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SERBIANS AND ARMY HOLD OUT

Widespread Yugoslav Concessions Unlikely

Cabinet Would Be Prevented!

THE SERBIAN ELEMENT AND THE ARMY LEADERS IN YUGO- SLAVIA WILL PREVENT WIDESPREAD CONCESSIONS TO GER- MANY, THE TURKISH “ULUS” DECLARED YESTERDAY.

Ankara radio last night broadcast a pre-

cis of a long article on Yugoslavia which was published in this newspaper.

INTENSE

The article declares that while the resign- AERIAL

ation of three Yugoslav Ministers indicates that opposition to surrender has not been en- tirely successful, those in favour of conces- sions will not be allowed by the Serbian ele- ment and military leaders to go very far.

Yugoslavia knows, it continue,i that once

foreign legions. enter: the country. "pledges in black andi white will dwindle into serapa odd paper.

Hence, it adde, Yugoslavia is continuing to strengthen the army.

A STUPID TRICK

A PRACTICAL “JOKER WAS APPARENTLY ABROAD IN THE "APER SAYS IT CAN BE| KOWLOON THIS MORNING. AT ATONT STRONGLY BELIEVED THE EXPENSE OF THE FIRE THAT THE YUGOSLAV ARMY | BRIGADE WHICH RUSHED OUT WOULD NOT PERMIT YUGO- IN REPLY TO AN ALARM AT SLAV TERRITORIES ΤΟ BE 9.45 O'CLOCK. THE INSTRUMENT OF ANY Reaching the neighbourhood PLOT AGAINST THE GREEK from which the alarm originated, ARMY.

fre fighters found that the glass covering the automatic fire alarm

The announcer concluded: "While German pressure con- times on one hand Yugoslav na- tional resistance becomes all the more imminent especially as the voice of the Yugoslav press is em- phatic on the subject of no con- of national sovereignty and independence.”

cessions

that Ap

No Solution Yet

Belgrade repor's show Yugoslavia's political crisis pears to be little nearer a sole tion despite reports that the posts of the three Serb Ministers, who resigned on Friday as a protest against acceptance of the Nazi terms, have now been filled.

With the critical decision still in the balance, the visit of Yu- goslav statesmen to Vienna stil! hangs fire, though a special train was reported to be standing by during the week-end ready to leave at a moment's notice If re quired.

of the

Meanwhile, a meeting Federation of Reserve Officers of Yugoslavia on Saturday unani- Hiously passed a resolution pro- testing against any plan to "ron- clude an agreement not in har- mony, with our national honour and independence."

Protest To Regent

A protest has been sent to the

Regent, Prince Paul, and the Pre-

mier.

After passing the resolution the officers broke up their meeting and

than Roads had been smashed.

ACTIVITY

STOYADINOVICH Spain's

GOES TO GREECE

M. Milan Stoya- dinovich, former Yugoslav Premier, who is now in British hands, received his passport at his own request and left for Greece "at his own free will," declared the official Yugoslav news agency in Bel- grade yesterday. Reuter.

in Italian East Africa, in support of army opera- tions, is reported in an R.A.F. communique re-

Intense aerial activity WHICH

WAY TO

leased in Cairo yesterday. TURN?

RAF bombers and fighters re- peatedly attacked enemy positions in the Keren area,

station at As

The railway mara was attacked on Saturday

and during the raid British

'Neutral'

Position

Spain's ability to retain a neutral attitude in the present wer was given special emphasis in the first official Spanish re- ference to foreign policy since the passing of the American Lease and Lend Bill.

The Under-Secretary of the Press and Propaganda Ministry in Madrid, Antonio Tovar, who ac- companied the Foreign Minister, Senor Suner,

and to Germany Italy recently, said yesterday:

most serious risks

are

un.

"The Inherent In Our geographical position.

We cannot live armed or unwatchful." Senor Tovar added that Spain to-day wanted to emerge centuries of retirement.

from

Hitler's present actions recalled those of Napoleon but whereas

"Hitler knows that the world knows and that his Own people know some thing has gone wrong and Napoleon was a scourge for Spain, number of that he has not been win-Hitler was a scourge for those who had reduced Spain to a third-class ning the war according to power-France and England.

Reuter. Three other Fiat fighters were schedule," says the "Char- destroyed in the same area by

lette Observer.” the same squadron on the pre- vious day.

down and ahot

fighters engaged a Flat fighters two In flames.

In the Gondar area fires were started among buildings, follow

at the junction of Austin and Naing an attack by R.A.F. bombers

on barracks and warehouses, Train Burned Out South African bombers attack- ed trains on the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway, destroying at least one train, which burned out after receiving a direct hit from a salvo of bombs.

NEW VENTURE IN DIPLOMACY

An announcement is expected very soon that China and Austra- lla have decided to enter into normal diplomatic relations with an exchange of Ministers, says the "China Times" in Chungking. The paper adds that such a step would strengthen the friendly re- lations and commercial ties be- tween the two nations.

Reuter

R.A.F. bombers also machine- gunned trains at Afdem and Gota and bombed and-machine-gunned a large concentration of enemy motor transport on the road be- tween Urso and Awash, and an enemy position in Marda Pass.- Reuter,

CAIRO OFFER

OF AID TO

YUGOSLAVIA

SOME FACTORS which should encourage Yugoslavia to stand firm in face of the Ger- man demands, were indicated by British offi- cial circles in Cairo yesterday.

It was declared that the action of the declined to proceed with other three Yugoslav Ministers who resigned as a

business in order to emphasise

their protest.

The Reserve Officers did not protest against the Government's majority disband their organisation, but vote in favour of the German terms, will be

merely broke off this meeting.

Reuter.

ELBOW FRACTURED

applauded in Yugoslavia as a whole, and the Yugoslav Government can take this popular feeling into account.

Another element which

can- The Yugoslav Government mast

not fail to be considered is the also have observed signs of ✡ recent conversation between the growing conviction in Germany An Indian watchman employed British and Turkish Foreign that the military hazards of a as Balkan campaign are greatly in- by Sheum's Circus in Cheungsha- Ministers at Cyprus, which,

and creased by the growing Italian wan Road, was remanded for a was stressed both in Cairo week on $100 bail by Mr. H. C. Ankara, re-emphasised the com- difficulties in East Africa, Macnamara at Kowloon this plete Anglo-Turkish identity of morning on a charge of assault- views. ing To Chi him, 31, hawker, at present in the Kowloon Hospital.

Inspector W. H. Nolloth sald that last night while complainant! was peeping over the fence at the circus, accused went up and struck him with a stick on the left elbow...resulting in a fracture and dislocation of the limb.

ALL THESE CONSIDERA- TIONS SUGGEST *VERY The Yunuslav Government CLEARLY THE COURSE WHICH aleo la "doubtläre · "täking Into HER OWN INTEREST "AND account the help In material: THOSE OF HER NEIGHBOURS and munitions and naval and DEMAND IS FOR YUGOSLA ale support which Britain ■ VIA TO FOLLOW. THE giving Greece and on which 'AMPLES OF GREECE Yugoslavia would likewise

STAND be TURKEY AND able to call if attacked Gormany.

The paper adds: "They know knows, and some of his own peo-

his purposes in the that Great Britain has thwarted ple may know, that for the last British Isles several months he has been act. and in Africa and that the Greeks ing like a desperate man of sorely disappointed him in the thwarted purpose who couldn't decide which way to turn next."

south-east.

"A large part

of the world

Reuter.

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