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Daisy Brand
Australia's Choicest BUTTER
MARKING TIME AT DAMASCUS
Allies Await Bloodless Victory
Last
BREN-GUN
Hours Of CARRIERS IN Ladybird
DAMASCUS SUBURBS
H.M.S.
Ladybird, the Yangtse gunboat which, ----was sunk at Tobruk, was struck by two heavy shells and was "burning like hell" when she went down fighting.
Commander Blackburn, who brought Ladybird from China 10 join the Mediterranean Fleet, described the conduct of officers and ratings as "one of the most magnificent displays of courage I have ever seen."
The London newspapers recall Ladybird's adventures in China and say she had often nosed her .way into the shallow waters off the Libyan coast to shell Libyan fortresses.Reuter.
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The London "Daily Sketch" quotes Cairo radio as saying that British Headquarters will make a formal proposal to General Dentz to permit Allied column to en- ter Damascus un- opposed in order prevent damage the ancient city.
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The "Daily Express" reports that the Bri tish are already in the suburbs of Damascus with Bren-gun car- riers. International News Service.
ROOSEVELT FIGHTERS DOWN
RENEWS PLEDGE
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT RE- NEWED HIS PLEDGE OF "FULL MATERIAL ASSISTANCE ΤΟ GREAT BRITAIN AND HER ALLIES". IN A MESSAGE ΤΟ KING GEORGE CONGRATU- LATING HIS MAJESTY ON HIS BIRTHDAY AND EXPRESSING SINCERE WISHES FOR HIS WELL-BEING AND THE WELL- BEING OF ALL THE PEOPLES
OF THE BRITISH COMMON-
WEALTH.
IN CHANNEL
Decisive
Drive On Tripoli
THE ALLIED
AERIAL BATTLES OFF SYRIA
Australian Air Force in FORCES' DESIRE TO machines have been
operation against enemy MINIMISE BLOODSHED IS THE MAIN REA-planes off the coast of SON WHY DAMASCUS HAS NOT YET BEEN OCCUPIED. FROM HILLS SOUTH OF DAMAS- CUS THE ALLIES CAN SEE THE GARDENS AND DATE PALM GROVES OF THE CITY.
Had this been purely a military opera- tion tanks would doubtless long ago have forged ahead while artillery hammered at the circles of modern forts guarding the city.
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A peculiarity of these thrust from Dere El Zor, on the Euphrates, to Palmyra, which, if forts is that they were confirmed, would be a brilliant mostly built for the pur-strategic move. pose of firing on the city Drive On Tripoli itself in the event of a rising.
The lava bed terrain around Damascus also tends to slow the British fighters shot down two advance of the Allied troops. German fighters into the sea off Syrian circles in Egypt are most the south-east coast yesterday interested in the persistent re- afternoon-Reuter.
ports from Ankara of a British
ROBIN MOOR FACTS BEYOND DISPUTE
THE FACTS ABOUT the sinking of the American ship Robin Moor were beyond dis- pute, said the Under-Secretary of State, Mr. need to emphasise to Your Majes- Sumner Welles, at his press conference in ty my sympathy and the sym-
Washington yesterday.
The President adds: “I do not
pathy of the whole American
freedom and justice which the
peoples of the British. Empire now
are so valiantly defending-Reu- ter.
nation with the great cause of The evidence of survivors was very clear, he declared, and he would withhold a con- sidered statement on what action the United States would take until the full depositions of the survivors had been received and investi- gated.
ARMOUR FOR NIGHT DEFENCE
Every détail
already received man before it is sunk.
by the State Department of the "In the case of the Robin Moor sinking had been made available the facts speak for themselves.”. to the public and this practice Reuter,
would be contiqued.
Commenting on the German claim that the Robin Moor car-
Survivors Cheered
the U.S.
the United ried contraband, Mr. Welles' said Eleven survivors of the Robin
States Government Moor are guests of had never acquiesced in the de- consulate at Recife after telling finitions of contraband of either their stories. side in the present war.
Plain Facts
The survivors, who consist of 10 of the crow and British passenger, are awaiting traṇa-
the portations to
U.6., and meanwhile remain in seclusion, forbidden to grant Interviews.
MR. ERNEST BEVIN, MINIS TER FOR LABOUR, IN A SPEECH AT LEICESTER LAST NIGHT, EXPRESSED THE OPIN. JON THAT THE DAY WAS NOT FAR DISTANT. WHEN THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN WOULD DEAS SAFE IN THEIR BEDB AT NIGHT AS THEY ARE BY DAY. He continued, however: "What meg legend the United States does maintain made night fighting very firmly is that Germany and Under the closest scrutiny, in the enemy over this the United States are parties to order. to prevent unauthorised bald; adding: “Scen- the international agreement of interviews the survivors toured ers, skilled crafts- 1980 under which submarines are Recife yesterday in automobiles men, are bulld-to take proper precautions to and wer cheered by Brazilian
Ight:defence, ensure the safety, the crews crowds.
atlonal News TALLEDER DKO I DE EF8d Passengers of lany merchant Servi
Syria.
issued A special communique from the R.A.F. Middle East states that Command in Cairo yesterday afternoon Australian Air Force machines shot down three Junkers 80's and damaged
others near the coast of Syria.
Austral an fighters attacked eight or nine Junkers 88's bear-
[which had intended attacking а Inaval squadron three miles west
of Sidon.
ing Italian distinguishing marks
Four of the enemy 'plane dived and dropped their bombær. but the remainder jettisonedi their loads and retreated hastilys
Australian fighters shot down The main configuration of the four Junkers and serious damage of country is of two mountain ridges, was inflicted on others, one
with the coast,
wing making which flew with its parallel
on east to west communications dif- fire. ficult, but there is one gap along The Australians suffered no the line Palmyra-Homs-Tripoli loss or damage.--Reuter. which cuts Syria in two.
PALESTINE AIR
RAID DEATHS
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Tripoli commands almost all the country lying to the west of the range nearest the coast while Home commands the coun. try either side of the other ridge. Any drive to Tripoli, as Gener- al Dentz must well know, would therefore establish the Allied A Jerusalem despatch received forces in a commanding position, enabling them to push north and south, and would probably lead to the collapse of resistance at Beirut, Damascus and Aleppo.-Reuter.
in London yesterday says eight were killed and 25 injured in the Tel Aviv rald and one killed and one injured at Haifa. national News Service.
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