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SUICIDAL COUNTER-ATTACKS

Italian General Offensive In Centre Collapses

Whole Battalions YUGOSLAV

Annihilated DEFIANCE

TURKEY

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All railway traffic tween Bulgaria and Tur- key was suspended tem- porarily last night and the frontier closed as Tur- 'key completed defence

preparations against pos- sible landings by para- chute.

Meanwhile investigation has dis- closed that the bombs which ex- ploded in the Pera Palace Hotel soon after

arrival of the

Mr. George Rendel were of Bulgarian origin,

Six newspapers have been sus- pended in Istanbul on a charge of sensationalising the bombing.

Mr. Rendel is to remain in Is- tanbul three days and will then proceed to Cairo. International News Service.

NEW TREATY RIDDLE

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A NEW TREATY BETWEEN THAILAND AND

FRENCH IN- DO-CHINA IS TO BE DRAFTED IN TOKYO "UNDER THE GOOD OFFICES OF THE JAPANESE FOREIGN OFFICE," ACCORD. ING TO A REPORT, QUOTING RELIABLE JAPANESE

SOURCES.

The report says that the Thai- land and French Indo-China de- legations which have just signed the Thai-Indo-China Agreement.

GIBRALTAR BOMBED BY ISOLATED 'PLANE

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It was reported in Linea yesterday that for the second time in two days a single 'plane bombed Gibraltar.

bat-

Anti-aircraft teries were machine- gunned, it was added. International News

Service.

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past two days OF NAZIS

THE ITALIANS IN the have suffered some of their greatest reverses since they attacked Greece, and several Blackshirt battalions have been virtually an- nihilated during suicidal counter-attacks against the Greeks in the Tepelini sector.

The announcement over Athens radio that Mussolini, who has been in Albania for five days, is returning to Italy on Saturday, tends to indicate that the Duce has lost faith in the ability of the harassed Italians to stave off Greek capture of the Tepelini area, ac- International News cording to the Greeks.

NAZI REQUEST Service.

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ISPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"} It is reported from Madrid that General Franco has refured Ger- many permission to fly 'planes over Spanish territory in order to attack Gibraltar and that Spain has reiterated her decision to ob- serve strict neutrality.

This contradicts rumours that Spain was about to join the Axis Pact. International News Ser- vice.

A general Italian offensive along a 12-mile front in the cen- tral sector of the Albanian frout has developed since dawn Tuesday. announces the Greek Press Ministry in statement broadcast from Athens last night.

THIS FOLLOWED ITALIAN

COUNTER-ATTACKS

All Attacks Repulsed

While German diplo- matic pressure оп the Yugoslav Government

is

believed to continue strong, the atmosphere in Belgrade generally is more cheerful, as it is be- lieved by the public that a decision has been taken that German aggression would be resisted.

WELL-INFORMED QUARTERS IN BELGRADE DECLARED LAST NIGHT THAT A NEW GERMAN NOTE HAD BEEN PRESENTED TO YUGOSLAVIA, CONTAINING PROPOSALS FOR

An official Greek report of the "ACTIVE ASSISTANCE” FOR Italian offensive was given in last THE AXIS IN RETURN FOR A night's Greek High Command | RESERVED PLACE FOR YUGO- communique.

SLAVIA IN THE “NE " ORDER" According to Athens radio, the IN EUROPE. communique says that on Tuesday night and yesterday, the fourth of OF THE his offensive action, the enemy PRECEDING THREE DAYS. intensified his efforts without ob-

The Italians have been repulsed | taining results. everywhere with "terrific losses" All attacks were repulsed by the and the Greek forces retain the Greek forces, the communique initiative, adds the Greek an-continues, and Italian losses were nouncement, and "not an inch of considerable. ground has been lost by the Greeks."

FRANCE MAKES NO PRETENCES

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A CLEAR INDICATION that France ceded to

will remain in Tokyo to draft and force in signing the Japanese-inspired Thailand-

sign the new treaty.

No indication of the nature of the treaty is disclosed, but it is said that experts from the Gov- ernments are to be invited to as-

Indo-China Agreement was provided in an official statement issued in Vichy last night.

The statement starts off by denouncing Thai- sist in drafting the new treaty. land's claims, saying, that under the Treaties of 1904 and 1907, there was no "judical foundation" for the territorial claims made by Thailand.

International News Service.

GREEKS WILL RESIST

THE NEWLY-APPOINTED ACTING – GOVERNOR OF THRACE, M. KOTZIAS, "HITHER- TO GUVERNOR OF ATHENS, HAS ALREADY: ARRIVED AT [(CAVALLA. A "SEAPORT HALF

WAYS BETWEEN :: SALONIKA,

· ́AND THE TURKISH FRON- TIER, ON, A NARROW STRIP OF TERRITORY BOUNDED ON THE NORTH BY BULGARIA' AND'] ON THE EAST BY TURKEY.

"A significant: order to the local

· authorities:marked his arrival. - -- : !.. He enjoined them to do their 'duty... to their country and re- affirmed the Government's resolve

stoji resist aggression.

NEW GERMAN THREAT TO YUGOSLAVIA

It is reported that a new German Note to Yugoslavia demands active assistance for the Axis if Yugoslavia wants a place reserv- ed for her in the new order in Europe. Reuter.

Continuing, the statement ädds that it was only to remove one of the "trouble centres" which the Japanese desired to "elimin- ate" to establish peace in the For East, that-induceâ France to sign the agreement.

It can be said, contiques, the statement that this agreement was a Franco-Japanese Agree ment to which, the- Thai-Indo- China Agreement was merely in- |cidèntal.

The question now is whether the Japanese will withdraw the many military:, observers, station- ed in Thailand and French - Indo- China and the Japanese warships in and around. That 'and. Indo- China territorial waters, and what dimand, in payment for

the role played by Japan are about to be presented to Thailand. International News Service.

Precise nature of the pro posals is not indicated but, it is believed they will be reject“. ed, as it now appears clear that Yugoslavia wishes to remath neutral rather than non-bellt gerent,

Two hundred prisonors, includ- Following receipt of the Note, ing four officers, were captured. from Germany, the Foreign Minis- The Greek air force contribut-¦ ter made a report to the Regency ed to the success of these opera- and later the proposals were ex- tions.--Reuter.

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