By BUD FISHER-
I CANT SLEEP STANDING ON
MY HEAD!
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BRITISH POSITION AT FALLUJAH CONSOLIDATED
BLAME TAKEN BY FIANCEE
A young policeman, Cyril James Golding, Section House, Richmond Police station, was remanded on
THE BRITISH POSITION at Fallujah, in Iraq, had been consolidated, according to an R.A.F. Middle East communique issued in Cairo yesterday. An enemy air attack was intercepted by patrolling fighters and driven off.
Raschid aerodrome was heavily bombed baul for a week at Richmond at dawn on Tuesday and considerable dam- charged with breaking and enter-age done to hangars and other buildings.
ing a heitise and stealing articles valued at £11.
It was stated that Golding was surprised in the house by police-
men.
German aircraft which raided enemy motor transport was sue- Habbaniyah during the afternooneessfully machine-gunned. did some slight damage.
British fighters intercepted and it is be ieved that at least two enemy machines were severely damaged,
results
Mr. Calvert Smith, defending. said that he was visited by Miss Dunlop. Golding's Nancee, that In Syria, two Junkers troop- morning. She informed him that carriers on the ground at Palmyra everything that had been stolen | were attacked but the was stolen by her, and that the could not be observed, whole of the statements made by Golding were for th purpose of protecting her.
Her explanation of Golding's presence at the house was that he could not bring himself to give information against her, and went to replace the things.
Raids On Greece
In Greece, on Tuesday night, British heavy bombers carried out intensive raids on German-occu- pied aerodromes. Details are not yet available.
An enemy attack Wis made on Malta and some damage waa Caused to the aerodrome and civilian property. There werc
no Service casualties, One British fighter which drove At Mekili, ohne Junkers troop-off the enemy was shot down but carrier was set alre and des- the pilot is safe.
In Cyrenaica in the Western Desert, British aircraft continued their offensive patrols.
troyed and il Messerschmidt fighter shot down just after it had taken off.
In the Gazula and Tobruk areas
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HORIZONTAL
30 Ego
1 Tropical tree
6 Section
11 Swamp
12 Belgian
seaport 14 Article 10 Worshipped
animal
17 Opera by
Verdi
18 Indehiscent
fruit
20 Opponent
22 Ignited
23 Lengthy
24 Helped
27 Brother of
Odin
20 Church
couricil
30 Envoys.
32 Plane surface.
1,34 Identsçál a
35 To free
30 Galloped easily
41 Bovine
the quadruped...
42 Winters
44 African river
45 Southwestern
Indian
To scoff To obstruct'
52 Missile
weapon
54 Toward
55 Naval officer
57 Sudden flames
59 Maxim
60 Withered
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VERTICAL
1 To escurt
2 Land measure
3 Feline
4 Ancient
musical
instrument
* Ancient
Italian city
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
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6 Ointments
7 Exists
8 Greek letter 9 To line the
roof of
10 Herb allied
to chicory 11 Handica
roughly
13 Tropical fruits 16 Bad
19 Year's record 21 Lawful 24 Penetrates 20 Friend of Pythias
29 College
"officers. 31 Lukewarm 39 Without Round 35 To awaken 36-Range
37. Container 39; Excited 40 The people 43 Hirelings. 40 Otherwise'. 48 Part 51.Membranous · ·
extension from a. the body of
fahi
53 Strifo
50 Barth goddess
68 Note of stalo *•.
Rounding Up
A British G.H.Q. communique Issued in Cairo yesterday declar- ed: "Following the capture of Fallujah, Iraq, operations are continuing in the area to round up rebel delachments. A number of prisoners have been taken,
"Habbaniyah and Busra remain quiet."--Reuter,
Raschid Claim
A claim that his 'planes bomb- ed Habbaniyah on Tuesday even- Ing, causing "great damage and starting fires," is made in Raschid All's communique yesterday quot- ed by the Vichy news agency.
The communique also claims that three British 'planes were shot down and others damaged.— Reuter.
RISKED SUBMARINES
TO HELP SHIP
An award of £1,500 to the Ellerman liner Algerian, in the Admiralty Court for services ren- dered to the steamer Mari Chan- dris, brought up to £6,500 the salvage awards for helping this ship after her collision last June. In November, Mr. Justice Buck- nill had awarded £5,000 to salvors to whom the Algerian handed her.
over.
Mr. Justice Langton said that the Mari Chandris had a large hole in her side when the Algerian towed her forty-five miles towards Falmouth, and that service was a good one, because it was in an area which at the time was re- garded as a happy hunting ground for German submarines,
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