RAIDS ON
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 13, 1941.
BENGHAZI
Widespread Activity By R.A.F., Middle East
Situation In Iraq
Stabilised
HEAVY RAIDS ON BENGHAZI, where ships were attacked and three large fires started on the Mole, were made on Sunday, stated a British R.A.F. Middle East communique issued in Cairo yesterday.
At Benina, three German and one other plane were set on fire while at Berka, hits were obtained on buildings north-east of the landing ground.
GREEK NAVY'S LOSSES
El Gazala was also randed
At Devna, the landing grotnud. on which a number of enemy air- craft were dispersed, was attacked janud motor-transport in the vicin- Hy Was bombed and machines Panned.
Considerable damage was caus- end for enemy mechanised units m various places between Tobruk and Derna One Germani "plane. a Messerschmidt 109, was attock - ed and destroyed.
The communique also stated that in Iraq the "situation
has become stabilised. British air. craft are engaged in punitive operations against the Iraqis in most of the districts where they were observed.
TWO LONDON
MAYORS
KILLED IN RAIDS
Two mayors have been killed in raids on London, the Mayor of Westminster on Satur- day night while visit- ing a shelter which received a direct hit, and the Mayor of Bermondsey, who was helping in fighting fires in a recent raid.
Reuter.
BENGHAZI STOP PRESS SHELLED
During Saturday night|| powerful units of British |light forces carried out an intense bombardment of Benghazi from point- blank range, states Admiralty communique issued yesterday.
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Damage was caused to shipping and military objectives.
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Fire from shore batteries. ineffective, as were also repeated attacks by enemy dive-bombers.
No casualties or damage were sustained by any British ships. Reuter.
THE MOST SENSATIONAL STORY OF THE WAR
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ber. Hess, to whom you would then owe your duty IS leader, "ON SATURDAY, MAY 10, AT just as you do to me." ABOUT 6 P.M., RUDOLF HESS| At one time a picture of Hess SET OFF ON A FLIGHT FROM was seen more often in the illus- AUGSBURG FROM WHICH HE trated papers and on the screen HAS NOT RETURNED UP TO, than that of any other Nazi leader the THE PRESENT TIME.
except Hitler.--Reuter.
The Greek 9.450-ton: cruiser Averof, and several destroyers and submar- ines are the only vessels of the Greek Navy which] escaped the mass attacks] of the German air forcel on Greek harbours and South Africa Air Force, a Rho- shipping.
It Abyssinia. units
desian squadron. and the RAF continued to barrass the Italians at Gimma, Sciasecamanna, Vadera Ships lost included three des-and Alage. One British plane is troyers. 10 small torpedo-boat missing from all these operations. and the old battleship Kilkis. Reuter. which, having to A A protection and being berthed at the Royal Arsenal buse, sank after being set on fire during a raid.
This statement
tively made in Canea (Crete) yes - was authorita- terday. Reuter.
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"A letter which Hess left be- hind shows by its distracted- ness traces of mental disorder. and it is feared that Hess was the victim of hallucinations.
Arrests Ordered
The Fuehrer at once ordered the arrest of the adjutants of the party member who alone had any knowledge of these flights and who, contrary to the Fuehrer's orders, of which they were fully aware, did not prevent, or failed to report, these flights.
"In these circumstances it must
Hitler's Shadow
HESS HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS HITLER'S MAN FRIDAY" AND HITLER'S SHADOW."
The Fuehrer had nominated him ав his successor designate after Goering. He was res. ponsible to Hitler alone-above Himmler, Goebbels, von Rib- bentrop and Goering.
He is was Hitler's private secre- tary in the old Beer Cellar days and was interned with him in the Fortress of Landsberg. There he
be considered that the party took down the first pages of ember Bess either jumped out "Mein Kampf" at Hitler's dicta- of the plane or met with un tion,
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Last month Hess was reported When Hl'er came to power. to have flown to Spain With affess, at the head of the liaison message for General Franco. staff, brought to Hitler every bit
of conidential information which! Hitler required from A state about to be overrun.
Later an official denial that he was actually visiting Spain was issued, but it did not say he had
not been there.
One Of Old Guard
Twelve days ago Hess was at the Nazi Brown House in Munici receiving Vice-Admiral Salvador Merino, the Spanish Minister of Marine and leader of the Spanish Falangist Syndicate.
100 Per Cent. Party Man
Hess spent his boyhood in Egypt and went to an English school at Alexandria. The outbreak of war in 1914 prevented him from going. to an English university. Since the 1934 purge, when i He was a 100 per cent Party Captain Ernst Roehm and other man and never wore any other i National-Socialist Party leaders uniform but the brown shirt of were killed on Hiller's personal the Storm Trooper or the black intervention, the Hess affair is coat of the S.S., Hitler's Black
event in German political history. Suid to be mi'd-mannered. Hess speaks little and acts quickly and Hess is a man of Imposing after Hitler himself lives presence, tall. welt-built and most frugal life of any of the with intense, commanding eyes. Nazi leaders.-Reuter. He is one of the Nazl Old Guard.
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Although he has never played! The facts that the deputy specl- un open part in the Nazi Cabinet, ally chosen by Hitler should be in the way of Goering or Goeb- suffering from "a disease which bels, he has often been reported has been progressive for years,' to have had great influence over, that he should be watched over Hitler.
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H.M. CONSULATE HIT IN RAID
The British, consulate in Yun- dinance, 1938, and may not be reprint. nanfu was hit and damaged in ed under any circumstances, alther a heavy Japanese, raid yesterday. wholly or In part, without prior ar No casualties were suffered, how- rangement..
ever, Reuter,"
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