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-Sir Nevile Henderson

"I think the one person who regretted Munich more than anyone else | was Hitler," declared Sir Nevile Henderson, farmer British Ambassador ́ ́in

speaking Berlin,

in Ipswich yesterday.

"He thought he had missed his boat and if I may say so I think. he did."

...

Sir Nevile did not know whe- ther critics of Mr. Chamberlain realised. that on January 28, 1938, we did not have a Spitfire..

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We had one or two experi: mental Hurricanes and seven modern A.A. guns for the de- fence of London out of the 400 estimated ад the minimum necessary.

Germany could have dropped London 2,000 bombs a day on and we could have given no re- ply.

Goering told him, "If you in- sist on making war, before, the end there will be very little leat of London. and absolutely nothing of Czechoslovakia," Reuter.

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Gelsenkirchen Oil Plants Bombed Hour After Hour

NO PEACE OFFER MADE TO HUNGNG

Referring to the re- port that the Japan- ese Imperial Confer ence in Tokyo decided

THE MIGHT OF THE R.A.F. ON SUNDAY NIGHT WAS AGAIN MAINLY CONCENTRATED | ON A SINGLE GERMAN TOWN – THIS TIME GELSENKIRCHEN- WHERE OUR ATTACKS |BEGAN AT AN EXCEPTIONALLY EARLY

HOUR.

Main objective was the Scholven synthe- tic oil plant at Buer, in the neighbourhood of

SOO ITALIANS SURRENDER WITH TANKS

Six hundred Italian troops," with 130- tanks, crossed the frontier and surren- dered to the Yugoslav authorities on Sunday night, according to a report from Djevdjeli- ja.-Reuter.

Gelsenkirchen. This is one of Germany's KING BORIS

most important hydrogenation plants for the te

that Japan will nego- manufacture of synthetic aviation petrol from SEES HERR

tiate a peace direct with General Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese official quarters in Chungking declared yesterday they ȧre without information on the alleged deci- sion-Reuter.

coal; it was designed to produce 300,000 metric tons annually..

The first R.A.F. squadrons re-plosions were seen and direct hits mained nearly an hour and drop-noted on various, large buildings. ped many high explosive bombs and nearly 1,000 incendiaries on the target...

Pilots reported fires-and-one conflagration)

Raids At Intervals * Another synthetic oil plant at which quickly Gelsenkirchen was raided at in- Six fires résulted and cpread until it covered half a tervals.

explosions were caused. square mile.

was at A second raid lasted for nearly Yet another refinery two hours. Many fires and ex-two major explosions and many tacked towards midnight, when

fires occurred.

HITLER

King Boris of Bulgaria had a conversation with Hitler at Berchtesgaden on Sunday, according to the Italian Stefani news agency yesterday.

The agency says that the news is contained in an official ec- munique which will be publish- ed in the Bulgarian newspapers to-day.

Our bombers also attacked a railway station to the north: cast of. Gelsenkirchen, and rail; way varda and the aerodrome.

King Boris is stated to have at Esmer, k

been on a private visit to Ger Meanwhile other aircraft were many and left for Sofia imme- operating far and wide over diately after the conversation, western Germany. Reuter. Reuter.

GREEKS DOMINATE KORITZA: EARLY FALL EXPECTED Filmo

SABOTAGE O PLOTS IN AMERICA

AS A RESULT of their rapid c advances during the past few days, the Greeks are very optimistic about taking Koritza very shortly, according to information reaching London military circles yesterday evening.

Some members of the Dies Committeo investi- gating un-American ac- tivities are afraid that publication of the White Paper" containing their

Ankara Radio said that information had findings would cause re- prisals against the United been received from Athens expressing th

same view.

States in the Axis coun- tries and "evon-involve It is pointed out in London that

the capture of Koritza will pro the United States in war.” bably put an end to any threa

Mr. Martin Dies, chairman of tened attack on Salonika, The, the committer, made this state-only other spot likely then to be ment at a press conference in threatened would be Yanina, In Chicago "yesterday at which he the Epirus.sector.

roads and ways of communica -tino› In and out of Kørltza, are now dominated by the Greeks the from the heights around

clty,

Koritza, houses a large barracks sald the White Paper, giving It is possible, therefore, that the and it is reported that, in addition maidence that Gammany, Bustin, Italians will make a great effort to a hospital and an ample water Italy and Japan, are working to to hold Koritza or to try and re-supply, the Italians have stored a large quantity of war material in stop supplies for Britala, would capture it should it fall, be given to the six members of Koritza has a population of the city. the committee but the question of about 25,000 and is the largest They are reported to have car- whether it was made public was town in Albania, Two roads run ried out a lot of work on the civil for the committee to decide. northwards: from Koritza la aerodrome, which is about three Mr. Dles announteu” truth's Elbasan, but the roads run through kilometres outside the town. They agents were making raids.'-in difficult country and it cannot be also planned a military, aerodrome various parts of the country yes- said that the capture of Koritza In the same locality and it is terday, seizing documents of would open the way to an easy possible. that construction of this

has already bean completed. Italian and German organisa. Greek advance. tions. Reuter.

Ankara Radio reports that Reuters

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