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DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO BLACKGUARD BRITAIN Startling Disclosures On Attack On French 'Plane
LONDON, Feb. 9 (Reuter)—The heroplane carrying M. Jean- #ne Chiappe, famous Parks" police prefect, to Syria on November
27 last year, was shot down by an Italian aeroplane,
This categoric statement is 'made by France the Free French 'newspaper, published in London, in the course of an arresting six-column article which gives documentary evidence claimed to be a complete repudiation of the Axis propaganda allegation that M. Chlappe's plane was shot down by the British.
U.K.-AMERICAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION
ATTEMPT TO PLUG BLOCKADE LEAKS
EDITORIAL
"WATCH JAPAN" SAYS
SUNDAY TIMES
LONDON, Feb. 9 (Reuter)-In a second leader entitled "Watch Japan," the SUNDAY TIMES sums up the opportunities the Thailand- Indo-China dispute, which it says Japan may or may not have in stigated, gives Japan to establish herself strategically between Burma
and Malaya
LONDON, Feb. 9 (Reuter)--Sug Matsuoka's claim that Japan must JAPAN WARNED:
The paper links this with. Mr. ||
dominate East Asia including, the Netherland Indles.
gestions have been made to the
United States for closer economic
BENGHAZI SEAT sifted by the Lisbon correspondent Auckland.
OF GOVT. OF. CYRENEICA
Un
says
Nava/ly and aerially, she would be astride British com- munications with Australia and provided with bases for Indian Ocean operations. "The public would be well-advised
co-operation to strengthen the No doubt. Allled blockade. This was reveal-Times, she would like to seize the the Sunday ed by Mr. John Wilmot, M. Indles, if she dared, to obtain oil Parliamentary Private Secretary
and reconcile the Japanese to the to the Ministry for Economic
failures in China. The evidence was collected and Warfare. In a speech at Bishop.
of France. The main proof is an II, he added, the suggestions Italian Air Ministry communique were adopted they would mean issued in the usual manner Immediate assistance in closing November 28, but subsequently the leaks in the blockade those suppressed by the Rome censor. back doors
of enemy supply "Meanwhile, however. (no doubt through the Far East and Russia. to watch the situation so as not following receipt of information
to be taken by surprise it de- The Ministry, he went on, was
velops." from Vichy that an 8.0.8. had grateful for the unofficial colla
But. the been picked up from M. Chiappe's boration already given by United
paper adds, Japan lfated plane) all copies of the States businessmen.
should know the British strength communique bearing this story
inor re the LONDON. Feb. 9 (British Wire- were suppressed by the censors involved material sacrifice,
Dutch unprepared Often their decision had in-
while the chief brake on Japan is They less) Benghazi is a clear modern the Chige Palace in Rome and all had refused to help the enemy the United States, which, though city of 65,000 inhabitants of whom the morning papers appeared the by trading with him either direct- no expressed guarantee is given to 20,000 are Italians and is capital next day with the Air Ministry ly or indirectly although by 50 the Indies, would surely not allow
seat of the Government of communique, less the story of the doing had lost such business to a seizure.
Valuable Base For Allied Operations
and
Cyreneica, ›,"
It has R very large and well sheltered harbour and, its embar-
shot down plane.
LOOP-HOLE
.:
translation of a photostatic copy
less scrupulous headed rivals.
Or
less
Japanese To Evacuate New York
clear-
The paper recalls the old British- friendship with Thailand and
NAZI INTRIGUE
IN FAR EAST
Here, in this country, we have not failed to notice Ger- man intrigue in the Far East, to which Japan seems inclined to lend herself more freely," said MR. CYRIL LAKIN, B.B.C. commentator, when he broad- cast from London yesterday.
* Japan's arbitration in the dispute between Indo-China and Thai we hope will not let Thai forget her old friendship with us. Japan must know our strength and she must realise that we have not left our post- tion unsafeguarded.
Italian
hoping she will not become Japan's Submarine
tool.
Losses
CABLE NEWS In three months of war italian
IN BRIEF
naval losses inflicted by the Greeks total three submarines, and also LONDON, Feb. 9. Reater) --- transport ships of over 35,000 tons, Compulsory Labour service for (including an Ttallan auxiliary, young men on reaching the age of warship, states a London message.
kation facilities for personnel and the censors net, The great Turin "But there was one loop-hole in stores are excellent. As to repair newspaper La Stampa printed the facilities. there are engineering
entire communique as originally works capable of undertaking issued in the form of a special minor repairs,
message from its Rome correspon- The outer and inner breakwater dent, who reproduced the whole on the north side of the harbour story though noting that it was enclose a port which has an area merely his own version of the Air of 370,000 square yards. The port Ministry communique. can be entered in any weather "How this correspondent man- but in bad weather it is not al-aged to escape the censors' net
ACTION SEQUEL TO 20 has been introduced by the An official Greek statement in ways possible to berth alongside may never be known but the exact
Vichy Government, states the offi- Athens refutes losses claimed by DECLINING TRADE the mole of the new port.
