ACTIVITY İN BALKANS
Italo-Nazi Throat To Yugo-Slavia Reported
BELGRADE, May 1 (Reu- ter).-Reports of German and Italian movements off the Yugo- Slavian border continue to come in here.
The Belgrade authorities are taking precautionary measures, Speaking on Tuesday night, the Yugo-Slavian Premier reiterated that the country was still following a policy of strict neutrality.
Trade talks with Russia, he said, were going on and economic negotiu- tions were being conducted for the time being. The question of re- suming diplomatic relations might he broached later.
Rumania's Precautions
BUCHAREST, May 1 (Reuter),-- Vigorous measures against the Nazi Fifth Column in Rumania are con- tinuing.
No less than 60 foreigners in the oll districts have been taken into custody. Most of them are Germans. Police investigations are continuing especially in the ports.
Many
of the Germans in Rumania who are under suspicion have either Tot a diplomatic status by being attached to the large staff at the German Legatlon or claim to be hona Aide journalists.
Most of the 20 German Journalists In Belgrade arrived after the war had started.
,
Nazi Patrols in Danube LONDON, May 1 (Reuter).-- "Reuter diplomatic correspondent learns that news has been received in London from reliable sources that a number of armoured German putrol
barges vesseir disguised 15 reached the lower Danubian waters.
Some of them are anchoring at Rustchuk. This
have
step is regarded in London as a characteristic Germun flouting of the authority of the riverine governments and the Danubian Com- mission.
1
Students Demonstrate SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, May (UP)-"Ex- reports from change Telegraphy" Belgrade that the police to-day red over the heads of Yugo-Slav stulents holding a mass demonstration. this
morning.
The students were shouting "Longi Live Soviel Russia!".
The demonstrators were dispersed after several had been arrested.
Rumania Threatened
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
WHERE THEY TRIED TO KILL A KING
THIS REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH is the first to be published in Hongkong of the damage wrought in Norway by German bombers. It shows the main street of Elverum after a Nazi raid. King Hankon and the Norwegian Government removed to Elverum after the German entry into Oslo and desperate efforts were made by the Nazis to wipe out the Ruler and his Cabinet. The effect of the raids on Elverum itself is reminiscent of the hayoe wrought on French towns during days of bombardment in the last war.
DIVISION
OF OCEANS
Nazi Paper Talks Of
Anglo-U.S. Plan
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, May 1 (UP).-The relations of the United States with Japan and the future of the entire Pacific directly connected with the war in Europe.
area
are
This declaration was made the to-day in an article in "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung."
The article is based on Germany's official "Bandbook for War.
The United States and Britain, it alleges, have an "unwritten division of oceans-the Atlantle for Britain and the Pacife to the United States,
This unwritten agreement must LONDON, May 1 (Reuter).The Bucharest "Semnalul" had no in-have been calculated to meet resis Inaintaining take from any other sca Power," the teresting leader to-day, that the country's neutrality to-day is article states. threatened not baly milliarily but! economically and by propaganda.
The ceonomic blockade may con- stitute to-day the decisive and final factor in totalitarian warfare, the
materials." of raw great consumer
U.S. Not Waiting
"America to-day is taking a differ- rent course to that which she would have adopted twenty years ago.
"She is not waiting until the end
The Calro "Almokattam," referring of the war in Europe to carry to Italy, says: "She knows that by her plans.
Joining Germany she will be the
loser in the event of victory or de-
out!
"These plans, however, are based
feat. This makes her hesitate to on a premise which has not yet been make up her mind, especially since praved, namely, the invincibility of the Allied North Sen victories have the British Fleet. effected changes in the situation and
"In this respect, the entire problem in the naval forces in the Mediter-is niced with the European War.
rancan."
"Alsho
"When the Handbook for War' was written, the British Fleet had not yet suffered the sharp blows which re-
sulted from the extension of the war
to Scandinavia.
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T.T.
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T. Singapore
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21
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303
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4 m/s D/P
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30 d/s India
..04
U.S. Cross rate in London 4.02
U.S. Cross rale in N.Y...3.49%
Experiences At Narvik
SHOCKING REPRISALS
Japanese Slaughter
Around Shanghai
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
SHANGHAI, May 1 (UP).— The Shanghai "Evening Post," quoting Chinese refugees, states that over 50,000 Chinese families have been rendered homeless during the past three weeks as a result of the Japanese campaign against guerillas.
