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GERMANY'S BRIBE TO SOVIET Washington Disclosure Of NAVY Thickening

ON THE MOVE

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WASHINGTON

Plot

COL. KNOX'S

TRIBUTE TOʻR.A.F.

THAT D (Exclusive To The "China Mail" By W. W. Fitzmaurice)

GERMANY HAS OFFERED RUSSIA ALL ASIATIC TURKEY AS

Defence

REWARD FOR KEEPING HER HANDS OFF WHILE THE AXIS A Classic

| ARMIES SMASH ACROSS THE DARDANELLES TOWARDS IRAN

AND SUEZ.

Diplomatic sources in Washington understand that the Soviet iscretary awaiting developments in Hitler's talks with French and Spanish (SPECIAL TO “CHINA. mail") | leaders before deciding whether to aid Turkey or passively to assist

France has come to the the Axis wipe her old friend off the map.

threshold of a new era as a consequence of the dramatic conference be tween Marshal Petain

FIFTY WOMEN

and Hitler, says a special TO LEAVE EARLY

International News de-

spatch from Vichy to the “China. Mail.”

While the conference in Hitler's- special train near the Franco- German demarkation line was in progress, France's potential peri in the new role of active friend of the Axis Powers was indicated by reports that reinforcements to the British Fleet in the Mediter- ranean are massing at Gibraltar.

Although a permanent ..Franco/German.agreement, su- perseding the present armistice, is expected to result from the conferences,' Vichy quarters be- lleve that France will not be. drawn formally into the war against Britain.

Instead, it is expected that her part. will be that of providing the closest possible collaboration un- der the prevailing circumstances.

International News Service.

U-BOATS

IN NOVEMBER

ar-

It is officially an- nounced that Govern-- ment has taken over some fifty berths on a ship which is expect- ed to leave for Aus- tralia in the second week of November, for women who have been ordered to leave and are unable to make their own

for rangements evacuation. All the women it is possible to accommodate in the ship have been notified and it is hoped that further' accommodation for others who are requir- ed to leave, but are unable to do so at their own expense,

EXPOSED will be made available

The "New York Times," in an article yesterday headed "U-boats only

on other ships at G later date.

dent British shipping" BORDER

discounted Nazi claims of tonnage sunk as false.

paper points out that "if they, was accurate, the shipping rities advise that freight rates would now be rising steep

RUMOURS

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The United States Se- of Navy, Col. Frank Knox, in a speech declared: "The nation in New York yesterday,

which controls the sea an- proaches to Europe holds an immense advantage

Hitler's meetings with Marshal Petain and General Franco might range the French and over its antagonist if the Spanish navies beside the Italian with the ob-war is one of long dura- ject of holding the British Mediterraneantion.. Fleet at the western end and in the south At- lantic while Axis land forces storm the Dar- danelles.

DIPLOMATS POINT OUT THAT THIS WOULD IMPEDE BRITAIN SENDING NAVAL UNITS TO DEFEND CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE DAR- DANELLES AS THE ANGLO-TURKISH DEFENCE PACT PLEDGES.

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"That sea power is. British. which denies the crossing of the. Only the possession of sea power," English Channel to. the immense land forces of the Germans, en- ables British air power, outnum- make that magnificent defence in bered probably by four to one, to the air which has become one of war the great classics in the history of

"All this helps. to drive home Diplomatic quarters be-panese attack in the east while the lesson that those nations who lieve Hitler also discussed west of German occupation of the destinies of the world."Reuter.

she confronts the danger in, the control the high seas control the with Marshal Petain the Dardanelles. prospective role of the Turkey would leave European The projected "gift" of Asiatic French troops in Syria Turkey including Constantinople. should the Axis thrust im- State. Havas,

aş a German-dominated buffer pale Turkey and Iran and then turn to Suez.

State Department officials de- clined to comment on the reported German plan.

They emphasised, however, that Axis coups in the Near East, no matter how spec. tacular, will not swerve Unit- ed States policy of more and greater aid to Britain and China. An authoritative source Adın'nistration circles are con- vinced that each Axis conquest, military and diplomatic, multi- plies the hatreds which will even- iually overwhelm the conquerers, German Plan

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