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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 24, 1940.
GANDHI'S
HEAVY ITALIAN LOSSES VISIO
IN ADVANCE INTO EGYPT FROM LIBYA
DETAILS OF THE ITALIAN ADVANCE INTO EGYPT FROM LIBYA, MADE AVAILABLE IN CAIRO YESTERDAY, SHOW THAT ONE ENEMY COLUMN, AFTER REPAIRING THE ROAD DOWN THE ESCARPMENT AT SOLLUM WHICH HAD BEEN BLOWN UP BY BRITISH SAPPERS, BEGAN TO ADVANCE ALONGSIDE THE SEA UNDER A CERTAIN DEGREE OF COVER| AFFORDED BY LOW-LYING SANDHILLS.
A second column advanced along the top of the escarpment to Halifya Pass, some 15 miles from Sollum, but when it attempted to descend the escarpment it suffered severe ca- sualties.
At the last moment the pass was blown up by retiring troops and the Italians were forc- ed to dismount from their transports. They began streaming down the pass and through, the rocky watercourses where they were sub- jected to Bren gunfire.
British forward troops { famous regiment — participated in this operation and then with- drew and left the enemy. to en- counter the next obstacle.
forced to proceed over a very]
with the coastal troops, since the desert further to the south
DUTCH
RECRUITING IN CANADA
Eight Dutch army officers arrived at an yesterday to recruit an eastern Canadian port
infantry battalion: from among Nether- landers in Canada. Reuter.
R.A.F. RAID ON BEN GHAZI HARBOUR
A SUCCESSFUL RAID on the harbour of Ben Ghazi, one of Marshal Graziani's chief From this point they may be supply bases in Libya, was reported in last rough desort track and join up night's R.A.F. communique in Cairo.
The communique states the raid on Ben Is a labyrinth of rocky wadis Ghazi harbour on Saturday resulted in a vancing without the risk of get direct hi* ship. Bombs.were also dropped The enemy therefore is faced on a warehouse alongside the mole and a fire able to with the necessity of maintaining broke out among warehouses.
Before the Italian advance enemy artillery, fire from Bar- dia, aided. by. spotters at Capuzzo, was
very accurate since they had been
plot the range of all targets.
Difficult Line...
and candhills unsuitable for ad-
ting lost.
two distinct and ever-lengthening|
'
lines of communication,
2
+
.:
On Sunday Menastir aerodrome Halted At Barrani. was raided as well as an enemy mator transport concentration al A comparatively small propor The Italians are halted at the Sidi Barani, Direct hits on lor- tion of the enemy are actually moment inside the Barrani dis-ries were observed. engaged as front line troops, astrict which is situated at a point many thousands are necessary for where the escarpment of the rough the establishment and mainten- desert hinterland begins to .ap- a village. ance of what must surely be one of the most difficult and exposed, proach the sca.
lines. of which any deal.
~communication-with
general has had to
An enemy raid on Malta on Sunday: damaged ten houses. in
In Africa we attacked Maiada The Italian claim to have and Dura aerodromo and the captured a large number of South African Air Force success- British armoured units is un-fully raided El Katulo and Dimo. true.
There have been enemy raids In order to avoid congestion The British. hitting the on Aden, without damage.-Reu-
hard and methodically ter. along the coast, Italian motorised enemy units are also advancing along an- whenever he exposes himself and other costal track due south of hitherto British Bukbuk.
THE
are
casualties have
'been small: Reuter.
Nairobi Communique
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Further reports of the enemy air attack on Isolo on Sept. 21 reveal that while we suffered no military
or police casualties, a few native civilians were, killed and others] wounded.-Router.
KING AND QUEEN VISIT RAID VICTIMS
TO SIMLA
Ostensible reason for Mr. Gandhi's visit to Simla (where he will see the Viceroy on Friday this week) is to elucidate the Government's attitude to- wards the Congress, reso- lution last week which, inter alia, withdrew the conditional offer to co- operate with Britain in the prosecution of the
war.
While the extremist: section..of Congress hopes, by pursuing the propagation of non-violence as a cloak to anti-war activities, to provoke a breach - with the Gov- [ernment, the conservative, major- ity does not pretend to know Mr. Gandhi's thoughts but believes a compromise may ensue.
