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YOUNDED 11+-+WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 20, 1940. B-#AT
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GREEK
CLEARED
OF
ITALIAN TROOPS
Special to the "Telegraph"
ATHENS, Nov. 19 (UP).—It is officially an- nounced that Greek troops have cleared Greeca of the Italian invaders, and have thrown the latter back into Albania, where their towns and posi- tions are menaced.
British AND GREEK PLANES ACTIVE
OHRID, Nov. 19 (UP).—According to reports from the frontier, four Greek and British planes, early this morning, bombed the town and airdrome at Agrirocastron killing four persons and wounding nine in the town and destroying an Italian plane at the aerodrome.
It is also reported that the Italians are now concentrating an Bobostica with all their troops from the Karitza sector. A column of 65 Italian truckloads of troops and war materials are reported to have been rushed to Bobostica from Pogradec last night, passing through Korea.
· Greek artillery throughout the night, bombarded the Italian positions around the villages of Bobostica and Dvora from the Greek position on the Morava mountains.
Yesterday noon, the Greeks are reported to have occupied new artillery positions in the Dramos mountains, and started shelling the village of Herseka and the road between Herseka and Koritza apparently trying to disrupt the transport of Italian troops to the Koritza sector from the central sector.
..
It is further reported that the Greeks artillery resumed pounding Koritza at 6 am. and that the fire is kpreading in the northern part of the lown. Koritza is reported to be cut of telephonically from the town of Pogradec.
Greeks Repulsed
OHRID, Nov. 10 (UP)-Frontier reports say that Greek cavalry, al- tacking the village of Ferati, were repulsed by exceptionally strong Itallan-
resistance after an hour's battle. The Greeks lost 28 killed and 60 wounded.
ed the Italiani positions
border. Tho Italians BUIL hold
dominating the town.
U.S. WARSHIPS AFIRE
Construction Yard Mysteries
Special to the "Telegraph"
The Greeks had previously attack- CAMDEN, N. J., Nov. 19 (UP).—After battling, for near thirty minutes, a fire aboard the battleship South Dakota Melisopetra and crossed the Albanian which is under construction at the New York Shipbuild- Melisopetra and the positions ing Corporation yards, firemen extinguished the blaze.
Masked firemen brought seven men to deck and administerci first aid, then continued searching for the eighth man who is / OHRID, Nov. 19 (UP)—The latest reported to have been trapped below decks. The seven others
that say
were able to walk to the hospital for treatments. Koritza has not been captured.
Not Yet Captured ·
reports from the frontier
The overseas report that Korliza
confirmed rumour.
A Company spokesmen saidĮ
were
had been captured was based on un-the damage was slight and that the cause had not yet been de- Counter-Attach Possible termined. Two alarms BITOLJ, Nov. 19 (UP)-Frontier sounded as the fire menaced 20 reports any that Italian planes, this other warships which are being morning, resumed the ficavy bomb- ing of the Greek positions on
the built. Koritza front, the intense cannonad- ing belog audible on the frontier throughout
right. This the
possibly the prelude to another attempt at a counter-attack in an
effort to save Koritza.
Greeks Bombed
Destroyer On Fire SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
(UP) The BOSTON, Nov. 19
half completed US. destroyer Gwynn was adre for a half hour this evening. This is the second fire in the bavy yard in three days. A fire in storage warehouse last Saturday was blamed on to spontaneous combus-
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" OHRID, Nov. 19 (UP)-Four tion.
tlar,
а
Turkish Blackouts
ISTANBUL, Nov. 10 (UP). Effective Thursday night, all towns öffelal Gazelte terms "half black- in Turkey must impose what the
out."
the men who
saved St. Paul's Cathedral from destruction. It was. they who helped to re- move the big time-bomb buried in the Cathedral yard. The bomb was taken to Hackney Marshes and there exploded. In this picture we see the St. Paul's "Bomb" Roya" un- loading time-bomba at their depot where they are neutralised.
ASSISTANCE
FROM BULGARIA
(By "Reuter's" Diplomatic Correspondent)
LONDON, Nov. 19. It would be unwise to draw any parallel between the visit of King Boris of Bulgaria to Berchtesgaden and the experiences of Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg (former Chancellor of Austria) and Dr. Hacha (former Premier of Czecho-Slavakia), who were summoned into the presence of the Fuehrer to be told
their fate.
