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THE COUHTERJOUKNAL, LOUISVILLE, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1940. SECTION Dual Bridges Built Along Burma Road Sri KAUFMAN'S- 1 Cudahy Says King Leopold Had to Give Up Allies Fully Informed Of Plans, Envoy Asserts British Deny India Greater Voice In War Plan to Form Advisory Body Is Abandoned -M 'ky. it mm3-' A ANTICIPATING JAPANESE BOMBING ATTACKS on reopening October 18, Chinese engineers built dual bridges the route, as shown. Japan claims her bombers have closed it still is open. the Burma Road after its across many streams along the road but China insists U.

S. Denies Halting Ships Off Mexico Washington, Nov, 20 OP) Denials by officials of the State and Navy Departments Wednesday that United States destroyers had interfcrred with shipping off the Mexican coast deepened the mystery over the reported halting and search of two ships outside miles of the Mexican port as re ported." (Mexico claims its terri torial waters extend out nine miles.) Secretary of the Navy Knox said later that American ships of the neutrality patrol had stayed at least ten miles from the Mexican coast. The commanders of all vessels operating in the Western Gulf of Mexico, Knox said, had reported that at no time or place had they stopped or searched any foreign flag merchantmen. "It seems a pity," Knox added, "that false statements mainly for the sake of 1 propaganda have been given out in regard to American vessels now on neutrality patrol." After U. S.

May Send New Envoy To France Henry-Haye Indicates Relations Are Warming Washington, Nov. 20 OP) French Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye said at the State Department Wednesday that he expected a "pleasant" development in French-American relations in two or three days. There were indications that it might be the appointment of a new Ambassador to Vichy. Henry-Haye emerged smiling from the office of Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, and told newsmen he could not disclose the purpose of his call. Bullitt Sees Roosevelt.

He said, however, that he had been invited by-Welles and that it was a "very pleasant" mission. The Ambassador's call at the State Department followed an earlier conference between William C. Bullitt, present Ambassador to France, and President Roosevelt. Bullitt submitted his resignation on November 7, but said last week the President had not accepted it. Upon leaving the White House Wednesday, Bullitt said only that he was still Ambassador to France.

Pershing Mentioned for Tost. Among those mentioned for the Vichy post are Gen. John J. Pershing, a World War friend of Marshal Petain, and Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, now Ambassador to Poland.

Biddle also has been mentioned as a possible successor to Am bassador Joseph P. Kennedy at London, as has Marshall Field of New York. Henry-Haye's call also followed another indication of more friendly relations with France with the disclosure that Robert D. Murphy had been ordered to Vichy to take up the duties of charge d'affaires. Murphy has been in this country for some time.

Latins Set Economic Meeting. Buenos Aires, Nov. 20 (U.R) The River Platte Regional Economic Conference will convene January 15 in Montevideo. Tampico on Monday, Crews of the Mexican tanker Ccrro-Azul and tho llonduin freighter Ceiba were quoted in reports from Mexico. City as saying that three American destroyers had stopped them and examined their papers and cargo.

They were said to have identified the destroyers as the Broome, the Gilder and the Plunkett. The incident was reported to have occurred near where a German ship was scuttled last week. Three other German vessels returned to Tampico after sighting what their crews said were warships. Mexican Press Indignant. The reported halting of the Mexican and Honduran ships resulted in indignant assertions in some Mexican newspapers that the warships had entered Mexican territorial waters.

Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, made the first denial, asserting that no United States destroyers had at any time entered Mexican territorial waters, stopped or hailed any vessels entering or leaving Tampico. Later the Navy Department issued aJformal statement saying: "Reports that United States destroyers had stopped the tanker Cerro-Azul and the freighter Ceiba inbound to Tampico on Monday are false. No ships have been stopped or boarded. No destroyers have been within ten Negro Draft Executive To Assist Dykstra Washington, Nov. 20 OP) The appointment of Maj.

Campbell C. Johnson as Negro executive assistant to C. A. Dykstra, Selective Service Director, was announced Wednesday. Dykstra said that Johnson's work "will be related particularly to questions regarding the Negro which may develop in the administration of the Selective Service Act." New York, Nov.

20 OP) The surrender of King Leopold of Belgium was defended Wednesday night by John Cudahy, United States Ambassador to Belgium, who contended the King had no alternative and had so advised the Allies. Cudahy, in a nationwide broadcast, said that for five days before the capitulation "the general staffs, both British and Frenth, had been keDt fully informed and had known that the Belgian army had no other course." Recalls Lee's Surrender. He pictured the Belgians as fighting alone, with the British retiring to Dunkerque and the French "scattered" and beyond communication to the South. In fact, he said, the only French division still remaining in Flanders had been taken to Dunkerque in Belgian trucks. "There comes a time when one human being charged with the responsibility of the lives of many others has no other honorable course but surrender," Cudahy declared.

