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Marshal Badoglio, de- posed commander of Italy's armed forces, yes- terday paid Mussolini a farewell visit and they had "a cordial talk," according to the official Italian news agency..
Mussolini has posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of Mili- tary Valour to Marshal Balbo,
Announcing the award, Musso- lini speaks of Marshal Balbo as "the faithful soldier of the Duce" who made the supreme sacrifice of his heroic life while preparing to hurl his gallant troops and powerful air squadrons across the frontier."-Reuter.
RUMANIA OROPS BLOOD-HUNT
The Rumanian com- mission of enquiry into the "crimes com- mitted against the Iron Guard" during the previous 'regime has been dissolved because "all instiga- tors of these crimes are either dead or have fled the coun- try," stated a Buchar- est despatch to the official German news agency yesterday.
Large-Scale Operations Started Round Sidi Barrani
THE BRITISH IMPERIAL FORCES IN THE WESTERN DESERT OF EGYPT YESTERDAY BEGAN OPERATIONS ON A SCALE LARGER THAN ANY YET INITIATED IN AFRICA SINCE THE START OF THE WAR, IT WAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED IN CAIRO LAST EVENING.
Our troops were directed mainly against the Italians right flank, along the top of the escarpment some 15 or 20 miles south of Sidi Barrani, Marshal Graziani's advanced base on the coast some 40 miles inside the Egyptian border.
Little can be said at present about the ex- BRAZILIAN tent to which the operations may develop but it is known that for the past few weeks the whole of the enemy's forward line has been constantly probed by British armoured units
Last of the men against whom the commission had pro- 'ceeded were massacr- ed by Iron Guard-ex- tremists in Jiliva Pri-making repeated sorties. son a fortnight ago. -Reuter.
GERMANY AND THE GREEK WAR BRITISH
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conflict as soon pos- sible, wrote the Rome correspondent of the Yugoslav newspaper "Pa- litika" yesterday.
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The decision may be regarded as an extremely friendly gesture by Brazil to Britain:
if our forward units are able to communique issued by G.HQ. in ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY, capture positions commanding Cairo last night. the escarpment they will be able to threaten the body of the Ita- lian army entrenched in the coastal belt.
Following the Italian debacle in Albania. it is evident that the moment has been well to make Graziani fight.
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In Initial Stage The operation is still in would initial stage and it premature to discuss the ultimate possibilities of yesterday's cessful engagement in full,
Nevertheless it is permissable to wonder what would be the
effect of an Italian defeat at the present moment in this theatre.
of the war on Italy's war effort.
Reuter in London last night|| learned that the Western De- sert operation is "of some im-- portance," but that the full de-
A pilot officer of the The correspondent adds, how-R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve ever, that Rome newspapers con- tinue to insist, that the Italians who had already gained will themselves liquidate "the the D.F.C. and bar since war against England now, being September last receives
Another Rome correspondent the D.S.O. in the latest tails have not yet been received declares "the problem of even-list of R.A.F. awards.' even
waged on the Greek front."
come into question."Reuter...
#tual German help has not
BRITAIN'S BALANCE SHEET
SIR FREDERICK PHILLIPS, UNDER-SECRETARY IN THE BRITISH TREASURY, CANGEL- LED THE APPOINTMENT, AT THE UNITED STATES TREA SURY IN WASHINGTON WHICH HE HAD MADE FOR YESTER¬ DAY.
in London.
500 Prisoners Täken He is S. E. Lock, whose latest exploit in destroying two Mes- So far the only communiques serschmidt, 109's in action with on the developments have been his squadron against superior issued in Cairo; the communique forces has brought his total suc- says a bag of 500 Itallan pri cess to 22.
soners has been secured by the When Lock gained the D.F.C. British In operations In the it was stated he had destroyed Western Desert. eight enemy, aircraft within a week,
The prisoners, says the com- munique, were taken in an engagement south of Sidi Bar- rani,
The bar to the D.F.C.ro sulted from a patrol action in the Dover area where he Advance elements of the Bri- dhonged three. Heinkof. 118' tish forces, states, our G.HQ., shooting one down and de- are now in contact with the stroying a Henschel 12 imme-Italians on "a broad front." diately afterwards."
In the Sudan, British :: patróls continued extensive activities in
Over ·400 prisoners have already been captured in one пуса.
This is the first visible outcome of the Willingdon Mission's visit The general officer command- to Brazil, and shows the sym- ing one of the.. Italian forces pathy which, one of the largest engaged has been killed and his South American nations feels for second in command captured. Britain in her struggle against Reuter.
the Dictators.-Reuter.
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