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SOVIET TO BE ASKED FOR RETURN OF TERRITORY

GERMANY TRYING TO AVOID

WAR IN THE BALKANS

NO IMMEDIATE ATTACK ON BRITAIN?

BUCHAREST, JULY 12 (REUTER)—IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT THE FOREIGN MINISTER, M. MANOILESCU, WHEN HE VISITS MUNICH TO DISCUSS WITH NAZI LEADERS THE POLITICAL PROBLEMS IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, WILL ASK GER- MANY TO APPROACH THE SOVIET FOR THE RETURN TO RUMANIA OF THAT PART OF THE CEDED TERRITORY WHICH NEVER BELONGED TO RUSSIA. ・・

All indications are that Germany is doing her utmost to prevent hostilities in the Balkans. The Nazis are anxious for the demobilisation of troops and the mobilisation of workers to deal with the harvest in this region.

Germany is also concerned over the garnering of her own crops as is shown by the importation temporary of Bulgarian labour for that purpose, but Soviet Russia re- mains an unknown factor and Hitler cannot afford to ask the Balkan countries to de- mobilise while further surprise moves are possible from that quarter.

Nazi-sponsored despatches ese Navy goes adventuring in the from Berlin correspondents Netherlands East Indles and Ma- tend to place in the back-laya, it might be at least incon-- ground the possibility of an venient to find a more powerful immediate attack on Britain. fleet between the scenes of those adventures. The Japanese Navy's

I is declared that Germany bases are far away in Japan, while wishes first to organise Eu- the Stars and Stripes still fly in the tope for an economic coun-

Philippines. ter-blockade, abandoning mil- itary action in economic waI...

favour

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STATEMENT ON POLICY Finally, it has been made clear by the Department of State, that With France under the Nazi the statement by Mr. Roosevelt's heel, the bluff over the Indo-China secretary on the Monroe -Doctrine railway has succeeded, but it seems Tast week-end, was a statement on to have falled with Britain, over policy, whereas the statement by the Burma road, while at Shang- Mr. Cordell Hull of last Friday,

Germany Bombed

Three Planes Missing

LONDON, July 12 (Reuter)

hal, the American feeling is now was dednitely the United States-During RAF, raids on Hol- being tested.

"

WASHINGTON IS WATCH- ING WITH KEEN INTEREST JAPAN'S NEXT MOVE, AS IT 15 EXPECTED THE BLUFF WILL FAIL WITH ROTH BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

With the German Fleet still in port and Italy running for cover,

policy.

In his statement, Mr. Full de clared that there has been no re- cession from the American position and any transfer of territory in the Western Hemisphere from one Eu- ropean power to another would not be tolerated,

land and Fran e yesterday one bomber penetrated into the Rühr district by daylight] and "attacked all depots and returned safely. -

There were heavy raids on Germany again last night when military objectives were Three British

The Monroe Doctrine has no con- there is little likelihood of the nexion with the fact that certain American battle fleet leaving the European countries held American attacked.

vicinity of Hawaii. Strategical ex- territories, while others did not. It bombers failed to return. perts point out that if the Japan-was solely the policy of self-de-

BRITAIN'S

CENTURY

fence that was intended to preserve

the independence and integrity of the Americas,

- FOUR NAZIS SHOT DOWN

LONDON, July 12 (Reuter)-It is officially announced that four Ger-

The United States have pursued man bombers were shot down off the policy of non-participation and the east coast today. non-involvement. In purely political It is reported that a raider drop- affairs in Europe, and she would ped six bombs un

Some houses continue co-operation with all the town this morning. other nations, whenever their poll-were damaged but there were not

BAG OF "FOUR" ctes made it possible.

IN A DAY

LONDON, July 12. (Reuter); The British fighters which sent a German plane today. crashing on to a building in the course of construction in north-east Scotland brought the number of enemy aircraft

casualties.

a south-west

INDIA ANSWERS

THE APPEAL

BIKANER,.. July 2 (Renter)- #The British Empire will continue to stand like a ročk of agen" de- clared the Maharajch of Bikaner, presiding at the meeting of the Central War Boarding the Bikaner State which he addressed on the subject of recruiting...

