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ON NEW LINE SMASHED RUMANIA Situation Likely VICHY

To Be Serious

CIVIL WAR

CABINET

RUMOURS For Two More Days SHUFFLE?

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"}

Civil war has broken out

in Rumania, it has report-

ed in Budapest yesterday, "SUNDAY EXPRESS"

as General Antonescu, the

Premier, and loyal regular DEMANDS GREEK

army troops strive to quell

a rebellion of Iron Guar: EVACUATION

dists, Communists and peasants.

Heavy machine-guntire WIN - heard from the frontier all tught, and refugers say fighting began in some towns on Saturday and flared into a nationwide rebellion on Sunday

They say General Antonescu formally declared all Iron Guard- ists enemies of the state and rush- ed his best troops inte action. holding tank units in readiness.

The issue seems to be a de mand for the return of terri. tory ceded to Hungary and Bul-: garia under the Vienna Arbi- tration last year.

It is understood that further precautions following General Antonescu's refusal to accept the offer of Horia Sima of Iron Guard collaboration with the Government, provoked the crisis. --International News Service.

SPAIN

FLIRTING

ĮSPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

The London "Sun- day Express," in an editorial signed by the editor, John Gordon, colls on the Govern- ment to evacuate the Imperial Expedition- ary Force from Greece as quickly as possible.

"We should get our army out of Greece as swiftly as we can," he

asserts.

never

"It should have

been

there." Inter- national News Service.

Army's

WITH AXIS? Novel

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

It is persistently report- ed in Madrid that the Spanish Cabinet is on the

Air Mail

verge of a decision of the A novel method of cor- utmost importance.

respondence from the Im- Neutral sources are speculating perial Forces in the Mid- on the possibility of Spain an- dle East will shortly be nouncing couperation with the

as-introduced. Axis and possibly aid in an sault on Gibraltar or an invasion

be

of Portugal or seizure of the It is called the "airgraph" sys- Azores for use as a U-boat base. tem, under which servicemen's It is not believed Spain would letters will be photographed onto actively aid the war but would a miniature film which will assume a role of passive acquie-sent to Britain by air for enlarged scence, not blocking Axis moves, copies to be taken and delivered -International News Service, within a fortnight from the time

of writing. +

IL DUCE-HITLER MEETING SCOUTED Without giving a direct de- niál, a statement made in poli-

ticul circles in Berlin yesterday

implies that the rumour concern-

The system will permit more frequent and larger malls since 4,500 letter negatives weigh only one "167" Charge Tor each letter will be 3d.⠀

A similar mail from Britain to ing at imminent meeting between the Middle East will be introduced Hitler and Mussolini is quite un- as soon as technical arrangements founded. Reuter IB are completed. Router. -

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)

IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED IN ATHENS THAT THE ANGLO-GREEK FORCES ARE HOLDING THE ENTIRE ** MODIFIED ' LINE INTACT AND ARE REPULSING REPEAT ED REINFORCED ITALO-GERMAN ATTACKS SUPPORTED BY HUNDREDS OF GERMAN 'PLANES.

Pe-

ac-

The possibility of a re- shuffle of Marshal tain's Cabinet is being discussed in Vichy, to cording information from the French frontier received in London yes- terday.

It is reported that Hitler is "sacrificing position of those favouring closer the lives of thousands" of German soldiers in a ceaseless hammering with the aim of at- tempting a quick victory.

Despite desperate German mechanised efforts to achieve victory on Hitler's birth- day, the enemy failed to break through the 'new Allied lines at any point.

It is further s'ated that the re-

treating Greek troops in Albania, NO BOMBS DROPPED completely repelled Iwo fierce Italian assaults despite support by German Stuka dive-bombers.-In- ternational News Service,

Larissa And Trikkala Evacuated

Continuing their systematic withdrawal in Greece the Im- perial forces have now evacuated Larissa and Trikkala but the Germans have failed to break through the Allied line

at any point, according to latest informa-i

reaching headquarters in

ton Cairo,

THE SITUATION IS DES- CRIBED AS STILL SERIOUSİ AND LIKELY TO REMAIN SO

THE FOR A DAY OR TWO. GERMAN ADVANCE HAS BEEN EFFECTED AT THE COST OF HEAVY LOSSES

A "cautious" German ad-

vance İs recorded In a com- munique issued by headquar.

ters of the British forces in Greece yesterday.

Our Casualties Light

It says: "Despite continuous bombing the ordered withdrawal of our forces. to new positions continues and is nearing comple-

tion,

"The enemy is advancing very cautiously, partly owing to bad roads and largely beenuse of the rough handling he has received whenever in contact with our men. Our casualties, are light."

over

The German successes in North Africa and the Balkans, it says, appear to have strengthened the

collaboration with Germany but it is unlikely that Pierre Laval will be recalled to the Cabinet as he is still very unpopular,

ONE POSSIBILITY IS LA- VAL'S APPOINTMENT AS AM - BASSADOR IN PARIS IN RE- PLACEMENT OF THE COMTE DE BRINON.

He would then be the head of the French delegation with the task of speeding up collaboration with the Armistice Commission, which would

to be transferred Paris from Wiesbaden. Reuler.

DEATH OF FRITZ IN DAYLIGHT

THYSSEN REPORTED

Enemy activity

Britain (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") during yesterday was on a small

The London "Times," in a des- scale and was mainly confined to patch from

that Vichy, reports south-east England. No bombs are Fritz Thyssen, the German indus~ reported to have been dropped, trialist, has died in concentration says an Air Ministry communique. camp.-International News Ger-

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