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LULL IN OPERATIONS IN GRAECO-ITALO HOSTILITIES: POSITIONS REINFORCED
LONDON, Nov. 9. (Reuter)- Yesterday, the thirteenth day of the Italian attack on Greece, saw no major developments in the war situation on the Greek frontier: the Greeks have advanced in the centre, there is no change in the north sector of the front and on the coast the main Itallan attack has not yet developed. Yesterday's Italian High Command communique claras that their troops have reinforced their bridgeheads on the south bank of the Kalamaa River.
In Athens, the Greek military' spokesman commented on the
S'hai Courts Transfer
SINO GOVT. LODGE STRONG PROTEST
GENERAL
BATTLE OF THE BOMBS: BRITAIN'S NEW AIRCRAFT
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With avery bombing raid launched by the Royal Air Force the compulsion to counter-attack grows upon the enemy. Whether now or later, there must be the battle of the bombs, writes Major" Oliver Stewart.
SHANGHAI, NOV (Fleuteraninterrupted to overwhelming might, was wrecked against our de- Germany's first raiding programme, which was to have grown The Chinese Foreign Minister has lodged a strong protest with the French Embassy over the transfer
Italians' complete lack of success, MOSCOW'S PART IN the Nanking regime, stated
declaring: "On the Findus front
we, are counting the booty after encircling the enemy."
The Italian column which has been encircled is believed to be still holding out but it is certain that some of them have surren- dered. The
Italian force" was carrying out an isolated operation of the nature of a raid or a scont- ing expedition.
H
took 150
HOWITZERS CAPTURED The Greeks yesterday prisoners, including five officers, "five how tzers, seven machine- guns and other stores in attacks at different points in local opera tions.
THE WAR
NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (Reu- ter-A parley between the Ger- man, Italian and Soviet For- eign Ministers, to discuss the part Moscow shall play in the war. is expected to be held next week, according to а Rome telegram to the New York Times yesterday. Place of the meeting is not disclosed but it is thought to be Ger- many, adds the telegram.
Meanwhile, in the opinion military circles
at
in London, the The Italian air force has slack-Italian attack has not yet de
loped in the coastal area.
fences,
14
TOP SPEED FIGURE
But the very fact that the of very high performance day of the Second Special District Bomber Command of the Royal bombers is of paramount impor Court and the Third Branch of Air Force-often aided by the tance, and it calls for a great the Klangsü High Court in the Coastal Command and by the technical effort, When we have French Concession' in Shanghai to
Fleet Air Arm-continues to hit at these machines we can institute the enemy bases and sources of the &
twenty-four-hour bombing Chungking message to the Nation-supply with mounting force and offensive which will lead to the al Herald yesterday.
frequency enforces a riposte. For collapse of Germany's air power. Operation of Chinese courts in the same reason the future assault In addition to the new bombers, the French Concession will here- must be bigger and differently I must mention the new fighters, after be considered unlawful and planned no matter what calls it These include aircraft designed the French authorities will be held makes upon German reserves.
and built in England, and also responsible for all consequences
The signs that British defences American machines. Only the arising from the transfer of the will meet it as decisively as before American machines may yet be courts, said the Foreign Office and that British bombers will described. Among them is the spokesman in Chungking.
match weight with weight and twin-engined. tricycle-undercar- continuously, maintain a favoura- riage, Lockheed. fghter. STATUS OF M. COSME
ble margin of military effect are "what"we are more concerned good. about is the status of M. Henry No part of the Prime Minister's for this machine has been given No corrected top speed figure Cosme, French Ambassador to recent speech was more China, now in Chungking, since foundly and encouragingly sign!- pro-
by the manufacturers or anyone M. de Mergerie, as French Consul-ncant than his revelation that else. But it has done cross-country General in Shanghat, has given aircraft output has been so much rected air speed in still air must fights which indicate that its cor- tacit recognition to the
Nanking above wastage (which would in- be more than 400 miles an hour. regime as the lawful government clude the undisclosed figures of It is a remarkable machine and is of China," the Chinese-American aircraft destroyed on the ground tattly heavily armed. Its Dally News in Shanghai declared and lost in accidents) that not fault is that common to all twin- editorially..."
unly have losses been made up engined fighters when the engines Foreign Office revealed but that our bomber and fighter are mounted in the wings, that the that the French Embassy had strength
are larger than they formally notified the Chinese have ever been."
pilot's outlook to both sides is Fereign Ministry that transfer of: within
much restricted. the courts to the Nanking regime
COMPLEX SYSTEM the frontier.
