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GENERAL

GERMANY IN SEARCH OF NEW Australia Has Modern

FIELDS FOR CONQUEST Sweeping Axis Demands On Greece Reported: Bulgaria Also Target Of Propaganda

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LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuter)—There were fresh signs, yesterday of German's search for a new front on which she hopes to win an easy victory such as she has scored over Rumunia and to a lesser extent, over Bulgaria. Latest target for the Axis is Greece, on whom all the machin- ery of German and Italian pro- paganda has been turned ful blast,

tanks and planes for which Bulgaria has no crews.

Nazi propaganda is becoming Increasingly hostile to King Boris, who recently pardoned Commun- It was reported in Ankara ists and the Slav leader who is yesterday that sweeping demandaja prominent friend of Russia. have been made on Greece by the Axis. These are said to include:-:

The Immediate severing trade relations with Britain;

The handing over of certain airports to Germany and Italy;

The abdication of the King: The resignation of the Premier. General Metaxas, and

NAZI PARTY IN AMERICA

DIES COMMITTEE INVESTIGATION

Fighting Force For

Land, Air & Sea

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA,-UNTIL 10 YEARS AGO GENERAL STONEWALL JACKSON'S TREATISE ON WARFARE WAS THE MILITARY BIBLE OF EVERY AUSTRALIAN ARMY OFFICER. But within the past decade the Anzacs have discarded the rugged Jack- NEW YORK, Oct. 19 (Reuter)-50's theories and tactics and have developed a modern, mechanized

army which is pouring much of its strength Into the overseas cam The German consul here is the

paira. latest Nazi official in the United States to come under suspicion for

legul activities.

ON LAND, IN THE AIR, AND ALONG ITS COASTAL REACHES,

which,

A member of the Dies Commit- Australia has a fighting force: ted which is investigating an-

although comparatively American activities, said yesterday small In contrast to the mighty that the consul was concerned in armies of Europe, gives no quarter the organisation of a Nazi Party for efficiency and man-for-man in the United States.

Rower.

There was no confirmation, he Typical of the brawny Anzac sol-

added, of a report that the con-dier is the case of a Maori at sul was also mixed up with es- Camp Puckapunyal-an aboriginal plondge, sabotage propa- name. noidentally, which means ganda.

"Death to the Eagle." Verißed re-

WOOING OF ARMY In addition to intriguing against

and of the King. the Nazis are trying to win over the Bulgarian army.

The formation of # pio-Axia Government

INCREASED PRESSURE The Turkish radio stated that pressure from Berlin and Rome Jon Greece is being gradually in-

creased:

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The Commander-in-Chief of the Bulgarian army in the last war and 120 Germans are suspected told 4: meeting of the Reserve u military and economic espion- Omicers' Association that "Hitler age and propaganda activities. has recognised Bulgarian claims

as included in the military "treaty

with Germany in 1915."

This would mean the cessation of Macedonia to Bulgaria by Yugoslavia.

GREEK DENIAL The reports of awceping, de-

knows that once she gets a finger by the official news agency in The announcer added: "Greece mands un Greece were described caught in the Axis machine, the Athens yesterday as "fantastic." hand, arm. body, foot, all will be devoured."

BULGARIA ALSOʻ Steps are also being taken. it was reported in Ankara, to bring Bulgaria-to-heel-as-was-done-se successfully with Rumania,

The Germans have gone far enough ahead already, it was stated, to be able to take over Bulgaria at any time they wish. At least 5,000 Germans are now in the country, In- cluding drivers and pllots for

Reports that Soviet troops had entered Rumania and that a Soviet destroyer had. sunk a Rumanian ship in the Black Sea were denied in a statement issued by the off- cial Tass agency in Moscow. yesterday.

NAZI EXPERTS

IN RUMANIA

ENCOURAGEMENT OF.

WAR INDUSTRIES

·BUCHAREST, Oct. 18 (Reuter) Gennan experts are arriving

It is reported that 80 Russians Cords showed that the man joined daily in Rumania to assume the the army in the world war at the direction of munitions and aero- age of 121. He won a commission plage factories, it was reported In the field at Gallipoll at 15. Now yesterday. paly 37 he is back in the army- Australia's youngest veteran. An other enlisted man was found to have served in the Boer War in 1000 but gave his age as "just un- der 40."

