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35TH YEAR, NO. 16-^,^ PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1941
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CHAHNEL PORTS MASS OF FIRE AFTER DEADLIEST RAF ATTACK
Greeks Deny Nazi Pressure for Peace Bombers Fill Air
As Wave on Wave Strikes at Nazis
Airl   Dill   Cnn   '^' ^' ^^^^^^^^'^ challenge
Fight Power Given F.D.R.
Cannot Defeat Lease-Lend Plan; Select Speakers
IN SENATE MONDAY
Sen. Davis Among Republican Group Still Undecided
By LOlIS J. 8CHAEFI.E
Washington, Feb. 15. (UP) Foes of the administration's British aid bill could count no more than 30 votes tonight on the eve of Senate ^ debate on the measure so they de¬ cided to center their fire on two amendments restricting President Roosevelt's power.
Isolationist and non-intervention¬ ist leaders privately conceded that they have little if any hope of be¬ ing able to defeat the bill. But they were optimistic about the chances of appending to it amend¬ ments that would prohibit the use of U.S. navAl convoys and prevent the President from disposing of •ny  part of the U.S.  Navy.
Thty adopted  this strategy in  a geries of informal conferences late ? today.   Administration leaders were *' confident of enacting the measure ^ In  substantially the same  form as j approved by the Senate foreign re¬ lations   committee.     They   believe that  this  can  be  done within  two | weeks or less.    These leaders  met | In   the   oifice   of  Secretary  of   the | Senate  Edwin  Halsey  and  decided I to a.ssign Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky and Chairman   Walter   F.   George.   D., Ga., of the Senate foreign relations rommittee,  as the lead-off  orators Monday.
Austin lo Speak |
One of the first speakers for the j measure will be As.sistant Repub- I lican Leader Warren P.. Austin of ; Vermont who advocated in a Senate I speech earlier in the week an i Anglo-American union at the end of the war. He is expected to speak after Barkley and George.
Sen. Bennett C. Clark. D., Mo., who calls himself the mosl "uncom¬ promising enemy" of the bill, will be the opposition's first orator. He found some encouragement tod.iy in the isolationists' new ally, Chair¬ man David I. Walsh. D,, .M!».ss.. of the Senate naval affairs committee. Walsh plans to sponsor the "no fleet disposal" amendment. Walsh's op¬ position to fleet unit transfers dates back two years ago when he block¬ ed an effort to sell some mosquito torpedo boats to Britain.
Although the opposition's major effort will be lo secure pa.«.sage of the convoy and ship disi)n.ssi amend¬ ments, .Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont., chief strategist nf the group, claimed strong support for a pro¬ posal requiring Great Britain to state her "peace aims " as a condi¬ tion of receiving U. S. n.«sistance. ^'ant .\ld to Russia Barred
Sen. Robert R. Reynolds, D.. N. C, a member of the Senate foreign relations committee who support¬ ed the measure in committee, said he would seek support for an amendment specifying that Russin •hsll not get any aid under the Wll. He said he was givmg ".stron>: rnnsideration" to a suggestion that (Continued  on  Page  B-10)
Invasion of Bulgaria By Germans Awaited
Food Stores Ready; Seek Assurances of Jugoslav Neutrality
By  LEON   KAY
Belgrade,    .lugoslavia,    Feb.    IS. ; (UPl    Germany plans military or- I cupation   of   Bulgaria   snd   seeks ¦ as.surance of Jugoslav neutrality, it I was   reported   in   press   and   politi- I cal   circles  tonight. j     Premier     Dragisha     Cvetkovitch land    Foi eign    Minister    Alexander Cincar-Markovitch    conferred    fo'- three  hours with  Adolf Hitler and German  Foreign  Minister Joachim von   Ribbentrop  yesterday  and   re¬ turned    today    to    inform    Prince Regent   Paul  what  the  Xazi  chief¬ tains  had  proposed.
Political sources understood that Hitler and von Ribbentrop had made no positive demands but hnd sought ns.suranie thnt Jugoslavia would stay out of the war. no mat¬ ter what moves Germany made among  her   neighbors.
It was  emphasized that the two Jugoslav    officials     carried    with them to Berchtesgaden no author¬ ity to negotiate any treat.v. tiermans on Border
The government organ. Vreme, today published a report lhat sev¬ eral German divi.'ion.s were concen¬ trated along the Danube opposite Bulgaria. !
