THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 2, 1941.
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By BUD FISHER
HEAVY RAID
GERMANS GET
ON MALTA: ROUGHEST HANDLING THIRD DAY
OF THE WAR
Malta had its third suc- cessive blitz on Wednes- day night, during which heavy damage was caused to civilian property and there were some civilian casualties.
A Junkers 88 was shot down
by gunfire.
According to the official com- munique the enemy came over in !!
The waves.
first. mainly
occupied in bombing, was greatly
harassed and often turned away by the barrage.
The second WHYA dropped
many bombs by the and of tares,
There were n casualties at military
R.A.F. positions damage was done to property, including a church, hotel and cinema.
though heavy
Some persons were killed and
a number seriously injured, Reuter.
Two Shot Down
[SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL"]
"IN GREECE THE German army got the roughest handling it has yet received and got it from forces which were a fraction of its own strength,” said Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Air Minister, speaking at a luncheon of the Anglo-Batavian Society in London yesterday.
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7.20 930 Sir Archibald wondered what Hitler was thinking about the change and chances of the struggle, saying: "I don't think Hitler likes to think about Greece and I doubt he gives a thought to the collapse of Mussolini's pinch- beck empire."
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Referring to the savage
air attacks in Holland
#ts DIVISION the time of Archibald sad: "Since that time į We m the eities and towns. this country have learnt the hor for of war as the tierinats wage i Sir Archibald made particular
of R.A.F. attacks and the swell- ating remorcements from the peo- Siple of the United States. Reuter,
It.
Tribute To Dutch
mention of Dutch airmen who
"AIR STRENGTH GROWS. he said, since last June had been AND IT IS BEGINNING TO} playing a part in the ceaseless Two enemy planes were shot! GROW FAST, AND WE WILL watch and ward which the Coastal down in one of the heaviest raids REPAY THEM."
Command keeps around the Bri-
was
by
their
of the war on Malla Eight were The Air Minister pointed oui tish coasts and shipping--work killed and 32 injured, while pro- that Hitler is il realist and for which they were well fitted perty
damaged. ---Interna- dominating his though's must be
peacetime training tional News Service,
such factors as the growing weight among the Dutch islands.
"They have rendered a great service, carrying out these long arduous sweeps over the sea which tax so sorely a man's cour- age and endurance.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Resort
4 To make
amends
8 To hit
lightly
12 To consume
13-To direct
14 Period of
⚫ time
15 Ta rench
17 Quarreled
19. Conjunction
20- Fat
21 Diplomacy
23 By
24 Outbreaks
27. To request
28 Cry of
Borrow
30 Ice crystals
(31 3:1416 -
32 Outermost
34 Pronoun 35 Bibilcal
garden
an Grampu 38 Insect.. 39 Tears
41 Fronen
conjunction 42:Sensed ^. ̈* 43 Struggled 45′′ Mangrol
5 delted
48 Declamatory
outpouring
51 Law: things
52 To acknow-
ledge
34 Also
55 Anger
56 Damp
57 Poetic:
nightfall
VERTICAL
1 Ocean
2 To stroke
3 To assault
4-Dry
5 Number
6 Proposition
7 Tidy
# Blunder
9 Ancient
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German tribesman
10 Part of
"to be"
11 Cushion
16 Insect
18 Form
20 Was pro- minent
21 To come to
apoint.
22 Apart
23 Singing voice
23 Drying cloth 20 Sugary 28: Chopping
tool
20 Party
32 To grant 33 Colloquial:
mother
30 To enclose 38 To scold.
40 Weapon
42 Animal-hair- ***Scanian-
vian literary work_
45 Metropolls. '46 Prefix: 'three
47: Pronoun
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·49 Doer.
50 Vast age
83 Note of scale
They are there to-day in the ranks of those who are fighting the Battle of the Atlantic, a battle which may well prove to be the most important of all."-British Wireless.
SNATCHER FOILED
While chatting with a friend outside Kingsville Hotel in Car- narvon Road at 8.30 o'clock last night, Mrs. S. Kemp, of No. 4B, Hart Avenue, had her handbag almost snatched from her.
A private watchman of the Hotel chased and arrested the would-be snatcher, Liu Chung- po, aged 25.
Before Mr. D. J. N. Anderson at Kowloon this morning, accus- ed was convicted and was manded for 24 hours.
re-
Accused stated that he had had
no food for two days.
ORGANIST SUED BY WIFE
Among the 113 defended.sults to come before the High Court this term is that of. Mrs. Florence Guy Foort. She is seeking a divorce decree against Mr. Regin- ald Foort, the organist.
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