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MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1940
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SECOND ED
INSIST ON
Daisy Brand
Australia's Choices. BUTTER
ARTILLERY POUNDING BESIEGED BARDIA
Tanks Destroying
Lord Halifax Forecasts Accurate
Conforming to forecasts, an official an- nouncement issued in London last night con- firmed the appointment of Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, as British Ambassador in Washington in succession to the late Lord Lothian.
Lord Halifax is succeeded at the Foreign Office by Mr. Anthony Eden, at present Secre- tary for War, who thus returns to the post he held under Mr. Chamberlain which he resigned as a protest against the appeasement of Italy policy. Reuter.
Points Of Resistance
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SLOWLY AND METHODICALLY, BRITISH MECHANISED FORCES ENGAGED IN THE OPERATIONS ROUND BESIEGED BARDIA ARE DESTROYING ODD POCKETS OF RE- SISTANCE IN THE RING OF DEFENCES, IN PREPARATION FOR THE COUP DE GRACE.
Bordia's defenders are being steadily bat- tered by relays of aircraft, and are under con- stant bombardment from British artillery, backed up by the heavy guns of naval units
PETAIN TO TAKE
TAKE standing out to sea. NO MILITARY INITIATIVE
"IF MARSHAL PETAIN is determined to take no military initiative against anyone he is also de- termined to preserve for France what she has ac- quired from pain," declared French Minister for Air, in a broadcast from Beirut reported by the French news agency yesterday.
GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE!
General Bergeret,
General Bergeret said he would be able to report very favourably to Marshal Petain, following his inspection of the French air force in Syria and Lebanon.
In the meantime, the troops round Bardia are being steadily reinforced although there is indication that the final assault on the Italian stronghold is imminent. Scores of additional prisoners are being taken as the armour- ed units isolate and destroy pointe in the Italian pillbox system in their constant forays against the line, facling for the weaker points. Simultaneously, other units are operating to the west of Bardia that Graziant is making sure unable to reinforce the garrison of Bardia, estimated at about 35.000 men, nor come to its re- lief.
Cairo Communique · British H.Q. in Cairo, announc- "Men of Syria and Lebanon, [ing yesterday that Bardia is now I can assure you that in spite completely invested, added (says of his preoccupations in Europe the Marshal is not forgetting any territory where the French
flag waves.
Reuter):
A further seven guns from frontier post we recently occupied have now been collected.
The situation on other fronts is
"You tan have confidence in the Marshal and he has confidence "unchanged." in you."Reuter.
Almighty God has call- NIGHT
ed on Germany to lead the way to a purer and better world — sq Herr Frank, Nazi Governor- General of Poland, told an audience
Krakov dur-
RAIDS OVER
Some of the thousands of pri- soners taken In the Western Desert have been sent to Pales- tine, where they are being put in a special camp in the Central Judeaen Plain.
Some 2,000 arrived on Saturday.
MORE NAZI
fing a Christmas over WIDE AREA TROOPS IN
Enemy air activity over RUMANIA
tion.
celebra-
GERMÁN - TROOPS OF
SOVIET
PROTEST
RUMANIA
IN
SUBMARINE
SWORDFISH O QUE
The British sub- marine Swordfish (Lt. M. A. Langley) is over- due and must be con- sidered lost, according to on. Admiralty com- munique issued in London yesterday says Reuter.
U.S. NAVAL ORDERS
A PROTEST AGAINST THE The United States Navy has ANTI-SOVIET CAMPAIGN IN placed orders totalling approx!- RUMANIA AND AGAINST DES- mately $284,000,000 for submarine CRIBING ARRESTED PERSONS chasers and auxiliaries, including AS COMMUNISTS "WHEN four vessels designed fq. placing THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO submarine nets at the entrance WITH THE COMMUNIST of strategic harbours, it was an- MOVEMENT" IS REPORTED TO │nounced in Washington yester HAVE BEEN LODGED BY THE day. --- Reuter. SOVIET MINISTER IN PUCII- AREST, M. LAVRENTIEFF.
The Minister was reported in Belgrade yesterday to have stat: aed that Rumania's actions" were
This Christmas tree" he said, Britain during the day- NEW DETACHMENTS OF "brings us a sacred message that
"IN- the German nation has been calls light hours yesterday was GTRUCTION HAVE ARRIVED ed upon to establish peace in very small but after dark-AT TIMISOARA, IN RUMANIA, Europe through Adolf Hitler's vice
ness were reported from DURING THE WEEK, ACCORD
ING TO A BUCHAREST NEWS- ›tory.
highest good,' the great several districts, includ- PAPER REPORT TO THE ITA-
northern towns, LIAN NEWS AGENCY, YESTER DAY. cast Midland The report
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Reuter. they should cease.
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