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CAIRO, Mar. 20 (Reuter).—
An Italian cruiser or a large destroyer was among the ships! sunk or damaged in a series of
attacks which the Fleet Air Arm made against enemy shipping in Valona and Durazzo last Satur- day and Monday nights, states a communique issued here to- day.
Six or seven hits were ob- tained with torpedoes. The com- munique says that the attacks were extremely successful and caused severe damage.
submarines
Transporta Torpedoed SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Mar. 20 (Reuter). Further successes have been reported by British
operating ngainat Italy's sen communications, says an Admiralty regimunique.
The sumarine Utmost (Licul Commander K. D. Cayley) out a succesful attack on an escorted convoy of two deeply laden Italian transports of about 6,000 and
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FRIDAY, MARCH. 21, 1941.
日四廿月二
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AMERICA TO CONSTRUCT The Eastern Japanese
GREAT BATTLE FLEET:
65,000-TON WARSHIPS
Special to the "Telegraph"
WASHINGTON, MAR. 20 (UP).-—THE SENATE BY VOTE TO-DAY PASSED THE $3,446,000,000 BILL PROVIDING FUNDS TO CONTINUE THE GREATEST PEACE-TIME WAR- SHIP CONSTRUCTION IN UNITED STATES THIS SWIFT ACTION FOLLOWED HISTORY. THE APPROVAL OF TWO BILLS AUTHORISING THE NAVY TO MAKE CONTRACTS FOR A CHAIN OF SEA BASES.
Representative Melvyn Maas, of the Naval Affairs Committee, revealed that the two-ocean naval expansion programme will include five super-battleships of from 60,000 to 65,000 tons. He said he had been informed that the super-ships were contracted for in September last. The Navy Department declined to confirm or deny this.
tons crowded with troops. The ex- BRITISH
plosions of the torpedoes were follow-
ed by a very violent explosion, and
it 1 considered certain that
leant
of the one
completely
destroyed.
at
transports was
The submarine Triumph (Llet Commander W. J. Woods) bus sunk
two
deeply-laden · Italian supply
ships, earn of about 2,500 tons..
BOMBERS
ACTIVE
Mr Maas asserted the super- battleships would conform with the naval limitation treaty ton- nage of 45,000 tons owing to the Tact that the "treaty tonnage is the weight of the ships practi- cally as they slide off the ways. When ships are outfitted with guns, and armour, the tonnage is increased considerably." He said that the
The submarine Unique (Lieut Fierce Eritrea And Hunes. Montana, Ohio. Maine, New
Commander A. F. Collett) has tor- pedoed a fully-laden Italian supply ship of about 3,000 tuns which was proceeding in an escorted convoy,
This supply ship is almost certain- ly sunk.
Abyssinia Raids
SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH"
CAIRO, Mar. 20 (UP).—In Admiralty Communique tense R.A.F. activity is con- SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“ tinuing in Eritrea particularly in LONDON, Mar. 20 (UP). The the Keren and Asmara areas, Admiralty to-day announced that the according to an official announce British submarines Unique, Utmost ment. The enemy positions in and Telumph sunk four and probably the hills around Keren were re- five Italian ships in the Mediterranean including two transports of about peatedly dive bombed and 0,000 and 4,000 tons each believed to machine-gunned. have been heavily laden with troops.
Hampshire and Louisiana had been assigned to these ships.
Informed circles stated that noue of the keels has as yet been laid.
Mr Maus declared that there was some possibility of mounting 18-inch guns but it was more probable that the ships would carry 18 inch guns.
Chain of Naval Bases
The Senate to-day approved the con-
WASHINGTON, Mar. 20 (UP).- ference reports on authorisation billa totalling $342,876,383, including # chain of naval and nic, bases in eight British possessions in the
Atlantic and work in the Pacific. This ap
The announcement-zuid-the-torp-Enemy-transport-on-the-road-proval completed Congressional ac- explosions were followed by very between Keren aml, Asmara was violent explosions and it is considered | attacked. TURN to Page 2. Column Five
Naval Rating
During the heavy raid on Asmara the telegraph office and the Fint works were bombed.
Another formation bombed
tion
The approval of the naval base authorisation Was unanimous and coincided with the London reports that there was fult agreement be- tween the United States and Britsin regarding the legal conditions of the Two other bills also lease bill. authorised the improvements. ond
Found Dead the railway station. The ac partial fortineation of Guam and
¡drome at Dessie was heavily at- Sama.
Investigation Into tacked and badly damaged,"
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The harbour at Tripeli was heavily
WASHINGTON, Mar. 20 (Reuter). bombed and une stick of bombs fell
Two bills authorising the expendi Con a concentration of shipping. At The following statement has Tamet there were
naval and explosions and ture of $345,000,000 60 been issued by the naval autho-fires among dispersed enemy planes, public works programmes, including rities:
enemy work on the Pacife Islands of Guam "The funeral of Able redrome at Tripolilania and miland Samoa and bases recently Seaman D. T. Thorburn, who onary objectives at Tepelini. One TURN to Page 2, Column Four
The R.A.F. also rolded an
March 20, was found dead on plane is missing. board ILM.S. Cicala, took place
at the naval cemetery this morn- | ing.
