S. HONAN BATTLE
Chinese Claim Victories
LAOHOKOW, Feb. 6 (Cen- tral News), Under heavy Chinese pressure large Japanese units engaged in the northward drive in south Honan are retreat- ing south-eastward. Chengyang, a strategic city about 80 milca north-west of Loshan, which was lost on January 28, has been re- captured by the Chinese.
Some 3,000 Japonesc to the north- east of Nanyang to the west of the Polping-Hankow Railway were
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day heavily attacked by the Chiness. About 700 of them were incapacitated while the rest fled to Tangho, south- cast of Nanyang.
Unit Annihilated.
A Japanese unit to the south-east of Wuyang, about 30 miles west of the Peiping-tankow Railway was annihilated while the Japanese,re- treating from Fangcheng, 40 miles south-west of Wuyang, are being hotly pursued by the Chinese.
As a result of the counter-offensive in the Talhu regions on the Cheklang. Kiangsu border, the Chinese have re- captured more than ten strategic points and have severely damaged! Japanese communication lines. Japan- ese communication between Chang- hing and thing, principal towns on the Talhu banks, has been totally disrupted.
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Thursday,
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TO WAR ZONE-Australian soldiers bound for war zone take leave of relatives and friends
at Sydney, en route to embarkation port.
Spaniards
Train is chalked with fonts.
Revive Anti- British Sentiments
MADRID, Feb. 5 (Reuter).-A threatening tone is used by the Spanish newspaper, "Arriba,” to-day in an article attacking The no-called mopping-up opera- the British blockade and those who "within and without are try- tions of the Japanese have ended in complete failure. Indica-ing to paralyse Spain.”
thus
After stating that thus far the Live of Japanese losses, several truck. loads of Japanese dead were seen to Spaniards have been able to rest from forgive their recent battle and have been sent back to Wukang.
enemies who have put obstacles in the way of their progress, the news paper adds, "But henceforth we must
CALCUTTA, Feb. 5 (Reuter)-be united and vigilant round our flag. Both the Italian prisoners escaped yesterday have tured.
been
DRIVE TO BENGHAZI
Little Opposition
Cuba Is Again daily
At Peace
H.Q., Middle East, Feb. 5 (Reuter)The Italian retreat towards Benghazi is proceeding at a rate twenty or thirty.miles
the by Concentrated bombing RAF is causing heavy casualties. With the troops are hundreds of Italian settlers who arrived in this HAVANA, Feb. 5 (Reuter), region with their families only three who The moment has come when action President Batista has issued a years ago. British troops who are c)-must succeed words and a wrathful decree restoring the constitu- parallel roads running went from two following close behind along offensive replace prudent defence we, with our present circumstances tional guarantee of Cuba which Cyrene to Benghazi are meeting with
home and elsewhere, are to he suspended on Tuesday morn- little opposition. The country be improve and Spain is to be something
hind
the British and Benghazi is more than a desert in which the lasting when he took swift action
lacking in fortified post- ely hungry groups. of an old race of against an alleged attempt to soldiers are encamped."
loverthrow him and deposed the
Barce, which is the eastern ler- The article follows a number of chiefs of the armed forces and minus of the Benghazi railway is allusions in press and speech during]
presumably the next British ob- recent days to the blockade as one of other officers.
Jective. Though Appolonia, near the causes of Spain's food shortage.
Cyrene has not been mentioned in
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U.S. CARGO FLEET WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (Reuter).
Czechs Hide Food Stocks From Nazis
A
(Reuter)-A
-The House of Representatives 10- LONDON, Feb. day accepted the Senate's amend-large scale shortage of food supplies ments to the Bill for construction of for Germany has been reported to: a fleet of 200 cargo ships, and the Berlin by German agricultural agenta to the White in Prague, according to news reach- Bill was forwarded
int London, House for signature.
President Roosevelt recently asked Congress for an appropriation, of $313,000,000 to cover the cost building these vessels.
Tinplate Limited
of
The message says that last year a quarter of a million piga, calves and cattle were secretly slaughtered and at least 300,000 tons of meat were prevented from reaching Germany. Some 13,000 wagon loads of grain were successfully hidden.
the British communique, it can be by the Italians.
assumed that it has been abandoned
Manchukuo Observance
HSINKING, Feb. 6 (Reuter). Towns in Manchukuo will be beflagged to-day on the occasi of the Emperor's 36th birthday. Government offices will celebrate LONDON, Feb. 5 (Reuter)-The No food census or house inspections all day. The holiday is observed by Minister of Supply, Sir Andrew have been ordered as the Germans several appropriate ceremonies, Duncan, announced that in order to fear that this would couse More meet demands for other
In the morning, the Emperor will forms of supplies to be destroyed in the panic.personally worship at the State steel, the production of tinplate would New punishments have been devised Foundation Shrine in the Imperial be progressively reduced some 25 per to prevent such sabotage, the least Palace. cent below the level at which the being a tine of 10,000 crowns with
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India's Voice Will
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New. All-World Radio NEW DELHI Feb 5 (Reuter)An order has beca placed in England for a 100 kilowait transmitter for the All-India Radio. The transmitter, which will be one of the most power- ful in the world, will be installed in Delh!.
