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THREE DEMANDS BY THE AXIS

Hitler "Will Take Decisive Action Immediately"

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ASMARA Yugoslavia Issue AIRMEN'S FALLS IN Believed Entering ROLE IN

Upon Final Stage NAVAL

5 DAYS

Asmara, capital of

cess, which is likely to WARSHIP

trea, has fallen. This sucPERUVIAN

prove the beginning of

the end of resistance in

Eritrea, follows only five IN PURSUIT

days after the capture of Keren.

In that brief time the British

ing victory.

over 75

The Peruvian destroyers Almirante Guise and Al- and Indian forces. ably support- mirante Villar were des- ed by the RAF, have pursued patched by the naval au- the dispirited Italians miles to yesterday's new resound- thorities to Callao to chase two German ships that

The way is now

for Weighed anchor on Mon- the next drive against Mas day night and made for Hawa, Italy's last part, on the the high seas.

It is thought they would be in- The speed of the advance takes tercepted by the British warshly

Henry. which additional Credit from the fact Prince

-Heuter. that the fighting before Keren Callao last week. was of most exhausting kind, leading to the climax of a fort-

Red-Sta.

open

night's sustained: attacks

under

most difficult physical conditions

of climate and terrain.

Duke's Problem ·

In their progress since Thurs- day the British forces: have

had

no easy task, "being faced by b steep climb mainly" "through defile:

With the fall of Asmara: the problem confronting the Duke of Aosta, Viceroy of Abyssinia, re- specting the safety of Italians,

WITH THE REPORTED DEPARTURE FOR BERLIN OF VON HEEREN, GERMAN MINIS- TER IN BELGRADE, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT GERMAN-YUGOSLAV RELATIONS ARE EN- TERING THE FINAL STAGE.

VICTORY

"We found the Italian ships Steaming like billyho for home and German circles in Belgrade declare von fairly plastered them." Heeren is returning to give a personal report

This was a squadron to Hitler, who will take decisive action imme-leader's description of one diately.

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R.A.F. attack on the Ita- during Friday's naval battle

German negotiations with the new Yugo- lians slav Government are reported to be centred around three demands from the Axis, name- ly:

Full compensation ford'etat. damage to German pro- Full public ratification visited perty after the coupof the Tripartitę Pact.

UNEQUIVOCAL POLICY SEEN

IN YUGOSLAVIA

(By Router's Diplomatic Correspondent)

THE POLICY ADOPTED by the new Yugo- including women and children, slay Government is clear and unequivocal;

daily becomes more difficult. Reuter.

Battle Of The Atlantic

The present scale of Bri- tish shipping losses is not high enough for Hitler to achieve victory in 1941, as he had promised, and he could only win by obtain- ing mastery of the Atlan tic

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they wish to maintain peace and to keep in

Demobilisation of the Yugoslay army.

Menacing Note

Germany beat the big propagan da drum with a louder and more menacing note yesterday, con- tinuing the war of nerves against Yugoslavia.

This squadron was en route for a normal raid on Tripoll when' it received news of the war at sea and cheerfully altered direc- tion..

"We hit one big ship twice amidships," he said, "and she stopped with clouds of black and yellow Imoke shooting úp 200 feet."

News of the Italian panic contes from the leader of another R.A.F. attack.

In Confusion

"We found the Italians had "General-anti-German- ten-fied in great confusión, zigzagging dencies in Yugoslavia have ben violently and occasionally getting come steadily worse," says the in each other's way," he said. Gorman 'newe ajency "quoting a semi-official alfegation.

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He added simply "We bombed them and increased the contu- sion." "Reuter

close and friendly relations with all their HAVE AN H. B.-

political independence and territorial inte- grity.

While they have not repudiated the Axis Pact they are examining it very carefully and objectively. If its provisions do not run coun ter to Yugoslav policy, the Government of General Simovitch will probably not denounce the signatures of its predecessors,

But it is evident the Germans are not prepared to leave the interpretation of the Pact in the hands of General Simovitch and

Different Spirit But the Germans are dealing in Belgrade with a Government which has come to power on a fide of national feeling against Nazis, as they have

serfdom. -ideolared, there is no As a result, isutrality," drive. wedge

This Government.

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