"And in the late afternoon of May 27 the King of the Belgians realized, as Robert E. Lee realized at Appommatox, that such a time had come. "He knew well that his army, in a frenzy of desperation and despair, might revolt and become a riotous rabble. He knew that no military purpose could justify further carnage and he knew he would be guilty of homicide if he asked of his exhausted soldiers further hopeless resistance. General Killed By Truck.

He told of a. conference of King Leopold and Allied military leaders at which it was agreed that a counter-attack should be launched against the mechanized German column which had reached the coast, separating the Allied forces. He said the French General Bilotte was charged with its execution. But in the, confusion and wild disorder it was impossible to formulate a plan, and Bilotte went out into the night for his headquarters at Ypres with the details left to his discretion," Cudahy said. "A few moments later he was found fatally hurt, smashed by a French army truck.

"The counter-attack was 'attempted the next day, but it failed s48 Vz OFF 4 wmmmmmrs London, Nov. 20 OP) The HiuFe of Commons was told Wednesday that in this moment when the Battle of Britain was fst spreading into a battle of the empire, the government had withdrawn its offer to give Irsd.a'g political leader a greater voice in the war effort, and that to plan on American ships and troops coming to Europe was "a dream." The Marquis of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, declared, "we cote with regret" that the offer nt last August 8 to give India free and equal" partnership in the British commonwealth of rations has failed to gain representative support." Council Idea. Abandoned. (The offer had been announced in an appeal to India's millions to-: bolster the empire's fight against the Axis powers.) The Viceroy's statement said Britain was still prepared to give effect to the proposals looking toward eventual dominion status fcr India as soon as general support was. forthcoming.

"But as that degree of support evidently not yet manifested itself. he added, "his majesty's gnvernment nave decided that I Fhnuld not be justified in expansion of my executive council, or establishment of a war advisory council at the present moment." Tredicts Empire Battle. Speaking in the India debate, L. S. Amery, Secretary of State for India, told the House that India now has 60,000 troops serving overseas and is "rapidly expanding" its army to 500,000 "trained, equipped and mechanized" modern troops.

"The Battle of Britain," he said, "is leading to the Battle of the Empire." The reference to American participation came when Earl Winterton. member of the Irish peerage and Conservative member of the House of Commons, urged raising of another 500,000 troops from the colonies. "It is only a pipe dream that we shall see American ships and troops fighting in Europe," he declared. Calls 17. S.

Ties Cordial. In this connection, R. A. Butler, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said in answer to a question that relations between the British and United States Gvemments were "intimate and cordial." Butler disclosed that the United States had been informed of progress of discussions between the British and Russian Governments. Kear the close of the debate on India's war participation, Secretary Amery asserted that while th Viceroy was willing to give jinowcrs or iwonanaas iv.

oanani the same right to hold conscientious objections to war as are allowed Britons, the Indian National Congress had "demanded the right to urge Indians not to enlist, not to work in munitions factories, and not to contribute to voluntary war committees." Bocchini, 60, Head of Italy's Police, Dies Rome, Nov. 20 (INS) Arturo BocchinI, 60, head of the Italian rational police and often called the only man who could "dictate to4the dictator," died Wednesday after a brief illness. Director of Italy's famed Om (secret police), Bocchini for the fourteen years had been personally responsible for the safety cf Premier Benito Mussolini. It was Bocchini who organized the "unseen bodyguard" that was always present but never noticed wherever II Duce went. When in 1926 Mussolini asked Bocchini, then Genoa's chief of police, to assume charge of the national police, it is understood Bocchini agreed to do so only on condition that II Duce would give him complete control over all arrangements for Mussolini's trips and public appearances.

i Power Was Unlimited. I Bocchini was reputed to have had unlimited power to tell Mussolini exactly what routes to take en his journeys and the public places where he might appear. -International police circles credit Bocchini with having saved Mussolini from personal harm on more than one occasion. Out of the smooth-working Ovra, which Bocchini moulded into an instrument combining the suavity of the British secret service with the efficiency of the German Gestapo, te police head trained a group of picked plainclothesmcn to gaard Mussolini. Kottd for Disguises.

There men were frequently al-lOded to as "quick change art-its" because 6f their ability to sume disguises and become soldiers, workers, merchants whatever the particular occasion demanded. Thus when Xjssolini addressed his troops, IVxchini's Ovra men were among the soldiers and were. not recognised even by II Duce himself. Maintenance of a i ms power in Italy is attributed largely to the all-pervasive presence and potency of the secret pclice which Bocchini organized and trained. (, An event eagerly awaited by hundreds of enthusiastic Simmonds customers Every fashion is of late production, smart and priced way below former prices.

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