Australia's War Effort
Bulgaria is in a very different position from Austria and Czecho-Slovakiu-and, so, for that matter, is Germany to-day. It Is Improbable, therefore, that LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter). Germany will risk complications in the Balkans by precipitate action. Australia's message of 1914 to it is doubtful whether she will con- Great Britain "We are with you front Bulgaria with an ultimatum for
passage
however to the last man and the last the
of troops, ship," was repeated to-night in desperate the need of Mussolini for. help in the campaign against. Greece. a broadcast by Mr. S. B. Bruce, The question of free passage of High Commissioner in London. troops raises very important issues Mr. Bruce added, "To this end we not only as regards Bulgaria but as our maximum regards her neighbours, Yugo-Slavia are putting forth efforts at sea, on land and in the air and Turkey, as well as the Soviet tus reinforce your navy, army and Union..
The Germans like to prepare the air force. We are mobilising to your support all our financial, economic ground thoroughly before they act. and productive resources. Our de- and in the case of Bulgaria the pre- *ermination is to render you all the minary spadework can hardly be help
In our power in this hour of and to have progressed very far. need.
Il Duce's Position Mr. Bruce said
the Govern
ment of Australia had undertaken to It is probable that Germany, also provide a fully equipped and trained feels that it will not hurt 11 Duce to air force of 67,000 men, of whom realise his absolute dependency upon 40,000 are already enlisted from his Axis partner, Il Duce's refer- ence to Hitler in his speech yester- 130,000 applicants.
day showed that he was, already
a lesser accepting
GREECE APPEALS R.A.F. RUPTURES
TO AMERICA
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (Router)The Greek Goy- ernment has appealed to the
United States for per- mission to purchase aviation. and other war material, Somner announced Mr. Welles, Under Secretary. of State, to-day.
Mr. Welles said that Greece has been assured of sympathetic consideration of her request:
Shortly before the an- nouncement of Greece's re- quest, the British and American Ambulance Corps announced in New York that 26 ambulances would be sent to Grecce as soon as transportation could be arranged.
Japanese To Control Indo-China Rubber
"
Italian planes this afternoon bombed Navy yard officials sald a "hit of Greek positions around Mount Ivan, loose wood coming in contact with The "Telegraph" learns from an authoritative source that according to reports from the fron-hot metal" caused the Gwynn fire in the Japanese economic mission to Indo-China requested, and has
which there was "no loss." Two
of Italian bombers waves
The night shift of 4,300 workers been granted, a three-months" monopoly of Indo-China rubber bombed Larissa: „kliling one and was prevented from leaving the yard production as from December" and that the mission also Wounding four people. Greek Aght-in order to forestall confusion which requested what is tantamount to a virtual monopoly of the Ing planes brought down one Itallan yard officials described as a "routine bomber in the vicinity of Port precautionary measure." Gomers.
"
Fire On Third Ship Reports from the frontier say Dist CAMDEN, NJ., Nov. 18 (Reuter),
12 Italians were killed, 30 wounded-Fire broke out aboard the United
country's mineral resources.
That conditions in Indo-China
aro gravo is indicated by the fact HONGKONG
and 75 captured early this morning TURN to Back Page, Column 5 that the Association of Euro- In Italo-Greek clash in the Kalamas
pean Importers in Haiphong bas river valley, where the Italians rc- Djator. Ypl was killed, and two circularised reports stressing the treated across the river.
REICH
Harvest Rotting In Fields
LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter)-Production at Krupps, the big German munitions works atEssen, has been reduced by 50 per cent, by R.A.F. raids.
Some departments have been closed and others have had to be moved. The works are now having great difficulty in obtaining regular supplies of raw materials because of transport troubles caused by wrecked railway junctions.
Three sections of the factory have been hit and put out of commission, and one particularly heavy bomb penetrated to the underground work- shops before exploding and wrecking the place.
These examples of the accuracy of RAF bombers are given by the Air Ministry, which stated that news now reaching Britain indicated a growing |
in disruption of industry in cities Western Germany as the result of the raids.
FIGHTING NIGHT BOMBERS
LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter).
