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GENERAL
Navy's Prominent Role In Successful Libya Advance.
- Lundon. Dec. 34 (Reuter)—The part glayed by the Návy in the British advance into Libys is again the subject of warm comment in well-informed quarters in London where full details of sea opera- tions have now been received
It is pointed out that co-opera- tion between the naval land and air forces was never easy but on this occasion added dimiculties were encountered in the shape of bad weather and absence of wood harbours-there is no harbour of consequence between Alexandria and Tobruk
Low visibility And Stráng #ester-
ly winds on Dec. 12 curtailed
Severe Raids
By R.A.F.
On Enemy
naval bombardment and the area- Dromes
test if required to carry out
the vital task of supplying British
forward troops and embarking a FIERCE DUEL OVER
large number of Italian prisoners from the exposed anchorage at
Sidi Barrant
ARGYROCASTRON
Another instance of perfect co- CAIRS, Dec. 24 Reuter) bis operation occurred on Dec. 13. On odidit & the RAF. on Han that day no naval bombardments after Belling the Libyan were carried out as the rapid ad-front was reported in an RAF. vance of the British troops led to communique Issued on Monday. uncertainty as to the military Aerodromes at Barks and Beriba
-two main reinforcement aero
situation.
It is emphasised that shore gun-drothes Dear Ben GHIA-WEYE Hex- ners found it difficult sometimes vily raided on the night of Dec 21. lu know the position of ́ infantry Big fires were started at BelfK, during an advance but it was much while at Behing three Hangaty more difficult for ships at sea were left burning and badly club- which were further away and aged Alfcfaft of the ground were where communication's werk more machine-gunned from 500 feet. dimcult.
Seventh Raid On Mannheim
VITAL. NAZI CENTRE
DEVASTATED
LONDON, Dec. 24 (Reuter
Corkiderable damage was chuřet
of the fame night at the Itun stronghold at Tobruk Where` the Bath Bombers Attacked the har Sour Eid military objectives.
FIERCE AF BATTLE
The same comffithiqüé técords that a fierce air battle took place | over Argyrosstrom between: nine British fighters and over 50 Italian planes.
Eight enemy fighters were de- anitely shot down and three more probably destroyed. Two British
Spreading wastes of flame were planes were: lost. seen by R.AF. pilots after drop- The communiqué cuntinues: "The pling their bombs in Bunday pilot of one British plane was seen night's raid on Mannheini.
being machine-gunned by Italian
Most damage was done in the nighters while he was descending neighbourhood of the main rail-by parachute. He died half an way station on the Ludwigshaven hour after he was found from wounds received during his para-
side of the Rhine,
"T is placed on record that this
The raid was the seventh on chute descent. Mannheim since the beginning of December.
Is the second occasion since hosti-
It is already known from sources (lities began in the Middle East other than reports of the British that irrefutable evidence has been pliots that great damage was done in the earlier raids which were by
no nieans severe.
received: of in RAF. pilot having teen machine-gunned while mak- ing a parachute descent. This TRAFFIC IMPEDED
follows the practice. Italian pilots The Rhine harbour was hit and adopted in the Spanish War." barges sunk and traffic which The communique adds that oll helps to give Mannheim its post-wells at Kucove in central Albania tion as the most important indus were ralded by RAF. bombers on
enemy trial centre In south-west Ger- Sunday. One
aircraft is believed to have been shot down many was seriously impeded.
Mannheim is also a vital railway and two British aircraft failed to junction and traffic to France had
to be diverted to another and less satisfactory line.
"BLITZ" DISCUSSED
IN RUSSIA
return.
DECISIVE ROLE
OF ARMY
LONDON, Dec, 24 (Reuter)
in the final reckoning with Hitler, the Army will have a decisive part to play, Mr. Een declared in Д DIT! message to General Sir John Chief of the Imperial General portance to speak of the blitzkries Staff, on leaving the War Omce methods." is the conclusion of anto assume the Foreign Secretary- observer writing in the Red army ship.
MOSCOW, Dec. 4-"It is of
organ, summing up the contro-
versy which has been proceeding
To all ranks Mr. Eden express
ea deep gratitute for their loyal,
in Soviet military magazines and cheerful and unfailing help dur- newspapers in regard to whether a period which had no parallel
success
IMPOSSIBLE TODAY
in history.
modern war is the blitzkrieg, and whether or not there is some; secret method of conducing, &
Referring to the Egyptian cam- 6itzkrieg which would insure its paign, Mr. Eden declared that the Army of the Nile's brilliant victory was the first reward" of The observer points out that much patient effort no less than the Napoleonic method of crush of dash and daring. The quality Ing the enemy by a single decisive of the Army of the Middle East battle failed in 1914-18, and sito command success has been even more impossible today. A proved in Europe blitzkrieg is only possible where
the coutending forces are mus
unequal, he explains,
The writer attributes the Ger-
UNKNOWN
man successes not to undue super- AIRCRAFT
fority of forces, but to the wesk-
ness of France and Poland, and
concludes that the present at DROP BOMBS
will take the form of a long and,
merciless contest, eating away, the ON ZURICH
economic and political foundations
at the enemy natione
Berine, Dec. 24 (Reuter) That bombs were dropped on Zurich on
Appointment Of Lord monday night is confirmed in an
official Swiss Army communique. Halifax Welcomed "The Swiss air space was violated several times by foreign plates WASHINGTON, Die 24 (Heuter) during the night. Coming from -The appointment of Lord Hail the north, the planes flew over tax as Britian Ambassźdór Zurich and at. 8.55 pm. dropped highly welcomed by the United high explosive and Incendiary States Governiärit.
`bombs there. - ig
Me Cordell Hull, Secretary of
"Beveral buildings and an econd, Stats, has rued i stătement to mic line of federal railways were th's effect, adding that Lord damaged. Eleved persons were in- Halifax's record of accomplish juredi
ments was sheh us to commend According to a statement Issued him to the limited Blates as Ala- by the Zürich police, four high bassador,
Mr. Cordell Hon stated that looked forward viur blessing working with Lord HatifiT
explosive bombs and a large
beber of ineenaturies were dropped. in causing damage in several parts of
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