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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 17, 1941
German Advance Through Libya Brought To A Halt
COVENTRY MOURNS
BLITZ VICTIMS
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA
MAIL"
Three thousand
• mourners followed a long line of coffins through the blitzed
of Coventry streets
as the town held on- other mass burial ser- vice for those killed in the
latest German
raid
It is reported that another
burial
the
mass
is pending, indication of
terrific toll taken 173 the latest German blitz
In-
ternational News Ser
VICO
HITLER'S BALKAN FOLLY
Anne McCormick, the New York columnist, says the Balkan campaign is costing Hitler more than it will be worth if he wins.
What will Germany gain the peninsula that she ha
She Bad before"
Britan asics. any lose her tor-holt CH1 the Continent, which will not affect
the war's outerme
HUNDREDS OF EXHAUSTED PRISONERS TAKEN
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
BRITISH QUARTERS in Cairo reported that the swift German and Italian advance into Egypt from Libya has finally been stop- ped.
Suffering from lack of water and food and exhausted by the swift campaign in the Libyan desert inferno, the German mechanis ed troops have been halted by the stone wall tof British defences east of Sollum, according
to army circles.
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Hundreds of German prisoners, unea tomed to fighting under teent conditions. were tound to be my "the last lanes of a
at then when 1cken mbsucke Tobuk
the first important ibuted mounter-attack in the pre-
11 hase of th War
The Germans said they had Leen without food and water for days and lacked the strength to obry orders for another swift advance
Whattarkynąt Tobak ap frompt due the Briti h 24 boom there. Imperial tinaps have
Arong desfemase pr
belwery Sollura and Mersal
the a AMA KARRE
Servier
International News
Situation Stationary
tafionary for the last four days,
ELOQUENT
OF
ROOSEVELT
CONDEMNS
HUNGARY
President Roosevelt proclaimed yesterday that a state of war exists between Hung- ary and Yugoslavia, and added that Hung- ary attacked Yugo- slavia "without justi- fication."
Effect of the pro- clamation is to place these two nations un der the United States Neutrality regula-
tions.
-Reuter.
NAVY SHELLS NAZIS
Ships of the Royal Navy are constantly and suc-· cessfully harrasing enemy. operations on the Libyan coast by bombardment.
This is stated in a report by the Commander-in-Chief. Mediterran- ean, given in an Admiralty com- munique yesterday.
Enemy positions and transport columns on the escarpment road Weet of Sollum have been bombarded with particularly good resuite. El Gazala aerodrome.
Tobruk, has also been went of hexly bombarded from the and at least five aircraft destroy- ed on the ground.--Reuter.
to the
HUNGARIAN
STORY INVASION
SURRENDER BOMBAST
OF ADDIS ABABA
DESCRIBING THE entry into Addis Aba-
The
the
progress of Hungarian invasion of Yugoslavia is recorded in a High Command com- munique from Budapest. It states: "Our troops to- day occupied the south- western portion of trans- Danubia up to the Croat
frontier.
ba of the British and Imperial forces, an The Libyan situation has been event which virtually ended the Italian East according to well-informed circle. African "empire," a war correspondent says:
Cano yesterday.
"Italian soldiers and police left in Addis een tinues in the Sollum area, on Ababa to maintain order gave us the British prisoners and
While patrol activity con.
hard fighting salute, while Abyssinians flocked towards us,
'arms outstretched in the Fascist manner.
the Egyptian border, there has been occasional Enemy
run Inlo hun. dreds, it is stated. There is no indication that the mot
Nazis have mereased the strength
Reuter of their forward units.
00
The Yugoslavs and Greeks may suffer what they suffered yesterday and
back comc
stronger than ever.
But the Germans are paying
heavily for what they expreted
to be delivered gratis,
The most the Nazis can
is two more hostile populationa
to police, more sabotage
reduced supplies,
The labour that has been diverled
win
and
served them lighting, to
and damaged towns, railways and farmlands will take months
Reuter. to repair
IMPORTANT
EVENTS PREDICTED
Colonel Popoff, the So- viet military expert, re- viewing the situation in North Africa in the news-
FAR EAST
CONFERENCE
IN U.S.
The British and Aus- tralian Ministers in Washington held a con- ference at the State De- partment yesterday.
Conditions in the Far East were stated to be the main subject dis- cussed.
European men and women welcomed us with occasional smiles but for the most part
"Mopping up of the region be- and the Rivers Danube Tisza and the enumeration of wi
booty is proceed?
mg.
