Gleaner, The (Newspaper) - March 8, 1941, Kingston, Kingston I s i r H I H I I M Gleaner Wants Work Wonders READ FOR PROFIT USE FOR RESULTS Insertion words 1 ft ESTABLISHED difference TWENTY-FOUR PAGES Vol CVH No 56 MARCH 1941 ii M PENNY PAGES Customs Anomalies vasio Which March neutral military observers predicted a German attack on Greek Macedonia and Thrace within forty-eight hours as Nazi troops massed in occupied Bulgaria along the frontiers and German officers seized Bulgaria's available transport to move up their ever lengthening columns of men and machines Neither in Greece nor has it had any effect Greece bolstered fortifications in Struma river Macedonia It appeared the Commander-in-chief of the Army intended to abandon Thrace as indefensible arid will attempt to make a stand against the threatened German invasion along the natural bastion of Struma Reuters reports from Athens that the official Greek agency denied an Italian newspaper report that a Canadian WITH division had landed at Salonika film British Chase Out On the of last communication WM dressed to the Colonial Secretary by the Jamaica Imperial Associatio K with a natter which the Association has ed since last and is now to come before the present session the Legislative THE COMMUNICATION taw No 4 of with a slight emendation If this were done the words would and including Our Council believes it is the intention of Government that parts of etc employed in collecting and so forth of island produce shall be ad- mitted as they used to be to ITALY SAYS DOES NOT WANT For reasons of grand much is depended immediately on the Attitude of and to a lesser but still vital extent on key Yugoslavia last remaining Balkan not flatly committed jo either Britain or was under enormous the British to keep neutral and by the to join the General expectation is that Yu- will shortly proclaim friendship with Germany and Italy one not so close and compelling is to take her into war if she could itay put or to directly r neutrality SPARRING FOR TIME Turkey also seemed sparring Tor time She announced dor in Berlin would soon deliver her answer to Hitler's personal message to President Nazi message is generally believed to contain assurances that Turkey aas to from the man armies Although diplomats expressed be- lief that surrounded by will find it hard to avoid lining up with ob- servers agreed with the Italian di Napoli which it still too early to foresee what con- to the European evolution will be just as it is still hazardous to accept without reservations to the tripartite pact is WATCH VICHY Diplomats also closely watched General Weygand's talks at Vichy in the belief it concerned the French attitude in armies in Palestine attempt to move across Syria to aid Turkey and Greece Turkish newspapers strongly warned the nation against accepting the German assurances Belgrade diplomatic quarters re- that Regent Paul of slavia k conferred with Hitler at Berghof early this week but ther or he agreed to follow the wishes was not The Bulgarian Government in cord with the German Government rial taken necessary measures to exemplary order in the The Bulgarian ance Ministry asked the Chamber of Deputies to vote six hundred million leva bond issue presumably to finance Bulgaria's ob- ligations as a member of the Axis All railway and dock workers are mobilized The Bulgarian Army -j u IVII commissariat announced it will di- Will Met The Council of the Jamaica 1939 But it that the clearer Imperial Association begs to direct the legal instructions and your attention to a matter of ology employed in the importance to the better will the Government's ob- ducing and manufacturing of this island In Law 4 of Fourth Schedule it is stated that including worked by power or by hand for manufacturing or pre- paring for various tural and mineral products of the colony set out therein were ad- rect food supplies for the German I B armies with requisitioning planned PV Or AMIS b Greeks Win Big Successes March threats to invade Greece if she does that the Bulgarian Minister not make peace with Italy i m i I m fc V d on a large scale The Bulgarian Foreign Minister told his Parliament today that his foreign policy had as its main ob- ject the defence of Bulgarian in- Rome on the other mitted free of duty if from and were liable to pay the rate per cent if imported from foreign Ject be hence its ful but emphatic representations on this subject TRANSPORT CONVEYANCER With regard to the question of the primary pose of which is the transport of any article from place to which is to be exempted from the provisions referring to the tion of and the ment by such machinery of a A March British military man said to-day ians who had not surrendered or fallen to British bullets had been chased out of Italian Somaliland and retreating in- to Abyssinia as fast as they can He described the situation as Italian casualties in the j