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WITHDRAWAL TO NEW DEFENCES COMPLETED NAZI ARMS Epic Stories Of RED CROSS
SHIP
BLOWN UP
have
an am-
Naval aircraft torpedoed a tanker, supply ship and munition ship recently. all of which were intend- ed for the enemy armies in the Balkans, it was officially announced in London yesterday.
In addition a large fanker hit by
and probably torpedoes sunk off the Norwegian coast by i the Free French submarine "Minerve."
The tanker was of about 10. 000 tons, the supply ship about 6.000 tons and the ammunition ship about 7.000 tons.
The munition hip blew 1212 with a tremendous explosion and columns of smoke and fire rose 3,000 feet into the air.
One of our aircraft is missing from these operations
Reuter.
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Rearguard Heroes
ITALIAN ARMY GIVING BATTLE NEAR DESSIE
The Italian nor- thern army in Abys sinia has "turned" and given battle
In
front of Dessie, ac- cording to a despotch from a special corres- pondent with the South African forces,
Reuter from says Johannesburg.
ITALIANS TURN AND FIGHT ON DESSIE ROAD
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent with the South African Forces in Abyssinia on the
Dessie Road)
THE BATTLE FOR DESSIE GOES ON. THE ITALIANS WHO HAVE TURNED AND GIVEN FIGHT ARE SHOWING MOST STUB- BORN RESISTANCE SINCE THE BATTLE OF KEREN.
South Africans are fighting in bitter cold at night and in tropical heat by day. Their clothes are torn to shreds by thorn bushes and they are frequently drenched to the skin by torrential thunderstorms.
Through all this they are on- xious to get at grips with the remnants of the Italian Northern Army..
The Italians occupy a strong defensive position where a semi- circular mountain ridge com- mands a straight stretch of road
s the plateau.
acrnus.
Italian big guns in concrete emplacements on the top of the
back saddle
Mountain have poured out a heavy barrage which has cut. furrows in the "Vlotory Way" over which South African troops have been chas- ing the enemy
from Abyssinian concealed among
was controlled posts cleverly the mountain peaks.
Artillery Battle
The battle is developing into a Fre- ding-dong artillery duel.
drown the quent thunderstorms roar of the battle and drench troops to the skin,
A few days ago, one battle was fought at the height of nearly 9,000 feet. The cold was intense.
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL "I DESPITE THE MOST VIOLENT AIR BLITZ UNLEASHED OVER ANY BALKAN BATTLE- FIELD, THE ALLIES HAVE COMPLETED A NEW LINES, BRILLIANT WITHDRAWAL TO WHERE THEY ARE FIGHTING VALIANTLY TO STEM THE GENERAL GERMAN OFFENSIVE ON ATHENS.
The Greeks and British, according to a Budapest radio report picked up in New York, have completed the establishment of yet o third line of defence running from the Gulf of Lamia west to the Gulf of Anrakia, about
90 miles lona.
KEEPING ENGLAND GOING
"The war can only be won by keeping the de- fence of the existing sys- tem of Democracy going! -and that defence is England."
"
SHIPS SUNK BY NAZIS
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of
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The destruction
a $120,000 ship bearing Red Cross relief cargo to a four-week Greece, and silence from a second ves- sel, carrying a $2,000,000 Red Cross shipment to Athens, was disclosed in Washington yesterday.
It was the first specifle loss of any Red Cross cargo through acts of warfare revealed since the be- ginning of hostilities.
A Red Cross official said the Greek freighter "Gregoris," loaded the with drugs, blankets, clothing and Meanwhile, according to
German food for discharge at Athens, was London "Daily Express troops have occupied the Greek lost "somewhere in the south At- island of Samothrace and attack-lantic three weeks ago." ed the island of Lemnos.
off
was no
There
Information whether the ship was sunk by The Berlin correspondent
torpedo or mine, he added. the Columbia Broadcasting Cor-
Another Greek freighter, the of siege Doration says a state
en route "Cassandra Louloilis,"" has been proclaimed in Athens.
to Athens with a $2,000,000 Red Samothrace and Lemnos com-
Cross cargo, had not been heard mand the approaches to Gallipoli of for four weeks, the official de and if the report of German or- additional threat to Turkey.
cupation is accurate, it holds out
ге-
Thrilling Stories Meanwhile, thrilling stories of the heroism of British and Aus So President Roosevelt tralian troops covering the
the main force tu told a press conference at tirement of
their new lines are coming through the White House yester-slowly.
"the war day, adding: cannot be won by one sea- fight or by one retreat in Gruece or even in the whole of the Mediter-
ranean.
He replied in the affirmative to a questioner who asked whether he was content that the defence of England would be kept go- ing.
"there
"Certainly," he said, will be no lessening of ments of war materials England."
ship-
to
Asked whether the question of convoys new had to be consider- remark- ed, President Roosevelt
did not ed cryptically that he live at Delphi (the place of the legendary Greek Oracle.)
to
He described as "too glitter- Ing" a further Inquiry aз whether any steps were being undertaken to protect bridge of ships."—Router.
MOVE TO TAKE OVER IDLE SHIPS
"the
Legislation authorising the U.S. and
over
The difficulties in fighting an al- Government to take most invisib'e onemy, strongly operate "any foreign vessel lying! tearing at entrenched in a country like a idle" in United States waters has breakneck speed, back over scenic rallway, may probably been introduced by the chairman | overy hard-won milestone of slightly delay the Imperial advance of the House Merchant the 1936 campaign.
but the officers of the Imperial | Commitice. forces are confident that the Ita-
·
Shells whistled overhead while South African guns were rushed ahead in an attempt to silence the enemy batteries. Italian fire
Marine
The legal and international ang- Hans will be dislodged when their les of the situation were discuss- troops are able to get at closer ed by the committee at a lengthy
Reuter,
secret sitting.--Reuter. grips.
clared-International News Ser-
vice,
RAIDS ON MALTA British fighter 'planes destroyed an enemy aircraft and probably raid destroyed another during a over Malta on Monday afternoon. There were two more raids dur- raid ing the night and another
in afternoon,
which yesterday
A unit of Royal Engineers did bombs were dropped but no ser-
job of a magnificent
work, ious damage or casualties are re- (Continued on Page 16)
ported. Reuter.
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