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GENERAL

MEDITERRANEAN FLEET ATTACKED BY

ENEMY

AIRCRAFT:

RAIDERS

REPULSED, CHASED TO SICILY

Italian Navy Refuses Action: British Units Shell Makriyalo 'Drome

that and

Units of the British Fleet successfully bombarded, the Italian base at Searpanto on Thursday, states A Router message from Alexandria yesterday. The attack was made at close quartery, by cruisers and destroyers which have been at sed for several days.

During the action the British warships were repeatedly bomb-

claims ed by enemy aircraft but the Italian Wireless direct hits were registered on a cruiser and

destroyer, damage caused to an aircraft-carrier can be refuted.

It is reported that an Italian main hangars and patrol dumps, cruiser was hit by two torpedoes and workshops and barracks were and that four aircraft were shot set on fire, down.

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Following the attacks of Fleet The Italian Navy was sighted Air Arm aircraft on enemy aero- by our aircraft but turned tall dromes in Rhodes some, of our and made for safety in port and naval forces, including the... Aus- no engagement ensued.

tralian cruiser Sydney (Captain

The aerodrome and surround-

FUNDS FOR

ANOTHER MALAYAN

CONTRIBUTION-

LONDON, Sept, # (Reuter) →→→ The Malaya Patriotle Fund's latest

SATISFACTORY

AGREEMENT

N.Z. COMMENT ON NAVAL TREATY WELLINGTON, Sept & (Reuter) contribution is £20,000 "The arrangement is eminently divided between the RAF. Bene-satisfactory and will be beneficial volent Fund, the Y.W.CA. and the to both countries." declared the New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr

TWO-OCEAN NAVY Dominions forces. APPROPRIATED

A

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, (Reuter) -The House of Representatives has approved comprehensive version of the Eill carrying al- most $5,250,000 to provide equip ment for an army of 2,000,000 men, starting work on the Two- Ocean Navy and the purchase of 14.394 planes.

The Fund has hitherto collected Fraser, commenting on the Anglo- £220,000..

American Agreement.

JAVELLO DROME

Mr. Fraser added that even more important than any mutual or material advantage was the co-operative spirit that animated both countries arriving at the agreement.

EN ROUTE TO CANADA BOSTON, Sept., 6. (Reuter) Three MOTE

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of the destroyers on being transferred to Britain have

BOMBED

NAIROBI, Sept. 8 (Reuter)—It | is offelally announced in Nairobi. that the South African Air Force

aérodrome The B. which will be sent to bombed Javello the Senate before going to Presi- | Tuesday. and destroyed. dent Roosevelt for his signature, enemy aircraft on the ground. Put to seu, making six already would bring this session's appro- One of the raiding planes failed apparently en route to Canada. priations to over $15,000,000,000, to return,

three

NAZI TRANSPORT SUNK

IN NORWAY

give

RADIO ATTACK

ANGLO-THAILAND PACT RATIFIED Ministers Exchange Greetings

ON GREECE LONDON, Sept. 8

(Reuter-

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An Admiralty communique issu-J. A. Collins) and H.M.S, Orion ed yesterday states that exten- (Captain G. R. Back) bombared sive operations have been carried military objectives in the Italian

OVER 2,000 LIVES out by our naval forces in both Dodescanese Islands,

BELIEVED LOST LONDON, Sept. 5 (Reuter-Thailand as the "bulwark of peace Western and Eastern Mediter-

Attacks on LONDON, Sept. 6 (Reuter)

Greece were renewed in southeast Asia” is greeted by ranean over a period of six, days,

Ings at Makriyälo and the har- Stockholm correspondents These operations have been en bour

by Rome Radio this evening Mr. Winston Churchill in a "mes- at Pegadia in Scarpento further detalls of the sinking

After referring to the "peaceful sage addressed to the Prime tirely successful except that no Island were bombarded. The aero- of the 12,000-ton Nazi transport settlement of the Vienna award," Minister of that country on contact was made between our-drome at Makriyalo was plastered Marion by selves and the Italians,

British submarine the announcer declared: "The only occasion of the exchange of rati- with six-inch shells and none of in the Kattegat on Monday night. trouble-maker in south-east Fufications of the Anglo-That pact ITALIAN FLEET SIGHTEN the surrounding buildings were left

Over 3,000 German soldiers rope now is Greece."

pf non-aggression: Meanwhile, air reconnaissance, intact.

were on board on their way to Commenting on. the call-up of Sending his cordial good wishes, reported that the main fleet of

relleve troops. in Norway, They Greek reserve officers, the an. Mr. Churchill says: "I am con- nouncer said: "Greece ought to fident that during your able come to her senses and would do leadership Thalland will play an well not to let her impulses get increasingly important part in the better of her."

these times as the bulwark of peace in south-east Asia."

150 miles from our forces.

