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WEDNESDAY,
MARCH 19, 1941. 日二十月二
HEAVY NAZI PRESSURE ON YUGO-SLAVIA: PACT LIKELY TO BE SIGNED
ATHENS, MAR. 18 (UP).—press cirCLES HERE BELIEVE THAT GERMANY HAS DEMANDED FROM YUGO-SLAVIA, FIRSTLY, THE FREE PASsage of merchandise TO RUMANIA; SECONDLY, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF Hospitals IN YUGO-SLAVIA; AND, THIRDLY, THE FREE PASSAGE OF WOUNDED SOLDiers acrosS YUGO-SLAVIA.
"SARAH SIMPLE"
The Play That Must Not Be Missed
They are of the opinion that it is improbable
that Yugo-Slavia will accept these terms, adding Turks Cause
that they assume the demands also include the passage of munitions to Bulgaria so that Rumanian railways can be used exclusively for troop move- ments. In the meantime, Yugo-Slavia continues her mobilisation and has mined the Danube.
The ntorning newspaper "Proias" of Belgrade says that informed quarters believe that I will be extremely difficult for Yugo-Slavin to retain her inte grity and keep out of the war, and adds that the conversations are proceeding in this spirit with the view that a declaration or paet will soon be signed with
The Hongkong A.D,C, has an imposing string of successes to its credit, but "Sarah Sinvie," the Club's latest production. | Germany, is a triumph.
Last night's dress rehearsal of this scintillating comedy makes front news to-day.
clever and
The play in itself is vely using, but in the hands of Claude Burgers, Sheila Mackinlay. Day Sage and inclr.colleagues, it be comes an outstanding entertainment. The players are practically foulless and there is not a dull moment.
at
Bombing of
Chungking Resumed
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Nazis To
Hesitate
MADRID, Mar. 18 (Reuter). The German Foreign Ofce spokesman is now refusing to answer questions about Ger- many's intentions towards Greece, writes the Berlin corres- pondent of the newspaper "Ya.”
A big press and radio cam- paign against Greece is going on which is regarded in Berlin as a sign that the Greek situation is now in the hands of the military. Current reports in the German
are in Greece.
capital say that 300.000 British troops
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 18 (Reuter), →Diplomatic Saution is praereding
Pact In Few Days
Mar.
(UP).— 10 BELGRADE,
A JAPANESE NAVAL AIR! While official quarters continue to be
BASE, March 19 (Domei).- very
reserved, believed to be Ginan request regarding the pro-Several formations of Japanese rees of the negotiations with Cer-Naval aircraft flying far into the many, usually well informed circles interior of China on Tuesday with the object of renching & cum- at hon to-day re-stated that the afternoon carried out a success-cle understanding between Ger stigning of the part is bul a few days. They said that negotiatul raid on Chungking, inflicting many and Turkey, says the "Alle- tans have again Veered in the diree-heavy damage, according to the handa" correspondent in Berlin.
with Press Section of the Japanese meervations: 1}} favour of Yug-Central China Sen Fleet.
tion of
SAVE
L tri-Power
matter of
pict
reserva-
The opening seents are as breezy and compelling as the climax--the
It is believed that these
Some formations concentrated their keeping the on the Chinese military es- true test of both outhwrship and pers¦ Nigm are encerned with formance. Clauds Burgese aud Yuge-Slavia out of the war by extablishments in the vity pzoper, scor- Sheila Mackinlay' go very close to
huling from the pact any concensions in dieet hits, wh le other unit: dominating all the scenes, and bath
in Germany suci as the passage of aided the munitions planks in the in
most etiuctive
trons across Yugo-Slay territory, Laughter
ripples right
which other minor atlerents to the outskirts of the city, causing fres. through the play, and it is
All planes which participated in the credit of the east and conscientioust had been accepted.
According to the same sources, raid, returned to their bases safely, Producer Cyril Brown that
Germany desires to keep these resur- single line or situation capable of
vations secret while Yugo-Slavin causing merriment-is-ollowed-to-pass
wants to make-them-publie by without acknowledginent,
arc form.
The Performers
to the
not a
Day Sage made her first appear- the Hongkong stage in ance on "Someone at the Door," protluced recently at the K.C.C. That per- formance gave promise of much better things to come and in "Saruli Simple" she proves her abilities to the full. Hiers is a well rounded. intelligent study.
