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TIDE OF BATTLE CHINA
"SWAYS" IN CRETE
same,
"THE CRETE SITUATION is much the
with very
severe fighting in the Malemi area, where the Germans have land- ed more men in the last 24 hours. It is very difficult to see how it is developing.
It is difficult, too, to say how the land- ings compare with the previous two days but the enemy has undoubtedly suffered very severe losses in aircraft while others will soon need overhauling.
"The tide of battle still sways to and fro in the area between Canea and Malemi and Malemi."
In these words
around
e and COLLAPSE
OF IRAQ
well-informed
military circles in Cairy last night summed up the latest position in Crete.
Meanwhile a steady round. in up of prisoners continues southern Abyssinia, where it looks as if the Jimma concen- tration is in for an unpleasant time.
Bad Weather
The weather is very bad, with heavy rains. Truffle is held up
REVOLT
"The world is now look- ing to the United States as the last citadel of civil- isation," Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the Chinese National Government, told Mr. Clarence Gauss,
new U.S. Ambassador to China, yesterday.
con-
Presenting his credentials, Mr. Gauss expressed the firm
principles
for viction that the which the peoples of China and the United States stand, freedom and liberty, would finally pre-
vail.
ing
He added that the long-stand-
American friendship
enhanced (na had been their admiration of Chinese deter- mination to defend their
for
by
free-
com.
Referring to American sistance to China, Mr. Bald the United States
Gauss
was
were
now becoming a great arsenal for those peoples who defending their liberty, freedom and independence.
Recalling he had been 30 years
in Chma, he stressed his great faith in the Chinese people and his confidence in China's destiny. ex- replying, Mr. Lin Sen,
and pressed the appreciation gratitude of the Chinese people re- for the assistance they had
and undoubtedly would continue to receive
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The imminent collapse United States --Reuter. on three-quarters of the roads, of Iraqi resistance is fore-
which were not built for rains.
There is still plenty of room
for the remaining
Italians
cast after the to appointed
far they will put up a fight. since the original forces of 30,000 to 40 000 men a few weeks ago have
melling been readily
through desertions and surrenders. Reuter.
from
the
Self-THEY TOOK
Premier,
munoeuvre but it is doubtful how Raschid Ali, and his FLOWERS-
Cabinet, were reported to (BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT) be fleeing or preparing to flee in the face of British military advances internal unrest.
INSURANCE
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The
The strong
Three members of а rescue party stepped shyly into the ward One of and of London hospital.
of
them carried a bunch of flowers, men 10 а a tribute from brave brave girl.
Her
concentration
Mrs. Rose Connolly, aged nine- Raschid All's troops menacing
teen, was injured when her home Iraq's British-occupied Persian was wrecked by a bomb. Gulf port of Basra was broken up in a surprise attack by Bri- tish Imperial troops supported by the guns of British warships in the Gulf and strating R.A.F. 'planes.
The defeated Iraqis had mussed six miles up the Tigris from Basra in a movement to wrest
the British.
The situation in Basra is quiet. --International News Service.
High Command the country's only seaport from of the British and Im- perial Forces look upon the Malayan garrison as the best insurance of peace in the Far East, declared
Major-General ALBERT
A. Percival, General
Officer Commanding, MEDAL FOR
Malaya, in an interview
in Singapore yesterday. PRESIDENT
The G.O.C. disclosed that
a
heroism during
the twelve hours she was trapped touched the rescue workers. The bomb killed Mrs. Connolly's tew-month-old baby girl, her own mother,
and mother-in-law father-in-law. Her husband is with the R.A.F.
Mre. Connolly smiled as they handed her the flowers. The last her was time they had seen when they dug her out of ten feet of debris and she had jok ingly cried: "Go easy boys, you're treading on my face." "This is lovely of you, boys," said Mrs. Connolly as she buried her face in the flowers. "I was wondering how I could ever thank I didn't you or what you did. dream you'd come to see me."
"Huh, that's all right, missus," sald Jim Parton, one of her res- cuers, awkwardly. "We've got to look after our customers."
Then he and his comrades walked from the ward to go back lo their job. They wouldn't have THE COUNCIL OF THE believed anyone who called them
SOCIETY OF ARTS.heroes.
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The past policy, he added, of having a large number of aero- dromes had proved a wise one.
increased This further
many fold the difficulties of establish- ing hostile air superiority which,
difficult
of achievement owing to the dis- tances involved.-Reuter.
in
any
case,
was
MR. RONALD CROSS'S NEW POST
DOCTOR SAVES THREE BABIES
OF CONNAUGHT, HAVE DECID- ED TO CONFER ON PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT THE ALBERT GOLD MEDAL OF THE SOCIETY "IN RECOGNITION OF HIS
SERVICES TO Three babies and their mothers PRE-EMINENT
maternity HUMANITY AS A FEARLESS were rescued from a
RESOLUTE CHAMPION home raid on a north-east town. AND OF THE IDEALS OF NATIONAL A helper said she understood FREEDOM AND INDIVIDUAL that the babies were not labelled, LIBERTY.'
but she thought the nurses would The Albert Medal of the R.S.A. be able to sort them out and give was struck in 1864 to commemer- them to the right mothers. ate the presidency of the Society Heroine of the rescue work was which was held by Prince Albert a young woman doctor who lives from 1843 to 1861. It is awarded [next door.
for "distinguished merit in pro- The doctor's housekeeper, Mrs. moting arts, manufactures and Elsie Webster, said: commerce."
PLEASANT
One
"The doctor was out l'ke a shot, Among previous recipients are We got all the babies put. Queen Victoria, King Edward VII- was only four days old." King George-V-Thomas-Edison, Orville Wright, Louls Pasteur, MR. S. M. BRUCE, AUSTRA- | Guglielmo Marconi and Madame LIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER, Į Curie. British Wireless, SPEAKING AT A LUNCHEON IN LONDON YESTERDAY, WELCOMED THE APPOINT- MENT OF MR. RONALD :CROSS AS UNITED KINGDOM HIGH COMMISSIONER TO AUSTRÄ-
LIA..
. Mr. Bruce referred to the close and successful cooperation now possible between Britain and the Dominion Governments.
Mr Ronald Cross paid a tribute to the fighting qualities of the Australians: Reuter,
RAIL RESCUES BY A.R.P..
""Modern""" warfare necessarily takes on the character of a fight to the finish, whose "issue, signifies total catastrophe for the van- auished. Victory does not pay for risks and sacrifices unless the ARP. men and war-workers vanquished disappears completely on their way to work helped to from the field of competition. The rescue passengers when two local enemy should be destroyed, his trains collided at Leyton, E., sta-heritage seized. poste tion shortly after dawn.
The foregoing is a pleasant ex- tract from the Deutsche-Wehr of Franco 1935, quoted by ・ “La Libre."
Hundreds of people were in one of the trains and fifty were in Jured none seriously