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262 Kulutpolitik Strictly confidential! Broadcasting and Helldienst Only for personal service use! erue. - ./40. To be destroyed on its own responsibility! /§ 353c RStGB/. .c.d. B e r i c h t e vom l2. und l3. Oktober l940. L.00/00.40. SENDER MOSCOU /Russian/: The press brings the text of an agreement between Russia and Finland on demilitarization of the Aaland Islands. On the islands, a Russian consular service will monitor these arrangements. The Bulgarian government has decided to invest larger stocks of propellants. Traffic in the Suez Canal has decreased by 90%. In the Philippines, larger stocks are being invested. England has bought meat from Argentina for loo million dollars. /Except for internal news and DNB messages/. SENDER LONDON /English/: The British Air Force attacked yesterday at night: Kiel, Bremen, Bremer- hadn, Wilhelmshaven, Wesermünde and Hamburg, Texel and Norderney, Denhalder, Antwerp, Ostend, Calais, Boulogne. All machines returned. These actions are generally regarded as a tightening of the British offensive. Strong German associations attacked England today. Air fighting took place on the coast. Attacks in the morning mainly against London. Bombs were dropped from high altitude on the inner city. Also on cities in the counties of Kent and Sussex. Damage and losses are low. ll German and lo brit. Machines were shot down. The american press is deeply impressed by the bombing of Cherborurg by the British fleet. United Press declares that Cherbourg was laid in ruins. The German declaration that the British units were expelled is doubted in UsA. British Marine Minister Alexander declared that new warships are being continuously completed in the shipyards. Roosevelt and Wilkie knkit unanimously emphasized their determination to speed up their armor in the face of the threat of war. Roosevelt spoke in Ohio and urged the population to accelerate the armaments work and stressed that it is difficult not to participate in the war in the world that is in war. Wilkie said in a speech that there could be no Zeifel about Germany's plans. Hitler had repeatedly said how much he hates the democracies. Hitler was clear that his bloody tyranny could not continue if democracy was strengthened in the USA. General de Gaulle sent a telegram from the capital of French Cameroon to Churchilly -2-