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Gainesbille HailgRegisker
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 10, 1941
VOL. 51
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Britain Breaks Off Relations With Rumania
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acknowledging
heavy destruction
ILOYD LEHRBAS
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of
by the disruption of nor-
between Latin America
ulti- bill, Senator Austin (R-Vt.) coun-
and talks designed
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legislation.
night and the
abreast of all commer-
blackout will be
permanent hereafter. This decision
there is danger of
con-
British warning to
bargaining rights of the workmen, the military va
lue of Rumanian oil
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be
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rman planes
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the credit for that increase
municat ions no v in German hands.
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greater
extent than with the
non-
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failed.
partly because of Argen-
Cargo.Shifts and
with
and
tural expoi
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somewhat colder in
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Unshaken in the Belief
U.S. Should Aid Britain
Activity
Of [Nazis
Supreme Court
Refuses to Act
In Ford Dispute
Franco to Confer
With Mussolini
Wife Slayer Is
Found to Be Insane
Likely to Stay Out
Of War if Britain
Gets Help, He Says
Youth Killed on
Way to Wedding
IOLA, Kansas, Feb. 10 (AP).—
Demonstrating
Youths Back Home
bombardment, inch
000-ton battle cruise
31,100-ton battlesni
l Air force! attacks
oil fields and com-
said to present the most favorable
possibil ties for trade pacts on the
basis of studies to date, and pre-
liminary explorations indicate mu-
is: Increasing cloudi-
er in east and south
light; Tuesday mostly
iy out of war, while if we
ive aid to Britain, we shall
become involved in war.”
were co htinuing from time to
and a future agreement was
rests solely on
“Thank God,
nary’ to Royal
on Rumanian i
economy ‘ Cl
gentina's, tr
nation also :
any results.
Lets Labor Board
Reinstatement Order
Stand Against Firm
creased
to $727
ih southerly winds on
oming westerly Tues-
whatever motives, to throw itself
into this present conflict would lead
departmen
that tri ide
pact count
mately o
pacts with
republic s.
To keep
Darlan to Succeed
Marshal Petain
orted to have
ie British raid
e Nov. 11.
tons of Brit-
Gov. W. Lee O Daniel will not at-
tempt to dictat ? to the 47th Texas
legislature what laws it shall pass,
he promised Texans in his usual
Sunday radio broadcast from the
88-year-old governor's mansion.
"I have performed my constitu-
tional duty by submitting to them
west
Mod-
as to what kin< l of laws they shall
pass, or how th ?y shall do it I can
only recommend, and that I have
leghorn.
Biddy laid a peanut-shaped egg
only 1 11/16 inches long.
The U. S. navy increased its per-
sonnel from 158,814 to 250,000 in
1940.
he get rid-of Oscar.
Judge B. A. Ball, withholding
his train.
Every five minutes the station
caller droned the time through a
"IMPROMPTU—
PHILADELPHIA — Night club
patrons thought there was a sur-
prise in store when four husky men
to-
ne-
NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (AP). —
Wendell L. Willkie is back from
England still unchanged in his con-
portions Tiesday, not so c
night except in panhandle,
what colder panhandle Tues
THE DAILY REGISTER
IS NOW IN ITS 51ST '
YEAR OF SERVICE TO
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY
New York Attorney, Merwin K. Hart, Taking
Stand Against British Aid Measure, Says
Bill ‘Probably Would Lead Us Into the War’
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NO MONKEY FOR HER
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morning for Miss Hazel Ingels'
farm home near Leanna, Kansas.
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as this the judgment of no one
man is enough — not even the
president of the United States.”
Before congress acts finally on
the bill, ithe witness said, Britain
should be asked to state her aims
and as effectively take control
here? That, I believe, is the great
danger that lurks in the back-
ground.
“Do we Americans have to corn-
Immediate Report on
Truck Load Limit’
Bill Is Requested
More than 100, __________
ish naval might took part in the
* | can defense.
Declaring that American entry
“The bill gives far too great
' power to one man. In such crisis
during a floor show — and they
were right.
Guardsman Robert Berry, 17. of
Humbodit, Kansas, told his sweet-
The preparations had been made.
They would be married today.
But just outside of Iola Corporal
Berry’s car collided with another.
Of the two cars’ seven occupants
five were injured, one suffered a
fractured skull, one died. Dead was
Corporal Berry.
Malaya, the
22,000 - ton aircraft barrier Ark
and Tuesday followed by
light rain west and north central
heart that he was enlisting in the
regular army but that as soon as
he got established he would ask
for leave and come back home to
marry her.