"According to
present indica- tions the number of prisoners to- tals 15,000 and is increasing. The booty includes about 100 guns and very valuable material."--Reuter.
stared goggle-eyed at this most unwarlike REPUDIATE
occupation.
My African servant, in a truck behind mine, exclaimed in aston- ishment Why, they're happy."
Small boys ran forward to sell us newspapers whenever one of our cars stopped. There was no trave of hostility anywhere though soldiers looked down on us from the windows of houses, puz- zled because there were no arm- loured cars to protect our proces-
sion
al-
When the Palace of the Duke of Aosta was reached, the cor- respondent saw an italian guard of honour drawn up and a crowd of notables assembled. "General Mombrini, military governor of Addis Ababa, stood with the mayor in the middle of the doorway to receive the British General,
Mr. Nevile Butler, the British Minister, who saw Mr. Sumnu A civilian secretary came for- Welles (U.S. Assistant Secretary ward from the Palace and helped of State) afterwards, told the press us spell the more difficult names that shipping in the Pacific was of Italian generals. We assisted among subjects dealt with.-Reu-him with probable details of
arrival of British vehicles.
ter.
FAMOUS BROKER
paper "Red Star," expects NOW A PRIVATE
"rather important" deve- lopments in the next few
days.
WITH HIS
Short Ceremony
the
The surrender ceremony, when the British leaders arrived, was the shortest possible.
High British officers carne up preceded by a squad of Italian motor-cycle police.
which had
he
full
an
THEIR OWN PROPAGANDA!
been hauled down. was flown again in order to
struck with ceremoniously honours after which it was
sight to
see the extraordinary Union
the Jack greeted with Fascist salute by the Italian off- cers und the
Was guard as it broken at the top of the mast.
None But British
The attitude of the Abyssinian showed they were delighted with the British occupation.
Rumours
abroad
current of negotiations
None but the British could so being conducted for a unostentatiously have occupied a cessation of hostilities in city which had been the object o
the Balkans, are not con- such arduous Aghting.
firmed by political circles in Berlin, said a Wilhelms trasse spokesman in the to mind losing the campaign in Nazi capital yesterday. the Nazi-Fascist war and they were relieved at having escaped a major rising of Abyssinians in Addis Ababa."
Even the Italians did not appear
No Reprisals
A semi-official slutement say "It is doubtful whether there an any quarters in Serbia which would be able to negotiate an au- thoritative agreement on this
score.
"Military events in Serbia have The correspondent says that later he found himself in
entered a stage where an armistice the
is
SO out of the question as," midst of an immense crowd of Abyssinians coming from a con- claimed the Nazi spokesman, "the
Serbian army, as such, is com ference with the British General, where problems had been discuss-pletely annihilated."--Reuter. ed and the General had asked the inhabitants to refrain from com- mitting reprisals against the Ital- ians in order to save the British forces from the necessity of spend
EIGHT FOR THE NIGHT
It was learned in London yes two more enem
destroyed ove
were
Their staffs accompanied them SALARY DROP- but they brought no troops oring too much energy on policing terday that PING FROM $48,000 A YEAR | arme, except one armoured dar Addis Ababa, so that the fullest bombers
flying a Union Jack home made He cites the "considerable in~] TO $21 A MONTH, MR. W. M.
use of as many troops as possible England on Tuesday night, mak by the daughter of a former the activity of the MARTIN, JR., PRESIDENT OF Grease" in
to break the Italians' final resting a total of eight for the night Acting Governor of Kenya. Gen- tance could be made.
- Reuter. R.A.F. in North Africa as indi- THE NEW YORK STOCK EX-
CHANGE cative of coming events.
FOR THE "LAST
oral Harrigan: "The British Command is THREE YEARS, YESTERDAY The British General, after 'be- doubtless preparing a counter- BECAME A PRIVATE IN THE ing greeted by the Italian repre- blow. Where the blow will come UNITED STATES ARMY.
sentatives and receiving a salute] from is difficult to say. It may be MARTIN EXPRESSED THE from the guard of honour, went from the Tobruk region, Siwa OPINION THAT THE UNITED quickly into the house, Oasis or Morsa Matruh," he adds. STATES WOULD ENTER THE The only pageantry was provid-Summing up his impressions of the person facation of Britain." -Reuter.
IWAR, - REUTER.
ed by flags. The Italian' 'dag, 'the' drive he says: "I have never | British Wireless,
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The correspondent later drové
wit through the streets where, when seen emotions to compare he was recognised as English, this demonstration. We drove o the was received with remark deeply moved, feeling that for on able demonstrations of thanks. moment we stood in their eyes: {