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No YUNNAN-BURMA Help For "Tuna"
Italian G.O.C. Missing
General Berganzoli, the commander-in-chief at Bardia, is missing, says a Cairo communique. It is possible he escaped in a motor-boat held specially! for that purpose.
that
The communique reveals on the night Bardia fell, General Berganzoli and two Blackshirt Divisional commanders deserted, leaving the regular commanders to carry on.
One of the Blackshire comman- ders has been picked up north of Bardia.
General Berganzoli and the others are still missing, and it is probable that they left in a motor boat reserved for that purpose. The search is continuing.
The commander taken prisoner is General Antonelli, Commander- in-Chief of the First Blackshirt Division.
Crept Through Cordon
RAILWAY TO BE HURRIED
Construction of the western section of the
rail-
Yunnan-Burma way will be accelerat- ed shortly, according to information from Chung king received
by Rangoon Chinese yesterday.
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It is stated a plan has been drawn by the Ministry of Communications Chungking and is un- der consideration by the Executive Yuan. --Reuter.
The open rocky nature of the terrain, said the spokesman. doubtless facilitated escape from Bardia. Before the British forces launch- onslaught it might smali
The spokesman at Cairo lasted the final night suggested that the Black-have been possible for a shirt general who has since been batch of Italians to creep through captured may have been mistaken the cordon round the town.- for General Berganzoli,
Reuter.
MYSTERY OF AMY JOHNSON DROWNING
MYSTERY STILL surrounds the death of
Isolated Garrison
BRITISH
TROOPS ARE NOW CONCEN- TRATING AROUND TOBRUK, AND HAVE TAKEN UP POSITIONS WEST OF THIS IM- PORTANT PORT. THEY ARE APPARENTLY OPERATING ON THE SAME PLAN WHICH ENABLED THEM TO CAPTURE WITH SUCH SMALL LOSS.
BARDIA
A Cairo communique yesterday said that the total of our casualties in the attack.on Bardia was less than 600.
London military circles pointed out yesterday that the new con- centration will make it impossible for Italian troops to enter or leave Tobruk. General Wavell sent his advance troops in exactly the same way west of Bardia before attacking the town.
Forced To Fight
While some small patrols may be able to slip out, the main. Italian garrison will not be able to get away without putting up a fight. It is extremely unlika- ly that any reinforcements will get through.
Reuter's special correspondent with British headquarters, at Cairo says the Italian garrison at To- bruk is unlikely to receive any more reinforcements and. its posi- tion is becoming increasingly ser- lous.
No Sign Of Reinforcements
No Italian troop movements] have been detected by aircraft reconnoitring aver the Tobruk area while the British Imperial forces are hourly closing in on the town.
British headquarters at Cairo
Fights U-Boat
A spirited engagement between the British sub- marine "Tuna” and, a U-boat on the surface in enemy waters by night was reported in an Ad- miralty communique yes- terday.
The U-b-t made off at high speed after ring her gun imme- diately on encountering "Tuna" but "Tuna" gave chase and fired her after gun.
The U-boat was certainly hit on the conning-tower by one shell but unfortunately this cannot be considered vital damage.
For nearly an hour "Tuna" chased the enemy and only broke off the engagement and dived
when sighting escort vessels which came to the rea- cue of the damaged U-Boat. "Tuna" previously sunk an enemy armed tug by gunfire and in neither engagement did “Tuna” sustain any damage or casualties. -Reuter.
BRITISH SUBMARINE
LOST
There is no indication of the are unwilling to make much com- The British submarine "Regu- size of the Tobruk garrison.
ment on the nature of the ad- lus," under Commander F. B. vance but it is gathered that oper- Currie, is now overdue and must Tobruk is one of the best-har-ations are proceeding to the "ut | be considered lost states an bours in Libya, the harbour be- most satisfaction" of the comman- Admiralty communique in Lon- ing protected by a natural pro-ders.-Reuter,
don yesterday quoted by Reuter. montory running from west to east and nearly a mile wide
and two miles long.
The harbour can be used in all weathers and is deep enough for large warships.
Amy Johnson, the famous British airwoman, EIRE GETS who was drowned after baling out of a 'plane
which crashed in the Thames Estuary on Sun-READY
day.
It has now been established, stated the Ministry of Aircraft Production in London yesterday, that when Miss Johnson left the airfield on Sunday morning no passenger ac- companied her..
A BAN AGAINST THE DIS- PLAY OF SIGNPOSTS COMES INTO FORCE IN EIRE ON FE- BRUARY 1.
This is the effect of an “emer- gency Government Order which makes it an offence to display any- where outside urban areas signs. indicating direction or distance to any place.
The weather report given the Only one parachute was ob- aviatrix was bad and her parting. served to leave the 'plane bait can be seen from a highway, A sign is deemed "displayed” if words were: "All right, I'm go- fore it hit the water. ingson, top: This indicated she. It is believed Miss Johnson. ter.
train or low flying aircraft.-Reu- proposed to fly over the bad lost her course in bad weather. weather with the clouds below After flying round for several hours her petrol became ex- hausted and she finally baled out the R.A.F. aerodrome. over the Thames Estuary, pas" sibly hoping to alight, as hear s possible to one of the vessels in The naval convoy.
Nothing more was seen of Miss Johnson's 'plane until it came
er the Thames Estuary,
Parachute
The machine, carried sufficient petrol for in tour and three quar- ters hour flight the, exact time between take-off and crash. Hei scheduled flight should have taken one hour
of
There is still no, explanation the second person in the plane, seen in the sea by the British trawler Haslemere. The second person, a man, was No Explanation. nearly rescued by Lt.-Comm, W. E. Fletcher, of the Haslemere, In Amy Johnson was flying as an rough gens, but Fletcher was Air Transport auxiliary, pliot, her forced to let him go before, an- duties being to fly completed air-sistance arrived and he disap- craft from the factory, direct to peared. Reuter,
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