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IN
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FIRST STEP IN NAZI
"PEACE OFFENSIVE"
SPECIAL TO THE
"TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, March 17 (Domei). — Political circles in London believe that the meeting between Hitler and Mussolini will mark the beginning of a new Gorman "peace offensive."
Particular significance is soon in this connection in the fact that Mr. Sumner Welles has postponed his departure for home by one day.
Informed Official circles remain completely reticent. diplomatic circles understand that Hitler will seek Mussolini's aid in the "peace offensive", while Mussolini will attempt to keep in touch with President Roosevelt,
It is generally believed that the large-scale German air raida on Scapa Flow on Saturday and Sunday were designed to warn the Allies that if they remain intent on continuing the war, Germany, will concentrate on the aerial warfare.
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Hitler,
Το Meet At Brenner
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
ROME, MARCH 17, (UP),——IT IS OFFICIAL LY CONFIRMED THAT MUSSOLINI WILL CONFER WITH HITLER SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN ITALY.
A BERLIN REPORT SAYS THAT HITLER AND RIBBENTROP HAVE ALREADY LEFT BERLIN. MEETING CONFIRMED
ROME, Mar. 17. (Reuter).-—The Italian Press Office announces that Signor Mussolini left Rome to-day with Count Ciano to meet Herr Hitler.
It is officially announced that "the meeting between Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler, which was arranged during Herr von Ribbentrop's recent visit to Rome, will be held to-morrow morning in the Brenner Pass." DIPLOMATS IGNORANT
LONDON, Mar. 17 (Reuter-Nothing is known in diplomatic circles here of the reasons for the reported departure of Signor Mussolini for Northern Italy.
Wolles The Inspiration
ON
WESTERN FRONT BEE LEAVE CANCELLED
SPECIAL TO THE "TELÉGIAPH" LONDON, Mar. 17 (UP),~~~ Further indication that a Ger-
SCAPA FLOW
COLLIER & TRAWLERS ALSO ATTACKED
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, MARCH 17 (UP).—THE NAZI ATTACK ON SCAPA man offensive on the Western FLOW FOLLOWED THREE DAYS OF RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHTS. Front is believed Imminent was
AFTER BOMBING THE ORKNEYS, THE HEINKELS ATTACKED A {given to-day with the War Oillee
announcement that all home COLLIER AND THREE TRawlers off the nortH-EAST COAST OF leave for the British Expedition- SCOTLAND.. ary Force has been cancelled.
This announcement coincides:
R.A.F. pursuit planes intercepted four of the Heinkels off the cast with the report that Hitler is coast of Scotland and a running battle took place. rushing more and more troops Over fifty bombs were dropped in and around Scapa, many of them
up to the West Wall where
already a large French army and exploding near houses and farms.
a substantial British Expedition-
About sixty smaller incendiary' bombs were also dropped, setting fire ary Force face big German troop to barns and stocks of grain.
concentrations.
War Office Explanation
LONDON, Mar. 17 (Reuter)-The War Office announces that owing to unforeseen delay men coming home on leave from the B.E.F. have been temporarily retarded.
Normal leave will be resumed as early as possible, says, the announce-
¡ment.
Nineteen bombs fell on
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2-Litre
NEWS
SUNBEAM TALBOT.
and around a bridge at
DUTCH CREW Waithe. Another eighteen were dumped in and around
BOMBED
·AMSTERDAM, Mar. 17 (Reu-
SIMULTANEOUS R.A.F. RAID
The Air Ministry has disclosed that while the Nazi May Start Air Blitzkrieg ter).The crew of the Dutch attack on the Orkneys was in progress, British planes SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH" motor ship, Nettie, 477 tons,
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ISLANDS
KIRKWALE
Pentland Firth
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CAITHNESS-
SCAPA FLOW
Wick
BRITISH SEIZE MAILS
Incident Aboard The Fushima Maru
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
TOKYO, Mar. 18 .(Do- mei)-Parcels destined for Germany aboard the N.Y.K. liner Fushima Maru were seized by the British au- thorities in Singapore, to information reaching Tokyo to-day.
