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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1940
Page
7
The article notes a third United States cruiser has been sent to South America while the Pacific Fleet movements remain under strict secrecy. British dynamite and Hong Kong bridges are cited as areas of concern as tensions rise in the Pacific.
Japan moves to extend influence across Asia as France and British power weaken. Tokyo signals protectorates over French Indochina and Dutch East Indies, with reports of incursions into Indochina and demands to station inspectors in Burma. Hong Kong threats and Shanghai talks underscore rising Japanese pressure while Britain faces limited response in Europe and Asia.
British ministry reports daring raids by naval and landing parties on German held coast to seize prisoners and gain information on Nazi plans. Raids reached several points with contact made, casualties inflicted, and useful intelligence collected as air and sea engagements continue across the channel.
Packard officials discuss mass producing aircraft engines with the national defense commission after Henry Ford refuses to manufacture engines for anyone but the United States. Knudsen says cooperation will be sought elsewhere as Ford holds to his terms, ending joint Anglo American plans. Edsel Ford and officials maintain the arrangement is satisfactory to Ford. Roosevelt outlines a program after the break.
At Philadelphia Hoover avoided a direct answer on accepting a future nomination while urging free and open candidate selection. Minnesota Governor Stassen said his delegation will back Wendell Willkie, and Alabama yielded its first roll call spot to New York for Dewey, reshaping the primaries amid a late resolving foreign policy dispute.
Hongkong reports Japanese forces have reached Lungchow near the French Indo China border while British troops dynamite bridges as a precaution. Chinese reports indicate 70 to 80 percent of Kwangchowwan residents have evacuated.
South Carolina and Georgia expect generally fair conditions and a slight rise in temperatures tonight with Thursday partly cloudy skies. Florida should be partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers in the south and east central areas Thursday and in the extreme south tonight, with warmer readings in the west central and extreme north portions tonight.
Washington reports that Acting Secretary Lewis Compton disclosed the 10,000-ton light cruiser Phoenix has been dispatched from the Pacific for a first port call at Valparaiso Chile. Quincy and Wichita already docked at South American Atlantic ports amid reports of German influence and rising tensions in the region.
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler made an extended incognito visit to Paris. He toured Napoleon’s tomb at the Invalides and the Eiffel Tower, entering with a light brown duster over his uniform, with guards presenting arms at gates.
Buenos Aires reports Germany has launched a trade offensive in lower South America to pull Argentina and Uruguay from U. S. ties. Nazi agents have contacted Argentine officials with authority to negotiate barter deals worth millions of pesos. Payments would fund projects like railroad electrification and hydroelectric plants to reduce coal and oil needs. Contacts include discussions on shipping space to move purchases to Germany.
Premier Refik Saydam told parliament that Turkey would not join the war, asserting a neutral stance to protect regional peace. He justified the decision citing a mutual assistance pact with Britain and France that Turkey must avoid actions risking conflict with Soviet Russia. Foreign diplomats speculate Paris’s collapse influenced the move, with Moscow signaling Russia’s hostile act if Turkey entered.
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