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SUCCESSFUL R.A.F. RAID ON GERMAN NAVAL BASES:

ALL PLANES

SAFE

NAZI ASSERTION DENIED

LONDON, Dec, 7 (Reuter)~~An-| other raid by British planes on German bases is announced in a brief Admiralty statement.

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.It is indicated that the raid was! completely successful and that all machines returned safely.

BERLIN STATEMENT

A Berlin statement, which ad- mits the rald and says that the attack was concentrated against bases in Schleswigholstein, claims; that owing to the intensity of German anti-aircraft fre, the Br- tish planes were driven off with- cut being able to drop any bombs. No bomb, it 15 asserted dropped on German territory,

was

An allegation is made that the British machines escaped over Danish territory

ALLEGATION DENIED

The Air Ministry announces that RAF aircraft carried out a suc- cessful flight over North Germany yesterday evening and adds that there is truth whatever in the German assertion that British air- craft "flew over Denmark.

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DANISH STATEMENT COPENHAGEN, Dec. 7 (Reuter -It was officially stated that "no foreign planes new over Denmark yesterday, thus' contradicting the German statement.

LORDS TO HOLD SECRET SESSION -

BRITAIN NOT EXPECTING U.S. TO ENTER WAR

NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (Ben- ter) Mr. Joseph Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador in Lon- don, who arrived bere by air. told reporters that the British Government has not the slightest expectation that the United States would enter the war.

Denying rumours that he was- resigning, Mr. Kennedy sald he was returning to London after Christmas. He had come to see his family and to inform the State Department about the situation.

NAZI LINER CAPTURED

BRITISH SHIP MISSING

CAPE TOWN, Dec. 7 (Beuter)-- British warships have captured the German her Ussukuma (7.834 tons) In the South Atlantic, it was officially an- nounced

The officers and crew are safely on board the British ship.

Despite an attempt by the crew to scuttle the Usukuma,. she may be saived and taken. as a prize to port.

SHIP MISSENG LONDON, Dec. 7 (Reuter)-The

announcement, is

steamer

were

LONDON, Dec. (BWS)-The British steamer Huntsman, sayy) Lore President in the House of an Admiralty Lords stated that the Government reported to be missing. had decided to hold a secret ses- Meanwhile stx of the crew of a sion on general question of the Danish 2,500-ton Ministry of Supply. He suggested drowned when the vessel struck a Tuesday or Thursday next week. mine in the North Sea and sank

I will be recalled that the

MINES VICTIM House of Commons will hold a

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 7 (Reuter) secret session with the same ques--The Danish tion as the subject of discussion (3.500 tansi

steamer Ovetort next Wednesday.

mined in the North Sea on Sunday. Six were drowned and the remaining fifteen of the crew were picked up.

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TWO MORE SINK LONDON, Dec. 7 (Reuter)--The Greek steamer Palalos (3,934 tons) bound from Antwerp to Piraues with a cargo of German coal, was sunk either by a mine or torpedo in the Thames Estuary. were Killed and twenty-two

rescu +1.

AMERICAN SLAPPED BY JAPANESE POLICEMAN

S'HAI WATERFRONT

INCIDENT

SHANGHAI, Dec. (Reuter) -An incident decurred on the Shanghat waterfront - this morning when a member- of the Japanese River Pollee, be- lieved to be a Formosan, slap- ped Me. WN. Russell an American attached to the United 6tates Purchasing Office, who was supervising the tranship- ́ ment of goods to the U.S.S. Lason, which is going up the river tomorrow,

MARINES INTERVENE The River Policemen attempted to interfere with the Chinese coolles, when Mr. Russell Inter- vened. The River Policeman then alapped Mr. Russell, who grappled with him.

Two U.S. Marines, who were guarding the cargo, then inter- vened and Japanese gendarmes shortly arrived at the scene and also the Shanghat Municipal po- lice.

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The matter. was temporarily settled and the cargo deifvered to the Luzon.

Nazi Raids On Western Front

PRISONERS TAKEN

BY FRENCH

·PARIS, Dec. 7 (Reuter)-On. the Western Front the Germans are trying to carry out patrol raids with the object of secar- Ing prisoners. There were no less than six of these within twenty-four hours in the Lorraine Sector.

The raiders were repulsed and, far from getting any prisoners. severa? Germans were captured by the French.

WAR COMMUNIQUE PARIS, Dec. 7 (Renter)-A War. Communiquç states that there were no events of importance

except acavity by patrols. Three

The Norwegian steamer Primula (1,024 tons) sank after an explo- sion in the North Sea. Eight are missing.

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LONDON, Dec. 7 (Reuter)- Colonel Reitz, south African repre- ritative to the Empire Talks, left London and is flying home,

Before he left, he said he had jeen very impressed by the Allied ar effort and all he had seen and eard. He praised the co-opera- on.between the Dominions and he Mother Country.

BRISBANE, DEC. 7 (Reuter)— he Australian Air · Minister" "left or England in a specially char- red nying-boat. He has recently

en in Canada,

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U.S. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.

LONDON, 'Dec. 7 (Reuter)-Yes- Lerday was the Twenty-Second Anniversary of, the Finnish de- claration of Independence and it found the Finns once again fight ing the Bolshevisis, with one dif- ference when they fought '25 years ago they were helped by Germany and 30,000 German soldiers lost their lives fighting for Finland,

Today the Germans are on the other side the price Herr Hitler paid for Russian friendship.

ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE WASHINGTON, Dec, (Reuter) In the course of a cable to M. Kallio, President of Finland, on the occasion of the Twenty-Second Anniversary of Finnish Indepen- dence, President Roosevelt declares: "It is my earnest hope that these tragic days may not be long in giving way to a happier era to permit the Finalsh people to con- tinue untroubled, the steady de- velopment of their free political and social institutions, which has aroused the admiration of the American people,"

Officials here state that the message goes beyond the cus- tomary fellcitations which the President customarily cables to head of states on the occasion of anniversaries,

SWEDISH CABINET

RECONSTRUCTION STOCKHOLM, Dec. 7 (Reuter): The Swedish Prime Minister, 'has confirmed that discussions are proceeding for, the formation of a Cabinet on a broader basis.

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