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-2- 248 M o s k a u russisch. The government in Vichy rejected the Siamese demands for assignment of two territories. Cordell Hull refused at a press conference to comment on the reports according to which the Japanese Foreign Minister of the American Ambassador had called for a statement on America's action and asked him to leave Japan. Hull stated that he had not received a preliminary report from this ambassador in Japan. The English finance minister announced that the war expenditures of England were equivalent to £9 million. Ass.Press: Military circles in the USA declare that in Hürze there is going to be training and training of fliger cadres. - 25.oo pilots are to be trained. - Since Julü, every 5 weeks about 1 2oog men have been admitted to the training schools. Currently, 4.Soo men are being trained. Be r o müns t e r- French. Churchill submitted a bill in the House of Commons on the extension of the legislative power of the Parliament. Jhr was approved today at first reading. The five-year term of office of the Parliament would expire in November, but in the present times Parliament has the power to extend its mandates. The Minister of Hygiene Mac Donald reported on the victims of the German air raids. He reported that the number of victims was very low in relation to the large 'efforts of the german air force'. Almost half a million or 56% of all children from London have already been evacuated. London reports that today a major torpedo boat was shot at in the British Channel by long-distance gunmen. The ship was accompanied by a seaplane and pulled away by fog from the shooting. L o n d o n - English ( 22 o'clock. ) The British Air Force attacked the Marienstütztpunkt Brest during the day, and at night the "Deutsche Werke" and the "Germaniawerft" in Kiel were attacked. In addition, warships lying in the harbour, as well as in Hamburg, Bremen, Cuxhaven, Leunawerke and two factories southwest of Leipzig. The Germans again carried out a large number of attacks in the south-east of England today, but were scattered by British hunters, few managed to enter London, where they dropped a few bombs, apparently no major damage was done. Bombs were also dropped over Kent and in the South of England. Three German and one British. The first attack involved 2o, then lo0, then 5o and at, 4. Attack again loo German machines. Mac Donald reported that the result of the Nation Help action at the end of 1939 was better than 1938. 740.ooo children and 420,000 women were evacuated from London. The victims of the air raids are not large, as only 5 1/2 thousand beds in English hospitals are occupied with wounded. -