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SWIFT BLOWS IN BAGHDAD AREA
British Bombers Deliver Smashing Attacks
PROTEST FASCIST MARCH ON GRAND COUNCIL
GOVT. HOUSE
Over a thousand "ex- night-soil coolies," mostly women with babies strap- ped to their backs and trailing children, march- ed through Caine Road this morning to Govern- ment House.
They were only prevented from entering the grounds by the arrival, just in time, of the emner- gency unit in full strength, under A.S.P. Luscomb and A.S.P. Thompson.
Having ushered the procession beyond the main gate to Govern- ment House, the police blocked all road access, with policemen seven deep at key points.
TO MEET
Mussolini has sum- moned. the Fascist Grand Council of Ministers to meet at 10 o'clock on Thurs- day morning, accord- ing to a Rome press despatch. There is no hint of what will be discussed. Interna- tional News Service.
Portugal's Precautions
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Habbaniyah Defenders Still
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BRITISH BOMBERS DELIVERED A SMASHING ATTACK YESTERDAY ON BAGH- DAD AERODROME, AND PETROL DUMPS AND AMMUNITION MAGAZINES OUTSIDE BAGHDAD WERE ATTACKED WITH SHAT- TERING EFFECT.
Many direct hits demolished military | buildings, while Iraqi aircraft on the ground were overturned and in many cases badly wrecked.
Iraqi troops resumed the shelling of Habbiniyah aerodome for the third consecutive day.
Retaliating, British 'planes bombed and machine. gunned Iraqi mechanised troops and transport columns.
THE LONDON "DAILY MAIL" TO-DAY DECLARES THAT POR TUGAL IS MASSING 50,000 An official announcement in TROOPS ON THE FRONTIERS, London said na'ive Iraqi forces FACING SPAIN, INTERNA- were thrown back after an assault who TIONAL NEWS SERVICE.
on Basra,
The four representatives had, presumably, been delegated by the marchers to present their petition to His Excellency, advised to see the Colonial Secre- tary or Sir Robert Kolewall.
were
The advice met with no imme- diate response, the demonstrators "parking" themselves on the open ground between Upper Albert Road und Garden Road, some of them "weeping and waiting" and others smoking cigarettes and gossiping.
Ready For Lunch! 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 force.
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
DIRECT HIT ON SHELTER IN NAZI AIR RAID
SWARMS OF BRITISH and German warplanes, rocketing back and forth over the dark waters of the Channel, engaged in one of the mightiest bomb- ing battles of the war during the night.
The Germans blasted the Merseyside area in a mass attack causing a heavy loss of life and un- counted damage. The Nazis also ranged over the south and north-east coasts, dropping high explo- sives and incendiaries.
SOVIET SHIPPING SCHEME
A direct hit on a shelter in an unidentified north-east town kill- ed and wounded many.
British bombers carried out an extensive attack on Cologne, Essen, Dusse'dorf... Rotterdam and Brest.
bombers Other British attacked battle-cruisers docked at Brest, the Cherbourg and Boulogne docks, and Le Touquet aerodrome, as well as objectives in southern- Norway. Damage in every case was, heavy. International News Service.
In view of the acute dearth of bottoms, the re- Stubborn Beggar. ported Soviet plans to One blind beggar refused to place nine Soviet vessels points as Manila and Saigon, and move when the police gave the in service between Shang- order to the crowd to disperse. Police decided to arrest him and hai and southern waters
possibly farther enst
Seitlevaino: reported that - the Bovlat authorities are planning a woman threw herself scream- have aroused considerable to open an office in Shangha ing upon him and held him down.
to handle shipping businais- She was joined by a number of interest in Northern port. If the Soviet plan is true, it is women who came surging up. The vessels are said to bear belleved it would provide a great trying to rescue the blind man, riving in Shanghai. shortly. from reduction in price in such com- There was a surging and mill- Vladivostock, bringing large car-modities as rice, and coal and ing for nearly 20 minutes before goes of daily necessities, and will it might have a salutary effect on the women abandoned the at then be put into service for living costs and freight rates which pt to break through the potransportation of general freight are, at present, prohibitive.
1100100031111 Bewigu 19thnght 7 and such. Reuter
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The announcement added that the beleaguered forces defend- ing Habbaniyah airport are still i fighting off fierce assaults.
A report by the Ankara radio heard in New York states that the total of British forces now fighting in Iraqi amounts to 50,000 men.
Says Rome
The vital British oil pipeline extending from Mosul to
Haifa has been cut, according to a Rome press despatch from Baghdad.
Regent's Proclamation
LONDON GETS ALERT AFTER 8-DAY LULL
London had a night alert for the second night in succession after a lull of eight days.
was time
No gunfire heard for some after the alarm.
Raiders were report- ed over several parts of Britain.-Reuter.
THAILAND HIGH COMMAND SHUT UP
With signing of the peace treaty between France and Thailand expected sometime this week, the Thai Premier has dissolved the Thai High Command which formed on November 13 last year following the outbreak of border International hosti,ities, says Reuter from Bang-
kok.
Emir Adbul Il'ah, former Iraq Regent. yesterday issued a pro- clamation in Palestine announcing he is returning to Iraq to form a new Government. News Service.
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