mediately were remote week Somaliland campaign has been officially given as in killed and including many Europeans The total area occupied by the British is about square DESERTERS JOIN BRITISH TURKISH BAYONETS READY TO n J n IT Iff 1711 JO BAR HITLER S Nation Strongly Warned Not To i Listen To Germany s Reassurances Polky Adopted last night adopted a attitude and stated that the extent of backing for Greece was a major factor of htr policy Observers agreed the prospects of Turkey going to war Cairo CHQ communique and of im- portance to report patrols on Gondar road are now operating east of In these operations against Italian garrison withdrawals from patriot forces have taken 300 two mechanical transport four field guns and shot down one enemy aircraft In a total of deserters have come into our Italian whole of our advance line along the duty i mam road is Law was amended in November 1939 by Law 42 of and stated that Bought in f r om steadily and in other apparatus specially designed and adapted for the the Interior has ordered ed a statement from the official tion manufacture and garian local authorities to give all Italian news agency to-night to the tion for market of the possible assistance to the German effect that Italy does not want pastoral and mineral products of were admitted tree if SOVIET DENY EU HOURS ment said that rumours ol a from Empire and a Rumours that the Soviet had de- sible armistice were absurd be- tax Oj pcr cent manded session of Black Sea naval cause Italy will decide her duty if from foreign countries In 1939 Fourth Section the wordg were and and By it not urging that a cart public habitually for of hire should be admitted of but rarts or used for ron TrAAt part of an operations continue to develop to our Wireless and by and Wireless Ltd bases from Rumania were denied as and absurd by the ence with Greece by force of arms according to the Italian agency is Italy's right and duty and Canadian Frew by Cable and Athens Radio announced to-night then understand that the ur several Italian batteries have hold that BELGIAN GOYT WANTS BRITISH EMPIRE March 7 The former Speaker of the Belgian Chamber of Deputies recommended to-day been put out of action in an lery duel lasting all Say prevented by bad weather that paru any for off manufacture and preparation Mor or plantation to such plantation or any other of art undoubtedly of the apparatus imported frr uac in the reaping of it it bt Naval Support Given British In Italian Dredging Of U S Naval Anchorage Preliminary dredging of ten of Portland Bigm been commenced by to United Staler Navy As previously announced m the the survey of the islands and waters Portland Bight has com- and now the second has commenced in as Navy is concerned Survey work is in progress on land where the United Engineers Inspired newspapers warned the nation accepting German and declared the spread of the war to the Balkans inevitable were M it u announced that Turkish for- eign policy would outlined by Foreign Minister Sukru next Monday morning at a tooted sew ion of People's Turkey's only at Ankara The newspaper Demokrat ka the of that the Axis has flung to Of iUnd two million Turkish bay one U If this way the will iret such answer to she never got The newspaper Vaun a topographical survey which Germany the Balkans sht not expected completed for four or five Other Navy work in U the clearing of Little Goat Island in Galleon Harbour where Messrs of have the contract Tht work of ii almont competed and the now of thr wood cut on will the end to her will indeed bt in the world but it will a new order depending on r and liberty for For first time the Turkish Balkan and that This U being by kan can laid at larier timbers to the I door If had not and bv burning charcoal with would not The Italians also referred to tad pastoral and mineral products of smaller So far the dredging it being done to and would to to it ic from one tion of estate to or give deUils of reclamation even from estate to our Army in however met only a of mud wwi newspaper dn u from vance in coastal an Ad- iuV tbe reports their biggest for some weeks The Greeks have captured more than origin ILLOGICAL o r would Commonwealth Nations action in view DAINTY SUNK March Ad- announced to-night that His Majesty's destroyer Dainty has been sunk The next of kin of the casualties have been informed The which was launched in had a displacement of We took prisoner's including many officers A large amount of war materials into our hands Our air force successfully in these bombing enemy positions on the front with conspicuous result AH our aircraft returned to their SKILLED JAMAICANS WANTED FOR EMPIRE FORCES that is to say boiler engine should become worn out get or be in some way this part on being imported for pay duty We would also point out that this is a handicap on all in- undertakings in Jamaica concerned with the manufacture of island