THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 1941.
MIDDLE EAST RAIDS
30 Enemy Aircraft Left Burned Out On Ground WRITING HEAVY RAID
ON THE WALL
Hitler will be broken against the iron will of the British people," de- clared the Air Minister, Sir Archibald Sinclair. speaking at Glasgow yes terday.
BY R.A.F.
ON BENGHAZI
BETWEEN THIRTY and forty German and Italian aircraft were burned out or severely damaged during the R.A.F.'s initial raid on Catania airport in Sicily on Sunday night, it is now revealed.
Italy's principa! Libyan port, Benghazi, was heavily raided both on Monday and Tues- day nights.
Britain will not be his next! victim, he said, "but one country ber 3 that "Fascist Italy has de- which is in real peril of complete liberately willed this war against Nazi domination is Italy, brought England." to the edge of destruction by the infatuated ambition of Mussolini." The Abyssinians were now In arms and he hoped there would not be a long wait before they regain their independence.
"Fascism is doomed and friends of Italy must hope that the strong Italian forces will break the grip of the Fascist bosses before they drag Italy down with them German slavery."
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Italy had gained nothing from the sacrifice of Italian lives in Spain. She stands to lose every thing becatise of Mussolini's cowardly miscalculations and un- provoked attacks first upon France and Britain and then upon the heroic Greeks."
Fascism was doomed, he stated. successes Speaking of R.A.F. against the Italian air force he said that on the Albanian pront they had destroyed in combat 58 machines without counting those destroyed on the ground in bomb- The R.A.F. had lost
Formidable Enemy
Uttering a word of caution over the victorious achievement In Libya, Sir Archibald saiding attacks. that behind the defeated armies nineteen. of Italy loomed the huge arm. les of Germany-there w2a most formidable enemy.
In Meita we had broken the tal on air attack and destroyed 42 Italian aircraft at the cost of 25.
These disclosures are made in an R.A.F. communique issued in
Describing th Cairo last night. Benghazi raids, the communique says that the main mole of the harbour was heavily bombed and were caused among large fres
around the Cus-
the buildings toms House.
A heavy explosion occurred at the base of the Mole,
Other bombers hit buildings on the quayside and straddled the Government buildings. Shipping was also attacked
the
On their return journey, R.A.F. raiders machine-gunned Beninu nerodrome and two enemy aircraft wêre set on fire and damage was caused to a number of others.
No Opposition
In the forward area (of the
"Something else has happened In Libya the success had been British advance into Libya) be- At the tween Tobruk and Derna. our too," he added. "The great Re-even more remarkable. public of the United States has less of only 17 aircraft the R.A.F.fighters maintained constant pa- Laken its stand for freedom against had destroyed 90 Italian airerait trol but no engagements with the Nazidom. If Hitler and his Ger- and some 115 on the ground since enemy took place.
Al- Photographic reconnaissance man dupes dare raise their eyes the beginning of the battle. they will
see the writing upon though enormously outnumbered | over Catania (Sicily) showed that the raid carried out or Sunday the wall of Congress-the Aid to to start with, the R.A.F. had won
more effective tham Britain Bill."--Reuter,
so great a moral ascendancy overnight was the Italian air force as to reduce was first thought. Between thirty it in later stages of the battle al- and forty aircraft could be seen, out or severely Sir Archibald said the Italian most to inactivity.-British Wire- either burned
damaged. One hangar was com- official wireless boasted on Decem-less.
pletely wrecked, another was very badly damaged and a third had been hit.
Fascism Doomed
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Administrative buildings at the air base had been heavily damaged and bomb craters
the on were observed drome. The communique also records that raids were made in Italian East
ut Africa against 'stores Assab 011 Tuesday night and against Asmara the previous night, and reports that from all the operations, all but one night- er, shot down in Libya, returned safely. Reuter.
STOWAWAY FOUND
Yesterday afternoon.
Wong
Kong-kit; 23, was found to have stowed away in the store room 01
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a British ship about-to-sail..
Before Mr. E. Himsworth Kowloon this morning accused was fined $30.
Accused alleged that he had paid $200 to a seaman who agreed to "smuggle" him to Calcutta where his family was,
SOLDIER ON A SERIOUS CHARGE
Private Frank Kenneth Jacobs, CL the Royal Army Medical Corps was charged before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning with having bad carnal knowledge of a Chin-, ese girl.
No plea was taken and accused was remanded for one week in military custody.
Det.-Sgt. N. B. Fraser is charge of the case.
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Lady Clark Kerr, wife of the British Ambassador to China; of rived yesterday from Shanghai at Government House, where she is (expected to stay for a few days.
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