GREEK
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 9, 1941.
OFFENSIVE ON
THE ALBANIAN FRONT Strong Attack Meets With Exceptional Success
Italian
Lines Taken By Storm
BEGUN
THE OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS BY THE GREEK TROOPS ON THE ALBANIAN FRONT ON MONDAY CONTINUE WITH “EX- CEPTIONAL SUCCESS," ACCORDING TO LAT- EST REPORTS FROM THE FRONT, SAYS ATHENS RADIO LAST NIGHT.
The announcer continued: "In the early hours of Monday, after artillery preparation, our forces launched a strong attack. The vio- lence of our action was so great that enemy fortified positions, barbed wire entangle- ments and machine gun nests were annihi- lated.
"The enemy was chased out of, number, together with plentiful¦ his position and suffered a real store and ammunition cebele in mean and material The sinuggle confdited throughout the day
"The Italians left dead and wounded and war material on The battlefield and prisoners P our hands "
Sweeping Advance
"Hadi.n casualties in killed and wounded were heavy.” Reuter.
ENGLAND'S RAID CASUALTIES
and casualties in Britan
Beerbing the attack, the ear respondent at the trout of the Air Athens newspaper "Estia" says, dung, March totalled 4,259 CIVE, "Greek miuntry detachments fell' lians killed and 5,557 injured and upon the enemy with tempestuous; delamed in hospital, the Minister Velence
of Home Sivunily announced yes- today. Reuter
O; the killed 1,950 were mets!
WoReD
MATSUOKA'S MOSCOW VISIT PROLONGED?
Mr
Matsuoka,
who was scheduled to leave Moscow on Thursday for Tokyo, is now to stay in the Soviet capital until Easter Sunday, ас cording to an official German news agency despatch from Mos- Reu- cow yesterday.
ter
N.Y.K. MANAGER FOUND
HANGED
"Fortified works, machine gun posts and several lines of trenches were captured at the 1,500 wonen and 598 children A verdict of suicide was point of the bayonet in a sweep tinder 16. and of the nimeri 3,067: ing charge.
Iwere men. 2.077
and recorded at the inquest Can Bumps them occupied and 413 chidren Remaining 200 jon Mr. Hiroji Uemura, reorganipsent these Italian positions i persons killed are not classified.
"Prisoners were taken in big Briteh Wireless.
|manager of the N.Y.K. in Kaanmummmm | Bombay, who was found
dead at his residence.
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TORTOISE QUIET ROUND MISSING
BRITISH COAST
One enemy fighter was
The disappearance of a shot down in the Channel large tortoise, owned by yesterday.
A few bomb were dropped un the East Angiam cost at midday.
Mr. S. T. Williamson, of│ Messrs. Williamson and causing little damage and no cas- Company, was reported ualties, states the Air Mistry. to the Police yesterday, up to a late by Mr. Williamson's gar- Reuter. dener.
Said to be "lost, stolen or stray - ed," the forfnise was the mate of another, both reared for the last five or six years by the owner.
There was no alert in London
hour last night.---
ILLUSTRIOUS AWARDS
When Mr Williamson left for office yesterday morning, both tortoises were on view, but at 11 SIX OFFICERS OF THE AIR- aan, when the gardener did his CRAFT-CARRIER ILLUSTRIOUS daily round, be noticed the di|HAVE BEEN DECORATED FOR appearance.
GALLANT SERVICES AGAINST The garden was carefully ENEMY AIRCRAFT," ACCORD- searched and also the neighbour - ING TO LAST NIGHT'S "LON- hond, but no trace of the missing DON GAZETTE." torfuise was found.
BAN ON MAIL NOTICES
It is officially announced that the issue of the Post Office Inward and Outward Mail Notices, except in the case of direct Air Mails, will be discontinued as from to- day, and no enquiries of any nature, ne. personally, by telephone or by letter, as to the time of closing or receipt of any particular mail can be entertained.
FREE FRENCH IN SALONIKA
MAIL"
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA
It was disclosed int London that Free French forces under General De Gaulle have landed in Sa'onika.
It was revealed at the inquest that the body was discovered hanging in the yesterday bathroom of the flat oc- cupied by Mr. Uemura The doctor also deposed that it was a distinct case of hanging.
Evidence in regard to the rea- sons for suicide was not submitted and the coroner, addressing the jury, said the law did not require them to flud out anything more than this.
He added: "We have nothing why to do with the question
he committed suicide." The jury returned unani- mous verdict of suicide by hang- ing.
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Police Search
It is stated that the troops com-
prise only a small force and that
more will join their British com-
rades in Greece after emerging
victorious from the African can paign. International News Ser- vice.
GERMANS PINNED ON BULGARIAN BORDER
crn
/Continued from Pane 11 Nothing reliable is known of the military situation In South- Belgrade Yugoslavia, but Radio states that the Yugoslav High
Command communique announces successful resistance in all vital sectors.
Nearing Nish?
was
In Istanbul yesterday, il reported without confirmation,
Inquiries revealed that ..two Parsi employees of the N.Y.K. were arrested under the Defence of India Rules a few days ago on a charge of the collection of that German troops appeared to shipping information
to be approching Nish, vital cross- the enemy, following which the roads commanding the upper Var- police searched the N.Y.K. office dar Valley. on Saturday.-Reuter.
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SHEUNGSHUI MYSTERY
HUNTERS IN THE NEW TER- RITORIES ARE BELIEVED TO THE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATH OF AN UNIDENTIFIED CHINESE, ABOUT 40 YEARS OLD. WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND ON A HILLSIDE NEAR SAN UK LING VILLAGE, SHEUNGSHUI DISTRICT, LAST FRIDAY.
An examination of the
body
a
revealed two bullet-slugs in the back of the head apparently hav- ing been discharged from large game hunting gun..
The police theory is that the man had been accidentally shot by hunters.
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It Is understood that the Yugoslav Government has been established at Cacak, 60 miles south of Belgrado, and an Important town strategically.
German Claim Berlin last night, it was claimed that German troops had captured a line of pill-boxes on
In
Illustrious was hit seven times when dive-bombed in the Medi- terranean during January but succeeded in reaching base.
One officer receives the D.5.0. and one
receives a bar to
this decoration, while the remaining four receive the D.SC.--Reuter.
STOP PRESS
According to an unconflrm- ed report from Turkey, the Germans have occupied Alex- androupolis, on the Aegean Sea, four miles west of the Turkish frontier. Reuter.
The point is in the extreme east of Thrace. which has long been evacuated by the Greeks for obvious strategic
reasons,
The
seems
cholera outbreak to be coming under control. Only six cases were notified yesterday
one
from Victoria, three from Kowloon and two from Shau- kiwan.
the Greek front and that Yugo- slav-Greek railway communica- tions had been shattered by air attack. Announcing a further raid on Belgrade, the statement des- cribed the capital as a "smoky and deserted city." al News Service.
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