Sherbrooke daily record, 10 mars 1941, lundi 10 mars 1941

[" WEATHER Fair and cold §hrrbrook?Satlw Irrorb TEMPERATURES urn.Yesterday: Maxim 2fij minimum, 21.Same day last yean Max., 29; min., 21.Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1941.Forty-Fifth Year.SOVIETS RUSH TROOPS TO TURKISH FRONTIER Soviets Showing»™ Deep Concern Onj relief plan Renewed Raids On Britain Taken As Indicating Defeat Of German Diplomatic Campaign In Balkans German Actions ?Balkan Quarters Believe that Soviets Are Attempting to Prevent German Attack on Turkey and Perhaps Greece by Suggesting that Red Army Would Come to Aid of Turkey\u2014Yugoslavia Gives Limited Support to Axis.No Form of Relief Can Be Devised Which Will Not By GUY RHOADES, (Canadian Press Stall' Writer) Germany\u2019s Balkan diplomatic of-.\t\u2022 , r-\t.\ttensive appears to have been at least Assist Enemy, British Of- a partial failure, for she has not ficiaK Dprlarp nn Plan\t! taken Yugoslavia into the Axis nor liOldlh Declare on nan.: frightened Turkey into a promise of neutrality.Belgrade, Yugoslavia, March 10.\u2014UP)\u2014Week-end advices to diplomatic quarters asserted that Soviet Russian troops were moving into positions along Turkey\u2019s Eastern frontier\u2014between the Black Sea and the Caspian\u2014as a German troop thrust into Greece, and perhaps Turkey, was feared imminent.At the same time reports circulated that Yugoslavia would send Foreign Minister Alksander Cincar-Markovic to Berlin or Berchtes-gaden tomorrow to sign a friendship treaty with Germany.This would mean Yugoslavia\u2019s alignment in the German sphere but would not place the country in the same class with Rumania, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria as adherents to the military alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan.The reports of Russian troop movements in the Caucasus, coinciding with the strengthening of Red Army forces along the Prut river frontier of German-occupied Rumania, were said to reflect the Moscow Government\u2019s desire to make sure of Russian defences if Germany should strike at Turkey.Concentrations on Turkey\u2019s Asiatic border also might mean a Russian effort to bluff Germany out of a stab at the strategic Dardanelles, some sources said, by suggesting that the Red Army would come to Turkey\u2019s aid in such a case.R.A.F.BOMBERS ATTACKING PORT OF BOULOGNE TODAY Southeast Coast, England, March 10\u2014 ((!>) \u2014A formation of bombers sweeping over the Dover Strait in brilliant sunshine indicated that the Royal Air Force was raiding the Nazi-held French port of Boulogne today.Explosions were heard from the direction of Boulogne soon after the bombers sped across the water.R.A.F.fighters patrolled constantly overhead.DECLARED CLOSED AREA Ottawa, March 10.\u2014((P)\u2014An area around Arvida and Isle Maligne, Que., has been added to areas in Canada over which civil aircraft are not allowed to operate, under an Order-in-Council made public last night.Washington, March 10.\u2014 UP) \u2014 The British Government has reject-! ed Herbert Hoover\u2019s plan for estab- ! lishment of soup kitchens in Belgium as a test of possible similar relief for other Nazi-occupied countries.\"\u2018No form or relief can be devised which would not directly or indirectly assist the enemy's war effort,\u201d said a statement made public yesterday by the British Embassy.Hoover, who had received an advance copy 0f the statement, asserted in a reply released simultaneously that none of the food shipped to Belgium would go to the Germans and that adoption of the plan \u201cwould result in no military losses to the British, or military gain to the Germans.Hoover, as honorary chairman of the Committee on Food for Small Democracies, made his proposal on February 16th.It provided for feeding 3,(MM),00'0 persons at soup kitchens, using supplies from the United States and 1,000,000 bushels of bread gains per month from German sources.A neutral commission would have supervised the relief and the Germans would have been pledg- Furthermore, Greece is still fighting and winning victories over Italy.Failure of the German diplomats and clearing weather have brought a renewed air onslaught on Britain, an onslaught staged by low-flying-bombers, difficult for anti-aircraft gunners to hit.These aircraft employ the old system of attack, however, fire bombs to start guiding-blazes and high explosive bombs thereafter.! Reasons for the German diplomatic failure were not clear.Efforts to coerce Yugoslavia into the Axis resulted only in a non-aggression pact and efforts to \u201clook after\u201d the interests of Turkey brought a retort that Turkey could look after her own.It was significant that Germany launched its diplomatic pressure in Continued on page 2.col.1.With the Greek forces on the Central Albanian Front, March 10.