THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 16, 1941
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German Aircraft Shot Out Of Skies Round Tobruk Twenty Destroyed By Two British Squadrons
TWENTY GERMAN and two Italian air-
DAYLIGHT
craft were shot down in the Tobruk area on OFFENSIVE
Monday. Two British fighter squadrons were mainly responsible for this ́success, on- nounces an R.A.F. communique issue in Cairo yesterday.
When several formations of enemy 'planes attempted to raid a British Libyan outpost, eight Junkers dive-bombers were shot down by one squadron and four more by A.A. fire.
In the same area andthen squat dron shot down a German Hi- kel aircraft, two Italian 713- plane fighters and SPACI twin- enginer Tattler. Taubens
The bombing and machine gunning offensive against enemy aerodromes, concentrations troops and motor transport Cyrenaica continued through out Munday and the previous night.
Heat v
many
damages anit casualties, were infileted as a '.t;། or these raids, particularly
the Tobruk area.
Much Damage
Military buildings were de stroyed at El Adem. Derna and Gandhit, whole heavy explosions cemused and direct hits were regelered on dispersed alteraft
Puli results we diful! observe but t is confirmed that mitch daKAU WAN bine
Three
Geman planes were destroyed at Monaster C Landing ground
Tobruk) where Royal Australian Air Force fighters destroyed two Messersch midt twin-engined fighters TH combat and an Junkers trab.- port plane on the ground.
Transport Destroyed
Many enemy motor transport vehicles were destroyedd or dami-¦ aged in this area, tou.
Tripoli, main base of Ger man reinforcements in Libya,¦ again was heavily raided on Monday night and, as on Sun day, bombs straddled shipping in the harbour,
have
One vessel was SCOTL bung firecely while others must
uffered dangge
Malta Raid
South Aftan Air Force fight- en, operating in Abyssinia, ma- chine-gumed the aerodromie Ghuma, where two Haban tra 1 vrre haut Gut
at
Malta was raided again (+11 Sunday night and some damage tumed to both ervilian and Sej – vive property but casualties were few. -Reuter.
CHOSE BLITZ JOB
[BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT]
Volunteer nurses for all parts of Britain are coming to London to take fortnightly turns of blitz work in shelters,
They are members of the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance organisations, specially picked to take the job.
"Between twenty-five and thirty provincial nurses are always working in London,” an official of the British Red Cross told me.
"We appealed for help from the country because at first we hadn't enough nurses to staff London shelters. Now more trained nurses are joining shelter staffs.
"Girls work for a fortnight or more in Londoni, then return to their homes. Some stay several
weeks.
"They are chosen because of their experience in similar work. Usually they work in shelters with a trained nures,
"We like the volunteers to be over twenty-five and capable of taking full charge of the shelter in an emergency.'
BLOOMS GO TO MUNITION GIRLS
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By A Special Correspondent The high price of cut flowers in 1 metrom it
lue when they Should be getting cheaper 13 largely due to the fact that gurl munition workers in the Midlands
spending their brightening their homes.
Fare
money
Thousands of these gir's are more wages than getting
ever before. and they are buying flowers regularly for the first |
PATROLS
R.A.F. fighters carried out offensive patrols over
the Channel and North- ern France during day- light yesterday and shot down two German fight-,
ers.
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aler
Bu Chanel Che Brush lighter
No potal val on Baitada demon daynight werden day
We're
The alentaattitive in the Bandera l'e hour la 1 night and Iterati
entre . Potity
over areas in the north-werk, eat and youth west of England, the North Midlands and East Angita -Reuter
RIGHT TO TAKE OVER SHIPS
STAFF TALKS IN ANKARA ADJOURNED
Lt Gen. Sir James Marshall-Cornwall has left Ankora for Egypt. Accompanied by
Air Marshal Elmhurst he arrived in Turkey from Egypt at the be ginning of April to re- sume talk, with the Turkish General Staff.
