1941-03-26 — Page 25

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 26, 1941.

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GERMANY HAILS HITLER'S

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DIPLOMATIC TRIUMPH

FIRST SEMI-OFFICIAL German com- ment on Yugoslavia's entry into the Axis orbit is in the Foreign Office organ “Diplomatische Korrespondenz.”

It describes the latest extension of the pact as "a further step on the road to creating pan-European solidarity and a setback for the Anglo-Saxon world. Neither the presence of Mr. Eden in the Near East nor the propagan- da value of the Lease and Lend Act could blur the sense of reality of the Yugoslav statesmer.'

In Rome, the "Giornale d'Italia." summing up the significance of the development, declares "it rein- forces the European unity, for "} nation of 16 million men possess - ing natural riches and a hard- working population has been add- ed to the group gathering round the Axis powers.

¡DIED AFTER

SOMERSAULT

The newspaper stresses the fact that the adhesion took placson on the ove of Mr. Matsuoka's arrival in Berlin.

Japanese Comment

powers."

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While she was doing somersaults

mattress а

women got a needle in her leg. Blood-poison- ing followed and she died.

Frederick Scott Malcolm stated at Hammersmith

wife, who

wys

wag

The Japanese press hails Yugo-at the inquest slavia's adhesion to the Axis Pact that his as "a decisive victory for the Axis twenty-one, wys

pital purse.

Her favourite pastime was to do physical jerks in front of the fire.

The "Nichi-Nichi" writes: "It is a diplomatic victory for the Axis powers which will deal a serious blow to the Anglo- American camp and will acce- lerate

the complete German mastery over the Balkans."

TALK WITH YUGOSLAVS

An official com- issued munique was following Hitler's talk with the Yugoslav Ministers in Vienna yesterday.

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It confined itself however to saying: "Conversation questions of mutual interest was con- ducted in the spirit of the traditional friendly relations ex- isting between Ger- many and Yugo- slavia." Reuter

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Head Over Heels

On the evening of January 2, Holland Road The "Yomiuri" says the enlarg-at their home in

Kensington, ed pact will yield "brilliant

she got into her

sults."

pyjamas and did "head over heels" on a mattress.

re-

"I said to her. 'Can you

do it said backwards,"

Mr. Malcolm, and she did."

Close Cooperation

Hope for increasingly closer political and economic cooperation between Italy and Yugoslavia was

His wife then told him; "There expressed by Rome radio yester-is a needle

and the Boor, on day, on the anniversary of the

gave a start. It was then that friendship pact between the two Mr. Malcolm thought that she countries signed two years ago.

drove the needle into her leg. He The announcer added that Bel-could feel it under the skin. grade's decision to become a “jun - for adherent to the tripartite pact The needle yeas removed in ensured her a dominant position hospital. which she should and must have

new order in Europe."-

in the Reuter.

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