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GENERAL

CAIRO & ALEXANDRIA RUMOURS OF GERM OF CIVIL WAR IS

HEADLONG ITALIAN RETREAT IN LIBYA

Fascist Defeat Will Have World-Wide Repercussions

*LONDON, DEC. 13 (REUTER)--THE -CRUSHING BLOWS ON... SIGNOR MUSSOLINT'S ARMIES IN AFRICA ARE CALCULATED to »have almost a decisive effect upon the couIST of the war. writes

Reuter's Chief Diplomatie correspondent.

The Italian Fleet" must now sither accept battle or I Duco's legionaries In North Africa-can be considered lost Their offensive power has been destroyed at one fell blow while their menace to the Nile Valley no longer exists. ·

Portuguese Interest In Anglo-Greek Successes

HATCHING IN FRANCE

MADRID, Dec., 13 (Reuter)-"Anyone who thinks that the De Gaulla Movement, is just a matter of few rebel generals knows little of the situation” declares" the Paris correspondent of the Spanish newspaper Ya.

The correspondant continues that the De Gaulle Movement re- presents considerably more.

It gives energy "to the germ of civil war which is hatching -in France, and which only the - Ger- man army of" occupation_fore=" stalla"

Nazi U-Boats Provisioned Off Cuba

HAVANA, Dec. 13 (Reuter) —— Allegation that German subi

The Italian defeat will be felt! Italians will have to relinquis eagerly read the news- pasted out but notes that Vichy is showing made in the Cuban House of Re-

politically not only in Europe but their hold on Abyssinia.

all over the East and Japan must

now have cause to re-consider her

ment

LISBON, Dec. 13 (Reuter)--The He also adds that surprise la" ex- Portures are following the Bri- pressed in Paris that General De tish and Greek viatories with in- Gaulle, Gen. Catroux and Gen. tense Interest; crowds gather Legent Homme have only recent- the streets of Lisbon awaiting the ly been deprived of French citi- marines are being provisioned off Cuba by ships of Issue of evening newspapers and zenship by the Vichy Government the shares of

neutral countries calling here was side newspaper offices,v

tardy signs of taking serious steps There is no departure from the against the De Gaulle Govern- Presentatives yesterday. EMPTY ASSURANCE ·

order. to maintain neutrality.

The allegation was made by hasty action in joining the T-in East Africa has been bolstered mas reproduce

For months, the Italian, morale Before showing war events, cine.

Paris, he says, is discussing a Benor Chibas in a speech support- possible further reshuffle in the ing a motion to send Congression- Partite Pact,

on the screen up by the empty assurance that warning against

Vichy Government by which Mal felicitations to President Roose- Even assuming

demonstrations that violent Musablini's army domestic reactions do not upset march to the Nile Delta, at any

Allbery would leave the Cabinet velt on his re-election was ready to of any BOTK

and M. Pierre Flandin would-be- the Fascist regime it is unlikely)

An editorial in the

Senor "Dianu come Minister of Interior while M. columnists" of attacking the din

Chibas accused "fifth moment to open up the Suez Noticias" headed "When the Gods Peyrouton would become a Minis- lomatie residence of a great and that Il Duce will get much help

Canal. from the Germans and Japanese

descend from Olympus" analyses ter. and can be ruled out. Indeed, the

But if the the British offensive the reasons which prompted question may arise whether the continues as satisfactorily as at Mussolini to embark on the Greek i Pact holds good if one of the par- present, the Italian army in Abya-war, "which, apart from Immerse tits collapses.

ania may, it is suggested, throw air forces, is costing him much of in the sponge because of pressure (his prestige.”

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being exerted by British forces The writer concludes that rea- already hammering at the frontier, sons of a polifical" nature musl

SIDI BARRANI DETAILS

him far have urged

more than strategic reasons Detalls of the operation enabl-

"Mussolini's temperament

INSPIRING EFFECT The effect of the Italian re verses will be most Inspiring fo the Balkans. The Greeks will be encouraged to further acts" of valour and the extent of the help Britain will be able to give may be increased while Yugoslavia's hands will be strengthened, the wisdom of Turkish. policy justified and Axis propaganda, in Bulgaria suffer a severe sethack. The many friends of Britain in France will derive fresh hope and encouragement from this British victory. It will increase France's value in German eyes but will coast to the saithernmost camp. make M. Laval's policy more un- popular and distasteful among the French people in general and the Army in particular

[own

friendly Power and stealing docu- Imanta from there. Be did not

FIVE ENEMY name the triendly Power... con.

