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ITALIANS BRING
DOWN AVALANCHES TO CHECK ADVANCE
SIEGE TACTICS AROUND KEREN HAVE
NOW GIVEN WAY TO WARFARE IN WHICH THREW
THE WORK OF OUR INDIAN SAPPERS IS OF FIRST IMPORTANCE.
Blasting away road blocks which the re- treating enemy has placed in the way of the British forces they are opening a way for a British advance on Asmara.
PEER FOUND SHOT DEAD
Family Dogged
By Tragedy
Viscount Lambton, son and heir of the Earl of Durham, was found shot, dead on the lawn in front of the family residence of Fenton House, near Wool- er, Northumberland. He was 20.
Lord Lambton had recently re-| tumed to Fenton from London, where he had a town house in Gloucester Gate. He left this about 18 months ago to live in the country. He registered re- cently for military service.
Tragedy has dogged the Lamb- ton family through many genera- tions. Within the last four years, three of its members have met untimely deaths.
Beatrix, Countess of Durham died in April, 1937, on the day her grand-daughter, Lady Rachel Douglas-Home,
was
married
NAZI OUT
OF WINDOW
How a German soldier was thrown out of the The Eritrean capital lies in a window of the Cafe d'Har- bowl of mountains at the end of court, on the Boulevard # winding mountain road that
zigzags through deles and up Saint Michel, Paris, is told mountain sides to a height of in a letter published by
7,000 feet.
onto
The tactics of the withdraw-"France," organ of the ing Italians consist of dynamit Free French movement, ing the cliffside. bringing an avalanche
from a Parisienne. the highway and creating a temporarily of She was in the Cafe d'Harcourt fective block which the enemy frequented by students, when covers with machine-guns from from a first-floor window a Ger- the surrounding heights.
[man soldier in green uniform was While our infantry mop up these pushed
out bodily.
rolte machine-gun posts, gangs of sap- [down the awning and on to the pers sel to work to blast
way pavement. through the mass of rock.
Over The Top
A German officer with revolver sprang forward, and the German police with clubs tried to disperse the crowd. There was a scuffle. On several occasions they sim-and that evening a number 01 ply relaid the road across the top people failed to recurn to their of the rock.
homes. The cafe was closed fo: On the rapidity of their work several days. depends the speed of our advance. "We see daily the work of your LATEST REPORTS INDIC- | (British) troops, land and sea THAT THE FIRST BIG forces and the R.A.F. when whole BLOCK, 40 MILES FROM AS-trains of wounded arrive in the MARA, HAS BEEN SUCCESS- | capital," adds the correspondent FULLY OVERCOME.
"Thank you for not having missed The Cairo military spokesman your objective,” revealed yesterday that one- third of the prisoners taken at Keren are Italians and the rest native troops.
ATE
He placed the number of Italian dead and seriously wounded at 5,000 or 6,000. Reuter.
DE GAULLE AT
KEREN
GERMAN SHIPPING MACHINE-GUNNED
The R.A.F.. continuing their policy of seeking out and attack- ing German shipping
off the French and Dutch coasts, have announced that three such ships were machine-gunned and bomb- oned off the Dutch coast yesterday.
recently
General de Gaulle
Free French to Visited
forces
Lord William Scott. Lady Dur- the Keren front, it was revealed in addition to the destruction of ham had been in a Berwick shop in Cairo yesterday, says a Reuter an anti-submarine vessel in the a week earlier to choose a wedding dispatch.
present when she fell heavily.
Her husband, the fourth earl, succeeded to the title in Septem- ber, 1928, but died in the follow- ing January, Their second son, Geoffrey, was killed in action in
1914.
Two cousins of the present Earl met tragic deaths. in October, 1937. Mr. Gervase Lambton was lost at sea, be tween Port Sudan and Aden, whlie travelling by liner to Kenya.
Just over il year later Mr. D'Arcy Lambton was killed and his wife seriously injured when their car collided with a lorry on
Woodstock.
Loire estuary.—Reuter,
PEOPLE TO WIN
THE PEACE THIS TIME
ALTHOUGH A PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED IN FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY WON THE
the Oxford-Worcester road near LAST WAR THEY LOST THE PEACE. THIS TIME THEY INTENDED TO WIN THE WAR AND WIN THE PEACE AS WELL.
The Lambton Worm
According to an ancient family tradition, that of the Lambton worm, the Lords of Lambton for
nine generations were doomed not dates from the time of the Cru-
to die beds. The story
| sades, when the then Lord Lamb-| ton killed a worm so huge that it could wind itself round a hill near Lamblon Castle,
This conviction was expressed by Mr. Clement Attlee speaking the Glasgow last evening, when he pointed out that a lack of a common European patriotism had enabled the Nazis to isolate their victims by playing on mutual suspicions and hatreds.
the
But the price of his victory was that he should kill the first living thing he met after slaying the worm. It was als father whom he Some people insisted, Mr. Attlee] minds to work, as It was their met and did not kill, with the re- said, that
the unity of nations world that would have to be built. sult that the nine generations depended only upon dictates of curse was laid on the family.
Modified Sovereignty self-interest but when he saw free volunteers from overseas who Speaking of Europe, after came to fight Nazism, and when war Mr. Attlee: "We want" a ANCHORED JUNK IN he read of contributions made by Europe where all nations will be poorly paid Africans, and when able to live their own lives in he learned of acts of heroism and security and peace but I do not be- self-sacrifice performed by men lieve this will be possible on the. Cheong Kwal, junk foki, was creeds in the Civil Defence Ser-dividualism...
women of all classes and basis of complete and absolute in- charged at the Marine Court with vices, he know that the unity of We want a Europe and a world anchoring his junk inside the the peoples of the British Empire where all shall be prosperous but Tuthong Channel Minefield.
was founded on a spiritual ideal. I do not believe prosperity and a Pointing out that it was a seri-
Mr. Attlee stressed the duty of high stardard of Ilving is compati- 0113 offence, Commander Stiff thinking of post-war problems ble with complete economic self- imposed a fine of $20 or three and how they were to be met. He sufficiency for each nation." weeks
urged young people to set their British Wireless.
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