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No. 16403
二拜禮 號十二月五英港香
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1941.
NAZI TROOPS REPORTED
TO BE
CONCENTRATED
IN SPAIN AND MOROCCO
Special to the "Telegraph"
WASHINGTON, MAY 19 (UP).—THE MARQUIS D'AGUIAR, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SPANISH CATHOLIC AND ROYALIST PARTIES IN THE UNITED STATES, TO-DAY RE- VEALED THAT TWO GERMAN. PANZER DIVISIONS HAD CROSSED FROM SPAIN EN ROUTE TO TUNISIA AND LIBYA, AND THAT SHIPLOADS. OF ARMS HAVE BEEN SENT TO MEXICO AND CHILE.
SYRIAN BAIT
Ibn Saud's Help
Solicited
VICHY, May 19 (Reuter).- Iaschid Ali's Finance Minister has already had two interviews with King Ibn Saud and has extended his stay in Saudi Arabia by 48 hours, according to a Baghdad message.
Evacuation JERUSALEM, May 19 (Ren- ter)-The evacuation of Syria and Lebanon by British,
Americans and Palestinians on the advice of their consuls is reported in a dispatch to the Independent French Agency.
The mining of the road from Beirut to Northern Palestine i reported but not confirmed,
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He also declared that twelve German divisions have been in Spain since November last, ready to
act in Morocco when the time was auspicious, Surrender
Its Effect
the move being dependent upon a French-Axis agreement.
The Marquis also asserted that in October, 1938,
Spain agreed to enter the war but the plan was changed last September when Spain was instructed to remain neutral and to get everything possible from the United States and Britain.
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Mystery Of Nazi Freighter
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 19 (Reuter).The-mystery of the Gorman whereabouts of the
lons, freighter Lèch, 3.290 which left Rio de Janeiro on April 28, has deepened follow- Leaflets on Damascus BEIRUT, May 19 (UP) The Bring a report made by an officer tish to-day bombed the aerodrome at of the Brazilian vessel Pirangy. Palmyra and dropped leaflets
When the Pirangy arrived at Aleppo, Damascus and Deirrezzor.
The British Consul General, Air.G. Rio on Monday, an officer, who
19
of
Britain's
011
T. Havard is leaving on Wednesday was on the bridge on the night
11 result
re of May 4, declared that off quest for the withdrawal of the Abrolhosto, south of Bahia, he French Consul General at London. The Vice-Consuls-at-Beirut and saw several ship's boats in Damascus are remaining.
Protective Measures
Thereafter,. Germany "peace: fully invaded Spain and put military forces in the Canary Islands and Spain's African possessions.
The Marquis d'Aguiar stated)
日五廿月四
Roosevelt and
Congress
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10
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
WASHINGTON. May (UP)-A very high authority disclosed to-day that President Roosevelt considering 14 special message to Congress re- garding the international situa- tion and the report will possibly declare a full emergency Oxist.
The President met die legisia. tive leaders this morning for the first time in three weeks, in- dicating that he "might" send a special message on the war de- velopments as they United States and possibly re- affect Hie commending new Congressional action. If he decides on rage to Congress, it will be sent aliortly. The President read from a document on his desic but IL could not be determined whether or not I was a draft of the message.
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WHITEAWAY'S
Non-Stop Action By R.A.F. Over
The Middle East
CAIRO, May 19 (Reuter).-A large formation of R.A.F. and South African aircraft carried out attacks on enemy tanks between Fort Capuzzo and Halfaya yesterday, according to an R.A.F. communique.
A number of tanks were put out of action and serious damage was inflicted on many more transport vehicles.
British fighters made extensive patrols but no decisive engagements with the enemy resulted.
Duke of Aosta:
on British Cause
North Africa.
During the night of Friday- Saturday, aerodromes at Menia- tir and Birchieta were raided. Benghazi and Derna were also attacked on the following night by British bombers.
LONDON, May 19 (Reuter). The collapse of Italian resistance at Amba considerable damage was caused. Alagi and the surrender of the Duke of Aosta mean the practical termination of the Abyssinian campaign.
SINKING
"Reuler's" Diplomatic Correspondent learns that there are still a few scattered pockets where small bodies of Italians are holding out, but their power of offensive has been complete- by broken and they can be safely left to be dealt with at leisure by the patriot forces.
