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WASHINGTON CIRCLES SURPRISED BY SWEEPING CHARACTER OF DEMANDS ON SAIGON
WELLES-NOMURA CONVERSATION
Japan, Vichy Reported To PACIFIC SITUATION
Have Reached Agreement
WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuter) The Japanese Embassy, an- report that Japan and nouncing the receipt of an unconfirmed
declined Vichy have reached an agreement again in Indo-China, to give the origin of the report.
A Japanese demand probably concerning Camranh Bay was ex- pected here by a number of observers but the demand covering the occupation of the whole country came as a surprise. Discussion of the possible demands has already taken place among the officials and legislative leaders in anticipation of Japanese action,
Unconfirmed reports suggest that joint Anglo-American econo- The three moves consi- mic measures are already aggressive move. dered likely among well-informed commentators are the stoppage of and United States gold purchases; the freezing of Japanese assets complete embargo on essential esports to Japan.
Already it has been reported that crease in the number of travellers also Japanese gold shipments are so going to Manchukuo,"
DISCUSSED
GENERAL
Secret German Documents Relating To Use Of Poison Gases Seized By Russians
MOSCOW, July 24 (Renter) -Further details concering the contents of secret documents (detailing instructions for the use of poison gas) which Soviet Russia claims were seized from rout- ed German soldiers at Zapadnala and Psychna on July 15 have now been disclosed.
According to the Russian authorities, the captured packets were scaled and stamped by the German High Command and addressed to the 2/52 Nebel Merter Regiment.
WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuter) -After a half hour meeting with Mr. Sumner Welles, Under-Becre- tary of State. Adinital Nomura, The high series of the numbers life. Earlier in the evening. there without the Japanese Ambassador, told press on one of the enclosed documents was a short alarm,
of feeling indicate that similar instructions appearance enemy bombers, men that he hoped the "between our two countries will were issued to a great number of and while sirens were still walling
the second other regiments.
alert, anti-aircraft. become better and better."
The detalled explanations bore guns opened fire, continuing until It is understood that Admiral Nomura discussed the Far East the date, July 11, and were for dawn, writes Reuter's Special cor-
"withering" respondent. situation. especially Indo-China, the concerted use of
Russlan fire-fighting methods but he declined to make any ob-irritant gas shells, the purpose of
from the servations on that question to the which is to wear down the phy- are effective, Judging
and then small number of fires despite the had sique of the opponent, Press merely saying that he
green-great German effort. The Soviet "approached the subject from our the use of blue-ring and
containing ring gas shells side."
vest procedure is not always orthodox. The Admiral said that he had cant (blistering) and other lethal many Russians received burns by
recklessly discussed the question of gases.
with their bare hands. Japanese ships being unable to Canal pass through the Panama are and he stated that ships could not The Franco-Japanese talks
an-remain at the Cenal "permanently." the subject of a semi-official dollars for the Nazis with Germannouncement made here last night/ Eight or ten ships had gone to bombers attacked an enemy con-
round voy, states the official Soviet news tube stations, where the current Put It contains no reference to the the south and 'would
was disconnected, and smoking South America, Mr. Sumner Welles agency. Five ships were sunk be
and rest-rooms were provided. The convoy was apparently m Some bombs It says "conversations begun in had told him that the Canal was Soviet destroyer.
were dropped on the two recent visits paid to Admiral closed Indefinitely to merchant
tercepted in the Baltle when pro-the squares and streels. bu ceeding north. Soviet fighters of traffic was not disrupted as Mus and Darlan by the Japanese Ambassa- shipping for repairs.
patrol flashed back the news n
cow's streets are extremely wide the presence of enemy ships
and can accommodate traffic and bomb craters.
much above normal that it is like-
An
ly that Japan has been acting as
intermediary
to
purchase
gold.
VICHY TALKS
The possibility of China assisting Japanese Indo-China ultimatum. Indo-China if she resists 1s felt to be impracticable here as Indo-China railway linking
Yan was torn up on the Chi-dor, Mr Somatsu Kato, are con- nese frontier some time past and tinuing by an intermediary of the the movement of materials and Japanese diplomatic representation Mea through such mountainoujay Vichy. country is considered to be impos- "At the same time. Admiral De-
coux, Governor-General
sible.
of
Ευ
SINO-AUSTRALIAN FRIENDSHIP
grasping
incendiarles
Ten learned,
CONVOY DISPERSED
enemy ships, it is now Soviet were sunk when
Already the Russians seem hardened to bombing. Even the women and children were less hurried
finding shelter al
Soviet bombers repeatedly at tacked the ships while destroyers shelled the transports. The enemy vessels exploded and sank.
