1940-04-27 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 27, 1940.

When the Indian sallors, rescued from the German hell-ship "Alt- mark" visited Liverpool they received cigarettes and comforts from the India Comforts Fund. Photo shows members of the Fund distributing smokes to the Indian sailors. (Copyright, Fox).

SWEDISH ESTIMATE OF DEVELOPMENTS IN NORWAY

London, To-day.

THE STOCKHOLM “Dagens Nyheter“ points out that the German attack on Norway was aimed at obtaining strategic bases against England and had even great political significance, for it was expected that a Gorman success in Norway would influence the policy of non-belligerents. The plan depended on the non-resistance of Nor- way, and there is every indication that Musso- lini was initiated into the plan.

a very

"Violent attacks by Italian political writers, led by Gayda, are usual practice in peacetime but sud- denly stopped when war broke out and the Allied fleets lay outside Ita- lian waters.

GREENLAND FOOD SUPPLIES

Washington; To-day. "But the German attack on Norway The Danish Minister, M. Kauffmann, has released once again Italian de-announced yesterday the-appointment mands and national aspirations.

"The Allies were fully prepared for the Italian reaction and Mr. Churchill, In the House of Com- mons on April 11, warned Italy that Allied forces in the Mediterranean were not weakened."

Now the German press is campaign ing to convince Italy of the desperate position of the Allies, but the much- awailed Mussolini statement disap- pointed Berlin.

The First Phase

of an American-Danish commission to assist him in providing for the welfare of the people of Greenland who, as a result of the German occu-. pation of Denmark, will be deprived of supplies which normally are sent every summer from Denmark. - Reuter.

AMERICAN NAVAL

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| ATTACHE LEAVES CHINA

Peiping, To-day. In Ankara, the Turkish newspaper

-Lt.-Comm. H. E. Overesch, the "Cumhuriyet" says: "The first phase of the Norwegian operations has ter-American naval attache in China, Mrs, Overesch and their daughter, left minated to the

here yesterday en route to the United Allies."

States, where Lt.-Comm.. Overesch will take up a new appointment. Reuter,

advantage of the

The "Ulus," summing up the events in Norway in the past fortnight, says "As a result, Germany is constrained to fight on two fronts which she has always dreaded.

"While her naval losses already are enormous, some ships are bottled up in the fjords and are doomed to de- struction.

TWO YEAR SENTENCE

Sentence of two years hard labour was imposed by Sir Atholl Mac- The air force, on which Hitler Gregor at the Criminal Sessions yes- pinned his faith, has falled to winterday, on Wong Yuk-hing, 50, un- the mastery or prevent an Allied registered midwife who was found landing. On the contrary, British guilty of procuring an abortion. alrcraft are conducting extensive

the

and it is obvious operations German air force is not as strong

as was believed.

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“Another serious blow to the Ger- tive for action in Scandinavia ---- mans is that they are deprived of iron Reuter.

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