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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 4; 1941.
TUNNELLED WAY OUT
OUT OF ITALIAN GAOL
TUNNELS MORE THAN 100FT. LONG WERE MADE BY BRITISH PRISONERS HELD BY THE ITALIANS IN EAST AFRICA, WHO PLANNED A MASS ESCAPE. THERE WERE 178 OF THEM IN THE ADIUGRI CAMP IN ERITREA.
Among them were twenty-five officers and twenty-five non-commissioned officers, and separate tunnels were dug from two tin huts in which they slept to points beyond the barbed wire enclosure.
Iron bars were smug- gled in from British Somaliland. With these the officers made a tunnel 105ft. long, 3ft. high and 3ft. below the surface.
Three-ply wood, pitted to look like the surrounding concrete and! placed over the entrants pletely hid the tunnel from the Itaban guards.
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"Their Garden” The men at this time
Sabotage At San
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The authorities are probing the crash of $250,000 four - motored bomber which dived into San Diego (Cal.) Bay on Monday, killing four of
developed
In keen interest a gardening. in
their reality labour in making a garden was the only way of disguising the soil they brought out from the the crew of five, who were testing the plane before All the time each prisoner delivery to England.
tunnel.
for their bid for liberty.
the
saved a portion of his meagre The entire wing assembly was ashore and carefully towed rations to build up a food store
Consolidated at checked plant for possible evidence At tast their preparations sabotage, while US. Army were sufficiently advanced for perts also examined the wreck- them to fix the night for the age.
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QUISLING
BLASPHEMY
in
is
new
Quisling's name to receive special mention edition of the Cate- chism of the Nor- wegian State Church. The reference to him will appear in a the commentary on Fourth Command- ment.
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The Norwegian Church is indignant at this blasphemous association of Quisi- ing's name with the Divine Command-
ments.--Reuter.
U.S. TO TAKE OVER
MER- UNITED STATES of CHANTMEN ARE TO TAKE OVER ALL BRITISH SHIPPING SERVICES FROM CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES TO AUS- attempt. They decided to wait! A Konsolidated official hinted TRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.
"I do not Announcing this arrangement. fortnight when the moon at sabotage, saying:
in Commission Maritime controls the plane's would be favourable.
see how the
this one's Washington states: "This will re- could just jam like
did."-International lease 12 British vessels for Bri- But before the eagerly-awaited apparently
tain's own war efforts."-Reuter. day came, other British forces News Service. had smashed their way through the enemy to free their comrades. I
Union Jack
An RA.F. officer, who was one of the conspirators, told the story.
During their internment. the prisoners secretly made a Union Jack from sheeta coloured with blue and red paint used for painting the roofs of the huts.
As soon as the Arst British patrol passed the camp on the day Asmara fell, one of the native climbed the flag mast. troops hauled down the Italian flag and hoisted the Union Jack.
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CHUNGKING RAID: NEARLY 80 DEAD
IN ONE DUG-OUT
CASUALTIES IN Monday's bombing ore probably higher than those in any previous raid this year, according to reports from vari- ous quarters in Chungking. Many factors contribute to this misfortune.
Seventy-seven were killed and many in- jured in one dug-out which was constructed not for the populace but for trucks. The dug- out was without any protection at the .
entrance.
into the dug-out
Altogether 2,800 New Zealand soldiers are un- accounted for following After the urgent alarm. many
Crete evacuation, people flocked according to information at present in the posses- sion of the N.Z. Govern- ment.
This was announced by the Acting Premier, Mr. Nash, in Wellington yesterday.
Mr. Nash said the majority should probably be correctly re- corded as missing.
Some thousands, he added, had arrived in Egypt from Crete, in- cluding 768 wounded, Reuter.
NO NEWS FROM HERE TO-DAY
The. briefest, communique from Headquarters in the Middle East for a very long time says. "On all fronts there is no change in the situation-Reuter
into the rock for a short distance
any
no turns. It has
for trucks, which enters straight without
stones at the entrance such as in all dug-outs for the populace.
RUMANIA "MORE
One bomb landed directly in NORMAL"
front of the entrance,
Many Junkmen who remained. with their boats were killed and their junks blown to bits when many bombs were dropped on the and Chialing River Yangtse. fronts..
RUMANIA IS 'SHORTLY TO BECOME A "TOTALITARIAN- STATE. WITHOUT A PARLIA- MENT," ACCORDING TO A TO BUCHAREST DESPATCH
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Tale Of Heroism THE ITALIAN NEWS AGENCY.
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at
Casualties were high
General Antonescu, the agency- Chaingpeh, densely populated town on the north bank of the adds, will recast his government Chialing River, opposite Chung-in a more normal form, replac king, where many bombs were ing the generals who have been dropped:
Keres holding ministerial office since A tale of heroism was told of January last with technicians and ar-old woman who was killed in politicians. He will then pro- an attempt to save the life of a chum a new, state organisation- small child,
which will provide for the abolls The old woman, who already tion of parliament and its sub- was safely sheltered, dashed out stitution by national representa into the street to bring the child tion founded on corporative prin into the dug-out. Both were ciples, concludes the message.
Retter, kliled,Reuter