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No. 32,132
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1941
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Daisy Brand
Australia's Choicest BUTTER
ALLIES STILL FIGHT
FIGHT FOR EVERY INCH
HOW THE
RAJPUTANA
WAS SUNK BRITAIN MAY
GET IDLE SHIPS
and
Twelve officers twenty-two seamen Canadian survivors of the armed merchant cruiser "Rajputana❞—have arriv- ed in Canada.
40 Lives Lost
Commander Paul Cross, a senior Canadian officer, has reported that 40 lives were lost in the North Atlantic when the sub- marine torpedoed the Rajputana.
THE FIRST TORPEDO; STRUCK THE RAJPUTANA AT, 5.32 A.M. WITHOUT WARNING, STATED COMMANDER CROSS.
It entered the engine stopping the engines and exting- uishing the ship's lights.
No one saw the attacker.
The ship Ilsted to port but the vessel stopped sinking at a certain depth,
The
Second Attack
Commander added: "We might have made port if we had been left alone, but the sub- marine attacked again two hours i
the starboard side."
later on
The Rajputana opened fire but for was sighted the submarine
The crew then only a moment. abandoned the ship which sank within an hour and a half after the second torpedo.
Reuter.
EASIER MINDS ON LIBYA
IN U.S. PORTS
The Merchant Marine Committee of the House of Repre- sentatives has approv- ed the Bill authorising Roosevelt to seize and use foreign ships lying idle in United States ports.
to
It is understood that the language of the Bill is tantamount
permit for the handing of such ships to Britain if it is desired. Reuter.
a
SO
GERMAN STEAMER GOES TO SEA
to
The German steamer "Babilon- Sa" of 4.422 tons, is reported have left Santos yesterday for an unknown destination, according top Reuter's Rio de Janeiro pondent.
COTTASS.
YUGOSLAV TROOPS REACH
Nazi Claim Of MIDDLE EAST Breakthrough Discounted
OFFICIAL REPORTS FROM THE SMALL ANGLO-GREEK FRONT RECEIVED IN CAIRO IMPERIAL INDICATE THAT THE BRITISH AND GREEK FORCES ARE STUBBORNLY CONTESTING EVERY INCH OF GROUND.
Sources close to the Middle East Com- mand sharply discount the German claims of a complete breakthrough at the Pass of Ther- mopylae and of the turning of the Allied left wing above the Corinthian Gulf coast.
Authorised quarters state that holding an unbroken line against
It is officially an- nounced in Cairo that Yugoslav troops and have been 'planes
from transported
Yugoslavia and have arrived in the Middle East to join the Allied force
the against Axis. Reuter.
BAD NEWS TO COME
Greek of the
"The Germans
are
swarming like filthy lice over the fair body of Eu- rope."
In they had no information to support the advancing German hordes ac- the German reports that substan-cording to reports received
is v6- Cairo last night. ual forces of the B.E.F.
"One day there shall be ruating Greece "after the purport-
The situation ed German push through Ther-
units who are stil fighting is a great cleaning," declar- mopylae."
obscure but as far as is known theed Mr. Hugh Dalton, the British left flank has maintained Minister of Economic Warfare in a speech in London yesterday.
The official Cairo communique troops were in declares: "Our contact with the enemy in Greece yesterday, but there were no im- Interna- engagements." por ant tional News Service.
“Unbroken Line” Despite very heavy fighting. Empire forces in Greece are still
GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE LEMNOS
Two things are deduced Following an
ultimatum
contact with them.
Reuter.
German Claims
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are of course, The Germans.
and making their usual claims, are now hinting of imminent ca- pitulation.
HE
BAD
DECLARED THAT NEWS BLUNTLY TOLD FACES THE BRITISH PEOPLE.
their "But Britain, behind
Prime Minister, Incomparable
stand united. We mean to ste this thing through to the end and la total have that Stukas
the only end for us. They state
victory. heavily battered Piraeus and other
"We are greatly sustained by Greek harbours in a furious all- out aerial assault aimed at
moral and material aid from the States. When properly the United withdrawal of venting the British and Greek forces from the equipped we will bear down all Peninsula. International News the evil forces
i us." Service.
from German HAVE HAVE
by well-informed sources forces which had previously occupied the is- in Cairo from the enemy land of Samothrace, 30 miles to the north- assaults against Tobruk, which have been attended east, a German contingent at 5 a.m. yester- day landed at Lemnos, strategic Greek island The first is that the presence of near the entrance of the Dardanelles, it was
learned in Athens yesterday.
only by heavy loss.
the British garrison there is
worrying the Axis Command.
The second is that the enemy
In this area does not dispose of
the strength" of men and ma-
A small Greek garrison consisting of in-
terial with which the British fantry and police resisted the invaders for
forces took Tobruk earlier In the war.
THE LATEST AXIS ATTACK WAS CARRIED OUT BY INFAN. TRY OF WHICH ABOUT 50 PER CENT WERE
over four hours.
A semi-official Greek communi- que states that the German "gov-
GERMANS, ernor" of Samothrace sent an ul-
a
4.
4-Hour Fight
The small garrison resisted till
WHEREAS PREVIOUSLY THE timatum ordering the surrender of after 9 a.m. GERMANS AND THE ITALIANS Lemnos by midnight on Wednes- ATTACKED SEPARATELY.···
"British ....armoured patrols have taken the initiative around Sol- lum, which itself has become sort of No Man's Land-Reuter. MR. CHURCHILL TO
-BROADCAST
day otherwise it would be forci- All Greek officials are remain- bly occupied.,
ing at their posts under orders
M. Karamenjanie, Prefect of from the Greek Government. Lemnos, in reply to a request for Government Instructions, was or-
our of Greece demanded,
·
At 5 a.m. yesterday, the Ger- Mr Winston Churchill is to mans began to disembark troops broadcast in the home and over- from transports which reached the national eple of a
*programme at 8 pm. GMT the harbour of Purdia under the
17 Reuter,
escort of aircraft.
The Greek Minister for the In- dered to do his duty as the hon-terior, M. Maniadakis, has tele- graphed to the Prefect of Lemnos saying that the garrison's struggle deeply moved the whole of Greece, and had added another page to glorious country battling against two em- pires. Reuter.
pre-
Reuter.
arrayed against
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AN H. B.-
HIR
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