and our Council cannot doubt that the Government would be unwilling that such a handicap oh local enterprises should We are aware that in the now before the Legislative Jamaicans are now being invited to join technical units of His instrument entitled Law to Amend by Enlistment in Army lor service in the United Kingdom or Overseas is how open volunteers for the Royal En- A ers motor the Royal Army Ordnance Corps Recruits must be skilled ployment Bureau in the case of re- in the Corporate or the nearest branch of the Labour Department in the case of country volunteers These branches are at further the Tariff it is stated that of the Customs is satisfied are imported for the purpose of re- placing parts in a special machine which these men classified in paragraphs to of this shall be admitted free and at five per cent duty cording to of origin But our Council would respectfully submit that the easiest most explicit way of eliminating the present taxation of parts of such machinery and apparatus would be is set out in the notice i to use the Procedure For Compensating i Private Owners Must Cost Lot With Britain Or Axis Opposition Parties Demand ment Pursue Firm Policy March three opposition parties to-day demanded that the Government pursue a firm policy in the face of possible The parties in a joint meeting adopted resolutions catting for a and energetic U.S Mr Hull The parties participating Radical and Yugoslav Nationalists The latter is headed by General dictator Meanwhile the question whether the Government actually reached a decision whether the de- was satisfactory to remained The position is expected be clarified in a tion which officials said was now being prepared There is no this ment will be The fact that the German ister called on Minister at the re- quest caused in diplo- matic circles Some quarters expressed the Foreign Minister called the en- voy to hand him the text of the declaration for transmission to Others said the Government might communicate further with the Wilhelmstrasse before making a declaration In this connection there are unconfirmed rumours the Premier and the Foreign Minister make another trip to Germany for new discussions It is known that Prince who is Regent of re- last Monday by Herr Hitler at the Fuehrer's Berchtesgaden Yugoslavia's chiefs are watting on the Regent for an ex- planation or hia Taken Over For March told the United States and Britain have agreed to a procedure for compensating private owners of property taken over for United detente bases in the St Trinidad and British Guiana and anti- a procedure will be out for The procedure is that the local Governments will try to reach an agreement with the owner and when the agreement is approved by the United States Britain will pay the stipulated compensation and will be reimbursed by the States If agreement not or if it is by the Untied the question will be referred to a tri- bunal created under Colonial Britain will pay the judgment of that body and the United States will be informed If the United States concurs it will reimburse Britain Otherwise the case will be settled ar- rangements to be determined and agreed to by the Uni- States and British Press by Cable and Wireless Ltd but this is using of the public mar which will may be due to tne Tact a i important along have to be lie road has been made through an estate the coast have been bombarded by our naval these Our entirely ments being carefully timed to ordinate with our military agrees that conveyances and other apparatus imported to be used in reaping or manufacturing or pre- paring for market any sort of pastoral and mineral ducts of the should not be converted to other but the circumstance that this may have been done in some instances it is a good reason for penalising turists of the employ these apparatuses for the ance to their undertakings in con- with the Law Our Council greatly obliged if the Government would give its earnest tion to these which vance Military objectives at Brava and were barded by our forces evidence secured by subsequent of these areas testified to effectiveness of these In particular it is now known that the bombardment of Italian tions in Brava carried out on the of February was conspicuously successful Hits were scored on military buildings and be i positions and enemy motor trans- port sheltering under trees were heavily shelled It is now known that this bombardment carried out are put forward in no captious joy the His spirit with the intention caused damage ing about the removal of handicaps and a large number of military which neither the Government nor casualties arid an important factor the of the Legislative Council leading to the enemy's evacuation could wish to impose upon ot his defensive positions In of this LOSS O BIG BLOW TO ITALIAN MERCHANT NAVY Five Four this area It has-been established also that the Shropshire sank the Italian oil tanker