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GENERAL

GERMAN WAR OF NERVES | HIGHLIGHTS THREE-PRONGED BRITISH

IN THE BALKANS

FRESH CROP OF RUMOURS SOWN IN YUGOSLAVIA AND BULGARIA

LONDON, Feb. 23 (Renter)-The Gormans are intensifying their war of nerves in the Balkans, and yesterday brought forth a fresh crop of rumours which ther have sown in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece “

The Yugoslavs, says the diplomatic correspondent of The Times are told of dark Communist plots in Bulgaria and an Imminent German invasion to preserve order. The Bulgarians, long taught to expect occupation, hear that Yugoslavia may at- ter all let German troops pass through to Greece. "

The Greeks-and all the Balkan The possibility of an open move

the near peoples--are told that Germany is by Germany in

future about to sweep, through Bulgaria cannot he ignored. into" Grece

OF R.A.F. RAIDS

GELSENKIRCHEN OIL PLANTS BOMBED

LONDON, Feb. 33 (Reuter)

OFFENSIVE AGAINST KEREN

CAIRO, Feb. 23 (Reutër)-British operations to reduce Keren, the main Italian strongbold in Eritres, have now developed into a three-pronged offensive, two of which are threatening the rear of the Italian defence positions.

The most immediate menace Operations continue to develop comes from the British mechanis- to the British advantage in Eritrea ed force which has been advancing and Abyssinia, say; a Cairo com-

1

torily.

with

Nine explosions and a number of swiftly down the coast. from the munique. fires during raids on oil plants at north and is now driving inland Operations east of the Juba Gelsenkirchen and 17 fires during to cut the railway between Keren River are propressing satisfac- raids on Duisburg-Ruhrort docks and Asmara. and industrial objectives, were

The Indian and Imperial forces

600 PRISONERS features of RAF, activities during which captured Barentu have now

the capitulation of the the week ending February 21, al- advanced 200 miles to the east, and Italian garrison at Mega, South though these activities were re-constitute a threat to Keren's de-African troops captured over 600 stricted by bad weather.

fenders from the south.

prisoners, mostly Europeans, with in the Ruhr area oli Installa-

NIBBLING TACTICS

some guns and war material. tions, aerodromes and an inland The nibbling tactics of the In Regarding Libya the communi- German preparation, for *(perf Ware also attacked, while dian and Imperial troops attack-que says there is nothing import- Behind all this smoke screen, march into Bulgaria appear to be docks at Calals were raided three ing, the heights of Keren along ant to report. adds the correspondent, the Gm proceeding along two lines.

though these activities were re-the railway from Agordat are pro- in Italian Somaliland, the purt man strategy is plain-to

First, military measures are stricted by bad weather.

cceding satisfactorily and intensi-jof Jumbe, at the mouth of the more and more troops and airmen being taken in Rumania, where At the latter port a supply ship tication of activity in the near Juba River, has fallen to the South into Bulgaria and from there to Nazi troops are being moved to received a direct hit.

future seems to be indicated

African forces. menace the Greeks, to and wards the frontier, and secondly, A very heavy attack was made Opintor in competent quarters The official communique ari- make them come to terms with methods of infiltration are being on Boulogne. starting many fires is that should Keren fall. Italian nouncing this in Nairobi, says

used in Bulgaria itself.

and causing explosions which resistance throughout Eritrea that a considerable quantity of For the moment the Germans A Nazi propaganda 'campaign is could be heard from the British likely to collapse.

guns and material were captured. are leaving the Yugoslavs alon exaggerating Germany's military side of the Channel

King's African Rides, in dhows A brigade staff and one full Above all the Germans are now preparations, with the alm of sow- Locks at Brest, Ymuden, Ostend (small Arah boata), have occupled Colonel, together with a number of trying to make their way as faring fear in the Balkans,

Hellevoetslutest were also two islands south of Kiamayu, it European and native prisoners A flood of reports, chiefly from attacked, a quay and a ship mour-was announced yesterday. Belgrade, speak of what the Ger-ed alongside being hit at the last | jman army will do and also report named Dutch port.

on, the attitude of the Balkan countries.

the Italians

try

bass

as they can by showing, forte rather than using it.

THREAT TO BRITAIN The bulk of the German forces. continues the correspondent. par- ticularly the air force, is in west Europe and they do not wish to lessen that threat to Britain.

Secondly behind all the talk of "sweeping over the Bulgarian fron- tier Into Greece" they know the great natural difficulties.

and

TANKER ON FIRE

Of Bergen an enemy tänker of Object is to break down resis- 1.500 tons was bombed and leit tance by a display of force and on fire. to achieve Germany's alms without recourse to armed strength.

