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...Government to clear the 200-mile stretch of the Yangtze from Wuhu to Kiukiang for their advance, Admiral Harry E. Yarnell calmly answered that U. S. vessels would stand by to protect U. S. citizens. This week Chinese reported having bombed and sunk four vessels of the Japanese fleet just above Anking. War-weary and discouraged, the Japanese admitted: 1) they might have to defer their drive on Hankow until autumn; 2) they might even discuss terms. Said Foreign Minister General Kazushige Ugaki: "If any serious changes should occur in the future, it may be necessary for the Japanese Government...
BARCELONA--A fleet of 41 Insurgent planes into today dropped 300 bombs on the beach at Sagunto, 25 miles south of Generalissimo Franco's spearhead in his drive on Valencia, but caused only slight damage, the war office announced. Government anti-aircraft batteries brought down two of the raiding planes, the report said...
...Balearic Islands, setting fire to three ships, in retaliation for a bombing attack that killed between 350 to 500 persons in the Catalan town of Granollers. A government communique said the three Insurgent ships set ablaze at Palma by Loyalist bombs were a part of Francos Mediterranean blockade fleet...
...President signed the Navy Expansion Bill-authorizing a $1,156,000,000, 20% increase of 46 warships, 26 auxiliaries and 950 planes-asked Congress to appropriate $23,875,000 to begin construction on a dirigible, twelve new boats, a "mosquito fleet," improvements in three Navy yards, and to purchase nine four-engine patrol planes...
...supposed to have been started by a coalition of Asiatic and European powers, the Blacks, while the U. S. fleet was busy fighting in the Pacific. The Blacks were about to invade the U. S. with two fleets, and it was the job of General Andrews' 187 combat planes and 3,000 men "to concentrate first; to reach out and attack targets in advance of the ground arms, with the general mission of weakening and disorganizing the enemy to the limit of our ability before he comes into contact with these ground forces...