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MAJOR AXIS MOVE HINTED AT IN ITALY

Rome Fascist Group

Wants Peace

At a meeting in Rome on January 15, dis- sident Fascists decided to send Count Grandi to England to sue for peace, according to a "reli- able report," broadcast by the Athens Radio last night.

But the meeting was denounced by the Police, who made many arrests, adds the report. Participants were court martialled and heavily punished.

Reuter.

ANGLO-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT OF CRACK FIGHTER

Visit Of Franco Invested With 'Grim'

Significance

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A MAJOR AXIS move which might in- volve Spain is now being hinted in the Italian Press, where it is stated that General Franco, now on his way to Italy, will meet Signor Mus- solini at San Remo.

Nothing authoritative has, come either from Madrid or Rome, but the "peace mis- sion" rumours have been heavily discounted, and the Italian Press had "perked" up with the news of the Franco-Mussolini conference.

BRITISH

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") NEW TYPES OF developed jointly by the United States and Great Britain, it was revealed by aviation cir- cles in Washington to International News vesterday.

fighter planes are to be DRIVES IN

ABYSSINIA

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are

"Giermali d'Italia" publishes a despatch from its Madrid corres- pondent, which says:

*We nearing the completion of the preparatory phase of the precise and

unchangable Axis military programme (from which it might be inferred that the Albanian and Cyrenaican campaigns have gone according to plan!)

"TRIBUNA" SAYS: "IF AMERICA ARRIVES IN TIME ΤΟ SAVE ENGLAND FROM RUIN THE UNITED STATES WILL FIND THE WHOLE EUROPEAN CONTINENT ARM-

General France and Senor Buner have reached France in the course of their journey to

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In the race to maintain the technical su- Led by South African ED AGAINST HER. periority established over Germany's best by night were reported to troops, British forces last the Hurricanes and Spitfires, all future have reached 'planes from the United States will be equip-about 50 miles inside ped with new armament.

southern Abyssinia on

Aviation sources revealed that an agreement has been reached tentatively on the specifications for the new types of fighters, which it is confidently expected will be capable of standing up to any ma- chine which Goering can develop.

WARNING TO MISSIONARIES

a point

It is disclosed that the issue the road to Addis Ababa. has been under close study by South African troops were re- the American and British mill-ported to be pushing through the tary authorities, in the light of Rift Valley towards the Red Sea. practical experience gained In Another British force is driving the Battle of Britain, and it has on Addis Ababa from the Anglo- been decided to re-design all | Egyptian Sudan. existing pursuit modela in order

to equip them with a series of 20-millimetre cannon,

British air experts state that fighting aircraft equipped with these cannon will be able to shoot down the most heavily armoured aircraft-International News Ser-

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") vice.

The tension in the Far East is indicated by a notics given out by the head of the U.S. Episcopal Missionary Society in Japan that all members must be prepared to Jeave the country at once..

The notification was mada after the head of the Society had consulted Mr. Joseph C. Grew, the American Ambassador : in Tokyo. International News

Agency

TOKYO EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL/ (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") The Japanese Diet is consider- ing a new Exchange Control Bill,

This bill is apparently a precau- fionary measure against a United States/décision to freeze the "us- sets of Japan. International

Agency

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Harrassed by Ethiopians be- hind their lines, Italian troops are reported to be fleeing in both sectors.

Other British operations in Eritrea and Italian Somaliland are "developing satisfactorily" it was stated in Cairo last night: International News Service,"

NAVY BOMBARDS

OSTEND

A MESSAGE FROM LONDON states that the German-occupied port of Ostend was bombarded by units of the Royal Navy during the early hours of yesterday morning.

* An Admiralty communique giving this news adds "our šalvos fell on the harbour works and many fires were observed. No casualties or damage were

Reuter. ustained by our forces."

U.S. NOT

EDGING OFF FAR EAST

At his press confer- ence yesterday in Washington, Presi- dent Roosevelt answered a question which has been in many minds for many months when he stat- ed, very deliberately, that if the United States was forced into a war in the Far East, it would have no. effect on deliveries of war materials to Great Britain. Reuter.

WEATHER FORECAST: — N, E. winds, moderate,” freshening considerably; fair at first, cloudy with`rain, and decreas- ing temperature Inter.

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