Berry rose in the ranks at Fort
Riley and, with a corporal’s stripes
on his sleeve, set out yesterday
and the country should be in-
' formed about the status of Ameri-
The British minister, Sir Regi-
I nald Hoare,: notified Rumanian
I Premier General Ion Antonescu
that the long-strained relations be-
tween their countries were at an
ish naval assault failed to hit any
military objective. - |
showdown fight with the dwindling
fascist legions defending Libya.
was a swordfish naval plane.
The fascist high command said
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WEATHER
Gainesville and Vicinity: Fair to
partly cloudy Monday; Tuesday,
considerable cloudiness.
High for yesterday, 59; low last
night, 29; noon today, 53; high for
year, 67; low for year, 24. .
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persons — New York, C t
Philadelphia, Detroit, and
gales.
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dwellings, asserted that the Brit-
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rade talks with that The 5,800-ton British freighter
have failed to produce Ramon de Larrinaga capsized in
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pact nations.
Several attempts to negotiate an
agreement with Argentina have
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(AP).—Admiral Jean Darlan
tonight was declared succes-
" sor to Marshal Philippe Petain
as chief of the French state
in case of an emergency.
“Constitutional act No. 4”
previously decreed by Petain
was amended to ead, “If for
any cause before the ratifica-
tion by the nation of a new
constitution we, Petain, should
be prevented from the exer-
cise of the functions of chief
of state, Darlan will assume
this duty.”
The United States has but five
cities with more than a million
still have a legislature left. And
in my opinion you have an excep-
tionally good one this year and I
believe the 47th Texas legislature,
meeting at thi j critical period in
world chaos, will go down in his-
tory as the mo st constructive leg-
islature that 7 'exas has had for
many years."
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UP).
More than 5,000 youths who said
they wanted “jobs, not guns,”
went home today after a three-day
demonstration against aid to Great
Britain.
4 The American Youth Congress’
“town meeting of youth" cheered
speakers who denounced the Brit-
ish-aid bill and the selective serv-
ice law, but adjourned without
adopting a resolution against
either.
While the congress met to criti-
cize administration officials, two
other youth organizations pledged
support of administration’s pol-
icies. |
Murray Plavner, head of the Na-
tional Foundation for American
Youth, who gave President Roose-
velt a booklet on "How to Stop
the Junior Fifth Columnists,” said
he would ask the Dies committee
today to investigate the American
Youth Congress.
Another group calling them-
selves the Student Defenders of
Democracy, left Washington after
conferring with Secretary of the
Navy Frank Knox—and calling on
congressmen to urge passage of
the British-aid bill.
-L Hart contended that "to pass
and' such a bill as this would be an
these days in Fort Leonard Wood, the army’s training camp in Missouri’s Ozarks, where |
eventually 36,000 troops 11 h---- 3 -it------ —3 -hish ha- *—-3 3---l .
wo ’k.is being pushed ahead at a rapid pace. .
The house passed the measure®
Saturday.
Saying he wanted Britain to win
the war, the witness added that
caused a heavy list.
The 47 members of the vessel’s
crew were aboard when the ship ■
turned over on her side. Coast
guardsmen picked them up and
only one man was missing.
The ship listing more than 30
degrees to port, was beached here
last night by two tugboats, .
She sailed from Philadelphia
late Friday and ran into an Atlan-
tic gale 75 mires off shore which
caused the cargo to shift. The ves-
sel leaned so heavily that her main
deck was awash and lifeboats
trailed in the water.
An SOS brought the coast guard
cutter Mohawk and two patrol
boats and the vessel was towed to
the Delaware breakwater.
in as brief time as two or three
years to the utter exhaustion
economically and socially of this
free and rich republic. ' Three
“Then with the highly organized
meanwhile that
and north •
erate to fn
the coast b
day.
Oklahom
LONDON, Feb. 10 (AP).—Prof.
Arthur Lloyd James, English lan-
guage specialist charged with slay-
ing his wife, was found guilty but
insane today and ordered kept in
custody “until the kings pleasure
could be known.”
Mrs. Lloyd James, who taught
and played violin under the name
of Elsie Owen, was found dead,
her skull fractured, in the Lloyd
James home at Hamstead, Jan. 14.
Her husband was quoted in
Hamstead court at a hearing the
following day as saying he killed
her to save her from a “bleak fu-
ture” when he found himself un-
able to "cope with my work.”
This last stateme
early Monday by of
spokesmen, who sail
man soldiers now 1
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Both Legislative
Branches See Some
Rapid-Fire Action
AUSTIN, Feb. 10 (AP). — Both
branches of the Texas legislature
saw rapid-fire action today.