Reuter
HITLER'S PROGRAMME
HITLER HAS
HEAVY RAID ON SOFIA
Aiming at dislocating German communications at Sofia, the R.A.F. raided the Bulgarian capital on Sunday night.
The main goods slation, mar- shalling yards and warehouses were the chief targets, Many fires were started in the goods- yards where two trucks received direct hits and blew up with a defamation that suggested they contained explosives.
An R.A.F. communique i8- sued in Cairo yesterday records that enemy convoys leading the German march into Greace were again successfully attack. ed by bombers.
THEY WERE IN THE REGION OF YANITZA, PTOOEMAIS, KO- ZANA AND GORNA DJUMAYA AND MUCH DAMAGE WAS CAUSED TO ENEMY PERSON- NEL AND MATERIAL
Pa tolling R.A.F. fighters down two Junkers dive-bombers in the Volos area anci
third near Ptolemais, where
Mes- serschmidt fighter was also de- APPOINTED, stroyed.
shot
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NAZI CIVIL. ADMINISTRATORS| No R.A.F. planes are missing FOR THE GERMAN-OCY UPIED from these operations.--Reuter. YUGOSLAV TERRITORIES OF] LOWER STYRIA. CARINTHIA LAND
CARNIOLA,
FORMER JAUSTRIAN TERRITORY INCOR-] :PORATED IN YUGOSLAVIA
AFTER THE LAST WAR
MACKENZIE KING
FOR WASHINGTON
The civil admin trators will be shreetly responsible to Hitler. Mr. Mackenzie King, the Can- while the execution of military adian Premier, ief Ottawa for law remains in the hands of Prest-
the Washington yesterday, says a Reu- **Buy are finding the Joy of dent Roosevelt, during the present Army Command, having fresh blooms about them, jemergency, to purchase, requint- take possession of foreigo and are buying from the flats on or
time in their lives.
1 gelation authoriseA
at whatever prier is asked." and merchantmen lying idle in Unit - Mr Moyses Stevens, head of the jed States ports, was laud before the well-known London florists.
Senate Foreign Relations Commit- "Government restrictions. bad tee yesterday by its chadman, weather.
Joss anc
of
Reuter. foreign Senatur George. sources have reduced the quanti-!
ties of flowers available, but it islands Factory girls that is kreping this new flower habit of the Mid- ¦ prices up."
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HURRICANES
SHATTER RAIDERS OVER PIRAEUS
R.A.F. FIGHTERS shot down five Junkers twin-engined bombers and severely damaged several others, which are unlikely to have reached their base, yesterday morning when German 'planes attempted the first recorded dive-bombing attack on the Piraeus, the har- bour of Athens.
Slight damage was caused to R.A.F. pro- perty. All our fighters returned to base.
fires and explosions in marshal - ling yards.
A
R.A.F. bomber operations from Greek bases are playing havoc with German communications,
direct hit on a munitions A pilot officer participating in train tossed one 'plane about like the initial attack
and a leaf on troop con-
almost blinded the Reuter. centrations near Yanitza described pilot. yesterday the "truly remarkable" effect of a tracer machine-gun bullet attack on a long convoy near Pella,
ONE, LORRY BURST INTO FLAMES, ANOTHER SUDDEN-
A THIRD CRASHED INTO A DITCH.
SOUTH AFRICANS FOR-LIBYA
LY OVERTURNED, BLOCKING "SOUTH AFRICAN MILITARY THE ROAD COMPLETELY, AND FORCES ARE NOW LIKELY TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY OF SERVING IN AFRICA BEYOND The accuracy and teamwork EAST AFRICA AND ABYSSIN- displayed by these waves of IA.”
British bombers were equalled This announcement was made by the clockwork arrival of by the Department of Derdhte in two sergeant pilots who took Pretoria in a statement yesterday two bombers over Sofia on Sun- |calling for recruits for all branches day night and reported large of the defence forces.----Reuter;
Reuter.
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