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FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST ESTABLISHED 1845.
No. 92,039
MONDAY, JANÚARY 6, 1941
Price: 10 ct.
LATE FINAL
NIGHT
INSIST ON
Daisy Brand
Australia's Choices.
BUTTER
ALL RESISTANCE CEASES
Gen. Berganzoli And 25,000 Men Captured
BLANK CHEQUE FOR AID TOBRITAIN
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Washington officials yesterday disclosed that President Roosevelt plans to ask Congress to-day for blank cheque author- ity to handle a multi-bil-
U.S. NAVAL AIR
DISASTER
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"}
Eleven U.S. Navy airmen were killed when а naval tran- sport plane crashed in Q rainstorm in the mountains 35 miles south-east of San Diego, Cal., yesterday. -International News Service.
tion dollar lease or loan H.K. BORDER
British aid programme.
The 3,000-word message which the President was whipping into shape last night is awaited with the keepest anticipation since
MANOEUVRES
Président Woodrow Wilson's mes- MANOEUVRES WHICH ARE sage asking for a declaration of EXPECTED TO LAST THREE war in 1917.
THE JAPANESE AND CHINESE
Epic Termination Of Spectacular Siege FLYING
20-Day
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)
FORTRESS' RECORD
BRITISH AND IMPERIAL - TROOPS HAVE COMPLETED THE OCCUPATION OF BARDIA FOLLOWING THE SURRENDER OF THE BEATEN AND EXHAUSTED REM-(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") NANT OF THE ITALIAN GARRISON AND THE CAPTURE OF THE COMMANDER, GENERAL BERGANZOLI, WITH 25,000 SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS.
Seizure of the coastal base crowned with success a spectacular 20-day siege climaxed by 36 hours of air, land and sea blitzkrieg.
Huge quantities of munitions and sup- DAYS WERE STARTED BYplies were captured, including 50 light tanks. PUPPET FORCES, STATIONED The capture marks the NAMTAU, THIS MORNING, greatest British military ACCORDING TO REPORTS victory of the war, the of- ficial communique saying: The President's Message to-day will be supplemented on Wednes- Part of the manoeuvres are "All resistance in Bardia day by the annual Budget Mes-being staged along the coast near sage, which, it is learned authori-Namtau where landing operations ceased at 1 p.m. on Sun- tatively, will ask $10,000,000,000 and shore defence exercises in day."
President Roosevelt's intimates¦ predict he will ask for a British aid programme far in excess of any figure thus far speculated. Eventual outlay may reach $17,000,000.
BETWEEN SHAMCHUN AND
FROM THE BORDER.
for defence and will slash Relief the form of mimic and other non-defence activities being carried out. by a billion.
battles are
con-
A new U.S. Army "Fly- ing Fortress" yesterday durance flight at Dayton completed a non-stop en-
(Ohio) of 3,000 miles in 12 hours 55 minutes. The giant machine circled Ohio and Texas.
Patterson Field officers said the flight constitutes a new record for
big bombers,
The four-motored Boeing flew at 15,000 feet except when a storm forced it down to 6,000.-Interna- tional News Service.
Bardia Ablaze
MR. HOPKINS OFF Mussolini had ordered General Berganzoli to hold Bardia at all
BY CLIPPER costs but the general raised the (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") white flag rather than risk whole-
Mr. Harry Hopkins, President sale massacrę.
Roosevelt's personal envoy to Lon- Bardia is ablaze with many fires don, is leaving by Clipper for Bri- kindled by bombs and shells. tain to-day for a several weeks “General” Berganzoli and other
French. Marines, aided the cap-stay. International News Ser- corps commanders, including ture by holding, the westward vice. four senior generals, are pri- road and cutting off escape, Aus- soners," the communique added.tralian shock troops were con- WEATHER... · FORECAST: North- The Italian tricolour was lower- stantly in the van. Internation- east winds, moderate to fresh;
fair.
The Budget Message will also An unconfirmed report states recommend new taxes to raise an❘ that the Japanese have addition billion. International scripted Chinese villagers to worked at Government House and the al News Service. News Service.
on a seaplane base at Namtau.
LONDON WATCHERS DEFEAT THE FIRE RAIDERS
AN ENEMY RAIDER attacked East Anglia in daylight yesterday and dropped a few bombs which did a small amount of damage and injured a few people.
Elsewhere in East Anglia machine-gun attacks by single raiders were reported.
One plane dived to open Are cattle in a field, but the animals escaped, unhurt or
alert was sounded after 'dusk' in London last, evening:
As
Gunfire was heard, and haz- kets of incendiary bombs were dropped in one district. Heavy anti-aircraft fire greeted these early raiders,
Fire-watchers scored a signal success, during the Luftwaffe's "visit to London last night.
Not One Fire
Union Jack hoisted.
The surrender came as Aus- tralian infantry mopped up
the last resistance in the south-east corner of the fortified area.
VICHY ANNOYS NAZIS
The Wilhelmstrasse is very dissatisfied with thei resignation of Paul Bau- doin, Chief of the Prime Minister's Office in the Vichy Government, ac- cording to the Berlin cor- respondent of the Zúrich newspaper "La Suisse" yesterday.
When three successive waves The correspondent says his de- of raiders, dropped hundreds of parture is regarded as a sign of Incendiary bombs in one district,very, great divergencies of opin- fire watchers -/ acted with such ion within the Vichy Government promptness that not a single and the existence of a group of bomb was alight long enough to Ministers who are sabotaging cause a fire.
Franco-German. collaboration.
Enemy planos were also re- Although the Wilhelmstrasse ported from Liverpool, from a says German patience la at an town in the East Midlands and end the correspondent adds that towns in north west and north-no, sensational events are 'expect- east England. Reuter.. led immediately.-Router.
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