k-T. - SUNOCO. _ WED;;h.bDAY. 1?| la/,^ GOOD tVENXNG EVEnlfBODif: A British expeditionary force has landed at Athens i and also at Salonika. It has been rumored for some time that Sir Archibald Wavel! had sent part of the Army of the Nile to help the Greeks against the threatened invasion by the Nazis. But all reports have been vague and unconfirmed. Today1s report is not official. It is made in a dispatch from New York, copyrighted the by the United Press. And the U.S. declares that it has^news from private sources. British army headquarters in London were asked to confirm or deny the story. But the United Press Bureau in London cabled back that it was unable to reply to those inquiries. Nevertheless, the United Press received information from other authorities abroad that the expeditionary force detached from the Army of the Nile had left jt Egypt last week. Presumably it sailed from the great naval base at Alexandria. LEAD _ 2 -ne s r;r carries no details, we don't know how^aaoh is either the contingent sent to Athens or that to Salonika. In Belgrade, the capital of Jugoslavia, it is rumored that there are altogether ten British divisions now in Greece, some hundred and eighty thousand soldiers. At the same time it was announced in London that Australian and New Zealand battalions which were originally sent VbztflA to the British Isles, are now in the^ffd&lji East. That’s official. There is no indication where those Anzacs had been landed. But the A implication is that they are either part of the expeditionary forces in Greece or else were sent to the Army of the Nile to replace 4 the divisions that had been sent to Afhens and Salonika. At any rate, we may expect to hear of engagements between the Nazis on the one hand and Greeks and British on the other quite soon. Tv.ere are supposed to be two hundred thousand Germans on the Greek frontier. ALBANIA Some Patner baffling information comes about the war in Aioania. It comes from Jugoslavia. Italian motorized and mechanized units in great strength have been sent to Scutari in northern Albania. ThatT s quite close to the frontier of Jugoslavia. The report continues that most of those troops were taken away from Durazzo in central Albania. All of which is quite puzzling. There seems to be no clear reason why the Italian general staff should detach forces from central Albania and send them up north to the neighborhood of the Jugoslav border. Nevertheless, reports are rife from the frontier that Fascist troops in large numbers have been arriving at Scutari all day. KIEL Trie british Air Ministry reports a dashing feat by British bombers tonight. They made a long flight, three hundred and sixty miles from their bases a boabing plane- and blasted the daylights out of Kiel, Hitler?s great cJ- submarine basest Ls« the Baltic end of the Kiel Canal. They also tZAJ^O rained destructive fire on the docks at Bremerhaven and.two A 4 big airports in northwestern Germany. The daring attack upon Kiel was delivered because the British Admiralty had received information that it was the key point for the submarine blitzkrieg that Hitler has been promising for t&e Spring. This is not the first time the British have paid it a visit, tmt actually the thirty-third raid^that has bs*n--aade-4a* i • v <- < r that district: ftgt atTPOUdlnfe rbu the report^ of the Air Ministry, s A it was the most effective and destructive. CHUKCtiILL There ’'.ere cheers in the British House of Commons as A ^rime minister \.inston Churchill spoke. He was talking about the British Aid Bill which President Roosevelt sjg ned yesterday. <3 Speaking in behalf of Britain, he offered the thanks of the country, in the name of all freedom-loving people. And he declared that with that bill the United States proclaimed a new Magna Charta by dedicating her overwhelming industrial and financial strength to insure the defeat of ^aziism. nBv virtue of that new Magna Charta,n he continued/’the United States will make it possible for nations great and small, to live in security, toleraxice and freedom and to erect a healthy and advancing civilization.” It was only a short statement, but almost every sentence was interrupted by prolonged cheering by the members of Parliament.. BRITISH ATP And Congress today received President Roosevelt's request for seven billion dollars to carry out the Lend-Lease Bill. V ith i" he sent a letter of^o^t'one thousand words, in ^ A which he announced that he had signed H.R. Seventeen Seventy-Six, x » k through which our country is determined to do its full part in creating here in this country an adequate arsenal of democracy. Then the President used these words:- "It will be a bu"wark of our own defense, it will be the source of the tools of deiense for all the democracies who are fighting to preserve themselves against aggression." This letter was