The Archive · 1941

Bellicose Speech Quoted

Berlin, Apr, 6, Mr, Yosuke Matsuoka,' Japanese Foreign Minister, before " leaving' Berlin promised that Japan would fight any power—including the United States—which attempted to interfere with Jupanese foreign policy, a newspaper here said yesterday, The "Essener National Zeitung," publication of Reichs Marshul Her mann Goering, said that "Mr, Mate Bombs Rained on Belgrade; Station Afire London, Apr. 6.

The full fury of the German war machine was unleashed against both Greece and Yugoslavia today as Herr Hitler, despite his well-known dread lof a war on two fronts, ordered his legions to march into these two coun. {tries "to avert a new British crime While German planes rained death Jand destruction on Belgrade, capital Jof Yugoslavia this morning, German legions are reported to have erossed the Greek frontier at two points in Thrace and Macedonia, In the rst operations of the Luftgaffe against Yugoslaviag the official German news agency claims that 24 Jenemy planes were shot down in alr attics, while 39 machines were destroyed on the ground, Railway Station Claimed Afire Belgrade was subjected to a partiularly savage attack. The Belgrade oilway "station "ts claimed by the German agency to be on. fire, and great destruction fs said to have' been Eaed inthe ety, epecieliy neat the 'The' some agency sad that the feiews of German bombers reported that they started numerous res the. Yugoslav. capital, and. that, the Belgrade wireless. station has failed to resume broad-easting.

it is also claimed that German bombers attacked an enemy "troop transport train in the Danube area with complete success," with several trucks destroyed by direct hits and the track blown up.

The British government is reported

crumest of the unqualified ave'aasred the" ugaay gov fof the British Empire, while the at= {Wlude of Moscow and Ankara is be This latest German aggression occurred while the Ink was hardly ona pact of friendship and. none gression signed between Soviet Russia and Yugoslavia, Observers are interested to know the reactions inside Germany towards the atest developments

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