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ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN PRACTICALLY ENDED WITH SURRENDER CABLE NEWS OF THE DUKE OF AOSTA
COLLAPSE OF RESISTANCE AT AMBA ALAGI MAY DEMORALISE GARRISONS AT GONDAR, JIMMA'
LONDON, May 20 (Reuter) --- The collapse, of Italian resistance. at Amba Alagi and the surrender of the Duke of Aosta mesh the practical termination of the Abyssinian campaign.
IN BRIEF
LONDON, May 20 (Reuter)-In nonour ul the Thai Minister in London, a luncheon was given yes- terday by Mr. R. A. Butler. The guests included Lord Cranbourne, Lady Ravensdale, Sir Horace Sey- mour, General Sir Sydney Mus- pratt, Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Clarke and Mr. Henry Channon,
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GENERAL
Extensive R.A.F. Patrols In Libya: Damage Inflicted On Enemy Motorised Units
CAIRO., May 20 (Reuter)—A large formation of RAF, and South African aircraft carried out attacks on enemy tanks be- tween Fort Capuzzo and Halfaya on Sunday, according to an R.A.F. communique.
A number of tanks were put out of action and serious damage was inflicted on many more transport vehicles, British fighters made extensive patrols but no decisive engagements with the enemy resulted.
During the night of Friday. Saturday, aerodromnes at Menistir
and Birchleta were raided, Ben- FRANCO-GERMAN NICOSIA. May 20 (Reuter-An shazi and Dorna were also attacked enemy reconnaissance aeroplane on the following night by British
COLLABORATION bombers. appeared over Cyprus yesterday
remained afternoon and
for 50 Full detalls of these operations
No bombs
Reuter's. Diplomatic Correspondent learns that there are still a few scattered pockets where small bodies of Italians are holding out, but their power of offensive has been completely broken and they can be safely left to be dealt with at leisure by the patriot forces.
The forces which will be liberat- "lands, once more drenched with m'nutes, according to an od as the result of these very sue Italian blood for the glory of our announcement. ccssful operations are not me country." siderable and may have a decisiva Duce replied: "You and your Influence
not only on the war soldiers have fought heroically, which is being waged in the Libyan desert but
the on against Iraq and Syria
dropped.
official were
.
are
not yet available but it is
known that considerable damage Negotiations Making
was caused.
During operations over. Tobruk
Good Progress
on Sunday, three German dive- MELBOURNE, May 20 (Reuter) bombers were shot down by A.A.
LONDON, May 20 Reuter)-- The Italian people have followed-The Air Minister, Mr. McEwen, are.
"Franco-German negotiations con- operations your stand with admiration and declared that Australia was en-
tinue to make satisfactory pro- IN ABYSSINIA share your certainty for the farely abreast of extra commit-
gress," it is officially announced in In Abyssinia. British aircraft ments under ture,"
the Empire Air continue to assist the troops in
Vichy, according to the German Scheme and was remedying
any mopping-up operations.
news agency. Attacks lag in personnel quickly.
Mr. were mainly confined to enemy northern and westerni areas is to Permission to enter the occupied
ת!
The magnifcent services Abyssinia of the South African Air Force have proved the quality and
quadrons are being formed for service on the theatres of war,
SYRIA
of industria and agricultural con- cerns provided that their presence is essential for administrative and econcile purposes.
SMUTS' MESSAGE CAPETOWN, May 20 (Reuter) ---- skill of these fighters and bombers. Geletal Smuts has sent a message McEwen recalled that it had been motor transport retreating along (be granted to officials and leaders · and they will be especially wel- General Sir Andrew Cunning-officially announced a few days the roads. come at the present juncture when ham, who commands the Imperial 350 that many Australian air force there are distinct indications of a Forces in East Africa.
rn in the tice in
were "I send you our warm congratu Libya. The enemy tide seems to have reach. Hlations on your erowning victory! en the high water mark at Sallum at Amba Alagi which is the just and has not made any further in
reward of your brilliant leadership roads at Tobruk: rather re- and high quality of your brave verse if anything.
the
GERMAN PRESSURE
officers and men.
