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AIR FORCES WILL DECIDE WAR

IN EUROPE, ITALIANS FORECAST Mussolini Demands Huge Sum For Defence

THE GERMANS ALSO FEAR IT

THIS IS HOW a German artist pictures the nerial war when It begins. He has made the background a well-known part of Ber lin, but so far the only seful background to such a scene has been Poland's devastated cities, wrecked by Nazi bombers. Britain will only bomb Berlin in retallation for Nazi raids.

NAZIS SCUTTLE

THEIR 35TH SHIP

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

OPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH'

ROME. Mar. 15 (UP).— The importance of the air factor the moment serious warfare begins was em- phasised by General Francisco Pricolo, Under- Secretary for Air, when addressing the Chamber of į Fascists Corporation in the presence of Signor Mussolini to-day,

He introduced the air budget for 1940 and predict- ed that when serious war- fare begins, the belligerent air forces would develop into a determining factor.

He referred to the efficacy of the German air force in the lightning war оп Poland, andi. claimed that it substantiated his prediction.

The Italian air budget, which. was approved by the Chamber, reached the unprecedented total of 3,261,000,000 lira.

PIRATE WARFARE

ROME, Mar. 15 (Reuter). Partinent comments about the conduct of the present war were made yesterday by the Italian

TURKS KICKED HUNS OUT OF THIS SHIPYARD Hitler

KRUPP

THIS IS one of the Krupp shipyards in Turkey which has been forcibly taken over by the Turkish Government. The German technicians who built the submarine in the foreground-it is now part of Turkey's Navy-have been sent back to Hitler and British experts are now alding the Turks in running the yurds.--Domei.

COLONY

CAN'T

DATE OF

Chamber of Corporation (Italian But A

Legislature).

Signor Mussolini was present at the meeting

The Under-Secretary said that sea warfare had turned out to be only pirate warfare. Attacks by speedy

DECIDE ON

ITS CENTENARY

Week of Celebrations Is Scheduled

NAZI OFFICER

cruisers in the open ocean and by DENIES CANARD

submarines in the North Sen, he said, had been employed almost entirely against merchant ships.

Air warfare too was more or less pirate warfare.

He expressed a view that air warfare against milliary objectives and open towns had not yet begun because both sides feared retalla- tion.

When serious warfare began. however, the air forces would be the determining factor.

Asks Extra £108,000,000 Signor Mussolini, who in addition to being Prime Minister is also Minis- ter of the Interior, War, Navy, and Air, presented a

a Bill asking for an extra £108,000,000 for further de- fence measures,

The last credits were

LONDON, Mar. 15 (UP).—The Admiralty announces January. This sum is over and above

voted inj

the defenes credits then voted.

The 125

January credits included £118,000,000 for the three services

that the German steamer La Coruna (7,414 tons) set on fire by her crew and scuttled when a British warship intercepted her in Northern waters on Wednes- day.

The warship rescued the crew, which had abandoned the vessel. This is the 35th Nazi steamer to be scuttled since the start of the war.

The crew of the La Coruna, whleh comprised 00 officers and men, sei fire to the ship when the warship approached. The warship shelled the La Coruna because she was not sink- ing rapidly enough.

It is revealed that the La Coruna left Rio de Janeiro on February 3, apparently in an attempt to reach Germany via Norwegian waters. She carried a cargo of coffee, lard, mien, nickel and.cool.

What A Record I' LONDON, Mar. 15, (Reuter).—With the scuttling of the La Coruna, Ger- many has once again justified its proud record of having sunk more Nazi ships than anyone else.

THE LA

about one-third of the total budget). PLEASE Turn To Page 5.

L

CORUNA

104 Days of War Cost Finland

£75,000,000

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

CAPETOWN, March 15.. (Reuter). Captain Schacht, master of the scuttled German ship Wakama, has again deni- ed the frequent German radio allegations that his crew were fired on with machine-guns by the British cruiser. as they rowed away from the scuttled ship.

Captain Schacht, who is in- terned in South Afrien, usked permission to make a state- ment on the case.

