THE MOGADISCIO TRIUMPH
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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28, 1941
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BUTTER
AREA
INDUSTRIAL
COLOGNE BLASTED
Huge Conflagrations
OF 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 damage by shells bursting in Ita- lian trenches was registered.
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At one point an Italian lump received direct hits and suffered heavy losses.
The Greek Air Force continued to drop bombs on military targets, store dumps. columns march and motor-transport con- centrations.--Router
on
the
SIR STAFFORD 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
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.
Allamell, Wild
Fights In Holland
CLOUD-DODGING DAYLIGHT RAIDERS
OVER BRITAIN
Reports of "wild and bloody fights" between Jews and Dutch Nazis in Amsterdam placed this week under martial law by the Germans reached "Vrij Nederland," the Free Dutch newspaper published in London.
ENGLAND
CAN WIN
Mr. Warren Irvin, for-
eign affairs expert of the National Broadcasting Company, said on arrival Oil storage tanks on the Rhine in New York yesterday: bank blazed with Jurid
green "There is no doubt that flames mixed with a volume of
England can win the war. "The morale all over England is excellent-all over Germany it One pilot who spent 70 min is not so good, because only about utes over Cologne sald: "We 20 per cent
of the people there - arrived before we were due and are rabidly pro-Nazi.”
smoke, while sharp and heavy ex- plosions contributed to the gener- al destruction.
had to await our turn before! Mr. Irvin listed as "vital" Ger- bombing so that the people man weaknesses the condition of with incendiary bombs could get Germany's food, clothing, oil sup- plies and transport services.-- "After the incendiaries had done, Reuter.
1 their work there was a continuous
their loads in first.
stream of high explosives.
Impressive Sight
"It was an impressive sight. Before my turn came I counted 70 in addition to heavy bombs. or 80 sticks of bombs going down,
have "As the flames
spread and spread they lit up three British bombers in the sky."
in
The newspaper states that the Jewish district of Amsterdam there have been fights as a result of uniformed Dutch Nazi Storm
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 Troopers marching through Anglia and there were a small number of casualties.
QUISLING VIOLENCE
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One raider, after dive-bombing an East Coast town, machine- gunned children going to school 4 but all escaped.
SEVERAL CHILDREN WERE KILLED BY BOMBS DROPPED
quarter,
the
There was widespread fight- ing on February 12, when par- tica of young men attacked marching Nazis.
were
Civilians and policemen injured and one Nazi was found dead on the pavement.
The police then isolated large part of the town to pre- vent further demonstrations.
ON ONE EAST ANGLIAN The newspaper adds that Jew- TOWN AND IT IS BELIEVED Ish leaders addressed Jews in the THAT AT LEAST TWO GER- town, exhorting them to show MAN RAIDERS
DES- calm and dignity whatever TROYED.
provocation-Reuter.
WERE
A fresh example of One Heinkel bomber, approach-
Navy in the North Sea yesterday
the
-ON NAZI PLANE flew over the south coast of the
A two-engined German bomber Swedish Island of Shaakenoon yesterday, according to an official announcement: In Stockholm.
The bomber was driven off by anti-aircraft fire. Reuter.
Quislingite violence to-ing sinall units of the British SWEDISH.GUNS FIRE wards Norwegian school-morning, was hotly engaged and children,
it is considered certain was reported muchine was unable tin that the yesterday by the Norwe-base, the Admiralty announced. gian News Agency.
ANOTHER BOMBER, IT IS BELIEVED, FELL INTO THE According to the Swedish news SEA AFTER A BATTLE WITH paper "Social Demokraten," a de- A BRITISH FIGHTER. — REU- tachment of Quisling storm troop- TER. ers forced their way into a school at Sken' and demanded to be tak- en_to_a_class—in which were se- veral boys whom they alleged had. maltreated a member of the Quisl- ing Youth Guard.
EMERGENCY BILL GOES TO SENATE
where the boya were stripped The emergency Bill to provide naked and beaten with leather US$1,533,000,000 for Armý
and' straps.
Navy construction and develop- The leader of the storm The school managers and staff ment programmes was yesterday troopers jumped on the teach- have sent a strongly worded pro-passed by the House of Represen-
or's desk and ordered four boys tést to the Ministry, of ... Church | tatives and has been sent to the to follow him to an outhouse land. Education-Reuter,
Senate-Reuter,
16 CASUALTIES IN
AIR CRASH
Casualties in the crash of the Eastern Air ines plane in Georgia now given as seven killed and nine Injured, says a Reuter mess- age from Atlantia. tive William Pryon, Democratic Among the dead is Representa- out that Cologne is Germany's Congressman from Maryland.
ser-
The Air Ministry news vice, giving these reports, points
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