The preliminary, work such as selecting a sile, etc., is progressing and it is expected that
the new atation which will be audible all over the world, will be used for broadcasts to Europe, Africa, the Far East and the Middle East.
"REUTER" HEAD
RETIRES LONDON, Feb. 5 (Reuter). After
being head of "Reuter" for the last quarter of a century, and having completed 40 years of service with the Company, Sir Roderick Jones, who succeeded Baron de Reuter in 1915, has resigned his postiion as Chairman and Managing Director.
February 6, 1941.
SERVANT TO RICH WIFE
Mr Milbourne Silvester, Stam- ford Brook, W., who gave up his position as manager of licensed premises to do the housework for his rich wife, was left £1 a week by her will. He applied in the Chancery Division recently under the Inheritance (Family Provision) Act, 1938, to increase the amount to £5 a week.
Ils counsel gold he was 42 when the marriage took place nearly 27 years ago. He lived on amicable terms with his wife at Hove, until her death last February. She had no servant and the husband;
besides doing all the housework, attended to her during several illnesses, as she res fused to have a nurse.
Mrs Silvester left about £19,000. She gave certain legacies, annuities of £104 to her sister and brother, and the residue to the National Life- Boat Institution, Dr Barnardo's Homes and the Church Army.
Mr Justice Farwell directed that Mr Silvester should have an addi- tional £3 a week, making in all £4 a week, free of duty.
WELDING METAL TO GLASS
Welding metal to glass, & process which for years has been the dream of scientists all over
the world, has at last been per- fected--by a British firm.
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"The soldering of metal to glass," said an official of the firm at St Helens, Lancashire, "has been the dream of glass techno- logists for years.
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"The process is also being used for soldering metal discs or bolts on to glass."
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Speaking at Ipswich recently, Sir Nevile Henderson, former Ambassador in Berlin, said: “I think the one person who re- gretted Munich more than any- one else was Hitler. He thought he had missed an opportunity, and I think he did."
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Slr Nevile said, tried to do his utmost regardless of himself to bring Europe back to recognition and rectification of past errors. It was a single- handed effort on the part of a man who was over 70.
No Spitfires Then
"I do not know whether the critics of Mr Chamberlain realize
that on September 28, 1938, we did
not possess any Spilares, we had only one or two experimental Hurri- canos, and only modern A. A.
guns for the defence of London, out
of 400 estimated as the minimum could: have necessary. Germany dropped 2,000 bombs a day on Lon- don, and we could have given no reply.
"I would like to ask Mr Chamber- luin's critics, realizing what cards he held in his hand, what they could
STOCK EXCHANGE have done either to avert or delay
LONDON, Feb. 5 (Reuter).-The Stock Exchange to-day made Ľ downward drift and was dull but closed sicadier under the leadership of glit-edged securities which rollied on renewed institutional buying.
Industrials were rather heavy and home-rails had a pause, but Kaffics
were
A held.. Olis occasionally)
bonds were inclined to and speculative buying of European
evidence.
war. Mr Chamberlain failed in his immediate objective, but to the end of his life he did not have one twinge of conscience."
Electrocuted
In Shelter
Mr Ernest Wallace Martin, bonds was again in Woolwich Borough Council Elec- trical Engineer, said at an in- quest recently that the council
Wall Street was arm
Devonshire Or Harlech did not encourage people to in- To Replace Lord Lloyd stal electric lighting in Ander-
son shelters,
LONDON, Feb. 5 (Reuter)The The current should be reduced to question of a successor to Lord Lloyd, 20 or 50 volts through a transformer who died yesterday, is complicated which could be bought for 10s. or 388. by the facet that besides being Secre.
No electricity of ordinary supply tary for the Colonies he was also voltage should be used in an Ar- Leader of the House of Lords.
derson shelter because of the damp. Boxer's Death
The only other Secretary of State In the House of Lords in Viscount
Cranbourne, Dom
Dominions Secretary,
and he is a newcomer.
A verdict of "Accidental death" due to an ineffective cable was re- carded on Patrick Sheehan, aged 34, In some quarters the suggestion is made that Lord Harlech, who is now of Anglesea
boxing champion
one of the Civil Defence Commis- | had been ad, Woolwich, who
for three years.
stoners, will be recalled to take over for thre both positions, but others suggest that Sheehan was one of a party of
con-
the Duke of Devonshire in the council workmen who were running.
**creting his shelter which had become Constitutionally there must be two flooded. It was stated that he either Becretaries at State in the House of tried to wrench an electric cable from Lords the present vacancy must be the ground or grasped it to save him-
self when he slipped. filed by a Peer,
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