clal German News Agency. The the Italians and states that all The new harbour, which was of his article in the La Stampa evacuation of Japanese women and The law also applies to the French condition and not the smallest loss TOKYO, Feb. 9 (Reuter-Mass period of service is eight months. Greek destroyers are in excellent completed in 1935, has depths reads: varying between three and a half "Our Aghters patrolled for a children from New York will take Empire.
or damage was sustained by the and seven fathoms and thus large long time south of Cape Teulada place late in March, states a special
merchant navy either in the Ae- use Benghazi but it in order to protect piloting opera- dispatch to the Asahi Shimbun RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 9. (Reu-gean or Mediterranean.-(Special) is doubtfu; whether a battleship tions of cur damaged destroyer from New York. About 150 mem- ter)-All foreign language pubi- could be successfully moored in Laucier and throughout the whole bers of families of Japanese busi- cations in
Brazil edited in any the harbour;
day carried out protective and in-nessmen and bankers will leave the language other than Portuguese, terceptive sweeps around and of city, according to the message.
must be transformed into Portu- Sardinia, attacking
Passage for the evacuees have guese within six months or have enemy plane of unspecified type which is already been booked on the Tatsu- their registrations cancelled. This believed to have been damaged."ta Maru, salling from San Fran- order was issued by President. Var-
cisco on March 27, and on the Nitta was yesterday. Maru, sailing on April 4.
cruisers can
an
VICHY STORY
of
news agency
Budapest
2
CHIEF JUSTICE ON "AFTER THE WAR"
AT Y.M.C.A.
tion to the fast declining volume semi-official Greek
The Asahi report ascribes the ac- ATHENS, Feb. 9 (Reuter) The STIMULATING TALK of business of Japanese firms in categorially New York as the result of Amert- newspaper report that four divi-
denies
A stimulating talk on the sub- can economic
pressure against slons of British troops. have land-Ject, "After the War," was given Japan.
ed at Salonika.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1941
GENUINE
ELASTI-GLASS
RAIN
COAT
"ENVY THE PERSON WHO
LIGHT
WEARS ONE"
COLOURFUL WATERPROOF
PERSPIRATION PROOF
NO RUBBER.
CONTAINS
Many New Designs on View
China Fun Porium Ju
Submarine War Begins
In Spring, Says Hess
HOW SOUTH · AFRICAN TROOPS
TOOK FORT
The capture of Hobbok fort at Gori, 20 miles Inside Abyssinia from the Kenya frontier, ls. des- cribed in a London message.
EXCELLENT AIRFIELDS By land, Benghazi is the centre of communication of the province. From it both the roads and only raliway of Cyreneica radlate. Benghal is provided with excel-, The Lisbon correspondent lent airfields which are situated France then proceeds to give the at Benghazi itself and there is a Vichy end of the story which he seaplane base.
claims to have pieced together as The distance of Benghazi from a result of interviews with off- Sleily is about 430 miles. There clals, politicians and journalists are" coast defence batteries de
from Vichy and Paris who have
by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl fending the port and the water visited Lisbon since the end of
MacGregor, before a large gather- November. supply is ample and good,
BERLIN, Feb. 9 (Reuter)-"The LONDON, Feb. (Reutering in the European YM.C.A. Dis-submarine war-what we under- He says "the only information the virtual embargo on the export The key-town of Tepelini has been cussion Group meeting last night stand by submarine war begins in reaching Vichy was the S.Q.S. from or oil and gasoline becomes effective evacuated by the Italians, accord- The Rev. Frank Short was in the M. Chlappe's plane picked up by under President Roosevelt's pro-ing to reports received yesterday chair.
spring. clamation on Feb. 5 extending the by Reuter's Special Correspondent the Marselles-Marignane Station
Dealing with the failure of the slight taste in advance of what is "England has only received à and the discovery by the French licensing system, the message adds, on the Albanian Frontier.
last peace, the Chief Justice said:oing to happen, after the pauseing the fighting and then the men destroyer "Bison"
well established legal The greatest war machine of all/themselves fled.
CLEARANCE OF BATTLEFIELD
This situation is expected to be further aggravated on Feb. 15 when
of. ап 'Alr
JI
The latest communique from France' lifebelt aoating in midsea, Cairo, according to a London mes- sage, states:—
LIBYA--Advance elements ot
"Tr... competent authorities in Vichy drafted a communique mere- ly stating that an Air France
British armoured forces have oc- plane had been shot down in the cupled a town 150 miles south of Mediterranean 'during an Anglo- Benghaz: In the meantime the Italian air fight."
clearance of the battlefield south
of Benghazl is continuing.