S'hai Transport
Men Strike
In French Concession
SHANGHAI, Mar. 18 (Reuter)
He adds that it is generally be- Roved that Germany Is hesitating to take action against Greet pending greater ecrtainty as to Turkey's al- titude.
Authoritative circles in Berlin, he states, refuse to express an opinion us to whither President Inguna's reply to Hitler Is considered satisfactory or otherwise.
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Dynamite Squads Work On London Wreckage
A Home Guard cordon, with bayonets, kept Londoners hundreds of yards away when the explosion pictured here shook the heart of the City. It was the first of the "safety demolitions" which followed the devastation of the fireblitz.
Mr. Cordell Hull Warns That
U.S. Is In Serious Danger
Special to the "Telegraph"
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18 (UP).-The House to-day started the debate on the seven billion All tram and bus services in the dollar aid to Britain bill after the House Appropriations Committee had approved it with the de- French Concession came to a stand-claration that "no halfway measures can be countenanced at this critical stage of world events." The House was told that while this was the largest single appropriation in peacetime his- still owing to
sudden strike of drivers and conductors this morning short lly after presenting a series of firmands for more pay and flee
allowance.
Sheila Mackinlay has long enjoyed an enviable reputation as the Colony's lending light
comedy player among the ladies. Her work in "Sarah Simple" merely adds the official seat 1 ht;
this reputation. Claude Burgess gives a handsome | Dicutisfied with the Company's performance, showing cunning a reply that the demands would be preciation of the subtleties of his considered, the men deserted their part. He bas some great lines; he vehicles while on the road with the speaks them grandly.
result that the Conversions'' streets are now blocked for miles by rows of stationary emply trams and buses.
Joan Critchett and Tim Fortescue are well cast and surveed in inuling the best of intricate Hitle roles, while
moments in
In the third act and gives delicious cameo, which, for a brief
William Kirby has some splendid RESCUED CREW
moment, overshadows everything he Praise Free Frenchmen
ITALIANS FED UP
tory, it must be accepted.
Simultaneously, the Com-
mittee published the testimony MUSSOLINI
given by the Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, the Secretary
of the Navy, Colonel Frank Knox, the Secretary of War,
WARNED
WITH DUCE Colonel Henry Stimson and the If Athens Is Bombed,
Chief of the Army, General Bad Conduct Of War George Marshall bofore the SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" secret hearings of the Com- ATHENS, Mar. 18 (UP)-mittee, all urging quick action..
Mr Hull asserted: "It is our in Italian prisoners arriving in
to it that Athens from the central sector mediate business to see
of the world
Rome Will Be Also LONDON, Mar. 18 (UP).— Reliable sources to-day confirmed the report that Britain had warned Mussolini, through a
The sellings are Ideal and durac- LONDON, Mar 18 (Reuter) of the Albaninn war front, as-would-be conquerors
shnll not be in a position in which neutral nation, that if the Ita
stage.
ducer.
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Planes Collide:
Collide:AID
Six Killed
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Mar 18 (UP). The Navy Deparl- ment to-day announced that two bombers from the cruiser Yorktown collided in mid-air at sea on March 17 and that all six of the personnel were killed.
scenc
They refused to reveal the
of the crash. However, it is known that the Yorktown has been operating out of Pearl Har- bour for several months so the accident undoubtedly happened in the Hawaiian
area.
AID BRITAIN
Big Appropriation Goes To Congress
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18 (Reuter)-The United States House of Representatives to-day began debate on the $7,000,000,- - 000 Aid to Britain appropria- tion.
It was confronted with a terrely worded
warning from the Appro- priations Committee that this huge. figure must be quickly approved or the reputation of the United States among nations would suffer.
The note coincides with Mr Chur- chill's reference in London to sub- marines and to the operation of Nazi battle cruisers on the United States side of the Atlantic.
One Change
The note requested the House to approve the Bill with one change:
BRITISH TROOPS that any article procured under the
IN GREECE
E shall be retained by the United States Government at the President's discretion instead of being sent to a foreign government if that is consi- dered necessary for
United States defence.
in the piny teristic of able Mr W. A. Cornell, Fre French destrogen operating in who has never yet turned out a plere British waters recently rescued the serted that great dissatisfaction they can command the seas, and at-lians bomb Athens, the British
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" of poor scenery for the Hongkong row of a Betish merchant steamer prevails in Italy regarding the tack any country in this Hemisphere. will bomb Rome.
Charles Gilmor is the efficient torpedoed by a Germinalght by and Clano.
