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HAND OF GERMANY DISCERNED

IN PACIFIC CRISIS

THREAT NOT THOUGHT

TO BE IMMEDIATE

LONDON, Feb. 16 (Reuter)-At the moment koere as 120 further indication that Japanese aggressive plans in the south are going to be carried out at once, sald the News Chronicle yesterday. It is very proper, however, saya the newspaper, that the people of Australia and other threatened territories should be frankly warned of the danger that may soon face them

Expressing the view that Japan will first seek an under- standing with the Soviet Union the newspaper remarks that since Japan signed the military alliance with the Axis and be- gan to deflect her ambitions southwards there has been a marked change in her attitude to the Soviets,

CHUNGKING

PREPARES

FOR RAIDS

GENERAL

British Parachute Troops Make Daring Raid On Italy

LONDON, Feb, 16 (Renter)—It was officially revealed yester-' day that British soldiers, dressed in recognised military uniforms, were recently dropped in southern Italy by parachute. An an- nouncement by the Ministry' of Information stated: "Soldiers dressed in recognised military uniforms were recently dropped by parachute in southern Italy

They had instructions to de-

CHUNGKING, Feb. 15 (Reuter) malish certain objectives connect-CABLE NEWS

A precautionary measure ed with forts. against the commencement of Japanese aerial bombing attacks "No statement can yet be made un the results of the operation

on

IN BRIEF

Chungking,

LONDON, Feb. 18 Tieneralissimo

(Reuter) but some of the men have not yet Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of Chiang Kai-shek has ordered "the evacuation of 200,000 members of returned to base."

the Admiralty, In his speech at the Chungking populace within

According to the Italian version Bath, in which he recalled that 40 days, at the rate of 5,000 dany.

of the affair the British soldiers Britain bad withstood intense at- Civilions, numbering 200,000, were dressed in thak! uniforms tacks against shipping and had whose residence in the city were and carried mapa, automatic arms built and acquired a large tonnage considered unnecessary, will be re- and explosives.

för replacements, added that the Referring to the d'scussion re-fused domicile permits this year They landed in a clearing in

|Navy "captured a few ships on garding the Soviet Union in the as, the authorities are determined forest and occupied several farms, Thursday but I cannot give de

talls." says the

LONDON RAIDERS Japanese Diet on Friday the paper to reduce Chungking's present The alarm was given.

FLY HIGH

SPLIT INTO GROUPS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (Reuter) The United States flag was for the first time in history hoisted in Newfoundland yesterday, when The British party split up into the base leased to the United

Says that Japan is evidently population by one-third of one- Italian story, and a cordon was back-pedalling over Russia as half before the bombing season thrown'round the area. hard as she can go-just as Hitler starts, which is usually early in did-in the interests of power May !! politics. FIGHTERS DESTROY

"Moscow is hardly more com- TWO BOMBERS

municative on the subject than Lenir in his mausoleum but our LONDON. Feb. 16 (Reuter) -

that before very long Some activity by single enemy air- guess is craft on Friday morning and in Japan will have attained suf the early afternoon is reported in clent of an understanding to

feel

HEAVY FIGHTING Tours. Eleven, it is claimed, were states was formally handed over.

IN SUIYUAN

an Air Ministry communique, which that she can pursue her aggressive Chinese Converging"

states that bombs were dropped in plans in the South without fear of East Scotland and the East Anglian trouble at her back.". coast. There and no casualties."

was little damage

A force of enemy aircraft ap-

ALARMIST WARNINGS

The Times, writing on the reasons

captured in one place, seven a mile or

and SO AWRY

another group surrendered after spirited fighting

The American garrison stationed there was standing at attention when the fag was holsted.

+

The Rome correspondent of the LONDON, Feb. 16 (Reuter) New York Times said yesterday All foreign correspondenta in that Italian admission that "some Rome have been notified that Įdamage" was done shows that the they must not leave the Italian men must have got down to the capital without official permission, job before being captured.

says the Rome correspondent of has captured the the New York Times. Official rea-

The exploit

proached the Kent coast in the for warnings as regards the Farnese offensive has spread "from imagination of the American press son for this restrictive action is

زار

On Tamshui CHUNGKING. Feb. 16 (Reuter) The diplomatic correspondent or -While the Japanese launched a new attack along the right bank of the Yellow River, the new Chi- afternoon but did not penetrate

East, says Rome unofficial warn- inland.

and where it was published yesterday that Rome correspondents went to southern Honan province Ings and unconfirmed news items

Bordighera while Mussolini was British fighters destroyed two

fighting is now also reported from under large headlines. have been needlessly

Having his talks with General enemy bombers off the east coast certainly.

