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SENT TO NEUTRALS IN FRANCE

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT issued a proclama-France --- tion on April 11 removing the combat zone at the entrance to the Red Sea so as to allow American merchant ships to carry supplies to Egypt and the Suez Canal. Whether war materials can be sent is under study by Attorney General Jackson,

Soon after the President rescinded his pro- clamation of June 11, 1940, establishing “a combat zone" at the mouth of the Red Sea, it was learned that the thirty-nine Danish ships recently seized, and destined to become a permanent part of the American merchant fleet as soon as enabling legis- lation is passed by Congress, will be put in the sup- ply service to Suez soon with their Danish crews.

the vessels will, It may be that be moved to the West Coast so that they

can sail

Immediately

Asked whether shipment of war

to ał materials

belligerent ju American ships was permissible even if a combat zone did not with food and perhaps.armaments for the British forces after Con-exist, Mr. Roosevelt replied ship- not be made to a ments could gress arts upon President Roose- velt's request.

belligerent but could to a neutral power.

In addition, Maritime Commis- sion ofeia's said that existing

New York to i trade routes from the vicinity of the Red Sea would make 11 possible to send more than twenty

vessels American monthly to Suez ports without diverting ships from present trade italian

routes.

Ab

Fake Pigepf?" a reporter asked. The fint replied in the American vessels could carry

war supplies to a neutral anywhere over the high seas as distinguished from closed combat zones, They were not from carrying them to Buenos Aires, for instance.

"Under the Neutrality Act arms could not be shipped to a neutral for transshipment to a helligerent. could they?" a reporter asked.

barred If German and ships taken into protective custody are put permanently under the American flag they, too. may gu into this service.

Navy Cleared Area The President's proclamation. opening the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, was issued after the British had captured the port of Massawa all and overcome

but scattered Italian resistance in East Afrien.

The action will make it possible for the United States to aid Bri- toin m the task of feeding and possibly. maintaining armed equipment for empire armies it and near Egypt, which Mr Chur- chull indiented was endangered by Nazi advances IL may make possible the releasing of British

ps for ther services,

al

Mr. Roosevelt explained in press conference that while ship- ment of armainents to belligerents in American bottoms Was plo- hibited by the Neutrality. Art. shipments could be made to’neu- trals such as Egypt. The execu- tive said it could be debated whe- ther the Neutrality Act permitted shipments to netitrals of muni- tions intended for belligerent. but indicated that he intended to Po ahead with the plan outlined above by remarking that we don't buy headaches unless we have to.

The

followed developments closely upon the President's an- nouncement of an agreement with the Danish Minister under which the United States will protect Greenland, Denmark's North At- lantic island colony, and will be able to establish air and other bases there.

New Moves Predicted

The President at first-said he did not know. Immediately there- after he said the query brought up the question of continuous shipments and that, if the reporter five volumes of John read the Bassett Moore (authority on

would find ternational law) he that the United States had been on all sides of that question,

**Will that question plored?" the reporter persisted.

No Headaches

In-

be ex-

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Startling revelations on Ger- man financial manipulations in

which it is said here . may necessitate a revision of the Anglo-American policy to- ward the Vichy government afe made by the "Financial News." London's most influential financial newspaper.

Paul Einzig, economie expert of the newspaper, points out that the Bank" of France's legal limit for special advances to the- Vichy government to pay for German occupation costs has been raised from 85,000,000,000 100,000,000,000 franes, an in- crease which will provide suffl- cient cash to pay the Germanis until the end of April,

to

Marshal Petain, the writer says, agreed to pay the Germans 400.000,000 francs to cover daily is occupation costs, but the cost

The 125,000,000 averaging only balance of 275.000.000 francs 15. being paid to the account of Ger- any in the Bank of France, Einzig says.

Though the German (roops • may wallow in champagne and feast on every conceivable dell- cacy of the French culinary art,' they are unable to spend 275,000,- 000 frances daily. Hence it big balance is accumulating to their credit in the Bank of France, the economic expert contends,

The

the

Germans are using credit balance to purchase a con-

in many

vital trolling interest French industries, the prices paid being

cent 10 and 20 per above the last share quotations on the Stock Exchange, the article contends.

