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BRITISH FORCES READY FOR EGYPT INVASION
Italians On Defensive In Libya: Troops Harassed
LONDON, Sept. 14 (Reuter)—It was authoritatively stated in London yesterday that the Italians have not begun an offen- sive on the Libyan-Egyptian frontier and are apparently en- gaged in strengthening 'their covering forces.
In spite of their numerical superiority in Libya, the tactica of the Italana in contact with our forces have from the outset been strictly defensive.
wire
All operations that have so far, practically on the barbed
been on the that marks the Libyan-Egyptian taken place have Italan side of the frontier, but frontier.
the British have carried out a They obviously hope that tru number of ds into Italian ter-post will assist in hindering the Titory.
Resivities of our patrols which they have found an 'unmitigated nuisance" and also to serve as R defence post for a more easterly
In the northern sector these raids have only penetrated a com- paratively short distance such as to Capuzzo, but on the southern move if and when auch an oper- sector the British mobile forces have pushed forward much more deeply. harassing the Italians right flank and rear.
The Italian polley has been to push gradually forward dumps of petrol,ammunition-food-and water and form posts to defend them. Their policy in doing this may be to re-occupy territory and is consistent with the policy of
ultimately taking the offensive,
COVERING TROOPS
These troops along the frontier
tion were to take place
LONDON, Sept. 14 (Reuter)
With regard to rumours that the Italians are preparing to hunch a three-pronged attack on Egypt and the Sudan, Richard Dimbleḥey, correspon- dent there, reports that there is no reason to belleve that any such attack is imminent, al- though the British forces are ready for anything which may happen.
These rumours, he says. arise are covering troops to protect, out of certain enemy movements:
BOMBING OF TEL-AVIV
Wanton Slaughter
Ires Palestine LONDON, Sept. 14 (Reuter)
Deaths.
GENERAL
|NAZI ATTEMPT ON LIFE
OF KING AND QUEEN
Their
500-LB. BOMB
JUST MISSED
ST. PAUL'S
LONDON, Sept. 14 (Reuter)—änger at the deliberate Ger- man attempt to kill the King and Queen has been expressed all "over the world, and messages of congratulation over
Majesties' escapes continue to be received in London. Yesterday the Polish President | the Prime Minister of Northern caused In the recent Ireland and the Duke of Windsor bombing of the open city of Tel-all sent telegrams to London Aviv have now risen to 119 killed
*M*. Mackenzie King, Premier of and 160 injured, mostly Jews. Canada, in a message to the King Among the victims are 80 children and Queen expressed the grati
The British Red Cross of Jerutude of the people of Canada "to salem and Order of St. John have Providence for the preservation of sent £500 for the relief of the your Majesties' lives." Victims.
He added: "No..enemy attack could have served more
Comm- pletely to stir the heart of every part of the British Commonwealth of the dty churches. than one so, clearly designed to destroy the lives of their King vicinity of St. Paul's Cathedral.
One bomb, unexploded. lles and Queen."
hurled in the road next to the continue church-yard.
A wave of fury has swept Palestine ni this wanton slaughter, and in the Arab world the bombing is taken as clear evidence that the Ita Hans, failed on sea. land and . in the air. are now rezorting tu dispicable and cowardly methods of waging war.
The Arab press in Jerusalem expresses deep sympathy for the Jewish victims and their families, As one leading Arab dai'y paper puts it:
NAZI EXCUSES Meanwhile the Nazis to produce new excuses for the bombing of Buckingham Palace
Latest 1s that the
German
planes were trying to bomb “an onl
depot
near Buckingham
LONDON, Sept. 14 (Reuter)- It was revealed yesterday that in recent ralds on London börabs fell in Berkeley Square, Somerset House and near several
near
About five bombs fell in the
It is believed to be a 500-lb." high explosive bomb and is cansing some concern, because- if it goes off serious damage may be done to the fabric of the cathedral, Among the places outside Lon- This is described in London as den to be damaged was the dis- a belated and foolish attempt to : faith | justify an act of barbarism and a trict headquarters of the Ameri- can ambulance unit at Tunbridge paychological blunder. Where **
Wells. no oll depot anywhere near the
"Such evil outrages are con- trary to all humanitarian princi- ples and repugnant to the
of Islam."
SPITFIRES OUT OF SCRAP
and as far as possible, to conceal Inside Libya eastwards to the Executioners. Swords
at any rate from ground observa- Egyptian frontier. They include going on behind movements of some armoured
tion. what is
them.
fighting vehicles and a consider- the northern sector. In
theable amount of motor transport. Italians earlier on held on to Put this does not mean that an
oses such a: Capuzzo, but in the offensive
For Melting Pot!
