasion of the Balkans by the papers YO- MTURI SHIMBUN and NICHI NICHI SHIMBUN.
the
The Yomiuri says that SYDNEY, Apr. 7 (Reuter) Spreading of the Italb-Greek war Yugoslavs, of whom there are in the entire Balkans fitted in per some 2,000 in Australia, are hurry-fectly with British plans. ing to the consulate here offering The Nichi Nicht declares to enlist or to serve in some that the British plan for capacity.
the Balkan WRI is aimed
י
at
ers, throwing up a great spout of lines un-water. The German fighters after- broken against forces ten times wards swooped on the Beaufort, our strength, said an official Greek which went down to sea level, cir- spokesman who added that enor cled ten feet above water and re- mous forces which the Germans turned the Messerschmitts' fire so have massed for an attack were tercely that they broke off the met with a terrible fire.
engagement.
Finally the enemy, after making some progress, was held on the 'whole of the main front.
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Bulgaria Attentive Observer
A SECOND HIT
3 AMERICANS NAMED FOR S.M.C. SEATS
Japanese Have Not Yet Acted SHANGHAI, Apr. 7 (Reuter) A second German destroyer was Local Americans nominated hit yesterday by the Coastal Com-Mr. R. T. McDonnell, of William mand aircraft, states an Air Minis-Hunt Company, Mr. N. Ċ. Allman, try communique.
well-known lawyer and Mr. R. J.
are
It says: "Enemy warships, sup- McMullen, missionary, to fill the ply vessels and troops were once three American seats in the pro- more attacked in daylight by air-posed new composition of the craft of the Coastal. Bomber and Municipal Council. Fighter "Commands.”
Mr. Allman and Mr. McMullen
DETAILED WORK
By Workers
After getting men to the Middle Fast, which in itself involved tre" LONDON, Apr. 7(British Wire- mendous amount of co-ordinated less)-The signature of the Soviet and detailed work ranging from Union's pact of friendship and secret embarkations and assembly non-aggression with Yugoslavia is of convoys and their escorts to acclaimed through the Press as a the protection of troopships at highly important event, and pro sea, the Navy had to ensure that minence is given to the Moscow their vital supply lines were not Press comments. molested.
The ISVESTA remarks that any The Italian Fleet had to be and
act directed towards the streng- Was successfully bottled up but that lett a danger from the
thening-of-peace-coincides with the air- German as well as Italian in the aims of the Bovlet foreign policy. the fundamental and undeviating Mediterranean and trem" sub- marines still to be coped with on
and the Pravda says that this do- cument of peace will be greeted
the further stage of transporta- by the workers of the Soviet Union
tion to Greece.
The task is certainly rendered no easier by the Italian strategic position in the Dodecanese Islands.
with the greatest satisfaction.
MESSAGE FROM BRITAIN LONDON, Apr. 7 (British Wire- Convoy ships must obviously have less)-The following message from been needed in considerable force the British Government has been and all the time German sea sub sent to the Government of Yugo- marine and air raiders had to be slavia: warded off in other battlefield of the Atlantic,
BIGGEST DEVELOPMENT Reuter's Diplomatic correspots- dent says that the landing of the Cont'd Page 7. Col. 3
German Public Warned
LONDON. Apr. 7 (Reuter) The
"The savage outrage committed by Germany · against: Yugoslavia without the slightest provocation, and the vallant resistance of the
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, ranges the British Empire upon the side of the Southern Slavs.
"We welcome them as a resolute and powerful ally. We renew the comradeship which, in the "Great War, carried us through tribula- tion to victory,
"We will conduct the war in common, and we will make peace only when right has been" vin- dicated and law and justice are again enthroned.”
GREAT SENSATION ZURICH, Apr. 7 Reuter)—The
One Coastal Command aircraft are torpedoed a German destroyer off council the North-West coast of France. British and Japanese have not easy victories in the Balkans and
members of the present German Radio yesterday warned Berlin correspondent of the Neue. the German public not to expect Zuercher Zeitung says: "The 'con-
It
The Greek Consul General states easing the attacks on Britain or according to a Sofla despatch to of smoke arose when bombs fell Manager of the Butterfield & have always been tough fighters, the present circumstances.* ̈*
that any Greeks are joining the
Australian Imperial Forces,
SHIPS READY
NEW YORK, Apr. 7 (Reuter)-
prolonging the war.
