INDUSTRIAL “CONCESSIONS”

Evening Star, Issue 23881, 10 May 1941, Page 11

INDUSTRIAL “CONCESSIONS”

GERMANY AND VICHY FRANCE REPAIRS TO SUBMARINES T LONDON, May 9. (Received May 10, at 8 a.m.) According to information received from an independent French agency, Vichy’s " concessions ” to Germany are industrial, and include assistance in rearmouring German tanks and also submarine repairs. Regarding the first, it is stated that the Balkan campaign proved that the armour of the German tanks did not offer sufficient resistance to Britain’s new-- anti-tank weapons. Secondly, in view of the R.A.F. damage inflicted on submarine repair shops in German and occupied French and Dutch ports, Admiral Raeder wishes to transfer the shops to, the interior—a plan in which French industry is expected to play an important part. AUSTRALIAN NEWSPRINT TASMANIAN MILLS IN OPERATION SYDNEY, May 9. History will shortly be made when several Australian newspapers will_ be printed entirely on local newsprint. Thereafter a steady flow of newsprint from newsprint mills in Tasmania will be used to the utmost to replace imported paper and thus relieve the, dollar exchange position. Ten .Australian daily newspapers are associated with the newsprint mills. AMERICAN ARMY FULL-SCALI MANEUVRES LONDON, May 9. A million men of, 21 years will be called up in the United States in July. They will participate in full-scale manoeuvres with volunteers and men called up in previous drafts.- These manoeuvres will be the most up to date ever held, and all the weapons of modern warfare, such as parachute troops and as formidable as the Nazis’ Panzer divisions, will be employed. CONDITIONS IN NORWAY PEOPLE LIVING IN FISHING BOATS LONDON, May 8. Many citizens of Kristiansund were forced to spend the whole of the winter in fishing boats because German bombers set their, houses, on -fire last summer.' No official attempt was made to replace the 700 houses destroyed. The reconstruction plan submitted by the Quisling Minister of the Interior was merely sent to Germany “ for approval.” The damage at Kristiansund is estimated at £5.000,000. nearly a quarter of the total war damage in Norway. LONDON'S RATEABLE VALUE REDUCED BY BOMB DAMAGE LONDON, May 8. The City of London Finance Committee reported that bomb damage to March 31 had reduced the city’s rateable value by 11 per cent. MR H. L. STINSON ACCUSED OF WAR-MOH6ERING LONDON. May 9. The Washington ‘ Times ’ published the first isolationist article to appear in the leading American papers for more than three months. In this it accuses Mr H. L. Stimson of warmongering and of making , statements that are not in line with public opinion.