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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 4, 1941.
South Africans Now Ten Miles Inside Abyssinia
THE SUCCESS OF THE South African forces is described in an official communique issued in Nairo- bi yesterday.
Jo'burg
Enquiry
In the Union House of
It says: "South African forces have occupied Assembly in Capetown Italian posts at El Gumu and Goral; 10 miles inside yesterday General Smuts the Abyssinian border.
"The Italians List twe - Officers ard 43 banda (native levies) killed and three officers, and 50 bunda taken prisoner, together with machine-guna, rifies, ammis and ammunition,
"Our casualties slight.
were very
After this success the capture of the post of Hobok, seven miles north of the border, and west of Gorni, was reported.
"Active patrolling continues in
other sectors." — Reuter.
The Occupation Of Barentu in Eritrea
The British occupation of Bar- entu. in Eritrea, and continuance of the British pursuit of the
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announced that a full en- quiry would be held into the Johannesburg turbances.
dis-.
Compensation would be paid for damage done to property and dis- ciplinary action would be taken
When the inquest was resumed at by the military authorities.. ' Southampton on Commander Wil-General Smuts said he deeply fred Stanfield, R.N.R., forty-seven, I deplored what had occurred. and his wife, Louise, forty-three, Reuter.
who were round shot at their home Crescent. Shirley, the
in Wilton
principal witness was a friend and neighbour.
woman
She was Mrs. C. J. Blake, who was in the house when the tragedy oc- curted. She was called there by Mrs. Stanfield.
Almost im-
MERCHANT SHIP
BILL APPROVED
The U.S.. Senate yesterday pass- struction of 200 ed a Bill providing for the con- or which President Roosevelt re-
merchant-ships -
cently asked Congress.
The Bill has already been pass- ed by the House of Representa-
Mrs. Blake was about to leave when she heard a shot and saw enemy in Abyssinin are recorded Mrs. Stanfield lying in the hall at in a communique issued in Cairo, the foot of the stairs. yesterday as follows:
mediately afterwards she heard a Libya: Preparations for
second shot. tinuation of our advance from
} Derna are proceeding.
Evidence of identification was In his recent Message to Con-
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for
Eritrea: As a result of our given by Mr. Robert Ainsley Stan- gress the President asked operations thr enemy have field, a son, who is an aircraftman ($313.000.000 to cover the cost evacuated the town of Barentu, in the R.A.F., when the inquest, construction of these ships.-Reu-
which we occupied on Sunday. Was opened and adjourned. Meanwhile in the northern sec tor our mechanized troops are pressing back the Italian forces which are withdrawing towards Кегел
Abyssinia Our pursuit of the enemy forces retreating towards Gundar continues. as a result of which the Italians have been
ter.
WOMAN, 69, GAVE LIFE
FOR GIRL, 20
"I STILL THINK this is a waste of time.
I had
obliged to abandon and destroy much rather be in bed,” said a London woman as
quantities of mat-rial and stores 01 all kinds.
South African forces have de- eunied two Italian frontier posts
she entered the family shelter.
Minutes later there was the sound of a 'plane
ten miles inside the enemy border and she flung herself across the body of her twenty- year-old granddaughter as a bomb screamed down
of the Dukana front.
Italian
Somaliland: Vigornus
War-
activity by our patrols continues. outside. extending and deepening our The bomb crashed close to the, Betty Warrington, who with her penetration across
Hatan shelter. the
The blast killed the husband, Flight-Lieutenant frontier. Reuter.
woman, sixty-nine-year-old Mrs,rington, D.F.C. mad eup the po- Toomey, and her brother-in-law; pular variety turn, Ken Warry and and seriously injured her husband.! Betty Melville, a few years ago, But the granddaughter, Miss; told a reporter: "It is the way Peggy Warburton, was rescued mum would have preferred.
"She thought the world of Peggy Her grandmother's body had, and often said she would cheer- taken the full force of the blast. fully d'e for her. And now she
Mrs. Tocmey's daughter, Mrs, has."
BAIL TO SEE DYING MOTHER
Two brothers released on bail for a day to see their dying mother were granted further bail.
They are Samuel Cyril Baker. thirty-three, and his brother Her bert Gordon Baker thirty-two, of Silcester Road, North Kensington, who were found guilty at London Sessions of receiving. It was stated that the mother had only a few days to live,
The magistrate, Mr. Eustace Pul- ton, said "Having regard to the conditions of your mother's health I think I shall be justified in lêt-
ing you out on bail until next! sessions."
Sentence was postponed to see if arrangements could be made for the men to join the Army.
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