cerned

RAIDERS DESTROYED REBUILDING OF

HAMBURG

LONDON, Dec.. 13 (Renter) Four British fighters shot down

ing a British motorised division to quired that Italy should have her three German aircraft yesterday, BERLIN, Dec. 12 (Rentet)——A penetrate to the coast and to cut

war, that Italian action morning when small formations large part of the rebuilding of off the Italian forces at Sidi Bar-should be individual, that Ttaty of enemy fighters and fighter-Hamburg may be done by Danes--- Iran!, were revealed last inght. should have her own battlefield, bombers crossed the Kent coast the German official news agency

From the moment in September her own

enemy, her

own post-fying towards London and drop- yesterday mentioned a plan to use) when General Graziani's troops tion.

iped a small number of bomba on Danish architects, engineers and reached Sidi 'Barrani, a famous Three

or four weets' have the outskirts of the London area, workmen for this purpose, mechanised regiment was given placed a lamentable check to the the Air Ministry announced.

Buccessful negotiations special instructions to harass the efforts of 18 years of admirable The bomba did little damage stated to have, taken place be- enemy as a specified point and to political construction."

and caused only a few casual-tween the Hamburg and Danish prevent them from completing the

ties

authorities and in the New Year line of camps gretching from the

One German bomber was also about 1000 Danish workmen wil shot down off the south-west go to Hamburg.

INCESSANT ATTACKS

coast vesterday morning and one

are

Twenty-two Danish firms have was destroyed during Wednesday taken part in the negotiations.

Military targets in the Hamburg

NEW DEAL FOR

U.S. WARSHIPS?

night

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clashes with the invaders. They PROPOSAL MADE "TO MOSCOW, Dec. 13 (Reuter) kept open the gap in the enemy's

SOVIET INTEREST

For weeks the mechanised units carried out incessant attacks in the north, resulting in. many.

ד..

In all these operations the Bri-area have been the objectives of tish fighters suffered no lose frequent attacks by the R.AS.

Soviet interest in the. nghting in front positions, and frustrated all STATE DEPARTMENT HUNGARY, YUGOSLAVIA

North Africa is well reflected an attempts to complete the chain OTTAWA, Dec. 13 (Reuter)-The the "Press. The official Communist of highly fortifed-camps.

feasibility of granting the United paper Pravda has as. two main At zero-hour on Sunday, the States a corridor for & road headlines across the foreign news breach was still open, thanks to through British Columbia page, "British Offensive In this regiment's persistent attacks, Alaska in teturn for the transfer

Western Desert" and Retreat In Albania"

to

"

FRIENDSHIP

PACT

"Itailan and motorised units were able to of more United States warships New Contribution To Peace

Eritish reports of the taking of Sidi Barrant are published at

length with description of the terrain and an account of how

the Italians fortined the Aldi Barrani-Sollum area.

The Pravda then quotes the

drive in according to plan.

Gen. Hertzog Resigns From

Pasler Nachnichten for a state-| Parliament

ment that the war in Greece andį

In Libya,

JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 13 Reu

to Britain Is being considered by the International Joint Commis- sion of the British Columbia- Alaska Highway Project,

Officials declined to comment extensively on the proposal made.

to the State Department, Wash-

Ington, that negotiations should |

ut the Opposition, has resigned his} --. raembership of Parliament.

The resignation of Mr. Havenga,

In South-Eastern Europe

BERLIN. Dec. 13 (Reuter)-The Hungarian-Yugoslav Friend- ship Pact was signed in Belgrade yesterday evening according to a dispatch to the German news agency.

The treaty was signed by Caat Csiky and M. Markovovitch and be opened" for such an exchange, consists of the following three agency,

However, one official said, that Firstly, if declares that Derosses and constructive collabora- the attack on Taranto are already'

deal of this nature was "active" manent peace and eternal friend-tion which was the object pur having effect on the Italian army ter, Ceneral Hertzog former in British Columbia and parts of (ship will exist between

the two sued

by the Hungarian and Prime Minister and later Leader the United States.

countries:

|Yugoslav・・ Governments in the Secondly, the signatories agree Danube Basin. to consult on all problems affect-]: ⠀⠀ COMMON ROAD

count Chaky referred to the Thirdly, the Pact will be ratified mutual confidence and friendship lat a very early date and come which united the two nations and into force as soon as it is ratified, said that the new Treaty was a

BELGRADE COMMENTS

guarantee – that the two BELGRADE, Dec. 13 (Reuter-people would be able to follow Axis" propagandists will doubtless with success the common road Interpret the Yugoslav-Hungarian which they had had the "wisdom Treaty as indicating Yugoslavia's to encom

AMERICAN AI Reports from New York regard- ing increased American aid for the British are *3150

1ormer Finance Minister" under

prominently General Hertzog is also announce

published in the Moscow Press. ed.

quoting

Britain.

