BEHIND OFFENSIVE IN EGYPT
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No. 92,013
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940
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SECOND ED
INSIST ON
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Australia's Choices.
BUTTER
ITALIAN DIVISIONS AT SIDI BARRANI CUT OFF British Forces Smash Through To
Coast In 24 Hours
SIXTEEN MILLIONS A DAY LAST WEEK
Britain. last week spent the record sum of nearly £16,000,- 000 a day.
This figure is dis- closed by Exchequer returns for last week, issued in London yes- terday, showing total ordinary expenditure at £110 millions and total ordinary re- venue at £23 millions.
-Reuter.
WEDGE DRIVEN IN GRAZIANI'S ARMY
SMASHING THROUGH THE ITALIAN LINES IN THE WESTERN DESERT, BRITISH ARMOURED UNITS WERE REPORTED IN CAIRO LAST NIGHT TO HAVE CUT OFF PART OF TWO ITALIAN DIVISIONS AT SIDI BARRANI.
Less than 36 hours after launching the surprise attack on a 30-mile front at dawn on Monday the British forces had reached the coast between Sidi Barrani and Bugbug.
As the attack developed British aircraft cease- lessly hammered Italian communications to check the movement of reinforcements.
During the night of Sunday British naval units
BRITAIN'S
successfully bombarded Maktila Camp and Sidi BALANCE
Barrani in support of the operations, stated a naval communique issued in Cairo.
In their swift thrust to the coast the British. troops have driven a wedge between the Libyan
SHEET
INVASION PORT FIRES STILL ABLAZE
Fires started by the forces holding Sidi Barrani and divisions sup High officials of the R.A.F. at French invasion
**********00000000.| porting them further west.
BRITAIN CANNOT LOSE THE WAR
“BRITAIN CANNOT lose the war unless we are guilty of wavering on the road to vic- tory," said Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio, speaking in London last evening.
"I do not say victory is round the corner," 'Mr. Greenwood added, "but I do say un-
hesitatingly that Germany cannot win.
United
States defence
yesterday.
The area occupied by the and fiscal departments were still blazing fiercely ports on Monday night. enemy forms, roughly speaking. an equilateral triangle the points of which are Sidi Barrani and the Italian camps at Maktila, 15 miles to the west along the coast, and Nibeiwa, 15 miles due south of Sidi Barrani.
have been summoned to the Treasury to meet the In the morning, the haze over Secretary, Mr. Henry Mor-mid-Channel glowed red but lat- genthau.
er, when the day was slightly old- er, great flames and columns of French He will tell them the facts.con smoke rising from the - Nibelwa Camp was the cerning Britain's financial re- coast made a spectacular sight. position captured by the Bri- sources which have been given by The fires appeared to be worst tish early on Monday morn- Sir Frederick Phillips, the British in and around Calais Reuter, Ing, when 500 prisoners were
taken.
Naval Bombardment
While the Royal Navy bom-
barded one side of the triangle, armoured units, supported by
Infantry, attacked the o.her two sides.
Acting in close cooperation, the R.A.F. ronged continuous- ly over the whole area, bomb- Ing Italian posto, destroying mechanised strangport and breaking up troop formations. "Our naval power to-day is
Many tons of bombs were relatively greater than any other
dropped by British 'planes, period of the war. Our air
which varied their. tactics by strength grows day by day...
and diving low
carrying out Our new armies are steadily machine-gun attacks on enemy growing in numbers, equipment, troops. efficiency and striking power. The RAF's onslaught in sup- "Our industrial power in rela- port of the British drive un- tion to war production continues doubtedly accounts for the ab- to expand,
A sence of Italian raids on Alex- "The moral power of our peo-andria during recent moonlight Some of the achieve-ple has never been higher than nights, ments of Britain's anti-to-day after the most severe test- Evidently the Italians needed ing to which any nation has ever every available aircraft to meet aircraft defences are re- been subjected.
the R.A.F
AWARDS TO A.A. MEN
incing
by the War Office yesterday
Enemies Puzzled
Meticulous Preparation awards of the O.B.E-and. “Our enemies are puzzled and Months of meticulous prépara-| M.C.
angered that a people whom they tion behind the lines preceded had been led to believe were the present action against Mar The O.BE. goes to Lt. Col- Nor- decadent and devoid of vigorous shal Graziani's army, the ... bulle man Vause Sadler, commander of qualities, attacked by the so- of which appears to be stationed -the anti-aircraft defences of Dov- | called" dynamic young nations, In the region, round Sollum, 2 brid East Kent, which have shot, should have been uble not only where the frontlers of Egypt and "down no fewer than 90 enemy successfully to withstand savage | Libya meet.es
planes during the last five months. and unbridled terrorism far be All branches of the British The M.C. is awarded to 2/Lt. yond what sumeed to bring other forces in the Middle East, cx- Pafflald Valon Bennet, whose nations rapidly to their knees but tending for 400 miles into the honyy, anti-aircraft section of the at the same time to counter with derert from GH.Qat "Royal Artillery brought, down 12 hard, shrewd · and staggering | are "perfectly co-o fed, enemy pinnes during the last four blows that inflict great and grow.
ing injury to our foes.Reuter, [Continued on Pago" 10).
montha Reuter
Treasury envoy.
It is understood that during
their two-hour conversation ated a balanced statement of Bri- Mr. Morgenthau's home on Mon-tain's resources and costs of sup- | day night, Sir Frederick present-ply-Reuter,
HAVE AN H. B.-
HIR
AND THEN TRY!