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M. T. B.'s SUNK

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ITALIAN THREAT?

the enemy, consisting of battle- Legadia is the seat 01 the were escorted by a destroyer and ships, cruisers and destroyers. Italian Government on Scarpanto two armed trawlers. was at sea. It was then about Island. Of the nve enemy motor] At about 10 p.m. the British torpedo-boats which emerged submarine appeared and fired" a from the harbour H.M.8. Tex torpedo which struck the Marlon, (Lieut- Commander P.L. Saumaraz) breaking her in two. She sank NEW YORK, Sept. 6 (Reuter)— The Prime Minister, oi (fhailand

attack. Two of these were sunk marine then disappeared.

The sub- An Athens dispatch to the New replied expressing the hope that intercepted three which tried to almost immediately. and the third damaged.

York Times says that Italians are the traditional tles of friendship. "Darkness made rescue work sending troops to Albania and de-lexlating between · Britain and ! Our forces in the Dodecanese difficult and it is believed that clares that the Italian force there Thailand will be more closely re-

area were later unsuccessfully at- no more than 200 to 300 of the is reliably said to be approaching affirmed by this part. tacked by enemy aircraft two of 3,000 on board were saved.

200,000. which were shot down Into the sea and at least three others darnaged.

Efforts were made to make con- tart but reports from reconnai- ssance aircraft showed that the enemy fleet had turned back im mediately on receipt of reports Indicating that British forces were In the vicinity, and was heading for its base at Taranto at high speed.

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Another British force Was this time operating to the west of Sardinia and Sicily. On Aug. 31-Skus-alreraft-of-the-Fleet -Air- Arm from this western force at- tacked the aerodrome Elma Sardinia.

Wreckage and bodies drifted up The dispatch adds that the onto the Swedish coast all day Greeks view this as a threat to on Thursday.

Yugo-Slavia.

at Bima BIG FOUR" OIL TALKS IN JAVA

Our aircraft were not able to observe the damage caused but an Italian broadcast admitted that one wing of the military headquarters was destroyed as Well as two Bitcraft on th ground

". SUBMARINE ATTACKED Keturning from this attack pre of our aircraft sighted an Italian U-bcat on the surface. Having

no bombs left the aircraft ina- chine gunned the conning-tower of the submarine as It dived.}.

MAY BE TRIAL HEAT

FOR JAPANESE: PUSH

The impending “big four" oll talks in the Dutch East Indies may be a "trial heat" to show, on one hand, how far Japan Is prepared to go to control the produce of the richest orphans of Europe's war and on the other," how determined the Dutch are to run their colonial economy as they see fit, writes a recent American visitor to Batavia, in the Manila Bulletin.

The conversations among Japan, the Dutch government and American, and British oil operators in the Indies are ostensibly

From this operation all our air- a complicated but entirely commercial discussion, craft returned safely.

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DUTCH ANGLING

"UNOFFICIAL ERRAND"

DUTCH OIL CAPACITY The argument would run OIL Japan might be "forced", by seem- ing Dutch intransigence to Send

ROYAL AUDIENCE. LONDON, Sept. 6

(Reuter) - His Majesty the King had an au- dience with M. Fira Manuvedya Mimolnart who presented his let- ters of credence as Minister for Thailand.

DISORDERS IN BUCHAREST

Reuter des-

BUCHAREST, Sept 6 (Reuter). some of her impatient militarists Heavy firing is now in progress in to the Indies to "see for them-Bucharest states a selves," Le to verify the Dutch patch from the Rumanian capital. explanations of limited oll capa-

Further Iron Guard (Fascist) city, prior commitments, shallow demonstrations broke out in the petroleum deposits, et cetera and main National Theatre Square

the

in fact to explore and appraise last evening and troops armed what Japanese newspapers would with machine-guns cleared be calling by that time "Dutch streets. insincerity toward d'okyo.

This hypothesis in many ways

TROOPS MOVE IN Actually they amount to a commerce in the Konore cabl-resembles what has really hap- Hungarian troops have marched

LONDON, Sept. | | (Reuter)~- On the morning of September major testing of strength born of net, there appeared in Batavia pened in French 2 Swordfish aircraft of the Fleet Japan's avowed ambition to be the

Indo-China. Into that portion of Transylvania potent Tokyo tycoon, T. France fell to Germany in June. ceded by Rumanía on Thursday. Air Arm from this same force the political guardian of the Mukal, president of the Mitsui A nervous colonial governor in attacked the aerodrome at Cag South Seas, in particular, and Buasan Kaisha company,

They were led by the Regent, Hano, acutely aware of his weak Admiral Horthy. Hari, Sicily. Bad visibility bam-"Greater East Asia," in general.

who is the anti-aircraft defenses, agreed that supreme Commander of the Army. pered this attack but it has been reported that. enemy searchilghts

His errand was, of course, des- a Japanese general might come

SWING TO AXIS? The Dutch are angling for cribed as "unofficial" He was and learn at first hand how he at Scaffa were successfully bomb-American military planes and the vague to reporters about oll. The had stopped the arms traffic to One of the first acts of General BUCHAREST, 'Sept.6 (Reuter) ---- ed and put out of action. All our moral support of American public closest he came publicly to men- alrcraft returned safely.