The house quickly voted, 94 to
41, for an immediate committee
report on a bill to double the mo-
tor truck load limit. A few min-
utes later, it authorized creation
of a general state government in-
vestigating committee, similar to
that; which the senate has had for
several years.
Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel in a spe-
cial message sent suggesting a so-
cial security appropriation of $26,-
820,000 if the legislature continues
deficit financing.
Shortly thereafter, three sena-
tors introduced the suggested bill.
The senate voted to renew’ the
life of its pension investigating
committee for another 30 days if
needed.
The house vote requiring the
highways and motor traffic com-
mittee to act on the 14,000 pound
truck load bill, probably will give
that proposal a comparable calen-
dar status with the bill permitting
gross and load weight of 56,000
pounds.
By a top-heavy vote the house de-
cided to postpone until April 1,
consideration of a bill extending
Texas' market demand oil prora-
tion law.
Despite vigorous arguments that
a delay in proration reenactment
would invite federal oil control,
the balloting on the postponement
motion was so one-sided that a
record vote was unnecessary.
Announcement Says
Germany Building Up
Expeditionary Force
LONDON, Feb. 10 (AP).-
The British government an-
nounced tonight that it had
broken off! diplomatic rela-
tions with Rumania.
The announcement said Ger-
were killed, 226
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (AP).—Merwin K. Hart, New York at- There was speculation in neutral
tomey, testified before the senate foreign relations committee today diplomatic quarters whether Brit-
, that the British aid bill “probably would lead us into the war.” He also ain soon might follow’ the break
suggested that American involvement might enable Russia to “take with a declaration of war, espe-
control here.” 1 cially since Rumanian oil fields are
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LESSON ON HONESTY’
SAC CITY, la.—Grocer Vern
Olson has good reason to believe
in the honesty of Sac City women.
He took $850 worth of grocery
bills home to check over. Acci-
dentally they were thrown in the
furnace.
But most housewives had kept
their duplicate slips and others
offered to accept Olson’s estimate
of their account. “Thanks to Sac
City housewives, I will lose only a
few dollars,” smiled Olson.
der way, -r--. , _
(The United States has already
Royal, the 9,100-ton rusier Shef-
viction that peace for America lies , field , with light forces in com-
in aiding the embattled British , pany, the admiralty said.
empire. i One Plane Lost |||
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With an eye on future trade
State Hull is taking ad-
do give aid to Britain, we are like-
ly to sta:
do not gi
probably
He wo
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negotiat '
and the Dominican republic.
No actual negotiations ar; un-
surveys of trade and economic con-! pletely opposed to such abdication,
ditions in all 20 American repub- j
lies.
Mexio, Peru and Chile were
Genoa Attacked
Premier Mussolini’S high
Exports from the United States
to the other American republics in-
from $569,000,000 in 1939
000,000 in 1940.
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are likely to stay out of war," he
said yesterday, "while if we do not
give aid to Britain, we shall prob-
ably become involved in war.”
The 1940 Republican presidential
candidate stepped off the Dixie
Clipper 18 days after leaving here
for a "see-for-myself" tour of Eng-
land and Eire.
He plans to present his full con-
clusions to the senate foreign re-
lations committee tomorrow as it
nears the end of its heal ings on the
house-passed lend-lease bill calling
for aid to Britain.
An advocate of the measure,
with certain amendments, even be-
fore his trip, Willkie declared that
what he saw and learned abroad
had “modified” his views on how
to assist England, and that he
would disclose them in Washing-
ton.
He said, however, that on his
survey he had “heard no talk at all
in Britain of either expecting, an-
ticipating, or suggesting that the
United States become an active
ally as far as war is concerned —
neither from the man in the street,
nor from cabinet officials.”
"What the British desire from
us,” he asserted, “is not men, but
materials and equipment.”
In a statement issued after an
interview at La Guardia airport
marine terminal, where the Clipper
landed after a trail-blazing flight
from Lisbon via Africa, Trinidad
and Puerto Rico, he summed up
his opinion on the British-aid ques-
tion thus:
“I have been much interested
since my return in reading press
dispatches concerning discussions
about aid to Britain. Apparently
the issue is being drawn by some
on the basis of war, or no war. In
other words, the opponents of aid
to Britain are saying that if the
United States gives aid to Britain,
we may become involved in war,
while if we do not give aid to Brit-
ain, we can remain at peace.
