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NEW DESERT WAR LOOMS
General Wavell Prepares To Meet Germans In Libya
Belgrade R.A.F. DAY
Asks
U.S. Aid
Yugoslavia has request- ed the United States to supply her with "certoin types" of war material.
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This fact was revealed yester- day by President Roosevelt his press conference in Washing- ton.
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He stated the request made when he conferred with the Yugoslav Minister on Thursday.
The United States is now en- deavouring to ascertain whether the material required can be obtained.
Credits To Be Eased "Frozen" Yugoslay credits in the United States will be eased in amounts sufficient to meet Yugoslavia's needs, stated Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, yesterday.
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SWOOP ON
NAZI BASES
Thirty landing grounds and aero-
drome buildings and aircraft on the ground were machine-gunned in the course of offen- sive patrols carried out by R.A.F. fighters over northern France and Belgium yester- day, states,an Air Ministry communi- que.
The communique adds that one Bri- tish fighter is missing.
-Reuter.
Mr. Hull spoke approvingly of LABOUR
the unity of the new Yugoslav Government, and said that the acceptance by Dr. Matchek of the Vice-Premiership was an expres- sion of cooperation and unity by the Yugoslavs for their own un- ity and independence.-Reuter.
WAVELL TO GET U.S. HELP?
SUDDEN COUP IN
Strategic
Benghazi
Withdrawal IRAQ
"THERE IS NOT THE SLIGHTEST CAUSE FOR ANXIETY," SAID
THE
MILITARY
| SPOKESMAN IN CAIRO YESTERDAY, COM- MENTING ON THE EVACUATION BY THE BRITISH FORCES OF BENGHAZI.
He continued: "Let the Germans come as far as they like. We are choosing our own battlefields. Desert warfare is unlike any other land operations and can only be com- pared with sea warfare.
News has reached Lon- don of a coup d'etat in Iraq following upon the recent political stalemate.
Although the situation is still obscure it appears that a number of Ministers, headed by Rashid. Ali, have scized power in Baghdad: in irregular fashion,
So far as is known in London the resignation of the former Premier, General Taha el Hashi-
mi, has not yet been accepted by
the Regent, nor has His Royal Highness, who is away from the capital, entrusted anyone with the task of forming a new ad-
"At sea it doesn't matter where a battle is ministration. fought it can be fought at one's front door. And it would not matter in the slightest if the enemy advanced across many miles of sea to
BOARD FOR get there as long as he suffers casualties.
HONG KONG
Seizure of the. Government, offices at Baghdad has occurred at a time when Parliament stood prorogued and the Regent ab- sent. The attitude of the pro-- vinces to the move is not yet known.
"Sole object of war in worth- ARE HITTING THE ENEMY less desert wastes is to punish the HARD AND HAVE ALREADY Government is now
It is understood the British FORMATION OF A TRANS-enemy by inflicting the greatest INFLICTED
considering MANY CASUAL their attitude towards the new and TIES, WHEREAS PORT AND LABOUR CONTROL possible damage to his men
OURS ARE administration.-Reuter. BOARD, TO ADVISE THE GOV. material, with the ultimate object SLIGHT. ERNOR IN MATTERS
of defeating him. CERNING TRANSPORT LABOUR, IS ANNOUNCED THE "GAZETTE."
Composition of the Board is as follows:
CON- AND
IN
"It would have suited us better and caused us less trouble if we had been able to defeat the Italian army on the Egyptian frontier, in- stead of trekking to Benghazi.
"Cyrenaica, if anything, is a liability, and we would have been The Controller of Water Tran- quite as happy to defeat the enemy sport,
at Sollum as at Benghazi,
Brigadier Andrew O.B.E., Chairman,
Mr. B. A. K. Hawkins, Mr. J. White,
Peffers,
Mr. Charles Manners, O.B.E., Mr. Maxwell Gordon Gill. -
Hitting Hard
"DESPITE OUR RETIREMENT TO PREPARED POSITIONS WE.
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'MME. CHIANG'S INVITATION
"Benghazi is almost useless either side, It is an open secret that we have not been using it since its capture, and during the last week it has become even more useless since we carried out a sys- tematic demolition of the har- It was learned in Allahabad bour works, which already were yesterday that Madame Chiang, littered up with sunken Italian Kai-shek has been in correspon- ships.
dience with Pandit Nehru's" sister, "All eyes will be turned to the Mrs. Vijalaxmi, to persuade her Western Desert in the next few to visit, China on behalf of
(Continued on.Page 18). Indian
Better.
The possibility of 100 American freighters be- ing assigned to the task of carrying American sup- plies to British bases in Egypt, in order to help the British war effort in the Mediterranean and the Balkans, is being dis- cussed in Washington. BY NO MEANS all the German troops and President Roosevelt's indication supplies which have been going to Libya by low American ships to enter the Way of Tripoli have reached their destination
safely, writes Reuter's naval correspondent,
NOT ALL OF THEM HAVE AN H. B.-
GOT TO LIBYA
The possibility arises from
yesterday of his intention to al-
Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea,
The Maritime Commission con- trols, over 100 ships which pre-
sumably might be used for this
work. Reuter.
CABINET CHANGES
Since January 1. the Admiralty has an- nounced the sinking by British submarines of about 109,000 tons of enemy shipping in the Mediterranean, a considerable amount of which presumably was for Tripoli.
These figures do not take into and possibly other ports held by account ships which may have the Italians, although once Tripoli been sunk RAF.
was passed there were no really It is bellaved most of the suitable landing points. Wing the AppOINT enemy transports left Port OF KHALEB BEY ALEM Salermo, on the west coast of OF THE NEW BYRIAN Italy, and salled down the coast ENT, EMILE- LODE, round Sicily into Tunisian teril- T OF THE REPUT torial waters. DSMİ BAYRUME,"BE" OF STATE. HAVE
IN SYRIA la bellaved most
Hard Problem
By using this route they pre- sented the Brition Navy with a problem which was not easy to solve, especially_ka"
at there were, so many other commitments for Břítích: submariner.com „It:la conarmed, continues the correspondent, that Benghazi had never been used as a port by the British nor are the "Germana- likely to make any use of it even State. after clearing the harbour.
Réuter.
ABEIRUT From there it was possible to TO THE VICHY creep along the coast to Tripoll NCY:
age adds that General
temporarily take dent and Secretar ices of both the Pres Reuter
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AND THEN TRY!