MORE TROOPS IN EGYPT
CONVOYS ARRIVE , SAFELY SOLDIERS FROM MANY COUNTRIES NO ITALIANS SEEN ON VOYAGE (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received September 9, 6.30 p.m.), - CAIRO, September 8. Convoys of ships bringing men and war materials from England, Rhodesia, India and Australia have arrived in Egyptian waters. Large liners transported thousands of technicians, infantrymen and hospital staffs. This convoy was met by other convoys with Royal Air Force personnel from Australia and tea-plant-ers from Ceylon. Trains laden with soldiers have left for Cairo, Palestine and elsewhere. No submarines or enemy planes were sighted throughout s the voyage. The troops from England are composed largely of men who fought in France. "' It is officially stated that a strong for-t mation of planes raided Malta at noon today. A number of bombs slightly
damaged naval property and demolished a few houses. An enemy plane was shot down and another probably was destroyed. REPORT OF TALKS IN MOSCOW OFFICIAL AGENCY ISSUES DENIAL (Received September 9, 8.15 p.m.) MOSCOW, September 8. The Tass News Agency is authorized to deny a Japanese newspaper statement that M. Stalin and the German Ambassador (Graf von der Schulenberg) discussed a Russian-German-Italian-Japanese agreement, also the cancellation of the Anti-Comintern Pact. This is pure invention, it is stated. M. Stalin has not spoken to the German Ambassador in the last six months.
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Southland Times, Issue 24227, 10 September 1940, Page 7
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222MORE TROOPS IN EGYPT Southland Times, Issue 24227, 10 September 1940, Page 7
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