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Show WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. The senate reconvened at four p. m. (E.S.T.) today to act on the conference report of the administration neutrality bill. Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, D., Ky, said that prospects were good for sine die adjournment of congress tonight. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. The senate late today gave its final approval to the neutrality bill which President Roosevelt acclaimed today as marking this nations return to its historic conception of neutrality. Senate consent was given quickly to the conference report on the administrations cash and carry neutrality bill which permits belligerents to buy arms and munitions here if they pay cash for them and take them away in their own ships. The report was approved by a vote of 55 to 24. The conference report, a pasted up, patchwork document hastily assembled by drafting clerks after the conferees had debated minor alterations in the measure for three and one half hours, then was dispatched to the house. The leadership hoped to get agreements for immediate consideration there. A single objection in the house, however, could block such action and prevent the leaderships drive for sine die adjournment of the special session of the 76th congress tonight. The senate approval came within 15 minutes. WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. The state department announced today the conclusion of a reciprocal trade agreement with Venezuela. The agreement, signed at Caracas, was the 22nd reciprocal trade pact this government has put into effect. When the new treaty becomes provisionally effective on Dec. 16 approximately 60 per cent of this nations foreign trade will be regulated on the basis of reciprocal agreements. GERMANY REPORTS WEST WALL ACTION BERLIN, Nov. 6 The army high command anounced today that there had been somewhat livelier patrol activity at individual points on the western front, otherwise only feeble artillery fire. Near Saarburg, it was announced, a German pursuit plane shot down a French plane. Nazis Ready With Surprises Says Radio General of Spain ROME, Nov. 6. Gonzalo Queipo De Llano, the radio general of the Spanish civil war, said today that Germany was better prepared for a long war than the Allies and predicted that the Reich would show some tremendous surprises within the next few weeks. Germanys aviation today is twice as good as the combined air forces of Britain and France, he said. I cant understand why everybody thinks that time works in favor of England and France. Germany will pull through all right whether the war is long or short. And one thing is certain Germany will not be destroyed, no matter who enters the war. Queipo De Llano, who heads Generalissimo Francisco Francos military mission to Italy, made an inspection tour of the Reich shortly before the conflict began. He emphasized that the views he expressed were his own and not those of the Spanish government. Germany realized that war was inevitable before the Allies, he said, and has been preparing for it. Her prospects for victory are even greater as a result of the alliance with Russia which, he said, could supply her with more war materials than France and Britain could obtain from any other country. He asserted that the United States, by repealing the arms embargo, had definitely taken sides with the Allies while pretending to be neutral. FRENCH REPULSE GERMAN ATTACK PARIS, Nov. 6 French troops were reported today to have rectified their lines southeast from Forbach, where the Germans had isolated a French garrison after four days of artillery fire. It was announced strong French outposts were holding their essential positions in the Forbach salient. The Germans surrounded the town on the north, east and west, and their shells had cut all roads leading south but they had not yet attacked it with tanks or infantry. Forbach overlooks Saarbrucken and the German iron and steel mills of the Saar valley, which cannot operate as long as the French hold that salient. The town lies in a bulge of French territory extending into Germany. It is in front of the Maginot line but is independently fortified. Todays dispatches said the region between Forbach and Saare Guemines, to the southeast, were still under German artillery fire. It was announced the French had repulsed strong patrols in the Vosges sector between Bitche and Wissembourg. BOMB FORAYS HELD FAILURE LONDON, Nov. 6 British military experts predicted today that large scale, long range bombing attacks in this war would await development of distance fighting convoys. These sources contended that Germanys few exploratory raids on Britains naval anchorages had proved that bombers not in convoy were too vulnerable to fast attack planes for profitable mass bombing forays. |