THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 20, 1941.
MEN OF HISTORIC REARGUARD LAND IN CYPRUS
IT IS NOW POSSIBLE TO REVEAL THAT A PARTY OF IMPERIAL TROOPS WHO WERE REMNANTS OF THE HISTORIC REARGUARD AT MOUNT OLYMPUS, IN RAGS, SOME OF THEM ILL AND WOUNDED, HAVE REACHED THE SHORES OF CYPRUS AFTER MOST ASTONISHING ESCAPES AMONG THE GREEK AEGEAN ISLANDS.
They tell stories of desperate resistance against impossible odds, when Nazi 'planes, tanks and infantry, in massed assaults, tried to smash their line.
One Anzac said: "The Germans came on like
men possessed and deter- SOVIET
mined to be slaughtered. We mowed them down like flies.
"ONE RIVER WHERE WE MADE
STAND WAS SO
CHOKED WITH
GERMAN
BODIES YOU COULD WALK ACROSS
"Man for man WO were better
ORGANISING
PARASHOTS
than the Germans, but although The
our artillery was magnificent we which
had
nat swarmTIS
of tanks ami
the tanks
of the German success.”
When eventually broke their ines, these men be gan to march to the const, rattons
Soviet originated
BRITISH
CIVILIANS EVACUATING
of
The evacuation Syria and Lebanon by British, American and Palestine subjects, on The advice of their consuls, is reported in a despatch to the In- dependent French Agency.
nor-
Mining of the road from Beirut to thern Palestine is re- ported but unconfirm- ed. --Reuter.
BILL OF HEALTH
Thirty-two cases of
cholera
Union, with 14 deaths; 191 of tuberculosis with 134 deaths; 28 of dysentery the
with 12 deaths; 18 of enteric
planes, which was the real secret technique of parachute fever with seven deaths; six of soldiers, has taken a leaf measles with four deaths; six of out of Britain's defence two each of chicken-pox, small- | diphtheria with three deaths; and book in co-opting civilian psx and typhus fever, were not- defence against this new form of warfare.
Exhausted. without blankets and with most of their equipment dis- carded. Day andi night they trudged on. ---Reuter.
ACID CASE DROPPED
Expecting "sensation- al" evidence this morning before Mr. G. T. Lowry,
fed to the Health Authorities last week.
Yesterday, there were 46 cases of tuberculosis, eight of dysen- The Soviet radio stated yester-tery, three each of diphtheria and day that 13.00 miners were among Enteric fever, and two each of a large number of citizens who cholera and measles. took part in defence exercises in
the important industrial centre of
Stalino (formerly Hughesorka). The Zamzam
Parachutists unsuccessfully tried to take the mines, radio station and metallurgical tion.
sta-
Disaster
IN
a capacity crowd of spec in the Ukraine just north of the WERE
Stalina lies in the Don Basin, AT LEAST 23 CANADIANS
IT WAS DECLARED TORONTO YESTERDAY THAT
ON BOARD THE is the centre of STEAMER "ZAMZAM," LOST manganese WHILE CARRYING A BRITISH- population of AMERICAN AMBULANCE UNIT
-REUTER.
tators from all walks of Black Sea, and life had
iron and expectations rich coul
ures. 11 has shattered when the prose- 300,000. Reuter. cuting officer announced that the Crown had no evidence to offer.
Prosecuting officer annoumeed that the Crown had no evidence
to offer.
was
The case which attracted a great deal of attention, particularly i Chinese journalistic circles, one in which a 22-year-old mar- ried woman, Tang King-yuk, was alleged to have emptied a bottle of acid into the face of Wei Kwok-
of the Hsin Yah News Agency
MANSLAUGHTER
CHARGE: SEQUEL TO FREE MEAL
TWO TEA-SHOP FOKIS, Cheng Chan-leung
iun, Manager and Editor-in-chief and Chan Ming, were this morning charged before (The New Asia News Agency), the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, with the when he was walking down! Wyndham Street on April 28 last manslaughter of an unknown Chinese on April 11
This morning the Police wine, in Kowloon by assaulting him. having requested previously
no
to
offer against accused, who was discharged.
It is understood that Mr. Wei
is still in Hospital.
several adjournments, unexpected- Crown Counsel, prosecuted assist- told to get away. He saw two of Mr. M. J. Abbott, Assistant man lying unconscious and was ly announced that the Crown had
ed by Inspector evidence
Defendants,
A. E. Carey. the attackers carry the man into who pleaded not the lane and first accused was guilty, were not defended.
there. The jury was composed of Another witness Was Chan Messrs. E. Foullard (foreman), Wing, who lived across the lane. Ho Kal-suen, L. M. Xavier, G. On hearing a commotion he ask- Kelley, Yeung Kwok-ching, Lied what was the matter and was Kwan, Au Key-wai and Hui Sik-told nothing. He saw a man left shui.
in the lane and propped against Before the case the Chief the wall. Deceased had died be- Justice congratulated Mr. Abott|tween 0 a.m. and 7 a.m. Chan was on his being called to the Bar. certain of the men who dragged
Mr. M. J. Abbott said deceased the other into the lane. went to a tea house at No. 7, Chan reported to the police who Cheong On Street at about 6 a.m. soon arrived on the scene. on April 11 and after partaking
UNMANIFESTED CARGO
Ruptured Spleen
Employed by a British ship n a cook, Lam Choi-sang, 32, and two other Chinese, Lai Chor, 24, and Tang Kai, 26, were charged before Mr. D. J. N. Anderson a meal was unable to pay for it. this morning with exporting un- He went to the cashier's coun- manifested cargo, and with ex- ter where a conversation took The man was taken to the Kow- porting merchandise without a place. From the cashier's coun- loon Mortuary. Cause of death permit.
ter, deceased was taken or push-was a ruptured spleen and inter- Revenue-Officer Dunnett made ed towards the kitchen and nal haemorrhage. The medical a routine search on the ship subsequently into the backyard, evidence would be that to rup- about 2.30 p.m. yesterday and A violent assault took place fol- ture it
required considerable
in Lam's quarters found: 20 pack-lowed by shouts of "safe life." force. ages eight of which contained Witnesses would say that they In conclusion, Mr. Abbott said merchandise which could not be saw first and second accused deal exported without a permit. The blows at deceased,
rest were unmanifested cargo.
Lai and Tam admitted
the cargo was theirg, and
that that
they had paid, the cook to take
Tied To Pipe
it did not matter if the accused did not actively strike deceased as long as they were in the party.
There, was a legal remedy for a person not paying his bill: but ac- The man was tied to a drain cused had taken the-law-into-their it to Shanghal.
pipe. An ov
eye-witness was Kong own hands and he felt sure that Lam had his ball of $50 estreat Ping, who, looking out of a from the evidence the jury would ed when he failed to appear. The window, saw some fokis and conclude that accused were im- other two accused were fined $30 second accused in the yard. He portant participants in the assault. cach
wer the kitchen and saw a Case is, proceeding,
Couldn't keep my sye
on the ball to-day!”