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六拜禮 號二十月四英港香
SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1941. 日六十月三
BIG BATTLE ABOUT TO
START:
BRITISH
AND
GERMANS IN CONTACT
Special to the "Telegraph"
ATHENS, APR. 11, (UP).—BRITISH TROOPS IN GREECE HAVE CONTACTED THE INVADING GERMANS ON THURSDAY, IT `IS LEARNED FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES. REPORTS FROM ANKARA THAT German panZER TROOPS AT SALONIKA HAVE WHEELED, AD- VANCING SOUTHWESTERLY, INDICATE THAT A REAL BATTLE IN GREECE IS ABOUT TO BEGIN PERHAPS ALREADY RAGING, SAYS A LONDON MESSAGE.
It is possible that the British troops in Greece will be soon engaged, as the Columbia Broadcasting System's correspondent at Ankara reported earlier this week that the British were concentrated at Katerina, key point on the Greek coast north of Mount Olympus, and believed to be the eastern anchorage of the Greeks' first second line of defence.
The Greeks admitted that they never intended to defend Salonika; but if they are unable to stem the German advance in Thessaly, it is feared that the situation will be precarious.
In the meantime, the outcome is awaited of the reported Yugoslav counter- Military attack to recapture Skoplje and to re-establish contact with Greek forces. commentators here believe that the Yugo Slavs have a fair chance of success, since the first impetus of tank assault is always very strong, but fails to consolidate positions because of its high-speed of advance, leaving infantry columns vulnerable to counter-attack. ·
RESISTANCE MAGNIFICENT
+
RED SEA OPEN TO Jannitsa and Monastir. Southward the Yugo-Slav resis-
ATHENS, Apr. 11 (UP)-A British communique states: "Further west, German forces have reached
U.S. SHIPS
-Mr Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Apr. 11 (Reuter)-President Roosevelt has re-opened the Gulf of Aden American and the Red Sea to shipping.
Making this announcement at -a-press-conference to-day, the President said that American vessels would be permitted to go the whole way through the Red Sea to the Suez Canal since Egypt was neutral and that
tance to the German advance is stiffening."..
It has added that the situation in eastern Macedonia) is obscure but the Greek resistance is magnificent.
FIGHTING FRONT OBSCURE
LONDON, Apr. 11 (Reulet)-While it is not yet stated where fighting between the British and the, Germans occurred. it is reported that the Germans have reached Yannitsa, about 50 miles west of Salonika, and have also captured Monastir in southern Yugo-Slavin.
This thrust has brought General List's armoured forces to the head of the famous Monastir Gap leading from Yugo-Slavia into Greece..
Huge Manila
· Blaze
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH'' -
MANILA, Apr. 12 (UP), -The Authorities to-day investigated the possibility of arson in connection with last night's 600,000 peso fire which killed at least two Chinese and possibly four others in Manila's Chinese shopping centre. Three buildings were razed, mostly housing Chinese firms.
Suspicion of arson is based on reports that an ex- plosion preceded the con- flaggration. It is noteworthy that the fire was only one block from the scene of a huge fire last Wednesday. It was the 14th fire this month.
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Massawa Entry
Lit By Fires: Twelve Ships
Sunk In Harbour
(By "Reuter's" Special Correspondent in Eritrea)
MASSAWA, Apr. 11.-Twelve ships lie aground in Massawa harbour with their masts or funnels poking out of the shallow water or reeled over on the sandbanks.
The Italians tried to destroy as much as they could before quitting the port, but great quantities of material still remain.
Hungary's Stab In The Back: Invasion Of Yugo-Slavia
Special to the "Telegraph"
BUDAPEST, Apr. 11 (UP).—The official news agency reports from the border say the Hungarians this morning reached the town of Horogos in Bueska, southwest of Szeded and continued toward Szabadka. An unconfirmed rumour says that Rumania has started action to repossess Reblaj Banat which is south and cast of Hungarian Banat.
Yugo-Slav Aid For The British Fleet
Special to the "Telegraph”....
As we drove across the bridge Into Massawa towards the naval offices and barracks; we saw the last of six tanks fall into the water with flames and with exploding ammunition bursting. from it. We were, however, in · time to save a big lorry filled with ammunition, which a naval rating was trying to tilt over the edge of the bridge.
We drove through miles of ram- shackle streets filled with troops until
town where the Commandant formal-
we reached the entrance to the civil ly surrendered,
We were just too late to provest an Italian ship; marked as a hospital ship, leaving the harbour but we prevented a boatload of officers with. their kit packed pushing off from the docks in two trawlers.
