Reds Hasten Drive – 2-3
2 British Freighters Reported Torpedoed – 3
Blows at Britain Surveyed in Reich – 4
The International Situation – 4
Britain to Resist Southward Move by the Japanese – 5-6
Bumper Crop Seized by Russia in Rumania – 6
U.S.-British Accord With Japan On East Asia Is Urged by Stirling – 6
Fleet Ends Rumors, Returns to Hawaii – 7
Soviet Planes Carrying Light Tanks, Experts Say – 7
Republican Split on Senator Seen – 8
New Defense Taxes in Effect Today; Retail Cigarette Stocks Hit at Once – 9
Italians’ Strategy Remains Defensive – 9-10
Britons and Nazis Continue Bombing (by James MacDonald) – 10
The Day’s War Communiques - 11
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French government in Vichy
Monday, July 1, 1940 www.onwar.com
In Vichy France... The French government moves from Bordeaux to Vichy.
In Budapest... The Hungarian government alleges frontier violations by Romanian troops; several civilians are reported dead. Hungarian troops mass at the border with Romania.
In Bucharest... The Romanian government renounces the Anglo-French guarantee of territorial integrity. Romanian troops mass at the border with Hungary.
Over Britain... Hull and Wick, in northeast Scotland, are bombed in daylight by the Luftwaffe. British casualties are reported to be 12 killed and 22 injured.
In the Channel Islands... The German occupation is completed.
Over Germany... During the night (July 1-2), 12 RAF Hampden bombers raid the naval base at Kiel. A 2000 lbs bomb is dropped near the battle cruiser Scharnhorst by Guy Gibson and 2 small bombs strike the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen.
From London... Britain warns that it will not countenance an Axis occupation of Syria.
In Washington... Roosevelt signs a further Navy bill providing for the construction of 45 more ships and providing $550,000,000 to finance these and other projects.
In Japan... Sugar and matches are rationed.
Please note carefully the nature of this naval exercise. It's just the kind of thing which got Admiral Richardson fired by President Roosevelt.