WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 6 December 1940, Page 3

WAR ITEMS

i BERNE, December 4. The police raided units of the totalitarian and Communist movements LONDON, December 4. The mass expulsion of French citizens from Lorraine has been extended by the Germans to Alsace. It is recalled that the first expulsions from Lorraine began after the Vichy Cabinet had yielded to M. Laval’s plan for unlimited French co-opera-tion with Germany. M. Laval is shortly to go to Berlin to discuss French and German collaboration, according to a statement by Marshal Petain. News of the resignation of Mi’ Kennedy was received in Britain with formal expressions of regret, though more for the speeches which followed his return to America'than for the retirement itself. An official connected with a Government Department, hinting that Mr Kennedy would not be accepted in diplomatic circles in London, said: We are determined not to see our war effort “Kennedied.” BLOEMFONTEIN, December 4. General Smuts in a speech on the international situation, said: We’ve had serious setbacks, but the tide has turned, and there, are indications that victory wiT again be ours. It is a harder task this time, but we go on. ( We want to take our part in upholding a free world, and standing with those who have stood by us for generations. I have no doubt when it is all over, it will be generally admitted that South Africa in a vital moment of her history, chose rightly, however difficult the choice may have been. NEW YORK, December 4. A conference of Boards of Industrial Economics Division, estimated that defence contracts awarded before November 1, will provide an additional' four million jobs throughout America, by June, bringing the total of employment far above the 1929 peak. ITALIAN AIR RAIDS. 580 EGYPTIAN CASUALTIES TO DATE. ■ CARO, December 3. . In Egypt, the . air raid, casualties since June 12, when the first bombing occurred, have comprised 155 civilians killed and 425 civilians inured. EGYPTIAN PROTEST. CAIRO. December 2. Premier Sirry, in a speech in Parliament, said Egypt protested against Italian bombing of Egyptian cities. Balkan Countries INDICATIONS OF ATTITUDE. LONDON, December 1. In Jugoslavia, the Regent, Prince Paul, has again expressed that country’s desire for independence, with a po'licy of peace and co-operation with all her rieighbburs.' Priricb' Patil called on the people to remain levelheaded in the face of difficulty. Turkey has made her intention of not signing up with the Axis quite clear. The Italian radio has been saying that Turkey is about to join the Axis Powers, but this has drawn a definite denial from the Turkish radio at Ankara. The'Ankara radio said that Italy had tried to invade the Balkans pn t^ o flanks, but had failed utterly. : '//'/ The ■ txvo ■ principal Axis partners are putting round a report that Bulgaria is their belligerent ally, but there is nd evidence of it in Bulgaria, and the Moscow radio emphasises Bulgaria’s desire to remain neutral. '’ ' ” /'■/

Two junior? Axis partners, Roumania and- Hungary, are at loggerheads. Yesterday, on ' the anniversary of the imion of Transylvania with Roumani’a, there were demonstrations -in bbth countries.