25 Jul 1940
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 25, 1940
Page
1
OCR fragments show varied items including prices for bacons meats watches and music gear. Phrases reference imports deficits and a Federal authority. The readable text mixes product lines and scattered figures without a coherent story.
In a House of Commons address the Home Secretary outlined revisions to the internment policy for enemy aliens. He said the general internment after the invasion of the Low Countries and France was necessary and inevitable, with steps to rectify past mistakes and release capable individuals. Aims include creating small committees and transferring welfare and selection to the Home Office, plus an advisory council for aliens and camp welfare.
The Cabinet announced that M. Jean Zay Paul Viennot Mednea France and Wiltzer would be court martialled as military deserters for allegedly boarding at Bordeaux for Catanblanca without permission. Paris endures dreary life as Germans flood queues for food and enforce harsh price controls.
The Times City Editor calls the supplementary budget by Chancellor Sir Kingsley Wood timid and inadequate to curb inflation. Critics urge broader taxation and direct levies on higher incomes, warning prices will rise and debt financing pressures persist.
RAF Bomber Command attacked Bremen the Paderborn area and Ruhr targets including the Gelsenkirchen oil plant and Essen Krupps works. Coastal Command struck Amsterdam docks and Dunkirk shipping. one Dornier 17 shot down off Scotland. continued raids across northern France Holland and Germany with several aircraft missing and fires reported.
The British Government will recognize the Czecho-Slovak National Committee as provisional government after talks with Dr Benes and Lord Halifax. Dr Benes named president. Masaryk foreign minister. other leaders listed. A London pact with Poland reaffirms political and military cooperation on a new basis. General Sikorski says Polish army is an equal ally to Britain.
German press accuses Britain of bombing non military targets in Germany and claims deaths and injuries rise since Hitler's address. Baltic towns to the Ruhr report 18 killed and 23 wounded in RAF raids as German broadcasts promise a firm response.
President Roosevelt held a press conference criticizing a whispered campaign against the Red Cross relief drive for European refugees. He said the accusations of Red Cross supplies falling to German and Italian units are unfounded and noted possible famine risks in Europe and Denmark's livestock slaughter as a possible signal of wartime food moves.
The United States will introduce a resolution to establish an Inter American mandate over European possessions in the Western Hemisphere. A three commissioner framework would govern temporarily during threats to sovereignty, with return or independence after normal conditions, excluding Falkland Islands and British Honduras disputes.
An Italian communique says an Italian submarine sank an Australian destroyer in the eastern Mediterranean. The report notes that a British submarine was reportedly sunk in the same region, but the vessel names are not provided.
Laverdad reports an unknown submarine with four tankers seen in the Straits of Magellan heading toward the Atlantic. Seventeen more survivors arrive in Bridgetown after freighters were sunk in the Western Atlantic. The trawler H.M.8. Camping was sunk by a mine. three survivors, with the commanding officer and 10 ratings believed dead.
A German official news agency denounces the Home Guard as murder bands and accuses civilians who take up arms of murder. Berlin radio says the Guard violates international law while noting British public opinion is misled yet still blamed. It calls British government support of the acts criminal.
Mr. Welles stated that the process threatening the independence of Latvia Lithuania and Estonia is nearing its end and that the United States opposes predatory actions and any foreign intervention in domestic affairs. He affirmed the US commitment to these principles guiding relations among republics in the Western Hemisphere.
Moscow reports that Lithuania and Latvia have sent 20 delegates each to Moscow to press for incorporation into Russia. Lithuania nationalises banks and major industries while Estonia declares land as the property of the people. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR plans to meet August 1 to consider Baltic incorporation.
Hongkong reports 3000 Chinese guerrillas attacking 500 Japanese forces. The invaders are repelled but fighting continues near Hongkong. In China, Japanese bombing kills or wounds 1000 civilians at Hochwan and Kikiang. Finland reportedly accepts a Russian ultimatum for demobilisation. some General Staff members flee to Sweden. A Japanese embassy spokesman says Mr Abend’s murder in Shanghai was a criminal act. Anti American meetings held in Nanking and Hangchow denounce the U.S. East Asia order.
Berlin by AP reports Ges tapo have arrested Otto Staaser and Grynazpan for the 1938 shooting at a German Embassy member. The case recalls a long pursuit and marks new action in a historic incident.
The conference laid five conditions regarding territorial changes. It prohibits forceful acquisition or transfers, reserves Americans’ right to judge shifts since September 1939, allows potential expansion while protecting security, returns territory to original owners if self-government exists, and proposes emplacing a U S committee to oversee any takeover.
Cairo bulletin reports King's African Rifles turning back a strong enemy column near Ajeo. Rome notes Italian gains in British East Africa and threats to Wajir, with raids on Kenya airfields injuring civilians and damaging aircraft. South African bombers target enemy formations. a Sunderland seaplane hits a convoy, and one destroyer plus two ships suffer damage.
A fragment states Britain has not received any Russian aircraft and a note was sent to a government in another country. The wording is unclear but implies no Russian planes were delivered and diplomatic notes were exchanged.
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