If the owners refuse to sell at any price, the Germans threaten to prevent operation of factories materials. by

withholding raw The Germans also are using these funds to purchase colonial As a re- products from Africa. sult the Germans are spending plentifully.

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Gurman brokers assertedly are being instructed to gobble every share offered for sale re- of price. Government bonds

are used as in turn security for further advances to the Germans from the Bank of France.

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It was then that Mr. Roosevelt said that we don't buy headaches unless we have to do so, la the afternoon, nevertheless, the Pre- Attorney conferred with ident

on General Jackson, who said,

that the White House. leaving

studying the legal experts were Neutrality Act to determine whe-gardless ther Mr. Roosevelt's proclamation would permit shipment of

said that supplies to the Red Sea area,

Other Officials

fur supplies American Sene

The vicious circle, according to the British

been going had

Persian Gulf Einzig, means that France is in through

of which they throes from

will render effective to Basra, had been carried on motor trucks which soon

impossible. This control through Trans-Jordan. Establish- price

will be in German ment of a government in Iraq, control soon

Ger- thought in some quarters to be hands again, because the pro-Nazi, has endangered this mans are able to buy up every-

thing in France for a song. route.

the

non-stop inflation,

6,000 TONS OF DECEIT FOOLS PRYING EYES

That this series of far-reaching steps will be followed by other significant moves is regarded as likely in Washington, The Pre- sident said again. however, there was no official thought of trans- ferring additional destroyers to Britain for the time being. The state only alternative, officials privately, is American escorts for convoys if war supplies are to be carried safely across the Atlantic. Mr. Roosevelt said the first he had heard of the possibility of asking legislation to modify the Neutrality Act and permit Ameri- can ships to put into Halifax was in a newspaper report. He con- ceded that he would soon see Sir Arthur Salter, special British shipping envoy, and characterised as hypothetical a question as to

Among whether he would consider such a

our specialists are a primary lesson. He sees how birds plan if Sir Arthur proposed it. fairly high percentage of artists. practically disappear from sight In explaining his action in The rest included schoolmasters, when they settle instinctively in moths with eliminating the combat zone architects, picture-restorers, paint natural cover, how

on their wings film Italian Somali-manufacturers,

directors. certain markings -stretching from

bough, how some animals sit or lie *

that they cover in such a way their own shadow,

SIX THOUSAND TONS of slag have been used on a single camouflage job in Britain to hide from the Germans an important military, target..

This is but one example of the work of our camouflage experts.

No idea for concealment is too small for them to consider the correct placing, for instance, of and none a few twigs stuck around a "tin hat" is too massive.

When war began the German Army held an Now we have advantage over us in camouflage. caught up. In some ways we are ahead of them.

land to Arabia, Mr. Roosevelt said sculptors, a farmer, a dress de- always alight crossways it would take out a stopper which signers and a magician. had prevented entry of American ships into the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.

Egypt

Asked if the Suez Canal re- mained in a combat zone, the Executive said that it did not, but It that the Mediterranean did. made little difference, he added, whether United States ships land- ed supplics at Ismailia or Port Said since a railroad ran from Ismailia

to the

Mediterranean

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port.

If

a magician can't fool enemy, who can?

the

on

One small model shows how the

backs of

The camera used in the air is. their greatest enemy. Every military activity, from the deploy- dark patches provided by the open reveal parked lorries |ment of guns to the cooking of dinner, cuts its "personal signa- their presence to the enemy.

Another lesson is: Avoid light ture" on the landscape, and the

colours. enemy is trained to decipher it.

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Allenby used dummy pack To-day the science of camou- ffage, la "being passed on to the mules In the last war? Perhaps in used We have soldier. He is taught that by this

tanks in the Near the simplest precautions he can dummy

It is a bad look-out for great! East. provide for himself

the enemy who mistakes the real amount of safety, Animals provide him with a thing for a dummy.

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