The Maharalah added, "I firmly believe in Great Brain's ultimate Fracist victory over Natts and aggressión."

For the past week's vigorous re- cruiting campaign has been pro ceeding in the Biker State; the recruits are coming in satisfactori- ly and the first of what are likely to be the many new units for the Indian Army is now being formed. This is one of the Indian States' call for 100,000 response to the

men or more which it has been de- cided shall be added to the Indian Army.

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GERMANY HAS STILL TO TRAIN TO FLY OVER GREAT OPINES ARMY EXPERT

PILOTS BRITAIN,

Hands Off To Adolf

NEW YORK, July 12 (Beuter) -Mr. Cordell Hull at a press conference Informally warned Germany to keep her hands off the Panama-American parleys by saying that the Havana con- ference was being held by an agreement of the American‹DR- tions for the purpose of con- sidering matters relating sole- ly to the American Bepales and nations, "states a Washing- ton despatch to the New York Times.

THEY HELD WORLD INTEREST

Principal actors in the recent French crisis-from left to right: General Weyzand, KL. Paul Baudouin, M. Reynaud and Marshal Petain.

AMERICA WISHES

WISHES TO SETTLE

INCIDENT IN SHANGHAI

·

brought down since the first GERMANY SAID TO BE VERY ACTIVE

mass attack on Britain on June 18, to over 100.

in

The anti-aircraft defences south-west England also accounted for another German plane- bomber.

In addition to these 102 definite-

ly known to have been lost, it is probable that a number of others never reached their bases.

DIPLOMATICALLY IN JAPAN

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Battle Not Yet Over

GOOD NEWS FOR THE BRITISH LONDON, July 12 (Reuter)An Italian communique broadcast by

"The great German attack on Britain has not yet be- gun. We do not know when it will come. For some time now, day after day, night after night, German planes have raided us, but due to the vigilance of our Air Force and the efficiency of our anti-aircraft defences, many of them "do not go back to tell the tale." "

With that Mr. H. Wickham Steed opened his broadcast talk in the "World Affairs" series from Daventry "yester- day.

In his desire to break the spirit of the British people, Hitler had sent wave after wave of planes to raid the coun- try and in these attacks the enemy must have lost scores of planes.

Speaking on the possibility of a large-scale attack on England, Mr. Wickham Steed said that a military expert had voiced the opinion that the reason why this had not yet materialised was because Germany 'was still training her pilots “to fly over Britain; .

* Speaking as a layman,” Mr. Wickham Steed went on, “I' `would venture the opinion that Hitler or Goering," or whoever is in charge of the German air force has not yet been able to make up his mind."".... Continuing, the speaker said that he were Hitler or Goering, he would probably, sum up the situa- tion as follows:-

are not

The British behaving themselves. They are too cool and much too determined. In addition they have kept up an in- cessant attack on our petrol dumps, munition works and other military objectives,

"Over and above that they are also pestering the

BASELESS RUMOURS

SHANGHAL, July 12 (Renter) The British Embassy tonight issued a statement denying the reports that notifliations have been issued by the British Consulate-General to the effect that the British - au- thorities are préparing to eat enste: women and children and various stocks from Shanghal

These reports are entirely without foundation, the state="" ment declares.

LIFE MADE MISERABLE FOR ITALIANS

Italians. It is true they are no good, any way, but all the same we can't do with- out the Italians."

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"If we can make trouble between Russia and Turkey It will be tip top. On the other hand if we go all out against Britain and do not win, there will be Czecho- slovakia, Poland, Norway, Belgium, Holland and France to reckon with.

"Under the circum- stances I think it would be better if we kept worrying the British on a small scale all along the English Coast. But then again we must do something, but when or Where the next blow is to fall is the puzzle.”

HITLER-CIANO "TALKS

Mr. Wickham. Steed then re- minded his Ilsteners that those represented the views held advance if he were a Hitler or a Goeringt

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SETTLEMENT IN VIEW?

WASHINGTON, July 12 (Beuter)

A settlement for removing any threat of Franco-British naval hos- tilities near Martinique appears to be in prospect.

It is understood that Mr. Cordell Hall has intervened to seek a solu- tion.

