SECRET ORDER FOUND
TO SINK SPANISH SHIPS ITALIAN SUBMARINE CAPTURED • A secret order foundi on hoard an Italian submarine captured by the British Navy is typical, of the Axis conduct of war at sea, says the current issue of the "Navy." it was issued by Admiral FalTmgola, commanding. submarines, and ordered that merchant shipping belonging to two particular Spanish lines, the Ybarra and l'inillos, the markings of which were described, were to ')<> j.'unk without warning. - The ord* >v [ illustrates just how genuine arc the Italian protestations of friendship for Spain, v . JAPAN'S MILLIONS The census of the. Japanese Empire taken in October. 1940, showed the population to total 105,000,000, an increase of 6,000,000 on the 1935 figure. The rate of increase declined from 8.2 per cemt to 6.5 per cent. It is urgently necessar}', says the Tokio "Nichi Nicihi Shimbun" that the Government should take measures for an increased population. The population of Japan proper, t'he papeT says, totalled 73, 000,000. Tokyo's population was ti,778,.000 compared with 5,875,000 in 1935, so that it wasi now the world's second largest city.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 303, 9 May 1941, Page 3
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180SECRET ORDER FOUND Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 303, 9 May 1941, Page 3
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