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Middle East Invasion
WILLKIE'S POWERFUL PLEA FOR U.S. AID
POWERFUL Situation
IMMEDIATE BRITAIN
TO
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (Router).—Britain needed both immediate and long-term assistanco and the only way. the United States could help Britain quickly was to enact the Aid to Britain Bill "with modifications,” declared Mr Wendell Willkie, giving evidence before the Senate Foreign
BIG TO MEET
FOUR Relations Committee.
Hitler, Mussolini,
As an example of immediate aid, Mr Willkie said that the United States should provide Britain with from five, to ten destroyers a month. "We should be able to do this directly and swiftly rather than through the rigmarole of dubious legalistic interpretations.
Petain & Franco Nazi Troops
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
ZURICH, Feb. 11 (UP). —A
conference on Italy's collapse and the Franco-German crisis may take place on Wednesday, possibly on the Riviera, between Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and
Flown Into Balkans
arc
"Incidentally, if we
to make more destroyers available to Britain, we should recondition them in this country in our own yards."
Mr Willkie advocated that the proposed aid should be limited to the British Commonwealth, China and Greece.
Fatal Isolation
gave bellef that
Petain, according to reports 10,000 Men Every poly of isolatiori would eventually
reaching here.
Information reaching. Zurich says that the meeting is ache- duled for.11a.m.
General Franco is said to have crossed the frontier at 8 o'clock this morning via Barcelona.
48 Hours
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
destroy the elv Hlbertles of the United States and cause an economic upheaval.
Britain, he added, would require BUDAPEST, Feb. 11 (UP)—to obtain superiority in the alt
some time even with American planes
It is estimated that 40 German "Britain may go down it United transport planes flew over Buda-States aid is ineffective," declared Mr pest to-night in addition to the Wilkie, who
of a time 60 that flew over to-day. The posed by the House of Representa-
unit on the approved
presidential powers im- opinion of informed quarters is tives' amendment,
All modifications in his opinion should seek to limit the granting of unnecessary authority by the Bill.
ly 100 troops.
Waiting For that each plane could carry near- The Signal Japan & Southward Expansion
It is unconfirmed that action is | imminent; however, at the present, the Germans are pouring into the Balkans at the rate of 10,000 every 48 hours.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPK"
Planes Quer Budapest BUDAPEST Feb 11 (Router) More than 30 Junker-52 planes SHANGHAI, Feb. 12 (UP).which are troop-carrying planes, flew over Budapest at mid-day to-day in
tier.
Mr Wilkie added Impressively: "I have wanted to see Americana stond united before all the world, 09 11 friend of all who fight for democracy: As a deposer of all aggressors
one despollers of the democratic way."
For unlly's
y's sake, Mir Willklo urged even opponents of the Bill to approve This, with the approval of mil-
Wang Ching-wei's newspaper, the direction of the Rumanian fron-lons of Americans they represented, the "Central China Daily News",
in an editorial to-day, declared Telephone communication with that Japan is merely awaiting Rumania is cut off.
the beginning of the German
60 Plancs Used
would give the rallop the "strength of a united people-a strength greater than that of armaments and battle- ['ships."
.Blitz against Britain before SPECIAL TO THE "TELÉGRAPH{"
Unprotected Convoys launching her drive in the BUDAPEST, Feb. 11 (UP)-Large Mr Willide said that despite the southern Pacific.
squadrons of heavy German trans-Afty destroyers already handed over The paper added that Japan "un-port planes flew over Budapest to- to her, Britain still needed more.
day, headed cast It is estimated "Merchant ships are making the questionably will support the south-that at least 60 planes frequently crossing without nearly enough pro- ward expansion policy with force.".
The paper also remarked that Bri-employed to transport troops were tection. In some cases thirty or forty
Included lain and the United States were hope-
the group.
ships may be protected by only a To-day was the first sunny day couple of destroyers," he said. ful of averting a Far Eastern war, pending the outcome of the European with heavy clouds,
Uree days in which Hungary Willkle referral to aid to Britain as meaning="rottu work for Britain conflict.
Note: The wording of the dis- but to work with: Brlinin to defend patch might contain the hint that the area of freedom. If Britain pre- going on
Triumphant Naval Units Return
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH" LA LINEA, Feb. 11 (UP).—The British fleet which bombarded Genoa last Sunday returned to Gibraltor at 3.30 p.m. to-day.
after
in
on hereviously but had been
Interrupted by the bad weather of the past few days.
Indian Ordnance
survive," saved democracies will
He added that Britain's long-term requirements such as planes and munitions were already largely on order. In the United States. .
"We are building them as fast as we can but it will be many many NEW DELHI, Feb. 11 (Reuter) months before our efforts begin to They are the battleships Malaya, The largest of its type in India when show significant results.
Our acro- Ark Royal and Shefeld, two cruisers erected, a 300-ton gun-forging press pinns programme for instance will lins been received for a factory in not begin to give Britain supremacy and a number of destroyers.
