THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 2, 1940.
ITALIAN ARMY CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO FIRES
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In Line Of Retreat
(From Reuter's Special Correspondent on the Yugoslav Frontier)
ITALIAN TROOPS ·RETREATING ALONG THE ELBASAN ROAD, IN THE EASTERN SECTOR OF THE ALBANIAN - FRONT, ARE NOW REPORTED TO BE CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
They are being energetically pursued by the Greeks who do not allow them time to take up new defensive positions, while facing them well-armed and organised bands of Albanians are said to be awaiting them in the vicinity of Elbasan.
These Albanians are headed by a well- known supporter of King Zog whose name I am at the moment unable to reveal.
(It was reported the
other day that an Al- banian patriotic leader had been dropped by parachute behind the Ita- lian lines in order to or- ganise an Albanian volt).
FIGHT THAT FUNK-
HOLE IDEA
"The great thing in my view is to resist any interruption. We are all in the battle, and a battle re-means struggling and fighting, not quietly submitting and going down to a funk hole every time some- one blows a whistle."
The action behind the Italian lines is developing rapidly and is believed to be assuming seri- ous proportions from the Italian point of view.
Albanian bands are greatly helping the Greeka in their penetration Into. Albania.
of
This is what the Recorder London, Sir Gerald Dodson, told an Old Bailey jury after refusing to interrupt a case when A.A. guns were heard in action.
The Recorder adjourned the So long is the Italian column Court to his room in the corri- retreating hastily towards. Eibador, where the case was. complet-
ed. san that it can be seen from a
During the last, war Sir Gerald great distance away, showing up clearly against the new-fallen was in the R.N.V.R. snow which abounds in this mountainous region.
That the retreat was prepar ed by the Italians in advance is shown by their previous with- drawal of military material from Podgradetz- (which is now. in Greek hands) as far as Mon- astir.
Considerable Advance
A considerable advance has been made all along the front, stated last night's Greek com- munique, according to Athens
radio,
The announcement added 'that positions of exceptional Importance for the develop
ment of operations have been captured.
BOMB FILLS
IN CRATER
A
heavy - calibre bomb dropped in a South-East London district by a German raider fell so close to a crater made in a pre- vious raid that the cra- ter was partly filled in with fresh debris.
The district has been revisited again and again, and seven bombs have fallen close together.
Extensive damage... was done in the last raid to dwellings and shops and to three public-houses.
GIRL, FOUR DAYS
UNDER DEBRIS, SAVED
..
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl, buried under the wreckage of a house for four days and four nights, mourned as dead, was rescued seven hours after her cries from the wreckage revealed she was still alive.
It was at night that a rending, crashing Ger- In the region of Premeti over man bomb visited the home in a south-west Lon- 150 prisoners have been taken and much war material has don district of Mildred Castillo, daughter of Dr. fallen into Greek hands. Reu-Richard Castillo.
ter.
SHOT BY UNLOADED
RIFLE
Men fighting to get through the flames and smoke and crum- bling masonry found the bodies of Mildred's mother and. MII- dred's little brother. Mildred's father, safe, Was laft to mourn.
The rescue work continued throughout the day and the night;
ON ACTIVE
SERVICE AT 83
While a squad of soldiers were/and hopes of ever finding Mildred. One of the oldest war workers
at rifle training exercise the cor- poral gave the order to fire and Rifleman Jeffery James, Whitney, through twenty, fell dead, shot the neck...
This story was told at an in
fnded. Another day passed, and in Britain is "Captain Joseph another.
Francis: Trezise; of Bristol,
As a boy he went to sea before. Then -- the fourth day after the mast, To-day, at the age of the tragedy -- three men trying eighty-three, he is still on active. to make order out of a shame service" though he now carries quest ht St, Pancras, Londonbles heard crles — faint and out, his duties on land: » NW. "An officer stated that “ifles should not have been brought loaded on parade,
Rifleman Harry Winch, who fired the shot, said that he had loaded his rifle at night to 20 on guard and later another rifle.. man borrowed the rifle for quard duty. When he return, ed the rifle, he told. Winch that the ammunition
Was
In his pouch.
piteous.
3 Men Volunteer
- Forty-one year's ngo he founded the Bristol City and Marine Am- bulance Corps, which did magni- ilcent work in the last war and The men, George Woodward, carries on the same tradition in Wally Capon, and G. W. Pitman, this one. volunteered to tunnel through the debris to rescue, Mildred:
After seven hours' work they got her out and she was taken fa hospital. There they say she has The inquest was adjourned for an excellent chance of recovery. a week to await the findings of Dr. Castillo, has Ucen staying the, military court of Inquiry.
with friends
MISSING MAN WRITES At their home a reporter was told "The doctor rushed to the Missing since June 20, a nine-hospital immediately he was told teen-year-old B.E.F, man, Private that Mildred was alive..
R. V L. Clements, of Burnett, Horney Common, Uckfield, Sus-
"He was astounded by the news
sex, his written to his parents: "I and at first could not believe that Lam, wall. Long llvo-England” it was true."
Spry as the youngest war worker in the city, Captain Tre zian zopervises all-the-financial side of the business. His first: year's Income was £20. Now be has to deal with more than 23,600, buy, new ambulancos takes his younger drivers, the and train new man aa the war
* Known in Bristol as "The man. who never takes a holiday, Cap- tain Trazise has not even had day off since the war started.
His wife drags him out of his cffce at 7,30 p.m., but even then he insists on taking his books to the dug-out to continue work during air-raid warnings,
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