It is believed to have been sunk, yet acted, but it is believed that "the German people · knows clusion of the Russo-Yugoslav pact BERLIN, ADT. 7 (Reuter)-Sona Another destroyer was damaged by the British nominations will be cannot expect a blitzkrieg in the caused a great sensation in politi- Radio states Bulgaria can only be a bomb which struck her bows. Mr. W. J. Keswick, Chairman of mountains. Our troops are operat- circles in Berlin, owing to its a. dispassionate attentive observer,
At Ymulden, in Holland, clouds the Cound. Mr. G. E. Mitchell, ing on dimcult ground: the Serbs obvious demonstrative character in
the German News Agency.
among furnaces of iron and steel Swire, and Mr. T. 6. Powell, of the The Balkans are a war theatre AXIS SAVAGERY
Bulgaria will do everything to works. German troops, aero-Asiatic Petroleum Company, quite different from the previous TOKYO, ADr. 7 (Reuter)---Mr.
dromes, transport and gun em- It is reliably learned that the ones in the East and West with Kikuo Komiyaahi, Counsellor of- CAIRO, Apr. 7 (Reuter)"A new spare her land from war,
placements were attacked from low German member will be Herr Al-many advantages for the defends the Japanese Embassy in France, altitudes by British fighters; an fred Glatbe, Chairman of the Ger-jera. Troop movements are diffis appointed Minister in Afghanis- to land, was attacked and was supplementary seats to be and the roads, and our men have enemy aircraft, when attempting, man Chamber of Commerce, and cult owing to scarcity of railways tan. probably destroyed.
probably filled by a 8wits and frequently to blast rocks so as to Portuguese.
clear a passage."
MANT ARRESTS
Captains of Yugoslav ships, total-act of Azis savagery" is the sum- ling 200,000 tons, declared they ming up by the Greek and Egyp-
LONDON, Apr. 7 (Reuter) were in readiness to carry suptian Press of Hitler's march on Many arrests of Bulgarian na- plies to the Mediterrancan and to Greece and Yugoslavia, which they ticnalists, who opposed participa
A thousand Yugoslava in Ame-
unanimously condemned. rica have already volunteered to fight.
the "Adriatic
弦
Britam is to be congratulated on having forces already on the spot.
Today's News Summary
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE scored a big success in the Rupel Pass area in Greece on Sunday when a small formation of Hurricanes destroyed five Messerschmitts and damaged several others. The Greeks shot down six German planes and destroyed ten tanks. Yugoslav planes ralded places in Hungary and Rumania.
THE LANDING of British forces in Greece is welcomed in the British Press. It was a tremendous and unprecedented effort on the part of the Royal Navy.
BULGARIA HAS declared hat she will spare no efforts to keep her land out of war while Hungary has also defined her foreign policy.
THE SIGNING of the Soviet-Yugoslav non-aggression pact. La welcomed in London: as well as by Press comment la Moscow....
MR. MATSUOKA, the Japanese Foreign Minister, has arrived in Moscow on his return journey to Tokyo from Berlin and Rome.
THE PILOT OF & Beaufort, aircraft of the Coastal Command, on his first operational fight, scored a direct hit on a German destroyer off the coast of France.
tion in the war against Yugoslavia, are made la Bourgas, according to the Istanbul correspondent in Vichy.
Italy has declared the whole Mediterranean from the Aegean Sea to the limit or Turkish terri torial waters, as a war zone,
MARINE FOUND
GUILTY SHANGHAI, Apr. 7 (Reuter)--
Roger Casement, United States Marine private, charged with the murder of his 16-month-old stepson
Brest was attacked last night. Three machines are missing from day and one from night operations.
LONDON, Apr. 7 (Reuter)-A Dornier-17 was shot down, and destroyed of the Suffolk coast by RAF. Eghters this morning and a Messerschmitt-109 met a similar fate off Cap Gris Nez, France, during the morning,
PUNJAB PREMIER'S
MASON SAFE® LAHORE, Apr. 1 (Renter)
Massawa Watched From Sea By British Navy
THE ITALIANS ADMIT THE CAPTURE OF ADDIS ABABA BY THE BRITISH and say that the Fascist forces withdrew to save the civilian population, which is safe and unharmed, according to Beuter.
Thus, the only places of im portance still in Italian hands in
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ADVANCE CONTINUES NAIROBI, Apr. 7. (Reuter)- East Africa, are the Red Sea port Advance in -Southern Abyssinia
A communique issued trom
Floyd Alan Sebastian, was found: Lieutenant Shaukat Hyat Khan, of Massawa, the Abyssinian town continues. guilty of second degree murder at eldest son of Bir Sikander Hyat of Dessle and a few other towns. the United States Court for China Khan, Premier of the Punjab, who Massawa is being watched from and was sentenced to life im had been taken prisoner by the the sea by British naval units, to HQ here states: “Our for- prisonment in McNeill's Island, Italiane last November, was re-prevent the escape of whatever ward troops in the Neshell!
San Franciscard sentence covered im Apr. 3. He is slightly German or Italian vessels might sector are thrusting in a norther
Casement heard the sentence indisposed and hopes to join Lis be there, while among the forcesly direction and many prisoners calmly, and without emotion. The unit shortly after approaching by land, are the Free have been captured? case aroused tremendous interest. This news was received by the French troops, including units of} Church bells were rung in especially among womenfolk, who Punjab Premier through Army the French Foreign Legion, who Nairobi last night to celebrate the dafly packed the Court.
Headquarters in Tridla.
served in Narvik,
capture of Addis Ababa,
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