Owing to the extent of the area covered in these operations it will
captured can be assessed.
Italians.
LAVAL DISSATISFIED
"But this did not satisfy M.
tack on Britain."
"
GEN. BERGONZOLI CAPTURED
| UT.
Laval
The paper
•
►
9
Rejects Petain's Proposals
Continued from Page 1
"It is a
Н
maxim that justice must not only time is ready, manned by German
be done but that it must also ap-soldiers to bring a final victory" pear to be done. It is well. too to, remember that "without humanity there is no justice. If the ailles had applled these dicta to their. victory in 1918' many of their sub- sequent difficulties would have been avoided.
TRAGIC HAPPENINGS
The capture was effected by South African troops supported from the air and by artillery bom- bardment
The day before the action, the Italian commander withdrew and left a leutenant in charge of 280 men. The officer disappeared dur-
A
The South African troops were able to capture prisoners and a large quantity of munitions and machine-guns.-—(Special)
4.
News AUSTRALIAN NAVY
MR. R. G. MENZIES INSPECTED BY
Mr. R. G. Menzies, Prime Minis
sage, from Sydney. (Special)
Seamen Tried To Take Beer
Into Naval Base, Fined
These words were part of a speech made by Hitler's Deputy. HERR BUDOLF HESS, today when inaugurating new gaulel- ters (local Nazi chiefs). The official German In addition to. the army com-Laval who was then Vice-Premier
Agency says that in the speech, he mander and corps commander al-and Foreign Minister. He gave the Petain's regime has not the full affairs, reports the official French'
declared that the war was the last "What then is the task that lies thing Hitler wanted in realisations ready reported captured, five other order that the words by British support of the French people.
News Agency. senior generals and many thou fighters' were to be added to the
LOYAL GUARDIANS!
Marshal Petain made this offer victory is won? What lessons have German stranglehold on England before us when the war ends and of his plans and added that the sands of prisoners have been taken. Vichy communique.
LE JOURNAL (published in un-in conformity with the conversa- The next day," adds the Lisbon occupied France) in a leader, en-tion he had with Herr Hitler at We learned from the tragic hap- was growing daily and hourly. ter of Australia, who is on his way"
titled "Dignity and correspondent of "France" "all or-
Honour" Montoire when he agreed to "colla- Penings of the years since 1918, Another of his statements was to England, has been inspecting. be some time before une number o gans of totalitarian propaganda
writes, "We are still loyal guar-borate with Germany" while, how-and how can we ensure, so far as that German submarines and the warships of the Australian Navy prisoners of war and the material everywhere launched a fierce at-dians of our Empire even at the ever, adhering strictly to the letter is humanly possible, that the post- Luftwaffe were gaining increasing in the Middle East, states a mes
price of our blood."
of the Armistice terms.
war years will see the birth of a successes. ERITREA Although the enemy
added that when M. Laval, however, has refused of nations will be free from tear, world in which even the smallest Petain accepted the armistice pro-the Marshal's offer, concludes the free from want, and assured of lias reinforced his troops,
posals he saved three things-free Agency's announcement. operations are continuing success-
dom of France, the Fleet and Em- fully. Further south they are cori-
Justice within its bounds and self- pire.
STRICT APPLICATION tinuing, the parsult of retreating It is revealed in a London mes-
respect in its dealings with its We have kept our word, like.
CLEMONT FERRAND, Feb. 9 neighbours?" sage that the Italian corps com-honest folk."
(Reuter)"Marshal Petain's polley After paying high tribute to Mr. ABYSSINTA--Progress along themander who was captured
Caustic comments on the conduct of the crew of a merchant A British broadcast told the consists essentially the strict Winston Churchil by saying that Gondar road has been temporarily Benghazi is General Bergonzoli, French people to remain calm and application
vessel lying in local waters weremade by a police officer when of the Armistice," he had led Britain with courage, glowed up owing to extensive land known to the Italians as "electric hot to give the Germans excuse for writes, the newspaper JOURNAL wisdom
asking for deterrent sentences for two British seamen--mem- and mines which are now being clear-whiskers."
quiet confidence bers of the crew-in the Third Police Court, Singapore, aggressive action.-(Special)
DES DEBATS (published in un-through its darkest hours, demand- ed up.