¦Vreme's Sofia correspondent said reports from Bucharest indicated troops nnd war materials hnd heen arriving at the Rumanian-Bul¬ garian frontier for the past 4S hours. The fact that the Vreme j dispatch was published on the day '
Cut Rail Traffic Where 'Cliutists Hit
Rome. Feb. 15. (UP)—Italian authorities tonight halted all freight traffic, except military shipments, to the important porta of Brindisi, Bari and Taranto in Southern   Italy.
(British parachute troopa were landed in Southern Italy Monday night in nn attempt to cripple vital water and hydro-electric supplies nnd communications lines in   thnt  area.)
Italian offlcials said it had no connection with the landing of British parachutists, but merely was part nf n genernl scheme to speed  up military shipments.
(Zurich reported meanwhile an official broadcast announced that Itnlo-Swiss mail services had been interrupted without explanation by the Italians. No mall was said tn have come from Italy for several days and the holdup was reported to be at Milan.)
Athens Insist No Negotiations Are in Progress
of the  premier's  return  from Ger¬ many was considered significant.
\(ln London it wns reported that the British minister at Sofia, George Rendel, had sought assur¬ ances from Premier Bogdan Filoff thnt Bulgaria would not facilitate German troop movements. Filoff replied, it was said, that he could not give such assurances.)
REPORT VICTORY
2,000 Italians Reported Taken in Repulsed Attack
pressure to end the « ar with Italy and claimed that their forces were smashing the Italians back in Al¬ bania.
The war ministry said Greek forces in .successful local actions had driven the enemy from strong¬ ly fortified positions and captured 300 prisoners.
The denial of reports that Ger¬ many was trying to induce Greece to    make    peace    with    Italy    was
offi-
Terrific Explosions Are Heard as British People ]yatch Longest Attack Ever Made Against Invasion Ports; British Planes Roar Over Channel In Engless Streams to Carry Fight; Blazes from Dunkirk to Boulogne
j issued by the  Agence Athene In    Istanbul    the    nuthoritative   cial news  agency.
newspaper Akcham said editoriallj?
that Turkey  could  not  remain  in-
(Contlnued on Page B-10)
United States Army Air'Corps  is  flying Curtiss P-40 ported able to out-perfoim th^ be.st pursuit ships in Ei altitude,   all-metal   planes   are   shown   over   Mitchell New York defense base.
fighters, re- iiope. High- Field,   I...   I.,
Allis-Chalmers and Steel Plant Strikes End
Road to Tripoli Is Now Believed 'Wide Open'
By SIDNEY WILUAMS
London, Fob. 16 (Sunday) (IP)—The Royal Air Force smashed at the French Channel coa.st la.st night and early today in the longest and most violent attack ever made on (iermdn bases.
Wave after wave of British homhers dumped their loads on the French coastline from Dunkirk to Boulogne, starting fires which filled the sk.v with an almost impenetrable pall of
  smoke and setting off e.vplosions so terrific that the English
H.v BE.V AMES side of the channel was locked.
Athens,      Feb.      L'S      (UP)    The
Greeks tonight denied foreign re-      Veteran  reporters on  the channel  coa.st  fs,iifl   thry  hail ports that Germany was bringing never .Seen an.\ thing to approach the intensity of the British
' '"" ^"'"  attack.
Longest of -Ml .\ttacks
Tlio as.sault stailod shortly after dusk. When it passed the four-hour niai'k. with the Frtnich coast "a mass of flame." a new record for suslaine(i attack on (Ierman suhniarinr and suiiply ba.ses was establi.<iied.
Tiie attack, \\hicl) followed wide.-;pread raids on (;cn)iaii and C.ernian-occupicd territor.v Frida.\- nipht and Thursda.x, was witnessed from the English side by tiiousands of spec¬ tators whose homos were illuminated by the glare of burst¬ ing bombs, anti-aircraft shells, searchlights nnd fires acros.< the channel.
British bombers almost filled the sky during the f^Ysi half hour and were followed thereafter b,\ seemingly endless streams      of      warplanes      which*— — 	
Final Battle South Of Benghazi Ends; Advance in East
Defense Heads Aid; Output of Needed Metal Will Resume
! Washington. Feb. 1.'^. (Ul i Thf Oflice of Production Managemeni ! announced tonight that the 25-day- { old strike al the Milwaukee plnnt of Allis-Chalmers Co., engaged in defense production, has been set¬ tled.
