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No. 32,084
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1941
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BUTTER
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INDUSTRIAL
COLOGNE BLASTED
Artillery Duels In Albania
Bad weather is still
holding up large-scale operations on the Alban- ian battle-front, states a Greek Press Ministry communique in Athens yesterday.
Greek artillery, however, con- tinued to pound enemy positions with marked success and much Damage by shells bursting in Ita- lian trenches was registered.
At onc point an Italian
received direct hits and suffered heavy loss.
umn
co.
The Greek Air Force continued d op bombs on military targets, store dumps, columns
on
the
march and motur-transport con-
centrations.-- -Reuter
SIR STAFFORD Huge Conflagrations
CRIPPS LEAVES FOR ISTANBUL
According to a Mos- cow despatch to the official German news agency, Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambas- sador in Moscow, when he left the So- viet capital by 'plane yesterday for Istanbul, was accompanied by Mr. John Russell, of the British Embassy, and Squadron-Leader Charlton Allamell, British Air Attache. Reuter.
In R. A. F. Raid
ALTOGETHER 150 FIRES WERE BURN- ING AT ONE TIME IN THE INDUSTRIAL AREA OF COLOGNE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, AS RESULT OF AN ATTACK BY A STRONG FORCE OF R.A.F. BOMBERS.
The attack proceeded systematically for two and a half hours. As incendiaries, sticks of bombs and heavy bombs followed each other, patches of fire grew until they joined into huge conflagrations devouring ware- houses and factories.
Oil storage tanks on the Rhine "After the incendiaries had done bank blazed with lurid green' their work there was a continuous flames mixed with a volume of stream of high explosives. smoke, while sharp and heavy ex- plosions contributed to the gener- al destruction.
Impressive Sight
"It was
sigh. an impressive One pilot who spent 70 min- utes over Cologne said: "We Before my turn came I counted 70 arrived before we were due and or 80 sticks of bombs going down, had to await our turn before in addition to heavy bombs. bambing So that the people "As the flames spread and with Incendiary bombs could get spread they lit up three British their loads in first.
bombers in the sky."
CLOUD-DODGING DAYLIGHT RAIDERS Wild
OVER BRITAIN
CLOUD-DODGING German air-raiders were more numerous and busier over Britain during daylight yesterday than for some time. Bombs were dropped in the outskirts of London and at a number of places in East Anglia and there were a small number of casualties.
QUISLING VIOLENCE
an East
One raider, after dive-bombing Coast town, machine- gunned children going to school but all escaped.
Fights In Holland
Reports of "wild and bloody fights" between Jews and Dutch Nazis in Amsterdam placed this
of
The Air Ministry news БЕГ- vice, giving these reports, points out that Cologne is Germany's third largest city, an important
Rhine port, a great centre railways elaborately planned for military purposes, a natural bridge between Germany and the countries she has invaded and the centre of many engin- eering and chemical works.
The crew of one of the bombers previously reported missing from Wednesday night's operations are
TRIPLE MURDER MYSTERY
The corpses of three young Chinese women, with their hands and feet bound with grass rope, were found floating in the harbour off West Point yesterday after-
noon.
The bodies were re- moved to the Public Mortuary by the Water Police.
EMERGENCY BILL
GOES TO SENATE The emergency Bill to provide US$1,533,000,000 for Army and Navy construction and develop- ment programmes was yesterday passed by the House of Represen- tatives and has been sent to the
now known to be safe.--Reuter, Senate.-Reuter.
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by the Germans have reached "Vrij Nederland,” the Free Dutch newspaper published in London.
in
The newspaper states that the Jewish district of Amsterdam there have been fights as a result of uniformed Dutch Nazi. Storm the
SEVERAL CHILDREN WERE KILLED BY BOMBS DROPPED ON ONE EAST ANGLIAN TOWN AND IT IS BELIEVED Troopers marching through THAT AT LEAST TWO GER-quarter.
MAN RAIDERS WERE DES- TROYED.
There was widespread fight- Ing on February 12, when par ties of young
attacked
A fresh example of One Heinkel bomber, approach- marching Nazle. Quislingite violence to-ing small units of
men
were
the British Civilians and policemen Navy in the North Sca yesterday | injured and one Nazi was found wards Norwegian school- morning, was hotly engaged and dead on the pavement. children, was reported it is considered certain that the yesterday by the Norwe-huse, the Admiralty announced. gian News Agency."
machine was unable to reach its
The police then isolated large part of the town to prov vent further demonstrations. The newspaper, adds that Jew- ANOTHER BOMBER, ET IS ish leaders addressed Jews in the According to the Swedish news-BELIEVED, FELL INTO THE town, exhorting them
to show paper "Social Demokraten," a de- SEA. AFTER A BATTLE WITH calm and dignity, whatever the
A BRITISH FIGHTER. REU-provocation. Reuter. ...tachment of Quisling storm troop-
TER. ers forced their way into a school t. Sken and demanded to be talk- en to a class in which were se- Jeral boys whom they alleged had naltreated a member of the Quisl- ng Youth Guard,
where the boys were stripped naked and beaten with leather straps.
M. COSME ARRIVES
IN PEIPING
The leader of the storm The school managers and staff The French Ambassador to troopers jumped on the teach-have sent a strongly worded pro-China, M. Henry Cosme, arrived eria Moak and ordered' four boya test 'to the Ministry of Church in Pelping yesterday to take up to dilow hím to an "outhouse and Education-Reuter,
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