He was in command at Bardia
RIOTING DENIED
occupied France) commenting on ing sacrifices from all the Chief been drinking but who were sp-Police Constable White of the Base Described as "persona who had he was taken into custody by ITALIAN SOMALILAND Deeper but escaped westward before the NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (Reuter) General Weygand's denial, that Justice concluded: "The planning parently not drunk" at the time Police Force. penetration into enemy territory by British forces entered the town-The Vichy corresponder.ts of the Bizerte would be handed over to for peace calls for a leader who they committed the offence, the our units.—(8pecial)
(Special).
two American broadcasting com, Germany,
Wier then came into the picture. will have the courage and the two seamen, pantes denied the reports of riot-
R. Pass "Nobody has ever been able to vision to make the same demands." Wier,
and H. when the officer was making his ing in Vichy circulated by Ger- claim that this application has not
cath fined $40 report on Pass's case. "Interrupt- Sir. Atholl was thanked by Prof. when they pleaded guilty to at-ing and arguing with White in.. man sources, and it is stated that been perfectly loyal."
R.C. Robertson.. all was quiet in Vichy,
tempting to take beer into the the station. FLANDIN RESIGNS The Vichy correspondent of the National Broadcasting Company Flandin, Vichy Foreign Minister, LONDON, Feb. 9 (Reuter)-M. said that Marshal Petain was seen has resigned, stated a German in Vichy on Saturday and added official News Agency, despatch from that M: Flandin's resignation will not be accepted until a full Cabinet
Geneva. meeting was held.
FULL ACCOUNT The Columbia Broadcasting Co.'s VICHY, Feb. 9 Reuter-Ad- correspondent stated that it seem-miral Darlan yesterday gave Mar An Admiralty communique 600,000 and is the biggest manu-ed very likely that M. PETROU-shal Petain, a full account of his states. "A very heavy bombard-facturing centre In Italy. The TON, Minister of the Interior, will talks with the Germana in Paris, ment of the Italian base of Genoa R, A. F. have four times bombed be sent to North Africa to be the according to the Havas News was carried out by naval forces targets at Genoa, the last occasion civil" Governor of Algiers, thereby Agency. at dawn this morning. No de- being Dec. 18. Previously they reinforcing. GENERAL MAXIME talls are available but preliminary attacked the. Ansaldo docks where WEYGAND, reports indicate the operation was highly successful. The bombard- ing forces consisted of both heavy and light units".
Heavy Bombardment Of Genoa By Royal Navy
GENOA, Important commercial elty and fortified sea base in Italy, was heavily Bombarded by units of the British fleet at'dawn ̧ yesterday, states a London message, which adds that this is strik- ing evidence of the complete control which the British navy, has in the Mediterranean.
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Italian cruisers are built.
This is the first time since the present conflict began that Genoa has been bombarded from the sea, states an Australian message.
R. A. F. ATTACKS Genoa has a population of over (Special)
"
BRITAIN FREE OF RAIDS
sentence.
were
Naval Base without permission," He was told to leave, but refus and obstructing a police officer ined, and was then also taken into the performance of his duties, custody. respectively..
In default of payment of fines, "The crew of this ship has Pass and Wier will each have to LONDON, Feb. 8 (Reuter)-Bri. Elven, and is giving. us consider serve one month's hard labour,
able trouble," remarked the prose- tain was free of raids, Inst night |
crating except for
officer. Chief Inspector IMPORTANT PAPERS some slight enemy Higgins, when pressing for heavy activity over the West and North- West counties.
IN CHINESE HANDS Actually, he added, the two ac- Yorkshire but, says an Air Minis bring beer into the yard just be that Admiral Baron Osumi, accom A few bombs, were dropped in cused had been warned not to Important documents, revealing
CHUNGKING, Feb. 9.(Reuter)
fry communique, these caused no fore they made this attempt..
panied by his Staff, were proceed- DENTZ FOR DAMASCUS damage or casualties.
"They should also have known ing to Hainan to assume the post LONDON, Feb. 9 (Reuter)-Gen, On Saturday afternoon, Dente, the French High Commis- enemy bomber was shot down into bring alcoholic drinks into a naval Joint South Seas Fleet, were seized an that they were not allowed to of Commander-in-Chief of the VICHY, Feb. 9 (Reuter)-Marstoner of Syria and Lebanon, is the sea of the East coast by establishment." shal Petain proposed that M. Laval going to Damascus for a long stay. R. A. F. fighters which, the com- should enter the Government as aj according to the Jerusalema corres-munique concludes, makes a total Minister of State and member of pondent of the Independent of three enemy aircraft destroyed the Committee which would direct French Agency.
during the day.
PETAIN'S PROPOSAL
· TWO ATTEMPTS
by the Chinese on Feb. 5 when an,.. aeroplane was shot down by Chi- It was stated by the prosecuting nese guerillas near Chungshan, the officer that two attempts to bring Chinese National Military Counell ini beer were made by Pass before officially announced last night...
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