There is even
an embryonic hobe in some quarters that the interview may lead to a resump- tion of office by Congress in pro- vincial legislatures.-Reuter.
NO CHANGE IN WESTERN DESERT
A communique issued by British headquarters in Cairo yesterday stated there is no change in the situation in the Western Desert.
Haneish and Marsa Matruh, caus- casualties.
Enemy aircraft bombed' Sidi
ing negligible damage and two
In Cyprus the enemy raided: Morphpu without causing any damage. Reuter,
BRITAIN RICHER THAN IN 1937 DESPITE WAR
AFTER A YEAR OF WAR BRITAIN RE- MAINS RICHER IN NATIONAL WEALTH THAN AT THE BEGINNING OF 1937, AFFIRMED THE EMINENT ECONOMIST, MR. J. M. KEYNES, IN A BROADCAST. FROM LONDON. LAST NIGHT.
Mr. Keynes said the wastage of the na- tional resources which Britain had suffered hitherto was easily exaggerated.
"Thinking that after the war! It had not been necessary in we shall have to lower our stan- the first year of war to ask for dards of life I see no likelihood of serious economic restrictions, that," he enjoined, and added | "The second year is in truth "On the contrary: 1. hope we the first year of real war for Bri- shall have learnt something, tain. about the conduct af currencyj We have the freshness of a and foreign trade, about controls) fighter in the, first .round and about the capacity of the whereas Germany has already country to produce, which wit suffered the nervous tension prevent:"us ever· relapsing Intaj. and muscular:exhaustion of five our pre-war economic, morass. years of prodigious effort.
There is no reason why the "But we must not deceive our-, people should not look forward to selves about what will be requir- higher standards of living after ed of us when we are fighting and.' THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING the war than ever they enjoyed." producing up to our full capacity.. AND. QUEEN AGAIN VISITED
So it is worthwhile having about PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN' RE-
Damage To London - taxes, wages and prices which CENT VICTIMS OF RAIDS ON:
will keep the position as sound" LONDON IN THE LONDON He believed he would not and good as it is to-day"-Reu- HOSPITAL, WHOSE 200TH ANprove far wrong if he said thejter. NIVERSARY IT WAS. YESTER- damage done in London since the DAY.
|Beginning of August had not been TEMPLE
ROBBED
In a message to the chairman; much greater than the normal ca- the, King, expressed his admira-pacity of our building trade to tion for the way in which the reinstate within the same period. medical staff and nursing services If we suffered £1,000,000 worth are carrying on in these difficult of damage every night for a year days, despite the bombing to which we should not have lost more than THE KUN YAN TEMPLE AT they have been ruthlessly sub-four per cent. of our buildings CHI WAN SHAN, OFF SHATIN jected.
and contents, or more than could PATI IN THE NEW TERRITOR-
bo restored in a couple of years. IES, WAS; RAIDED BY THREE
Their Majesties toured.
the
20%
$.80
wards, talking to men and women
4oz.. 8oz. 1lb.
$1.00
victims of recent East End ralds.i
$2.90)
$5.60
G. INGENOHL'S CIGAR STORES "LA PÉRLA DEL ORIENTE"
and other tobacconists.
Deferred Pay Plan
They talked, to two men In neighbouring beds who are in Referring to his deferred pay
ROBBERS, ARMED WITH DAG- GERS, SHORTLY AFTER 1 A.M. TO-DAY.
After tying up the inmates, the
the A.F.6.. and were rescued plan, Mr. Koynes expressed the men ransacked the temple and Kaftor being burled, for 20, min-¦öpinion that sooner or later some escaped with $400 (Chinese ́ Nh- utes, under a blazing wall. |more. drastic methods would be tional Currency); $û (Hong Kong
· Another man, a policeman, des- cribed how he was hit by masonry when a time-bomb, for which he was searching, exploded. 10 yards away: Reuter,
necessary.
Currency); and six gold finger-
Although the Government[rings..
had not yet- adopted his plan. The men fled in the direction of there had been no significant Kowloon and no arrests have yet· ́degrøn of inflation yet.
Ibeen made,