·ITALIAN COMMUNIQUE

Franco. and two British nghers are miss-alarmist but the reasons for off Hupeh, Kwangtung and west Sul- yuan frants, according to the In the English- Ing. An enemy bomber was shot cial warnings

latest Chinese field despatches. - According to British Wireless east speaking countries are simple.

LONDON, Feb. 18 (Reuter)-The There is still heavy fighting in the Italian communique stated: For some time, particularly since western Sulyuan province but only "During the night following Feb German radio stated yesterday the talks in Washington last year, minor operations are reported on (ruary

10 the enemy dropped that the staff of the Norwegian Legation in Bucharest has been there has been a regular exchange the west bank of the Han River in groups of parachutists in the re-

asked by the Rumanian Govern- An alert was sounded in the of information

among them on aorthern Hupeh. In Kwangtung'{sion of" Calabria and Lucania, In

ment to leave that country. Res-" London area last night and heavy Far Eastern amairs.

the Japanese northward push is Southern Italy.

that Rumania no son given is gunfire was later heard in some The Netherlands Government, said to have been repulsed..

They were equipped with ma- longer recognises the Government districts but no planes were heard with sovereignty in the East In- The Chinese are now converging chine-guns, hand grenades and represented by the Norwegian as they, apparently, were flying, dies, joined in the exchange. on the Japanese near Tamshu to high. The "raiders passed" signal Mach of the Information is the east of the railway where Jap-explosives with the purpose of Legation there.

interrupting our communications was sounded at an early hour.. secret but what is not secret is the anese troops are trying to

down into the sea off the coast last night by anti-aircraft fire.

་་

NIGHT ALERT

Night Bomber Menace

cut

LONDON, Feb. 16 (Reuter) way" in which the Japanese ex-overland communications between and damaging hydraulic works. British diplomatic representatives All the parachutists were cap-in Bucharest and members of the tremists have been following the Hongkong and the interior of

tured.

Belgian, Dutch and Chinese Lega- German model-even German tul- China. tion-in recent moves and

pro- The Chinese regard the Japanese Violent lighting occurred during tions left for Constafiza on Friday. jects.

attacks as "feelers to test the which a policeman and a civilian They were scheduled to embark at

were killed."

dawn yesterday, according to a message received in Rome from the Rumanian capital.

It is merely to this sharply in-strength of the Chinese forces. creasing trend that Government spokesmen in the English-speak-..

Mr. Morrison Warns ing countries have called public

attention.

Against Complacency. NAZI PROVOCATIONS

..:

Yugoslav Capitulation To Axis Pressure Unlikely

LONDON, Feb. 16 (Reuter)—A The Germans hope to provoke warning that the night bomberi clash between Japan and the NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (Reuter) -No agreement was signed by menace was not yet mastered and English-speaking peoples in order the Yugoslav statesmen during their visit to Germany, said the to every town to prepare, for the to divert the latter's strength correspondent of the New York Times late yesterday, quoting high worst, was uttered by Mr. Herbert from Europe, and owing to. the political quarters. The correspondent says that he learned from au- Morrison, the Home Secretary, growing influence of the extre-thoritative sources that the main subject. "of the talks Was speaking at Preston yesterday. mists in Tokyo the situation has that Yugoslavia sign the Axis Pact but, that an answer has been

"There are signs that things are closely, to be watched.

deferred until the statesmen have conferred with Prince Paul of moving in the right direction," he

Even the elementary precautions Yuogoslavia.

doing

said, "and signs that the enemy is now being taken by the British The same paper's correspondent urged the Balkan nations to stand

things to defend himself and Americans are being misinter- in Berlin said yesterday that neu- together It is a bit of a race as to who is preted

quarters beleve that no IMPORTANCE MINIMISED. going to get there first.