LONDON, Sept. 14′′ (Reuter)-
A few weeks ago, housewives all
Palace."
Palace
IDENTIFIED
It is recalled in London that MYSTERY WARSHIPS the Nazi newspaper Hamburger Fremdenblatt two days ago sald Germany would score her first
LONDON, Sept. 14 Reuter)-
could be forced to leave London victory if the King and Queen The French warships which pass- ed through the Straits of Gibral- tar on Wednesday, sailing from east to west, have been identified
NAPOLEON
25.
The cruisers Georges Leygues,
is about to begin. It over aluminuar kettles Pets and AND ADOLF Greens Montag Laudacieus
southern sector they had to start may be designed to prevent the their aluminium kettles, pots and much further back and one of the continued penetration of Italian Pans and it is now reported that enough was collected to make 1.800 Arst posts they made was at Ga-territory by our own light units.
Spitfires. ber Saleh.
The Italians are also probably From
on
Adolf Hitler and Napoleon 1, Em- The careers and personalities of
peror of the French, resemble each other in various ways,
here they had recently thinking of the propaganda value Pots and pans handed "ixi pushed on to Sidi Omar which is of recovering territory which they July 10 were in the alt two weeks Like, Napoleon, Hitler has grab-
lost at the beginning of hostilities later as spare parts.
bed a lot of land by sudden dipu-' In addition to the McCoy, allmatic and military moves, usually
without warning."
ROYAL CHAPEL
WRECKED
Altar Buried Under Brick And Rubble
in June.
Such an advance ta this terr-sorts o: "aluminium" which house
wives thought might be useful tory would not be an attack; it
came in-including pewter,. Turkish would simply be the recovery lost ground.
bayonets and swords used by Chi- nese executioners,
TROOP MOVEMENTS
af
In connexion with reports of down in
Both Napoleon and Hitler came from humble beginnings, and were self-made men, Tremendous ambl tion spurred Napoleon throughout,
ambition life; tremendous seems to be Hitler's mainspring.
But there are important dif-
both in their mer natures and ferences between the two men, too,
their outward lives.
Metal from น Zeppelin shot his
the last war was found enemy troops movements around to be
Nazi Kassala, it-has-long-been-realised machines brought down in
pure, but parts of that this town might be used for war are fourid to be of little use. small-penetrations into the
as the aluminium content is so sudan.
small
LONDON, Sept. 14 (Reuter) The Royal Chapel in Buckingham Palace, says Reuter's cofrespon-į dent who visited the scene yester-
Fally, there are reports "OL day, is a Victorian addition at movements from south-east Libya. the south corner of the original building, and the bomb which fell .011 the Chapel was 2 100
pounder.
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Such movements, across 400 to 500 WILLKIE PLEDGE.
miles of almost waterless desert
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Napoleon was
primarily soldier. He first came to top-flight prominence by dispersing a re- CHICAGO, Sept. 1 Reuter)-volutionary mob in Paris with the
to Wadi Haifa, in the extreme In a speech in Chicago yesterday, famous "whiff of grapeshot" of north of the Sudan, would only Mr. Wendell Willkle. Republican October 4, 1795, or 13th Vende- It made a comparatively small constitute a diversion.
candidate for the Presidency,miaire as the French called it un- hole in the rool but burst with His conclusions are that the pledged himself not to send der their then calendar. Napoleon terrific force on the floor which general situation today is that the Americans to fight overseas. was his own best general. collapsed into the workroom be enemy is moving troops about He wanted to make liberty free. Hitler is primarily a politician neath where four workmen were most probably 25 2 defence he said, and to make the country though he served as a corporal in injured.
against movements by our own so strong that no dictator would'the German Army throughout the
Nothing remains of the Chapel's forces. floor while the altar was buried "under" brick änd rubble. The Royal seats, the organ and ebol seats escaped damage.
MAIN BURST
Damage in the quadrangle of the Palace is a double crater of no great depth and there is a third crater against the south wall
near a corridor used mostly by Ambassadar guesta....
be able to strike at it.
MYSTERIOUS NAZI
IN BALKANS
RUSSIAN-GERMAN CLASH?
BUCHAREST, Sept. 14 (Reuter)
In addition, it is understood. a Much speculation has
II water pipe burst, water aroused by reports from
ACTIVITIES
Damning The Duce
war of 1941-18. He came to power by the propaganda and organiza- tion methods of the politician.
He doesn't go out to battle with his troops; leaves that, to his generals-of whom he evidently has some who are very talented.