"The whole Abyssinian.campaign
will take a high place in the an-
it is yet too early to forecast nals of warfare and add an ilus- Where Germany will attempt 10 trious chapter to African exercise the greatest pressure South African history."
There is no evidence that focus
SPANISH REACTION
and
are being sent via Syria. 4 num per of troops and planes have! MADRID May 20Reuter been rushed to Iraq but will not Fair prominence is given in the be easy to build up a substantial press to the surrender of the Duke force, especially one with striking of Aar and pls troops, part- powers, by aeroplanes alone. cularly in the newspaper, "Although the Germans have formaciones. which prints basted of their "flying bridge to headlines above the news. Tripoll. It is physically impossible
for them to have conveyed by air
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WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuter) According to reports circulating here. President Roosevelt has dis- cussed with Legislative leaders the possibility that he will soon send to Congress a special message or fer- eign affairs.
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In Syria, bombing attacks made on Palmyra aerodrome, where one large German 'transport aircraft and one Heinkel-III were destroyed by fire.
German aircraft en Damascus aerodrome and Rayak were also bombed and machine-gursed.
Ralds were also made 011 Raschid aerodrome in Iraq.
1:
ISLAND OF RHODES BERMUDA, May 20 (Reuter)--! A number of Ares were started King Carol and Madame Lupescu at Calato aerodrome or the island left here yesterday for St. Thomas of Rhodes as the result of a raid in the Virgin Islands
carried out on Saturday night,
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NEW YORK, May 20 Reuter)- As the result of a tentative agree Inment on wages and hours between large coal-owners and anthracite miners, the miners have been granted a Wage Increase and the strike has ended.
the heavy tanks such as appeared SECRET OF NAZI
in Cyrenaica. It becomes increas
ingly evident that they must have been sent across with French con- nivance.
ITALIAN STRENGTH
·CAIRO. · May 20 Router)
SUCCESS IN GREECE
CHUNGKING. May 20 Centra A Japanese supply train was
certain categories of prisoners of A scheme for the repatriation of
war is at present under considera- tion.
DE GAULLE DECLARATION "Another. London message states: that completeli disavowal of the "agreements" between the Vichy tained in a declaration by General Government and Germany is con- de Gaulle to the British Govern- ment and the chiefs of the Allied
Governments in London.
CRETE ATTACKED
"I states that the Vichy "Gov- During enemy attacks on Allied ernment" has placed itself in a aerodromes in Crete, one Dornier position which deprives itself cf- 17 arid another unidentified air-all independence with regard to craft were shot down by A Aguns, the invader.
From all these operations, cre. The source of the Vichy so aircraft is missing.
called government les exclusively
"NAZI INTRIGUES
blown up by a Chinese land mine IN MIDDLE EAST
seven
near Hushukwan, about miles northwest of Soochow on the Nanking-Shanghai Railway.
Phere аге approximately Two REMNANTS OF B.E.F. May 16, according to a Shanghai
at
Italian divisions concentrated Jimma and the same number. at Gondar, and with the help of the rains, these may unt the end of the rains.
REACH CYPRUS
NICOSIA, "May 20 (Reuter)—It is
R
were
Moslems Are Incited
Against Christians
in the person of an old man who. for many years, has been known to be enfeebled by age.
