DAY & NIGHT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1942, Page 3

DAY & NIGHT

* BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE HUNT FOR U-BOATS ROUND-UP OF AXIS SUSPECTS. SECRET ENEMY AIRFIELD FOUND. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, August 24. 11l all the big towns in Brazil Axis suspects are being rounded up. A secretGerman airfield has been discovered 600 miles from Rio de Janeiro. A radio transmitter was seized and the operators taken to the capital. The Brazilian Air Force is out hunting for U-boats day and night Three U-boats were seen off the coast. Uruguayan planes are reported to be taking part in the search. The President of Uruguay, General Boldomir, has sent a message to the President of Brazil, Dr. Vargas, expressing Uruguayan solidarity with Brazil. FIRST STEP

FULL FACILITIES GRANTED BY URUGUAY. SOLIDARITY WITH BRAZIL. NEW YORK, August 23. The Montevideo correspondent of the “New York Times” says that Uruguay has granted Brazil all rights of nonbelligerency, thus enabling Brazilian warships and planes to use Uruguayan facilities as in peace time. Officials emphasised that this is only the first of several steps Uruguay intends taking to give tangible expression of her solidarity with Brazil. As Brazil entered the war, pilots of the Brazilian Air Force arrived at Rio de Janeiro after a successful mass flight of 9000 miles from the United States with 44 new American planes. The flight consisted of 2.5 Fairchild primary trainers, and 19 cabin monoplanes which will replace the obsolete German Focke-Wulfe trainers. After the introduction of the new trainers, Brazil will start the production of American craft in a Government factory. Thousands of young Brazilians are now awaiting their calling-up papers. Recruiting offices open tomorrow and a big rush of volunteers is expected. A message from the sick bed of the Brazilian Ambassador in London, who recently underwent an operation, stated that Brazil’s traditional policy had always been one of peace, and the country was now at war with Germany and Italy because to remain neutral in the present circumstances was not to serve the cause of peace. Broadcasts from Berlin, Rome and Tokio, commenting in exactly the same tenor on Brazil’s declaration of war against Germany and Italy, sought to blame the United States for it. The Axis broadcasts heard here minimised the provocation given Brazil by the action of submarines off the coast and ignored the outbursts of popular indignation in Rio de Janeiro. Berlin said Brazil had yielded to the United States’ blackmailing requests by declaring war and added that since Brazil had already surrendered military facilities to the United States, the declaration of war was without military significance. Tokio asserted that Brazil had been influenced by dollar diplomacy.