LONDON, July 24 (Reuter)-M Meolilov and Colonel Dragun, two
members of the Russian Military Mission, returned here last night after a visit to Moscow in report to the Soviet Government.
CHUNGKING, July 24: (Central) Indo-Dr. Hsu Mo, Minister-designate
SOVIET COMMUNIQUE On the other hand. the Chinese China, has several thnes received to Australia, yesterday made the
of following exclusive statement: have made military expeditions in Major-General Sumita, head
"I feel a significant honour to A Soviet communique issued last impossible terrain before now. the Japanese mission. These inter
Soviet Information changes of views are taking place be able to serve as China's first night by the within the framework of the agree Minister and diplomatie envoy to Bureau announces:
"During July 23 stubborn bat- ments concluded a year ago be-Australia.
"It will be my most pleasant tles against the enemy were en- tween France and Japan."
The Press of unoccupied France duty to contribute my best efforts gaged in the Polotsk-Nevel, Smo has so far remained silent on the to further strengthen these bondslensk and Ziltomir directions and 18sued providing for the establish-
Japanese action, it and und when it begins, is expected to he chiefly naval, after which troops might be landed at Sal- con and in the areas around Camranh.
AXIS TIMING
Close observers belleve thal Japan has chosen this moment in A manner which suggests Axis timing. thinking that President! Roosevelt is likely to do little while ne is trying to get the Selectees Extension Bl1 through Congress,
question.
of friendship and understanding." on the Bessarabian sector of the
front.
HITLER MADE
MISTAKE
IN INVADING RUSSIA
LONDON, July 24 (Reuter)--Thoughtful Germans, according to latest reports, are beginning to realise that Hitler made a disastrous mistake in invading Russia instead of concentrating efforts to drive the British from the Mediterranean and seizing Iraq oil wells and
It is believed here that Japan is acting in her own interests rather than the Nazis' who may benefit the Suez Canal. incidentally. It is also suggested
defensive war.
Hitler apparently took a drastic decision on political grounds that Japan rightly or wrongly feels without paying sufficient attention to the German Army's informa- that action against Indo-China is
tion over Soviet strength in a the maximum aggressiveness
Attacking Russia, he hoped first which can be undertaken without
2nd rousing America
Britain to take up arms against her, and f
to win the world political sym- pathy for ал anti-Bolshevik
It is successful, it would bring "crusade" and secondly to steal the
her within better striking distance of Singapore and the Dutch
East
thunder of internal critics among the old members of the Nazi Party what is commonly called the
NEW DIVE-BOMBER
FOR BRITAIN
LOS ANGELES, July 24 (Reuter) -Smashing a glass wand filled
"At one point of the Bessarabian front, our forces routed an enemy motorised regiment, capturing 400 cars, 300 motor cycles, 32 armour-
25 ed cars,
guns, eight mine- throwers and other armaments.
"Our air force during July 23 delivered concentrated blows upon enemy mechanised units and air craft on aérodromes."
SMOLENSK NOT TAKEN Reuter's special correspondent learns reliably that Smolensk has always been and still is in Russian hands
SALLA SECTOR STOCKHOLM, July 24 (Reuter) -The German-Finnish acvatice from Salla is now proceeding
the Afton Bladet
Indies should a promising oppor Ress Group-who disapproved or with oxygen across the propellor, rapidly, having passed boggy land,
tonity occur to attack those places ail rapprochement with Russia.
Jater.
according to
nub of a new dive-bomber for He failed in both aims owing to Britain, Lord Hallfax, the British correspondent at Hengi
The advance is evidently direct- It seems certain, however, that the determined reaction of Anglo-Ambassador, declared: "I christen the United States will take
somie Saxon Powers and the continued thee Vengeance the newest v ined at Kandalaks with the object action.
Britain's campaign for victory." A high State Department restiveness of the Hess Group |
The dive-bomber, which is a low- official in a private conversation whose secret activity demonstrates
of cutting the Russians off from Murmansk.
It is believed that the attackine
Kandalaks.
is reported to have said recently the rettenness and corruption of wine monoplane and camouflaged, forces are now within 45 miles ofį
then roared off, climbed to 5,000 that America was "prepared" if present Nazi leaders.
teet and went into a deafen- Japan moved aggressively against A variety of reasons provoked a
MOSCOW'S SECOND RAID Indo-China.
strong opposition to the invasioning dive to 1.000 feet while Vultee
MOSCOW, July 24 (Reuter)-.. of Russia among many of those Aircraft workers cheered.