We hear little about these gen- Ferals personally. Hitler evidently preferring to keep the limelight for himself and his fellow politi-
Those who wish to say some-clans. That was a mistake which been thing rude about Mussolini cannot Napoleon never made. He let his the improve on the following, by A. G. generals-Massena, Moreau, Nurat.
flowing into some of the rooms Balkans of mysterious Nazi acti- Macdonell, in a recent number of Ney and the rest-get some glory
and causing slight damage to car- pets and pictures
EMPRESS LINER
HIT BY BOMB
"ASIA" MISTAKEN
vities in Yugoslavia and Ku manla, and there is a hint of a Bussian-German clash of in-
terests.
The Bystander.
for themselves, which naturally "Let me jot down' one or two kept them loyal to the big chief. · facts about Mussolini. He was a
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passionate advocate of Italy's entry On the other hand, Hitler has In Yugoslavia a Nazi "rest into the last war But was deter-not yet made Napoleon's parvenu, house" has been constructed out mined with equal passion that be socia-climber mistake of marrying side Belgrade. Reason given by himself, should not enter into it, a princess and shows no signs of the Germans for the establish He was, however, pinched Ey the wanting to. Nor has Hitler a lot ment is that It will accommodate military authorities and shoved of brothers and sisters whom he repatriated Germans from Bes into uniform. He did not become feels called on to set up as kings sarabla.
a corporal. He did not fight in the and queens of this and that con-
WAS carried volunteers
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FOR TARGET
It is not explained why it has front line. It is true that he re-quered territory. * SHANGHAI, Sept, 15 (Retter)-
been necessary to build a radio celved forty-two wounds, but that! Napoleon was heavily burdened The Canadian Pacifle liner Ern-
transmitting set and a hospital was because he accidentally drop- by the stupidities of his brothers, press of Asia was hit by a dummy for 400. The work of construction ped a bomb which made forty-two and tried his best to meet them, bomb from a Japanese naval pane" which mistook the liner for
out by German punctures in his very considerable to his own injury In the long run. | behind. He did not destroy Baishe There is another point on which a target during exercised yester The "rest-house" is
situated vism in Italy because Bolshevism the careers of Napoleon and Hitler day, according to a Japanese Navy only a few yards from, the King was on the wane before he ever
may come to resemble each other Office communique stated the Alexander Bridge across which came to power.
in the future sometime. Japanese news agency. Domel in
passes the main route from Lon-
BUSTLING ALONG.
Napoleon's last defeat was Wa- Shanghat last niɛny... 2
don to Istanbul,. Four members of the Chinese
"Let us continue the catalogue, terloo, in 1815;-but his downfall crew were slightly injured and Nazis wearing swastika armlets.
The establishment is guarded by He did not lead the march to began in 1812, and what put him Rome, but walted in North Italy on the skids was Russia He and damage to the liner stated to be
·BËSSARABIA EVACUATION until the marchers had successfully friendship and a division of all Tsar Alexander I pledged eternal small.
Another 1,500 uniformed Nazis arrived, and then he came bustling Europe in 1807 at Tilsit; Napoleon are now in the Danube port of along by train. His first military invaded his one-time ally's country Galatz ostensibly. In connexion exploit was the bombardment of ave years later, and met Arrepar- with the evacuation of Germans Corfu in 1923, and the killing of able disaster.
(The incident took place of Oshima Island, 50 kilometres south of Yokohama. at 1.30 pm yesterday.A
The liner is now in Yokohama...
GREATER U.S. AID
from Bessarable. It is said they some refugess. His next feat of pyrant combinations have been will organise the transfer of 90,- arms was the murder in revolting busted before: they can be again. 000 members of the minority in circumstances of the Socialist Mat-
-("Sunday News," New York). Bessarabia and north Bukovina,
teotti
It is pointed out, in Bucharest After Matteotti rad been killed FOR BRITAIN
that the Soviet demarche to Ger- in a way that I could not describe WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (Ren many regarding the Danube, in print Mussolint went to Mat-peror of Abyssinia, and then de- ter)-Senator. Perper bald pester- clashes for the first time with teotti's wife and swore with tears luged Abyssinia with mustard gas. day that the United States should the German contention that the in his eyes that he had no idea Then he promised Mr. Chamberlain send greater aid to Brita'n--more rest of the territory remaining to what had happened to her hus-that he would do nothing to siter warships, aircraft and supplies Rumania comes within
Ger- band
the status quo in the Mediterrans and, if necessary, army ung navy many's economic sphere of in- equipme
terest,
"A little later on he signed alean, and within a month or two treaty of friendship with the Em- invaded Albanig on a Good Friday,
destroyers, including
Their destination is unknown
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