Was the

DISTURBANCES ng mutual relations, and. IN INDO-CHINA

Demonstrators And. Police Clash

Trud concludes a long article by These developments follow Gen- the. New York-Herald eral Hertzog's resignation from the Tribune as saying that the in-eadership of the Re-United Na tensification of the struggle be- tionalist Party, which tween Britain and Germany only jorricial Opposition. Increases the vital interest of the The news of the resignation LONDON, Dec. 13 (Renter)-- advance to the Axis, according to United States in the survival of appeared in a letter from General Serious disturbances in French In-poitical circles here.

Hertzog and Mr. Havenga which do-China were mentioned by the Observers in Belgrade, howevel, was published in the ex-Prime announcer" on the Lyons wireless do pot believe, that the signing of Minister's own paper the Divader- |last night. ⠀ .

the Treaty means more than the He said that clashes occurred 'intense desire of Yugoslavia to recently in Saigon and in seven maintain peace, and, on Hungary's provinces between armed forces alde, to attempt to find some, and demonstrators, said to be even if an uneasy basis,for her communists.

¡foreign polley outside the strang).

ITALIAN ROUTT

CAIRO, Dec. 13 (Reuter)---

The Brlish offendve in the Western Desert is developing"

W za

so fast that rumours headlong Italian retreat are circulating in Cairo and Alexandria. It is realised that British GHQ. communiques tend to minimise our succes- ses rather than to make claims unt they have been confirm-

ed beyond doubt.

land.

BALKAN BLACK-OUT SUSPENDED.

It was added that damage was ing embrace of Axis endearments. Gone to civil, administrative' and '

· CONTRIBUTION TO PEACK. private buildings. A number of Following the signing of the lbridges were destroyed and com- Hungarian-Yugoslav treaty of

munications were cut.

friendship Count Csaky, Hungarian ... ISTANBUL, Dec. 13 (Reuter)- Order was restored by soldiers, Foreign". Minister, and M. Ginear It is thus reasonable to suppose Lessening of the Balkan tension is police and marines, but there were. Markovitch, Yugoslav Foreign that the figure of 20,000 prisoners given in political circles as the wounded on both sides.

Minister. bath emphasised in The measures taken by the local statement to the press that the given in the latest communique is reason for the Government's de an under-estimate,

cision to suspend total black-out, government, he concluded, have freaty was a new contribution to Turkey's Arm attitude, Greek resulted in the suppression of the maintenance of peace in successes and the attitude of Bul- these "subversive movements.”

aria and Yugoslavia all played

part in this detente..

The speed of the offensive has meant that communiques had hardly been issued before fresh Important advaŕices, and captures were taking place. It may be days before the exact number of pri- Boners, guns and tanks, taken is known.

· STAGGERING BLOW

Nevertheless, the state of selge recently decreed in European Turkey will be maintained,

ACTIVE DISCUSSION

Further Soviet Aid To Aid SHANGHAI, Dec. 13 (Reuter

SOFIA, Dec. 13 (Renter)--Tur- Well-informed circles in Chung

south-east Europe.

M. Markovitch described the, fresty as a new contributim to

CHRISTMAS COMFORTS

kish and Bulgarian relations con- King revealed the Soviet Ambassa- As the picture of the Arst three time to be the subject of active for 18 keeping in touch with the The equivalent of £3,520 118, days of fighting are fitted together discussion,

#hinese Government in taking, was collected in Shanghai by the at GHQ. from reports arriving The Bulgarian - Minister to further steps to assist China, states Central British War Fund Christ- from the desert front, It becomes Turkey, M. Kroll, a stated to the Sinwanychpao.

mas appeat

of

evident that the Middle East Com-have arrived from Ankars with The negotiations are not limited £875 each is remitted to the mand, with a brillant piece of concrete: Turkish proposals for a Boriet economic assistance, but Royal Navy, British Army, Royal strategy planned for many weeks part of mutual resistance include the Soviet proposal for Air Force and Allied forces in has delivered a blow against the Discussions which are stated to serial assistance as well, it is England for the purchase Italians that may rock the foun- have taken place between M. cla'med

Christmas comforts, C dations and edifice of the Fascist Kiroff and the Foreign Minister. The Chinese Ambassador in¦ The remainder, £20 Lie, la rự Empire

M. Popott, have evoked much Muscow is also said to be consult- mitted to the Singapore Christmaa There is already general ape-speculation in political and dinio ing with the Moscow authorities Fund for the Seaforth Highland- lation in Cairo - whether thematic circles

en" the same""subject."

ers and Fast Burrey Regiment formerly stationed in Shanghai.

stre

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