THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 12, 1941.
Germans Suffer Heavily In
Reckless Greek Losses Out-Weigh
Advances Of Nazi Panzer Divisions
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
A GREEK COMMUNIQUE CLAIMS THAT GERMAN ADVAN- CES IN GREECE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN OFFSET BY TERRIFIC NAZI LOSSES IN THEIR RECKLESS AND COSTLY MULTIPLE OFFENSIVE. STIFF GREEK RESISTANCE CONTINUES ON ALL FRONTS.
Greek military sources minimise the loss of Salonika. They said the Greek army in east Macedonia is still fighting, though cut off, and insisted that a real decision will be reached on battlefields deeper within Greece.
Germon 'planes have launched heavy raids on Piraeus, the port of Athens and other Greek harbours.
When the Germans broke through the Metaxas Line and across the Greek-Yugoslav frontier, Nazi losses "were of much greater importance than the advance of German arm- cured columns.
The war gor true lo q
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It will con- thongs have entered Zagreb, capi- We kans how to tai of treatm
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national News Se vice.
Nazi Claims
High
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The Yugoslavs, meanwhile,
а
have evacuated their northern Budapest de. frontier, says spatch to the Vichy agency.
A wide tract of territory in the | Muakot region has been A Germno
Command abandoned and the railway tracks evant unique claims that German torn up near Fevics. tops advancher from Styria have | Gecupied Manber
Gerban troops are now OC- cupying the
Armoured units and infantry and are re-establishing rail com- divisions, alter necupying the munication, Reuter. Junction of Nish, pursued the re- treating enemy.
In advancing towards the Albanian frontier after crossing the Vardar River, Tetova and Prilep were taken,
as
CHINESE
Offensive
NOTHING TO REPORT!
"Nothing of im- port on Italian East Africo," stated yes- terday's Italian com- munique blandly, and in London the com- ment is offered "No- thing, that is to say, ar the fact that East frica no longer talian!"-Reuter.
IS
FIELD-DAY FOR HURRICANES IN NORTH AFRICA
THE STORY OF THE destruction of more than 30 enemy aircraft in Cyrenaica last week is told in an Air Ministry bulletin. Most of them were shot down and the remainder destroyed by ground strafing.
KOWLOON CITY TEASHOP MURDER
An Australian pilot has re- counted details of an amazing two »
22 days when
German anteraft mean destroyed for the loss of une In ricane.
the
VERSATILE MILITARY QUALITIES
Broadcasting on his re- turn from the Middle East, the Nawab of Bhopal said what struck him most was the "extraordinary yer- satility of the military qualities of the Indian troops."
This was evidenced by their achievements in the desert plains at Sidi Barrini and on almost im- pregnable hill-tops at Keren.
The Nawab also paid a tribute to the powers of adaptability to ronditions shown by the troops, and expressed pride in their be- haviour towards the civil popula-
tion.
for the care of Arrangements sick and wounded were perfect and rations were good and adequate. Provision of aeroplane ambulances for the removal of serious cases to base hospitals would be much appreciated, and he lumped to present two of such te the authorities.
In conclusion he appealed to alt | classes in India to draw strength from what the U.S.A., Greece and
Yugoslavia had contributed to the
resion art honour
euse and redouble the efforts fur
Reuter.
MR. QUO'S
FAREWELL LUNCHEON
first day of intensive aerial activity 20 German dive- A FAREWELL LUNCHEON IN bombers and escorting Messersch-¦ HONOUR OF THE PRIME MIN- midl fighters were routed by the ISTER, MR. WINSTON CHUR- CHVEN BY AM- malermes, and five Junkers and CHILL, WAS three Messerschmidts destroyed BASSADOR QUO TAI-CHI AT
• fight was full of dramatic | THE CHINESE EMBASSY.
kers was
Said to have been un-incidents. On one occasion a Jun- Among guests present were Mr. evacuated territory able to pay a 11-cent bill re from a
caught in devastating Lloyd George, Mr. R. A. Butler, Hurricane and broke Under-Secretary for Foreign Af- fairs, Mr. A. V. Alexander, First at a teashop at No. 7, in two.
Another pilot who ran out of Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. John Cheung On Street, Kow-
ammunition shepherdad a Jun- Winant, American Ambassador to kers down to the ground, where Great Britain, Viscount Cran- loon City, early yesterday
it crashed.
bourne, Dominions Secretary. Sir The next day was even more Alexander Hardinge, private MUSEUM IN morning, a Chinese cus-
tomer was alleged to have disastrous to the enemy when 14 secretary to the King, Mr. S. M.
High German dive-bombers which ven- Bruce,
Commissioner to been beaten to death by tured out unescorted were shot Australia, Mr. W. J. Jordan, High YORKSHIRE
some of the fokis employ-down by British fighters.
Commissioner to New Zealand, The latter have also done some Mr. J. H. Peck, private secretary Evidencing the British schooled in the teashop.
very successful ground strafing to the Prime Minister, and Lord The body of the man was found | Reuter.
Desborough, Central News. China Campaign Committee's
In addition to 20,000 prisoners, about 100 guns and several hun- dred machine-guns, as well large supplies of petrol, ammuni- tion and other material, were cap-authorities' deep interest in the 1ured.
