The Archive · 1940

Protest Being Studied

London, Jan. 3.

The United States' protest regarding the searching of American mail by Britain is "under careful consideration" and will be answered in due course, it was oMcially announced last night.—United Press.

Compulsory Labour Service in Sweden Stockholm, Jan. 3.

A bill authorizing compulsory labour service was passed today by the Riksdag. Labour may te recruited under the new law for the maintenance of defence services, transport and essential services.

Reuter. massed for three dual attacks upon the bomber which escaped after bringing down two of its attackers.—Reuter, Marshal Goerirz's "Revolt"

An important German industrialist who has just returned from Berlin states that Hitler has ordered Field-

Marshal Hermann Goering, the Reich Air Minister, to make a tremendous mass air attack on England, reports the Budapest correspondent of the "'News-Chronicle." Field-Marshal Goering's closest friends say he has replied that he will do so only upon the Fuehrer's written order. Upon receipt of mis, he will command the leading squadron himself. but he refuses to take, responsibility for ordering what is considered to bea terrible catastrophe for Germany.

This, says the correspondent, is apparently the cause of Field-Marshal Goering's retirement to his own estate and the break between him and other Nazi leaders, reported by many neutral observers from Berlin.—Reuter,

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