Vatican Denial conduct of the war by Mussolint I must, in all conscience, say to the American people, that in my judg-
BELGRADE, Mar. 10 (UP).—— stage manager, W. A. Mackinlay, the A communique, issued
ment this Hemisphere and this intion VATICAN CITY, Mar. 18
Usually well informed quarters date
Accidental Revelation hardworking secretary and Cyril Free French Headquarters in Londen The prisoners declared that Marshal is in serious danger, and every pus-(UP).-High Vatican quarters that the British troops in Greece up- Brown, the wholly sucessful pro-states that the captain and crew of
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18 (Reuter), de British ship praised their French Dadoglio was very popular when he TURN to Back Pago, Column 5to-day categorically denied that proximately total four divisions or There are some seats available for emrates and stressed that they dis-was seen "somewhere on the Albanian
the British had warned Italy 100,000 men. They said they had no The accidental revelation of two froat" during recent operations, ni- to-night's opening performance, played magnificent courage dur though he had not participated in the
through the Vatican that Rome Information regarding reports that llems In the proposed United States which should not be for "Sarah the resue operations and offered the direction of the offensive which was
would be bombed if Athens is British troops had arrived in the re-expenditures for aid to Britain, was TURN to Back Page, Column 5 Simple" is a play which must not be most generous hospitality aboard believed to be entirely in the hands misped.S.A.G.
the French worship.
bombed. They pointed out that Bion of Salonika. of General Cavallero and Mussolini
the Vatican, in view of its spiritual mission, could not relay messages of warning or war re- prisals from one nation to an- other.
R.A.F. Sets Continental Areas Alight with Bombs
sel.
aircraft is
offensive, it is reported that Oghting broke out on the Albanian front to-day. The spokesman sakd that Greek patrols al various points had achieved their objectives and taken some prisoners.
SM" ute,
after a full in the
Raids On Britain
LATEST
Cholera
Cases
Novel Shanghai Competition
for
China
Lend, Lease Bill Cuts
Out Blitz
Decision
LONDON, Mar, 18 (Reulér), -Having signed the Lease and Lend. Bill, President Roosevelt has hastened to take action under his new powers.
Three hundred and twenty-three| people in the Colony are now under A later report asserted that the treatment for cholera, there having Italian Seventh Army in the central been an addition to the Agures of 70 sector was reorganising and was in the last 24 hours. This is not so rushing the completion of new de-alarming as it sounds because only
China Squadron Emblem fence lines, building of machine-gun 11 of thest were actually new cases,
SHANGHAI, Mar 10 (Reuter)—
American measures show that there can be no more talk nests and the digging of new trenches. the remainder having been under
going bacteriological investigation to The competition
the confirm the disease. The figure of Squadron emblem conducted by the of a blitzkrieg. The Axis Powers have for a long time bolittled 78 is therefore spread over several British Voluntary War Contribution American help but recently the "Messagero has frankly aḍ- 1days.
Fund was won by N. E. Kent.
The winner adopted a form of mitted the importanca of American help.
American naval circles are 'now The German press has not so open-Į emblem which seems to be ecmmonly used by the Air Ministry—a devicely expressed an opinion co far, but discussing giving Britain renter within a garter surmounted by the it is admitted in Berlin that Ameri-val help. Imperial Crown and supported by a can help may lengthen the war rerell bearing the motto "Rise From clearly they expect it to reach Eng The Axis Powers have a new chemy the East"
land, otherwise the war would not with vast economic and industrial be lengthened.
resources.
LONDON, Mar. 18 (Reuter)-Numerous explosions and fires were observed in the dock and industrial areas of Bremen and Wilhelmshaven, which were bombed by aircnft of the Bomber Command last night. of the Coastal Command torpedoed The Air Ministry also states and rank a large enemy supply ves-
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” that a large fire was started in None of the British
LONDON, Mar, 19 (UP).—German the petrol storage tanks at missing from all these operations,
raiders flew over a number of sent- Rotterdam while single aircraft | Enemy Torpedoed
tered areas throughout Britain, buti attacked Emden and Oldenburg. LONDON, Mar. 13 (Reuter)-A ¦ only three minor bombings were re- One enemy night fighter was shot) Constal Command aircraft tornedoed | nnried un to early morning. Bambs down in flames during theke opera- and Bank a large enemy supply ver fell on two districts of the London tel on Monday night off the Frisian area, and on soull and northenst tiona
Off the Frisian lalands, an aircraft Islands, it is officially announced. coast towns,
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