The forces which will bet liberated as the result of these very successful operations are not inconsiderable and may have a decisive influence not only on the war which is being waged in the Libyan desert but on the operations against Iraq and Syria
that he had advised the State OF THE
Department that he had been informed that Germany now represented any Spanish Con-) sulate
Legation in the Americas, and that this move had been taken for the purpose of combating Pan-Americanism.
دین
Frenchmen
Asked To Fight
On
which the gallors made signals General De Gaulle
with lights.
MADRID, May 19 (Reuter)-The The officer was unable to identify Berlin correspondent of "Alcazar" the boats. reports that it is not expected, in
sures."
And The Empire
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, May 19 (UP)
ZAMZAM
Many Americans Aboard
The magnifléent
services in
GERMANS ROUTED IN
DOG FIGHT
Full details of these operations are not yet avaliable but it is known that During operations over Tobrukt yesterday, three German dive- bombers were shot down by A.A. In Abyssinia
fre.
In Abyssinia, British aircraft con- tinue to assist the troops in mopping- up operations. Attacks were mainly confined to enemy motor transport retreating along the roads.
Syria
In Syria, bombing attacks made were on Palmyra aerodrome, where one large German transport aircraft and one Heinkel-I were destroyed by fire.
German
aircraft оп aerodrome
Damascus and Nayak were also Raids were also made on Raschil aerodrome in Iraq.
Abyssinia of the South African Alf Great Work By Our bombed and machine-gunned,
Spitfires
LONDON, May 19 (Reuter). Four Spitfires patrolling over the Channel to-day encountered down five of them in as ten Messerschmitt fighters, shot
raced
many
Island of Rhodes
A number of fres were started at. Calato nerodrome on the island of Rhodes as the result of a rald carried out on Saturday night.
Crete Attacked
Force have proved the quality and skill of these fighters and bombers, and they will be especially welcome SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" at the present juncture when there are distinct indientions of a turn in WASHINGTON, May 19 the tide in Libyn. The enemy tide |(UP).—Officials are
scems to have reached the high water anxiously BCC awaiting official reports regard-any further inroads at Tobruk; rather mark at Sollut and has not made ing the steamer Zamzam, which the reverse if anything. not only reported the loss of Germany will attempt to exercise the selves and then, with their am- It is yet too early to forecast where minutes without loss to them- American lives, but also that the] action apparently occurred on evidence that large forces are being safely though pursued by over
grealest pressure. There is no munition spent,
home the South Atlantic route which sent via Syria. A number of troops has been regarded as safe for and planes have been rushed to Iraq 30 other Messerschmitts. the same as will be followed by atone neutral-traffic
The route of the Zamzam is with striking power, by aeroplanes
force,
especially one
United States freighters assigned of their "flying bridge" to Tripoli, out, the others crashing into the sea enemy reconnaissance aeroplane ap-
Only one German had time to bail Although the Germans have boast- ed to the task of taking supplies it is physically Imposable for them in their machines. the Red Sea a combat zone but tanks such as appeared in Cirennica. I could not stay long, for as soon as to to Egypt. Germany declared to have conveyed by the the heavy "It was grand," said one pilot, "but and remained 60 minutes, according peared over Cyprus this afternoon
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and another unidentified aircraft During enemy attacks on Allied aerodromes In Crete, one Dornier 17 were shot down by A.A. guns. -From-all-these operations, one alr-
the Lo-easy-to-und-up Two of the-Spitfire-pilots got craft is missing.
states the Air Ministry. two each and a third got one,
Enemy Over Cyprus NICOSIA, May 19 (Reuter),--An
an official announcement. No
nerodromes an 'S.O.S. from the German freighter / General De Gaulle's Headquar" the United States does not It becomes increasingly evident that I had got my two, I saw about 25 bombs were dropped.
JAPAN'S CHINA POLICY
The most important sections in the seventh paint state that General De Gaulle's Council of defence of the French empire declares;
ather Yellow Noses' mitts) coming at us more ammunition."
Italian
Aosta's
(Messersch-
and I had no
INDO-CHINA AND AXIS Warning By U. S.
