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HOLY LAND Hertzog Wants
HARMONY
Unito Against The
Common Enemy JERUSALEM, Dec. (UP)- The war may bring something like harmony to the Holy Land after three years of strife be tween Arabs and Jews.
Both Arab and Jewish leaders have assured the Palestine Government of their support and observers believe that a truce between the two factions may be attained for the duration of the war.
Independence
Joins Republicans In South Africa
January 30, 1940.
MORE NAZI WAR AIMS They're Going To Revise
A 1648 Troaty Now BERLIN, Jan. 29 (Reuter). CAPETOWN, Jan. 29 (Reu-A revised version of Germany's ter)-The new opposition group war alms was given by a Ger- in the South African Parliament, man army officer in a broadcast formed by General Hertzog and to the German people from the Dr. Malan, took the unusual soldiers in the Siegfried Line. course to-day of debating the He admitted that the war was first reading of a bill to make certain emergency regulations. not, as the Nazis claimed, forced
Dr. Malan spoke from the side of on Germany. General Hertzog in the front row of the Opposition seats, and the whole to win the war she lost in 1910 and He said that Germany was trying the disgrace of eating of the Opposition won rear to wipe out
in nccordance with the
The war hos led to a closing of the ranks of Jewish factions under the Vand Leumi, the Jewish National Connell, now headed by Pinhas Rutenberg who has no party affilla- | party. tions and commands the respect and confidence of all groups,
an-Versailles."
had
ranged nouncement on Sunday night that the two parliamentary
Last week Dr. Ley, the Naz! Labour groups reached an agreement to form a new Leader, bluntly announced that Ger- many was trying deliberately to re- vise the conditions. lald down in the
of
of Westphalla This new party was made possible Treaty
1040, when General Hertzog accepted the which gave Alsace to, France and Trend To Unity
Republican polley. He also agreed recognised the independence of the Necessity has partly dictated the that the new party be called the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and
or People's Switzerland, trend toward unity. Palestine Jews Reunited Nationalists have always been large-scale Im-Party. Its alm is to achieve the in- porters, chiefly of finished products. dependence of the "Republic of South During the last few years attempts | Africa." have been made to establish indus- tries, but most of these were pendent upon semi-manufactured Imports.
de-
Likewise large quantities of food- stuffs were imported because berelo- fore the Jewish settlements have been able to supply only a part of the needs of the local Jewish market.
there
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Hertzog's General
motion, that|le wait. with South Africa declare peace Germany.
All of this has Involved Goebbels' Ministry of Misinformation and Pro- paganda, and such enlightenment has The "News Chronicle," stressing entailed not a few acrobatics. The the value of a democracy to General latest clerus fent has been to order Hertzog, says it was a free discussion the anti-Comintern department to followed by treo voling and, "this switch its attention from Soviet was the Union way."
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WRK has radically affected the supply of Imports. Also reason to expect a heavy decline in income from the Zionist Funds, one
venue for the country.
in Jerusalem has been closed. It was view that South Africa did not need EGYPT'S BUDGET
the only branch
concern herself with German in Palestine and to Syria. Other travel agents and doings in Europé. There were Indl tourist companies are transferring to cations, continued the paper, that the cargo shipping agencies. The Fast Hotel, formerly the Allenby, has
closed.
now
Grave Situation Palestine orange growers
face B particularly grave situation. Most of Üheir European markets are closed, including Britain their chic! customer. It is doubted that there will be sumclent shipping to transport the crop. the
It is
Is expected that only about half of last year's crep will be shipped. Certain quarters belleve that many Kroves will not be harvested at all this year. At the name time there is a growing demand for Increasing the manufacture and use of citrus by products.
Committees, companies, societies and co-operatives are being establish- ed in an effort to ensure sufficient supplies, primarily of foodstuffs and finally of raw and semi-manufactured materials,
DIFFICULTIES
reply of General Smuts was found CAIRO, Jon, 29. (Reuter).—Owing | convincing by an ever-increasing to the budget deficit the Egyptian number of South Africans who Government has decided to Increase realised that their security depends the ten duty by 21-10-0 (Egyptian upon the strength of the British currency) to 30-10 (Egyptian cur- Commonwealth.
rency) per hundred kilogrammes.
General Smuts decision is being steadily strengthened,
REPUBLICANS
FEAR WAR
Excise duties, are also to be raised na follows: benzine by 12 per cent.; coffee by 50 per cent; sugar 20 per cent; bottled beer 300 per cent.
According to the
newspaper Mokattam, the Government requires seven million Egyptian pounds to balance the budget, two millions of which will be taken from reserve, WASHINGTON, Jon. 29 (UP)-end the remainder is to be produced The Republicans have renewed their by increased thixation. Including the attack President Roosevelt's reimposition of the cotton tax and an foreign polley on reciprocal irade increase in Income tax. and export and Import loans to belligerefits.
Re Representative Woodruff charged that Mr. Cordell Hull has reversed his own position of the trade pro-
He gramme.
said that when Mr. Hall was a member of the House On the political side a new body Ways and Means Committee he at- has been formed to promote Arab-| tacked the flexible tarlit policy as Jewish understanding.
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"bureaucracy gone mad."
Representatives Tinkham charged that President Roosevelt was leading the road to war both in Europe and Asia. He criticised the proposal to lend money, to, Finland.
SYLT BECOMES
WAR ZONE
BERLIN, Jan. 29 (Reuter). The island of Sylt and six other islands running in line off north-west Ger- many from the Netherlands fron- tier to Heligoland Bight are to be military zones for the duration of
the war.
All movement on the islands, which include mine-laying and sen- bagest, will .be severely restricted
NAZIS PICKED UP P
AT SEA
ADEN, Jan. 29 (Reuter)-Four officera from a German merchant ship have been landed in Aden by a British tanker.
NEW CANADIAN DIVISION
They were picked up in the Red Ottawa. Jan. 29 (Reuter)-The Sea drifting in a small bant, without Second Canadian Division is go- food or water,
Ing oversc03 15 soon as possible,; They are believed to have come and this has, aroused speculation con- from German ship which sought feerning the third division. refuge in a neutral part, but which bad to leave.
UNITY MITFORD-- IN HOSPITAL
LONDON, Jan, 20 (Reuter).- Medical, men state that it has been decided that no operation on the Hon. Miss Unity Milford is advisable
or necessary,
home soon in order to complete her Miss Milford will probably return
This will probably be formed as soon as the Second Division reaches an advanced stage in training.
TWO TOMMIES INTERNED
BRUSSELS, Jan. 29. (Reuter).— The authorities have interned two the British soldiers who crossed frontier by mistake, it is, reported
keeper asleep In his shop. from Rolleghem
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They Miss Unity Mitford is the "friend were numbed with cold and it took of Hitler's", who recently was found n considerable time to revive them. in Berlin: suffering from two, bullet They declared that they lost their wounds in the head shortly after way and did not know that they lind England weat to war with Germany, crossed the frontier.
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VATICAN CITY, Jan, 29 (UP)-Germany is charged with beating, torture and murder of priestu in Poland in a barbaric. programme of extermination, of the Pollash people generally.
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Groups of Gestapo men entered convent and herded the Sisters at a WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, (UP)-chapel where the Holy Sacrament The Treasury announces that the was being exposed. One man jump Stabilkation Fund during the quartered on a chair and shouted to the ending September 30 earned $1,240,- Sisters not, to waste time in praying 000, chleby, on gold bullion grants saying, "There is no God. If there
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