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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 22, 1940
Mechanised Units In Egypt Carry Out Another Swift Coup
PAN-AMERICAN TRADE DRIVE
Hyde Park (N.Y.), To-day. President Roosevelt at his daily press conference yesterday stated the programme for Pan-Ameri- cam economic co-operation in- volved economic defence design- United ed to supplement the military States
defence pro-
gramme.
were
He added the measures intended as a further safeguard for peace in this Hemisphere and to protect the economies of the American Republic from reper- cusulons of the disturbed Inter national situation.-Reuter.
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New York, To-day.
A nation-wide committee to help to provide homes in the United States
ITALIANS CAUGHT NAPPING
Cairo, To-day...
A STATEMENT ISSUED by British G.H.Q. says highly successful raids were carried out on Thursday by one of our mechanised units from the Sudan, according to a Khartoum despatch. The British force, after crossing the Eritrean fron- tier, located a powerful concentration of enemy troops who had apparently entrenched them- selves and had established a number of strong- ly defended machine-gun posts.
A British fighting patrol
encoun-
tered a battalion of enemy infantry The brisk led by Italian officers.
struggle which ensued developed into a rout.
The Italians, taken completely by cas- surprise, suffered substantial ualties. The prisoners taken in- cluded a number of Italians, while many rifles were captured.
There were no casualties on the Bri- tish side.
The statement observes: "The morale of our troops is naturally high."
CANADIAN DIVISION RE-FORMED
MORE ORDERS FOR U.S. PLANES
New York, To-day. The Anglo-French Purchasing Board has announced that new contracts for the purchase of over 1,500 American planes were placed last week, bringing, the number of planes purchased by the Board in the United States to over 10,000 with nearly 2,500 already delivered.—Reuter.
N.Z. FORCE INSPECTED
London, To-day:
The High Commissioner for New Zealand, Mr. W. J. Jordan, yesterday inspected the New Zealand troops who are in camp in Britain. He himself was a Sergeant-Major with the New Zea- landers in the last war. London, To-day.
He welcomed the The First Canadian Divi-
country, telling them that they were
The attack across the Eritrean bor-sion, which has returned from France without having had der was made through difficult coun- for Europe refugees' children was try with many rocky isolated hills in an opportunity to really get formed yesterday under the honour-terspersed with belts of thorn bush at grips with the enemy, is ary chairmanship of Mrs. Roosevelt. and dense forest. When the Italians the native infantry More than 32 child and social groups were surprised,
under them fled into the neighbouring were represented at the conference.
woods.-Reuter.
The programme includes co-opera- tion with Canada and aiding children invaded now in France and other countries.
A spokesman pointed out that funds would not be used to bring refugees to the United States but would be a guarantee by the State Department of the refugees' welfare and also to pro- vide temporary homes while seeking permanent domiciles.-Havas.
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Chungking, To-day.
600 Prisoners
Cairo, To-day. Photographs in the Egyptian news- papers show 600 Italian troops taken prisoner in the recent fighting in Libya and on the Italian frontiers in Africa. -Reuter.
TIENTSIN TRADE
Peiping, To-day.
Removal of the barricades around the foreign Conces- sions in Tientsin after 372 days is expected to bring con- siderable improvement in the
After two months interruption, during which the offices and printing plant were moved to safety, the "Han-port's trade. kow Herald," the world's only morn- ing paper published in the afternoon, resumed publication yesterday.>
The size of the paper is reduced to two pages instead of four due to the shortage of paper the price of which has increased 200 per cent. in the
three months. course of the last Havas.
AMERICAN GIFT TO BRITISH RED CROSS
London, To-day.
Foreigners arriving from `Tientsin last evening confirm that conditions have already returned to normal and there is unhindered passage of persons and cargo, as formerly.
Observers belleve the regulations permitting Japanese to reside again in the foreign Concessions indicate the
now once more intact.
The Division is short of only a few men, and most of those missing are now believed to have reached English ports. Any loss of equipment is being made good rapidly.
In the opinion of experts, the 10′ months' intensive training and the short experience the troops have had has made this Canadian Division one of the most efficient mobile forces in the United Kingdom.-Reuter.
among
friends.
troops to this-
The New Zealanders in the last war
have a big job to do, and you will do
had a job to do, he went on, and "you
it."
He inspected many branches of the New Zealand forces, including the Maoris-Reuter,
GENERAL SIKORSKI IN ENGLAND
London, To-day. The Polish Premier, General Sikorski, with members of his staff, arrived in London yesterday by plane from France-Reuter,
ITALIAN GENERAL CAPTURED IN WESTERN DESERT
London, To-day. THE STRIKING SUCCESS of four British armoured cars is told by a Reuter's correspondent who has been touring the Western Desert, for the most time in a car whose windows had to be kept shut while he wore his gas-mask—not because of gas- attacks, but because of the sand.
unlikelihood of a reintroduction of the The four armoured cars had been destroying Italian
blockade which was equally harmful to Japanese business interests.--Reu- ter.
THE STOCK EXCHANGE
London, To-day. The Stack Exchange yesterday final. The American Red Cross has pres-. ented £100,000 to the Red Cross and ly showed a rally after a quietly easter St. John War Organisation. A com- session. Gilt-edged and gold minings mittee headquarters is being estab-improved but industrials, and, oils were lished in London for co-operating with irregular Wall Street was irregular — the British Red Cross.-Reuter.
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telegraph poles. They then concealed them-
selves and waited.
About forty. Italian lorries, most of them containing soldiers came along. The first two armoured cars let them go by and then the British came out of their ambush and attacked the con- voy from front and rear.
An Italian staff car which came -up turned tall and fled, hotly pur
sued by British armoured oar, which opened fire and killed one of the two occupants, a captain. The other, a General, surrendered. -Later, the lorries attacked Italian engineers who came up to repair the destroyed telegraph poles.
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The total bag was about 40 lorries, three staff cars and three civilian curs destroyed, one Italian officer and 30
clud men killed, 10 Italien officers Ing the General 61 Tallan troops and 17 native soldiers-car
The armoured cars base without.
casualty! Reuter.
their
GERMANY'S HUGE LOSS OF WHALE OIL
London, To-day.
It is now learned that during an R.A.F. raid on a Hamburg margarine factory, some 6,000. tons of whale-oil were destroyed,
The fire took two days to get under control. Reuter.
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