OPM Director William S. Knud¬ sen and Associate Director Sidney Hillman announced at a press con¬ ference early tonight thnt the 8.000 workers at the Milwaukee plant would go back to work Tuesday. They will remain on the job pen¬ ding formal ratification of the com¬ promise reached todny between the company maiiagenienl and repre¬ sentatives of the CIO United Auto¬ mobile Workers Union, the OPM snid. Conferred  in  Wuhhington
The OPM (¦Uled reiursentatives of both sides to Washinalon thi? week where John R. Steelman, director of the U. S. labor (on- cilialion service, haa been active in seeking a settlement at joint con¬ ferences  Willi   the   disputants.
Knudsen ami Hillman made the terse announcement of the settle- mcni without revealing terms of the compromise pending rntifica- tioii   by   tlic   workers.
Harold Story accepted (he terms of the proposal on behalf of the Allis-Chalmers Company, and Richard T. Franitensteen, interna¬ tional  board  member of the   UAW
Ford Would Aid Both Sides in War Until Both Fight to Collapse
Atlanta, Ga., Feb, 15. (UP)- Henry Ford was quoted In a copy¬ righted dispatch in the Atlanta Constitution's Sunday morning edi¬ tions as saying he "sincerely hopes" that neither England nor Ihc Axis powers Hill win the war in Europe,
It quoted Ford as saying in an interview al his plantation liiir "we should give them (Britain and the Axis powers i the tools to keep on fighting until they both col¬ lapse."
"There   Is   no   righteousness   in
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Editorial    C—I
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Politics   C_2
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Bporta   B—1
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either cause," Ford was quoted as saying, "Both are motivated by the .-i'lme evil impulse, which is greed,
"It is not the little penple who art- doing the figliling and the suf- ferins wlin arc the greed'' ones. Tlie.>- nre innocent of tha'. Their oiil." guilt is idleness. Idleness mali's Ihem stupid and stupidity has made it easy for the hig ones, the greedy ones, to lead them into war.
"If we can keep both sides fight¬ ing long enough -until the.v cannot fight any more, then maybe the little people wiil open their eyes. Then they cnn sec lhat they have been the dupes of this international clique of greed -and wc liavc its members in thi.s country, ton who have  irii'ked  them  into war "
Ford was quoted as siving that after Ihc belligerents "coiiap-ic" the United .Stales could then "help them bolh make a just peace . • •"
of the CIO, and Ed Hall, also of the CIO. agreed on behalf of the union. R. J. Thomas, president of the union, was called back to Detroit ia.'t nighl after having par¬ ticipated in several earlier confer¬ ences. Care for Future Grievances
Dr. Sleelinan said he was "glad lhat the deadlock has been broken and thai the plant is to be re¬ opened." He said bolh sides in the ' controversy were "deeply indebted" to Hillman and Knudsen for their assistance in settling the strike.
The seltlemeht reportedly set up machinery for settling grievances arising in the plant, and disposed of the main controversial issue of "union  security,"
Tht question of wages and olher points Ht issue were not included in the agreement, bul will be con¬ sidered in Milwaukee next week.
Steelman said he planned to ask j Concilation    Commissioner    J.     P. : Holmes   lo  arrange   a   meeting   tor Monday.     Holmes   represented   the concilation   service   during   negoti¬ ations held earlier in Milwaukee. Strikes Are Ended I At Steel Plants
I Youns.stown, 0„ Feb, 15. (UP)- Strikes in the Brier Hill plant of the ¦Voungstown Sheet and Tube Co. and in a factory of one of its sub¬ sidiaries, in which approximately 1,100 employees had participated, were settled tonight.
Members of the local Steel Work¬ ers Organizing Committee (CIOi voted approval of an agreement reached by comiian.v and union rep¬ resentatives earlier loday for ter¬ minating walkouts whicii had shut down the open hearth department of the Brier Hill plant and had closed the Youngslown Metal Pro¬ ducts Co. plant, a subsidiary of Sheet nnd Tube.
The Brier Hill plant has been turning out between .1.000 and 4,000 tons of steel daily, much of il for national defense orders.
