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"ALLIES, WHERE ART THOÚ?”.
NEWS
If Germany Invades Holland
BRUSSELS, Nov. 11 (UP).There is reason to believe that if Germany hvaded Holland, Belgium allow the French and British troops to cross Belgium,
would
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cover every field of national service. jand 1 would like to pay my tribute to are giving such all of you who splendid and unselfish help in this time of trouble."
Labour Party Leadership
November 12, 1939.
ULTIMATUM REPORT
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received lafters from the Consulate advising them to return to England if there is no particular reason for atuying.
"Reuter" understands that the measure is merely precautionary and In no way means that the situation is regarded as critical.
The atmosphero to-day is less tense. Well-informed ciries belleve that this particular crisis is blowing ever. No extension is reported of the flooding of the main defences, fol- lowing yesterday's decision of the 1 art of preliminary inundation in two
arcas.
much Feeling in Amsterdam is
there is more cheerful to-day and
uneasiness at The evidently less Haguc.
From Belgium, Too BRUSSELS, Nov. 11 (Reuter).-- An unofficial.committee of the British colony has advised British subjects posessing their own means of trans- port to make arrangements to leave the country.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” AMSTERDAM, Nov. 11 (UP).—It is officially announced that all major bo ex- coastal lighthouses
will tinguished north of Egmond on the west coast (north of Latitude 53.37) All lighthouses will be darkened, except that at Noorhinder, lying be- tween latitudes 51.55 N. and 0.33 E. Ships Must Leave SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PARIS,' Nov. 11 (UP). The of the Amsterdam corresponden! "Parts Mid!" reports that, in addition to ennerlling all leave for the Dutch Army and police, the Dutch have ordered all ships to immediately leave ports in territories under stute of Blege.
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The entry of ships into certain canals and waters has also been pro- hibited and guards of soldiers and established
Major Attlee May gendarmes have been
Soon Retire
LONDON, Nov. 11 (Reuter).
around public buildings.
I fa also reported that the Government is considering calling up more classes of reserves.
Hitler Confers With Army LONDON, Nov. 11 (Reuter)-Hit-
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lar held lengthy conferences with his
Radlo Rome. according to
After reference to those whose family fe had been broken up husbands going off to their allotted asks and children evacuated-theThe question of the leader- queen reminded her listeners that she ship of the labour Party and con-array chiefs and Ministers yesterday, and the King knew what it meant to sequently the leadership of the be parted from their children.
Women in uli lands yearn for the Opposition in the coming session day when it will be possible to set of Parliament is likely to loom new and better large next week. about building a world where peace and goodwill shall abide.
Major Clement R. Attlee has been Leader for four years. It is sug- gented in some quarters that it is time for a change,
The most discussed candidate is Mr. Arthur Greenwood who, during Major Alilee's illness, led well, es-
WILF,
Key Points Flooded AMSTERDAM, Nov. 11 (Reuter).---- It is learned to-night that only cer- tain key points of the mali defences have so far been booded.
The flood-gate at Baarn and Ziest are not yet opened,
The order for evacuation of these does not affect everybody. towns
No Evacuation AMSTERDAM, Nov. 11 (Reuter),
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Nov. 11 (UP)-The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" says: "There is no divine law that the island of the chosen people should al- ways be immune from entrance of the enemy (first Press hiut of the invasion of the British Isles).
The day must come. The plan at which experts have
"Meanwhile, to all of you in every may change uften mildly sneered
corner of the Empire, who are doing with surprising suddenness.
Such netion would be based, firstly such fine work in all our services or "The future will show whether the
of fighting the exact invasion of Holland would carrying on at Home amidst the trial island, largely denuded
pecially at the outbreak of a threat to Belgium of these days, I would send a mes- be considered
but it is uncertain whether he will-Police headquarters at Baarn and forces, is still unassailable.