U.S. Planes To Carry Water To British Troops
Berlin that the Vichy Government On the same night, the wireless will take reprisals for the British operator of the Pirangy deciphered bombing of Syrian though it is felt that Marshal Petain Leck, addressed to Et radi ters to-day issued a seven-point
they must have been sent across with and Admiral Darkun are studying station.
statement, laying down the Free recognise such designation.
French connivance. what are termed "protective men- It is recalled that reports circulatJrench attitude on the Vichy-
Missionaries Aboard ing a fortnight ago asserted that the German agreements, in anti-zamzam carried 19 missionaries with
Four Divisions Left NEW YORK, May 19 (UP)The Berlin Story
Lich had been intercepted by a SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH". British auxiliory off Bahia and had cipation of repercussions the seven
CAIRO, May ID (Reuter).-There children. BERLIN, May
representing the are
two upproximately agreements may have in the in- Africa inland Mission, an inter-divisions concentrated at Jimma and 10 (UP)-Au-scuttled herself. thorised Gennan quarters to-day de-
These reports were not
subterests of France and the at-denominational organization and also the same number at
Gondar, and clared that it is not only possible, tantinted.
titude adopted toward her by one infant, as well as several French hold out until the end of the rains.
nire Seventh
nth Day Adventists with with the help of the rains, these may but probable" that the French wil take "defensive measures" against the
other States."
Oblate Fathers from Montreal. It is On the other hand, when they re- British attacks on Syria; however, it
also believed that Mr Charles J, Eceive news of the Duke of was added, perhaps it would be ion
Murphy of "Fortune" magazines and surrender, they may decide to throw
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" strong to describe these as counter-
Mr David Scherman, "Life" magazine in their hands.
TOKYO, May 20 (Reuter)-American transport planes are being
WASHINGTON, May 19 (UP)- photographer, several businesamen In a few days, it is stated, military The newspaper "Yomiuri," It was alated that a communique No Change, Claimed
(1) France cannot and must not
circles will be better able to gauge day gives prominence
to-converted into "flying water tanks could be expected to-morrow regard
be held responsible for facts sup SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
the effect of the capture of Amba Japanese dispatch from Hanoi thinly senttered troops in the Near Ing the new Franco-German agree-
to rush fresh water to the Empire's posedly committed in her name by TOKYO, May
142. Americans (UP)The rulers who usurped their power und
Alagi,
which South ment.
They
claimed they had no ultra-nationalistic newspaper "Kuku on their own accord subjected them-stated
The Thomas Cook Travel Agency patriot and British troops particip-has warned Indian, the Sudan knowledge regarding reports that the min Shimbun neserted to-day that
Defence Force, alleging that the United States East and North Africa. It is under- that 142 Americans were
stood that the Indo-China
the agreement provides that
British need 50 such whatever situation Japan might face, selves to the enemy:
among the 202 passengers on theted. The importance of the capture Government that if Indo-China placed outside the occupied zone, acid-
(2) The French nation, continuing Zamzam. The other passengers com- of the important rond juncture of noves into closer relations with Chalman of the Reconstruction Fin-
cuminercial planes. the Japanese army was determined the war by means of all her military prised 23 Canadians, 28 British, four Dalle, was stressed. ing, "there is no reason to believe to continue efficient military opera forces in territories outside the con- Belgians, two Greeks,
It is recalled that Mr Jesse Jones, that the change in the seat of the tions in
in order to crush Chungking's trul
one Italian
Escape Cut O#
the Axis Powers, the United once Administration recently pur- French Government and played any resistance, ay at short-cut to settle if the enemy, should therefore and one Frenchman, part in the agreement."
be recognised as.a belligerent,
States would take retaliatory hused between 20 and 30 five-cabin ment of the China Affair.
nation. The French nation is not at
Canadians Aboard
The only reasonable chance for the measures.
planes and 14 passenger Douglas TURN to Back Page, Column Sing came just at the time when the number of these have already been two ftallan divisions concentrated In The dispatch adds that the warn-
planes.