RAID VICTIMS IN BRITAIN

The Council of Ministers 01 the Rumanian Government has adopted a series of decrees to make the Rumanian economy supplement German economy. Henceforth only Rumanian in- dustries that will be encouraged 01 such men is the Anzac army will be those making war mate-

are strapping farm youths from terials,

TRAINED AS SOLDIERS

OVER 6 THOUSAND composed. Most of its volunteers rials or using Rumanian war ma-

AMONG KILLED

LONDON, Oct. 19 (Reuter)~~As.

already reported, it was officially announced yesterday that during September 6,954 civilians were killed in the United Kingdom by air raids and 10,615 injured.

the coastal plains, miners from Their Industrial system will be the interior and some natives. reorganised with all Industries They are being trained as soldiers, classified,

and those dubbed not as parade columns They lead no hard and fast camp life with

be closed im-

go night and day ou manoeuvres. emphasis on drill, but frequently

parasitic" will mediately.

The campaign also plans to Major-Gen. J. Northcott is act-Increase agricultural production. An analysis of these figures has ing chief of the general staff and not yet been complete, but a pre-head of the Australian army, His

The agency also denied a re-iminary survey shows that among task is on two fronts, to insure port published abroad that a clash the killed were 1.920 met 2,210 proper defence of Aptsralia and to had occurred between Soviet and women and 694 children under the provide all the man power possible German frontier guards in the age of 1$. Vicinity of Galatz

for the Australian Imperial Forces, The seriously injured included For service abroad, Australia has 1.178 men. 3.629 women and 675 dispatched one division to Pales children under the age of 15.

tine and another is ready to sail Of the remaining killed and not A total of 100.000 is under train- Feully classified 1,157 were mening for expeditionary work. Home defense is calculated to require 250,000 men to garrison coastal and internal stations. Records show that one division of some

FLOOD HAVOC IN SPAIN

and S72 women.

OVER 400 BELIEVED CABLE NEWS 14.000 men can be mustered from

KILLED, INJURED

IN BRIEF

500,000 population for first line duty, so the contingent, with a total population of only 7,000,000. low recruit limitation

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Italy Expels U.S. Newsman NEW YORK TIMES CORRESPONDENT IS ASKED TO LEAVE ROME, Oct. Herbert Mat- thews, correspondent of the New York Times, was asked to leave

There is one principal difference Italy today because President

in the expeditionary force of 1940 Roosevelt read one of his dis-

compared with 1914-18. Every con- patches to Washnigton newspaper.

tingent sent abroad is completely men as indicating that the Axis

NEW DELHI, Oct. 19 (Reuter)-equipped and self-sufficient. It ar- was interfering in the presiden- the French side of the

The Vicerory of India, Lord rives ready for action and needs tial election.

Pyrenees.

Linlithgow, returned here yester- no supplies or equipment from the Rivers in Catalonia rose nine today from Kashmir.

mother country.

.

"ELECTION MANOEUVRE"

VICHT, Oct. 19(Reuter)— More than 400 Lave been drowned or injured in floods in north-east Spain, accord-

ng to a Barcelona

message

- received here yesterday.

This follows earlier accounts of severe damage by floods at Perpignan and other

places

BODIES RECOVERED

on

eastern

ed the war, Richard Mowrer of houses and six factories werę į the Chicago Daily News was ex- destroyed. pelled in 1939 and HR Ekins of the United Press was expelled in August, 1939,

Authoritative rattan

LONDON, Oct. 19 (Reuter) faces Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal, point. former Chief of the Bomber Com- mand, is to take over his new post as supreme head of the RAF in a few days.

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FULLY EQUIPPED

When the war began Australia had six cruisers and a flotilla of small destroyers and lesser craft.

This makes the fifth United 12 feet as a result of torrential "states" correspondent expelled rain and the foods reached first! LONDON, Oct. 19 (Reuter- from Italy in the past 18 months. floor balconies in some streets. The German authorities. in or Thomas McEvoy and Tom Cal-! Eighty were drowned and 30 cupied France yesterday threaten- Subsequently merchantmen" have houn of Life Magazine were asked injured in the neighbourhood of ed severe punishment for those been fitted out for duty and most to leave shortly after Italy enter Torello alone where some

200 who cross the border Into Free of them now are in the Mediter- France or send funds out of on-ranean. The major task of the cupied territory."

naval commander. Sir Bagnar Colvin, is to protect shipping in It was stated in Madrid

LONDON, Oct. 19 (Reuter) the Australian sphere of influence. General Franco has ordered spe- Supporters of the Free French A few German raiding ships have the Tasman Sea and quarters cial help to be sent to the food Government headed by General invaded sald Matthews was expelled beed regions with 100,000 pesetas de Gaulle in London are now in neighboring

waters, but their cause Mr. Roosevelt made use of

undisputed possession of the an

prizes have been comparatively the Rome dispatch' "as an election

few, The bodies, of" 28, out of 80 ministration of New Caledonia manoeuvre." It was intimated that?