It is expected that the prospec-.-. tive arrangement will involve an agreement: by the French to keep. any warships or planes at Martin que or permit them to be interned. In some neutral port

NIZAM'S FINE GESTURE HYDERABAD, July 12 (Reuter) -A personal donation of 250,000 by the Nizam of Hyderabad and 237:500 from his estate for war purposes was announced by the LONDON, July 12 (Reuter) Fresident of the State Executive -The British forces are mak- Council, at a meeting at the end Ing life extremely unpleasant of which donations amounting to for the Italians in Libya, say £2500 were announced. military circles in London,

On the outbreak of war British naval battle fought on July 8 and armoured forces immediately

WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuter) It is certainly the earnest hope of the Ameri-Rome Radio says that the air and can Government that the present difficulty in Shanghai can be amicably settled on the spot. Officials here are careful to say nothing that is likely to aggravate the situa- tion, but no one bere doubts the fact that the agitation against America has been artificially worked up.

There is plenty of information from first class sources here that Germany has been extremely active diplomati-

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9 is not yet definitely closed and crossed the frontier of Libya, claims that Italian planes yester completely surprised the Italians day bombed an enemy formation and captured two forts and had PAGE 2-Fine Baseball Card for

encounters against composed of two battleships, one successful aircraft-carrier-and a small craft smaller forts, the outstanding escorting five large loaded vessels feature of the operations being proceeding in an easterly direction the extraordinarily good co-opera- The figure of known German cally in Tokyo, using every persuasion to get Japan into

tion between the air and ground SHANGHAI, July 12 (Reuter) in the neighbourhood of Malta. the war on the side of the Axis Powers, in order to em-

The communique claims that the forces. barass Britain and grab any or all the British, French and Akel tonight whether the Japan-

ese authorities now considered the aircraft-carrier was hit by a large For ten days after the outbreak Dutch possessions in the Pacific area. A

It is not suspected here that Berlin would intend Shenking incident closed, a Jap-bomb and fires were see on her of war British armoured forces Japan to keep all that she thus night get, and possibly anese Naval spokesman said that deck. Other ships came to her One enemy vessel in the convoy this was also realised in Tokyo, for information from di-closed" plomatic sources is that Japan has so far been very cau- He also stated that the ammual-was certainly sunk and two des tious, limiting herself to seeing how far France, Britain tion taken from the ship is now in troyers seriously damaged.

the custody of the Japanese Navy. and America can be bluffed.

losses in less than a month is more than half those claimed by the Air Ministry since the War began. The total up to today is 178,

The anti-aircraft Batteries in' south-west England yesterday col lected a "bag of four Nazi, planes.

SATISFACTORY PROGRESS

TORYO July 12 (Reuter)-8[.

Robert Craigie; Beltish Ambassador

Talks Still Continuing

SHANGHAI, July 12 (Reiter) On We

On Wednesday the spokesmaIK

the "matter was not perfectly atd.

Yesterday and today Japanese

MORE TEA FOR BRITAIN

LONDON,

zone about 60 miles deep on the were more or less dominating a Italian side of the frontier, They were continually coming into confict with small Italian forces, infileting losses upon them, taking prisoners and capturing tanks and lorries.

The Italians who had 250- 000,000 troops in

sent for

learn

ward fairly strong

soldiers to replace

12 (Router) give Mincing Lane les cir tual that negotiations have been con tude ded

the Ministry of and mucceeded in

In Tokyo, had a further two-hour A Japanese Army spokesman to commented, the Japanese Army ancers conferred with the Stad interview with Mr. Arita, Japanese night revealed that further nego-authorities received a reply from of the Marines in Foreign Minister, this afternoon on tiations have taken place between the Fourth Marines.As the con- deta the subject of supplies to China vis the Japanese authorities and the tents of the reply were thought cirer Burma

United States Marines concerning to be rather beside the mark the of

The spoke

being kept

A Foreign Office spokesman de- the arrest and alleged maltreat Japanese authorities deemed it

atisfactory progress ment of Japanese gendarmes in necessary to give further explana-con

tions to the Fourth Marines the Bettlemeart On Sunday.

was made.

Food

600,000 forta, but British

dies forces are har

per pound columns

supply

and

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