Meanwhile, it is disclosed that in Vichy Government and agreed on delivered during May and are now closer collaboration with Germany. ferrying water, after being reported The Indo-China Government are to be going to South America, thence reported to be shortly replying into Slerra Leone and then, presumably the United States,
Ito Cairo.
measures,
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and the wife of an R.A.F. pilot with
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Owing to indications that consi-present, and will not in futuro, recog TORONTO, May 19 (Reuter)-It derable dimeulues wer
were ahead inhise any infringements of her terri-a declared here that at least 23 effecting such a a settlement, the paper terist rights committed by any State Canadians were aboard the Egyptian declared that certain rumours, hav-in the world owing to taking advan-steamer Zamzam, which was lost ing # "wisted interpretation of Mrane of a situation in which she was while carrying a British-American The following donations to the Honda's talks, were being circulated placed by her enemies and usurpers, Ambulance unit across the Atlantic. Bomber Fund were received this so as to mislead the pubtle as if a acting under the enemy who claims morning: Mr and Mrs D. Drum- clange had been made in Japan's to rufe her." mond, $1,000 (2nd donation) Mr J. fundamental policy, which the
K. Bousfeld, $500 (3rd) Mrs E. A. D. "Kokumin" reiterated is iminutably Green', $200,
to develop the Nanking Government.
Joint Nazi-Soviet Action
In Middle East
Hinted
LONDON, May 19 (Reuter).-The Soviet Army began its spring manoeuvres with a considerable concentration of troops In the region of Tashkent, near the frontier of Iran, according to a dispatch by the "New York Times" Ankara correspondent, Sulzburger, quofed by the 'Ankara mdio to-night.
Sulzburger cites diplomatic reports in Ankara as indicating that Russia and Germany "would appear to be arranging some sort of joint action in the Middle East" and specifically mentions reports of negotiations for use by Germany of Russian ships on the Black Sea to transport war materials to Russian ports for transit to Iran and Iraq,
LATEST
S'HAI BROKER
Japanese May Evacuate Near East
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
African,
Thailand Protests Rumours
TOKYO, May 20 (UP)Accord Coming From Japan
SHOT DEAD ing to the "Yomuiri Shimbun," the
to
Britain Must & Will
Receive The Goods
Special to the "Telegraph" "
NEW YORK, May 19 (UP)-A four-point programme, for
Japanese Foreign office is considering BANGKOK, May 20 (Reuter), SHANGHAI, May 20 (Router).the dispatch of a special ship to theThe British Legation has cate-alding hemispheric defence through foreign trade policies was The business centre of the Inter-Near East in order to evacuategorically denied the Tokyo radio advocated to-day by the Administration's spokesman, Mr Nelson national Settlement was thrown into Japanese nationals
totalling more Zou Ka-fu, a member of the Nan- cause the Foreign Omec fears the, Thailand, including the British-lations between the American Republics. an uproar at 1.45 p.m. to-day when than 50, in Iran, Iraq and Syria, be broadcast that British firms in A. Rockefeller, co-ordinator of commercial and cultural re king-sponsored gold bar exchange further spread of hostilities. was shot dead by a lone gunman who
owned tin-mines, havo closed The staff of the Japanese lega- down.
Mr. Rockefeller, addressing the trade, and fourthly, to supply essen fired five shots,
ilons and consulates, however, will
world trade luncheon, featuring the tal manufactured goods to other) Zou was hit in the head and died stay at their pasts "to the lost."" Instantly but the gunman was caught
The Thai Government have official-social observance of National Foreign American Republies, ly contradicted another Tokyo radio Trade Week, advocated that foreign by the police. Mony foreigners and
Mr C. P. Fallon, of the Kowloon assertion that the British authorities trade omeinds of the United States Deliveries to Britain" !!! Chinese going to the
office had Godowns has reported that between in Bangkok have protested to the should firstly, replace all agents en- He reiterated the previous advo narrow escapes.
5 p.m. on May 17 and 7 am. on Sun Thal Government against the report gaged in anti-American activity; cacy of Administration officials r64 day, quantities of cotton yarn to the of a Thal-Russian agreement-ex-secondly, to increase purchases from garding methods to insure delivery value of $1,400 were stolon from chango of Thai ores and rubber for Latin America; thirdly, to maintain of defence goods to Britain and the Godown No. 7.
Russian oil.
ndequate shipping in Inter-American TURN to Back Page, Column 51