Finally there was the longest R.AF flight yet undertaken when TWO-FRONT WAR

leaflets were dropped on Katowice; That Germany Is still,frighten- and Cracow, in Poland,

During jed of a war on two fronts was

these operations GNA yesterday in comment many offensive patrols, nine Bri- If threats falled the Germans indicated

German news

service, tish aircraft were lost.. would undoubtedly use force but by amid all rumours and threats the

the war must be de-

West that Greeks remain unshaken.

They have proved their own mettle and behind them they have

seen British arms going from

strength to strength.

the

which said cided in the Britain.

15 AN APPEAL AND

A WARNING

The Nazi commentary recalls that in the last war Ludendorff *used up his reserves in widely separated theatres of war and so was not able to force a decision in the West."

ADVANCED STAGE There la no doubt that prepara- tions are in an advanced staye "Germany will not do this again.

and that

JAPAN'S PEACEFUL AIMS IN PACIFIC!

possibly as a military We will find a solution of the TOKYO, Feb. 23 (Reuter)-

consideration calmy of exercise, pontoon bridges have re- Mediterranean problem and will Ürginb cently been thrown across the launch a direct

southward attack against Japan's

expansion river and lifted again.

Britair.."

Butter

Ration Doubled

were also captured

LEASE & LEND

BILL

Passage Of Measure

LONDON, Feb. 23 (Reuter)-Toe At The Week-End? doubled as from the week begin- WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (Reuter)

butter ration in Britain will be

ning on March 19, according to a-Passage of the Ald Britain Bill

Ministry of Food announcement. is expected at the end of next The new ration will be four ounces week, said Sneator Barkley, Demo- cratic leader in the U.S. Senate. per person weekly.

He hoped the Senate would start voting on amendments on Wed-| nesday.....

A corresponding Increase in the yesterday. amount of butter allowed to be served in restaurants and catering establishments is also provided for and becomes operative the same day.

The Republican Senator Taft. who unsuccessfully Bought the the Republican nomination for

policy through a display of under MEDITERRANEAN Presidency at the last election.

standing of the Japanese position, the influential Nichi-Nich! yester

coming the "Lool of America's anti-Japanese policy."

BERLIN'S BOMB CURFEW day warned. Australia against be

I met a party of 200 Jews here today on their way from Berin to a life of freedom in the New World. They are mostly old men, women and children from all parts of Germany and Austria, and they met in Berlin last week for common trans- portation, writes Sefton Delmer.

R

"You've no idea what it feels like to be out after the seven o'clock curfew hour for Jews," said Vienna Jewess, Among all the party I found her the least cowed, "the least impressed by war propaganda, and the most ready to talk.

The pension where she spent Germans, but only in an ante- the night in. Berily was in a street room."

bombed

The paper added:

"It is regret-

table that Australian public opin-

ion is displaying unwarranted ex-

AREA MINED ·

Admiralty Warning To Shipping

LONDON, Feb. 23 (Reuter)

letmeent over Japan's south- ward policy, which seems to be The entire central Mediterranean refarded with unjustified suspi-area has been mined by the Royal clon."

Navy and rendered dangerous The paper pointed out that a to shipping. clash in the Pacific is possible The Admiralty yesterday 80- only showd Britain and the nounced that the following area United States attempt to thwart in the Mediterranean is dan~ Japan's peaceful southward move gerous to shipping: "All

waters through force of arms or through enclosed by the lines joining the

the inposition of cruel economic following positions: pressure."

"From Cape Saint Marie GRAVE POSITION.

Fuça, in Italy, towards Benghazi, The Asahi Shimbun says it thence westwards along the Afri- WORKED IN FACTORY

should be realised there is a war can coast to the Tunisian Tri- This Berlin girl told me she on and that a grave position con poll frontier, thence along the worked in a button factory, where fronts Japan.

limit of French territorial water to

in the Charlottenburg district.: Berliners complain or the bitter several houses of which have been cold in their shelters, which are unheated. Every one is saving "If I hadn't been told it would the coal ration for the bitterest never have occurred to me they winter months of January and had been bombed. They had boards and scaffolding all round them, and looked like bullings under construction."

