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ITALY'S ATTITUDE NOT YET FULLY CLARIFIED

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

(By Telegraph. Telegraphic Communications Ordinance, 1894.

Received, Sept. 15, 1 p.m.)

Paris, To-day.

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ITALY'S PRECISE POSITION in the war is not yet STOP PRESS TEL. 20022 or 33993

clear, according to reports reaching from Rome. Indications, for the moment, are that she intends to maintain strict neutrality, but some observers suggest that she is favouring Germany.

THREE SUBMARINE

VICTIMS

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THREE SUNK

London, To-day. Three more British ships were sunk by Nazi submarines yesterday.

The "Vancouver City" was sunk off the Irish coast, three of, the crew be- ing drowned.

torpe-

A Hartlepools steamer was doed off Scotland.

The 8,500-ton tanker "British In-

sunk by a fluence" was

torpedo, though no details are given of the locality of the attack.

The Italian papers are neutral, and commercial relations with France are improving. Peace efforts for settling issues arising. out of the Ethiopia business are continuing, preparatory to the World Exhibition to be held in Rome in 1942, for which prepara- tions are still making progress.

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Anti-French propaganda entirely ceased, but antl- British Is continuing.

DECISIVE STEP AWAITED

Certain Italian personalities are as- serting that the German-Italian Al- liance is still strong, and say that therefore it is impossible, at present, to draw any final conclusion, pending decisive political measures which will have the effect of clarifying Italy's stanu. Our Own Correspondent.

All the crews from the sunk ships THE TYPHOON

were picked up.-Reuter.

"VANCOUVER CITY"

New York, To-day.

steamer The British

Vancouver City wirelessed at 11.12 a.m. British Standard Time yesterday that she had been attacked in the Atlantic Ocean and her crew were taking to the boats, according to the Radio Marine Corporation.

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The Royal Observatory reports that moderate anti-cyclone covers S. Japan and the Pacific to the eastward. A trough of low pressure extends from Indo-China

Caroline Islands.

to the

The depression is situated about 250 miles to the N.N.W, of Yap, moving W.N.W.

that the crew of the Vancouver City Dutch had been picked up by a

The liner President Roosevelt, which had gone to the rescue, later reported i tanker, assisted by a 'plane.-Reuter.

POWELL'S

Macao, To-day.

The fiercest battle yet fought on Chungshan soll occurred yès- terday. The Japanese suffered over 500 killed and wounded near. Cheungkapin, some eight miles. north-east of Shek-ki.

All day yesterday and again to- day the roar of artillery audible in Shek-ki.

was

Evacuation of Shek-ki continues. -Our Own Correspondent.

cases,

three in

Six cholera Kowloon and three in Victoria, the Medical were reported to Department yesterday. There were also five typhoid cases.

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