BELLIGERENT, NATION The declaration continues: "Firstly, France cannot and must not be held responsible for acts
supposedly committed in her name
by rulers who usurped power and
subjected themselves to the enemy.
report. Four of the wagons deraled and totally wrecked
"Secondly, the French nation is LONDON, May 20 (Central- continuing the war by means of CHUNGKING, May 30 (Reuter) A sensational story how Japan has all her military forces and terri- now possible to reveal that a party-Brigadier-General Claggett, Com a finger In the Middle East pie tories outside enemy control and of Imperial troops who were the mander-in-Chief On the other hand, when they remnants of the histork rearguard States Air Force in the Philippines, in the News-Chronicle by Gedye, belligerent nation by all states and of the United assisting Axis intrigues is reported should, therefore, be considered a receive news of the Duke of Aosta's at Mount Olympus, in rags, sonie who is at
hold out
surrender, they may decide throw in their hands.
to
of them ill
oresent in Chungking well-known
Telegraph as an ally by those who fight the
common enemies. "
ex-Dally. and wounded; have denied any knowledge of American correspondent in Central Europe. reached the shores of Cyprus after alunteers coming to China to join In a few days, it is stated, mill-
the must astonishing escapes the air force
In Goebbel's intrigues through- out the Mastem countries in the tary circles will be better able to among the Greek Aegean Islands. gauge the effect of the capture They tell stories of desperate re-.
Middle East inciting the Moslems NAZIS GIVEN TASTE to wipe ont the Christians and of Amba Alagt, in which South Sistance against impossible odds Africa, India, the Sudan De- when Nazi planes, tanks and in- OF OWN MEDICINE Whitemen Gedye revealed that the Japanese Consul in Beirut, who is rence Force, patriot and British fantry in massed assaults tried to
CAIRO, May 20 (Reuter a Japanese Moslem graduate" of troops participated. The imporsmash their side."
One Anzac said: "The Germans from Fort Capuzzo, military
Dealing with the German sally the famous Alazhar University; tance of the capture of the im-
cir-Cairo, and who speaks fluent Ara- portant road juncture of Dalle was came on the line like
sessed, determined to us braugntes ces said that the RAP. gave ble, has been assiduously distribut ed. We mowed them down like them a taste of their own medling propaganda urging "Asta for! files. One river, where we made
cine with a large dose of dive the Asiatics" and to "expel the The only reasonable chance for stand, was so chaken with German
bombing.
white man." the two Italian divisions concen- bodies that you could walk across.
The German attempt with two Japanese everywhere. Gedye al- trated in the Jimma and Lake dis- "Man for man, we weit petter
columns to force "Hellare Pass" leged, allow German and Italian trict to escape has thereby been than the Germans, but although was unsuccessful and the Germans espionage organisations to use the cut off unless they take to the four artillery was magnificent, we again have to recuperate from Japanese diplomatic bags wherever the now much the Axis. Consulates no longer had not the swarms of tanks and their losses in
'exist. have planes which were the real secret trampled Sollum area,
stressed.
bush.
ESCAPE CUT OFF
་་
However, the Italians now
men pos
a particular aversion to the bush of the German success." owing to terror of the patrlut for- When eventually the tanks broke ces, who are now lurking there. ·
their lines, these men "began to Nevertheless, this district is march to the coast. Their rations hearly the size of England and It exhausted, without blankets and
may take some time to crush the with most of their equipment dis-
enemy's resistance unless they carded, day and night they trudged follow the Viceroy's example and on.
throw up the sponge.
IMPORTANT. CAPTURE
Units of the Sudan Defence DARLAN "AND
Force have occupied an important
sector in the Gondar area and SINO-JAPANESE
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South Abyssla have captured, an
Important road Junction,
Eight hundred prisoners were
HOSTILITIES
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COMIC OPERA IN KING-MAKING
LONDON, May 20 (Reuter)The "The defeat of the Italians and comic opera in the king-making | Herr · Hitler's inability to retrievė..
at mark the first serious breach proceedings in Rome receives fair share of attention of the Bri In the spell of the Axis invin tish Press, but leading articles put cibility in the field."
Five In Five Minutes!
BRILLIANT FEAT OF SPITFIRE PILOTS LONDON, May 20 (Reuter Four Spitfires patrolling over the Channel yesterday, encountered 19 Messerschmitt fighters, shot down five of them in as many
minutes without loss to themselves
and ther, with ammunition spent. raced home safely though pursued by over 30 other Messerschmitts.
