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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER
$1941.
Another Italian Convoy Caught In Mediterranean
Torpedo 'Planes Go Into Action
THE ENEMY CÓNVOY mentioned in the Middle East R.A.F. communique was attack- ed early on Sunday morning in the narrow gap between Pantellaria and Sicily, says the Air Ministry News Service.
The 6,000-ton vessel was left listing heavily and sinking, with a destroyer stand- ing by, while other destroyers slowly shep- hended: the remaining two ships, one being, a badly damaged 6,000-ton tanker.
About the same time, other Fleet Air Arm alrcraft crews were completing a brisk night's work.
ITALIAN CLAIM RIDICULED
IRANIANS STALKING?
It is believed that the Tran Cabinet is still considering the Anglo-Russian Note.
Although the
Further light on achievements of the Im- perial Forces in the East African campaign is shed by Lt General Cunning- ham, who commanded
them.
The outstanding fact was the Ughtning advance ont Addis Ababa 1,300 miles in 50 days. Five years ago, the Italians took seven monthe to cover 425 miles with only Abyssinian tribesmen to: oppose them.
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a short routine session of Parliament was held in Teheran yesterday only secondary mat ters were considered! Another meeting it is expected will be held today. - Reuter.
HARDENING COURSE FOR OFFICERS
IN, STEEL. HELMETS AND BATTLEDRESS WITH RIFLES SLUNG, BOOTS ROUND NECKS, A DOZEN, OFFICERS: OF MID- LAND AA. DIVISION SWAM → SIXTY-YARDS. DURING AN INTENSIVE HARDENING-UP COURSE WHICH THEY ARE NOW UNDERGOING.
A physical training officer showed them how to swim with rifle, and boots slung, how ex- perienced and strong swimmers can help along colleagues: not 'sa experienced in the water and how officers' full kit can be propelled? ✪✪04 | though wrapped in a ground shaet
and anti-gas capes.
INTRUDER AND A
HOUSE-DOG
The hardening course, was, offì- cially for officers under forty but Iseveral over that..ager took part.
The hardening course includesz route marches in respirators, rope climbing, in full equipment, bomb- throwing complicated obstacle racing, tug-of-war and unarmed combat, apart from mrmal daily physical training. British Wire-
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The General ridiculed the. Ita lian claims that large British forces had been tied up in Abys- The attack which caused great destroyers in diamond formation sini Marth, we offered, to sent confusion was led by the Bleu- around it. We flew in through **Dr tenant who torpedoed a destroyer the gap between two destroyers. the South African units, to the
fronts off Tripoli a few nights ago and Another aircraft picked out the Mediterranean
British also took part in a recent attack first ship: in line and F took the forces throughout the campaign on a convoy off. Cape Spartivento. second a six-thousand tonder. İwere, never large.
"Dropping my torpeda from "In the Battle- of the Lakes, AN INCIDENT IN WHICH clote in I pulled away, just imthree British Brigades with 401 CAFTRI SCHIVEN, IMS, time to misa hitting the ship guns engaged 40,000 Italians with WAS KICKED BY A WOULD-BE. myself, I could see the splash | 200 guns.
THIEF AT NO. 177; BOUNDARY" where the tarpedo, hit the waten "The riskiest momnat was STREET, FIRST ELDOR, EARLY- and the wake going towards the when 30,000 Italians were threa LAST TUESDAY MORNING. chip: There was a terrific thud tening the Addis Ababa-Jibouti WAS RELATED BEFORE MAJOR and, from the, port side we saw Railway and this lifeline was A. N: MACFADYEN AT KOW the torpedo" "hit
the vessel defended by only two British bat-LOON TO-DAY WHEN CHAN! amidchips. There was the violent tallons."