On September 2 our force from opinion. They already have some tioning his objective was the bare of both. But regardless of whether reference to buying more common. they get any more of either kind dities. of help from the United States most people who have visited the Indies in recent months are con- vinced the sturdy burghers wil resist anything-be it boasts bombs.

Was

Eastern Mediterranean tacked by enemy" alrcraft when o south-west Malta. It is pre- sumably to this attack that the Italian communique on Septem ber 3 referred when it stated that "one enemy aircraft-carrier was seriously hit astern. In addition one enemy battleship, one cruiser and one destroyer received hits squarely amidshipa and were damaged.'

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RAIDERS. CHASED In fact this action resulted in no damage or casualties" to of our ships. While Ave enemy aircraft were shot down by Ful- mah and Gladiator fighters of the Fleet Air Arm and anti-aircraft fre of the Fleet, four others were chased almost to Bleily and pru· bably damaged.

"The specific question of the moment, pending the mid- September arrival of the Im- pressive "full-dress mission headed by Ichiko Kobayashi' is whether. Japan can get more vil from the Indies. The Dutch have a variety of ex- planations as to why it is diffí- cult to extend such an aƐCOMP modation to Tokyo,"

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Antonescu, Rumania's new Dicta- tor, after swearing allegiance to The French governor got more King Carol, was to announce nts than he bargained for, lost his intentions of strengthening" Ru- But Mr. Mukai

Job and gave his successor a ter-mania's relations with the Axis. is excellently tic problem to unravel.

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came 100 strong plus would be no armed resistance to eive a "preview" of what Mr.

Hungary's occupation of that part Kobayashi will want from his ceremonial swords. They took a ΩΣ

glance at the "trozen" supplies for of Transylvania ceded under the opposite number in the Dutch'

China and then began to inspect"

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van Mook, the director of econo-defenses. They're still in Hanoi CAIRO COMMUNIQUE

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CAIRO Sept. 8 (Reuter) A communique announces the ar-

and now speak only of more con- cessions, never about leaving...

All of this and much more is rival of further contingents of undoubtedly in the minds of the Poles and Czechs there. Standard Oil and British Shell executives who have been having day night in Libya one of

It also reports that during Mon- a rendezvous in Mania with a Dutch plane

patrols killed three Italians with- chartered to take out sustaining any loss itself; them to Java. They are not talk- ing for publication,

Mr. Mukat blandly declined to confirm that Japan hopes to get -2,000,000 lous of ail yearly from the Indies twice the plazhimum obtained heretofore{sé will stay on the ground for Mr. Kobayashi's arrival. Mr. Kobayashi "can" ERUDITE ANALYSIS

supply the particulars. There was que sentence of

FIRST MORTGAGE"

IMMEDIATE TASK transcendent. significance in- Wed- Then if Mr. Kobayashi sees

The Indies already buy more The immediate task of these nesday's erudite analysis of the little prospect of getting a NOR WERE THESE AIRCRAFT Dutch of position by Harold "first mortgage on such essential the whole all position in the In- free executives is to survey minutely,

from Japan' than they sell to her. Why shouldn't they be ITALIAN: THEY WERE GERMAN Callender, veteran New DIVE-BOMBERS OF THE JUNK Times

York sinews of war as oll, tin, rubber, dies. If they tell the Dutch and,

eager to improve their trade correspondent.. It ERS 87 TYPE.

wis salt, blending ores and quinte the Japanese they cannot meet!

balance with Tokyo? Prices "this: "

the next Japanese Card" can be the Japanese demands they must

and payments can he agreed "There was suggestion played.

also tell them why, and have the

upon. Why all the bother? from Japan of sending an Either Mr. Mukai of Mr. Koba- right figures to support their JAPAN'R URGENCY army and navy mission here yashi can—and probably will argument. For above all the Of course the urgency of Japan's (Batavia) to inspect supplies." gently wonder aloud whether it Dutch and Japanese in these search for more of) is influenced Those who have followed the would not be in the "best in-semi-secret talks are making a by the virtual United States em familiar pattern of Japanese terest of the Dutch to deal with record,” record which probably bargo on petroleum products to aggression in Asia know all too businessmen like themselves who will be used ultimately by one Tokyo. But why should this have DIRECT HITS SCORED well what that might portend. speak the language of business side or both to sell the world" anything to do with the business Loud explosions were heard, For the time being the Dutch and appreciate its niceties. An on the reasonableness of their deals, or two friendly neighbours? probably from ammunition dumps, are being given the Japanese alternative would be such a mill respective attitudes andinres were observed in the brand of high pressure verbal tary mission of "inspection, as is barrach

other buildings. bersuasion. Well in advance of already rumoured in the and Direct hits were scored on two Mr. Kobayashi, the new minister der article.

On September 4 enemy aero- ! dromes at Maritza and Calato were simultaneously attacked by Swordash aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm. At Calato a number of aircraft on the Berndrome were destroyed

The Japanese over-simplify their destres. All they want, they say, a bit more oft

| Tasik au?.. concern of the Dutch that Børnen oll might fuel bomb- -ing planes against China - or till

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