Late News CAIRO MAY BE BOMBED

Southland Times, Issue 24840, 4 September 1942, Page 5

Late News CAIRO MAY BE BOMBED

(Rec. 2.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 2. The Stockholm correspondent of The New York Times says official military circles in Berlin hint that Field-Marshal Rommel will not regard Cairo as an open city because it “contains military objectives.” Therefore a merciless bombardment can be expected. The Germans base their attitude on an Allied report of M. Charles Corbin, former French Ambassador in London, which they have discovered in the State archives in Paris, that the British Government classified Cairo as an important military base.

MR FRASER TO LEAVE FOR CANADA WASHINGTON, September 2. It is officially disclosed that the New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, will depart for Canada on Friday, where a one-day conference is scheduled with the Prime Minister, Mr W. L. Mackenzie King. From there he will return to New Zealand. Officials said Mr Fraser was not going to London. Mr Fraser, after the Pacific Council meeting, was closeted for a long private talk with President Roosevelt. Later he held a conference with Mr Philip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Then he was the guest at a special reception at the New Zealand Legation, where 300 officials of the United Nations were present, including the British Ambassador, Lord Halifax, the Soviet Ambassador, M. Maxim Litvinov, and the Chinese representative, Dr T. V. Soong.