FAI, 39, WAS, CHARGED. explosion and she started' ¡ist- In rating the morale of the ing heavily and pouring out Italian Army, General Cunning- Capt. Scriven was awakened by. black_smoke.
ham put the Eritreans highest, then the dog barking inside his room. the Somalls and lost the Black at 4 a.m. last Tuesday when he. The first "Stork Sat- shirts, though he paid tribute to was sleeping on the verandah. Hchel"a specially design- the Duke of Aosta.
heard a struggle between his dog ed medical kit to aid in "He had an intense desire to and a man and then saw accused
climb to the verandah through the emergency baby deliver- Bri- window. The captain caught holt jeg has arrived in Eng-
of accuseds. who kicked at him and
After starting for Sicily, a ma- chine developed, engine trouble so the crew unloaded its bombs on Comiso and returned to its base, stepped into another machine and returned to Sicily where they dive-bombed and machine-gunned three enemy aircraft.
Low Barrage
They repeated the performance "Meanwhile the destroyers were at Gerbino where they also drop-oircling,, frantically: trying to pod bombs and started fires be- cover their charges with a smoke fight clean but in practice fore flying home to bed.—Reuter.
screen. The one ahead: swung not always carried out." to starboard, and the one to port tish. Wireless. side followed the leader round, Aring a low barrage at us as
Listing Heavily
it went. None of us was hit but "the confusion wag such that The successful attack above re- shells from one destroyer were ferred to on a convoy in the Medi-seen; bursting on the deck of the terranean is mentioned in the Mid-other which, in turn was firing dle East Royal Air Force com-back dropping: hells just short of munique issued yesterday, which, the other ship. The last vessel states:-
in the convoy opened up on us with a couple of light flak guns "Mediterranean: Aircraft from aft, but we were climbing out of the Fleet Air Arm made a success-ranges and as we went we could ful' attack on a convoy of three see the leading ship. in. the con¬" medium-sized merchant vessels, voy sneaking, away on its own. protected by three destroyers. in out of the smoke screen," the Mediterranean on Saturday British Wireless,·· night.
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"One merchant ship was hit three times, causing violent ex- plosions and much black smoke. The vessel was compelled to stop, listing heavily to port. A tanker, hit with two torpedoes, was se- verely damaged.
Benghazi Raid
BLACK MARKET CLOSED
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
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SOUTH
AFRICAN
HEROISM
It was
How a South African
FIRSTSTORK SATCHELS
broke off, jumping into the street. land; from the US.
Capt. Scriven ran down the street, tackling accused, and. fin- ally arrested him.
Accused was fined $35, or two months' hard, labour, and a fur- ther six weeks.
GUNNYBAGS
air-gunner, saved his comIN CABINS
rade's life was told by the
FOUR CHINESE EACH WERE
and other
After heading....... how so many mothers have: given birth to bables in shelters strange, places during the blitz, women; volunteers in the Amer. Team Red Cross, got busy making portabio "hospitals?" Yor UK They call them "Stork Sat- chols, and they are made in three sections..
The first consists of an operat- ing gown, operating cap, leggings, maska, rubber gloves; sheets, hand towels and hospital bed shirt,
The second is a layette. This includes everything, for a newly- born baby from tiny embroidered dresses to a packet of safety pins. The third contains comforts
Air Ministry yesterday. FINED $500 FOR THREE and necessities for the mother.
Sergt. François Joubert was one MONTHS, HARD LABOUR BY of two gunners in a Maryland MR.. G. T. LOWRY THIS MORN- bomber which was attacked and ING, FOR EXPORTING UN-] set on fire by Nazi fighters. - MANIFESTED- CARGO ON. During this attack, his fellow- 'BQARD THE SS. FOOK ON FOR gunner was badly wounded. † MACAO YESTERDAY. Flames spread rapidly through
TRAIN 'SUNK' BY WARSHIP
The announcer said that the
the machine and eventually the Choi Yuen, Leung Kwan, Yuen "Libya:" On the same night a Shanghai's black mar order was given to abandon the Wan and Tong Wong were alleg-
Faircraft.. TAN
ed to have placed gunny bags an heavy raid by R.A.F. bombers on ket for foreign exchange With great courage, Joubert board the steamer.
A fight between a Rus Benghazi resulted in a number of
sian warship and a Ger- direct hits on military stores and went out of existence went to the assistance of the help-
less wounded gunner..
