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- 4 - 103 Tokyo: On the 2l. d.M. the American vice consul in Hanoi and the correspondent of the United Press were arrested in French Indochina. The two are accused of having photographed military objects. The reasons for the arrest are carefully examined in Indohina and the expulsion of the two will be demanded. United Press: Two high officials were arrested in Hanoi. They are accused of endangering the security of the state, SENDER LONDON /English/: The British Admiralty announces: According to incoming reports, our units took contact with Italian units in the Mediterranean just before noon today. Armed forces from 2 battleships, which were accompanied by a large number of cruisers and destroyers. Immediately after the Italian forces had noticed the approach of ours, they changed course and drove to their bases uurück. Our units pursued them and attacked the enemy from very large distances. More details are not yet available. A report from Athens reports violent attacks on Valona. A ship was hit heavily and was in sinking. The Greeks occupied the place Ortschiewo /?/ and built fortifications along the plus of the same name. In Rome it was admitted that Greek troops landed in Albania opposite Corfu. Attacks of the Brit. Air Force: Turin, in Berlin it was not possible to detect the damage due to clouding, fires could be observed. Also Cologne, Rotterdam, Vlissingen, Antwerp, Calais, Boulogne, Lorient, Gent ... 5 brit. Machines not returned. Today by day a German Trosship was damaged in front of the Frisian islands. Workers leader Greenwood gave the House of Commons an overview of the British war effort..."It was our intention to reach the position we had reached in the previous war after four years in the first two years of this war. At that time, we undoubtedly had the upper hand in the productive capacity. We started the present war with a production that was far greater than l9l4 and it has developed much faster in the last 5 months than at that time lgl4. Since the beginning of the war, our production has more than tripled, in some areas of weapons production even more than quadrupled. Savings campaign, together with other voluntary sums, resulted in £4 million in the first year. A regular visitor to Germany describes in an American newspaper how surprised he was when he noticed on his last visit to Germany how much the mood changed and to what extent the population publicly expressed their doubts about this war. The Germans say that they can only speak more freely because most of the Gestapo apparatus is being used abroad. w