February.

eastward

di

Faola

A Berliner told me that this was, she was paid fourteen" marks a Meanwhile the German radio is a position three miles to the north the regular practice in Berlin week. Aryans doing the same issuing -floods of reports describ- of Cape, Bon. When a street is hit all traffic is work were paid 22.50. "Was that ing the fortification of Guam and west coast of Sardinia to Parallel thence along the closed, while at top speed special enough money-could you live on Samoa as a "challenge to Japan," 41, thence repair and salvage squads clear up that?" I asked her. "Enough to and makes out that Britain and Fuora Point and finally $0 debris and put up boarding to buy the few things we were en-America are encircling Japan.

south- hide the damage. The Berlin girl titled to," she said simply.

ward and eastward along the Ita- Axis propaganda also also said they went to shelter! Berlin is completely blacked out; that

asserts lian coast to Cape Saint Maria whenever an alarm sounded. not even traffic lights are allowed. agreement has been signed

Soviet-Japanese trade di Leuca The train took them straight this is not confirmed from Mos-waters will do so at their.

"Shipping proceeding in these Raids and bombs are the main through to Aachen, which ther Cow. conversation topic in Berlin, she reached the following morning.

MAIN TOPIC.

It was the troop train, taking said. "Will they be coming to-j night?" is what the Hausfrau asks soldiers to France, and two Red as she waits in a queue in the Cross sisters shouted abuse every #foodshops. But Berliners are con- vinced that the defences of the capital are

excellent, that the raids are very costly to the Bri-

time the Jews ventured from their

9 compartments.

Aachen S.S, meri refused to allow porters to carry luggage to

tish and that only a few planes Jews do some work," they said, the Customs-house. "Let's see the

get through.

There is the bellef in Berlin and lined up, laughing, outside

the Jewish carriage,

that they have never been visited

The average age of the Jews by more than twelve British

Was sixty. But they managed to planes at the same time. They know other towns like Essen and get the luggage out,

#

but

own

U.S. AUTHORESS PREDICTS RUSSIA WILL NOT SIGN

PACT WITH JAPAN

SHANGHAI-Anna Louise Strong. the famous American com- munist writer, predicted that Soviet Russia would not sign any non- aggression treaty with Japan because of the effect such a pact would have on morale of the Chungking government.

Miss Strong said that even if three years settlements had been "We could go to an hotel like the two nations signed a non-reached finally. Hamburg have had a tougher

other people. Think of it-an aggression treaty it would mean time, but they have no idea of the hotel!" said the Viennese. But it little since neither country would extent of the damage.

will take them some time yet to trust the other. "We've a woman from "Hamburg and a man from Essen with us get used to it.

said the Berliness. "I was amaz-

new

Fourth

URGENT PROBLEM Miss Strong:

claimed the most"

SUPPLIES FOR CHINA'

urgent problem at present was the The American authoress said transferring

Chungking government's order

the New ed to hear what they had to say GOVERNOR-GENERAL American exports to Vladivostok Route Army north of the Yellow about the raids. The woman said OF NEW ZEALAND would not be imported directly to river from, bases to the south. that docks, petrol stores and re-

Chungking, but pointed out such LONDON, Feb. 23 (Reuter-The shipments would aid in meeting Mies Strong said Soviet Russia fineries in Hamburg had been

Governor-General destroyed, and her own lug-

of New, the shortage of supplies in Far Was anxious to improve relations Zealand, Air Chief Marshal Sir Eastern areas of the U.S.S.R., and With the United States and prob- gage which" had been slor-

colla- ed temporarily In

Cyril Newall, has arrived in the as a result other Russian supplies ably would be willing to repository £ awaiting departure had been lost. liner Mariposa and immediately going to that area could be divert-borate with the United States in The Essener declared that the proceeded by train to Wellington, ed easily to China,

the Paclic against Japan. Krupp works had a bad dusting" where he was scheduled to take Miss Strong said she believed Miss Strong said that Soviet

The alarm is usually at nine the

oath in the Parliamentary friction between the Kuomintang Russia would never sign a treaty o'clock, and then again at three grounds yesterday.

and Communist parties' probably with Japan whereby she would o'clock, A concierge sounds

was more serious now than at any agree to discontinue helping China handbell to make sure no one Reports reaching. Gothenburg time since the outbreak of the in the present conflict, She misses the alarm, and going to from Copenhagen state that 27 Sino-Japanese war. She predict claimed, however, that Russian aid shelters is virtually compulsory anti-Nazi demonstrators have been ed, however, that there would not to China probably was dependent for all but war workers.

sentenced at Roskilde, Denmark, į be any breakdown in the "united on the degree of Chinese" resis- "We, like all Jews, are not to terms of imprisonment ranging front" because during similar re-tance against Japan and solidarity allowed in the main shelter with from 14 to 60 days

curring crises during the past of the Chinese "united front."

opposed the Bill, proposing iristead a loan to Britain of $2,000,000,000. The Republican Senator Capper. who is one of the oldest senators. also opposed, contending that the Bill would give President Roose- velt the powers of dictatorship.

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