London, Feb, 20.
The landing of British parachutists in Italy has caused @ parachutist scare throughout the country, accord the Zurich correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph."
The most unlikely coppices and the most impossible are hiding-places being searched, nocent people have been arrested, he declares, The political correspondent of same newspaper says the whole story of the daring exploit will be published when the authorities consider it safe to do so, How much damage was done, is not yet known in London, Photographic evidence is inconclusive, The raid is regarded by authoritative quarters as largely experimental. There is little doubt that Britain intends to employ parachutists who get extra pay because of the greater risks, en an increasing scale at various points.—Reuter, Japan Said Aiming At S. Americ:
New York, Feb. 30.
The Melbourne Argus" was reported by the Columbia Broadcasting em as s y that Japan eventually aims at the penetration of South America."
The C.BS, in a broadcast from Said that the "Melbourne Argus" today stated. "It Japan could secure herself in that coreer of the Pacific framed by Indo-China, Thailand, Malaya and the Indies, of which Singapore is the nerve centre, she youd embrace the Philippines.
From the Philippines would come further extensions of Japanese control until the United States finds self surrounded at Hawaii with increasingly insoluble problems of Japanese infiltration into South America,"—United Press,
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