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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1941...
BRIGADIER GIVES INSIDE DOPE ON BATTLE FOR CRETE
BRIGADIER INGLIS, one of the New
Zealand commanders-in-Grete, who-is-now-in- VICHY'S.
England has given an account of the Crete operation.
He explained that the bulk of the de- fenders of the Island had been evacuated. there from Greece. Many of them were non- combatants and unarmed, and therefore un- able adequately to contribute to the defence of the island.
It had been impossible to eva- cuate them to Egypt for the same 1 reason that it was impossible to
make good the losses in equipment) of the troops evacuated from Greece to Crete, namely the over- whelming difficulties imposed on
PRUSSIAN
JACKBOOT
shipping by the control of the air STAMPS
by the enemy.
jackboot is
IGNY
FORCES SURPRISED
A cable received from the war correspondent of the Free French Forces in Syria states: "The. Vichy authorities have abstain- ed from informing sol- diers of the presence of Free French forces in Syria.
men the
Further, the ports and beaches The Prussian on Crete had been heavily dive-stamping heavily on German "Nearly all officers and bombed for some time before the workers in order to force them made prisoner expressed actual invasion of the island took to produce more and more fodder greatest astonishment at the pre- place.
for the insatiable military sence of such considerable bodies machine.
of Free French troops.
Describing the first day of the invasion, Brigadier Inglis said that a terrific circus of aircraft of all types came in from the north. They carried on for hours heavy bombing and machine-gunning.
Then parachutists were drop- ped.
of
Here are. four instances savage action by East Prussian courts.
They are published by "Die Zei- tung," the Free German daily in Britain-one man was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for not returning to work after his holidays.
are
"Two of many examples particularly illuminating the Captain of a Chad unit saw, driving up to him, a mounted orderly bearing a message from a Colonel giving the order tu attack as Kisswe had just been captured. The Captain sent back the messenger for more detailed information. The latter came
back saying his superior officer typist was coming to explain matters. months The officer of the Vichy troops, work himself a Captain, thereupon
At Heraklion, these mostly fell among our troops and were soon dealt with, and in a short time A seventeen-year-old were captured by the Australia is went to prison for five and New Zealanders.
for not returning to the for which she had contracted after her leave.
came up furious, asking excited- Air-borne troops and large
ly why the order had not been quantities of weapons which were
carried out as soon as received. landed next day by aircraft car- A plumber released from the rying out a continuous bus ser- army for work of war import- The Free French Captain, im- vice between the island and the ance failed to report to the mediately realising the situation, Greek mainland played a more firm to which he was assigned replied the someone had evident- important part than the parachute and was sentenced to six months' ly blundered and asked the visi- ists. The German
A parachutists, imprisonment.
his was tor to hand over
revolver said Brigadier Inglis, were young, given
eight
months' imprison- before any further explanation. not particularly tough, and fairly ment for leaving work without easily disposed of.
resigning.--British Wireless.
milker
AGAĶI FUNERAL
In another incident, a flying sergeant who had been piloting a Dewoittine brought down yes- terday, adamantly refused to belleve for some time that he had landed, in the Free French force's
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]| line,—British Wireless, .
No air force sufficient to deal with the huge masses of German aircraft could have operated from the three Cretan airfields. While Egypt was too far away as a base for fighter aircraft, the German bases on the Greek mainland were so close as to have rendered hopeless
maintain fighter puty 'planes on certain airfields.
it
43'S TO: REGISTER-
The funeral of Mr. Akagi, Shanghai Municipal Police. De- Commissioner, who was slain by a-terrorist recently, has been arranged to take place to- It is announced that on July-5, The Cretan operation was dom-
morrow. when only a few have all men. born, .in. the years 1898 Inated by the German air super-been invited to attend. Special and 1889 will be required to re- precautions have been adopted gister for employment in war Reuter.
1.service.. British Wireless.
iority.
Referring to certain reports that our methods had become obsolete, Brigadier Inglis said that that was far from the truth, Crete had proved the enormous power of the bayonet charge by well-trained determined troops. It was the thing the Germans fear- ed most.-British Wireless.
JAPANESE KILLED BY GUERILLAS
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL OF THE JAPAN TOURIST BUREAU IN SHANGHAI WAS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE
TEIKO SADA, AN EMPLOYEË
SHOT BY CHINESE GUERILLAS |-
CITY ON SUNDAY, WHEN HE TRIED TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A JAPANESE MOTORIST.
JAPANESE CONFUSED BY DEVELOPMENTS
"CONFUSION OVER THE Russo-German war cannot be more confounded than in Japan," writes the influential “Washington Post" under the title “Japan's Dilemma.”
Convinced that the Moscow-Japan pact was engineered by Hitler, the "Post" adds that neither Berlin nor Tokyo gained any advantage from the agreement which was signed mainly for formality Since neither side respected or trusted the other.
Before the Pact days, the "Post" move would not benefit Hitler points out; a Nazi-Soviet clash in the long run but, on the con would have been a golden op- trary, might prove the first step Ten Chinese halted the motorist portunity for, the militarists of of the Japanese in breaking away in an attempt to kidnap him Japan to seize the Siberian Mari- from their Axis arrangement when Sada and a party of seven time Provinces. E
Japanese youths and two girls "So it looks if the Japanese Senator Claude Pepper nd rushed to the rescue. It was at now might forget the empty vocated United States' aid to the this stage that Sada was shot. Russo-Japanese Pact and inter Soviet, cohoing Mr. Churchill's: The report coincides with the vene in the Russo-German war. radio-broadcast. He declared. news that Chinese guerillas are Such an act on Japan's part "Our policy is to defend America. extremely active in the outskirts might be to Hitler's Ilting now against Hiller and to help others and frequently attacke Japanese he is engaged in war with Rus-Britain, China, Greece, Russia civilians travelling in cars.
or any other pooplo-to fend International Nows Service.
"However, any such Japanese Hitler off."Contral News:
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