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Licking Wounds: Forty Per
Cent. Effectives Lost
"LICKING THEIR wounds" after their unsuccessful seven-day offensive on the cen- tral battlefront in Albania, the Italians re-
frained from any major attacks yesterday,
said an Athens official spokesman.
The Italians appear to be busy attending to their wounded and, according to prisoners, are making lying attempts to mask the ex tent of their debacle, added the spokesman.
described the Ita- lian High Command as enraged at the failure of their offensive despite the employment of 120,000
He
men.
The spokesman said the loss of Italian effectives engaged WAS often as high as 40 per cent. - Reuter.
Rome Admission
98 DOWN
IN ONE
WEEK
During the week-ended
over
The first admission that midnight on March 15, 42 anything unusual is going enemy aircraft has been Britain on at the Greek front, was destroyed
Rome made by
radio and the British coasts. Of these 35 were destroyedl yesterday.
during the hours of dark-
Referring to an announcement
In yesterday's Italian contum
ness.
In the same period the R.A.F. que, that "in the course of local lost one aircraft in this area, activity Italian troops captured Over enemy and enemy occu- arms and prisoners in the sector of the 11th Army," the announcer indicated that
"Something inore than patrol activity is in progress and that the action was intended as a test of enemy resistance on the Greek front, where things are getting hot."--Reuter,
High Fascist Leaders Casualties
pied territory and over the sea the R.A.F. have destroyed HiK One enemy aircraft and lost 19.
which was British bomber
re- ported missing from Saturday night's operations and since an- nounced as having "landed sufely away from base." is not included in these figures.
In the same week one enemy aircraft was destroyed by a Norwegian merchant ship, one by a British naval ship and two were probably destroyed.
The previous week's figures for
LOSS OF
"SNAPPER" OF NORWAY FAME
The British sub marine Snapper, com manded by Lt. G. V. Prowse, whose loss was announced by the Admiralty last evening, achieved fame for her exploits in inflicting consider- able losses on Ger- man communications with Norway lost
summer.
On two successive days she attacked convoys of German transports and sup- ships, sinking three, and probably
these four, of sels.
ply
ves-
Later, Snapper. then commanded by Lt. W. D. A. King, sank two other Ger- man supply ships, including a tanker.— Reuter.
BOX HERO
HONOURED
was presented
Messages from war correspun aircraft destroyed by ships should At a church parade yesterday dents with the Greek Army on the be now increased by one. it hav-attended by Sea Cadets, of which Albanian front state that the Ita-ing been confirmed that an enemy he was formerly a member, a boy lian forces thrown into the offen- aircraft crashed in the sea after hero of Narvik sive launched at Mussolini's orders hitting a trawler's mast on March with a gold watch subscribed for seven days ago are put at 120,000 7. men, operating on a front of abrut 20 miles.
Mussolini, a message states, lost several of his closest colla- borators, including six members of the Fascist Grand Council, of whom some, like Professor Pel- legrini, have been taken prison- cr and others, like Barbelini, killed.
at
Italian losses are estimated some 50,000 men killed, wound- ed and captured.
The debacle is attributed by correspondents to the accuracy of Greek artillery fire, the skill and und ability of machine-gunners the alertness of the infantry, as well as to a lack of morale in the Italian troops.
Mown Down
by his relatives and friends in re-. cognition of his adelity to duty during the battle.
His name is Jimmy Harris and his rank in
"First the Navy, Class Boy," is descriptive of his character as well.
In the Middle East theatre of war up to March 11. 48 enemy aircraft were destroyed for the loss of three R.A.F. machines.
The figures given here take intu account an increase of two over March 11 and the figure given
Harris received the D.S.M. at for March 14. British the hands of the King during a recent investiture.-British Wire- less.
one
Wireless.
KWON CHOI RETAKEN
ALLEGED FORGED
DOCUMENT
Chan Sang, 20, was remanded Re-occupation of Kwonghoi, on for 72 hours by Mr. G. T. Lowry the Tolshan coast in south-west this morning, on a charge of de- Kwangtung, at dawn yesterday manding money, by virtue of a was confirmed by. feld reports forged document, from Leung, received in Shiukwan,
Ki-cheung at No. 163, Des Voeux Following the recovery of Toi-Road Central on Saturday. shun, Chinese troops have been
that It was alleged
accused Whole Italian regiments, it is
advancing rapidly, ejecting the tried to obtain $120 by means of stated, have been flung against Japanese from many coastal a letter purporting to be from one positions held only by small Greektowns. Under the cover of dark-named Cheong Yan-leung. detachments, only to be mown ness on March 14, the Chinese Detective Sergeant W. Summers down by shell fire when they were singed a surprise attack still 500 yards from the objective. Towhoi, on the Towshan-Kwong- What enthusiasm these unforhoi highway, and took it, which tunate troops had when
they enabled them to recapture started soon evaporated.
on is in charge of the case.
SEAMAN CHARGED Kwonghol the following morning.
WITH DESERTION THEIR FORMATIONS WERE-Central News.. BROKEN UP AND THROWN
George Ball, scaman of a Bri- INTO A STATE OF CONFUSION,
tish ship, appeared this morning OFFICERS 'TRYING VAINLY TO Mr. D. J. Sloss, Vice-Chancel-before Commander T, C. Stiff RESTORE SOME SORT OF lor of the Hong Kong University, charged with deserting his ship ORDER AT REVOLVER POINT. has reported the theft of a gold during March 14 and 15, BUT FEW OF THEM LIVED TO wrist-watch and some money to Pending further enquiries, the re- case was remanded till Wednesday RETURN TO THE STARTING the value of $114. from his
i at 2.30 p.m. POINT BRITISH 'WIIRELESS...sidence". yesterday.