Urges Additional Aid
“That is a wholly unrealistic
statement of the issue. As a mat-
ter of fact, in my judgment, if we
Red Sea Port and
Town of Karora Have
Been Occupied by Army
Kec 1. .u a,, the Delaware breakwater today
Officials said, however, that after being run aground because its
hile *hene ° "mee "er *e e "A m- f. fron shifted and
British Forces Launch New Drive
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tina's speqial trade arrangements
with uropean countries, and
partly because its major agrieul-
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front where British forces are re- i
ported 200 miles beyond Bengasi
on the road leading f m.-*
day’s general headquarters
nouncement said He learance of the
it was denied
cial Bulgarian
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-ade pact, general talks
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many is building up in Rumania
all the elements of an expedition-
ary force.
L from jail and or^red the sheriff
to help Mrs. BuPa move from
’ the couple's farm Hme
“William had to choose between
you and the monkey,” he told her,
"and he chose the monkey.”
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Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guat-
emala, J Haiti, Honduras, ”
ragua, and Venezuela.
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at the Union station stopped for
four hours because of wiring trou- Ll
ble but not one passenger missed
laws. I hope they pass the kind of
laws that you 1 olks want. I do not
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end in a brief note delivered on the
stroke of noon (4 a. m. C. S. T.)
(This decisipn followed on the
heels of British Prime Minister
Churchill’s broadcast declaration
i yesterday that "the nazis, having
i absorbed Hungary and driven Ru-
mania into a frightful internal con- .
vulsion, are already on the Black
sea" and "perhaps” a southward
movement of German trioops into
or through Bulgaria already has
begun.)
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Hart, who said he appeared before the senate foreign relations now completely in German hands
committee as "an average citizen,” declared that house-approved and would provide a legitimate
amendments to the legislation had not substantially reduced “the target for Britain’s bombing
threat of war contained in the bill.” j Planes. .
j The British minister to! Bulgaria
The British admiralty listed, retary of
power plants, factories, ware- vantage
houses, oil tanks, docks and ship- created ’.
ping among the targets damaged mal trade
। at Genoa, where the bulk of the and . Furrpe ‘ to
i Italian fleet was renorted ta hove studies
taken refuge after tl
on Taranto naval ba
CAIRO, E g y pt, Feb. 10 * I
(AP). — British forces, E
tory is being used by-Germany "as
a military base in furtherance of
her plans for prosecuting the war."
Relations Ended
BUCHAREST, Rumania. Feb. 10
fAP).—Great Britain broke off
diplomatic relations today with
Rumania, into1 which Germany has
poured hundreds of thousands of
soldiers, and arranged to turn over
her Rumanian interests to United
States care.
(legislators) my recommenda-
tions,” he said "Your legislature
authority ; to pass
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compete with Kmeri- , Ship Capsizes
Since Uruguay’s
One grasped the microphone and
announced:
“This place is pinched.”
The manager and several em-
ployes were held on a liquor law
violation charge.
NO BRAKES? *
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — It
wasn’t a needle they were asked
to recover, so police cleaned up
this assignment quickly.
Eli Clark reported his automo-
bile, parked on a hilr, had dis-
appeared.
Police found the car at the bot-
tom of the hill—under a haystack.
Secretary of State
Takes! Advantage of
Abnormal Conditions
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facilitate reciprocal trade seled the Republican party today
1 five or more American against "blind opposition” to the
a powerful squadron of British
RICHMOND, Ind. — Mrs. Lu- my
cille Burris, 24-year-old, bride of ?
six weeks, went home to her |
mother because she disliked her; L
husband’s pet monkey, Oscar.
In city court, she charged her
husband, William, 45, with assault
and battery. He blacked both her
eyes, she said, when she insisted
signed reciprocal trade agreements into the war would lead eventually
• - - 5 nr? —to either a fascist or a commu-
nist government, Hart added:
"For the United States, from
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (AP). Was made. the newspaper Curentul
The supreme court refused today said, because '
to interfere with a labor board or- 1 airvattacks
der directing the Ford Motor com- The reported .
pany to reinstate a group of em- Bulgaria is believed to apply also
ployes with back pay to cease al- to Rumania because of the pres-
ieged intereference with collective ence here of German troops and
launching a new drive against' e
Italy’s East African colony of ( B
Eritrea from the north, have
cial developments in South _____ ___
Central] America the state d part- abdication by the congress of its
ment, it whs learned today, i 3 con- obligation and duty under the
ducting systematic and cumulative stitution."; He. added “I am com-
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while there appeared to be no im-
prospect if an Argentina-
Denial of a review left in effect fields.
a decision of the federal circuit Besides the British d plomatic
court at Cincinnati which sus- mission, there are nearly 200 other
tained the board's action as ap- Britons residing in Rumania,
plied to 23 employes. Many have indicated they will re-
Unless the Ford company should main. Some stayed in Bucharest
be successful in other litigation it during the German occupation in
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occupied the Ret! Sea port of "
' m Mersa Paclai, and the town of e
. .. i Karora, on the Anglo-Egyp- . I
.tian Sudan frontier, the mid- I
L..-. dle east command announced E
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psuwzezzd I The drive, coordinated with the' *
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brought the fall of
I sea port to be captured from the
Italians.
