The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-14
Balkans Still Fight
 Against Blitzkrieg
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only l6 miles from Durazzo, main port of Albania, and were driving hard against 1t.
 Athens newspapers spoke optimis- tically of the general situation, say ing 1t was evolving in favor Of the Creek British allies.
 An air raid alarm sounded in Athens for IS minutes Easter Sum- day but no bombs were dropped.
 RaIded Germany
 Hammering at the ports and afr fields of German sea raiders, Royal Air Force bombers raided the Merig- nae airdrome and the Bordeaux docks again last night, the air min- istry announced.
 Merignac, a sunurb C Bordeaux in occupied France, is the base of the long range German bombers raiding British shipping far at sea. Bor- deaux is a base for submarines and, perhaps, for surface raiders. It was the second consecutive night raid on Merignac and the third within week. Tn addition to Merignac, British bombing squadrons raided Lorient, France, major submarine base, and Brest, where the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneis- enau are docked, Saturday night.
 There was only slight German air activity over Britain last night. A joint communidue of the air and home ministries said a few bombs were dropped On one or two coastal points and these were generally in- effective, but in one town in north- west England some damage was done and some persons were killed
 Moscow Moves Again Moscow has made another of hel now customary JanuS-like moves.
 She signed a pact of neutrality with Japan under which each coun- try pledged itself to stay neutral in event the other was involved in war
 As in almost every Russian move since the famous pact with Ger many which touched of the Euro- pean war in August, 1889, this was immediately subject to two schools of interpretation.
 In the Axis countries the Russo Japanese pact was hailed as another great victory for the Axis principal It was pointedly called to the United States attention that this left Japan free to move in the South Pacific where a Japanese threat to Singapore, Malaga, the Dutch East Indies and the Philip pines slowly has been building up
 In British quarters, however, the pact was minimized somewhat and 1t was noted that If Japan got free hand in the east, Russia got the same freedom in Europe where her dislike for the new order which German is creating in the Balkans and for the Nazi threat to the Dardanelles has been growing palmer week by week since March 1.
 Ends Japanese Trouble
 Moscow provided no signpoyts for observers. Pravda acclaimed the treaty as of vast political signiflc- ance' and said it opened the way for settlement of all differences with Japan" including the important questions of trade treaty and a permanent fisheries pact.
 There was little air action over Britain but Germany warned that once the current campaigns are cleaned up Britain will be blasted as never before.
 The Royal Air Force pounded Bordeaux and the German seaplane base at Merignac.
 The German high command re- ported that 33,000 tons of British shipping had been sunk by the air force around the British Isles, that submarine had torpedIoed 10,000- ton auxiliary cruiser near Iceland and that British destroyer was hit by @ bomb in Greek waters.
 Chile will spend $s,500,o00 on pulp lie health this year.