addressed to Speaker Rayburn of the House of Representatives. Mr. Roosevelt said in conclusion that to accomplish these objectives he transmitted an estimate in the amount of seven billion dollars, and he strongly urged the immediate passing of that appropriation. The details of the estimate were set forth in a letter from Harold D. Smith, Director of the Budget. And here are some of those details: For aircraft and aeronautical material, including engines, two billion, fifty-four millions; for ordinance, supplies, materials, including armour and bRITIEH AID - 2 anununition, one billion, three hundred and forty-three millions; for tanks, armoured cars, automobiles, trucks, and so forth, three hun(^rcd and sixty-two millions; for vessels, ships, boats and other Kater craft, six hundred and twenty-nine millions. )l the seven billions, seven hundred and fifty-two millions will have to be spent on facilities and equipment to turn them ou*. Tv^at includes buying land, erecting factories, and so forth. Tuen there’s another whopping item of one billion, three hundred and fifty millions for agricultural, industrial and other commodities and articles. That, we take it, means largely food. - —--- a ------- — Reporters learned from Congressmen that one of the first parts of that program would be‘the food shipment, especially concentrated foods like condensed and powdered milk, cheese, lard, fats, bacon. But. there** a string to that, a bottleneck*- where are * A they going to get enough ships flyingthe British flag to carry that food across the Atlantic? This message was considered so important that the House departed from its usual routine in handling it. The customary BRITISH AID _ 3 procedjre is to le requests like that with the Speaker. -his setter from the ^resident was read to the Representatives by the Clerk of the House. ^ 2 ^ cb/i<sK- BERLIN ?QLLOw BKITIiSri A in tier^s today *s comment from Berlin on the Lend-Lea 11 c. Loud Nazi chorus that Uncle Sam is tryinp to become toe ; i e to tor f the world A Furthermore^ the peculiar Nazi system of 1 o '?1 c leads them to the conclusion that this aid to Britain has handed over tne United «^tates to the revolutionary movements that fill Europe, But they/ douft explain how. The Nazis have teen claiming vociferous!# that fhetr ideology and heir conquests have / saved Europe from revolutionary movements. / / y also claim tnat this bill means the abandoning of ine, and the plunging of our country into world the iilonroe politics/ The Nazi spokesman also repeated over and over again the threat made by Hitler, hat none of our materials will reach the British anyway; because Nazi U-boats and bombers will take care of that, sink any ships carrying war materials to Britain. \ They add that the submarine blitzkrieg Hitler promised for the Spring hasn't even begun yet. Then the Nazi spokesman went on to say that the final answer of tne Axis to ttie passing of the Lend-Lease Bill will be heard after the Japanese Foreign Minister, Matsucxa, has arrived in Berlin. hOIAE PQL^OV, BERLIN In Home, Fascist spokesmen vrent a little fui-fehon, . declared thdt the i-iend-Lease Bill would almost certainly involve Uncle Sam in war. \Top Fascists declare that the Axis is de c-rmined not to sit tamely by while shipments of uxulxk arms are "bLy a X(JX made to Britain and Greece. In future, the Axis will make rencA^d A / ^ efforts to sink every ship bound for Britain regardless of what flag it flies. Mussolini’s editor Virginio Gayda wrote that matsuokaT s visit to Berlin is for the purpose of concerting methods to avhieve the aims of the Ay is and the Japanese. Gayda then made an analysis of the comparative power of Japan and the United States. The strength of Japan’s armed forces he said is imposing, and the Japanese war fleet is the third in the world. Although it’s inferior to that of the United States by three to five, it is really superior because of the strategic position it holds, meaning probably Indo-^hina and Siam. Still another Fascist newspaper declared that Matsuoka’s visit to Berlin and Rome was directly concerned with the Lend-Lease Bill. JAPAM There was a big demonstration at the railway station in Tokyo today. A special guard of honor and police escort were on the job, Cgbinet ministers, admirals, generals and other high government officials were there to give a send-off to Foreign Minister Matsuoka, £ r Wt^) _ ___ _ he left for Berlin, the first Japanese Foreign Minister to leave A A Japan since the days of the treaty between Russia and Japan at Portsmouth, ftew Hampshire, in Nineteen Six. Before he left, the Foreign Office made public some more details of the treaty between Siam and Indo-China, the treaty dictated by Japan. The treaty is revealed as a crushing^ ruthless y sgreeiften^'lor, among other things, French Indo-China promises to make