La bc nominated Zlest, near the southern shores of "The war will not be won by ap-herself; secondly, such a breach of
Part To Play
permit himsel
he has the Zuider Zee. to-day dented as un- rules the German promise to Hollandse of hope and encouragement pileation of rigid traditioni
against his leader, whom night foreshadow a similar breach ini
true the Amsterdam report that in- served so loyally in the past. Others mentioned are Dr. Hugh habitants of the two towns had been Chairman of the or were being evacuated as the area
was to be flooded. after an isolation of 960 years, will the Netherlands; and, thirdly, the to enduring peace shall we be free Dalton, former
French have already
to work, unhindered, for the greater Labour Party, and Mr. H. S. Mor-
of well-being allrison, the Labour Lender in London, guaranteed Belgium's independence. happiness and
It is thought in Labour circles that Even though Belgium allowed the mankind. French and British troops to cross, "We who is if there are nominations it will en- In it is believed that Belgium would res-e put our trust in Godt, times able the Party to decide whether they the Nazi threat to the Netherlands.
wish Major Attlee to continue or be trict herself to defending her
of trouble, territory.
"pray with all my heart that Hel succeeded.
and keep tulde
you I le reliably reported that the Ca-
Decision on whether there will be may bless,
nominations will be taken early next binet has already discussed the poaiwnys."
week, AMSTERDAM, Nov. 11 (UP)sibilities, but so far there has been no
"United Mr. Gratton McGroarty,
decision. Officials аге silent but correspondent, reports
deny that there has been a German
but with courage and imagination.
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41f England forces as to fight a war the promise to Belgium, especially know you will not fail in it. to the last, she, for the first time the Germans established land bases in
be brought directly into contact with British and the horrors of war."
Germans March
To Disputed Area
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Press"
follows;
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"On the Venloo border I saw Ger-ultimatum. -man-soldiers invade. No Man's Land
usyn
Meanwhile, the fact that Armistice
which Germany considere part of the Day-hos-passed-peacefully, which Fatherland and which the Dutch re-many, even the members of the Ca- binet feared, led to laxation of the gard as part of Holland.
con-
"Twenty German soldiers and one uneasiness.
However. military activity officer marched through the border
into tinued in Belgium. At Limberg there gate and louded furniture inotor-iruck from the German Cus-were similar movements to those at toms House which technically stands the beginning of September on the east frontier where defensive works on this side of the frontier,
The whole operation was carried have already been prepared.
It is reported that a number of
"We all have a part to play and I "Only when we have won through
POLISH MAYOR EXECUTED
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
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SENSATIONAL PROPOSALS TO JAPAN
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report, will be deferred for possible official D.N.B., News Agency's cor respondent at Bromberg reports tha diplomatic negotiation between Bri- Leon Karolszewski, former Mayor ftain and America and the "new con- Bromberg, has been executed as the tral Government of China.
for "responsible Bromberg's)
"Apparently Reached Stalemato" TOKYO, Nov. 11 (Reuter). No Ho out without Dutch interference.
This was the occasion on which formal negotiations have been start- "I saw few German troops but resi-workers who desired to cross the dents say that on clear days concen-frontier to Aix Lachapelle this morn- the Poles were alleged to have mis-ed between the Foreign Minister, trations could be easily be seen. ing were sent back from the Belgian treated the German minority before Admiral Nomura, and the United "Touring the frontier I saw every frontler. However, the nearby high-the occupation of the efty by German States Ambassador, Mr. Joseph Grew, road leading to Holland barricaded way from La Colomine to Alx re- with concrete obstacles and guarded) muined open.
by coldlers.
"Hundreds of people, mostly wo- men and children, have already left Venloo for the inland. fearing inva- vion end the danger of escapo being cut off by inundations in Holland.".
Hitler's Assassin
BERLIN, Nov. 11 (UP)-Herr Himmler, bead of the Gestapo, has announced that he is confident that tho preparations to assaminnio Hit- ler at Munich began near the end of August
a
He said that he strongly suspects person who, in the guise of a work- man, regularly made repairs about, the building.
He has appealed to the public to promptly inform the secret police of any information concerning the sus pect, who is between 30 and 35 years old, dark, unparted hair, wore dirty yellowish work clothes, knicker
bockera arki a visored cap when last заст.
Ex-Kaiser May Go To Portugal
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Νον. - 11 (UP).—An "Exchange Telegram" from Lisbon reliably reports that the
ex-Kaiser
Hins expressed a with to reside in Portugal if he is obliged to Holland.....
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Berlin Reticence
SPECIAL TO. THE "TELEGRAPH”* BERLIN, Nov., 11 (UP)---Author- ipod circles continue to decline to take a statement regarding the ru Indius of Cormany's intentions In Holland.
I cannot go beyond what has al- ready been sold a numlar of times that German neutrality is based on the principle of absolute reciprocity," said a spokesman to-day.