In Yugoslavia, dive-bombers New China Study Course, a planying in a lane behind the teashop and was removed to the Kowloon
attacked roada ahd railways is on foot for the opening of íl Mortuary. Following investiga- successfully.
| Chinese museum for children in
tions, the Police detained four of Armoured units advancing from a Yorkshire school.
the fokis. Yuzoslavia down the Vardar British school teachers welcome
It is alleged that deceased was Valley reached and occupied the prize essay competition about taken to the back of the teashop, further cast China among school children tied to a drain-pipe and then beat. Metaxas Line sponsored by the China Campaign until blood began to flow from and on occupying Xanthe reached Committee. The most encourag- his mouth and he became uncon- the Aegean Sea.
mg sign, it is felt, IS that the
Salonika. Troops
broke through the
of
scious, He was then thrown intol Greek forces east of Vardar younger English generations ap- the lane. were completely eut off, and are preciation and understanding allegryd to have cupitulated,- Reuter
Confidence in Athens
China and the Chinese people will be conducive to closer Chin- ese-British understanding, friend- ship and cooperation in the Juture.
SIBERIAN RAILWAY TRAFFIC
with
U.S. SUPPLIES TO EGYPT DIRECT
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT yesterday re- opened the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea to
American shipping.
Making
at
be
the announcement (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") The China Campaign Commit-
his press conference the Presidenti Greeve will fight "until final ter proposes to send copies of the
said American vessels would "Smooth traffic via the Siberian permitted victory," says, a Greek communi- essays to China as a means <T
to go the whole way que issued in Athens,
British route is being sought by the Jay through the Red Sea to the Suez between jcommunication It adds: "The
Chinese Germans have and
children-Central ponese Government, in close touch Canal, since Egypt was neutral. suffered terrible losses which have News,
Germany." the Japanese The U.S. Government, he said. Railways Minister stated yester- would not explore the question of more than offset their advances,"
day.
whether supplies consigned to He pointed out the increasing neutral might ultimately reach importance of the Siberian route belligerent. for communications between Ja- pan, Germany and Italy and other European countries, due to the prevailing international situation. -Reuter,
It is declared that the Greek troops isolated in Thence are still fighting. Ther
number is UF1-
known but is believed to be com→ paratively small.
in
New Puppet State
A proclamation has been issued
F
THAILAND EXPORTS OF RICE
HEMINGWAY IN CHENGTU
Mr. Ernest Hemingway, noted
SAFEGUARD FOR FEVER VICTIMS
You are not finished with fever when your temperature has gone #1 down. Your body is undermined and not till you have built it up Ho okayed United States shipping's use of the Suez Can-are you really out of danger. al,
The truth is that fever weakens Challenged in regard to the use the stomach and makes it unfit to of Port Said (the Mediterrancan take solid food. Very many doc- remains a combat zone), the Pre- tors now overcoming this sident said he was not sure but difficulty by feeding fever victims Horlicks has two certainly Ismailia, in the middle on Horlicks. of Suez, was not a combat area. remarkable · properties. First, it Shipping circles believe that the is easily digested by the feeblest
TRAIN MINED
are
Immediate effect of the Berlin claiming the fall of Zagreb and announcing the for- Burma Government con- /mation of an independent Croat trol of rice exports from
State.
General Sladko Kvaternik de-Thailand is that ship American Journalist-author and 109 Italian, German and Danish stomach. Second, it is a complete clared himself -head of state in aments are permissable roving correspondent for the New ships seized in American ports balanced food, sufficient in itself broadcast from Zagreb radio.
York newspaper P.M., arrived will be used to rush supplies to to rebuild the body into robust
health. under licence.
in Chengtu by *plane from Egypt via the Red Sea. Reuter. Main Line Intact It is explained in Bangkok that Chungking. He was accompanied
Abundant energy soon flows the mensure is necessitated by the by Dr. Hsin Ching-hsiung, per-
through your veins. Your nerves Athens radio claims that the re-heavy demands of foreign buyers. sonal representative of Dr. H. H. arguard in Macedonia escaped Only the normal surplus is avail- Kung. ́Vice-President of the (8PECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") are soothed, your muscles streng-- shortens con- in orderly fashion and that the able for export and the control Executive Yuan and Minister of Many were killed and injured thened. Horlicks main Greek defence line is still is intended as a safeguard against | Finance. ~~e Central News. when a train travelling between valescence and wards off com- intact. International News Ser- a shortage of rice for Home con-
Kashing and Hangchow on the plications. Its delicious flavour Line was helps to restore normal, eager vice.
'sumption, rice being the staple available for export during the Shanghai-Hangchow
Start taking Horlicks Zagreb Taken food of the country.
current season is estimated at wrecked by a mine. on Wednes-appetite. Control is temporary pending 1,800,000 metric tons, loading buy-day, according to belated reports to-day. Get it from your store. (7) The German High Command the harvest at the end of 1941. Of et being Malaya and Flong Kong, reaching Shanghai yesterday. claims that German
Our Own Correspondent, armoured the new crop. the amount of rice --Reuter,