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INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING OF BRITAIN: WARNING

AMSTERDAM, TO-DAY. DELIBERATE GERMAN AIR BOMBARDMENT OF BRITISH TOWNS WAS BEING HINTED AT BY NAZI OFFICIALS IN BERLIN YESTERDAY. Excuse for the action would be the bombing of Bergen by the Royal Air Force which was al- leged in a German communique on Sunday.

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in Berlin says: "An answer has been 661 promised, so reports of the bombing of some English towns are to be ex- pected."

This is the latent move in the campaign to build up for the Allies a reputation for "frightfulness." Last week there were velled threats of reprisals for the alleged bombing of a railway station in Schleswig- Holstein, and yesterday the Nazi papers worked up further Indignation about the alleged machinegunning by the British Navy of German sailors swimming helplessly in Narvik har- bour. Reuter.

GERMANY'S MERCHANT SHIPPING LOSSES

LONDON, TO-DAY. SHIPPING CIRCLES ESTIMATE THAT GERMANY, MOST OF WHOBE MERCHANT FLEET HAS BEEN IM- MOBILISED IN HOME AND NEU- TRAL PORTS SINCE THE BEGIN- NOW NING OF THE WAR, HAS LOST MORE THAN HALF THE TON- NAGE OF WHICH GREAT BRITAIN, WITH SHIPS ALWAYS AT · SEA, HAS BEEN DEPRIVED BY GERMAN SEA WARFARE.

British losses amount to 172 vessels, with a total tonnage of just over 667,000 tons.

Before the Norwegian venture Ger- many had lost 64 vessels, aggregating 199,851 tons.

To-day a conservative estimate puts her losses at $2 vessels, representing 370,000 tons, to which can probably be added eight other German ships torpedoed in convoy with unknown results.-Reuter.

OF WAR IN PACIFIC"

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(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") New York, To-day.

"The Shanghai elections may seem a very tiny square in a small teapot.

"Actually it may be the initial mak- ings of a war in the Pacific," says the "New York Herald-Tribune" in an editorial.

Continuing, the paper вдук "The Japanese spokesmen hasten to say they will have the votes next year and can afford to walt. But will the Army walt?"

The paper then foresees a demand for the retrocession of the Settlement through the puppet regime at Nank- ing and rejection of the demand by the British and American Govern- ments.

The situation deserves careful concludes.- paper watching, the Havas,

EQUIVOCAL ATTITUDE IN ITALY

Rome, To-day. The Italian press is adopting an equivocal attitude towards the war in the North, most of the papers showing considerable ingenuity in trying to present a picture favourable to Ger- many and unfavourable to the Allies.

At the same time, there is the re- minder that the "great German vic- tory" is not yet decisive.

Reuter.

TWO NAZI SHIPS . RUN INTO MINEFIELD

IN AUDIENCE

London, To-day.

Mr. R. J. Campbell, British Minis- ter at Belgrade, and Mr. George Ren-

|del, British Minister at Sofia, who were

consultations

called to London for Gothenburg, To-day. Two German cargoboats are stated with the Government, had audiences to have struck mines yesterday off of the King at Buckingham Palace Marstrand; both were badly damaged. [yesterday afternoon,-British · Wire-

less. Reuter.

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