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Tea From India DUBLIN, June 19' (Reuter), -Sean Lemans, the. Supplies Minister, stated in the Dail to day that a Central Tea Purchas- ing Board had been established which was endeavouring to purchase toa direct from. India.

The Board had already purchased a quantity of teu In America and shipment of it was being arranged, but as it was not sufficient to affect the ration, the purchase of large quantity was being negotiated In India.

Sean Lemass added that the first cargo of wheat from America via Lisbon arrived in Dublin to-day.

The Hess Sensation: British Govt Silent

FROM PAGE ONE

is no more mad thar: Judas Iscariot or Satan..

News Wasted

Eetter than silence would have been our ruthless use of this gif from Hell, but the Ministry of In- formation had made no more use of it than an oyster.

Mr Adams believed that Hess to the came to Britain to sy' aristocracy, "Join us or we joln Russia," hoping to entrap, those of the mentality to want peace at any Conservative member, Mr Henry Strauss, took the totally op- posite view and argued that what- ever the assumption "you take about the circumstances in which Hess left! Germany, the advantages of leaving Germany guessing are overwhelm-

393 POUNDS TO GO-Silas E. Johnson, arriving in New York from expedition trip to Liberia, Africa, gives Skippor, two- months-old, seven-pound pigmy hippopotamus a bath. Whon full grown, animal will weigh 400 pounds.

Ing." strauss contended that the Government's silence had led the ALLIED TROOPS

Germans into a palpable lic

and

into fantastic contradictions, where- by they had lost prestige in every country in the world.

Treated As Officer

The Government's reply made by the Under-Secretary for

NEAR DAMASCUS

FROM PAGE ONE

· Dentz Defending City JERUSALEM, June 19 (Reuter),

Foreign Affairs, Mr R. A. Butler, who All's revolt are now being transport- declined to depart from the Governed." ment's présent polley of slienee about

Hess,

He declared that there was no mystery or confusion about Hess, British troops are reported by a who is a prisoner of war and is being military spokesman here this after treated as such and will continue to noon to be still pressing from the be so treated.

southwest of Damascus and holding ask the Damascus' road running south as alto Kiswe.

Mr Silverman Interposed to whether he was being treated elvilion prisoner of 1.S . Marshal.

It was nonsense to suggest that Hess is at Chequera.

Axis Takes Action

FROM PAGE ONE

Luxembourg. occupied Belgium, France. Serbia and that part of Greece which is occupied by Ger- man troops. It is asserted that the American Express Company and its employees had acted in a manner contrary to the interests of the Ger-. man Reich.

of

Espionage Charges BERLIN, June 10 (Reuter).--- Field But they are stated to be meeting

with artillery opposition in their "Much incriminating evidence Mr Butler suid that he was being attempts to press northwards from effences on the part of American representatives," is contained in the treated us un officer-perfectly fair the slopes of Jebel Kabl. ly and rightly as a prisoner of war In the coastal sector, Australian German note to the United States Wadi demanding the withdrawal of the with all the attendant circunscavalry patrols have reached

American Consular staffs from Ger- iances.

Zeni, 10 miles south of Beirut.

and many and German-occupied territory. Hitherto over 1,200 officers men have surrendered to the Allies, says the official Germain news agency

It is now assumed that General to-night. Dentz intends defending Damascus. It says that the German Foreign Résistance At Beirut Omce has à "mass of, material on CAIRO, June 19 (Reuter).The Intrigues dangerous to the State and 10- British advance along the coastal has prohibited the news service of

sector from Sidon to Beirut is slow. the American Consulates,

The German naws agency inentions It now seems increasingly likely that

number of American Consular Vichy forces will offer resistance be- officials by name. Thus, it states fore Beirut.

Fighting continues around Damas-that the Consul-General at Cologne, cus, Including the vicinity of Mezze Mr Alfred H. Kliefoth "in autumn

indicating that the offer 1830 and spring 1040 carried by

In conjunction with the Belgian

Other conjectures as to the reason for Hess coming here could be left

of individual! to the imagination member and members were given full rein, to their imagination day.

Duke of Hamilton Mr.Butler said that he was unable to satisfy curiosity for reasons of public interest.

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On the point whether the Duke me,sir Maliland Wilson to Spionage against Germany by using

Hamilton knew Hess or whether correspondence had taken place be fore, Mr Butler said that he had General Dentz in a broadcast from Consul-General in Cologne, a code nothing to add

to Sir Archibald Palestine Radio to allow the Vichy for reports on the German march Sinclair's statement of May 22.

troops to vacate Damascus in order into Belgium, Holland and Luxem-

Jins not bours." There was substantial point us to to avoid shelling the elty why, if the American Government been accepted.

The time limit in the offer expired was informed, British public opinion -should-not--be-informed--as-well, this morning.

There had been endless diplomatic

exchanges between Britain and other LATE. NEWS

countries throughout the war and "It has been a source of sorrow that

I am not in a position to divulgo them to Parliament.

Unshared Secrets

The British public should share, as far as possible, the Inner thoughts of the Government, but in this case, wa do not believe that we have any- thing to say which would make for an improved effort of the public, and we do not believe that by not saying anything wo are in any way upsetting public morale."

Dealing with points of general policy raised in the debate, Mr Butler declared that it was the Government's desire to avoid making idealistle statements about the future which

not bo realised. "We are in the

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"Reference has been made to the Cliveden Set and the Holy Roman Empire. They are both dead and may they so remain. We want to bulld not only a new set in this country but a new Europe and that 19 a job we can pursue without mak- ing grandiose statements."

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Sketches Made

The Vice-Consul in Hamburg, Mr Ralph Getbinger, is accused of "carrying out espionage in the spring of 1941 against Germany by making sketches of the railway system and military installations neur Ham- burg."

It mentions, charges of es- plonage on German troop move- ments in Norway and nati-German propaganda by a former employee of the American Consulate in Oslo, Mr Ivan Jacobsen.

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Mr Sydney Redeckep, Consul at Frankfort-on-Main, is accused having "delivered coples of anti- German propaganda and to have passed';

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The Consul-General at Ostend, Mr Nelisen, and Consul Roy E. Eower Munich "in January 1940 showed their anti-German feelings by make- ing detrimental remarks on Germany and the German Government in the hearing of German persons."

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