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CHINA MAIL

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No. 32,119

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1941

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GREEKS STILL HOLD OUT STUBBORNLY IN MACEDONIA

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ĮSPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"!

The State Department is hurriedly drafting the message President Roose- velt will send to Congress on Thursday asking au- thority to acquire the seized Danish ships.

The message may be so warded ¦ to g.ve authority to acquire all idle foreign shipping, such as 19j French ships, mcluding the "Nor- mandie."

It is disclosed

Washington

that the price which the United States Government

proposes

TWO NEW AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS

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TO "CHINA

MAIL"

The first American battleship commis- sioned for 18 years, the world's mightiest warship, the 35,000- ton "North Carolina," was put into service yesterday five months before schedule.

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"Washington," will be

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pay for the 39 Danish ships US. ports and in the Philippines amounts to between fifteen

thirty million dollars.

Some

of these ships, It

is

stated, will be used for the Western hemisphere service. while others will be turned over 1 to Great Britain.—International

News Service.

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Germans Suffer Terrific Losses: Big Battle Near

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")

THOUSANDS OF HASTILY REINFORCED GREEK SUICIDE BAT- TALIONS WERE REPORTED IN ATHENS LAST NIGHT TO BE STILL HOLDING OUT IN MACEDONIA AND GREEK TROOPS ARE STUB- BORNLY RESISTING AT THE FEW POINTS OF CONTACT LEFT THEM IN THRACE AND ELSEWHERE IN THE EAST.

NAZIS TACKLE

month, a year before MOSCOW

schedule.

Interna-

tional News Service.

NAZIS ORGANISING

CZARIST ARMY FOR THE UKRAINE

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"} GERMANY IS quietly mobilising a huge Fifth Column army of Czarist officers, White Russian dissidents and Ukrainians for even- tual use against the Soviet, it was learned in London yesterday.

The leaders of the organisation are being assured that perhaps within a year, certainly not later than next year, Nazi panzer divi- sions will thunder across Moscow's Red Square.

INTERESTING. MOSCOW TALKS [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] A conference which was des- cribed as unusually long and last- ing for about 2-1/2 hours took place yesterday in Moscow be- --tween the United States · Ambas~·

sador, Mr. Reinhardt, and the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Matsuoka. —— International News Servite,

TWO BRITISH TRAWLERS LOST [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") The Admiralty in London ‚yes- terday announced the loss of the trawlers Lora Seaborne and Cray- mond Island. International News Service.

of the

In the organising work Ger- many is using the fles famous French Deuxieme Bureau, which for years has gathered copious dossiers of thousands of Russian exiles in France.

White Russians In France have suddenly been provided with comfortable quarters and Czarist officers given Jucrative administrative positions In Gor-"

many.

ALL UNEMPLOYED WHITE RUSSIANS HAVE BEEN INVIT-į ED TO JOIN THE "FREE CORPS," WHOSE ULTIMATE PURPOSE IS VAGUE, AND A SIMILAR CORPS IS BEING DRILLED. IN. POLAND.

Hetman Ukoropadɛi, anti-Soviet Ultrainian, is "directing the corps -- International News Service;

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[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

The Soviet Ambassador

The Germans have suffered terrific losses in their ceaseless mechanised thrusts, sup- ported by violent Stuka dive-bombing at- tacks. It is claimed in Athens that the Greeks were outnumbered 30 to one.

In Berlin, the capture of Salonika, cutting off the Greek army east of the Varda River, is claimed to have paved the way to a decisive battle with the British and Greek armies

in Berlin yesterday con-blocking the way to the heart of Greece.

The line where the decisive battle is likely to be fought runs roughly from beyond .tho Ostrova region, in north Greecej to Katerini,

After the Nazi-reported "col- | THE GREEKS AND BRITISH. ferred with Ribbentrop lapse" of the Greek Thracian and later with the Ja-my. which the Germans, for

propaganda purposes, allege "of- panese Ambassador.

tered to surrender and laid down It is believed the talks related its arms,' the initial blitzkrieg to the Bulkan situation, as well as stroke enabled German forces to Mr. Matsuoka's prolonged con~| pour through Salonika and Prilep versations in Moscow.

towards the Olymp.c region. The Soviet Government and THE GERMANS ARE EX- the German Ambassador in Mos- PECTED TO-DAY ΤΟ MEET COW are also exchanging views, FOR THE FIRST TIME THE EN- but regarding the situation in the TRENCHED MAIN bodies Balkans, according to

report published by the "Daily Tele- graph."

It will be recalled that a high; Soviet Authority London on

Tuesday told International News aggression

that the Russo-German non.

pact has weakened considerably as a result of Nazi aggression in the Balkans. 111- ternational News Service,

ENEMY TRANSPORTS TORPEDOED

The Admiralty announced last night: "One of our submarines in the Central Mediterranean has carried out a successful attack on laden transports and supply ships a southbound convoy of heavily-

A ship of about 12,000 tong was hit by two torpedoes. A ship of about 6,000 tons was also hit by a torpedo." — British Wire- less.

To-morrow

being

Good Friday, there will be no issue of the "China Mail." Pub- lication will be re- sumed as usual-om Saturday.

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German objective is an advance to the key-points of Janina, Tri- cala and Larissa,

The British have been concen- trating in the Olympic region for some time.

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