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CLEARED
OF
ITALIAN TROOPS
Special to the "Telegraph”
ATHENS, Nov. 19 (UP).—It is officially an- nounced that Grook troops have cleared Greece. of the Italian invadors, and have thrown the latter back into Albania, where their towns and posi- tions are menaced.
BRITISH AND GREEK PLANES ACTIVE OIIRID, Nov. 19 (UP).—According to reports from the frontier, four Greek and British planes, early this morning, bombed the town and airdrome at Agrirocastron killing four persons and wounding nine in the town and destroying an Italian plane at the aerodrome.
It is also reported that the Italians are now concentrating on Bobostica with all their troops from the Koritza sector. A column of 65 Italian truckloads of troops and war'materials are reported to have been rushed to Babostica from Pogradec last night, passing through Korca.
Greek artillery throughout the night, bombarded the Italian positions around the villages of Bobostica and Dvora from the Greek position on the Morava mountains.
Yesterday noon, the Greeks are reported to have occupied new artillery positions in the Diamos mountains, and started sholling the village of Herseka and the road between Herseka and Koritza apparently, trying to disrupt the transport of Italian troops to the Koritza sector from the central sector.
further reported that the Creeks artillery resumed pounding Koritza at 6 am, and that the fire is spreading in the northern part of the town. Koritza is reported to be cut off telephonically from the town of Pogradec,
Grecks Repulsed
OHRID, Nov. 19 (UP).-Frontier reports say that Greek cavalry, at- tacking the village of Perati, were repulsed by exceptionally Italian resistance after
sirong!
an hour's
battle. The Greeks lost 28 killed and
00
do wounded,
củ
Italian
positions near
U. S. WARSHIPS
AFIRE
Construction Yard Mysteries
Special to the "Telegraph"
The Greeks had |"previously-attack- CAMDEN, N. J., Nov. 19 (UP)-After battling, for Melisopetra and crossed the Albanian thirty minutes, a fire aboard the battleship New York border. The Italians still hold
which is under construction at the New York Shipbuild- Melisopetra and the positions dominating the town.
ing Corporation yards, firemen extinguished the blaze.
Not Yet Captured ORKID, Nov. 19 (UP)-The latest reports from the frontier say that Köritza has not been captured,
The overseas report, that Koritza had been captured was based on un- confirmed rumour.
Masked firemen brought seven men to deck and administered fret aid, then continued searching for the eighth man who is reported to have been trapped below decks. The seven others were able to walk to the hospital for treatments.
A Company spokesmen said Counter-Attack Possible the damage was slight and that BITOLJ, Nov, 19 (UP)—Frontier the cause had not yet been de- reports say that Italian planes, this termined. Two alarms were morning, resumed the heavy bomb-1 ing of the Greek positions on the sounded as the fire menaced 20
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Turkish Blackouts
ISTANBUL, Nov. 10 (UP),~- Effective Thursday night, all towns in Turkey must impose what the black- [out.'
Koritza front, the intense cannonad-other warships which are being Omeial Gazette terms "half ing being audible on the frontier built. throughout the night. This ኒ። possibly the prelude to another attempt at a counter-attack in an effort to save Koritza.
China And Japan: Peace Talk
Destroyer On Fire
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BOSTON, Nov. 10 (UP) ––The half completed US. destroyer Gwynn | was afire for a hall hour this evening. This is the second fire in the novy yard in three days. A fire in a storage warehouse last Saturday was blamed on to spontaneous combus.
Chungking Not Informed on.
Here are the men who saved St. Paul's Cathedral from destruction. It was they who helped to re-
move, the big time-bomb
buried in the Cathedral, yard. The bomb was taken to Hackney Marshes and there exploded.'. In this picture we see the St. Paul's "Bomb Boys" un- loading time-bomba at their depot where they are neutralised.
ASSISTANCE
FROM BULGARIA
GREECE APPEALS R.A.F.
TO AMERICA
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (Reuter)The Greek Gov- ernment has appealed to the United States for per- mission to purchase aviation and other war material, announced Mr. Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary of State, to-day.
that Mr. Welles said Greece has been assured of sympathetic.consideration of her request.
Shortly before the un- nouncement of Greece's re- quest, the British and American Ambulance Corps announced in New York that' 25 ambulances would be sent to Greece as soon as transportation could arranged.
