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WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (UP), -Defence officials have drafted plans for a future monthly pro- duction of 125,000,000 pounds of aluminum,
Production for April was near. ly 50,000,000 pounds-double January production of 25,000,- 000 pounds-but announcement of President Roosevelt's heavy bomber programme will more than double and possibly triple that figure.
Emergency facilities now are be- ing constructed for an, anticipated production of 75,000,000 pounds u month by early 1042.
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Total aluminum production during 1946 reached 412,560,000 pounds, but Recording to present plans produr- tion eventually will be 1,500,000,000 pounds annually.
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Insidious Nazi Intrigue
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ment should protest against the black list.
Mexico made a spirited reply tell- ing the Reich Government in almost as many words to mind their own business.
The Mexican reply tartly spys:
TUMBLING DOWN-Ruins of London buildings come crashing down in shadow of St. Paul's. They wore gutted by fire bombs dropped by Hitler's airmon in recent raid, and workmen pull down walls.
Disembarkation Of Nazi Offensive Held: Japanese Continues Huge German Losses
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FROM PAGE ONE
250 planes and two squadrons of or are advancing but that they are fighters and one squadron of bom- never forced buck. bers.
It is now claimed that the neces
Lime
for
"Mexico is capable of taking care of Japanese trucic convoys are moving sity of dealing with the Russian her own sovereignty and freedom of in a steady stream to Cambodia and pockets, while slowing the German trade without any prompting from two convoys of trucks, anti-aircraft advance, has also given Foreign Powers."
and field gums were seen moving to slower units to catch up. The German note intimated that the north.
Advantage of Lull the Mexicum attitude on the question Disposition of British Troops The milliary correspondent of the that the of the black list would determine the
"Demokraten" German attitude towards Mexican
LONDON, Aug. 4 (Reuter).It Is Germans have now completed their in the rear ፎሮ trade after the war.
learned in London that there is no arrangements The Mexican
Mexican note described this truth in the rumour that Britain has tors for the relief of exhausted. threat as "pressure
in open Consent 100,000 troops to the Thailand troops and re-organisation of hurried tradiction to the spirit of mutual re-border. The dispositions of the units and for overhaul of mechanical spect governing foreign relations of British forces in the Mexican Republic."
Pan-Americanism.
to
was taken The opportunity proclaim without any ambiguity the texican Government's adherence to
Singapore are material and bringing up fresh units offensive but purely defensive and no move of the ready to renew the magnitude indiented has taken place. despite attacks on their communica- tlons, the Russians have also, cer Australian Reaction
tainly benefited by the pause.
Berlin The same newspaper's
the "principle of inter-American co-P. operation.
SYDNEY, Aug.
4 (Reuter)Mr C. Spender, the Minister for War, correspondent reports that the Ger
that mans claim that the fresh Russian speech here to-day sald
This affair was followed by a Australia was looking at the rising troops are of inferior quality to those publie demand in Mexleo for the tenston In the Far East with calm at first engaged. expulsion of the German Minister but defermined eyes,
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THURSDAY
Military experts expect that fresh and other Nazi agents. The Mexican 'Our most earnest endeavour is to large-scale attacks by the Germans Trade Union Congress passed ΣΤ
preserve peace in the Pacifle but we will shortly be chiefly directed at
Moscow, Klev Lenlagrad,
and resolution declaring the German are not prepared to give up at gun- Odessa. note an intolerable insult
to the point the interests and Imperial pos-
Finns Still Held country."
scesions which it is our joint re- Feeling against Nazi interferencesponsibility to guard nor see them The Finns are still attempting to with Latin American sovereignty is whittled away by stealthy encroach-press through the isthmus connecting running equally high in Chile and ment and Infiltration," said Mr Ladoga and Onega which, if suc Argentine. In Argentine-police-raids | Spender--- have been made on the German Embassy and various German-con- trolled institutions, The Argentine "Indo-China, Malaya and Thailand authorities found
A Finnish advance here ran bring secret code are as close neighbours to Australia messages proving that Nazi agents as Japan. We look with misgiving pressure on Leningrad from the cast fomented the recent Peru-Ecuador at the arrival of Japanese forces in but the intention of the Russians to
Indo-China. Indications frontler battles.
are not hold Sordovaila is evidenced by the intends The message was found inside Jacking that Japan
going fact that they have not carried out // Talk by shart-wave radio set seized by the even further.