"The circumstances of the death of this rating are being in- vestigated."
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R.A.F. Bomber Joins German
Squadron & Bombs Aerodrome
Special to the “Telegraph"
LONDON, Mar. 20 (UP),—The Air Ministry states that an R.A.F." bomber flying over
Mounting Tension In Far East
SINGAPORE, Mar. 20 (Reu- ter). The N.Y.K. liner Haruma Maru sailed for Japan at noon to-day carrying the last group of Japanese women and children | evacuating Singapore in view of the mounting tension in the Far East, states a Japanese report. . Count Michimasa Soewima and seven members of the Afghanistan mission to Japan are also on board,
Americans Leaving Japan TOKYO, Mar. 20 (Domel)-
order Revising a former
to a}} Methodist missionaries in Japan and Korea to evacuate to the United States, the Mission Board in New York his cabled the Mission Council of the Methodist Church to transfer the grow up of
of women missionarien to the Philippines.
This first group will include Mion Helen Moore of the Kwassul Girls' School at Nagasaki. and Miser Patricia McHugh and Nell Dyer of Uie Aoyama Gal
Gakuln College of Tokyo
who left for 'Manilla aboard the Pre- sident Cleveland this afternoon.
Misses McHugh and Dyer had booked for the United States on the President Pierce but they changed their plans upon the last-minute advice from New York.
Another woman missionary, Mrs T. T. Brumbauch, with her daughter Miss Barbara Álko, left this afternoon aboard the Nippon Kaisha liner TURN to Page 2; Column Four
LONDON'S AGONY
Suburbs Pounded In
enemy occupied territory recently, joined a formation of German bombers who were returning Night-Long Raids
from Britain and received the landing signal from a German aerodrome. The R.A.F. pilot New down as though to land and then a member of his crew signalled on a flush lamp. "Heil Hitler... and the bomber dropped a stick of bombs across the aerodrome, after which the plane returned
to Britain,
Cologne & Lorient Bombed By R.A.F.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" A SOUTH-WEST COAST TOWN, Mar. 21 (UP).-Hun- dreds of low Blying German rai. ders mercilessly pounded the re Mar. 20 (UP). Wellsidential and business districts informed German circles stated that for hours last night and the last night's six-hour rald on London death toll is already belleved to marked the "real begining of the
Spring Offensive Starts
BERLIN,
spring offensive war," the goal being be large. Hundreds are home- the "complete starvation of the British less.. Isles."
that
recent the
15 to
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Buried In Debris
They added Special to the “Telegraph” · ·
LONDON, Mar 20 (UP).— exchanges between the RAF. and Rescue squads aided by volun- LONDON, Mar. 20 (UP).—Royal Air Force bombers scored the Luftwaffe revealed that the Ger-teers are probing for the broken
mans enjoyed at least a important hits with heavy high explosive and incendiary mine tu saperlerly in the air and bodies of men, women and child- bombs on. Cologne factories last night, according to an offleiul it was hinted that the ratio will prove ren who were buried in the ruins
announcement.
to be much greater during the raids of homes, apartment houses, A fierce attack was directed in coming weeks.
Lenements and hotels as well as German circles dustrial targets on the cast bank concentrated on England's "lungs," ing the night.
BELGRADE against communications and in-out therised corrent attacks were at least five air raid shelters dur-
GIVES IN
of the Rhine, according to the such as Hull, Cardiff, Liverpool, It was the worst German air report. Good results were clear-Glasgow and London. They stated raid in 1941 and
one of the that this is a strategic and "logical ly observed.
worst during the war. complement" to an Intensifed U-boat NEW YORK, Mar. 21 (Reu-| Several factories were hit and one wortare against England's seaways. German planes in waves-a score The service was conducted by the A cheque for $50,000 was re-report that the United States Navy ter). It is reported from Bel-rate under the impact of heavy headlines regarding last night's ralds the war's heaviest anti-aircraft bar,
building was seen to disinte-
Evening newspapers coupled their to each wave-passed through one of Rev. J. E. Sandbach, chaplain of the celved from The Hongkong Sailors and Soldiers Home.
grade that Prince Paul and the bombs. Many fres also broke out.
with warnings to America * and { rage and bombed the area starting up Regency Council specially met The communique added that oil referred to "Roosevelt's dangerous many fres, which lit up an area of last night to draft the final storage tanks at Rotterdam and three game" in okling England. The 30 square miles. It is known that
aerodromes in the Yugo-Slavia's agrec-|
Low terms of
Countries Nachtausgabe" said: "The Amen- 11' are dead in one area. were successfully attacked.
what No can people will learn into
Another air rald alarm was sound- ment with the Axis.
planes are missing as a result of these senseless danger Roosevelt has plunged but the all clear was given with- Falds.
TURN to Back Pago, Column 3 out any incidents being reported.
