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STAR & THEATRE
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 14, 1941.
BRITISH CONTROL OF MEDITERRANEAN
THE BOMBARDMENT of Genoa shows that the British Fleet continues to dominate the Mediter- ranean and the Italian African armies are virtually separated from Italy, writes the military correspon- dent of the Swiss newspaper "La Suisse."
The "National Zeitung" of Berne says that the speed with which General Wavell's on-storming Em-j pire troops reached and captured Benghazi has not only surprised laymen.
The performance of the British | troops and High Command call i for the respect of all unprejudiced observers.
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Whether the course of the African campaign s of import-
for the final decision whether the British advance con- Unues.
walt spread the
rumour that England is an old comtry and the home of an old people without power to live or resist is
fter all only a rumBer.
The way the English have borne terrible bombing attacks without weakening or crying for the world's recognition has destroyed this rumour.
LADY (AUSTEN) CHAMBERLAIN PASSES
The death was on- nounced in London yesterday of Lady widow
Chamberlain, SOMEONE
SHOULD HANG
"Hang a looter" was the advice given to the authorities by a news- paper recently as the best means of stamping out this beastly crime against air raid victims.
One of the worst cases of loot- ing was being investigated by a London council. It occurred in a
Not many of the
so-called ; block of shopping and residential young peoples could have achiev-property. ed this record of sang froid and nervous endurance. Reuter.
Nazi Problem
The "Gazette de Lausanne" says Britain is armed, strong and ready.
When the evacuated people re- turned they found that their shops had been cleared out of every- thing that could be taken away.
A hairdresser lost his entire stock. Houses had even the ten and sugar rations, suits of clothes personal belongings
and stulen.
other
the Live chickens from
The "Tribune de Lausanne" says: "Germany is now obliged to seek a decision in Britain. A sur- prise attack is hardly possible and yards were also taken. could only be tried when the Bri- tish fet and air force have been enfeebled. This will be long and costly. British Wireless.
ARMY TO GROW FOOD
A SCHEME HAS BEEN LAUNCHED UNDER WHICH SOLDIERS OF THE SCOTTISH COMMAND WILL GROW VEGETABLES ON ALL ARABLE LAND UNDER ITS CONTROL.
"The army will grow food on its land just as any other occupier" said the officer in charge of the scheme. "always with the pro- vision that the Army must be al- lowed to train.
The Treasury has made a grant fo tools and seeds and hundreds of gardeners or farmers now serv- ing in the Army will be employ- ed wholly on the new scheme as advisers and instructors.
Tractors will be hired to plough up larger areas although a great deal of the work will be on the al- lotment system. Main crop will be potatoes." British Wireless.
3,985 INTERNEES FREED IN ENGLAND
Three thousand eight hundred and ninety-one internees have been released temporarily or per- manently on medical grounds, and sixty-nine doctors and dentists, and twenty-five employers engag- ed in work certified by a Govern- ment department to be of value to the community, also have been
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Germans at Lyons Aerodrome.- German technicians have arrived at the aerodrome of Bron, near Lyons, in non-occupied.. France, for the construction of a meteoro- logical station, states a Lyons re- port.
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Lady Chamberlain passed away after short illness.-Reuter.
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Germans Execute Frenchman.-
Sentenced to death by a German | court-martial for "committing an act of violence against a member of the German Armed Forces," a French wine merchant
was shot in Bordeaux
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