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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 5, 1941.
THOUSANDS RESCUED BY
DANGEROUS TRADE IN BREST
"Owing to the Bri
tish bombing raids on Brest," where the Scharnhorst and Gnei- senau are lying, Ad- miral Darlan, accord- ing to а Paris des- patch to the official German news agency, has decided that all workers in Brest har- bour who are heads of families shall re- ceive an additional al- lowance of 300 francs a month..--Reuter.
MATSUOKA WEARY OF TRAVEL?
Discarding suggestions
AIR FROM FROM
GREECE
R.A.F. Part In Evacuation
Biggest Task Of The Campaign
THE
GREAT PART PLAYED BY THE R.A.F. IN THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE EM- PIRE FORCES FROM GREECE WAS TOLD YESTERDAY BY THE AIR MINISTRY NEWS SERVICE.
Men and women, it says, were evacuated by the R.A.F. while British fighters, heavily outnumbered, guarded the continuous stream of ships that went back and forth.
The order for withdrawal set the R.A.F. the biggest task of the campaign, it says. Bombers, flyingboats, captured enemy air- craft and British fighters played an outstand- ing part in getting Empire troops safely away.
All day and all night aircraft of human cargo, flew to safety and every type -bombers, flyingboats, returned for more,
air- The R.A.F. has countless stories
that he should go to the training machines and civil
capacity with of gallantry to tell of the evacua- United States, Mr. craft, packed to Matsuoka, in an interview
at Kyoto yesterday, know Americans. I can grasp the asserted it would be far real situation now existing in the United States but I doubt whe-
in the Far East.
more appropriate for Pre- ther President Roosevelt or Mr. sident Roosevelt or Mr. Hull can grasp the true situation Cordell Hull to come to
"I believe Japanese-American Tokyo to learn about con-problems could easily be solved if or Mr. Hull ditions existing in
the, President Roosevelt
visited Japan rather than my go- Orient.
ing to the United States.Reu- 1' ter.
"I have studied America.
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In addition to thousands men and women brought away; by air. thousands more guarded as they made the jour- ney in big and little ships.
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Air Forces existing British Grecce scored perhaps the greatest the triumph of six months' arduous
and though campa:gning R.A.F. suffered heavy losses the enemy suffered far greater.
When, awing to the enemy break through on the left flank. the army commanders decided to withdraw to a new line, the R.A.F: suffered the severest blow of the campaign.
They were forced back to two or three bases only and to the odd temporary landing grounds they had used at the start.
All the new aerodromes-which had been built were lost or were too close to the enemy lines to be used.
The enemy hammered the few remaining bases continuously so it became impossible to obtain re- placements of aircraft.
Great Damage
Nevertheless available 'planes took off all the time and inflicted great damage on the enemy forces. Details of the campaign before Germany invaded Greece show that at the end of six months' arduous fighting against Italy, R.A.F. bombers had carried out 300 raids and nearly more than 300 aircraft were confirmed destroyed in the air, besides huge total of aircraft damaged in the air and on the ground.--Reu- ter.
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RAMSAY MUIR
PASSES
RAMSAY MUIR, ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE LIBERAL PARTY AND A NOTED WRITER ON HIS- TORICAL, POLITICAL, MUNI- CIPAL AND ECONÓMIC SUB- JECTS, DIED YESTERDAY AGED 89.:
He resigned his University pro- fessorship and became-Member of Parliament and Chairman of the National Liberal Federation for three years-Reuter,
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Although they had arrived with their lunch-baskets, apparently denoting the intention of making a day of it, the nightsoil demons- trators began to disperse shortly before noon to-day after A.S.P. Luscombe had given them a final warning and the Fire Brigade had been sent for.
For some little time before, there had been several threatening incidents, but the police who had been reinforced kept the situation under control without resort to forcé.
Military guards on the entran- ces to Government House had in the meantime been doubled, and the sentries had bayonets fixed.
Mr. Pennefather-Evans, Com- missioner of Police, and Mr. Per- due, Deputy Commissioner, were present
to the
One blind beggar refused move when the police gave order to the crowd to disperse. Police decided to arrest him and woman threw herself scream- ing upon him and held him down. She was joined by a number of women who came surging up trying to "rescue' the blind man.
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