1941-04-04 — Page 19

THE CHINA FIAIL, APRIL 4, 1941.

RECALL

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OF

ITALIAN

NAVAL ATTACHE DEMANDED "Non Persona Grata" To American Government

Axis Ships May Be Forfeited To The United States

POSSIBLE ACTION TO FORFEIT THE SEIZED AXIS SHIPS TO THE UNITED STATES IS 'BEING "STUDIED" BY MR. HENRY MOR- GENTHAU, SECRETARY OF TREASURY, AND MR. ROBERT JACKSON, ATTORNEY-GEN- 'ERAL, ANNOUNCED MR. MORGENTHAU IN

· WASHINGTON YESTERDAY.

Meanwhile Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, acting on President Roosevelt's orders, yesterday sent a Note to the Italian Ambassa- dor demanding the immediate recall of the Italian naval attache in Washington, Ad- miral Alberto Lais.

It is alleged that Ad-¡

miral Lais was connected GERMAN

with the sabotage of Ita-

lian ships in American SOCIALIST

ports.

MOVEMENT

The Note, as published by the State Department, says Admiral Lais. is "persona non grata to this Government as naval at German tache of the Royal Italian Em- bassy in Wachington."

ENVELOPED

IN ITS OWN SMOKE

A 21-year-old Spitfire pilot who has already won

the D.F.C., with a ser- geant pilot shot down a JU88 into the English Channel early yesterday.

They intercepted the JU88 about three miles off Beachy Head when fying only 300 feet above the water. Both attacked.

Return re from the rear gun-

appeared.

was

forced

hit the

NAZI SEAMEN REFUSE TO PLEAD

Ten German sailors, handcuffed in pairs, were charged before the Federal Court in Boston yesterday with sabotage aboard their tanker, which has been seized by the United States thorities.

The accused refused to plead. Reuter.

ou-

men

STOCK EXCHANGE CHEERFUL

The was

London Stock Exchange cheerful and mostly firm yesterday, especially industrials where

were widespread

guins

ITALIAN SHIP'S DASH TO BRAZIL

The Italian freighter, Himalaya (6,240 tons) arrived in Rio de Janeiro yesterday direct froni Somaliland.

Camouflaged, but unarmed, she is the second Italian ship to ac- rive in Rio since the war.

The German freighter Babitonga (4,422 tons) cleared the customs"; at Santos (Brazil) on Wednesday. with a cargo of fuel, and is ex pected to leave soon.

Feverish preparations for depar- ture are still reported from a horth Brazilian port where seven Italian cargo ships are laid up. - Reuter.

BROADCASTS TO ITALIANS

Italians in East Africa with irons and steels prominent, are now hearing the facts

but the

markets closed quieter.

oils and home rails were

also

ner was soon silenced. The raider Gilt-edged were firmly held, and of the war situation. smoking violently,

A daily news bulletin in Italian down to 20 feet, then

little changed. Kaffrs were Iris being broadcast in Italian, or-water, turned on its back and dis- regularly lower but African gold Somaliland and in Abyssinia from

mines advanced. Coppers were 'Nairobi, more active. Japanese and Brazi- The British authorities have lian bonds were good among for- started an Italian newspaper in cign issues where there was some Mogadiscio, which gives the main buying. Chinese Customs Loans war news, including British, Ger- were also good.. Wall Street gen- man and Italian communiquês.— erally was firm. Reuter.

Reuter.

Socialist ganisations in Britain have banded together "to It requests "your Excellency's Guvernment to withdraw him im-fight Hitler and his allies mediately from the United with all means at our dis-

States."

The Note continues that the ac- posal," according to a tion Is being taken because of joint declaration issued in "various facts and circumstances London yesterday.

which have come to the attention

A squadron leader who shot down a JU88 on Monday was standing by in a Hurricane yes. terday morning when a Dornier 215 appeared near his drome at 6,000 feet. The Hur. ricane pilot Immediately took off and attacked the raider.

aero-

of this Government connecting Ad- The declaration states: "Ger- Pieces began to fly off the miral Lais with the commission man Socialists in Britain are Dornier and it was soon en- by certain persons of acts in vio-united in conviction that the mili-veloped in its own smoke. lation of the laws of the United tary defeat and overthrow of the States."

Germans Next?

Hitler regime, the final subjuga- The squadron leader said: tion of German Nazism and the

elimination of the social basis of "It had fallen to half its ori Hitler's dictatorship are indis-ginal height when it limped into The President has decided that pensable conditions to permanent cloud. It had already jettisoned the continued presence of Admir- pence, of the reconstruction of its bombs in a field but al Lais "would no longer be agree-Europe and of a Democratic and without the load I doubt if it able to this Government," the Socialist future for Germany."—— could get back to base."-British

Note added.

Mc Hull said at his press.con- ference he was unable..now to take up the question whether: sim- ilar action might be. taken against any German-official in the Unit- ed States-Reuter,

KEEPING UP A

BOLD FACE

A PREDICTION.

THAT THE

-AXIS PACT WOULD LAST FOR

Reuter.

Wireless.

even

HITLER "MISSES" THE BOAT

HITLER HAS NEVER BEEN to sea. It is characteristic of the German mentality that it

A CENTURY WAS MADE BY clings to dry land, says the "Philadelphia

MR. MATSUOKA, THE JAPAN- ESE FOREIGN MINISTER, BE- FORE LEAVING ROME FOR BERLIN YESTERDAY, AC- CORDING TO A ROME DES- PATCH TO THE DOME! NEW6 AGENCY.

Mr. Matsuoka said the Pact

...... differed from ordinary alliances which were inspired by the com-

mon interests of the signatories,

as it is based upon the ideal of creating a new world order which was shared by the three powers.

Reuter..

ENEMY AIR LOSSES

The following are figures from official communiques of "British and enemy aircraft losses for the month of March:-

Over Britain and British coastal waters the Germans lost 71 and the British six

Over Germany and enemy oc-

Public Ledger."

"

Hitler once made a supremely idiotic.re- mark that "there are no islands any more. That was before the Battle of Britain, which is described by the British Government in a small booklet.

....... During the 84 days assault Empire just one more generation Against the island fortress from before it succumbed to fatty de- | August 8 to August 31 last year generation of the heart. the Germans had 2,375 · 'planes. But another generation of Bri- shot down before they gave up, tish decline. at this rate since

The islands are still standing| Dunkirk might easily find

the

̧ in the midst of the sea despite | British invalid playing a good

• Hitler's lordly dictum, ciltle game of tennis on the Rhind- because ha cannot readily Reuter.

abolish them that he is, bolig

· gradually reduced to desperate and impotent fury.

It is because there are islands hu that he is only one jump ahead of his Nemesis' on dry land,

cupied territories the "Germans →→ Tennis On The Rhine lost 10 and the British 45.

IFTS FROM CHINA

A further gift of £10,000 from British communities in China, making a total of £122,000, is acknowledged with grateful

At Ben the Germans lost three, The New York Times," in thanks by the Minister of Air- the British note-British Wire- its topics column, says Nazi araft Production says Beuter

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