According to Detective Ser-man armoured train was buildings. The Fleet Air Arm yesterday when fourteen alping him from the turret to geant J Johnston, of the Special made a series of attacks on the
described by Moscow landing grounds at El Timimi, El banks, licensed under the the escape hatch, he was again in Branch, the gunny bags were ar- Gazala; Martuba and El Adem. freezing regulations for man's parachute harness became beds in the first, class cabins,
difficulty whenthe wounded ranged under the mattresses of radio. "Five enemy aircraft were exchange dealings, dis-tangled on the mechanism of a
but he solved this by drope Mr. Lowry warned that in fu-train broke through to a railway other at Martuba. Considerable market rates. destroyed at El Gazala, and an continued quoting black sing both the gun, and wounded ture case, he would impose the station near the coast and opened
heavy fire on Soviet positions. damage, was caused to a. num-
man through the hatch maximum fine Bør of others. Firen were caused} The banks have now agreed to
As He did so, his own, ripcord A fine of $250, or two months A Soviet warship in the vicinity was ordered by radio to attempt at El Adem and damage to the quote only the Stabilisation caught in a gun and his parachute was imposed on: Chan Sze for ex- to destroy the train. majority of these aerodromea, Board's fixed rate of 3 5/16ths immediately opened inside the air-porting three bales of leather, Enemy gun positions cast of To U.S. dollar cents per Chinese craft.
while, Chan Slu-yee, was fined The warship raced to the coast bruk defences came in, for a dollar, approximately NC$18.82 Grasping the folds of the para $200 or two months for exporting and opened fire. After the third salvo the train crashed into a stvere bombardment from air- for US$1 MAY Tags Ram. 'chute in his. arms, Joubert jumped three bags of nails.
ravine. A few more salvoes and craft of the South African Air The Stabilisation Fund is to safely, but it was a long while
the train was a smoking ruim. Faroe.
release exchange at the fixed before the parachute opened out rate for a large number of legit and even then it was found to "Sicily: On Saturday night mate business transactions. Pre-have a number of holes burned in. Fleet Air Arm aircraft attacked viously the fund released ex-it from the fire inside the air Comiso.aerodrome-and-raided-Ca-change-only for limited business craft. Joubert has been awarded a
tant and Gerbini aerodromes, Enemy aircraft on the ground were bombed and machine-gun- "ned.”----Reuter,
Diamond Formation
deals.
The list
the motor-cars |
goods, Includes;
Including
of commoditios,
and parto, and other important articles providing ample meano
the D.F.M-British Wireless::
CASE AGAIN ADJOURNED
BREAKS GAOL, IS FREE A DAY
After escaping from Wands-
Wrong Department Lanca-Sergeant James Cairns, worth Prison early in the day, Al-
attached to the Upper Levels bert William Cloude, 33, an elec
to sustain local trading activity. It was inadvertently stated in Police Station, was again re-trical engineer, was recaptured A young Sub-Lieutenant, des- The action is seen as a valu-the "China Mail yesterday, in manded by Mr. G T Lowry this the same night. cribing the scena, said: "The able means of stabilising the the case in which a merchant is morning when he was charged Cloudé was in prison clothes weather was not quite so good Chinese dollar and keeping com charged with the alleged offer of with misconduct, add more when he got away and a police as on our last outing. Some low modity prices at a steadier level. a bribe, that Mr. Humphrey John It is understood that Mr. M. A. cordon was immediately thrown haze narrowed down the moon's Speculation in foreign exchange Cruttwell is. Assistant Controller da Silva will appear for the de- around the gaol. Wireless cars, path so that we could only seo has now been rendered, Impos of Food! Mr. Cruttwell, in fact, fance, and Delcotive-Inspector J. tool part in the hunt. one ship at a time. But wo spotsible. International News Seris Assistant Controller of Trade. O'Donovan for the prosecution,
We regret the error.
Accused is on bail of 800," ted the convoy all right, with vice:
Cloudo was to have appeared at. iKingston' on a charge of biggmy