THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 16, 1940.
DESERT FIGHTING IN WHIRLING SANDSTORM
FASCIST REGIME DOOMED?
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL",
Count Carlo Sforza, former Italian Foreign Minister, who led the last legal anti-Fascist forces in Italy, told Internation- al News in an exclusive interview yesterday that Italians are becoming "ra- pidly disgusted with de- magogues and
miracle
makers" and frantically seek means of escaping German domination.
The Italian defeats in Albania and Egypt and the growing un- rest in Italy, have brought to the forefront the name of Sforza, who is a close friend of leaders in all Democratic countries.
THEFT OF HOSPITAL
Armoured Units Pressing Hard On BLANKET
Heels Of Italians
(From Reuter's Special Correspondent in Cairo)
Lai Wing, 45, was charged be fore Mr. G. T. Lowry, this morn- ing, with stealing a blanket from the Queen Mary Hospital in Nov- ember last year.
The blanket was found in the possession of a Chinese merchant who stated that he bought it for from defendant, who Was
HARD FIGHTING IS STILL IN PROGRESS ON THE EGYPTIAN- Working in the Queen Mary Hos LIBYAN FRONTIER IN A WHIRLING SANDSTORM, ACCORD-pital as a ward coolie. ING TO LATEST REPORTS RECEIVED IN CAIRO LAST EVEN- hospital since 1935. ING.
Exact details of operations are as yet not available but British casualties are still known to be very slight, despite determined major scrapping.
The R.A.F. continues to batter Sollum bar-
rocks, proving that in this area at least Italian troops are still on Egyptian soil.
The British forward mechan- ised columns are putting up a magnificent show. thrusting at the enemy positions at many points along the frontier wire and inflicting serious casualties on the defending Italian forces.
The indefatigable
In his rare interview yesterday, Count Sforza expressed contempt of the Fascist system which out which our tanks
manner in and armoured lawed opposition partles in 1926, cars and lorries have been push- and said he was confident Italying on more than 100 miles day would soon have a new regime, and night for a week reveals due to public pressure. Inter-
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efforts made behind the scenes by the main- enance corps during preparations for the offensive.
HENNESSY ROAD BURGLARY
Clockwork Precision
Apart from brief halts at the dead of night, to perform odd maintenance jobs
At the same time the R.A.F is continuing to plaster enemy aerodromes and concentrations In the far corners of Libya day and night.
Pilots are still working cease- lessly, pausing only to refuel and reload bombs before taking off again for the battlefield,
Army personnel in Cairo un- animously declare that a great part of the success of the entire is due to Air Chief operations Marsha! Sir Arthur Longmore's well - calculated and consistent plans for bombing the enemy's aerodromes from the start of the
prevent
offensive, in order to Italian 'planes taking off.
Prisoner Problem Yung Kel-han, of No. 235, Hen-
The disposal and accommoda- nessy Road, has reported that a
often in tion of prisoners from the battle thief entered his residence last disused Italian camps -the Bri-area is à task in itself. Many of night and stolen money and jewel-fish mechanised forces are rolling those arriving in Cairo are being lery' to the value of $94.
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sent to prison camps in the Nile Delta.
Three Italian generals who have arrived in Alexandria in British warships arc now cuperating in the Spa Hotel,
It is belleved in Cairo that General Wavell's brilliantly ex- ecuted manoeuvre has seriously affected the resources of the en-- tire Italian army in Libya. -- Reuter.
AMERICAN HOMAGE TO LORD LOTHIAN
Funeral services for the late Lord Lothian, British Ambassador in Washing- ton, were held with full military honours in Wash-
Defendant had been 'with the His salary was $16 month.
A fine of $50, or six
weeks' hard labour, was imposed.
STOP PRESS
An emergency meeting has been summoned for to-morrow evening by the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Chinese General Chamber of Com- merce to discuss the con- ditions prevailing in the
rice market.
The prefix "special" to telegrams in Lised by the "Sunday Herald" and "China Mal" to indicate: news which is strictly copyright under the provi sjons of the Teiscommunicatione: Or dinance, 1936, 'and may not be reprint-
ington Cathedral yester WEATHER FORECAST North ad under any circumstances, olther
day afternoon.
United States cavalry escorted the caisson bearing the body, from the Embassy to the Cathedral through-avenues cleared of truf- fic by hundreds of police and lined. with sllant erowas.
· President Roosevelt, who is spending the week-end Warm Springs, Georgia, after his Carib- bean cruise, was represent at ervice by his seci ary, Mr.
-Early:
attended in per
Canada) and Mr.)
(Canadian)
presented.
* Members, of
|Corps and many. high
were present.
Diplomatic officials
a private cremation was held later in the afternoon at another service at a church. -- Reuter
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