Australian naval men. place drowned people objections would have been have been recovered.

LONDON, Oct. 19 (Reuter- most of their hope for safety in made to the dispatch itself, which

A train from Barcelona to Ta- A number of important questions Singapore. They feel no attack will

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for Immediate needs.

that i

near Torello,,

"was considered a purely specularelo was crossing the River Ter were discussed at a meeting of, bear upon Australia as long as

tive account of the subjects Hitler and Mussolin! might have when the Bridge gave way under the Italian Cabinet under the Singapore stands as a British bul it and part of the train fell into presidency of Mussolini, the off-wark Because of Australia's re-

discussed at the Brenner meeting the water, two passengers being cial Stefani agency stated yester

drowned.

had the President not made it inore or less of an international issue by reading it at his press conference...

¡day,

mendous coastline they believe it would require the strength of a gigantic «, navy successfully to

in, the nation's northern spring Pierce the outer defenses, At"Dar-

board, a large base is being rushed to completion,

20,000-TRAINING: FOR: AIR

LONDON, Oct. 19 (Reuter) News has been received that an admission that two German AMPLE TIME

John 8. Dovey, son of Mr. and planes crashed on landing after Press officials who informed Mrs. G. 8. Dovey, of Shanghal, ralding London on Thurday-Fri- Matthews of his expulsion in-bas joined the R.. dicated there were no objections trained as a pilot. An ex-Cathe dial. German news agency yester train and make available for era

A. F. to be day night was made by the off. In the air, Australia hopes to against him personally and they dral School boy," John Dovey left day. It added only one German were giving him ample, time to Shanghat in 1835 to continue his plane was shot down during the pire and home defense 26.000 crews leave ten days or more if neces- education at home and was in his night attack.

consisting of a pilot, observer and sary. This is contrary to the third year at the Royal (Dick)

wireless-gunner. Thus far, accord customary procedure whereby Veterinary College. Edinburgh, correspondents are usually given where he has made extremely Many train services in Rumania third of that number either is un- BUCHAREST, Oct. 19 (Reuter) chief marshal, approximately one. ing to Sir Charles Burnett, alr

between 12 and 48 hours in which good progress.

to go according to the gravity of

"the offense..

That the Italian government

and Yugoslavia" are being “cancell- ed: in Yugoslavia 86 services will stop on Wednesday The suspen

er training or is ready for service. Operation of the air force is li close conjunction with the army

attaches considerable importance expulsion order with the foreign stons are connected, with the and navy, particularly the latter. to International complications office and is making efforts to get speed up of deliveries to Germany. Approximately 100 Lockheed Hud- arising from the dispatch can be it rescinded.

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sona, Imported from the United,

seen, however, in the fact that Matthews won esteem of the MADRID Oct. 19 (Reuter) States, and a feet of Wirraways this is the first time an ometal Italians when he was a corres- Jose Maria Alfara was yesterday licensed from North American communique has ever been issued pondent with the Italian army dismissed from his post as Under- Aviation but built in Australia, regarding any expulsion of a

during the Ethioplan" campaign, Secretary for Press and Pre-form the backbone of the air forcé, journalist.

He risked his life several times Paganda in the Franco Govern- Complementing these are fighter "DISTURBED RELATIONS" whiis reporting battles and was ment.-

planes and lesser craft, Landing The communique particularly awarded an Italian war cross 10)-

felds have been spotted arourid" mentioned the dispatch had "dia-lowing the Italian 'triumphant BUCHAREST, Oct 19 (Renter the entire coast line so that the turbed relations between the Axis entry into Addis Ababa,

Bixty Britons who have arrived air force working with the navy, and the United States. This is í Although he later spent nearly in Istanbul from the Rumanian might act swiftly to intercept an the first time also that an expulthree years In Republican Spain port of "Constanza stated yester- | approaching enemy, sion has been written about by when Italian troops were £ghung day they had undergone a search- No large coastal guns are manu Italy's leading polluent coming Generalissimo Francisco ing questioning which was fairly factured in Australia- but virtually meritator, Virginio Cradda Franco, Rome gave him a cordial severe though not so exhaustive every other comeélvable type of United States Charge d. Affaires | welcome when he came here in at that experienced by the first material necessary for YRELATE Edward Reed has taken up the Aprit;: 1939. R

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