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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 22, 1941.
Widespread Parachute Troop
Landings Continue
SUDA BAY SINCE THE GERMAN INVASION OF GREECE ONE OF BRITAIN'S MOST IMPORTANT NAVAL BASES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND MELEMI – SITE OF AN IMPORTANT AIR EFIELD WERE THE FIRST PLACES WHERE GERMAN PARATROOPS LANDED ON CRETE AT 2 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING ON TUES- DAY, ACCORDING TO MILITARY CIRCLES IN
CAIRO YESTERDAY.
The landings were followed by a day of Severe
later other fairly widespread landings were
intense bombing and ground strafing, and Loss Of
made at Canea and Heraklion, as well as on the peninsula north of Suda Bay.
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and later on the same day more troops land- ed in the same fashion at Heraklion and Retimo.
Crete up to that time were either
Military circles in Cairo German parachutists landed on said that fairly strenuous killed or captured. International fighting was still going News Service.
on.
Irreparable losses were suffered by the Royal Col- lege of Surgeons, in Lin- coln's Inn Fields, in Lon- don, from damage in a recent air raid.
اره
Small Boats Used
Thousands of museum pieces THE SITUATION IS RATHER
Reports of naval landings hy are gone. including skeletons CONFUSED. OWING
TO THE
the enemy in Crete are inaccurate, kangaroos brought by Captain FACT THAT A CONSIDERABLE!
Information has, however, been Cook from Australia and a com- NUMBER OF PARACHUTISTS
received in London that landingsparative osteology collection of ARE REPORTED TO HE WEAR. were attempted by the Germans 4,000 specimens acknowledged to IN NEW ZEALAND BATTLE- from small bonts, says Reuter,
be the finest in existence.
DRESS.
There is no information in Caira about happenings yesterday.
Nazi Bombast (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
the
of
The oldest mummy in the world wus also destroyed and, by a grim coincidence, an invaluable army A offen) G.H.Q. communique man i Berlin yesterday claimed: pluster
The German military spokes-medical war collection containing in Cairo declares:
casts of "Throughout "Success of
every type Tuesday the island of Crete was Crete is
operations in wound, was also demolished.-- subjected to a series of intensive You may be absolutely sure that
100 per cent certainty. British Wireless, air attacks in the intervals of Crete will fall into German which fresh waves of German hands." International News Ser- parachute and air-borne troops vicv. landed at various points,
"Heavy lighting continued dur- ing the day in which the enemy | sustained serious losses. while ours were comparatively light.
Cairo Communique
"AT ONE POINT A GERMAN DETACHMENT WHICH SUC- CEEDED INTO CANEA ROUNDED
FOR.
IN PENETRATING THE OUTSKIRTS OF WAS QUICKLY SUR- AND ACCOUNTED
Operations are continuing." Reuter.
Premier's Statement
BARRAGE SHROUD
OF SHELLS
A British fighter pilot has had his most hair- raising night flight
TURKISH DECISION
RAILWAY BRIDGES ON THE TURCO GREEK FRONTIER, BLOWN UP
BY THE TURKS FOR THE SAKE OF SECURITY WHEN
THE GERMANS AD- VANCED INTO GREEK TERRI-
TORY MAY SOON BE RECON-
STRUCTED.
Turkish, German and Bulgarian by railway delegates, it is understood
Immediately the House of Com-getting caught in a box frontier
in Istanbul, are to confer at a
mous met yesterday the Prime Minister was ready with latest information on the situation|A.A. guns.
the barrage put up by British matter.
in Crete.
town to consider the
The negotiations will also in- volve Turkey's rail traffic with In Suda Bay, Mr. Church the Iron Cross.
The pilot thinks he has earned Bulgaria and central Europe said, further air-borne attacks how it feels to be a German pilot up since the Germans penetrated He knows just which has been completely held began at 4.40 on Tuesday after- noon, About 3,000 men
over Britain in a blitz, and it is into Greek Thrace. -- were dropped and by 6.30 p.m.
an experience he does not want the to repeat. greater part were accounted for, Fighting continues and the situation was reported in hand
at 9p..
"I got a sight of one of
the Huns (he said), but unfortu- nately lost him at about 7,000 The method of attack was dive-denly opened
feet. Then the guns below sud- bombing Stukas and Messersch- caught in a barrage.
up, and I was midts followed by gliders parachutes.
and
"I went first to the north, then to the east, and all round the
terrifying curtain
In the Heraklion and Retimo compass, but I simply could not areas the attack began at
5.30 p.in. by parachutists.
penetrate that Troop-of shells. carrying aircraft, many of which crashed, also landed.
"Fighting Will Continue"
"It must be expected that the
"wirelessed 'home' to see if
Reuter.
TO BURN BOOKS OF
LINDBERGH
The
Ottawa
Service
they could help me, but they Club, made up of war effect: "You got veterans and present day
told me In yourself into the barrage, now
get yourself out.' Not a bit soldiers, has unanimously
cheering. 'I' have
fighting will continue with in- from the ground, and they look written by Charles A. séch these barrages recommended that books creasing severity," Mr. Churchill bad enough down there, but they Lindbergh be burned on
ACTIVE U.S.
A spokesman for the club said such a demonstration was neces- sary to make Lindbergh realise that "we resent his remarks against the British empire.!!
said.
are just firework displays com- In reply to a question whether pared to what Germans descending in
they seem like the public square. British when you are actually in one.” uniform would be dealt with ac- cording to international law. Mr. Churchill confirmed that New Zealand uniforms were worn but] he was not sufficiently informed of the exact circumstatices and left certain amount of discre- tion to those on the spot.-Reuter. 10,000 Landings
(SPECIAL TO' "CHINA' MAIL") The London "Daily Express" declared yesterday that 10,000 German troops have landed on Crete.
AID URGED
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The recommendation was for warded to Ottawa's mayor for approval. (SPECIAL TO, CHINA MAIL")
Meanwhile the city council requested the Carnegle THE “NEWS CHRONICLE." Library to clear Lindbergh's books FIRST MAJOR BRITISH DAILY from its shelves. Associated
DROP ALL RESTRAINT Press. YESTERDAY CAME OUT OPEN- LY AND STRONGLY FOR COM PLETE UNITED STATES IN- TERVENTION IN THE WAR. Meanwhile the Froe French Under a four-column headline News Agency declared fast "We appeal to America," the night. In a despatch from its newspaper. declared: "We' British Five Cairo correspondent that the people want you American people have been arrested in Paris- arid British are "complete mastere in this war on our side, fighting, sent to concentration camps; It of the situation on Gretai!! Greck officials in Cairo stated help us to victory quickly."
Not to save us from defeat but to was reported from the former that on Tuesday afternoon, all'International News Service,
-PARIS INTERNS 5,000 JEWS
thousand foreign.
French capital, says an Associat ed Press report from Vichy.'