The union had .laimed tliat the walkout nt tlie Brier Hill plant was called because of the company's rcliiclance to bargain collectively and to force adjustment of nther grievances. Its officers said there was no wage dispute. Company spokesmen maintained that the management had met grievances «J they arose.
A wage dispute was understood to hnve heen the principal reason for the strike at the .Metni ProducU-i Co.
Crews were to return to the Brier Hill plant at 11 p. m. lo night, lo prepare the 11 open hearth furnaces for resumidion of nperations. The strike at this plant began nn Thurs¬ day. About ""iO workers had walked out at the Metal Products factory the day befor«.
By RICHARD D. .>lc.MIIX/X
Cairo, Egypt. Feh, 15. (UP) The British smashed at the Italians by land, .sea and air loday. captured an important port in a 150-mile dash across Italian Somaliland and claimed the sinking of nn enemy mcrchniitmnn in one of the many Force reported bombing raids in the Mediterran¬ ean   and  African   theatres   of  war.
In Libya,  the British claimed  to have sm,ashed the last bit of Italian ! sent one to the bottom resistance  in a big battle south of j took place the night of Feb. 13-14.
communique addM, captured giini armored vehicles and a number of prisoners.
While other British units were Increasing pressure on Keren, in Eritrea, still others were occupying Quei.ssan in the Blue Nile region nf Ethiopia and routing, wilh heavy losses to the enemy, an Italian de- lachmeiil southwest of Asosa, the communique said. Attack Italian Convoy
Simultaneously    the    Royal    Atr
that   the   fleet   air
arm   had   attacked   four  merchant l
ships,   escorted   by   two  destroyer*, I
in  the  Central Mediterranean  and
The attack I
Nn Negotiations
"Greece is negotiating with no¬ body." the agency said. "The war being fought with Italy will be fought   to   the   end."
The governmenl spokesman said the Greek offensives were being pushed ahead at "many points." In addition to prisoners, the Greeks captured considerable war material. he said, and killed or wounded manv Italians wlio attempted to mnke   a   counter  nttack.
Describing the encounter in whicli the prisoners were captured the spokesman said thnt nn Italinii night foray in one sector "ended disastrousl.v witli another lllO taken prisoners, most of them Alpini wlin snid they had arrived recently from Italy."
The Greek radio snid (Jreek forces were advancing beyond Kli- surn and that Itnlinn troops hnd been dislodged from positions on the northern front with heavy losses.
The radio said bombs were drop¬ ped behind the Italian lines al Tepellai   and   Bnrat. I
Benghazi,    capturing   .1,000   troops i and  observers  believed  the  reduc¬ tion  of Tripoli  would  not be diffi¬ cult. I
(In Rome and Berlin, however. It \ was   claimed   that   Axis   bombers were   effectively   attacking  British columns in North Africa,) j
Gaiii Indian Ocean Base
The   latest   and   most   important triumph    claimed    by    the    British [ Middle East command was the cap- j lure    of   Chisimaio.    Indian    ocean port .W miles soulh  of Mogadiscio, ! capital  of Italian  Somaliland. !
Occupation   of  Chisimaio,   second '¦ largest  port  of Italian Somaliland, gave the British a base  for opera¬ tions up the coast wilh the    aid of
Budapest,    Feb.    I.V    (UP)    The In Eritrea, the RAF said. British ' Greek radio tonight reported sn im- (Contlnued on Page A-10) (Continued on  Page A-10)
Mass Daylight Raids Resumed by Germans
smashed at their targets and re¬ turned. Boulogne appeared to be the  hardest  hit.
.Shortly    before    midnight     there wns   a   brief   lull,   after   which   the raid wns  resumed  with  even  more inlensit.v. Terrific Kxploilons
A few minutes after midnight two explosions, so heavy that ob¬ servers believed large ammunition dumps hnd be^u e;.ploded, rocked houses in t'li-stiine on the Eng¬ lish coast. Earlier there had been a similar binst whi. h one observer said was the mcs: violent and vivid he had ever witnessed.
"11 must have been an ammuni¬ tion   dump."   he   said.
The first hnlf hour of the nttack, which started nt dusk, was so in¬ tense that hou.sc.i on the English side were sh<iken nnd the entire channel  liiuminpted   it was said.