The Japanese have extended their reprisal operations to a 300 square mile triangle stretching from west of Shanghai to Tsingpu,
Over 10,000 people are permanently been homeless, their homes having destroyed by the Japanese.
Not A House Standing
Not a single house has been left standing on six square miles of ter- ritory that formerly
comprised Kuanyingiang.
Only a few wounded and destitute remain in what was people now once it prosperous area.
The bodies of dead people litter the
British Sailors Tell Ofireets of many wrecked towns,
Their Captivity
of
LONDON, May 1 (Reuter).– Details of the captivity British sailors in Narvik after the German invasion have been given to-day.
The news has been given-out-by
Chief Engineer Dobson, a member of
Why Italy Won't Fight The Wafdist periodical, Ala," outlines the reasons why Italy will not fight: Her fleet is bottled up in the Adriatic; Tripoli is hemmed in by the French in Algiers and Morocca and by the English and Egyptians into Japan's advantage, for it would lying in a Swedish hospital suffering West
munications sy to cut off com-
the
"America's premise that England cannot be defeated is no longer true. "A German victory would work
the crew of one of the five British merchant ships which were at Narvik when Germany invaded Norway.
The chief engineer, is at present
divert America from the policy of from frost-bite. It is
light rein on Japan' after with her African Empire keeping
Five British ships were just coming Italian coast is very vulnerable having taken over, silently, the pro- up to the pier to load iron ore, he
attack: the English and tection of Australia and Singapore."
sald, when the German destroyers entered the port. are far stronger."
"Afton Bladet"
French
The
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weighs up the pros and cons of a British large-scale landing in Norway and considers that such a landing must come shortly if the Allied post- tion in Norway is to be saved. The greatest Allied advantage is that the German fleet is not dangerous.
Nazi Demands Rejected
is
SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH LONDON, May 2 (UP). -1 reliably stated that Rumania and Yugo-Stavia have officially rejected Hungarian demands thut Germany and Slovakia should be admitted into the recent Danubian agreement re- policing of the Danube. gording the
It is understood that Bulgaria has not replied to the proposal.
Hungary's proposal contemplated German monitors patrolling the lower} renches of the Danube.
Violation Of Postal Regulations
$25 Fine Is Imposed Against Chinese
When police officers searched man on a steamer that was salling for Haiphong on April 30 they found that he had in his possession three letters.
It is estimated that at least 1,000 people were killed in the Kuangling- lang area.
Anglo-Soviet Trade Pact
Effort to Come To
An Agreement
LONDON, May 1 (British Wire- less)-In the light of Information provided by the Soviet Ambassador when he called at the Foreign Office few days ago to convey the reply
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May 2, 1940.
MR. EDEN'S GOLF WEAR.
WARNING
Must Not Belittle
The Enemy
LONDON, May 1 (Reuter). In discussing the war to-day, Mr. Anthony Eden said that we shall have bad as well as good before the struggle was closed in final victory.
"It is at all times wrong in war to bellille tho enemy you are пр against," he said. "No scruple is over going to hamper the Naxl leaders In Germany in the use of their war machine."
Referring to the fact that Ribbon- trop had assured the world that Britain and Norway had plotted an nct of war, Mr. Eden ald: "So fantastle a fairy tale would obtain credence from no one who has know- ledge of the facts or of Norwegian life and polley.
Ribbentrop Dubbod
"All Norweglan history and tradi- tion dubs Ribbentrop as a llar.
"Only the unhappy German people will bellave this Nazi distortion of trull.
"There can be no peace for anyone until the whole Norwegian people again enjoy their freedom under their own King and in their land.
own
Emphasising that the Allies have superlor resources, Mr. Eden sald: "It is not enough to be content with the existence of those resources and to repeat that time is on our side.
Time has to be harnessed. We will have to marshal our resources rapidly and vigorously.
"Nothing less than the greatest effort of which the British people are capable is enough to secure victory."