according
en
The Fashima Maru was route from Japan to European ports and arrived at Singapore at 11 am. on Saturday,
British officials came aboard and
over.
demanded that 64 items of muil en route from Japan to Naples be handed Dozan Parcals Held
consultation
LONDON, Mar. (UP)The which arrived at Flushing, stated were bombing a number of German patrol boats between German raid on Scapa Flow is ex- that she was bombed and Borkum and Heligoland. The patrol boats were sighted. boredom and inaugurate the long-machine-gunned by German wolted attempts at an aerial "blitz-aeroplane off the south-east during the course of reconnaissance flights over Heligose Consul General, with the Japane
pected to bring an end to the war of
coast of England.
Nobody was hurt and no damage
land.
krieg"
from both sides. It Is significant that Britain's
A Berlin report reveals that the Nazi' raid on Scapa Flow Sunday press is already clamouring for a more active prosecution of the was done.
The Nettle landed two castaways was led by Major Albert Doenson.
He made a dramatic appearance at a Press conference, to war. This is expected to be inten- from the British ship, Melrose, aifled with a huge public outery for Zeebrugge.
which he related the experiences of his command during the retaliation.
flight across the North Sea,
Claims Warships Hit
It will also, in all probability in- volve bitter debates in Parliament.
The British public first heard the
news of the raid over the i p.m.
B.B.C. broadcast.
The raid muy also form the spring- board for the long-awaited reorgani sntion of the Government into a wor Cabinet.
Commenting on the developments,
J. I Garvin, of the Sunday "Observer said: "Wake up to il
War Cabinet wanted."
n!
Trawlers Raked With Machine-Gun Bullets
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
The conduct of the War. Total LONDON, Mar. 18, (UP)Additional details of Satur- Effort and speed up wanted. A real day's raids show that the German planes attacked the trawlers "The present defensive position is Mirabelle, Braconlea and Avonde, raking their decks with too passive and, in some respects, too machine-gun bullets and dropping three bombs. The bombs fell negative," he said. "We will have to between the Avonde and the Braconlea. wrest the initiative from Germany and wield it ourselves.
"What stands in the way?.............
"The Germans fled as soon as
Now but delay of Toni Effort our Spitfire appeared on the
and decisive direction."
scene, men.
Ho
claimed that the German machines had scored direct hits with
Fushima Maru handed over the mall. Fifty-two parcels wera mibsequent- | Ir returned, but twelve which were destined for Germany were-retained by the British authoritica
Strong repr' have been
mande be th
by the
Consul General und the Captain of the Fushima Maru... The Japanese liner sailed
from Singapore without the packets.
It is understood that the Japanese Foreign Office is preparing a strong
heavy bombs on the lith battle- protest to the British Government, ships Inod. Repulse and Renown.. which were at anchor-in-Scapa, and-
Ito also on a British cruiser which was unable to identify.
Some of the German bombers, he admitted, had been damaged in aerial combat with British pursuit planes but all had returned to their bases.
Attack On Forth Bridge
Repulsed
said one of the fisher-APPEAL TO ship. Nazi planes on Saturday night
"We cheered as we watched
Activity By Patrols - PARIS, Mar, 17 (Reuter)-There has been renewed patrol activity on our chaps tailing the Germans the Western Front during the past with machine-gun fire." Saar region and west of the Saor. two or three days, particularly in the The captain of the trawler Radhóll, which was also attacked, said: "A night and at times came fairly close 7.30 am.
German patrols were out day and Nazi plane started to attack us at
the French lines.
Gun Jammed French heavy artillery dispersed several largo parties.
There have also been exchanges of
Gorman Communique
THE KING
all
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Mar. 16 (UP),~~In ad- dition to ralding Scopa Flow, where bomb slightly damaged one war-
launched rolds on objectives along the coast of Scotland.
British fighter units took to the air as soon as the alarm was sounded and succeeded in beating off raiders.
