The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-11
AMERICAN NEWS
 WRITER'S SEIZED
All News Service Men Also Are Put Under Arrest
 in Berlin

Berlin, Dec, 1t-(UP)--Germar Broadcasts Recorded by United press) All American newspaper ano press association correspondents ir Berlin were arrested at midnight, ir retaliation for the arrest of German correspondents,i in the United States as the Reichstag prepared to meet today to hear an important govern. ment declaration on foreign policy
 The correspondents had been for- bidden yesterday to send further news from Germany and had been ordered to remain in their homes,
 Arrangements were made for, all German radio stations to broadcast the proceedings at the Reichstag meeting in the KroN opera house. (Editors: Most broadcasts gave the hours for the meeting as p. m. which is 8 Q. If., EST, but some radio Berlin broadcasts mentioned 3 p. m as the hour),
 It was made known only that on important declaration would be made and morning newspapers published this statement uAder great headlines without comment.
 (It was taken for granted, as all German reports had intimated, that the ReichStag declaration would be concerned with the Pacific war and Axis support of Japan, and that Adolf Hitler would deliver 1t.
 (It was noted that the Japanese Diet, at 0 meeting yesterday, ap- proved important diplomatic meas ures" which the Japanese govern ment prepared to announce today.
 GA Zurich dispatch quoted e Ger man foreign office spokesman: Ger many in future regards Roosevelt as the only aggressor existing in this world. The necessary consequences will follow immediately"
 What It Means
 GA dispatch of the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported from Berlin that the Reichstag would hear q "reafflrmation of Ger man-Japanese solidarity under the German.ltNlian- Japanese alliance" This dispatch sald' that the Reich- Ct0g meeting was first planned for Wednesday but was put of so that there would be moro time to draft the declaration,
 (Dagens Nyheter Sald 1t was bee lleved the declaration was care. fully worded after many conferences, Including one between Hitler and Gen, Hirosi Oshima, Japanese am basSador,
 Duplicating a great Axis diplo- matte drive on the Pacific situation, Viehy authorities in French Indo- China reached new defense agrec- ment with the Japanese and the Stockholm newspaper Tigningen re. ported from Rome that tho chief point discussed yesterday by Vlchy Vice Premier Jean Francois Darlan and Italian Foreign Minister dalezzo Clano, at their talk At Turin, was the restoration of the balance in Lihya,"
 (This "restorNtion," the newspaper said, would be effected in order to shorten Italian sea communications --in other words to turn over the French naval base of Hizerte, in Tunisia adjoining Libya, to the Axis.
 ("The Italians blame the length Of their sea communication In part for the British successes in Africa, :" tho newspaper said. Tt is under. stood that the Germans forced the unwilling French to hold discussions with Italy.~
 Foreign Writers Held
 Washington. Dec 1. (UP)-At. torney General Francis Riddle said today that 0 small number of Japanese, German and Italian newspapermen taken into custody by the United States ewre being held in hotels and "are being ac. corded every consideration and courtesy to which their semi -ofiicial status entities them"
 He said he wanted to make t clear that the arrests had not been and are not being extended to in. clude Axis newspapermen who have been engaged in legitimate press activity,