The raid, in which wave after wave of British homhers partici¬ pated, continued in somewlint di¬ minished force afier the flrst hnlf hour. As the attack passed its third hour with no signs of end¬ ing, spectators on the English side sel up a tremendous cheer.
The British "blitz" continued, passing the four-hour mark and becoming the longest raid yet undertaken     against     the
At Deal, on the English O'innrI an observer said "fhe entire French coastline from Dunkirk fn Bou¬ logne appcavcd to be a iiia.i? of fire." The R.^F assault, he said .':tarfed  soon   nfter  dark.
Harr.v HickiiiEbothani nnit''d Press eorresnondeni at Folken- slone. said the British bombers swooped on llie invasion bases from   a   starlit   sky.
"The attack opened shortly after dusk." he said. "The British bomb ers during the first ha'f hone rained bombs in sm h nunibrrs thnt explosions shnolt huildin- and   windows   in   Folkestniie
"\Vaves nf bnnihers were lira*'.' followed by fires nnd explosim^ flashes that lighted np houses on the English const. Anti-nirrrafl guns put up a terrific barrage but apparentl.v it was unavailing Thousands Watch  from Coaat
The attack attracted thousands nf persons to the coastline on the English side to watch and listen. The Boulogne area appeared to be the hardest hit and ob.servers re¬ ported that the roar of guns and bombs "rolled from the channel like tremendous peals of thunder" Hickingbolham reported a .l-mlle strip of const from Boulogne tn French   Cnlais was "engulfed in flames." A
All over Britain; Called Forecast Of Invasion Drive
By H. U PERCY
London, Feb. 15.   (UPi  -German warplanes roared over Great Britain
coast.    The    pall    of    smoke    from   large   flre   shot   up  near Cape  Orli
Ihrough. ReporU of enemy planes came from all over Great Britain. Turn Guns on Train
Germans were reported over Northeast Scotland towns, over the Northeast coasl of England, over Wales, East Anglia, Liverpool and the Midlands. One raider swooped low in Northeast Scotland and ma-
the Royal Navy. With the Italians    from the Kentish coasl to Scotland   chine gunned a train while passcn '      "    ¦    " ¦ .... ..    ,„„ijj|,f   jiftp,.   resumption   of   mass  ge^g sought safety under the seats.
in East Africa cut off from all supplies, the British believed il only a matter of tim'e until they control the entire area.
The navy, it wns snid, aided in the capture of Chisimaio by shell¬ ing Ihe port    from off the coast.
The British communique said the cantors found one ship scuttled in the   port,   three   damaged   but   still
daylight raid tactics which British authorities had warned might pre¬ cede   an   invasion   attempt.
Night raiders were reported over the London aren. the Midlands, Northwest and Norlhea.st England, Scotland   and   Southern   England
No casualties were reported.
British fighters tried to keep pace with the invaders. Many reports said the raiders were driven away.
An official communique said two German bombers were destroyed off   the   east   coast   loday   and   an-
numcrnus   fires   became   so   heavy that    German    searchlights    were barciv able to penetrate it. Coast a ^Ia«s of Flame
The entire Frencli coastline from Dunkirk lo Boulogne was said to be nblnze with light from bombs, anti-aircraft shells and search¬ lights.
The attack, punctuated by heavy bomb explosions audible across the channel, followed raids on Ger¬ many and German-occupied terri¬ tory last night which the air min- istr.v said left great oil fires burn¬ ing nt Gelsenkirchen and extensive damage in the neighboring inland ports of Duisberg nnd  Ruhrort.
Nez and smaller ones. II was re¬ ported, flared nlong the adjacent line  of cliffs.
The attack diminished in inten¬ sity after the flrst half hour but smaller formations continued the assault. Tracer bullets, white flares and the Germans' "flaming ontolM" were visible al    Folkstone.
At Folkstone soldiers, sailors, air¬ men and civilians cheered at the attack passed its second hour. Black smoke rose so thickly from Boulogne that the lower sections of the searchlight beams were ob¬ scured.
