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SHOWDOWN POSSIBLE IN INDO CHINA
(Received September 19, 2 a.m.) SHANGHAI, September 18.
Qualified observers express the opinion that a show-down is coming this week, when possibly Indo-China will swing to General de Gaulle, accompanied by an appeal for British and American assistance. The Japanese are withdrawing money from the banks. It is confirmed that a special train was recently sent to the headquarters of King Bao Dai, “awaiting instructions.” •
CO-OPERATION WITH AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE, September 18. New Zealand and Australia are consulting each other on defence. The chief of the New Zealand General Staff (Major-General Sir John Duigan) is in Melbourne to carry on conversations on supply and the use of naval bases in British nossessions in the Pacific. RIBBENTROP GOES TO ROME LONDON, September 18. The Nazi Foreign Minister, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, has gone to Rome. What he wants is a matter of speculation, but, taken in conjunction with the visit of the Italian Minister of the Colonies to Berlin yesterday, it may mean that the Axis alliance is facing one of its periodical crises. z MINE-LAYING FROM AIR Flying hundreds of thousands of miles with only very slight losses, the Royal Air Force has laid over 30 separate minefields from Norway to the Bay of Biscay. Some reach within a stone’s throw of enemy quaysides. Thousands of tons of enemy shipping have been destroyed. The aerial minelayers also carry bombs with which they have repeatedly attacked shipping successfully. .
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Southland Times, Issue 24235, 19 September 1940, Page 7
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