WHAT ITALIAN ROUT. MEANS TO BRITAIN-
Present offactiva, raiding area of R. A. Frplanes on Germany and Italy
Atlantic Ocean
OSPAINY
PORTUGAL
Britain's Gibraltar
Gibraltar
CANARY 19.
italion pressure
removed from
SWEDEN
GERMANY
British may reduce Mediterranean flast to free ships to battle German raiders
LIBYA
ALGERIA
General Weygand,`with]; African forces; might be tempted to desert Vichy to ald Britain
FRENCH
Every step of retreat taken by Italian troops across the sands of Libya and Tripoli means in- creased power and prestige for
Ports
Hammered
Britain. Map spots possibilities From
that may result from defeat of Italy by Britain in Africa and in the Mediterranean,
R. A. F. may establish
'The Allies, and British Colonies -The Axis, and
Occupied Areas
France and Colonice Under Vichy Rulo
Free French Colonies Loyal to De Gaulle · Allied Attacks On Italy
SOVIET RUSSIA
bases in Albania to |bomb-southern Germany) Black
CRETE
Istanbul
Mediterranean Sea
Tobruk
Sca
TURKEY.
Dodecanese`lalonds' practically cut off from Italy by British;
warships at Croto
Alexandric
·Immediate threat to ¡Suez Canal removadi
EGYPT
EGYPTIAN
AFRI
FRENCH: EQUATORIAL
AFRICA
Italy's troops hero, isolated by blockade. face double danger of native revolt, attack from British Konya
Caspian Sea
IRAN
IRAQ
British prestige stepped up among Arabs and in Neari
-East by victories
SIERRA
LEONE
LIDERI
De Gaulle forcen
AMERJONS
now hold alf
BELGIAN CONGO
in southwest Africa
Librevilla
:(controlled by =00% KENYA
"Free French")
French coastline
SAUDI ARABIA
FRICA
Nearly 300 Tons of Bombs On
Hanover in Big Six-Hour Raid
Special to the “Telegraph”.
LONDON, Feb. 11 (UP). An air raid carried out by the R.A.F. on Hanover, last night was one of the heaviest and most concentrated of the war. It is unofficially estimated that from 200 to 300 tons of bombs were dropped in six hours, which left
the target area a mass of
Munitions
Train Derailed
raging fire.
Other squadrons successfully attacked Boulogne harbour and other targets in northwest Germany as well as two aerodromes in
Holland
Planes of the Coastal Command caused large fires at Cher- bourg and Ostend.. Ninety per cont of the raiding force. reached Hanover. Four planes are missing.
our
Berlin Admits Raid
An Admiralty communique giving It is reported that one battleship India and several Important items of } until 1942.”
BERLIN, Feb, 11 (UP)-The Ger- this news adds: "Our salvoes fell on was slightly damaged in the control plant required for the expansion of Britain's greatest hazard was the
mun High Command announced that the harbour works and many fres' British bombers last night raided were observed. No. casualties or lowers.
Ordnance factories have also arrived. destruction of her shipping, he said.
BELGRADE, Feb. 11 (Reu-nine places in Germany Including damage were sustained by Piteous Destruction
ter).-Eight people were killed number of, incendiary bombs, but
Innover, dropping a considerable forces." Telling of what he had seen dur-and many were injured when a causing no military damage, although ing his visit to Britain, Mr Wilkie train, including 40 oil tanks and a number of civilians were killed or referred to "the plteous and heart cars destined for Germany, was wounded. rending" destruction of northern in- derailed at midnight near the man planes yesterday successfully It is officially announced that Ger- TURN to Back Page, Column 5 Bulgarian frontier station of mided Malta and a port on the Dragoman, about half a milo established that two merchantmen Cyrenacian coast. It has also been from the Yugo-Slay frontier.
sunk in the Suez Canal.
Greek Women, Children Told to Leave Bulgaria
tion.
"
Free French
In Action Attack And Capture Italian Outpost
"SPECIAL" TO THE “TELEGRAPH
have
been
From Air And Sea
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, Feb. 11 (UP)— Very heavy explosions from the direction of the French coast were heard shortly before" mid- night, indicating that the R.A.F. was hammering the invasion ports for the sixth successive night.
This was part of the most pro- longed and Intensive aerial offen- sive since British bombers fofled the invasion preparations inst August and September.
In addition to the uninterrupted series of night attacks, British mass formations during the same period have swept Dunkdric, Calals and the Boulogne aren least three times
rea at during the daylight.
Coupled with the navy's assault on Ostend, this
s means that the attack on invasion preparations during the past week has been nearly as intense: BO when the threat
rent was regarded as most acute last autumn.
was announced in London to- night that all the German radio |stations had been silent since 7 p.m., except for Breslau, Warsaw, Vienna, Danzig und two other stations in caster Germany.
the
More Money For Bombers
A cheque for $32,000.81, being the equivalent of £2,000, was handed to Government of Hongkong to-day for telegraphic transfer to the British Government for the purchase. of {plancs,
This represents the eighteenth in-- stalment from the War" Fund
in-
auguraled by the "S, C. M. Post" and The Hongkong Telegraph," The Sterling total now remitted to Lon- don amounts to £98,380-13-0, tha dollar total of the Fund standing ot $1,570,448.40,
LATEST
New Thrust From Kenya
NAIROBI, Feb. 12 (UP),—A_new thrust against the Italians from Kenya- Is announced in a headquarters com- munique which states that South African advance troops occupied Todenyang, a fishing village, and Nomaraputh, an Italian outpost, both of which are at the northern end of
Lake Rudolf
Sino-Australian Trade Relations
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" CHUNGKING, Feb. 12 (UP),——It is authoritatively stated that China and. Australia are considering an exchange of views with regard to commercial relations and a new strategle position in the Pacific.
