THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 13, 1940-
FLEEING ITALIAN RABBLE Escape Of Shattered Alpini Troops Viewed As Excellent Greek Propaganda
N.E.I. OIL AGREEMENT
An agreement has been initialled con- cerning the supply of Dutch East Indies oit to Japan by repre sentatives of the Ne- therlands oil com- panies and Japanese oil importers.
•This agreement will be communicated to the Japanese and Ne- therlands delegations at Batavia-Reuter...
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BATAVIA BLACK-OUT
Extensive
War Booty
Captured
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent with the
Greek Army at Athens)
A BRITISH BOMBER FORMATION AGAIN BOMBED ALBANIAN TARGETS YESTERDAY
BUT THE RESULTS HITHERTO ARE UN-
KNOWN.
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Great quantities of war material which the Italians abandoned in the ravines of the central Pindus sector, continue to be collect- The Greeks already have employed Led.
against the enemy the captured light artil- lery and machine-guns.
Although reports that General, ravines.
from
Soddu has ordered a general with- Their panic will shake the mor- Starting at 4 p.m. Batavia time drawal of his troops to their form-ale of Italian reinforcements bad- to-day, three days of intensive black-out and air raid exercises er positions in Albania are untrue, ly enough but when the waters of
it appears that the Italians have the Aoos River run down are being held in Batavia, says rectified their line on the right the Pindus mountains through the Reuter's correspondent there.
wing of the Epirus sector, where Albanian valleys the bodies Air raid warnings will fre- the flanks of their advanced co-some hundreds of their comrades quently be given during the exlumn are exposed owing to the whom they believed to be mak- crcises so as to accustom the debacle in the Pindus sector. people to take shelter.-Reuter.
RICH COAL DEPOSIT FOUND IN KWANGSI (SPECIAL 70 "CHINA MAIL"
A rich coal deposit has been dis- covered in an unrevealed part of Kwangsi province.
The coal deposit is estimated at about 300,000,000 tons.
The Sanho Mining Company has been granted the franchise to ex- ploit the new deposit. Havas.
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Escape Fleases
of
ing a triumphal march through Greece, it will hardly urge them to attack the Greek defences which are now more impregnable Military circles in Athens re-than ever.-Reuter, gard the escape of those four to the five thousand Italians from Pindus pocket as one of the ma- for successes of the whole affair from a Greek viewpoint.
They will have returned sea- porless, ragged and semi-starv ed with tales of avalanches rocks which were dynamited over them from heights above)
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The district north of the Soochow Creek in! Shanghai was thrown into a turmoil again yes- terday morning when a man, believed to be a high ranking Japanese Army official, was shot.
The would-be assassin, whose identity is reported to be known to the Japanese authorities, es- caped immediately after firing several shots at the officer.
All bridges leading into the Japanese-occupied sector were closed and all traffic was inter- rupted for över half an hour. Strict searches were conducted by Japanese gendarmerie and Japan- esc Naval Landing Party patrols. Details of the attack. re lacking, while the Japanese de cline to reveal the identity of the victim
This is the ninth "shoot-up" to occur in the last month and a half in the Shanghai area under Japanese control.
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The, victim is lying in a grave condition in the Japanese. mili- |tary hospital where he was taken
after the shooting. —— Havas.
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RESIGNATION OF DECOUX DENIED
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL'S The Hanol authorities, officially deny Japanese-reports, that "Ad-. miral Jean De Coux, Governor- General of Indo-China, has ten- dered his resignation.
They stress that this report is utterly groundless "as well as all comments which may accompany It.”—Hayas,
M. COSME GOES TO CHENGTU
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA, MAILD M. Henri Cosme, French Am- bassador to China, who has, been In Chungking for the last few
weeks, has gone to Chengtu for a
STOP PRESS
Hitler once said "Battle- ships are an antiquated wed pon; they will remain outside on the fringe of the war that is to come,' and yet battle- ships prevent Germany from invading England, comments the Athens newspaper "Neos Kosmos."
Battleships secure to Bri- tain transport of the means of wr from the four corners of the globe, the paper con- tinues.
Battleships play a principal part in the Battle of the Mediterranean, which is so decisive, for the Axis.
Hitler's calculations have, therefore, proved false in his basic theory about the carrying on of war, and this is an event of huge import- ance. - Reuter.
The bus service between Macau and. Shek-ki was re- sumed yesterday." The safe arrival of three buses which left for Shek-ki is yet not "eorirmed:Our Own Cor-
respondent.
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