German Present
Deep Penetration LONDON, Apr. 11 (UP), Radio Budapest this evening announced that German troops have already penetrated into
We then drove to the office of Yugo-Slavia to a depth of 20 General Bonett! and requested him miles in the region south of to order that nothing more be des Tisza without opposition. The troyed. Alongside. General Bonetti advance in the Baranya triangle stood a naval officer who spoke Ger- man and looked like German.
Massawa's last stand."
✓
VICHY, Apr. 11 (UP)-The British naval forces in the is also proceeding satisfactorily. Possibly it was he who instigated Adriatic and the Mediterrancan have been greatly reinforced by The Hungarian Government has the joining of the Yugo-Slay Navy operating in Greek bases to decided to send a Minister to
Zagreb immediately. day, according to a Yugo-Slav dispatch.
Yugo-Slavia's fleet of light | units comprising four destroyers, four submarines and a number Meanwhile, Rome announces that the Italian Army, advancof torpedo-boats, mosquito-boats, ing from Italy into the extreme north-west of Yugo-Slavia, is mine-layers and mine-sweepers making progress in the valleys of the Rivers Sava and Ljubl-will be particularly useful to the
janica.
cupplies could be carried through TENSION
the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sen.
The American Government, he said, would not explore the question of whether supplles consigned to a neutral might ultimately reach belligerent.
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Can Use Suez Canal President Roosevelt has sanctioned
IN THE DUTCH E. Ï.
Eyes On Matsuoka Northern
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BATAVIA, Apr. 11 (UP),-Ten- sion has increased in the Netherlands
1
or
LATEST
Nazi Thrust In Greece
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH".
Challenged in regard to the use or/East Indies, the country awaiting Mr/reliably reported that the Germans of the gravest dangers involved in orthwest Greece and thus possibly
the use of the Suez Canal by United States shipping. Port (the Mediterranean
Lost Territory Retaken BUDAPEST,- Apr. 11 (UP)-The
The majority of the shore guns, which the Italians had trained to- wards our advancing land forces. were put out of action by our guns and there appeared to be no civil population in Massawa except for the
all having been evacuated."
terrliorles which Hungary lost innards Asmara, two roads wind
1918 and which the Hungarian army
is now reaccupying, includes 20,580-through-the-mountains-that-load-from square kilometers with a population the sea level to nearly 8,000 feet in of 1.42 million.
a distance within 50 miles.. There, is also a narrow-gauge railway and an The Yugo-Slav administration called | overhead cable railway. None of this territory Vojvoduna which had TURN to Pago 2, Column Six three parts; Arstly, the so-called Backha triangle between the present Hungarian frontier and the Danube and Siza Rivers; secondly, Banat which was the arca cast of Tiza, be- tween Tiza and the actual Rumanian frontier; and, thirdly, the so-called Baranya area which is the triangle
Petain Warns de Gaullists TURN to Page 2, Column Six Youths Take Risks
Fatshan Sailing
LONDON," Apr. 11 (Reuter)—A warning to young Frenchmen against joining General de Gaulle's 'move- ment by embarking clandestinely for England or by crossing into Spain is given in a communique Issued to- day by Marshal Fetain's office.
British fleets. British Contact Nazis
As far as is known here, the Yugo- ATHENS, Apr. 11 (Reuter). Slav Beet suffered no serious losses! -The first news that British in the early phases of the war and was able to move southward behind and German troops have met is the screen of the Dalmatian islands... contained in a communique The Yugo-Slav Navy has 600 officers
ATHENS, Apr. 11 (UP)-To-day's issued to-day by British Hicad-and 7,000 men.
communique revealed that the Ger quarters in Greece as follows:
man columns are smashing through Prime Importance "German troops advancing into) Of prime importance are the four Monastir Gap in northwest Greece,
Greece contacted the Yugo-Slav naval bases on the Dal-heading for Florina, despite the terri
or Kotor,
British acrini bombardment. British Imperial forces yesterday," matian const at Catlaro
Dubrovnik or Ragusa, Split
It is indicated that the German Germans Slaughtered ATHENS, Apr. 11 (Reuter)-It is Spalatto, and Sibenik or Sebenico.
Naval observers here say that one column is preparing to make contact with the important road system in in capturing Monastir, suffered
the German capture of Salonika
movement, taking Matsuoka's return to Tokyo. The terrine onslaught from low-flying main railroad the launch a For Sale in zich the President Dutch-Japanese trade talks have R.A.F. bombers, who smashed up that by using the molto baut pocket the British-Greeks deenen, systems
standstill during Mr columns of tanks and armoured submarines in paris for assembly to from the rear.