He says that after Wakama's crew had been picked up, the captain of the British cruiser ordered that the bonts be des- troyed as otherwise they would be a danger to shipping.

Captain Schacht says that his crew have been treated with the utmost courtesy both by the members of the British cruiser and by the South Afri- can authorities.

AMBULANCES

ALTHOUGH Hongkong is scheduled to celebrate the centenary of its cession to the British Crown in just over ten months from now, the Centenary Committee has not-yet been appointed..

Government has decided, however, that the celebrations will closely follow those which were held in Hongkong on the occasion of King George V's Jubilee.

The Centenary celebrations The Sound And The Fury will last for over a week.

Among the high-lights, it is

learned, will be dragon proces- PERTINENT

sións, firework displays and a military Tattoo.

Committees are to be appointed Inter in the year to plan the details

of Centenary Week,

A

U.S. PRESS

sum of $80,000 has been appro-Ribbentrop Goes Home

priated for the celebrations.

Because of the wars in China and Europe, the celebrations are to be

a purely local affair, and there is

Empty-Handed

LONDON, Mar. 15. (Reuter).

lo likelihood that any effort wii-The "New York Times," writ- be made, through advertising or ing on the Roman holiday, said: other channels, to attract tourists "Herr von Ribbentrop went home from overseas for the occasion. worse than empty-handed. Count Confusion Over Date Ciano's newspaper has suggested Actually, there is considerable that the Germanic hordes should confusion regarding the actual day of stay on their own side of the the Colony's centenary, various

Brenner, authorities giving every date between January 21 and January 20, 1941.

This doubt is believed to be held

Wants No War In Balkans

-RIBBENTROP

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ROME, Mar. 16 (UP);— That both Hitler and Stalin desire the Balkans to re main peaceful was claimed. by Herr von Ribbentrop during his recent visit to Rome.

It is also revealed here that Ribbentrop, as long ago as last September when he visited Moscow, reviewed, the whole complex question of Balkan' pacification, and that during his Rome visit, he was able to assure Mussolini that both Germany and Russin desired the Balkans to remain quiet.

This was doubly emphasised in view of the fact that Russia did not want any new ventures following her Finnish campaign. ...

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of

Mussollal, however, was distrustful

Sovict

alms In the Balkans, although he seems to have accepted Ribbentrop's assurances as being sufficient to justify cultivation Better, relations- with -Moscow.

This is supported by reports of Ausso-Italian trade negotiations and efforts for a diplomatic rapproche- {ment. ··*

No Specific Pledges It is doubiful; however, whether

Ribbentrop's assurances took the form of spreife pledges from Moscow.

Meanwhile the Nazis report that they are, rapidly consolidating their. position in southeast Europe, and to day hinted that there would be im- portant surprises for the Allies within the next ten days

They emphasised that they would either prepare the

the way for action on the West Front, or would make such action unnecessary

Action now centres on Moscow, Rome and Bucharest, although both Nazi and Russian officials in. Berlin deny that any formal guarantee Jins been given to Rumania,

Authoritative sources remarked: There is no reason for Germany to

take a stand on the Finnish proposal PLEASE Tum To Page 5.

"The Chamber of Fascists and other corporations broke into frenzied. ap- plause on hearing thai Italy's frontier.

Leven in off the celeb Willi Germany; as with France and.

Highlight be the unvelling.

by His Excellency the Governor, of a statue

FOR FRANCE of Its Majesty, the King.

King And Queen Inspect War Gifts

LONDON, Mar. 15 (Reuter)-In the quadrangle of Buckingham Palace yesterday Their Majesties the King and Queon inspected 21 ambulances, Red, Cross and St. John Ambulance are sending to France.

Yugo-Stavia, was now covered by powerful fortifications.