10 (AP).—Diplomatic hservers
expressed the opinion here today
that the British rupture in rela-
tions with Rumania was a prelimi-
The British have been holding
rounds of farewell parties for more
than a week in expectation of the
i break.
I Expect Aerial Attacks
BELGRADE Yugoslavia, Feb.
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"the adequate defense of the
United States is even more im-
portant than the defense of Brit-
ain.”
As the senate committee start-
ed its final week of work on the
disabled inla dogfight over the English channel. He is wear- i base from whih t ...
__,_____ ing the fleece-lined jacket which protected him on bombing exPeditionsmight. soon have sailed
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — Mrs. raids over Germany.
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that her hen; supposedly a Buff __
Frm" .... - Willkie, Back Home, is
to attack General Weygand in Al-,
geria or Tunis."
The Italian high command’s war j
bulletin, while
BERN, Switzerland, Feb. .10
(AP).—Diplomatic advices reach-
ing here late today said that Span-
ish Generalissimo Francisco Fran-
co and his foreign minister, Ra-
mon Suner, were en route to Ven-
timiglia, on the French - Italian
frontier, .to confer with Premier
Mussolini, and Italian Foreign
Minister Count Qanoe
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push fo -ward
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 10 (UP).
Exports Increase
1^2.
will be compelled to comply with
the circuit court’s ruling.
Withqutlattempting t. claim.aucemnmunstlopnet"nrkthehtnite
officials emphasized I States, could not Russia as duietly
with the eleven trade
ies had increased to a
Military .observers saw increas-
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Says Russia Might Take Control of
mand reported at Nast 72 persons America, if U. S. Forced Into War
fascist warplanes overtook the
British men o' war and hit a
cruiser at the stern with a bomb.
Hitler's high command reported
into Italy's naval- base of Genoa. IY
•MMM In London, Frime Minister, VA6
_ , Churchill declared t tie attack, car-
Ira Lee Sullivan of ried out at dawn Sunday, had de- P.1 JL„ U.ill
Hillsboro, Texas, paused at Dallas enroute home after being liveredla"shatterin g blow” to the L USIGu Dy II Ull
i , •• . "a naz German ~ •
and continuous supply of war
materials. . . " I
2. A warning that the
threatened German invasion of
Britaih may be imminent.
3. Italian military power on
the African continent has been
"irretrievably” broken by Brit-
ish victories in Libya. -
4. Movement of German
troops into Bulgaria perhaps
already has begun, “with, we
must suppose, the acquiescence
of the Bulgarian government”
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roved far from their bases to at-
tack Iceland, machine-guring a
British airport at Reykjavik, capi-
tal of the Arctic land.
British-occupied but still a pos-
session of nazi-held Denmark. ey-
javik is 1,000 miles from German
air bases in Norway.
The German communique also re-
ported the sinking of 24,500 tons
of British shipping! and “serious
damage” to four other ships in a
convoy off the coast I of Portugal.
Supporting Churchill's assertion
that the RAF has now gained day-
light dominance in the air, British
bombers escorted by fighters
blasted at Dunkerque and Bou-
logne on the nazi-held French
coast today.
RAF planes yesterday attacked
“one of the largest and most im-
portant oil plants in Italy” at Leg-
horn, and bombed [the airdrome
and railway junction at Pisa, the
British announced.
In a radio talk to .the empire,
Churchill dealt with many phases
of the empire’s effort. ’
England's Needs
These included:
1. Britain does not need
American soldiers “this year
nor next year, nor any year
' that I can foreseen," but urg-
| recently notified the Bulgarian
’ government, according to diplo-
matic sources in Sofia, that Bul-
garian military targets would be
bombed by the RAF if a way were
opened through Bulgaria for Ger-
man troops to get at Greece or
Turkey.
Newspapers carried columns of
instructions to civilians on how to
behave in air raids and how best
to protect' themselves.
Bucharest was blacked out last
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