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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1941

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INSIST ON

Daisy Brand

Australia's Choicess BUTTER

Germans Watching The

Weather

POMPEY

INVASION ATTEMPT

CHEERS MR. IS EXPECTED ROOSEVELT

"Three cheers for the President of the United States," called Mr. Wins- ton Churchill, standing in front of a ship in Ports- mouth Dockyard yester- day, in the course of three-hours'

visit to

Portsmouth.

was

...A vociferous response given to the Prime Minister's call.

Another incident of the visit was, when Mr. Churchill, with the inevitable cigar between his lips, stood in the dockyard with his arm on the shoulders, of one of the dockyard workers with whom he had stopped to chat.

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"VERY SHORTLY"

Sir Edward Peacock, British financial ex- pert, arrived in New York yesterday to in- vestigate the disposal of British fixed assets in the United States.

According to the Dow Jones Agency, Sir Edward declared the British authori- ties expected the Ger- mans to attempt invasion very shortly.

Reuter

on

For Invasion

BRITISH MILITARY

Colonel Knox Warns Of 'Very MISSION TALKS

Great Crisis'

COLONEL FRANK KNOX, U.S. SECRE- TARY OF NAVY, DECLARED IN WASHING- TON YESTERDAY THAT THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT HAD INFORMATION. THAT THE NAZIS ARE NOW WATCHING LONG-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS FOR A PERIOD OF ANTICIPATED GOOD WEA- THER IN WHICH TO LAUNCH AN INVASION OF BRITAIN.

Colonel Knox made this assertion during the course of evidence before the Foreign Re- lations Committee of the Senate in which he

IN GREECE

General Marshall Cornwall and Air Vice-Marshal Elmhurst, of the Bri- tish military mission in the Middle East, arrived in Istanbul, yesterday from “An- kara.

While in Ankara they held talks with the Turkish General Stoff-Reuter,

********** urged the passage of the Lease and Lend Bill. TRANSFER

TURKISH TRIBUTE

As the Premier moved. away Public buildings throughout the man asked for a momento of Turkey flew flags at half mast the occasion and Mr. Churchill yesterday as a tribute to General gave him his half-smoked cigar. Metaxas whose Sta'e Funeral

Reuter.

took place in Athens. — Reuter.

TOKYO TO STAGE PEACE TALKS

IT IS REPORTED from Tokyo that the armistice agreement between Thailand and Indo-China was signed aboard a Japanese warship off Saigon thus bringing to an end the three-month old border dispute between Thailand and the French Colony.

..

Peace Conference

In Tokyo

In an official statement on the delegates attached their signature signing of the agreement, the seals thereto. Information Board announced that as a result of the Armistice Conference between France and Thailand- which has been in pro- grets aboard a Japanese warship on the high seas off Saigon, with Japanese delegates participating an armistice agreement · was reached at 8.00 p.m. Tokyo' time yesterday, and that the fully au thorised delegates of the two countries and also the Japanese

BUCHAREST SEARCHES

A fundamental vestlement of the border dispute between the two countries awaits dispusalon at the Peace, Conference which la to be held shortly In Tokyo,

He added there were certain "menacing

developments indicating that a very great OF WOMEN

crisis would come within 60 to 90 days.'

These developments, he,

"

said, centred about two NELSON T. JOHNSON

things:

First, the German air force had changed its tactics from indis- criminate bombing of London, in & fruitless effort to break British morale, to "far more effective" bombing of industrial centres.

Second, the British had not yet been able to find any successful convoy method of combatting German submarine activity.

Wild Fancy

'Colonel Knox added it would be wild fancy to believe that a nego

tiated peace could, bring stability to Europe.

He said that there had been a lul! In German aeroplane production in the last month or two, during which American” and British factories had 'pro- duced more

'planes than the Germans.

This was due to the desperate German search for "a new type of 'plane that will make all planes in the air now obsolete."

Colonel Knox added the British were also seeking such a 'plane.

Reuter.

NAZI BUND

OFFICIALS

GAOLED

armistice; which constitutes a "However, the fact that the preliminary condition of such solution has been so speedily con- cluded, due to complete. under- standing of, and earnest efforts for peace and tranquility within the sphere of common prosperity in East Asia on the part of the two countries concerned, is a matter with which the: Japanese WILHELM KUNZE, - NATION- Government is exceedingly grail- AL LEADER OF THE GERMAN, KANIAN IRON GUARDISTS Bed."

ZSAMERICAN BUND, WAS. YE: BEEN FOUND TO BE IN | General, Gautier, Chiet Secre- † TERDAY, BENTENGED WITH ONG DEZA: BROAD- | tary to the Indo-China Governors EIGHT- BUNDĒĻASSOCIATES TO STATION IN - FULL | General; will be appointed Chief] A YEAR. TO 14 MONTHS, (MZ

Delegate to the forthcoming Place† PRISONMENT FOR VIOLATING Coriference"-fn- Tokyd," #yaa NEW «DERSEY'S HRACE HATA Japanese report: quot well- RED?, LAW,

were.

ING BORDER.

"house-to-house hunt for arme looted property is being car- ried out in parts of Bucharest,

informed quarters in Salganti Two of those sentericed

He will be assisted by Captain also fined $2,000, and others $1;600 Jouan, Chief of the Military Af- each... new decrer issued yesterday fairy Bureau, M. Glhouver, Chief | Kunze..

farted unles of pro- | of the: Foreign: Anaire, Section of, leader of, the

Jews made before the Political - Bureau and three. "Sing-Sing-for: 6-Reuter

Others, adds the rej

the Bund's:

It

TRANSFERRED

in:

was learned reliably

Mr. Washington yesterday that Nelson T. Johnson, Ambassador to China, is exchanging posts with Mr, Clarence. Gauss, now Minister to Australia, An official announcement is expected very shortly.

Mr. Gauss was Consul-General in Shanghai before being pro moted to his present

Canberra, Reuter...

at

WORKERS

A large-scale transfer of women workers from peacetime industry in Bri- tain has begun.

Leicester women hosiery opera- tives and clerks and warehouse staffs are being released almost the immediately for work in armaments industry elsewhere.

A census of all workers in the hosiery industry is being taken on Monday and each manufacturer will be called upon to supply a quota of women employees. Heuter.

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