.LATEST
NAZI RAIDS CONTINUE
LONDON, Mar. 17 (Domel)- the Following Saturday eventar's : mam raids on Scapa Flow and the Orkney Islands, four German bombers again appeared over the castern coast of Scotland this afternoon.
Engaged by British @ghter planes, two of the German planes were con- siderably damaged, one of them ap- British fighter planes encountered two German bombers which were hit -and repulsed.
There is little doubt, says Reuter's Diplomatic Cor- respondent, that Herr von Ribbentrop's visit to Rome was
Asked To Restrain undertaken partly for the purpose of taking advantage of
One of the objectives was the Firth Mr. Sumner Welles' tour to launch a peace offensive.
of Forth bridge but the Nazi Heinkels British Navy
could not even get within bombing The "New York Times" to-day commitments on behalf of his Gov-to
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18 (Reuter). distance of the bridge, owing to the reported from Rome that pres-ernment.
"The ralder dropped on us sudden-An appeal to the King to restrain formidable opposition encountered.
The raid on Scapa Flow was launched at 7.50 sure was being exerted on Mr.
p.m., the raidors y from the clouds, We were able the British Navy from belligerent Sumner Welles "to induce the;
ROME, Mar. 17 (Reuter).—The fire between casemates on the Rhine to repel him with machine-gun fire." acts within the so-called American meeting with heavy anti-aircraft freParently falling to return home.
a protest over One of the members of the crow neutrality zone and United States to throw its weight general impression in Italian political
scuttling of the Wakama on from ships and shore, and with op- circles Is that a Mussolini-Hiter
of the Avonde said: "We would have the
inter position from pursuit units, behind a negotiated peace.” meeting at present must be connected SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" got the raider who attacked us It February 12 when she was
cepted 16 miles off Brazil by a British The name of the warship hit by a with the activities of Mr. Sumner BERLIN, Mar. 17 (UP)-The our gun hudn't jammedy.. Marshal Balbo's newspaper. Welles, particularly his interviews German High Command's oficial "As soon as he appeared in the warship are contained in a protest Nazi bomb is not disclosed, but the
to-day Boid: "An sky our Skipper manned the ma- to Britain from the 21 American re- damage was slight.
No milltary objectives enemy patrol was to-day repulsed 15 chine-gun himself.
on the Orkneys or anywhere ashore on miles southwest of Zweibruecken. "The Nazi passed right over our
protest
contains the Brazilianį Strained Relations
"On March 10 one of our own masta, but just at the critical moment Government's Characterisation of inc in Scotland.
It will be recalled that the Ger- a "hostile act." PARIS, Mar. 17 (Reuter)-Well-patrols destroyed a French observa- our gun jammed.
incident as informed circles here believe that the tion post on the Saur Front. There Scored Hit With Riflo
The Chairman of the Inter-Ameri- mans last raided Scapa PLEASE Turn To Pago 2, were no German losses.
The Mate and the Second Engineer can Neutrality Commission said that October, when they damaged H.M.S. "Our air force carried out recon-of the Braconica fred at the Nazi the American republics were pro Iron Duke, the last survivor of the haissance fights over the North Sea. with rifles as their ship was being testing against the violation of the 1914 Grand Fleet. The Germans lost
was two planes in that raid. altacked,
principle of the zone, which
Churchill Why Allics Don't Attack
Recently, Mr. Winston LONDON, Mar. 17 (British Wire- The Second Engineer scored a hit, formed for the purposes of keeping less)-Lord Samuel, speaking yester-but it was apparently not. In a vital the war away from continental surprised Parliament by announcing that the British Navy had abandoned day, said that the question was some-spot," one of the members of the crew waters
Scapa Flow as a bass since H.M.S. The protest was unanimous, times heard why there had been no sald.'.
Royal Oak had been torpedoed there The crow. of the Avondo sub- Allied ntlock on the Western Front.
with the loss of 800 lives. It was well-remembered that a sequently witnessed the Nazi attack battering ram received hard blows on Scapa Flow. as it gave.
'Courier Epadano," also linked Mr. yesterday, with King Victor, Emanuel, communique Sumner Welics visit with the possibi-Signor Mussolini and Count Cinno. lity of an early peace.
