THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 20, 1940
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GERMAN EFFORT TO SECURE CHANNEL COAST
BORDEAUX, TO-DAY.
THE GERMANS ARE PUSHING WESTWARDS, AP- PARENTLY IN ORDER TO SEIZE THE WHOLE CHANNEL COAST SO AS TO INCREASE THEIR THREAT TO BRITAIN, DECLARES AN AUTHORI- TATIVE COMMENTARY ON THE MILITARY SITUATION.
It says the enemy is putting pressure on the 1st French Army Group in the region of Render in the direction of St. Malo.
ITALIAN MINISTER
LEAVES EGYPT
Cairo, To-day.
The Italian Minister to Egypt left yesterday, together At with 200 other Italians. the same time, Egypt pro- tested to Italy against recent frontier incidents in which there were some Egyptian ca- sualties.
civil
In the meanwhile,
defence precautions have been intensified. Already, 9,000 have registered for free evacuation from Cairo and
many thousands have already left Alexan- dria.
Belgians in Egypt are being sent to the Belgian Congo for service there.
Reuter.
Cairo, Yesterday. Count Mazzolini, the Italian Minis- ter to Egypt, left yesterday for Italy with the Legation staff, consular off- cials and many other Italians. Reu- ter.
CAUGHT ON REBOUND
The proprietress of Harbour View and Arlington Hotels, Mrs. Gardiner, was the complainant in a case before Mr. E. Himsworth this morning when Ho Man-hung, 25, store-coolie board a Blue Funnel liner, was sen- tenced to nine months' hard labour and 10 strokes for snatching a hand- bag.
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Accused was orginally charged with robbery with violence, but the charge was amended at the request of Det.- Sgt. Nolan.
It was alleged that accused struck Mrs. Gardiner or the face and snatch- 1 May ed her bag at 9.30 a.m, on
when she was coming out from the
Harbour Veiw Hotel..
Accused left the Colony for Singa- pore on board a vessel in which he hours obtained employment a few after the incident:
When the ship returned on June 11 accused was arrested..
U.S. CAMPAIGN AGAINST FIFTH COLUMNISTS
Washington, To-day. In connexion with the recent order forbidding amateurs to communicate by wireless' with foreign governments, approximately 100,000 wireless opera- tors, both amateur and commercial, have been ordered by the Federal Communications Commission to sub- mit proof of their United States clti- zenship,
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Fighting continues in the region of Avranches, east of Mont Saint Michel. The Germans succeeded in cupying several bridgeheads on the Loire between Orleans and Nevers, but generally the French are hold- Ing on the Loire.
The situation in the region from Nevers and Sancerre to the Swiss frontier is very confused and French resistance is very weak.
Enemy columns are marching on Bourges and considerable forces aré. being thrown into the valley aiming to take Lyons from the rear. The Army of the East continues to
fight and the Army of the Alps has German or Italian attacks.-Reuter.
not yet had to defend itself against
French Communique
Bordeaux, To-day. A communique states that in Brit- tany the enemy is pushing forward in the direction of Nantes.
To the south of the middle Loire our troops withdrew.
Further east the enemy pushed ele- in the direction of Laonne, ments Lyons and Amberiux.
Operations continue in Alsace and
south Lorraine,
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Reuter.
Isolated Armies Continuing The Fight
Bordeaux, To-day.
the French war communique.
HEROIC EFFORTS
· NOT IN VAIN
London, To-day. dark. hour through
"In the which we are now passing, France realna the certainty that the heroic efforts of the Allied arm- ies will not have been in vain and that in them lies an assur- ance of the future freedom of Europe," sayd President Lebrun replying to a message from Queen Wilhelmina expressing sympathy and assuring the French Preal- dent of her "unshakeable falth In the complete resurrection of France."-Reuter.
RAID ON ITALIAN POST
Nairobi, To-day.
MEASURES
AGAINST INVADERS
London, To-day.
Proposals for home de- fence were made at a meet- ing of 50 Members of Parlia- ment yesterday which pass- ed resolutions suggesting that all means of land de- fence should be under the control of the Secretary for War.
The War Office should draw up a country scheme covering the whole and providing for an organisation for each parish which will provide men and women and materials for local.
ob- defence with the best weapons tainable in the shortest possible time. The population should be divided into producers and non-producers. The former should carry. on -with their usual work but would be Ilable to assist the defence work in would be their spare time and avallable in an emergenoy to joini a defence organisation.
Non-producers should be available at all times for defence, and if within a week the voluntary system fails to yield the number required, compul- sion should be applied.
A communique says that at dawn on Tuesday a raid was carried out against an Italian post at El War, on the Italian frontier, by Somaliland troops of the King's African The meeting also suggested
vigorous counter-espionage measures Rifles supported by the and the formation of an International Southern Rhodesian contin-Brigade or Foreign Legion in Great gent of the R.A.F.
"Our Isolated armies continue to Although full details are not avail- fight with unequalled energy," de-able considerable damage was done clares an authoritative commentary on to the post. The enemy was obvious- ly surprised and later counter-attack- Each army retains ita cohealoned our troops who, after completing and is fighting day after. day with- their task, withdrew over the border. out respite. against forces suparlor. | Our-reported casualties are two Afri- in numbers and material..
They have sustained losses through enemy fire and fatigue but their morale remains splendid and they are desperately resisting the enemy's advance, while each army is man- oeuvring its retreat in the direction laid down for it.
Rearguard Actions
The Army of the West is with- drawing partly into Brittany and partly south of the lower. Loire and is fighting rearguard actions, The armies which were fighting round Paris gave battle on the middle Loire. Then, obeying orders, they continued to move southward to more favourable positions.
The armies In Champagne, out- flanked on élther side by German armoured divisions, tried to break through in the direction of Dijon.
Squares Stand Up
The armies of Lorraine formed their battalions into squares and are standing up to the enemy who 'con- tinues to attack ceaselessly, from east, north and west, and are progressing step by step from west of the Vosges
an effort to. towards the south In break through the enemy grip.
The army of Alsace is also making its way through the enemy forces. Reuter
OPENLY PRO-ALLY
Montevideo, To-day,
This proof will be required in the President Baldomir, in an unexpect-
can ranks.
On withdrawing, our troops were bombed by two Itallan Caproni aircraft but so far no damage what soever is reported.
On the rest of the front all was quiet on Tuesday. Reuter.
Britain. Reuter. :
R.A.F. ACTIVE OVER FRANCE
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London, To-day. Yesterday R.AF. bombers carried |out a number of reconnaissances over Northern France, Belgium and Hol- land.
Others attacked columns of motor transport approaching Cherbourg. were thrown into disorder.
These
Many vehicles were destroyed. All
our aircraft returned safely,
Action On Libyan Border
London, To-day. Fighter patrols over the Cherbourg According to Cairo reports, an area shot down one enemy bomber. Italian motor transport column, es- Two of our aircraft failed to return timated at four guns, and three hun-but the pilot of one was seen to make dred infantry in buses escorted by a parachute landing. light tanks, was on Monday met by British armoured fighting vehicles.
Aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked the enemy seaplane base at The ensuing action resulted entirely Helder on the Dutch coast. Large in favour of the British.--British fires were started among the "build- Wireless.
ings. British Wireless.
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