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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941.
YUGOSLAVIAN SITUATION CANNOT
BE REGARDED OPTIMISTICALLY
Control As Unified Body Has Ceased But Guerilla Warfare Will Be
Be Continued On Nazi Lines Of Communications
THE SITUATION IN YUGOSLAVIA CANNOT BE REGARDED OPTIMISTICALLY JUDGING FROM INFORMATION REACHING LONDON, SAYS REUTER.
Yugoslav control as a unified body has ceased. ́THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THERE IS NO LONGER ANY RESISTANCE.
DARING
YAUMATI ROBBERY
15-19 Marina House, Queen's Road Central. G.P.O. Box No. 1
日拾月肆年登抬暭佰珸任登英
Menzies Prolonging
Stay In Britain
CANBERRA, Apr. 16 (Reuter)---Mr. Winston Churchill, the Bri- tish Premier, has sent a cable to Mir, A. W. Fadden, the Acting. Australian Prime Minister, asking that MR. B. G. MENZIES” stay in England be prolonged "to cover the immediate crisis in the Balkans and- Libya."
The Australian Cabinet and Mr. action
Friday.
between the Navy. Air
J. Curtin, Leader of the Opposition. Force and Army and with large have agreed that Mr. Menzies forces in the whole of North- shall stay in Englend for a fur- East Africa. there is no reason A daring broad daylight robbery ther fortnight beginning next for despondency, but We must was carried out, by three men, one
realise that the next few weeks armed with a revolver and the
In a statement to THE TIMES, will be a period of acute trial. others with daggers, on the first la London, Mr. Menzies says "that calling for all our fortitude and floor of No. 314, Battery Street, the position in the Middle East is résource. Yanmati, yesterday afternoon.
undoubtedly an anxious one.
"Above all. the urgent lesson of "Everything that can be done these days is that armoured fight- According to a Police report, they is done, but the plain truth is that Ing vehicles and modern weapons gained entrance about. 3 p.m. and the enemy is much better provided are of supreme importance, and decamped with $500 in Chinese ctr-than we with fighting vehicles and that man and woman in the work- rency, $50 in Hongkong notes, can
therefore adventure them shop must regard themselves as on Jewellery and other articles to the boldly in the varicus theatres of active service with no time to lore and no energy of leave unexpend- CONCERTED ACTION ed if victory is to come in a rea
vigorous and concerted sonable time.".
There will be guerilla warfare by units on a greater or smaller scale, particularly value of approximately $800, on the German lines of communications.
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At the same time, it is learnt that the British and Greek forces are holding the zone from Mount Olympus, stretching in the north-west in the direction of Olympus. Generally speaking it may be said that the Greeks are coming back from Al- bania and joining up on the left of the British forces. The line will pivot on the right of Mount Olympus.
BRITISH, IMPERIAL TROOPS IN
CONTACT WITH NAZIS
ON WHOLE FRONT IN GREECE
LONDON,Apr. 16 (Beater)-British and Imperial troops In Greece' are now u contact"with German forces along the whole of the British front.
This is announced in a communique from the British Head- quarters,
Concerning Libya, the situation in the Tobrak area is un- 'changed while in the Sollum sector, British patrols have again inflicted losses of both men and vehicles on the Germans "and have taken some prisoners,
In Abyssinia, British forces are advancing from both north and south towards Dessie and are making steady progress.
N. Ireland Centre Of Enemy Raiders
LONDON, Apr. 16 (Reuter)-NORTHERN IRELAND was the cen- tre of enemy air raiders' activity on Tuesday night, when four raiders were brought down..
A heavy force of enemy bombers carried out an attack lasting several hours over an area covering practically the whole of Nor- thern Ireland, says a communique issued by the Ministry of Public Security of Northern Ireland.
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Enemy pressure is increas- ing and there have been some ferce German attacks, but there are no grounds for thej reports circulated abroad and in Ankara that the Germans
ave broken through.
It is strongly emphasised, in authoritative quarters, that there is NO TRUTH WHAT- EVER IN THE GERMAN PRO- PAGANDA REPORTS that the forces of the Empire are eva- cuating Greece.
SITUATION DESCRIBED The situation in Greece was des-
Occupants of the fat at the time of the robbery were four women and a man, all Chinese.
Continuous Attacks
By R.A.F. In Cyreneica
CAIRO, April 16 (Reuter)-Ger man and Italian forces in Cyren- slca have been subjected by the RAF to continuous day and night attacks during the past twenty- four hours.
