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Australia's Choices.
BUTTER
INFANTRY MOVING
UP FOR THE BIG
BIG PUSH
Hitler Planning Mid-February Invasion
Mr. Alfred Landon, Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1936, declared on return- ing to Topeka, Kansas, yesterday from a visit to Washington that he had been advised "by reliable official sources that Hitler is planning to invade Britain about the middle of Febru- ary."
Mr. Landon said he found o "definitely dis- turbed feeling" in Administration /circles over the failure to co-ordinate American defence oc- tivities. Reuter.
GRIM DEATH FOR
WOMAN
BATTLE FOR BARDIA
Very severe fighting is raging round the Libyan port of Bardia, according to latest reports received in Cairo last night.
ine-
.After battering their way across the desert British advance chanised units are carrying out a formidable attack on the peri- meter defences of the port.
Advanced forces of British infantry are following up the mechanised units, while lorry- , loads of stores and ammunition
bring up the rear.
"Rush" tactics were employed in the British, attack. on three frontier forts whose capture was announced in yesterday's British communique,
The three forts in question are all on the Libyan side of the frontier.-Reuter.
Unflagging Speed
TRAITOR
Final Stages Of Assault On Sollum
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent in the Western
Desert, Now in Sollum).
BRITISH INFANTRY WERE YESTERDAY PREPARING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BIG PUSH ACROSS THE FRONTIER INTO LIBYA — THEY WEREWEARY BUT TRIUMPHANT WHEN THEY OCCUPIED SOLLUM ON MONDAY AFTER DAYS OF CHASING THE ITALIANS RIGHT OUT OF EGYPTIAN TERRITORY;
Sollum is only a tiny port, surrounded by
a fow white houses. Above the port is Upper ROOSEVELT
Sollum, main feature of which is a large bar- racks belonging to the Egyptian army but long
ago blown to pieces by British bombardments
while the Italians were in occupation.
PLAN OF
With a little group of British correspondents AID TO
and one American, I have spent the last few days watching the final stages of our assault on Sollum, the tactics for which were just as well thought out as those at other points in the present campaign.
Sollum was first imperilled a completed on Monday at Bug Bug, week ugo when the British where over 12,000 have already armoured division, after dealing been fed and watered before pass- A woman was sentenc-| with a whole series of other ob- ing on. -~ Reuter. ed to death for treachery Bug Bug from Sidi Barrani so jectives, came smashing through yesterday at Winchester- quickly that the whole Catanzaro the first such sentence to Division, under General Giuseppe Amiru, which had been happily be announced as passed en route to Sidi Barrani on nor- on a woman since the out-mal relief duty, believing the war was miles away, was taken com- break of war.
pletely by surprise.
She is Dorothy Pamela O'Grady, 42 years old.
Charges on which she was found guilty were that in the Isle of Wight she made a plan likely of the enemy, and that with the object of helping the enemy she
to assist the military operations
cut a military telephone wire.
The cast was heard in camera and the court was open to the public only on the pronounce. ment of sentence,
Division Taken Prisoner Majority of its men were taken prisoner and nearly all its ma
strewn along the terial was left
sides of the road.
These British tanks swept up on Sollum while others were coming up across the escarp^. ment from the interior,
A hail of fire was poured into the defenders of Sollim by the British tanks, while the R.A.F. continued their incessant bomb-
O'Grady, a short, dark, bespec- tacled woman, showed no emotion ings. when the judge passed sentence. A slight check to the British
Reuter.
BRITAIN'S HOSPITALS CARRY ON
forces occurred when some of the tanks became bogged In salt fluids outside Sollum hut this old not. seriously hamper our offensive operations. The British tanks dashed on to occupy coastal territory beyond Bardia, 30 miles or more inside Libya,
Sollum Contained
HIS MAJESTY' THE KING
While they did so, an infantry YESTERDAY EXPRESSED HIS ADMIRATION FOR THE WAY brigade moved up with instruc- IN WHICH . HOSPITALS
tions not to attack 'Sollum direct- ALL
it, letting no- OVER THE COUNTRY ARE y but to contain British advanced mechanised CARRYING ON DURING THE body escape.
By Sunday, the defenders of
**
units are continuing to
speed...
advance
Behind them, and trying to keep up with them, is con- tinuous stream of infantry; many in captured lorries and
AIR-RAIDS.
towards Bardla with undingging 3" This mesinge was read, at the Sollum, alarmed at their pre- annual meeting of the King Ed-carlous position, had moved up to ward Hospital Fund by the Duke the top of the escarpment, blow- of Kent, who said that the grantsing up the roact lending from raade by the Fund constituted a Lower to Upper Sallum: record
The British Infantry pressed. In on Söllum despite fire from the escarpment and occupied. Lower Bolfum without heavy
tica
The total amount, distributed Free French forces, which came to more than £10,000,000. are Fight in the front line, are. Router.. giving valuibia_support to thời
Imperial, troops. They showed, British, months..of hard training. preat courage and dash in the have produced a splendid fight- final, onslaught against Søllum.ing unit, The French are work Although the French army tac-ing in excellently with their Bri
ery different from the 'tish comrades-Reuter,
casualties by Monday morning, and by the same afternoon the Italiana on the ecoarpment had olven up. MAN All arrangements to receive the fresh prisoners from Sollum were
BRITAIN
A plan to lease or mort- gage war material to Bri- tain was outlined by Pre- (Continued from next Column.sident Roosevelt at his
States might take over future British orders for armament, in press conference yester- lease or mortgage them to Eriday.
the
United Stātes and...then
tain on their completion,
The President declared the plan After the war Britain would re- would aid "Britain and
at the turn the supplies if they were in same time strengthen. United
States defence, good condition or replace them.
The President gave an empha- He expected to submit the plan tie negative to a question whether or a similar one to the new Con- the plan would be "more likely gress on January 3. to involve the United States in the war."
Reuter.
HAVE
Under the plan the United (Continued at foot of Preceding Col.)
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AND THEN TRY!