MALAYA NEVER MORE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 92, 19 April 1941, Page 9

MALAYA NEVER MORE

I STRONGLY DEFENDED.

AIR FORCE GROWS.

Many British And American

Fighters Arrive.

(H.-0.1. 10.30.) SINGAPORE, April IR. It is officially revealed that a lartre number of tie latest American Hre«>ter-Buffalo fighters have arrived at Singapore and are alreadv in >ervice with the R.'A.F.

| Malaya correspondents to-day «t one aerodrome mw dozens of Buffaloe!. on the assembly line. As fast as they are completed and tested they are dispatched to Malayan fiphter squadrons. The«e. «ith other British and American machine* already i,, Malaya make the air defences of Malaya infiuitelv more powerful than ever before. A Domci nevr< e?e ncy report from Tokyo re.eals thjt the Tnited State* .-land air b H *» are be.n S used for the fli-ht delivery of consolida4ed flying-boat* from California for British defence post, in the Muth-west Pacific J lie report add- thai well kno»-n United pilot* who are participating in rtH'verie- include Clyde Pan-horn and Bcrnt Balchen. Tokyo is minimising Press prediction* of a thorough reconsideration of the •Japanese foreign policy after Mr return. The o'fficiaj Japanese spokesman declared there mill i}v • almost no chanjre"' in the ba*is of hi* country's policy for peace. A message from Bataria state* that y"\- N>thCrl " nd " rorei Minister. Dr. K. N. van Kleffens. announced that the Netherlands Ea*t Indies Xavy will be reinforced as a result of activitie« in Canada, the United States and the East Indie?. The merchant fleet will also shortly be expanded.

The personnel of the Sutherland* Government in London will be increased bv expert* from the Netherlands East Indies. Thai-Indo-China Fighting? Tension again gripped the battlescarred Thai-Indo-CTiina border this week as French troops allegedly staged an incursion into Thai territory, according to Thai Press reports from border areas, says a Tokyo message. Clashes are said to have occurred in repons where most of the Thailand border forces withdrew after the conclusion of the mediation conference in Tokyo. NAZI DOMINATION. BritiA Official Wireless. RUGBY, April 18. An instance of the inexorable crip of <.ersnan tentacle* on industries of occupied countries is given in a recent issue of the newspaper "De Telegraf." of Amsterdam. The Finance Commissar, r ischbroek. according to the newspaper. stated at a recent meeting of Dutch and «.erman industrialists that it was clear that German industries would be cornPLi .1° ?£? sacrifices to render possible the fulfilment of present needs. I It would certainly not be easy for them to sacrifice orders and relinquish raw materials reserved for Dutch industries It was therefore necessary for Outch concerns to work according to the conditions governing the German concerns. J ITALIAN EDITOR'S DEATH. (Reed. 9.30 a.m.) CHICAGO, April IS. The theory that the editorial attacks on pro-Fascists made by Mr. John Arena editor of the Italian language newspaper La Tnbuna." who was killed by two gunmen when leaving a picture theatre led to his slaying was weakened to-dav Police report that among the papers found in Arena* office yesterday was a copy of a letter he sent in *193» to Goebbcls. Sergeant Brady said that in the letter Arena offered his services for the German cause. It was also learned from bis secrctarv that Arena had been on fricndlv term's with the German Consulate. In recent, issues of Txi Tribuna" Arena published editorials apainst fifth column activities of an Italian Consulate member. EIRE INTERNS NAZIS. (Reed. 1.30 p.m.) DUBLIN. April IS. A German bomber alighted on the sea and sank inside territorial waters near Schull. County Cork. The crew of six came ashore and was interned. A.A. GUNS NEEDED. AMERICAN SUPPLIES SHOUT. NEW YORK, April 17. The "New York Times'" militarv cxpert. following a survcv, telegraph* irom Washington that the country's shortage of modern anti-aircraft -uns >> .-till serious, "Almost a year after the German blitzkrieg began, the Naw has not sufficient guns of the desired types to equip all its combatant ships, much less merchantmen," the writer cays. "The army has not enough equipment to protect half the principal cities of the eastern >eaboard or field armies. '"If the navy should be ordered in the near future to convoy duty. th<shortage, particularly of guns rough]v equivalent to British pompoms, wiil probably handicap efficient protection of such convoys. The urgent need ha* l.een recognised with growing force in the past few months, and nearly all possible sources are now being tapped. Thousands of guns have been ordered and arc to be ordered. 'The problem of building up United State- antiaircraft strength i* complicated by the fact that the same «un« are being produced for Britain, whi.-h needs every such pun that <;ui t* ► pared..* - the « riter con. hides. EIRE'S PLIGHT. (Reed. noon.l DUBLIN. April !*. Hi» officially stated that there is only enough wheat and flour left to carry . on for a few months in Eire. Feeding/ wheat an.l flour to live stock is a : .in-; tii.- coiiuuiuiit \ which is liable lay ' iu-d\v penalties.