A British Press Association r»- (Continued on  Page B-10)
London had two alarms early in   other  over  Southwest  England  to the    night    but    few    bombs    were  night.       Anti-aircraft     guns     shot
afloat,    and    sever.il    oil    storage   dropped in llie London area up to  down a bomber over the easl coast
tanks afire. The South African Air Force     had     pnrticipnted     in     the action, it was said. The   occupation   forces   also,   the
A   new  serial  begins:
THE fJLORlOLS
ILLUSION By  .'\llchael  Trent
I Nan Bentley had nnt needed work so badl.v she'd never have consented to L.vda Mora's mad scheme. Bul it seemed harmless enough, and it meant so ter¬ ribly much to Lyda, and to her fiance, Eric Fabler. Nan knew nothing, of course, al ihe time she left for Puerto Rico of the murder of Rich- ird  Cnrmody.
The   flmt   rhiipler  of  Ihis ex- cithiK nnd ingenious Ktnry of intrigue,     \iolence     and     ro¬ mance   appears   today  nn Page  A-18.
a   late   hour.    Liverpool   received   a ia.,t night, it was said, ahower of incendiaries. a brief air alarm was sounded in The day raids,  possibly designed l.flndon tonight  and bursts of gun- to  test  British  alertness,  produced fire were audible in some districts, little damage, according to the  air ships .Must Have Radios and home security ministries. Bril- Meanwhile   the   admiralty,   in   an
New French Cabinet Shakeup; Admiral Darlan Takes More Power
ish   fighters   turned   back   swarms of (Jermans. Bombers Shot  Down
Bombs were dropped In Eastern Scotland and Easl Anglia, however. It was officially reported that two daylight raiders were shot down oft the East Coast and two night raid¬ ers were brought down. Anti-air¬ craft guns were said to have shot down a bomber over the East Const  last  night.
The day raids were the first at-
order interpreted as indicating ex¬ pectation of invasion, ruled that all British ships under 1.600 gross tons must install radio sets capable of receiving British Broadcasting Company reports of the war's pro¬ gress.
The admiralty ordered all ships to maintainn wireless watches at V a. m., 1 p, m., S p. m., 9 p. m. and midnight daily, the hours at which BBC news bulletins nre brondcast. Observers Interpreted th» tempt at resumption of mass bomb-   order as a precaution by means cf
Ing tactics in recent monlhs. In such mass attacks lasl September the Germans lost heavily to British fighters.
.Strong Luftwaffe formations swarmed .iver the Kenl coast, near Dover, flying al extreme altitudes In  the     brilliant  sunshine.
.Squadrons of Spitfires roared up tn meet them nn(i manv Germans, after   desperate   dogfights,   turned
which ships at sea might be ac¬ quainted at once of an invasion attempt, warned of danger, or marshalled to assist in home de¬ fense.
Vichy, Feb. 5. Peyrniiton. interior the Frencli cabinet tonight in what observers believed was the begin¬ ning of a shake-up which would leave Vice-Premier Admiral Jean Francois Darlan the most power¬ ful French leader since War Pre¬ mier Edouard Daladier.
Following Peyrouton's resigna¬ tion, and the assumption of hia post by Darlan, it was reported that Chief of State Henri Philippe Petain might convoke the council of ministers early next week to effect further changes In the cabinet.
Peyrouton was the third political foe ijf Pierre Laval to leave the cabinet    since    the    former    vlce-
(UP)--Marcel   was   demanded   by   the   press   of minister,   left ' German-held Paris, which is friend¬ ly to Laval.
Darlan, however, retained Pey¬ routon's services to the government by immediately appointing him am¬ bassador to Argentina.
By the lime the cabinet shifts have been completed, observers be¬ lieved, Darlan will hava acquired more power than even fhe pro- German Laval held before his fall¬ ing out with Petain.
He will be commander in chief of the navy, navy minister, min¬ ister of interior, minister of foreign affairs, and chairman of tha eab- inet steering committee, as well as vice-premier.
tnil and fled. But other raiders got | cent attacks.
r>«o ,.f Ik. j...>.      ij       V     1- J premier    was    ousted    more    than
One of the day's raiders bombed ;,..     „„„,!,.   .„„   i.,.   n.t.i..
an  easl  coast  town   and  machine- '""  '^''"""'  """."^   ^""'"¦
gunned  a  house. Ij|\al'» Foe Passing
The    daylight    raids    followed    a The  others   were   Pierre   K.tienne
night  nf bombing which  had  been Flandin, former minister of foreign
considerably   worse   than   any   re- affairs, and Rafael Alibert,  former
1 minister of justice, whoa* removal
Dinpatchen from Euro¬ pean countries are nnw subject   to   censorship.
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