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Western Europe: Army Group B informed that its request for delivery of 20,000 anti-tank...

Catalogue reference: HW 1/3669

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1945 Apr 4

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Western Europe: Army Group B informed that its request for delivery of 20,000 anti-tank grenade launchers by air was impossible but that 10,000 were coming by road to Hameln, south-west of Hanover, Apr 2; Army Group B to receive only limited supplies by air, aircraft and fuel shortages, Group B to provide data on likely receiving areas, Apr 1, details of loads for air supply flights Apr 3/4.

Naval Headlines.

Japanese ambassador, Moscow: 3 signals dated Mar 30 dealing with earlier treaties signed between Japan and Soviet Union, namely Treaty of Portsmouth, Peace Treaty of 20 Jan 1925, Treaty of Neutrality of 13 Apr 1941, draft protocol from ambassador abrogating all earlier treaties and also covering dispute over Sakhalin Island and Japanese fishing rights.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin: propaganda directive of Mar 20, various lines detrimental to Allies to be taken on a range of subjects including disappearance of UK's export trade so England had really lost the war, spread of Communism in Europe, etc; similar directive for Mar 28, Roosevelt's imperialist policy in South America, Germans holding back Allies on lower Rhine, Allied propaganda on tank successes to be refuted.

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