"Moreover I am not authorisont to speak of German troop-thovenants beyond pointing out that on such a long frontier, it is obvious that our troops have to be placed in a fanlike formation," he said.
bloody Sunday."
troops.
Shipping Strike
In S. Francisco
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
according to the Asahi Shimbun.”
The first interview between the two diplomats on Nov. 4, the news- pre- paper says, was merely of a Uminary nature.
London Comments LONDON, Nov. 11 (Reuter),~All the British newspapers comment on
The News Chronicle" says that if Hitler Invades the Netherlands he will commit a crime in the eyes of the world and also, probably, in the eyes of his own people, without a single extenuating elrcumstance.
The newspaper recalls that as re-
promised to cently as lust September, Germany respect the integrity and inviolability of the Netherlands in nii circumstances, and yet at the pro- sent moment the Netherlands Gov- ernment is having to take
emergency measures against a Nazi threat,
"There is no better indleation of the rock bottom widich German re- putation has reached nider Nazi New York Warning In New York to-day, the "Herald- Tribune" says It would be grimly ironic if Germany were to alter the which will convince Americans that whole altuation of the war in a way the earlier war still had to be fought over again,
rule," the journal remarie.
Mysterious Calm
TOKYO, Nov. 11 (Reuter)—A The two conversations between the mysterious enim prevails at The Vice-Min later of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hague. No newspapers have lesued Tani, and the British Ambassador, a single extra edition and there is Sir Robert Craigie, the journal con- no excited tone noticeable in the radio SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10 (UP) tinues, were hiso preliminitry parleys announcers' talks despite the fact that The Ships Clerks Association has on some of the pending questions the eyes of the world are now on the called a strike for 8 p.m. to-day, between Japan and Britains, and were situation of the Netherlands. thtening to tie up all the city's not a general discussion of the full waterfront commerce.
list of pending problems involving The strike has been called against British Interests in China. the Dock Checkers Employers' As
Judging trom Indications, the sociation for having rejected the "Asahi odds, Japan's negotiations Clerlen' demands for a 1940 contract with Britain and the United States Thave apparently reached stalemate
League Of Nations with no prospect for removal of the
This is according to the Japan- ese Minister at Hague, Mr. Ishit, in a radi telephone falk with the "Yomiġri Shimbun" last night.
Mr. Ishil is quoted by the news- paper as anying that no excitement followed the German-Dutch border clash, which is officially reported as " mere traffic Incident."
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ONLY | normal; and the newspapers give no
SUNDAY ometally announced that the League eral Denia (Minister of National De-hint of the fears enteriained in many of Nations Assembly meeting, which fence),
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GENEVA, Nov. 11 (UP)It is
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The Netherlands authorities are BRUSSELS, Nov. 11 (Reuter) anxious that their defence precau- tions are not interpreted as unneutral action or as being taken against any one belligerent.
several Governmenta consider it in- Canals in northern Belgium, which opportune at present.
have been closed for several weeks for defence purposes; have now been reopened
This is interpreted as a sign that tho Belgian Army Command is not unduly worried,
Minister Meanwhile the Finance DOVER, Mass.-Sharpshooting has revealed the terrific cost to the citizens could earn money here from country of the mobilisation measures. Old! The cost of the three months mo 1789 to 1841 by hunting crows, town records uncovered by the WPA billation, from October to December, historical records survey show the he said, was £37,500,000, bounty on each crow ranged from 0d. (about 12 conto) in the early years to 20 cents in 1708:
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This is why information in boing controlled and why the reports of flooding which have been coming in at Intervals eines last night are still uncönfirmed. The frontier Incident at Ventoo is published by the newspapers only in the semi-official version given night.
Knitting Is London Craze
lost
500,000 Under Arms
LONDON, Nov. 11 (Reuter), SPECIAL TO THE ""TELEGRAPH" Everyone In Britain Is knitting al- sort of conceivable NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (UP)-The most every Brussels correspondent of the "New garment for Uis troops, COLUMBIA;-A. member of Yorke Herald Tribuno" estimates that Weekly Agures of wool consump Columbia's chain gang is "Water H&TE:: brülübh Belgian soldiers aration Fovehl the huge increase which meton Willie who eats at least for now under him but of a total popu- in ten times sa great as in peace- or five melona a day in addition to lation at 6,000,000 km
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