THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 5, 1941.
Italian Convoy Caught Napping In Mediterranean
WOUNDED IN CRETE NOW IN N.Y.
ENEMY SHIPS FIRE CAIRO
ON EACH OTHER
IN CONFUSION
AN ENEMY CONVOY IN THE MEDITER->0< British soldiers and sai- lors were very heartened RANEAN WAS TAKEN COMPLETELY BY to hear how well the Rus- SURPRISE BY AIRCRAFT OF THE FLEET AIR sians were still holding| ARM ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND SEVERAL out when they arrived in SHIPS WERE HIT. New York yesterday in
the "Empress of Asia.”
wounded from Crete and else-
where on their way to England to recuperate, and among the 397
Brief details of the successful attack are
Most of those on board were recorded in an R.A.F. communique issued in Cairo, which says that the convoy consisted of five merchantships with an escort of seven destroyers. It was attacked to the east of Cape Spartivento, Sardinia.
passengers, mostly soldiers, sai'ors
and airmen, were also men who
took part in the naval Battle Matapan.
of
Shortly after the vessel's ar- rival the State Department in Washington announced It had
In the first attack, a large merchantship waived the ordinary require was hit by a torpedo and blew up immediate- ly, a column of smoke from the doomed vessel rising 9,000 feet into the air
ments for visitors' visas and had allowed the passengers ashore while the ship was in dock.
The ship's rails were Imed with troops in khaki shorts who cheer- ed lustily as a boatload of news- papermen swarmed aboard, bring- ing with them copies of newspa- pers which
were eagerly shared
by the soldiers and sailors hungry for the latest news from Europe. -Reuter
CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP FINED
AIR BATTLE
AT MALTA
An official announce- ment of
hit
Another large ship was amidships by a torpedo and two smaller vessels in the convoy were damaged.
SUBURB BOMBED
There was an air raid 0.0006。 on Wednesday/Thursday night in the Cairo and Suez Canal areas, states an Egyptian Ministry of Interior communique.
AID TO CHINA GROUPS TO BE AMALGAMATED
Sir Archibald Kerr Clark-Kerr has ap- pointed a special com-
mittee
to unify all British organisations rendering aid to China,
The Committee will be authorised to take direct control of all British aid services to China, according to reports in the Chinese newspapers in Shang- hai. Reuter.
The attack achieved complete surprise, causing great disorder In the convoy. The destroyers apparently fired on their own ships, some of which narrowly 00000000
avolded collision with one an- other.
three-
down
During the same night, Fleet dropped the shooting Air Arm aircraft also
bombs on the Sicilian aerodromes down of six enemy fight-of Comiso and Gerbini. One enemy aircraft going in to land ers over Malta yesterday was attacked from close range
and hit, while an enemy states that "last night engined aircraft was shot there was a succession of in flames over Gerbini. The British alrcraft raids on Malta, enemy
gunned both aerodromes MONS. DE JONG, CATHOLIC raiders operated singly a low height.
and dropped bombs on FINED 500 GUILDERS BY THE the land causing slight
THE
ARCHBISHOP OF NETHERLANDS, HAS BEEN
NAZIS FOR WILFULLY FAIL-
LICE ORDER,
TO-
ING TO OBEY A GERMAN PO-civilian damage but no DAY'S "VRIJ NEDERLAND," casualties.
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STATES
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A bomb was dropped in suburbs of Cairo killing one and injuring 21. Very slight damage was done.
Slight damage was also done área but in the Suez Canaj no casualties are repórted there.
Alarms were also sounded the greater part of the Delta.
In
It is understood the damage in a the Cairo suburb did not affect private property.—Reuter.
REVIEW OF WAR
When Parliament re- sumes after a short sum- mer recess the Prime Minister intends to make
HENRI HAYE a full statement to the
LEAVING
Commons situation.
on
the
war
He will deal among other mat- ters with his meeting with Presi-
re-
The Washington "Evening dent Roosevelt at sea which Star" said last night it is reliab- sulted in the formulation of the ly reported that the Vichy Am-Atlantic Charter, the position of bassador to Washington, Henri affairs in Russia and the 'question from Haye, will be leaving Washington of Anglo-American aid, and the this month for Vichy and is not situation in Iran and the Middle
East. likely to return. Direct Hit
There have been suggestions that He will be accompanied, ac-the question of aid to Russia Royal Air Force heavy bombers cording to the paper's informa- should be debated in secret session. attacked Derna, Gazala and Bar- tion, by Colonel Bertrand Vigne, but this does not find any Support by in Government circles where it is At Derna, bombs fell near who was recently accused the barracks and the post and the New York Herald-Tribune" felt that whatever can be said on telegraph office, causing fire of underground pro-Vichy activi- the subject should be, said in and an explosion.
ties in the U.S.-Reuter,
dia.
a
At Gazala, Ares were started on the south landing ground.
hit At Bardia, a direct scored on the officers' quarters.
was
"Yesterday morning a large formation of Italian fighters ap- Although the contents of the proached Malta. They were en- order were not disclosed, the de-gaged by Royal Air Force fighters cision, of Seyss-Inquart, Nazi
and six of the enemy were de-
attacked The Fleet Air Arm Gauleiter of Holland, to prosec-finitely shot down into the sea. ute the head of Holland's Catho-
store dumps at Gambut, where a were seen to lic Church brings, to a head the
three number of fres "At least an additional strained relations between the were damaged badly and are not break out.
the frontier Nazis
Catholic
area, com-likely to have reached their base.
We sustained no losses."-Reuter. Wednesday, fighters of the South African Air Force intercepted a number of enemy fighters which attempted to attack our forward landing grounds.
and the
munity.
Reuter.
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In the air combats, five enemy fighters were shot down with- out loss to our own formation.
public.-Reuter.
GENERAL DENTZ BOARDS SHIP FOR FRANCE
GENERAL DENTZ, accompanied by 47
No British aircraft is missing officers of his General Staff, arrived in Beirut
from any of these operations.
Reuter.
REALISTIC
from Jerusalem yesterday on the first stage of the journey back to France.
A guard of honour was mounted at the quayside and presented arms before General
SINGAPORE Dentz boarded the ship, which is to leave in
EXERCISES
convoy shortly.
Madame Dentz is accompanying her husband who is understood
Two Generals Stay
· General Dentz was accompanied
Defence exercises "with" to have accepted the offer of a from Jerusalem by other Vichy high post on the Vichy General officers who had been held until Staff.
British officers captured in Syria had been released. told
effects" are to be held in Singapore in the middle of September -cables- Reuter's correspondent there.
MasThe Allied spokesman
Router: "We have given the Two Generala and one A.D.C. Men of Vichy, a good lesson In are still remaining until the last International law and fair play British officers have been repa- on how to treat prisoners. Let trinted from France, Reuter. the Axis ask Dentz about it,"
The exercises will last two days, ma
and they will be of so realistic aIt is learned that over 100 nature that the population has had French seamen deserted from the to be warned in advance not to last convoy of ships arriving from take alarm.
France and joined the Free French forces in the Levant.
MR. MYRON TAYLOR
RECOVERS
Mr. Myron Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal representative. to the Vaticon; left New, York by Clipper yesterday for Lisbon route for Rome, having, recur
The communique announcing the exercises says that they need. One: mariner was astounded to cause no alarm; they are merely a find Beirut life proceeding, nor contribution towards the training mally. He said "Vichy pro- of the Services on whose work paganda told us Beirut was in the community. will depend in an ruins and with no petrol for ated from a severe, lliness, lasting emergency-Reuter.
traffle.
several months.Reutor.
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