Two of the Spitfire pilots got two each and a third got one. states the Air Ministry news se- vice.
Only one German nad time to bale at the others crashing into the sea in their machines.
"It was grand," said but I could not stay long for as one pilot, soon as I had got my two I saw about 25 other "Yellownoses" (Mes- ;
RAID-FREE NIGHT
Only a few hostile aircraft were
the matter in the right "persper THE TIMES declares that the serschmitts) coming at us and I tive, which is a summation of the Duke of Aosta's most welcome de-ad no more ammunition." circumstances leading 'to thecision to sue for terms enables Viceroy," the "Duke of Aosta's de-Britain to undertake new com- cision to give up the sponge in mitments in other theatres of taken, including colonels and staff LONDON, May 20 (Central)-what was once Signor Mussolini's war, the first of which is Iraq reported over Britain, mostly aver
"At the outbreak of the 'Sino-Empire in East Africa.
where thanks to Rashid Air's coastal districts, up to a late hour In Libya, there is no change at Japanese war Admiral Darlan ex- The DAILY TELEGRAPH recalls machinations and the simultaneous last night. it appeared unlikely Tobruk while the situation In Pressed the opinion that it
Was it was but ten weeks since General treachery and short-sightedness that ang large scale attack" would Basra and Habbaniyah remains un not of great importance to Europe Cunningham crossed the southern of the Vichy Government, Ger- develop anywhere. changed...&
whether Japan invaded China or frontler of Abyssinia from Italian many is practising her favourite two not," was the revelation made by Somaliland and since when he has strategy of infiltration.
officers.
In the south of Sollam, enemy columns, supported tanks, crossed the frontier, were driven back.
by Admiral Museller, Commander-in- travelled 1:500 miles to be fre- but Chief of the Free French Navy and quently met with
DUKE OF AOSTA LONDON, May 20 (Reuter) -
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Alerce resta- Air Force in an interview given tance in strong and natural posi to the Yorkshire Post's Paris cor- tions. respondent.
Admiral Museller and Admiral for the poor
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The Times adds that though Abyssinia, Libya, Syria and Iraq. are for the moment, Britain's sole responsibility, other regions, such
LONDON," May 20 (Reuter} ps Morocco and Senegal, where Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, who "Signor Mussolini has no excusevichy's subservience to the Ger with the late Str
defence put up The Duke of Aosta himself willDarlan were school comrades and in a vast united African empire" mans may bring new perlls, they made the first Atlantic flight in
BANKER excellent friends until France's the Telegraph continues. He had are no concern to Britain' alone. 1918, has been appointed Lieut- collapse when Admiral Muselier many months of non-belligerency since an sttempt to
surrender at noon today with his staff officers.
The Duke, after showing that: surrender was no longer avoidable, said, according to the Rome radio:
Americas.
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The Duke of Aosta and Musso-ded to join General Charles de in which to reinforce at leisure would amount to a threat to the Sir Brown was a Lieutenant in dominate, Chlonel in the Home Guard with South Atlantic through them command of a battalion. · Vini exchanged messages before
Gaulle's Free French Movement in whereas Britain had to improvise the surrender of Amba Alagi. London,
the R.A.F. in the last war and is in haste and under a heavy hardl cap, a series of converging expedi
United States opinion, it adds, new an active dying officer In £ TORONTO, May 20 (Reuter--Itton which had now achieved such has at once seized upon the im- training branch:
a brilliant result.
plication of a new Franco-German Another battalion commander pact. The danger will come from appearing on the tame list is Dakar not Martinique, which Major-General George Raikeb would at once become a factor informerly of the Royal Marines, who the situation, if, Dakar were to served in the South African and pass into German hands.
World Wars
"I am comforted in this, tragic and jis declared here that at least 23 sad moment with the certainty of Canadians. were aboard the steam- having done all that is humanly jer Zamzam which was lost while
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