The tardem engine arrangement The complex system of infor- would overcome this disadvantage had been effected under an agreemation ment algned between the French Observer Corps, of communica- used as armour for the plot. He gathering through the and also enable the engines to be Concession authorities "and the
tions and Interchange of plans euta Nanking regime.
be sandwiched between between the operations rooms, has them DANGER OF MOVES
been invented and perfected in him front and rear and eliminate and they would protect T'he Chinese Government had England, and there is no indica-the need for a great weight of previously urged the French aution that any other country, has armour No machines in service thorities to reject all Japanese a comparable system, Our air de-luge have this arrangement, British oktres chased Taman
attempts to take over the courts, rences derive much of thei: en- bombers away from Athens, the
pointing out the danger of such ciency from the ground, enerny ralders dropping their A report from Athens received attempts to the lives and... pro- bombs into the sea, and the R.A.F. in London stated that the Italian perty of Chinese residents in the
troops surrounded on the Pindus French Concession, front belong to the Venezia Bri-
NORTHERN SECTOR
eried out and their activity Was described m Athens as "unim portant." Ona Italian plane has A commentater in London yes- been shot down from the ground.
terday pointed out that there was The Greeks are putting up a no change in the northern sector stubborn resistance and while they while the Greeks have advanced admit their withdrawal from the slightly in the Pindus sector. Kalamas River they deny they It is reported they are have been pushed back 23 miles 10 kilometres of inside the frontier, as the Italians Italian troops in this region are understood to be still surrounded In the neighbourhood of extra-
claim
GREEK MORALE HIGH Correspondents'
report that ton. Greek morale is at the highest From authoritative quarters it pitel and the Greeks have been, is learned that there is no truth encouraged by the presence of reports that various bodies of British troops have been-sven in Athens,"
British forc
Is continning reconnaissances over Albania and the Ionian and Aegean Seas.
LULL IN OPERATIONS
VENEZIA BRIGADE
gade, and comprise two, regiments
The
of infantry and one of mountain WITHDRAWAL OF
artillery.
A Greek communique says artil- lery fire was not heavy yesterday.! Italian prisoners who arrived" in while Italian activity Was also Salonika yesterday included 31 small
Alpine troops who formerly served Que village was bombed. The on the French front. Ministry ut Public Safety in Their Greek guards stated that Athens stated that the Italians when the Italians were taken pri- made no air raids on the interior soner they offered all their money of the country during Friday for food
JAPAN SHORT
OF TROOPS
JAPANESE REFUTES
WITHDRAWAL
WEIHAIWEI
FOR DURATION
THE WAR
Their chief purpose during future attacks must be to protect air bases. Those should now re- ceive priority over all other tar- gets whatsoever,
.
A carefully thought out system also controls the work of our bom- bers; but the control is less direct, and when once the bomber sets out it becomes an independent OF unit.
Censorship restrictions
on the mention of the new and heavier SHANGHAI, Nov 9 (Reuter) heavy bombers which are in pro- The long record of British acti.duction for the Royal Air Force vity at Welhalwel, one of the were removed 'last week,
Every. -principai garrison points in North body in aviation has known of China for many years, has been these enormous machines, and it brought to a close, at least for is certain that Herr Wenninger, the duration of the war.