Four large buildings of the Union The problem of countering Chemical Factory on an island at the the night bomber, which is en- junction of
the
Oder and Molle
Rivers at Stettin have been wrecked gaging the best scientific brains At Hanover, the biggest oil re- of all belligerent countries, still Anery is completely destroyed and the defies solution. Deutsche Vacuum Oil Company's fac-
Is
tory at Bremen is out of production. Britain to "very hopeful of Anding
Europa, Germany's biggest liner, reported to have been hit amidships means to defeat the night bomber but the problem is still very for from while in dock there,
being solved," declared Air: Marshal Sir Philip Joubert, speaking "in|
Fokker Works Damage to the power house of the London.
"In this war wo are coping with Fokker Works at Amsterdam has stopped production there for some the enemy dying three times as fast and
weeks.
It is stated that despite No ef- as they did in the last war forts at secrecy, harvests in many climbing twice as high with all sorts parts of the country are rotting un- of aids to help him escape detection. gathered in the fields, disorganisa "Our fighter boys have a stiff pro tion of transport being so acute that biem balde them. They have to
taken
sufficient workers, cannot be SUBMARINE others wounded, by the explosion of necessity of the discontinuance IS LOST beIt vis, also reported that the the bomb in the Ministry of of the presant prohibition of] * Albanian Minister : of... Justice,, M. Justice at Tirana last Monday..
trade with Hongkong and Singa-
COMMISSION ACCUSES TEN SHIPPING COYS.
・・・ Special to the "Telegraph" WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UP)—The Federal... Mariüme slon to-day charged several shipping companies with ing lower rates for silk shippers, who falsifled the weights aw silk and falsified bills of lading by labelling raw silk as f
colton goods.
The following were the companies
| charged: The President Lines, Kawa- sekt: Kiên! Kalsha, Kabushiki-Kal-
pore.
"
SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH" LONDON Nov. 19 (UP),
to see the enemy.
to the fields; nor can crops be moved have something more than cats eyes to store-houses for example
At Magdeburg, cathering of the wheat and potato crops of Saxony has been brought to abstandstille This, it is stated, 1st
TURN to Back Page, Column 3-
Another $18,000
For Deportees
It is declared that unless thaơ! The Admiraly announces that PRESIDE CONcorn to farmers who will; can obtain fule axoks as hitherto from Bingapore and India, 20,000.- the British Submarine Rainbow 000 rice-growers in Indo-Chins will is - considerably overdue, and be ruined and widespread un- must be regarded as lost. 79 employment will follow, winding The Rainbow was stationed in One of the biggest questions con
Hongkong for some, considerablé fronting Indo-China at the present TURN to Back Page, Column 3 limo is the prohibition by Vichy
Supplementary Yo
Total: $1-389,
flonger an equal pole it is no
In the absence of definite news,` it. is considered probable by competent observers in London that Hitler may first be trying to fit Bulgaria into the now order he is attempting to create. in Europe, the new political struc- ture that will consecrate Axis leadership in Europe from the North Cape to the Mediterranean and from the Atlantic to the Black Sen.
The meeting at Vienna to-morrow will probably afford an opportunity of advertising to the world the Axis plans in this respect.
If Yugo-Slovia and Bulgaria can be persuaded to send delegates to the meeting, it will no doubt be trumpet- ed to the world as the first visible manifestation of "New Order.”
No Nazi Troops LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reutor).--- |Bulgarian circles in London; deny that there are any German troops In Bulgaria.
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China Coast Ships Control Discussed
LONDON, Nov. 19(Router)In the House of Commons
Buch large number of prisoners to-day, Sir John Wardlaw-Milne asked the Minister of Shippuk Hongkong are being released and what action he was taking, regarding the requisitioning of ted that extra expenditure of British ships on the China coast and whether all, British Shira 0 for their pamages is required, there were included in the schome and the reasons for exclusion
and a landing!! expenses
to $1,500 and $2,100 month of any vessell
ctively. Provision, made in the
Limates amounted to $7,000, and the Mr. Ronald Cross, replyin
service elsewhere.
din oth
Finance Commitee of the Legiilaliye that the ocean-going ships of two of haitian Colmells will be: saked to-morrow to British liner – companies concernsä vote a further. $18,000 for expend)- had been broughth within the liner fire, which will cover the rest of the requisition scheme, and that a number
of ocean-going trampi