Japan of the destruction of the town. Investigation CommRice Chairman, protection is only a a cynical pretext Mr Raoul Damonte, on its smuggled for
aggression. return from Peru where it refused entry.
Order To Agents
was
rins shing
1 at Hangoe in still
only
will if necessary. give Reports
of constant arrivals of proof that she means to con-Russians from Estonia suggest that. trol her destiny. Ninety thousand the Finns hope to starve out The message ordered all Nazi Australian troops are already abroad garrison of Hangoe is a vain onc.
substantially In- agents in Peru and Bolivia to follow and they will be
on
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4 ZURICII, Aug.
(Reuter) all instruction issued by four Nazi creased. More than 160,000 enlisted
their in envoys in South America at
the A.1.F., equivalent
that
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tho Argentine's firm reply to the German Tokyo Temperature" the Russians have profiled by Minister's protest against the seizure TOKYO, Aug. 4 (Reuter). The experience of the French campaign of the short-wave set
and other absence from Tokyo of Sir Robert and have strictly forbidden refugees baggage, and all leading Argentine Craigie, the British Ambassador, and to use railways and main roads in newspapers congratulate the Mex- Sir John Latham, the Australian order not to impede military move- can Covernment's reply to the Ger- Minister, and the return to-day of
of [ments. United Mr Joseph C. Grew, the United
States Ambassador,
in a cheerful เอ Pass 15
serious is coming immediately, but
man
the note concerning States black list.
In Chile, public opinion
Northern Sector VICHY, Aug. 4 (Reuter).-Heavy creasingly alive to the dangers of frame possibly indiente that nothing fghting is continuing round Sorda-| Nazi Infiltration, and the police havet is obvious that Japan is stalling Laders, which the Russians continue valla, on the northern tip of Lake recently made many searches.
for time to complete domestic. Preto hold against all attacks, according parations.
LATE NEWS
The quietude of the last few days to
the continued press hostility to the Democracles and an almost frenzied
given an ominous tone by ki reports received here to-
tanks are count
counter-attacking. The garrison of this s strong point on Invocation of the national general the flank of the Finnish drives on mobilisation law in fields hitherto both sides of Lake Ladoga is said to
have been strongly reinforced.
Sordavulla is the centre of the great of fortifications built by network
broken nature
miuri"
to-day notea Colonel Knox's assertion that Japan
lias oil stocks to last 18 months of Russians in territory ceded by Fin warfare and retorts: "So what?" land inst year. The
The
paper adds the allegation that of the terrain favours the defence, Chungking has access to vast but un-which is well-equipped with artillery. publicised patrol resources from Burma.
Chungking Hopes
CHUNGKING, Aug. 4 (Reuter).- With Germany bogged in Russia, It
Is believed in many quarters that
Britain and the United States may
Anglo-Spanish Courtesies
MADRID, Aug. 4 (Reuter); turn their full attention to the Fur General Lord Gort, Governor of EDAL.
Gibraltar, to-day paid a courtesy These circles point to many Indi-visit to General Barron at Algeciras. cations that a show-down fi, being General Barron was recently ap forced with Japan, such as the recent pointed
command
freezing of Japanese assota, the contiguous to Gibraltar..
abrogation of commercial agreements,
further American" oil restrictions,
the arrival of large British fortes in
the arca
Malaya and Burma, and the Informed sources that not only strengthening of American defences American
In the Philippines.
the.
aircraft and volunteer
pilots but also Soviet artillery, nic-
It this show-down should come in craft and volunteer pilots are arriving
Pacific, competent Chlane in China in large number observers predict that the outcome
1. likely to be determined within a year.
Move Comeute, com
SAIGON, Aug
4
pletion of the Innding and stationing * - - China Is Stronger
various sectors of Japanese-re- Meanwhile the Chinese military Inforcements to French Indo-China position has been greatly strengthen-according to the provisions of the ed-with the continued arrival of Franco-Japanese agreement regard- American and Soviet supplies, While ing the Joint defence of the country official quarters decline to make any was announced to-day by the head- comment. It is learned. In well quarters of, the Japanese forces.
SCENE IN ST. PAUL'S Whit Monday visitors to St. Paul's Cathedral, London, gazed on this scene of devastation, rasult of Nazi bombt. Headless statues and great hole in floor are
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