THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501

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218 - 5- Reuter: At the Delhi Conference a Central Commission on Heavy and Light Industry was decided ... : Still, the fleet will not be damaged in the Pacific Ocean. New submarines will be used to strengthen the Atlantic fleet, Ass.Prees will be bringing news of tedious strikes in the US ... Tokyo newspaper: The early return of the Japanese delegate from the economic negotiations in Lower India has deluded in Japen, Man hoped to welcome him as a winner ... Rice export of Ndl. dndien was banned ... China bought in September weapons for l.l35.ooo dollars from USA. En land weapons for 39.o8o.oo dollars. Of which aircraft for 12 million. Canada war material for 3 million. L o n d o n - English. ( Evening show ). The German air-tägiekti was extended during the last night over England. The main attacks were directed against London and llittelengland. London area received some damage, some fires were caused, however, they were quickly contained. The number of deaths is not large. A Selwerer attack was conducted vurde against sine city in Mittelengland, where buildings were damaged by explosive bombs and numerous fires caused by fire bombs. However, also di se were soon extinguished. Two enemy machines were shot tb. De Gaulle declared today that he had a defense committee for the fran. Colonial empire, which in the name of Prankreichs will establish all the powers of a war government in those areas which are now fighting or still fighting. The narrow-minded leaders of France have hoped to be able to hand over the French colonies to the enemy unabated. De Gaulle therefore calls on all citizens, soldiers and officers to seize the weapons and to rise. Jn Moscow was told at the Danube Conference that Germany had very quickly taken into account the Russian protest, in which it was said that Russia would not allow new decisions on Danube shipping. Discussions between German and Russian delegates about Danube shipping took place on the contrary. Roman date of the Akaxn Albanian-Greek incident. According to this, two Albanian soldiers were killed and three were wounded, but seven Greeks were captured. O Greek border guards, however, reported that they had heard distant gunfire. Jn Athens is explained that the cessation of the Brindisi-Athens airline was probably due to fuel shortages in Jtalia. Ministry of Material Procurement gave a report on the defense measures in the British Jndustrie, Thus the report says, from a pabrik in one of the most threatened areas of attack, that the work in the last Monet had to be interrupted for a total of only 2 hours. None of the factories mentioned in the report stopped working for more than an hour last week.