no agreements of any sort that are-not favorable to Japan:—Neither political, military nor economic. In other words, the Japanese obtain complete control ever the foreign policy of the French government of Indo-China. Incidentally, Siam — or rather Thailand as she prefers to be known today — makes the same promise. There were loud complaints about this at Saigon, capital of French Indo-China. French colonial officials made the charge that the Japanese cheated shamelessly. BUb STRIKE iiayoi LaGuardia of Ne^ Jfrjrk the other day described tne leadprs of the Transport Workers Onion as Mbull-headed, obstinate and stupid.1 That was because they called the strike of omnibus worker5, refusing mediation, and brought about the worst tie-up on iMev; !ir0rk transit facilities in fifteen years. The Dies Committee today declared that Mayor LaGuardia hadnrt said half of what he might have^ The leadership of the Transport Workers Onion is worse than bull-headed, obstinate and stupid, says the Dies Committee; it is Communist, definitely Communist. The Committee published a report quoting testimony A that Michael J. Quill, the President of the Transport Workers Onion, born in Ireland, is a Communist, gHrthmH'h And the Committee added that Michael Quillfs connections with various Communist controlled organizations have been numerous. It also declared that three other officials of the New y0rk Transport Workers Union were Communists, fiwy^incixidm the counsel for the Onion, the President of the New York Local, and the Secretary-Treasurer. The Dies Committee further intimated that the strike of New Y0rk bus workers is is part of a A Communist conspiracy. BUS StKlfi-E _ 2 'rhe report uses these words:- "The publicjof New York and the c iiintry as a whole may properly view the present strike as a preview of Communist tactics in an attempt to plunge the country into as much chaos as the Communist Party is able to produce.n And the report adds that the present strike fits into the pattern of Communist theory regarding trade unions and strikes, and ft does not fit into any pattern of legitimate union action. AIK CRASHES A for.ner test pilot for Uncle Samfs Navy will investigate the recent aircratt casualties. This was announced today by Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri who is Chairman of a special committee of the Senate to look into^taw airship disasters of the last seven months. Lieutenant Carl Harper of the United states Aavy, Retired, has been appointed to the job. He was once chief engineer of the Naval Aircraft Factory and had more than two thousand hoursT experience both as a pilot and a test pilot. He retired after he was injured wiiile testing one of the Navy!s dive bombers. Fifty-five have been lost in seven months and there are going to be two investigations, one by a Senate committee and another by a H0use Committee. The Senate committee uvvto A will inquire particularly^wfeat was-t cause*x*f the crash last August in which SPnator Lundeen of Minnesota and twenty-four other people were killed. The committee will also try to find out whether any government agency was ^>«£liieixt4*stfL in administrating air safety regulations and whether safety regulations and air safety devices are adequate. ^The senators will also inquire into the rumor that AIK CRAbhES _ 2 senator Lundeen was being investigated by the Department of Justice at the time he was on that fatal flight and they als© want to know why G-men were aboard that plane. The Department of Justice has denied the rumor that it was investigating the Senator. LQUISI ajn A v,hen the -Late Huey Long was Dictator of Louisiana, you ;:ay recall, his regime was in many respects as complete as HitlerTs in Ger.uany. For instance, he had seven undergraduate students expelled from Louisiana State University because they criticized * him. The undergraduate newspaper was one of Huey’s pet diversions, 5 1 and he ran it with a strong hand. But seven of the young men in the University School of Journalism didn’t care for Hxsxy Huey’s S* ideas, and he had them fired. V dfcoMj It didn’t hurt their careers.aw*. for five of them A / subsequently graduated from the University of Missouri; one of them ^ is on the staff of the NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PIGYU^ i E, one of them got a job with the United Press in South America, and all the others are doing quite well except one who suffered from illness. All this becomes news because the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State University today made atonement for that dictatorial act of Huey Long’s. They apologized to the seven undergraduates and offered them the right to enroll in the University (X °tVq once more with full credit for any college work done elsewhere »*w * It’s a bit late, but at any rate, all £• well that ends well. vwX-9_^Jh"