Lord Halifax spoke briefly reas- The second serial attack lacket nearest Hitler. Wheresa Marshal Goering feared to see the Luft-suring the workers that "Britain novelty and thrill for Moscow in- the recent developments in the waffe crippled, high foreign office is going to finish the job we started habitants although it came at the Far East, including Japanese cen- sorship, meant new military de-and industrial circles believed the to do"
ACTION SOON There is no "question" but that
*velopments in that area, sald Co- lonel Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy, at a Press conference yesterday..
"I look for movement out there, and very soon," sald Colonel Knox, but he declined to discuss the possible direction of the move.
Invasion would destroy the Soviet goose which laid golden eggs in
niem height of the great city's
the shape of much needed trade NAZI OFFENSIVE AGAINST
deliveries.
DIVIDED FRONT Military circles showed a divided front, many through expert know- ledge of Soviet conditions fearing the worst. The most enterprising "No one can tell at this point biltzkreig generáls, -List von whether It will go north or south," Reichenau and Blaskewitz, infiat- ho said,
ed with success, reportedly favour-
In reply to a question, Colonel ed Hitler's plan but Admiral Keitel, Knox said that the United States after first approving, changed his Pacific Fleet was in position to do mind at the last minute when too whatever was necessary to carry late to sway Hitler's purptise. out American policy in the Far. Fast,
SIGNS OF TENSION VICHY, July 24 (Reuter)-There are signs of growing tension in the Far East says a Shanghat dis- patch to the officla Vichy news
agency.
Regarding Herr Hess, informa tion is continually heaping up dicating his peace missióri
Was
SMOLENSK PETERING OUT
BEFORE STOUT RESISTANCE
RANGOON, July 24 (Reuter)-3 Governor's ordinance has been
ment of Home Guards.
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MOSCOW, July 24 (Reuter)-Smolensk, the key city on the
Russian central front, is and always has been in Russian hands,
I learn on good authority despite the German propaganda claims, later supported by the German High Comniand, that Smolensk was captured last Wednesday writes Renter's Special correspondent in Russia,
It is true that Gériüän advance units reached the outskirts of Smolensk some days ago, but they were driven away. Saviet Communiqués rightly continue to speak of "ighting in the direc- tion of Bioölensk.”
Now the impression is gaining Soviet Army" before Moscow is taken without Hitler's cognisance. ground among competent ober- their immediate objective.
A visitor to Berchtesgarden vers that the second big German
Hesa reported that Hitler was most Smolensk, is
exhausting itself
OBSCURE SITUATION
The Russians do not believe that
shortly after. the departure of offensive, directed mainly against The whole étuation in the upset and filled with mistrust of owing to the formidable Russian Leningrad sector is more obscure. his entourage.
resistance, by supply difficulties This says that the suspension of Despite an official denial, the intensified by the great distances the German thrust across the learned of belief presists that Herr Mes- to be covered, and the frequent highly fortified Karelian Isthmus or around Lake Ladoga, with its visas for Japan was yesterday. Foreigners who recently, serschmitt, famous plane construc-effective interference by
dificult lake and waterway-cut arrived at Nagasaki to spend a tor and the member of the Hessjguerilla units, holiday in Japan were not allowed Group who personally placed at
Soviet
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to go to a certain summer resort the disposal of Hess the Mes set up many obstacles ca on the coast. All Japanese ship- serschmitt in which he undertook various ping companies announced this his fight to Bootland, was arrest Smolensk-Moscow morning that "because of the pre-ed subsequently. sent situation" they would stop indienting the movements of their ships.
the Danger to Leningrad te only
but not numerous possible from the south-west but. roads, While the main Boviet troops in this nuch obstacles somewhat hamper sector are holding on grimly the Bovieta" own present com- around Pakov and the position of LONDON, July 24 (Reuter)The mubicationg with the front, they the Germans here to not unlike Buviet Ambassador, M Malaky, may be regarded as one reason Smolenska
e In any case the wable region be Another announcement stated accompanied by Lieut-Gen. doll-why the Germans are beginning to that travellers from Takto to key, who has just returned from realise that a frontal attack on tween Pakor and Leningrad and. Dairen, could only take small sult Moscow, as well as Admiral Khat Moscow las hopeless task and why also between Tallinn, and Lening eases with them. The reason was lamov had a talk with the British they are endeavouring to explain rad along the coast is largely ove space and make it possible Foreign Minister, Mr, Anthony to the German publie that not composed of forest and marshes
Moscow but the destruction of with few randagi z to be with a "considerable in Eden, yesterday afternoon.
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