sylvania during bombardment of the harbour of Mogadiscio No damage or casualties were sustained by our forces in any of these bombarding operations One important naval result in the successful military operations in Italian Somaliland is the capture of KIsmayu anil Mogadiscio which of two East African bases most convenient for uge of raiders and supply r J ships That Mogadiscio was used as Urn When L base by raiders and supply ships B a base by raiders and ships it shown by the discovery and re- l TOOK lease by our army of a considerable number of merchant seamen ed and interned in the Mogadiscio area after their ships had been T AH area sunk by enemy raiders announced that with the capture ot the port of Italian Somaliland five Italian chant ships were one a vessel captured Four others were scuttled One German ship later sank in tow The Admiralty communique can now be stated that five Italian merchant ships with total tonnages of fell into our as the result of the capture ot the port of Kismayu in Italian Somaliland These ships Erminia Leonardo Da Four other ships scuttled Kismayu harbour One of these is known to be the Italian tons j Losses were also inflicted upon the German mercantile marine as the result ot the capture of Sugar Output Is Now Put At Tons season have led an higher estimate for sugar promotion for the current the figure at the was which is more thm the of January and more than the crop produced last season LUND March Senate opposition to the Lend collapsed and with forces in command pushed the measure to a point where it is expected to pass by morrow night tba invasion of like which put to but for- Turkey ii no know that it is countries to which assurances are given that are to decided to engage British and of course the British did not throw back flowers Germany despite her words of peace is trying to open a large front in the H Would be to German less and Canadian Press by and Wireless Ltd King And Queen Spend Day With Polish Troops March Their Ma jesties the King and by the Polish General spent the whole of today with the Polish troops in Scotland Wireless U.S Senate Refuses To Bar V For War Materials WASHINGTON March A Sen that nothing in the measure should be construed as changing existing laws governing land and ate vote of 63 to 28 today rejected an Aid which would forbid by United States armed of war materials of tho western hemisphere The vote came on a proposal Senator O'Mahoney democrat of Wyoming offered as a substitute to the administration amendment to Senator EV lender Democrat of Louisiana nator stated The German ship te escape She was intercepted by our and tried to scuttle herself This at- tempt was frustrated but the Ucker mark subsequently sank while in tow The German 590 Umi Kiel Canal Traffic Seriously Ham By R A F Mining March is re- by the Air Ministry News Service that traffic through the Kiel main artery between the Baltic and the North has been seriously hampered in the last eight months by mining by the R A In July last year the mans admitted that the canal was badly Hit and that ships could only pass through great difficulty For the next two months the canal ed partially In ber a ship was mined -in the canal and navigation became even slower in De- cember an iron ore ship was sunk in the canal and only the smallest ships were able to past through it The Germans have made a ations for these long and perhaps the latest example is when they declared that a bridge across the canal had en on a ship and sunk it and ping tunnels from Norway in the Baltic down to the terranean have been mined In areas covering less than 10 per cent of the enemy fields well over have been destroyed Including ships and BANGER OF DELAY President Roosevelt at a press conference declared day's delay on the British would affect deliveries of war material a little later on to what he termed tht democracies Asked whether delay on the legislation pending in tht Senate was having a serious the President asserted that at first hand he had better not answer reporters were awaro that he has stated ever since tha legislation was submitted to sresa that perhaps at that time in- February -or March would not affect immediately to democracies but Would effect deliveries a little later on Rear Admiral Royal assistant Chief Naval Operations told Congress that part re quested tons of naval such as might gure in the British aid programme Admiral Ingersoll made the state ments to the House Naval in response to Questions by Chairman but repeatedly emphasised that no specific tion of the proposed auxiliaries had yet been made He by any possible chance we are directed to turn over all our tankers to some foreign nation we Would have to get more tankers from the Maritime Adding that he this contingency only as a possibility Admiral Ingersoll fyat the Navy had neither funds nor authority to replace such auxiliaries or to acquire any ones a