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Labour Manifesto On May Day
LONDON, May 1 (Reuter). If May Day this year is a day of sorrow for those democratic movements which have fallen by the way, it is also a day of hope, states a manifesto issued by the Council of British National Labour.
Britain, France, Scandinavia and the Dominions are standing shoulder to. cud 10
determined shoulder, aggression and make it possible for freedom to survive. They are re- solved to wage this battle until triumph is assured.
The British Labour movement is already playing its part in the national effort for victory.
Unobserved In Reich LONDON, May 1 (Reuter).-For the first time since he came to power, Hitler did not make a speech on May Day.
There were also note of the usual processions und meetings,
Shutters on shops and the fact that i no newspapers were about were the only signs of holiday.
German workers continued work- ing all day, but Dr. Robert Ley, the Nazi Labour Leader tried to cheer them by assuring them that they are the real rulers of Germany under the
Nazionchmen Work On
PARIS,
May 1 (Reuter)---In accordance with a decision of the French Trade Unions Council, French workers continued working on May Day,
Hoss's, Now Boast SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, May 1 (UP)-"Our
The Nazi sailors swarmed on board. of his Government on trade ques-building slips are full of submarines
Saw Naval Battle
tions, His Majesty's Government are The British men were arrested and giving their most careful considera- tlon to whether an Anglo-Soviet trade taken to a school.
agreement can be arrived at which present will take into account the war situation.
The next day five British destroyers entered Narvik and a great battle ensued.
That day the British captives were moved to a cafe on the water front. By this time the Germans were running short of food and the prisoners got only brend and water.
On April 13 they heard gunfire at кез. Dobson saw three destroyers sunk.
Later the Germans blew up the Iron: ore plers and most of the water front. Ordered To Sweden
NAZI PLANE SEEN before Mr. Húmsworth at the Kow-by German guards.
OFF ENGLAND
be
The suggestion that any final decl- sion has been reached is premature and has no authority.
The latest Soviet communication has to be studied in more than one, department.
Halifax's Invitation
When Lord Halifax saw M. Ivan Maisky on April 19,, he informed him that the British Government had On April 23, a German army considered the Soviet suggestion for mander ordered that they should be
resumption of trade talks, and that The man, Poon Kom-shing, 32, sent to Sweden.
an described as an actor, was arrested Two batches of men set out walk they were prepared to discuss in and this morning he was charged ing along the railway accompanied exploratory manner whether n basis existed for a trade agreement, and he invited him to
obtain
from the The cold was acute and the men
which loon Magistracy with possession of
Soviet, concrete suggestions documents for the purpose of con-were tired and frozen.
During the whole of the follow- took account of the condition upon voying them from Hongkong other-
ing 36 hours the only food they got which the British Government have wise than by post.
was one cup of coffee and some der had to insist in all war trade agree- In the Det.-Sergeant J. Michie said two
ments, namely, guarantees SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
the LONDON, May 1 (UP)—A plane, of the letters were found on de-
At the frontier they were handed matter of suppiles reaching over to the Swedish authorities.
enemy believed to be German, was sighted fendant and one in his suitcase, He
Parliament on April 10, Mr. off the north-east coast of Englandasited Mr. Hlmsworth to
30 Ships Sunk At Narvik serious view of the case because there to-night.
Dobson further states that about R. A. Butler stated that should trade be resumed with the The plane was seen at Sunderland was quite a lot of this going on.
Mr. Himsworth fined Poon $25 and 30 ships of various nailonalities have negotiations but no air raid airens were sounded.
Britain still cundemned Russia's to a fine of $1,000, and that letters harbour.
aggression against Finland. the Mersington Sunderland.
Jesse Jones, of post, The enemy disappeared as soon as must be sent through the
Court, was taken prisoner with 50 others when the Germans entered the port.
take A
biscalis.
and everything necessary for waging war is constantly being produced, declared Deputy Fuchrer Rudolf Hess during a May Day speech at the Krupp works at Essen to-day.
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Then they were kept below in the ship which was used as a screen dur- ing the British attacks.
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The newspaper published an anti- Japanese article entitled "Little Hero", in which the writer saki: hate the Japanese. I want to kill the Japanese."
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