The "Herald Tribune,"

on the mur-

LATEST

Nazis Celebrate Czech Invasion

PRAGUE, Mar.is (Reiter).—

It is probable that this saltic, der of Sir Michael D'Dwyer, said: Germany to-day celebrated the anni- white is now being executed by "As part of a deeply-lald plot. It versory of its invasion of Czecho- fr. Gilbert Ledward. R.A.. in one unlikely if for no other reason. Slovaltia, but in the latter countty London, will be erected on a slie than that he had so long been in, the only people celebrating the day between

were the German Invaders. Victoria's statue retirement."

Queen

The crowds watching the pompous

Government:

The

the, first contingent which the British will cost $80,000, The base will be asks what broke the Mannerhelm |greater part of the city, however,

...

and Queen's Pier. If so, necessary alterations will be made to the What Broke Mannerheim Line 7. military parades were very small.

In Prague itself, portion of Statue Square, affected, The statue,

The "Dally News," In an editorial," made of bronze, which is

buildings were beflagged. Line. The Mannerhelm Line re was nogless. composed of local granite.

The Inscription on the base of the sembled the West Wall more than it All the gifts bear the names of their statue will rond, "Is Most Gracious did the Maginot Line. The Maginot Majesty, King George VI. Erected is more or less a solid connected un- donors,

In commemoration of the 100th an-derground wall. The West Wall is

1 pill-boxes of the chiefly a network of

backed the niversary of the founding Four ambulances are from

up hy forts of the Mannerheim type.

"The Mannerheim Line proved to South African Red Cross, one from Colony of Hongkong."

Designs for the statue are alrendy STOCKHOLM, Mar. 15 (UP)—Reports from Helsingfors Johannesburg, one each from Tan

which" She is the 35th German ship to

could in the hands of the Hongkong Goy-have is weak point,

bo reached by.np overwhelming have met this ignominous, end and

Jamaica sent four ambulances and ernment. brings the total to over 184,900 tons. 923 jo quaquajnbə əy—sumanost Finland two millard Swedishganyika and Northern Rhodesia,

five others are from various parts of Designed Many Statues artillery superiority and a huge out- In addition, 20 German ships5-JUM JO BẤEP 401'941 zvqz ózujs000,000.

South America,

Mr. Ledward, who was formerly lay of shells. Has the West Wall totalling over 100,000 tons have been

Poace Ratification

weaknes37 Will The rest of the ambulances are from Professor of Sculpture at the Royal the

not Line turn out Maginot

have its SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH",

the United Kingdom,

College of Arts, has designed on Achilles heel too?" the paper asks, Thoir Majestics talked with the am- well-known statues. In collaboration

In Sofla, the "Outro rays: "Two HELSINGFORS, Mar 18 (UP),——

the Guards Division Memorial on the Allies on the western front and the pence agreement was corried by a paid volunteers.

Horse Guards Parade. Others of his vote of 145 to 3 in the Finnish Dist

the Lord

Military works include

Milner Near East.

operations in to-day; 52 megabers being absent.

The Efficiency Medal of the Hong- memorial in Westminster Abbey, the latter area are not impossible. To make beace often requires kong Cathedral axi An Allied expeditionary force was more courage and Initiative than to been awarded to Private Mario Maria war memorials at Abergavenny, propared for Finland and it can peace resort to war," said the Prime Minie-Da Silva and Lance Sergeant Jaime Blackpool, Harrogate, Stockport and easily be sent to the East."

PLEASE Turn To Page 5. ter in his speech to the Diet.

Stonyhurst College..

cuptured or an inclusive total of 60 ships of 284,000 tons.

Military expenses totalled half

la milliard crowns, bomb damage

La Coruna was set on fire whien: Intercepted in northern waters, whilst more than a milliard. The re

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en route from Rio de Janeiro to mainder is attributed to export Ratification of, the Russo-Finnish (bulanco 'crews, all of whom are un- with Mr, H. C. Bradshaw he designed biting retain for the Want

Germany. La Coruna are on

The crew of

board a British cruisor.

jlosses and industries in the ceded

areas..

Government

has

J Cruttwell has resumed The Finnishi

duty as District. Officer in the South- ratified·

the Russo-Finnish

ern District of the New Territories, treaty, following an Intense debate.

Daniel Dos Remedios.

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