BERLIN SCARE STORY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 193, 17 July 1941, Page 7

BERLIN SCARE STORY.

AMERICAN ENTRY INTO WAR LONDON, July 16.

According to- a special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph ou the German frontier, a sensational German Press and radio campaign against President Roosevelt, based on a report by the Swedish newspaper Aftoubladet from America' alleging that the United States is about to enter the war, is causing great tension in Berlin.

The Swedish report said that Mr Roosevelt has ordered the United States Navy to fire on German planes and warships without warning. The Berlin correspondent of tho Swiss National Zeitung says German official circles declare that tho Aftonbladet’s dispatch is considered to ho “entirely genuine and authentic after careful verification.”

In New York to-day the Federal Grand Jury indicted 33 persons and named the German Reich as participants in a nation-wide German spy ring with international connections. Tlie indictment said that the heads of the ring were agents of the German Government and that their activities began in 1936. Testifying before the Senate Investigating Committee, the Undersecretary of War (Nlr Patterson) said that tho United States had gone a good distance toward its goal of establishing an army superior to that of any other nation in organisation and equipment. “Last year brought great progress, but for total warfare of the kind that is now raging in Europe we can never have enough,” lie said. lie stated that the munitions personnel had increased six-fold during the last fiscal year, and I!#.- increase in material was thirty-fold. Tho goal had not yet been reached, but it was being worked for at an ever-increasing rate.

The United Press of America says that an economic federation of the islands in the Carribbcan based on British-American collaboration lias been proposed to Mr Roosevelt by Administration experts as a move to solve the islanders’ wartime economic problems. BOMBERS FOR BRITAIN.

'flic Washington correspondent of the Miami Herald says that for the past month a new route for sending American-made bombers to Britain lias been through Miami. Sonic are flying direct over the 4000 miles to Gibraltar, hut most go to Bathurst in British Gambia and thence to Gibraltar. Others go to Africa through Natal in Brazil. Some have been sent to Egypt from Gibraltar, participating in the Syrian campaign, ft is said that 200 ’planes have Jcft Miami. (L is learned in Washington that the Government of Eire has asked the United States for permission to buy more ships because thousands of tons of goods are piled up in the New York docks. The Irish Minister (Mr Brennan) said that 50,000 tons of steel, grain and fertiliser are awaiting tranport.