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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 10, 1940.
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STIFFER ITALIAN RESISTANCE
Greeks Advancing Cautiously Against The Flanks
Bayonet Charges
Battle For Argyrokastron
In
TOWARDS
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent in Greece) THE GREEKS ARE ADVANCING CAUTIOUSLY CHIMARRA, 22 MILES WEST OF ARGYROKASTRON, ON THE COAST BETWEEN SANTI QUARANTA AND VALONA, IT WAS STATED IN ATHENS LAST EVENING.
GREEK LOSSES SMALL
The movement threatens the flank of the Italians who are withdrawing northward from Santi Quaranta.
Reports received in Athens indicate that the Italian rearguards are stubbornly resist- ing the Greek push and are employing tactics designed to draw on small detachments of Greeks which would be vulnerable to counter- attack,
Argyrokastron, whose capture by the Greeks was officially announced on A cavalry screen has Sunday, has only been been thrown out by the slightly damaged and the Greeks in order to counter Greeks have taken large this plan.
quantities of Italian Biter fighting is raging in equipment there.
the centre of the present 80- mella latter front where Italion resistance is reported as being very fierce,
A correspondent who entered the town on the heels of the Greek infantry troops says that Ina.cation of the actual situa- earlier reports describing the town tion, however, is seen in orders as almost completely devastated found in the by fire are greatly exaggerated.
possession of an Italian officer captured at Pre- Greek losses in the operations meti, instructing him to shoot leading up to the fall of Argyro-any Italian who kastron have been small, he re-retired." ports.
One expedient forced on the J'a'lang was the use of tanks to * project their retreating troops,
but even this was unsuccessful against the courage and tenacity
of the Greske,
The Greeks are not resting on the laurels and the latest re- porta state that they are main- taining-contact with-the retreat-"! ing ItaFans and continually haras- sing them. Reuter.
"AUSTRIANS ARE NOT ENEMIES"
"Pinpricks" because she is an enamy subject — although "Aus- trians are not your enemies" →→→ wore referred to in two long mess- ages written by Felicy Anny Will- heim, а twenty-seven-year old Ausulan woman, accused at Mai- denhead, Berks, of trying to coni- mit suicide by gassing herself.
in one passage Willhelm
nerves are at
If I were
wrote: "My
breaking point.
EXECUTION
IN BORDEAUX
Lieutenant R. B... Wood, RN.V.R., and his bride, Miss Isa- bella Joan Scath, daughter of Mr. W. P. Seath of the Talkoo Sugar Refinery, photographed after their wedding at St. John's Cathedral yesterday. (King's Studio).
CONSTABLE
CHARGED
A police constable was charged the Chief Constable. 'He dénifdd under the Defence Regulations at all knowledge of the theft, but Portsmouth with stealing a fur after a visit to his home he made cape from premises damaged by a signed statement admitting the enemy action;
offences.
The Chief Constable sald fura He is Arthur Elmar Beeson, ther inquiries had to be made. The German-controlled Police, living at Lennox Man on remand in the same case it twenty-three, of Portsmouth and as another pollecitati: was "unnecessarily Paris Radio yesterday an- sions, Clarence Road, Southsea would be more convenient for
nounced that a French Deputy Chief:
Superintendent WN Wilson both men to appear togeter"
Constables sald Beeson was-remanded in cus wine-merchant had been that Beeson was questioned by tody. Details only just available of
executed at Bordeaux for the Greek capture of Argyrokas-"committing an act of tron show that the success was violence against a member achieved only after hard fighting in the suburbs of the town during of the German armed the night.
Hard-Fighting.
Finally a bayonet charge by the Greeks. In the early hours
forces."
of the morning, dislodged the deations
This is the latest of many in- Itallang from their positions and stations of the extent of the re- from French wireless- bedraggled, weary, and telum-sistance to the Germans in occu- chant, the Greeks staped a vic-pied France, tory march through. the town
during a heavy downpour.. of spoke of the secret printing places Lyons Radio yesterday aguin rain and sleet.
in Paris and 6f the wide-distribu- tion of patriotic pamphlets
Many advance detachments of food and In Argyrokastron it was Greeks are not well supplied with found that the Italians had des troyed food and ammunition.
Much war material, however, was left intact.
Meanwhile all Greece has been celebrating this latest victory.
Resurrection Kiss
Easter Sunday morning.
boen
In Epirus, people have to walt perhaps I would see Ausgiving each other the "Resurrec- tria again free. I wish you viestien Kiss.", usually reserved for tory. I am not your enemy," " It was stated that Willheim, a journalist in her own country and how working as a domestic ser- vant, came to Britain in February,
1939.
In bomb-scarred Salonika peo- ple gathered in the blacked-out streets singing patriotic songs.
There were shouts of "The -Dedecanese" and women" cried She was put on probation for "Inio the sen with the Macaron- twelve months and allowed to re-ides." Reuter, sume her employinem. al. Cook- ham, Berks,
PUT FLEX IN MOUTH, PORTER AS MIDWIFE'
KILLED
ON PLATFORM
The German 'press and radio spoke of the "foolishness of re sistance" and again went for the students of Paris (who, it will be! recalled, staged a riot on Armis- tile Day.)
These studenta form a useful scapegoat for the Nazis who can abuse them without admitting the wide-spread nature of the anti-German. and anti-Vichy sentiment in France, — Reuter.
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Ababy pushed a steel pin into A young porter and a station the flex of an electric kettle, inspector acted as "midwives then put the flex into her mouth when, a baby was born to Mrs. and was elettrocuteth
That was the theory at the in Ilford, Essex, on the pattforment OF quest at Biggleswade Beds, on Ilford St5tion: Barbara Franceses Tucker, aged Mrs Bruce had just boardeden twenty-one-months;»-dnúghtøfo.of train for Shaffield when she pull canteast Endwu-wharf: supepinton- jele-the communication cord.
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The correspondent adds that the A National Bank of Rumania has The child had been evacuated girl was born. n.
few minutod » later her; háby,v.nordered a new printing press from/ to 'Biggleswade with her mother, Aftensha had received atten- try's technical capacity for print.
Germany to increase the coun tion she was taken to hospital ing notes as the present capacity In an ambulance, and the por- of 90: million ·lel daily "is insuf- tor carrying the baby wrapped ficient to meet new extraordinary In a teacloth, followed her. expensca duo to the territorial quakes and the German occupu- Mother and baby are doing well, amputations, the recent earth-
tion-Reuter.
It was stated that the steel pin was found near the child. From the marks on her hands and lips it was assumed that she placed the pin into the end of the lead
and put it to her mouth, thus. The porter was too bashful to completing the circuit.
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