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INVASION OF BRITISH ISLES OR BLITZKRIEG AGAINST MOSCOW? Dramatic Hitler Stroke Expected In June
Germany EXPLOSIONS Will Hit Back
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Authoritative quarters n Berlin expect Germany o retaliate against the merican decree closing German Consulates with similar order affecting he United States in Ger- nany.
No official statement is avall- able "pending study of the No'e," but it is seen as :nevitable that
here should be a reply in kind.
Rome announces a census of all' American property in Italy with a view to retaliating on the U.S.] freezing order. International News Service.
PACIFIC LINERS
HEARD NEAR GIBRALTAR
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The two Spanish cities close to Gibral- tar, La Linea and Algeciras, both report having heard heavy explosions yesterday. It is not known whe- ther they were caused by gunfire from war- ships, or by bomb bursts. International News Service.
All Robin Moor
AFFECTED Men Safe
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According to San Fran- It is revealed in a Cape- cisco reports, the United town message that all States export ban has missing passengers and halted the Japanese plans! crew of the "Robin Moor" concerning the 27,300-ton have been picked up by Pacific liners, Izumo an unidentified British Maru and Kasiwara steamer and landed safe- Maru, of the N.Y.K.
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Built in Japanese yards. they were designed for the Yokohama- The United States Consul San Francisco run, and were arranging for their accommoda- scheduled to sail in eleven days. tion in Capetown and their return
It is reported that they have to the United States. now been tentatively earmarked for the Japanese Navy for adap‘a- tion
as aircraft-carriers.-Inter-
national News Service.
Possibility Of Simultaneous Offensives
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BELIEF THAT HITLER WILL, BEFORE THE END OF JUNE LAUNCH A TERRIFIC ATTACK AGAINST BRITAIN IN AN ATTEMPT TO END THE WAR THIS SUMMER, OR A BLITZKRIEG AGAINST RUSSIA THAT WILL END HIS ECONOMIC IMPOVERISHMENT, IS STRONGLY GROWING IN WASHINGTON.
Reports concerning German troop move- ments, reaching London and Washington from various sources, indicate that Hitler may strike either East or West, or both simul- taneously.
Although there is a great German con- centration on the Soviet border, troop move- ments in Northern France and in other locali- ties threatening to Britain, have been taking place, masked by the recent closure of the German frontiers and the suspension of the railway services.
At the same time, travellers ar-themselves with the acquisition of riving in Turkey from Hungary the Ukraine, and switch the drive and Rumania, doubtless assisted, to a bid to secure the oil of the by Nazi propaganda, declare that Middle East only. International odds of five to one are being quot-News Service. sia within a fortnight.
Washington reporta Indicate
ed that Germany will invade Rus-
that Hitler has massed two mil- Ilon troops, supported by thou- sands of warplanes, alt within a few hours' etriking range of the Soviet border, from Finland to Rumania.
Three Possibilities
This concentration is taken portend one of three develop- ments.
to
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The survivors report that the
One, an anti-Russian blitz, U-boat officers supplied them with bandages bearing German an attempt to gain the Ukrainian markings.
granaries and Caucasian" oil, and Tension has eased somewhat into overthrow the Stalin regime; Washington as a result of the which would be replaced by a news, but it does not relieve the puppet Nazi Government, possibly charge of German violation of shaded with White Russians, international law, and the Ameri- can Government is unlikely to The newly-created Kingdom. of modify the vigour of its diploma- Croatia, carved out of Yugoslavia, tic protest. International · News yesterday formal'y kigned adhesion | Service..
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o the Axis Pact in ceremonies at Venice, attended by representa-.
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Germany, Italy and International News
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Two, the capitulation' ef "Sta3 lin to Nazi demands for collà-" boration. Involving giving the Nazis wheat, and oil and a right"| of way for German armies to move against Iraq and Iran via the Ukraine and the Bjack Bèá: THREE, A DELIBERATE FEINT TO DISTRACT ATTEN- TION "FROM GERMAN PLANS,
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German Scheme
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*D.B.N. reports from Bucharest out the fantastic re- that the Iron Guardist leader, It is believed in German quar- orning, that the total Horia Sima, and nine alleged "ac- | ters that Hitler has decided to British merchantmen | complices,” have been sentenced wipe out Communism for military inning of the war is to imprisonment for life for par- and political reasons. It is bes 12,000,000 tons, near--ticipating in the rebellion against lieved that if the Germans should
tonnage, sunk during
Fonescu before the ufind a Russian Invasion checked, entered" Rumanin, they would duickly divert the tal News Service, 7 min
thrust youth and content
International Newe
SOVIET ASKED FOR
ASSURANCE
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THE ORDER CLOSING ALL GERMAN CONSULATES IN THE UNITED STATES, FOL- LOWING SO CLOSING ON THE FREEZING OF GERMAN AND ITALIAN FUNDS, IS VIEWED IN WASHINGTON AS THE MOST DRASTIC STEP AGAINST A FOREIGN STATE SINCE 1917.
The Treasury declines to state- whether the freezing of funds may be extended to Soviet funds pending an assurance from Mos- cow that no attempt will be made. by the Soviet to circumvent the intention of President Roosevelt's order covering Europe. Inter- national News Service,
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