Tu totalitarian minds a simple concrete results can be expected

The importance of the visit to

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tral

"I don't know whether we shall precaution by another is aggres- though it is considered likely terri-Herr Hitler is minimised in di- be triumphant over the night aion, while totalitarian aggression torial concessions may have been plomatic and independent circles bomber. "We are studying the pro- of course no more than pre-offerred to Yugoslavia for €0* in Belgrade. blem with all the vigour we can. caution.

operation with the Axis. "In the meantime we must face

The temper of the Yugoslav The Ambassador in Tokyo Ankara radio yesterday sald

army and the civil population is it that night bombing will go on maintains close and frank con-Germany 13 trying to separate thought to be such that a major and we must take it because the tacts with the Japanese Foreign Yugoslavia from the other Balkan capitulation is impossible alternative is to give way, and Office. that is too terrible to contem- plate"

countries. Turkey has always

would American Safety Bound

Warning against complacency Mr. Morrison declared: "I would urge upon every town, every city every village and "hamlet in the country if they have any feeling that somehow they are going to avoid trouble, to get rid of that feeling."

WAR OPERATIONS IN AFRICA

British Closing In

On Keren

Up

the

The secrecy surrounding visit is believed to have been in- spired by the authorities' con- sciousness that intense resentment would have been caused if the fact had been generally known that the

With Survival Of Britain heads of the Government had

WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 (Reuter) The Far East continues to claim a large slice of Washington's attention. While the general "impression remains that Japan is engaged in another chapter of the war of nerves, the situation is being taken seriously and it seems clear that the United States will not be caught napping in the Pact- fic, any more than the British or the Dutch.

German action almost as close-

ly as American safety is bound up with the survival of Beltain.·

A leading article in the New York Herald-Tribune says, that the sudden crisis in the Far East, coming at this critical juncture. threatens war on a global scale may hesitate now, but they may

gone to Germany.

PASSAGE OF TROOPS Diplomatic circles consider the following plints have been discuss- ́ ed in the talks with Hitler:---

First is the old demand for the passage of troops down the Maraka Valley towards Salónika.

a

Second point mentioned as likely subject of discussion was

attitude in the event of the pass-

Bulgaria.

It asserts that "the Japanese the clarification of Yugoslavia's

Moreover, realisation that Ger-

for the destiny of the entire earth. like Mussolini last summer, be age of German troops through

Putting together the despatches virtually obliged to plunge at the NAIROBI, Feb. 16 (Reuter)-A Herald-Tribune continues, creates is winning.

from the Far East and Europe, the Arst moment they think Germany communique issued yesterday says the impression that a vast offen-

an occupation of Balonika would The Herald-Tribune goes on to render Yugoslavia incapable of that operations are proceeding c-sive is about to burst on all fronts, say that the war has now become offering independent resistance is cording to plan.

but ૩ close Inspection reveals indivisible from China to Africa | considered to be the main fact

In Italian Somaliland, Asmadu flaws in the picture and "one and to the Atlantic sealanes. and Bulerliho have been captured by East African trouw.

In Eritrea, the town of Keren is being

steadily surrounded.

An official air . communique stated that on Thursday South African Air Force bombers were again active.

In Itallan Somaliand, Bardera was heavily bombed. Several di-

suspects a large element of a war

of nerves about the Far East."

The Journal believes that, in any case, Japan is now tied to

PEIPING KILLING

-RECALLED

guiding responsible This is one great struggle, the and military quarters. outcome of which is decisive for the globe.

"Americans could, they wish- ed crawl into fancied isolation and allow the last citadels of de- mocracy to be taken piecemeal.

"Fortunately they have chosen

JI

Government

“CHINA” SQUADRON

EMBLEM

SHANGHAI, Feb, 16 (Reuter)—

the clearer course and by welding in order to decide a suitable em- their economic strength to Bri- blem for the planes of the British rect hits were scored on admints- PEIPING, Feb. 18 (Reuters tain's power, they are presenting China Squadron the committee of "trative buildings and a ferry and|The two. Chinese arrested fast a solid bloe to total attack against the British Voluntary War Fund month for the murder of a Jap-which that attack can be shatter-yesterday publicly invited Britons On the Abyssinian front a ban- anese colonel here on Nov. 29, 1940, ed.

to send suggestions.

works were damaged.

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