PROPAGANDA STORY
JAPANESE PROMISE TO CHILE. New York, March 16. Two of the leading newspapers ol Santiago, Chile, publish a story saying that a certain belligerent nation whose trade with Chile is now cut off, announced that it was ready to resume sending ships to Chile soon under convoy. The article did not name the country, but obviously it meant Japan, since Japanese merchants in Chile have been handing out the same propaganda for the past month. The two newspapers apparently swallowed the story whole. This Japanese propaganda tale has recalled Germany’s similar promise after the fall of France in June, 1940, to deliver goods to Chile shortly afterwards, but the goods have not yet arrived. URUGUAYAN SHIP SUNK Montevideo, March 17. The 5800-ton Uruguayan merchantman Montevideo was torpedoed and sunk off Haiti. Eighteen persons are missing and 32 were saved. As a reprisal the Uruguayan Government has seized the German ship Tacoma,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 66, 19 March 1942, Page 5
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