Double-Decker
Colony: Latest
See Back Page For Further Late Nows
Buses For Position
Cable advice has been received by the China Motor Bus An authoritativa Bulgarian state- German bombers last night raided Company that the first two of the 30 Daimler chassis ordered ment eays that the train was taking British airfolds and it is claimed they for double-decker buses a year ago, will be shipped within' the the gradient at too high a speed. destroyed 11 planes and damaged next three months, and it is expected that the balance will arrive, Fires broke
causing heavy several more which were oground. out, damage both to the train" and the line, a large, destroyed.
section of which was
Trae is temporarily suspended."
LONDON, Feb. 11 (UP) General Shipping Losses
7.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" com-Admiralty has listed 18 ships which LONDON, Feb. 11 (UP) The
RUMANIANS
VICHY, Feb. 11 (Reuter),~~Greck women and children in Bulgaria have been advised by the Greek Legation 'In Sofia to return to Greece, states a Solia message to the official French agency.
Greek Legations are preparing to Tenyo are denied. The advice is given as a pre- The rupture of diplomatic relations caution against eventual cam- with Great Britain has not been plications in the Balkan sithin the wireless, but the news has spread mentioned either in the press or on
among the pubile and, following Rumania Exodus
rapidly on the instructions to observo Do Gaulle's headquarters issued, n general blackout, has induced an communique to-day reporting that a BUCHAREST, Feb. 11 (Router) atmosphere of tension and anxiety,
motorized column from Chad, Sir Reginald Hoare, British Minister| As General Antonescu was Indie-manded by Colonel Le la Bucharest, and members of the posed yestrday, Bir Reginald Hoare tured several Legation and Consular staffs are pre-handed the note announcing Britain's on February 7. "Reuters Diplomatie Correspondent year-and-a-half or two years.
the area the week ending mlùnight, February paring to leave Rumania by a special decision to M. Cresplanu, a high stated: The Italian airbase was firlish ships totalling 40,429 Lons; steamer on Saturday.
stormed. The enemy suffered heavy three Allled ships totalling 18,872 It is understood that personnel of Data Romania Black-Out a losses in men and materials." (certain Allied missions will loave ZURICH, Feb. 11 (Reuter)-A
of 2,002 with them, the party consisting of black-out has been ordered in all big Koutra is an important military post about 50 British and 10 Allled towns in Rumania and also in the for Italian communications between recutive week that the losses have makes the seventh con- officials as well as some: 10 British plifields, states: a Bucharest despatch Libya and Abyssinia with 50 miles been below the average for the war, elvillan
to the newspaper. "Neue Zuercher of difficult desert between the Chad although, it is higher than the aver Reports that the Turkish and] Zeltung."
frontier and Koutra.
Joge in January!
oficial at the Foreign Office."
Uosla
LEAVING U.K. were aunk by enemy action during
and one neutral
Ostend Harbour Hit two at a time, at monthly latervals. LONDON, Feb. 11 (Router)-The This information was revealed obtain deliveries and at the present German-occupled port of Ostend was by Mr Ngan Shing-kwan, Gen-rate it may be the end of 1942 before the first complete fleet of the bombarded by units of the Royal Navy during the early hours of this eral Manager of the Company Colony's double decker-buses is in
·morning.
to-day, when he disclosed that service. If the two chassis due to the Company's $1,000,000 be shipped in May arrive here before scheme for running 60-passenger August, the first double decker bus double decker buses on the lower should be in service by the beginning of September. This will, to some lovel routes in Hongkong will extent, relleve the over-crowding on LONDON, Feb, 11
thus be delayed for another the lower level routes, which has (Reuter), learns that the Rumanian Legation in
been a cause of complaint for some Ume.. London has received instructions to was to got the chasals equipped with The original scheme, Mr Ngan sald,
The estimated cost of importing the ask for its passports, and the Charge all-metal bodies from England at a first 30 chassify building the bodies
application. Foreign Ofee to make a formal for the body. But it was later do- vice Umated at approximately elded to import the chassis only and $1,000,000 and the Company. "Iɛɛan» arranged with regard to the date of Unfortunately owing to war con delays in delivery caused by the war Nothing definite bal yet been build the bodies in Hongkong xlour to set on with the scheme, but the Minion's departure.
ditions in Europe, it is dimicult to are holding up use project.
Military circles point out VIRS TREAT DRAAT d'Affaires this afternoon coiled at the cost of £1,728 per chassle and £1,000 and equipping the vehiclts for sOTH":