Considerable damage and confu cribed by MAJOR HASTINGS, B. B. sion was caused to enemy troops C. military correspondent, in and motor-transport concentra- Broadcast from Loudon last night. Hons in the Faham, Tobruk and Maj. Hastings said that German Bardia areas by constant bombing mechanised columns had come attacks. down from the Monastir Gap across the frontler and south of the town of Florina. All this part of the country was in the very middle of northern Greece and there was a deep V-bend with the polat still many miles: south.
In addition to continuous bombing attacks. British fight- ers on patrol took every oppor tunity to carry out machine- gun attacks...
Four Junkers bombers were in tercepted over Fort Capuzzo by Australian fighters.
During a raid on the Itailan oc- cupied part of Valoua uy aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm on Monday night, two ships were blown up.
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SEA POWER WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO PREVENT MOVEMENT OF FORCES
ON LIMITED SCALE
Regretted Departure Of Dr. Quo Tai-chi
*
"I am not a strategist so I will leave to others the task of saying how much the German advance in Libya means and how it should be met. I don't think Herr Hit- ler would have marched to Cyreneica and Bardia unless he had to. Those parts of the world were not his way. He did so because the weakness of the Italians threatened to leave his own back door unguarded. My own experience of history suggests something more which, as usual, brings sea power into the picture.
ment in this matter does not make
"I think the answer is to be found in Lord Salisbury's advice in
British Defending Tobruk Tenaciously
LONDON, Apr. 18 (Reuter) News from North Africa reveals that British forces in Libya suc- cessfully attacked the enemy rear
positions in the Capuzzo ares.
Enemy vessels were shelled and set on fire Fighting continues in the Sollum ares,
British forces are defending Tobruk tenaciously, anppo:ted by naval malts,
**If you ask, as we all have been asking, how the Ger- things easier for us. mans managed to slip their forces across the Middle which he said. Large maps, "my The Germans were pushing
Mediterranean, the answer is boy, study large maps." He was
In Abyssinia, patrols attacked their way in the direction of
and routed the enemy, about 30 that sea power never has been
Cont'd Page 7, Col. 3. this point and had crossed the
miles south-east of Debra "Marcos eastward bend of the river at.
able, and never will be able,
and captured a number of forts to preverit that sort of move- one place. It could not be sald
on the left bank of the Blue Nile. NEW POST FOR had that they
made rapid
ment on a limited scale, but
Eight thousand Italian troops, in beadway.
lit can do so if it is. ünder- C. T. WANG?
cluding 3,000 Africans, have been The intensity of the attacks over the country, but no heavy at-
Contact with the Germans bad.
taken prisoner since the capture of varied In some areas
taken on a grand scale," said It was tack developed on any one district.
CHUNGKING, Apr. 16 (Reuter)-Addis Ababa vicious and indiscriminate. Some A small number of people were
been made by our own troops on FINANCE PARLEY SIR FREDERICK WHYTE,The Ministry of Trade will shortly ĺ An Italian general is among the industrial premises were damaged killed but the number. of casual- the eastern flank the enemy com-
K.C.S.I., former Political Ad-formally be established to take men captured. and many bombs fell on residen- tles is not large,
ing from the Vardar Valley but
IN CHUNGKING
viser to the Chinese National over the duties of the Foreign
40,409 TROOPS tial property. It is feared that Six raiders were destroyed over nowhere yet had the enemy engag- CHUNGKING, April 16 (Reuter) Government, when he broad-ports and exports, according to Italian troops and 36,000 native Trade Commission controlling im In Abyssinia, à total of 40,000 casualties may be heavy.
Britain.
ed our main defensive positions be--The Government will summon
cast from London yesterday. Press reports, Two pilots from the same RAF.tween the hills of Albania and national finance conference
troops are now concentrated in and a hospital are reported to be squadron each destroyed two where the great spur of the Chungking in July, it is authorita-We have to remember that While the name of the new Min-three different points-Dessire, among the buildings kit. Doctors bombers.
