MOMENTOUS TALKS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 253, 7 August 1941, Page 5

MOMENTOUS TALKS.

MR CHURCHILL AND PRESIDENT.

AMERICAN REPORT PERSISTS.

(Rec. 2 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 5. Tlio Washington correspondent of the “Herald-Tribune” says that in spite of official disclaimers reports persist that Mr Roosevelt, Mr Churchill, Mr Mackenzie King and Mr Harry Hopkins are about to engage in a momentous conference 1 in Canada or the middle of the Atlantic. The purpose of the meeting is assumed to be the discussion of Anglo-American collaboration with special reference to Japan and the Pacific. Yachtsmen reaching Woodsliole, Massachusetts; said they saw the yacht Potomac flying the President’s ensign off Nantucket Island this afternoon. The master of . one yacht said that shortly after passing the Potomac lie passed a large Canadian vessel camouflaged and heading into the Sound along a route not ordinarily followed by large ships. It anchored to the westward of Vineyard Haven, about which a number of large American warships were seen during the day

The frequently well-informed newspaper, the “Miami Herald,” in a special dispatch from Washington quoted reliable diplomatic quarters as asserting that Mr Roosevelt and Mr Churchill conferred this afternoon aboard a ship in the North Atlantic. The report asserted that-British and Canadian sources said the conference was held off New Brunswick, while others said ; off Newfoundland.