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The Commodore was represented Electric Company, Ltd. this work on British warships soon. One by an officer of the Royal Navy, morning, representing the Com- unconfirmed report is that a British
Deceased was accorded full naval pany's second contribution to cruiser will enter the dry honours, a firing party being present the Bomber Fund. This brings Norfolk for routine overhauling. at the graveside, while a bugler the total of the Fund to date sounded the "Last Post" and "Re- veille."
Philippines
to $1,743,991.62.
Urged To
LATEST
Become Self-Sufficient Raids Continue
Special to the “Telegraph”
MANILA, Mar. 21 (UP).—In a conference with the press
This Morning
A declaration regarding the terms: of the agreement is expected later.
Mobilisation
LONDON, Mar. 20 (Reuter). Yugo-Slavia now has 1,200,000 men mobilised; most of them massed on the Bulgarian frontier, according to the Swiss radio,
to
No British Losses
LONDON, Mar. 20 (Reuter),- Coastal Command aircraft last night attacked the submarine base 'of Lorient, states an Air Ministry com- munique.
Many henvy bombs were seen to burst on the locks and one very large Bre was started,
No British aircraft is missing from TURN to Page 2, Column Five
STRAFING OF KWANGTUNG TROOPS
Choppers Used In Chase After Bank Robbery
Two persons, one a Chinese bank manager and the other a European, were injured yesterday in chasing two armed robbers who are alleged to have snatched a large sum of money from a man in the Wing Hang Bank, No. 3 Bonham Strand,
Plan Approved SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH"
BELGRADE, Mar. 20 (Domel).—Il SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” LONDON, Mar. 21 (UP)-The Crown Council to-night approved a was learned that the Yugo-Slav Luftwaffe resumed their attacks on
plan which responsible Government to-day, Mr Francis Sayre," the Philippine High Commissioner re-British ports to-day, and were report- officials described as an offer of
The bank manager, Li Hon-man, has been admitted to the ed to have fairly heavily raided ย vealed that a Civilian Emergency Planning Board had drawn up a detailed programme recommending that the Commonwealth
Queen Mary Hospital with chopper wound to his face. The south coast town last night and early cennomic and semi-military ald
the Reich designed 10 break the to-day.
European, who was walking along the road and attempted to sponsor the attainment of a self-sufficiency in the foodstuffs in A steady stream of bombers impasse between Yugo-Slavia and
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
intercept the robbers, received a cut on the arm. He has not every area throughout the Islands by stocking up vital food, ex-
dropped high explosive bombs blast-Germany.
JAPANESE AIR BASE, Mar. 21;
been identified.
I passer-by, In the struggle, all three panding communications and training and expanding A.R.P.
Ing cinema, church, and other
to The plan was submitted the | (Domel) ~Japanese Army atreraft
fell to the ground, and one of the buildings.
Cabinet by milltary lenders who re- on Thursday morning and afternoon volunteer guards in anticipation of a possible emergency.
About 12:30 p.m. yesterday, an Lobbers was seen to cut the European The only other bombings reported portedly asked to initial it without carried out mass, raids upon the con- Indian was having a sum of money once across the arm before resurning Mr Sayre emphasised that tho was responsible for the defence of su for were on eight Landon area discussion. It is believed that the centrations of Chinese troops at changed at the bank when the two his flight.
Premier, Mr Dragisha Tsvetkovitch, Wingwi, about 25 miles north of robbers, who had been lurking out- When Li-caught up with the men, programme was dependent on the Pallippines, and that the Com-districts, where minor damage and
and the Foreign Minister, Mr Alek-Tamshul in eastern Kwangtung Pro-side the place. dashed boldly into one of them suddenly stopped dead the Commonwealth organisation monwealth does not have the funds some casualties were caused,
sandar Taintear-Markovitch, are pro- vince.
the
building and snatched a sum of and, turning on his pursuer, pulled ceeding to Berlin ole hilch occurs, training near Pakmongfa, about 10 his hands,
March 24 with Several hundred Chinese troops in about $2,000 Chinese currency from out a chopper and cut Ll three times the plan unless a late
on the face. Li fell, and the two An alarm was raised, and the mes men continued to run up Aberdeen of the Gennan Foreign strafed, while the Chinese military were chased by the bank's manager Street, where they were seen by 'a Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop, and establishments between Wingwu and and a number of his fokis. The men Chinese conmable. the Yugo-Slay Foreign Minister, Mr Pingshan were also subjected to in- | ran from Bonham Strand Into Queen's | An arrest han been made. Tsinisar-Markovitch," will be affixed lense bombardment. All Japanese | Itood, and near the Ho Tung Buliding i It is understood that, of the sum next week, informed quarters said, planes safely returned,
they were stopped by n European stolen, about $500 has been recovered.
and appropriations-the renew.
for a civilian programme.
Mr. Sayre sakd he had not yet re-
ing of an old argument as to ceived any advice for American de- whether the United States of pendents to evacuate the Philippines the Philippines should be respon-although there was a noteworthy in- sible for civillan protection. |crenen in evacuation' during the post It is recalled that President Manuel months. No plans have been made Quezon said that the United States TURN to Page 2, Column Fivo
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signatmany accepts the plan, the inlles soulinvest of Plagshanwu, were