THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 28, 1941.
COLD-BLOODED ASSAULT
70 Killed In Murderous Raid On Damascus
BARONET'S
Damage To The Ommayad COUNSEL
Mosque
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent with the
Allied Forces in Syria)
SEVENTY WERE KILLED, 29 WOUNDED AND MORE THAN 100 HOUSES DAMAGED IN THE TRAGIC TOLL OF LAST WEDNES- DAY'S COLD-BLOODED RAID BY NAZI 'PLANES ON DAMASCUS, SYRIA'S ANCIENT CAPITAL.
To-day I visited the heart of the city and saw the damage. One bomb fell within ten yards of the famed Ommayad Mosque and the Tomb of Saladin.
The windows of the Mosque and the walls are scarred by bomb splinters. All round lie inasses of stonework and
brick
all that remains of six houses which received a direct hit
Crowds of silent Moslem ! women stood watching with tear- stained eyes while workinen cleared the debris and searched : for possible further victims.
derous assault as the ncarcat military objective-Mezza air. port is at least 12 miles dia-
tant.
Damascus was not even blacked
out.
High French military authori-
an
bombs were
One Arab pathetically clutch-ties are confident, following ed my arm as I was leaving and enquiry. that the asked in broken English: Will of German origin. they come again to-night?"
Murderous Nazi
Assault
There is no
the at.
doubt tack was a premeditated, mur-
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ELOQUENT
Counsel for Sir Delves Broughton, who is charged with the murder of Lord Erroll, suggested when he addressed the court the yesterday that crime was either poli- tical or "the act of some previous mis- tress scorned by the - victim."
Counsel spoke on behalf of accused all day.-Reuter.
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Channel Bombing Success
The first bomb dropped by a Blenheim bomber of the Coastal Command on a German supply ship in the Channel yesterday afternoon struck ber plumb on the stern.
The force of Blenheims, says the Air Ministry news service, was out with a strong escort of fighters on a sweep over the Eng- lish Channel.
As they furned for home the stern of the ship was already un-
der water and the sea was wash- ing over her decks.
The squadron leader flying the leading Blenheim saw three ships about 10 miles off Dun- kirk. The formation
bombed
RUSSIANS CLAIM STRIKING VICTORY
IN TANK BATTLE
(Continued from Page 1)
AS THE RUMANIANS ADMIT
ALLIED MOVE ON HOMS
ERS IN ANKARA, ESPECIALLY Free French forces, THAT CONSTANZA, GALATZ, moving up the road from SULINA AND OTHER PLACES Damascus towards Homs,
IN RUMANIA HAVE BEEN have reached a point 20
SEVERELY DAMAGED.
A German High Command com- to 30 miles north of munique in typical fashion claims: Dama cus, according to "Our troops on all fronts have won decisive results."-Interna- milita. y
tional News Service and Reuter. I
Nazi Vagueness
authoritative
sources in Cairo.
British and Australian troops
to
At 10 o'clock jast night the are carrying out a certain amount north-west of of of exploration promised Nazi announcement big victories over the Red Army, Damascus. had not appeared.
Fighting is going on round and Instead, the
Palmyra, official German' about
according news agency issued the following latest reports reaching Cairo, uni luminating report, that "ac- mainly north-west of the town. cording to information received, Unrelaxing heavy hammering German units penetrated deep by the RAF. of Axis bases 1s into the Soviet lines during
only fact reported hard fighting on Thursday. inflict- Cyrenaica.--Reuter. ing heavy losses on the enemy."
According to a semi-official whole Russian division, supported report issued in Berlin, a large by an armoured regiment,
annihilated.
the the
number of tanks were destroy. ed and many captured in per- fect condition.
from
was
It is also claimed that German troops were welcomed as "liber- In one sector it is claimed that ators" by all frontler peoples con- Bavarian Alpine troops dispersed quered by the Soviet, and that a an armoured section, capturing a Lithuanian battery and a Cossack des-unit of 200 men went over to the large number of guns and troying 100 tanks.
Imagination
Working Hard
Germans.
Among the exploits of the Luft- waffe, it is claimed that one squa- dron destroyed 21 Russian
machines and scattered a column
In another sector, it claims, a of lorries-Reuter,
STOP PRESS
A fierce battle is raging round Lwow (Lemberg)
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the Germans. the middle one vessel of about 3,000 tons. Polish fighters destroyed three German fighters on the ground during attacks on enemy air fields in Northern France yester- day. Reuter.
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He emphasised that arma- ment aid for Ireland-myst fol. low assurances, that tho. Frlah would defend themsolves against Gorman attack. No such acduranco had boon récelved." -President Roosevelt disclosed that a shortage of aluminium con- fronted the nation in its defence Soffor the
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The situation in the Far East remains calm and has so far not been affected by the changes in the war fronts, said Mr. Frances B. Sayre, High Commisioner for the Philippines, at a Press con- ference in Manila yesterday.
He said that it was too ear ly to tell whether the Russo- German, war will affect the situat on but revealed that he had received instructions from Washington authorities. not to freeze Soviet credits.
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