Olympus overlooks the Aegean Seatively stated.
enemy bases have already existed later of Trade has not yet been Gondar and Jimma. The town of and nurses carried on with "the
in Libya and that these movements announced, reports mention Dr. Obbis, 320 mlies up the coast from The forthcoming conference, it is should have been carried out. Wazz, former Foreign Minis, Mogadishu surrendered to the Bri- Bombers of the R.AF. made Maj. Hastings said that it was learned, will centre on discussions through French territorial waters. ter and Ambassador in Washing tish and patrols flying over Guarda, their 38th raid on the German good news that the region of the regarding concrete measures to be The position of the Vichy Govern- ton, and Mr. Tseng Yang-fu for 300 miles further north, state that naval base at Kiel on Tuesday Koritza had been safely evacuated adopted by Government including
mer Mayor of Canton, as possible white flags were displayed every- night. Shipping, docks and in-by the Greeks without loss, If the the readjustment of the financial
to be appointed.
where Greeks had attempted to hold this administration and the taking over place it would have formed a dan- of land tax, control of local Gov- gerous sálfent.
ernments and the Government The Greeks had withdrawn their monopoly, of daily necessitles, men most skilfully and had joined
"This is the first national finançe hands the Allied forces on their conference since the outbreak of
Cont'd Page 7, Col. 5 the Chinese-Japanese hostilities.
Two churches, a cinema library
evacuation of patients and treat- ment of the injured.
Working class areas seem to have suffered severely.
HEAVY SCALE
RAID ON KIEL
As regards Britain, the Air Min-dustrial buildings were hit and set istry communique states that Bre. enemy activity last night was on Other' raids were carried out on fairly a heavy scale and widespread! the docks at Boulogne.
Today's News Summary
BRITISE AND IMPERIAL forces are in contact with the Ger mans on the whole of the British front in Greece. Meanwhile the **! situation in Yugoslavia cannot be regarded optimistically and control there as a unified body has ceased but guerilla warfare will be con- tinued.
THE GERMAN AIR ATTACKS on Tuesday night were centred on Northern Ireland where in some areas it was vicious and Indis- criminate. Raids over Britain were on a heavy scale and widespread. Klel, the enemy naval base, was raided for the 38th time by RAF. bombers.
MR. E. 'G. MENZIES, Australian Prime Minister, is to prolong his stay in London a request to this effect having been made by Mr. Whiston Churchill by cable to the Acting Premier of Australia, Mr. Fadden.
THE SITUATION AT TOBRUK is unchanged according to latest reporta. The RAF is continuing day and night operations against the enemy in Cyreneica.
BY THE SUMMER of 1942, the United States will produce 4,000 warplanes per month..
GOOD NEWS
U.S. Will Produce 4,000 Warplanes Monthly By Summer Of Next Year
NEW YORK, Apr, 16. (Beuter) —THE UNITED STATES WILL BE PRODUCING 4,000 WARPLANES MONTHLY BY THE SUMMER OF 1942, according to the New York Journal of Commerce.
The NEW YORK SUN states that the American Seronantica! Chamber of Commerce survey shows an average increase of 71 miles per hour in speed of heavy and medium "bombers since 1938. */
The AVERAGE RANGE has been extended by 900 miles and the weight-carrying capacity has increased to 100 per cent.
In 1941, AMERICAN BOMBERS of these types have an average speed of 295 miles per hour, a gross weight of over 21 tons, a range of 3,255 miles and a service celling of 29,000 feet.
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2 Softball notes; Annual bowls match; Open Tennis result;
·Crossword puzzle... Pig
3 Radio programmes: Coming
events; Cinema notes. Twenty German planes des- troyed; Libya : campaign controversy; - Greek retreat from Koritza; Bouth China operations; Air battles over Channel.
5. Governor," lays foundation stone: Firewood dealer fined $1,000 Possession of pre- "mises; Round" the "Police: -Courts, m "Leading article: Who 'needs.
the stirring up/?e^ Hongkong" & "Bhal Hotels * annual meeting and 9 Rising price of rice, idar
Rumoured Condition By Mr. Matsuoka For Entry Of Japan Into The War
STOCKHOLM, April 16 (Reuter)—IT 18 BUMOURED IN TURKEY THAT MR. MATSUOKA, THE JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER, WHEN IN BERLIN," made it 's condition that Japan's entry into the war will be that the Suez Canal should be welted by the Axis and British shipping to the East interfered with, says an Istanbul des- patch to the TIDNINGEN.
For this, it side, a clarification of the Russian position was
necessary.
According to a Berlin despatch to the same paper, the Germans believed that the Russo-Japanese Pact would free Japan's rear af following American entry into the war, Japan were obliged under the Tripartite Pact to declare war on the United States,
CRAIGIE CALLS ON OHASHI
THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR in TOKYO, called on the JapaZDÉS Vice-Foreign Minister, it la reported, in connexion with the Japanese- Soviet Fact and Japan's altitude vis a vis Britain.