\u2014 UP) \u2014 Captured Fascist officers declare Mussolini visited besieged Tepeleni in an armored car last week before a renewed Greek drive which Greeks claimed smashed two of his elite divisions.The Greeks predicted the heavily fortified town, where the Italian Eleventh Army has, hold on since last December, was about to fall under the stepped-up drive in which 2,335 prisoners were reported taken in the past three days.At least two high Fascist officials sent from Government duty at Rome to the fighting line were said by Italian prisoners to have been killed or wounded over the week-end.That attack was credited in Greek reports with smashing the Julia division, and the Ferrara Division.Both divisions were said to have been sent into the line with orders to hold out to the last.Captured officers said Mussolini arrived early last week and stayed at the village of Dragoti, a few miles from Tepelini which is twenty-eight miles Southeast of Valons.Italian Government officials reported killed or captured during the An East Coast Canadian Port, March 10.\u2014®\u2014Servicemen representative of many facets of the Allies\u2019 war organization spread through Canada today, newly-arrived from across the Atlantic to take up now tasks or enjoy respite from battle.Distinguished Canadian officers, including Wing Cmdr, Ernest Mc-Nab of the Royal Canadian Air Force and other decorated fliers, j field commanders of Carradian units i and scores of soldiers invalided British Force Which Has Captured Town 145 Miles Inside teSTSSSîïïSïfrS: British Army Moves To Cut Vital Ethiopian Rail Line full force at a time when the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was visiting the Middle East, going from Cairo to Athens and then returning to the Egyptian metropolis.It became increasingly apparent tluu Mr.Eden had arrived in time to spike the German talk offensive after- it had obtained a bloodless sur-remjer from an already pro-German Bulgaria.The comparative settlement of the Balkan situation looked unfortunate foiq Mussolini.For one thing it spoiled an apparent German plan to rescue his Albanian forces by launching a pincer move through Bulgaria and Yugoslavia simultaneously, a move which would have engaged a large Greek or Anglo-Greek force on the frontier of Thrace and Macedonia.Some such development may yet occur, but it appears to be held up for the moment.Meanwhile Greek successes against the Italians continue while British, Dominion and colonial forces in Africa chase the Italians out of their recently acquired Empire.BALLOON BOATS HAVE EXCITING CHANNEL TRIP Noted Canadian Aviator Predicts Early End Of Night Raid Menace Continued on page 2, col.5.Ethiopian Frontier Appears Headed to Railway Linkinçj Addis Ababa with Jibuti\u2014Approximately Thirty Per Cent of Italian Empire in British Hands.-\u2014\u2014- Cairo, Egypt, March 10.\u2014UP)\u2014A British forco driving out of conquered Italian Somaliland has captured a town 145 miles inside the Ethiopian frontier and a military spokesman said the unit appeared on its way to cut the vital railway line running from coastal Jibuti to Addis A ba ba.A British communique yesterday announced the fall of the Ethiopian town of Gabre-Darra, about 270 miles Southeast of Diredawa.This thrust into another portion of Italy\u2019s East African empire began March 5 after the capture of Fer-Fer, just inside the Somaliland border.British troops moved at the rate of almost fifty miles a day in CANADIAN TRIO KILLED DURING BOMBING RAID Three Members of Canadian Army Dead, Two Others and Nursing Sister Injured, When Bombs Struck Club.London, March 10.\u2014(C.P.Cable) \u2014Three members of the Canadian army were killed and one is missing as the result of Saturday night\u2019s bombing of the Cafe de Paris.Two'reaching Gabre-Darra.officers and a Canadian nursing sis- n -, ;/i ter were iniured\t! .Br!t,sh dispatches from this re- r f PU'i