Japanese To Control Indo-China Rubber
he
(By "Reuter's" Diplomatic Correspondent)
LONDON, Nov. 19-It would be unwise to draw any parallel between the visit of King Boris of Bulgaria · to Berchtesgaden and the experiences of Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg (former Chancellor of Austria) and Dr. Hacha (former Premier of Czecho-Slavakia), who were summoned into the presence of the Fuehrer to be told
their fate. -
Australia's
Bulgaria is in a very different position from Austrin and Czecho-Slovakia-and 80, for
War Effort that matter, is Germany to-day.
It is improbable, therefore, LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter). Germany will risk complications in -Australia's message of 1914 to the Balkans by precipitate action. is doubtful whether she will con- Great Britain "We are with you front Bulgaria with an ultimatum for troops, however to the last man and the last the passage of ship," was repeated to-night in desperate the need of Mussolini for help in the campaign against Greece. i broadcast by Mr. S. B. Bruce, The question of free passage of High Commissioner in London. troops rulses very important issues Mr. Bruce added, "To this end we not only us regards Bulgaria but as maximum regards her neighbours, Yugo-Slavia are putting forth our efforts at ses, on land and in the air and Turkey, as well as the Soviet
Seanvice your navy, army and Union.
The Germans like to prepare the r force. We are mobilising to your support all our financial, economic ground thoroughly before they act and productive resources. Our de- and in the ease of Bulgaria the pre- termination is to render you all the liminary spadework can hardly be help in our power in this hour of said to have progressed very far. need."
Mr. Bruce said that the Govern- ment of Australia had undertaken to provide a fully equipped and trained
Il Duce's Position
It is probable that Germany also feels that it will not hurt Il Duce to
air force of 57,000 men, of whom realise his absoluto dependency upon
40.000 are aiready enlisted 130,000 applicants.
RUPTURES REICH
Harvest Rotting In Fields
from
LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter)—Production at Krupps, the bly German munitions works at Essen, has been reduced by 50 per cent. by R.A.F. ralds.
his Axis partner. Il Duce's refer ence to Hitler in his speech yester" day showed that he was already. accepting a lesser rolet is
longer an equal padefalie
In the absence of
news,
no.
Is considered probable by competent observers in London that Hitler ma♬ first be trying to fit Bulgaria into the new order he is attempting to create in Europe.
The
"new political struc
ture" that will
consecrate Axis leadership in Europe from the
the North
Cape to the Mediterranean and from the Atlantic to the Black Sen.
The meeting at Vienna to-morrow will probably afford an opportunityTM of advertising to the world the Axis plans in this respect.
If Yugo-Slavia and Bulgaria can be perslinded to send delegates to the
Some departments have be en closed and others have had meeting. It will no doubt be trumpet- to be moved. The works are now having great difficulty in jed to the world as the Orst visible obtaining regular supplies of raw materials because of transport manifestation of "New Order." troubles caused by wrecked rail, way junctions.
Three sections of the factory have) (been hit and put out of commission.
und
bomb penetrated to the underground work- shops before exploding and wrecking the place.
one particularly heavy FIGHTING
These examples of the accuracy of RAF. bombers are given by the Air Ministry, which stated that news now Britain Indicated n growing
distof industry in cities in
NIGHT BOMBERS
Western Germany as the result of the LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter). raids.
The problem of countering'
Four large buildings of the Union the night bomber, which is en- Chemical Factory on an island at the
junction of the Oder and Molle gaging the best scientific brains Rivers at Stettin have been wrecked, of all belligerent countries, still
At Hanover, the biggest olle-defies solution. Ainery la completely destroyed and the
weeks.
..
L
Deutsche Vacuum Oil Company's fac- Britain is "very hopeful of finding tory at Bremen is out of production. means to defeat the night bomber but Europa, Germany's biggest liner, althe problem is still very far from reported to have been hit amidships being solved," declared Air Marshal while in. dock there.
Sir Philip Joubert, speaking in London Fokker Worka
"In this war we are coping with the enemy dying three times as fast Damage to the power house of the as they did in the last
war and Fokker Works et Amsterdam has climbing twice as high with all sorts stopped production there for some of aids to help him escape detection. "Our fighter boys have a stiff pro- It is stated that despite Nazi efblem before them. They have to forts at secrecy, harvests in many have something more than cats" oy08 parts of the country, ore rotting us to see the enemy." gathered in
in the fields, disorganisa- tion of transport being so acute that sufficient workers cannot bé taken to the flelds; nor can crops be moved to store-houses. New Orleans, La., Nov. 1910
As Magdeburg, for example the totaled to Labour to close crops of Saxony has been brosted, in (Reuter)-President Roosevelt gathering of the wheat and potato
Navy yard officials said a “bit of CHUNGKING, Nov. 19 (Reuter)-loose wood coming in contact with
The "Telegraph" learns from an authoritative source that China's determinution to fight on hot metal" caused the Gwynn fire in the Japanese economic mission to Indo-Chinn requested, and has until a “just, and honourable peace", which there was "no loss."
