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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 5, 1840
TROUBLED NAZI
NAZI WATERS
R.A.F. Attacks On Oil Stores And Refineries
GIVE BRITAIN ALL MONEY THEY WANT--MR. FORD
Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview in De- troit yesterday, said that if Britain needed money he was in favour of "giving them all they want.
Mr. Ford added: "It will end the war in a hurry. We did it be- fore and might as well do it again." Reuter.
ITALIAN 'PLANES SHOT DOWN
Further R.A.F. suc- cesses over Albania were! announced in Cairo yes- terday.
Reports received confirm that in addition to two aircraft destroyed by R.A.F. fighters and bombers formations in Albania on Monday, two other enemy aircraft were also destroyed,
In Italian East Africa, Kas- sala was heavily bombed, Bombs were dropped on enemy forti fled positions and a motor tran- sport park was straddled. British aircraft also machine- gunned transport and enemy per- sonnel-Reuter.
Vital Factor In Result Of War
IF GERMANY RUNS short of oil she must stop fighting. It is with this belief uppermost in mind that the R.A.F. shapes its operations. And the R.A.F. know a trick worth two of bombing oil wells.
What this trick is was explained, among other things, by the_Minister of Economic Warfare, Mr. Hugh Dalton, at a press ference in London yesterday.
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The British blockade, said Mr. Dalton, is working well and the enemy is growing un- comfortably short of certain commodities.
Oil, rubber and copper looted by Germany from occupied terri- tories is now exhausted and Ger- many is back where she was six months ago,
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sald that as crude oil was not very. Inflammable, it was non sense to suggest bombing the Rumanian oll wells.
Rather wait until Germany had spent labour and time refining and transporting it, and then bomb it,
Italy First
The safety margin of all in Germany
been has not yet touched but she is using more oil than she is producing as a result of R.A.F, attacks on sup-
Italy would feel the pinch even plies, storage and the transport system, and disappointing sup- before Germany, said Mr. Dalton. plies are obtained from Russia, because she had no synthetic oil Mr. Dalton said he recommend-plant and there was little doubt her supplies were growing short ed targets in Germany to the Air and she had to get replenishment Ministry and always kept oil near from Germany. the head of the list.
Italian Target No. 1
In Italy, Bari had always been the R.A.F.'s number one, target, which was economically more im- pórtant than Milan or Turin, as the most important oll stocks in all Italy were kept there..
Speaking of the difficulty of transporting the Rumanian oll surplus to Germany, Mr. Dalton
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Mr. Dalton would like to see in- creasing mobilisation of the serves of United States produc- tion set aside for Britain and the Allies, and
has added: "There been an exchange of views with the United States on the matter."
Reuter.
U.S. AIRCRAFT
AROUSE R.A.F. ENTHUSIASM
An American-built air- craft took the photographs of damaged Italian war- ships at Taranto.
This was officially disclosed last night in a story which stated that the R.A.F. are enthusiastic about the performance of United States aircraft they are now using..
These have fought their way successfully through, many operations, particularly in the Middle East,
It is stated the R.A.F. have. come to regard with real affection 'the Lockheed Hudsons, which are proving such a valuable aid to Britain's Coastal Command, and have taken part in hundreds of bombing raids from Norway to the Bay of Biscay, Reuter.
DEATH SENTENCES
NINE FOLES HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH AT POZNAN, IN GERMAN-OCCU- PIED POLAND, THE GERMAN WIRELESS STATED YESTER- DAY.-
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With 29 athers they were charged with committing acts of violence against the Germans. “
The remainder were sen-. tenced to long terms of hard la- bour and imprisonment Reuter.
PATROLS ACTIVE ROUND KASSALA
British patrols were again oc- tive to the north and south "of Kassala inflicting, casualties on the enemy without loss to-them- selves, stated yesterday's GHQ, communique in Cairo.. There is no chango in the situation on other fronts, adds the communique. — Reutor.
STOP PRESS
A suggestion that ex-King Carol's life is in some jeo- pardy is conveyed in reports from the Spanish frontier.". There is evidence that three, Iron Guards recently left Ru- mania for Spain. Reuter.
Greek troops on the nor- thern Albanian front who have advanced far from their bases are now meeting with some difficulty in obtaining- supplies. All was quiet on the Albanian-Yugoslav front- tier yesterday, says Reuter's special correspondent there.
The terrain is terribly dif→ ficult and the roads almost impassable owing to heavy snow. Two Italians and three Albanians surrendered to the Yugoslav authorities yesterday morning.
The Italians stated the morale of their comrades was falling, while the Albanians alleged the
Italian troops
of -Albania:
were terrorising the elvil population Reuter.
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