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REPORTS FROM BELGRADE INDICATE A

FURTHER CONSOLIDATION OF SERB-CROAT KEROSENE

JUNK

SLOVENE UNITY UNDER GENERAL SIMO- VITCH'S NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.

The Prime Minister's order of the day has ABLAZE contributed to the calm and discipline of the public which is assured the Government will

A large junk with a seek to maintain peace while refusing to cargo of kerosene on board compromise the country's independence or went up in flames whilst sailing near Futaumun honour.

Pass at 10.30 p.m. last night.

has

Meantime the Nazi war of nerves reached a stage of utmost violence. German propaganda is clearly directed to endeavour to create confusion and disorganisation within Yugoslavia:

are

given Conflicting reports

being will any credence be put about. threats alternating these reports. with cajolery, predictions that Belgrade Not Deceived war is inevitable being followed by assurances of the possibility of a peaceful settlement.

The all too familiar techni- resorted to by the Nazis que 30 often in preparation Successive acts

of

for

to

The blaze was visible for miles

around.

The No. 4 Fire Float was des-

patched from Hong Kong but its

Bervices were not necessary since the junk was by then enveloped in flames and sank soon afterwards. -

another kerosene There was junk in the vicinity.

The Fire Float rescued 15 mem- bers of the junk crew and brought them to Hong Kong shortly after midnight. the

Purpose of these tactics is fully apprecia ed in Belgrade and the Simovitch Government has internal situation well in hand.

The Premier's spirited order of aggression the day was welcomed in London since the annexation of Austria as a sign that his Government as a whole is unmoved by Nazi is being faithfully followed. The cue given by the Wilhelm- pressure.

forces he said; de- To the armed that anti-German strasse, monstrations were spreading "The army, a'r force and navy are rapidly in Yugoslavia, was at prepared to do their duty," to ci- "The interest of the once taken up by German-con- vilians:

country demands that you shall trolled radio statios.

guard your homes and if necessary defend them at the cost of your

Constant Stream

were

"Atrocity" stories

again con- yesterday poured out in a

and the Berlín stant stream, radio sounded an ominous note when it stated that developments led to the assumption that a "se- cond Bromberg" threatened Ger- (Bromberg mans in Yugoslavia. figured largely in fabricated Nazi of allegations of the treatment

the Germans in Poland before 1939 invasion).

WOMEN IN COURT

Nine Chinese women were Mr. H. C. each fined $2 by Macnamara at Kowloon this morn- No. DA. ing for trespassing at

above Talpo Road, Plantation, yesterday.

They were caught on the hill- breaking side cutting grass and branches of trees.

lives for the sake of the Father-growing burden to Germany, like

Austria in 1917 and 1918. land. King Peter and the nation.”

There are signs that Axia di- plomacy in the Balkans has be- come embarrassed by a shrewd suspicion of the former's res- ponhibility forf orcing her un- the lucky Junior partner into disastrous naval action.

Growing Burden

In informed circles in London it is believed that a general ser-

With no heart in the war her deficiences must constantly be made good by the Nazis. Italy, it may be assumed, hears with growing anxiety the mount-

towards - ing note of bellicosity Yugoslavia in the German press. Italy has to consider her position in Albania if, in an effort to re- trieve the failure of Ribbentrop's blackmail on the Tvetchkovitch

ious weakening in Axis strength regime, Germany should provoke

"The Times" yesterday re. marked: "It seems almost to bel has in consequence resulted,

and hostilities with Yugoslavia.-Bri-

a sign of staleness on the part that Italy must from now on be a tish Wireless.

of Hitler that he does not get away from the same old tricke.” The atrocity tales contain no novel features--they tell of "in- "beatings dignities,"

up" and "murders" of Germans. Nowhere outside the Axis countries and those of their subservient friends

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VON: HEEREN, GERMAN MINISTER TO YUGOSLAVIA, NOW IN BERLIN, IS NOT EX- |PECTED TO RETURN: ΤΟ BELGRADE, THOUGH OFFICIAL INTIMATION OF A RUP. TURE IN YUGOSLAV-GERMAN RELATIONS WILL PROBABLY BE DELAYED, SAYS THE BERLIN CORRESPONDENT OF THE STOCK- HOLM “AFTONBLADET."

that false rumours should be ig-

He adds that any German military ac- tion will probably require some weeks of pre- paration.

Meanwhile uncertainty Simovitch, in which, after asking about the Yugoslav situa-nored, General Simovitch said his tion has compelled Italy Government were pursuing a friendly policy to all their neigh- to re-group her forces as a bours

Mr Butler added that the Bri- precaution against the tish Government were in full and threat on a new front in friendly relations with the new Albania, according to the Yugoslavian Government, ⠀ correspondent..

Nazis Intensity Atrocity Campaign

London Statement Cheers greeted. Mr. R: A. Butler, THE ATROCITY CAMPAIGN, Under-Secretary for Foreign Af- AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA ON fairs, in the Commons yesterday THE GERMAN RADIO SHOW- when he said that the Yugo ED SIGNS OF ÎNCREASING IN-? slavian situation had completely TENSITY LAST NIGHT altered since his last statement. The most extravagant allega. by the establishment, without any tions regarding the treatment by internal disorder, of a new Gov- the Serbs of German refugees, said to be arriving in, trainloads ernment.

Mr. Butler added: "The House at Graz (Austria), are made on will have noted with gratification the alleged authority of the the order of the day of General fugees themselves, Reuter,