the German air attache,, and that The British naval maintenance Inquisitive German engineer who According to the Domet agency party, it was announced yesterday, used to go round the factories yesterday offical Japanese circles, has been withdrawn and all stores with him, took back to Germany
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Nevertheless, the censorship re- the German Trans-Ocean news This action is in accordance strictions were until now desira- SHANGHAI, Nov. 9 (Reuter-agency that the Japanese forces with the previous announcement ble. Refutation of the Japanese claim would evacuate Ichang within the that the British Goverment had
THREE NEW TYPES that Nanning has lost its strate next few days,
decided to withdraw naval per- There are three different types gic value since the invasion of It was declared in Tokyo that sonnel and stores from the naval of these machines, and they are French Indo-China - was mada Japanese troops have just com-depot at Wethalwel for the dura- approaching the time when they by General Pal Chung-ha in a pleted" mopping up operations tion of the war.
I will be in service in numbers. They review of the Military situation round the port and have occupied Before its retrocession to China are huge aircraft which, when north west of in 1930, Welhalwel was for more seen standing on aerodromes.
than 30 years under British rule.
dwarf the surrounding houses. They bristle with guna.
TOKYO, Nov. 9 (Reuter)-
Nanning Withdrawal describe as a pure and simple in the naval depot shipped to some Information about them.
fabrication a report circulated by
Hongkong for use elsewhere. Explained
in China at Central Kuomintang Nantingkwan headquarters in Chungking. the Ichang Shanghat "Sin Wan Pao" said
yesteruny.
If this lame excuse were true,
General Pal declared, then Why GERMAN NIGHT RAIDERS
dlg the Japanese capture the town at such great cost in Man power and resources and why did they hold it for nearly a year?
The withdrawal of Japanese, forces from Nanning, he said, was due to their shortage of troops.
Japan could only raise à maxiz mum of 75 to 80 full divisiona of troops and has up till now
The attacks were heavy at first raiders made out to sea on being sent 42 divisioris to China and but soon diminished in intensity greeted by AA. fire, nine and a half divisions to though they continued on a much
GET HOT RECEPTION
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BORDER DISPUTE AGGRAVATED
Hanoi Authorities
confined to isolated attacks by eff Some were killed and injured single aircraft.
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and a number of buildings dam-.
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-'--FACTORY · DAMAGED
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were less than the previous night. In the London ares three bombs of bombs, therefore, the provision "Raids were also-made on other crashed through the roof or a parts of the country; little damage factory and there were a number and few casualties were reported. of casualties.
FLARES DROPPED Many fares were dropped in
Call Up Men the raids on London and these
In another place bombe fell be fore the alarm was sounded. The
bomber responsible was shot dry later on the Sussex coast.
A Heinkel bomber was shot down HANOI, Nov. 9 (Reuter) Re- were machine-gunned from the flecting aggravation of the border ground and many extinguished at Wadhurst, in Kent, leaving
"A
trail of smoke behind it as it dispute between Indo-China and high explosive Bomb fell Thal, the authorities in Hanel between a casualty clearing stat on plunged to earth. It had pre during the past few days have and a shelter in which several vlously dropped borahs which die been calling to the colours a hundreds were taking refuge, French citizens between the ages here were no casualties, though of 40 and 50, according to a several shops were damaged semi official Japanese, report yes- Another church was hit in the terday.
course of the night.
In the meantime the Indo- China, army in the Tongking ares,
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PREMIER PAYS TRIBUTE TO GREEKS
LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuter)
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In the afternoon planes were reported near Liverpool and in the Midlands.
Mr. Churchill expressed the sympathy and admiration of the AFTERNOON ACTIVITY
people of Britain for Greece. There was a good deal of Nasi In thếm w send from. str activity in the afternoon, and heart of ola London, in the midst is moving a Iarge force south- The raiders met with heavy raiders were reported in the of our burdens and Inzieties, an ward, while it is estimated that barrage in the Thames Estuary south-east, Midlands and north astarice that, we will
do our nhậf_the_strength of the Indo- and watchers' say, two were that werk-
best to help them until th Oning air force has already, been down. by British fighters
crimes that hang round the neck transferred to bases in the south- A north-east town was twine aingly, dodging In - and cast of Mussolini and disgrace the the Japanese report adds,
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