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YUGOSLAV

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 31, 1941.

FRONTIER

REPORTED TO BE CLOSED German And Italian Residents Leaving Country

GERMAN RADIO VERSIONS OF DEVELOPMENTS

THE GERMAN RADIO REPORTED LAST NIGHT THAT THE FRONTIER BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND STYRIA (AUSTRIA) HAS BEEN CLOSED BY THE YUGOSLAV, AUTHOR- ITIES.

Reich Germans living in Croatia have been asked to leave the country, says the official German news agency.

A first special train, with some 800 Ger- mans, left last evening and another train leaves early this morning.

YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR RECALLED

The Yugoslav Am- bossador to Turkey was scheduled to leave for Belgrade last evening.

It is understood he was recalled by his Government for con- sultation. Reuter.

BRITAIN DELIVERS THE GOODS

DESPITE

THE LOSS

OF

LARGE EUROPEAN MARKETS{

IN DENMARK AND HOLLAND, BRITISH EXPORTS OF

CLES WERE HIGHER

YEAR THAN IN 1939.

BICY- LAST

The fact that exports last year were extra-European is also {1 comment on the failure of Hit- ler's counter-blockade to curtail British oversens trade.

South

Exports of bicycles to America are increasing steadily. Brazil, for example, last

year

took more than double the num- ber of bicycles of British manu- facture she did in 1939.

Value of bicycles exported in 1940 was £3,570,829. - British Wireless.

Not my Italian jou nalists but Halams generally ae beginning to leave Yugoslavia, according to Latest reports from Rome, adds the Gennan agency.

German Army Movements

Reports from Sofa indicate movements of German heavy ar- tillery from south to north via) the Kinajevo road, through the suburbs of Solla, the Bulgarian capital, according to the Istanbul correspondent of the Independent French Agency yesterday.

The correspondent adds that German police are also carrying| out passport control of passen- gers at Gwilengrad, on the Bul- gar-Turkish frontier.

Yugoslav Discipline

This woman seen wearing a striking winter fashion does not seem to mind the cold- but she attracted plenty of at- tention as she walked through the West End of London re- cently. (Copyright, Fox.)

TOLD BLACK-OUT DUE TO LAMPLIGHTERS'

STRIKE

A Belgrade telegram to the

Mrs. Elizabeth Hampshire, of official Italian agency reports the Barton-terrace, Beeson, York- arrests of pro-Axis journalists, shire, who has died at Leeds aged including Gregorich, director of 102, did not know there was મા the pro-Axis"Vreme" newspaper.

war on, and her daughters

ex-

plained the black-out by telling News from Yugoslav sources her the lamplighters had gone on in Belgrade emphasises that strike.

being, popular enthusiasm

She was deaf and could noti

is

of order and discipline.

NAZI: SHIP

SLIPS OUT OF SHANGHAI

Considerable mystifica- tion and much specula- tion surrounds the un- |obtrusive departure from Shanghai at the week-end

of

the large Germán freighter "Ramses," which had been tied up in the local harbour since! the outbreak of war.

Present whereabouts of the ves sel are not disclosed but, un- officially. she has headed for Japan

It is learned the shop Poft post without first procuring clearance papers from the local authorities

Waterfront circles in Shanghal believe that the "Ramses." which is of 7.983 tons, is most probably to be converted into a raider.

Only other large Axis ship in Shanghai is the converted Italian "Conte Verde" of 18,500 fonts. Reuter.

NAZIS WORKING UP "ATROCITY" CAMPAIGN

All German broad- casts last night gave prominence to reports of alleged anti-Ger- man incidents in Yugoslavia.

It is pointed out in London that these re- follow ports closely the lines of the "atrocity" campaigns preceeding the inva- sion of Czechoslova- kia and Poland. Reuter,

U.S. GRANTS FOR RELIEF IN GREECE

The United States has now con- tributed £750,000 to rehet in Greece. it was stated on Athens yesterday.

RUMANIA FOLLOWS AXIS LINE ON BELGRADE ISSUE

"A RETURN TO THE line of policy agreed to by Yugoslavia at Vienna no longer seems possible for the Simovitch Government," de- clared a Bucharest despatch to the official German news agency yesterday.

It adds that political circles, in Rumania kept strictly within the limits hear the sirens, and newspapers | declare, on the basis of information obtained from Belgrade, that "the measures adopted been bed-ridden by the new Government are assuming a more pronounced anti-Axis tendency."

Wakefield. Mrs

were kept from her, The Simovilch Government is, A native of dealing with current business, Hampshire had particularly the budget.-Reuter, ¦ for some time.

LUPESCU ESTATES

CONFISCATED

"A

grave impression

SHE CAN SMOKE, SO-

WAB

BOSTON INCIDENT "Irresponsible fanatics" arç

this, held responsible for

soys ARMED COASTGUARDS[the agency, which adds: HAVE BEEN SEEN BOARDING THE GERMAN OIL TANKER The remaining property

FRIEDERICH in PAULINE

(4.733 Rumania belonging to Madame TONS) IN BOSTON HARBOUR, Lupescu, who accompanied

MASSACHUSETTS. ACCORD-

message agency.

ex-

news

GRAM.

Croats Confer

"A woman who is sufficiently made by the flight of peasants manly to smoke is sufficiently of German origin from Yugo manly to go to gaol for this sort slavia to Rumania."

of thing." That was the sheriff's The German radio reports anti-comment at a West of Scotland King Carol to exile, has been! ING ΤΟ THE

NEWSPAPER Halian demonstrations on Satur-court, when he sent Elle Bain, RECORD YESTER- day night at Zagreb, capital confiscated, says a Bucharest "BOSTON

of thirty-seven, of Great George DAY, SAYS A REUTER TELE- Croatia, but on the other German to the

hand Street, Glasgow, to prison for six Reuter.

the German news agency states: weeks for having cigarettes and matches with her in a war fac- tory.

The procurator-fiscal said she "Perfect order and quiet" pre- deliberately brought in cigarettes vail in Zagreb, where the leaders to have a smoke when she felt in- of the Croat Peasant Party are clined. The fact that she was a conferring on the situation under woman did not lessen the danger. the presidency of Dr. Matchek.

The Ban (Governor) of Crou- tia, M. Spubachitch, whom Dr. Matchek sent to Belgrade on be- half of the Croats, has now re- turned to Zagreb, where he im- mediately conferred with Dr.

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GOVERNOR'S TERM EXTENDED

The term of office of Sir Her- bert James Stanley as Governor

extended until October next, says a Reuter message from London.

MATSUOKA ON HIS

WAY TO ROME: Mr. Matsuoka, the JapaneseT, He has been away from the Foreign Minister, has left Berlin capital since the coup d'etat on for Rome, says a Reuter despatch. Thursday, and has not yat. fors

Dr. Matchek Accepts of Southern Rhodesia has been

DR. MATCHEK, THE CROAT LEADER IS EXPECTED TO RE- TURN TO BELGRADE FROM ZAGREB TO-MORROW, AC- CORDING ΤΟ A BELGRADE DESPATCH TO THE VICHY NEWS AGENCY.

mally Indicated his acceptance

of the office of Vice-Premier in ment on receiving assurances that tha Simovitch Cabinet.

there will be no change in the which was

The despatch, however, saya ho status of Croatia,

has now agreed in principle to granted a measure of autonomy in participate in the new Govern-1.1999. Reuter,