Mr. Sumner Welles has repeatedly emphasised that his mission is solely to establish facts and not to make any proposals or enter into any
AUTOMATIC PHONE SYSTEM HITCH
Delay In Making H.K. Change-Over
públics.
"We were steaming home in the EUROPEANS IN
The Allies held an Initiative which darkness when the Nazis began to ALTHOUGH it was originally planned to convert the exist(could be used in more than one bomb
ing magnetic system used in the Government Telephone System theatre, and in the meantime econo-sale" Scapa,” a member of the crew CAR ACCIDENTS
were hit
Flow in
Soo Back Page For Further Late Nows
WUHAN BOMBING REVEALED
Press Ban Lifted. On
First Civilian Casualty Bombing Case
the
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHIE LONDON. Mar. 17 (Heuter)
HANKOW, The first ofvilian casualty of the
18 (Domel), Mar war in the Orkney Islands, if not Following completion of preliminary in the British Isics, occurred during examinations, the Japanese Press ban "There was terrific gunfire, plainly
the raid on Bepa Flow
was lifted on Sunday on the whole. in Hongkong to an automatic system on January 16, enquiries mic pressure on Germany. continued
audible from our abip, and in the A 70-year-old Woman, Chong
Aman residing near the civil sale arrest of Chinese terrorists in at both the P.W.D. and Hongkong Telephone Company disclose with relentlessly cumulative effect gathering darkness we could see the Cheung, was seriously injured in aerodrome at Stromness was killed by connection with a bombing
Ing incident - Activity Increases that the change-over will not be effected for some time yet.
of star shells lighting up the aky," he motor accident in Kowloon yestern high explosive bomb while standing at the Inhi BPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
· Inhúguration cereticision sald.
day, when she was knocked down in within the doorway of his home Wuhan Municipal An official of the P.W.D. told, pany confirmed that there has been PARIS, Mar. 17 (UP)-Reports p
Chatham Road by a car driven by watching tracer bullets and anti- April 23, 1939. the "Telegraph" that work on some delay in reaching a date for the from the Western Front indicate that
Mr. G. H. Sherriff, residing in the aircraft shell-bursts. conversion.
Appeal By Pope German patrol activity has increased the conversion is still in the
European Y.M.C.A. The woman was The bomb was one of 18 dropped "We cannot tell you at present substantially, during the past, five
ROME, Mar. 18 (Reuter)It is taken to the Kowloon Hospital. by an escaping enemy pling.
Leave Widow And Son make a fresh appeal to the world injured when a car driven by Mr. before Easter.
C. N. Baurosity, collided with his
The dead man leaves a widow and He is expected to draft the appeal vehicle at, the junction of Nathan an infant son
The same bomb injured two of: was admitted into. Kowloon Hos are no indications yet of a Welles to-day.
PLEASE Turn ToʻPago)2. general offensive.
hands of the Telophone Com-when the automatic system for Qlov-day patrols raked the French reported that Pope Pius XII will Arleksha coolie, Lau Ho-lin, wasj
pany.
"Home hitch has developed,” he
"It has nothing to do with the technical side, but has someiling to do with the agreement.”
Officials of the Telephone Com
ernment exchanges will ́ ́be · In- augurated," an offelal said,
Gorman Hines yesterday, but were unable to dislodge the French advance posts Artlitery axchanges continue.
Chaotic Conditions existing magnetic system appear to there
Meanwhile, conditions оп thai
PLEASE Turn To Pago 2.
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Several bambu were hurled into the place of ceremonies, killing and
of wounding a number persons at- tonding. Eight ringleaders were are rested by Japanese gendarmerie on January 20, this year, basandeks
The men are charged with plotting ess leaders acting on secret orders from Chungking.
· Dospito, the increased Nazi aclivity, after the meeting with Mr. Sumner) brid· Halphong roads. yesterday, Ic. bis neighbours, bath men, who were / uzunssination of/pro-Japanese Chin-
There is no official confirmation. pital.