been granted, a three-months' monopoly of Indo-China rubber has beer secured, is reaffirmed in{ The night shill of 4,300 workers production as from December 1, and that the mission also authoritative Chinese quarters to-day was prevented from leaving the yard requested what is tantamount to a virtual monopoly of the
The Government has still no omelal in order to forestall confusion which knowledgo reported Japanese yard officials described as a "routine country's mineral resources.
of the
precautionary measure." peace feeler.
Ono commentator described the Fire On Third Ship
That conditions in Indo-China move as a repetition of Japan's car- CAMDEN, N.J., Nov. 10 (Reuter), are grave is indicated by the fact ller manoeuvres to create a false-Fire broke out aboard the United that the Association of Euro atmosphere beneficial to Japan's
an's States battleship South Dakola, plans and added, "The threat to ac-under construction in the yards of pean Importers in Haiphong has cord recognition Ching-wel regime in Net Wang the New York Shipbuilding Com- circularised reports stressing the pany, but it was soon got under necessity of the discontinuance us cold. It shows how ignorant the control. Japanese are of the grit of the Chin- Three workmen are reported miss-trade with Hongkong and Singa- of the present prohibition of ese even after three and a half years ing in the smoke-filled hold and at of war. It also shows that Japan! least seven others were overcome by pore. still wants a dictated pence."
smoke.
Vichy Anxiously Waits
Italian Peace Terms
APPEAL TO LABOUR
will It is declared that unless they its ranka in the national interest: a standstill. This, it is stated, is
causing concern to farmers who can obtain jule sacks as hitherto
Profiting by the opportunity offered be unable to clear the ground in time from Bingapore and India, 20,000,-
of
No Nazi Troops LONDON, Nov, 19 (Reuter).-- Bulgarian cireles In London deny that there are any German troops in Bulgaria.
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Diplomatic Pressure On Turkey Expected
ANKARA, Nov. 19 (Renter)-Political dreles in Ankara be ruined and widespread un-John Lewis, head of the Congress of are finding means to avoid the official are now inclined to expect a new Axis campaign of pressure on sad songrowers in Indo-China will by the resignation yesterday of Mr. Throughout Germany refugees employment will follow..
Industrial Organization, the Pre- ban and are evacuating themselves
Von Papon hinted that Germany One of the biggest questions con-aldent to-day sent a message to the out of reach of the long-arm of the Turkey as a sequel to conversations between Hitler and Molotov fronting Indo-China at the present convention American Labour RAF. Many of them are making for in Berlin.de his
Viensia According to a dispatch from and Italy would respect Turkish In- dependence and the Soviet would time is the prohibition by Vichy Federation urging the labour move Austria and particularly (V against British shipping using Indoment to reach a just and honourable where the food situation is reported VICHY, Nov. 19 (Reuter).—-Anxiety with regard to Italy's China ports. This hat caused peace lig stressed the need for rn to be becoming acute and where they Berlin, von Papen, the German abandon any claim to the Dardanelles widespread "protesis in Halphong, great, and united democracy in any are not welcomed by the Viennese Ambassador to Turkey, told if Turkey accepted the new order t claims on France is voiced in an unsigned article in "Le Temps." Hapol and Saigon, where traders are emergents which might be forced fil-feeling appears to be growing and foreign correspondents that which would mean
Bemonstrations against German re- rapprochement with the Axis right of the Axis to
Britain and aching the
direct the
polizy The writer says: "We shall "We can only wall for the Italian watching their business dwindle to upon tutte
fugees are frequently reported,
Powers as well as complete of Europe Alar Bin Hamburg: Rutinad 5 restoration of friendly relations Turkian political- quarters - slated With the Soviet Union has be- to-day that they have full cariciason
**2 #Turkeya, ability for prin uter LONDON,
N.Nov.10 (Heuter)/ "Hamburg has lost its vital war, role come an urgent problame for the of nerves wilch the Axis Prom
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In state of bankruptcy,”
particular attention to the cinims to be officially formulated to US. Materials
cf that I Duce has considered ludge how far they can be reconciled to emphasise that with the principle that the Asia mson Franco must peace to be concluded, int commor.
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