It' declares that Marshal · Petaln said that he was not sure but certain-been at #
inflicted very severe patrol the Aegean Sea, thus to block Yoshizawa's tour of the Netherlands vehicles and
to the Dardanelles, German advance guard actions have the tramc ly Ismaila, mid-Suez, is not in the East Indies, and Japanese evacuees casualties.
frequently intervened to save such Greeks Hold Out combat area.
youths, including schoolboys, from most presumed to have occurred as the now in German hands, are
the "dring squad when they are ar- Shipping circles believe that the continue leaving the Indies in large
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" here Is
(UP)The suitable for bases of small submarines Germans advanced from Monastir
rested by the Germans, While Gap.
such ATHENS, Apr. 10
some of the country fleraely and torpedo-bouts.
where the first contacts occurred
for clemency may
not appeals are flooded with evacuce applicants and
rearguards
German other Japanese straightening out their Greek
the resisting
advancing
deep ravines, there leave for Canton has suddenly always be heard. New Defence Line
mountainous with to leaving. But
The Government is determined to they affairs prior
units although
ROME, Apr. 11 (UP)According are long stretches of high plateau land been cancelled by the Canton Au- paradox is evident with a substantial panzer
of isolated to the cast of Salonika und
report published in the where the armoured divisions can thorities. Consequently, Increase of Japanese purchases
in Batavia outflanked, similar to the operation
"Messaggero" from the Yugo-Slav move with considerable freedom.
In addition to plercing Monastir steamer will not be leaving for an end the frontier, a Yugo-Slav prisoner de- are on the Maginot foris. despite the fact that payments
clared that the Yugo-Slav military Gap, another Germon force has push-Canton as scheduled to-morrow.
A message to the effect that the doms for the cause of France 'than. made In foreign exchange which
Was receiv❘ those which deliberately comes hard on the Japanese.
authorities were attempting to estab-ed west 30 miles along the road from
11 (Reuter)..... LONDON, Apr.
Japan Watching Manila Lieut-Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wi-
TOKYO,. Apr. 11, (UP)-Mr Ishii the Brilish son is in command of Army troops in Greece under the of the Information Board stated to TURN to Page 2, Column Seven
09 Italian, German and Danish ships numbepanese Consulate
seized in American ports will
to rush supplies to Egypt vla
Red Sea.
used
the
WILSON TO LEAD motor cars and houses BRITISH TROOPS
direction of General Papagos, the C-in-C of the Greek Army.
Ceneral Wilson was responsible for defence of the Western Desert frontler during the dimcult months after the collapse of France and the entry of Italy into the war. directed the operations which carri- ed the British front to Benghazi after which he was appointed G.O.C. Bri- tish troops in Cirenaica and Military Governor of that province.
pro
The main Greek army and B.EF. are reported to be taking up positions for what will probably be a decisive battle.
Athens was heavily raided for TURN to Page 2, Column Six brief period in the moonlight in
R.A.F. Busy Over Reich Cirenaica and Greece
Special to the “Telegraph”
It is understood that British and.
Cancelled Saloniks, Cavalla and Alexandropolis, been confined to skirmishes which are
to
A
Pormission for the Fatahan to
but
the take measures to bring French emigration to the dissident centro to
There are more useful martyr-
expose
ish a new defence line in the area Salonika. The German threat is steamer cannot sall between the Sava River and the greatest near the juncture of Albania,ed by Messrs Butterfield and Swire young Frenchmen deprived of aut
Greece and Yugo Slavia,
yesterday.
Bosnia mountains.
A report from Bratislave published in the "Popolo di Roma" states that the Tugo-Slav Government is going to Sarajevo and that King Peter is believed to be preparing to go to Turkey.
Belgrade Bombed
· VICHY, Apr. 11 (Reuter) Belgrade was again attacked by low fying German bombers to-day, slates a Belgrade dispatch to the Vichy news agency.
Iraqi Regent Voted Out
BAGHDAD, Apr. 11 (Reuter)
No Violence In
South, Says Konoye How
TOKYO, Apr. 12 (Reuter) Japan has no intention of resoring to force in realising her South Seas plans, declared Prince Konoye, the Japaneso Premier, in a press interview..
What
Japan desires
in the South and Seas la economie co-operation cise." he added. nothing
After stating that Japanese Soviet relations were moving in the "right direction," the Premier, answering a question on Japanese-American re- Intions, said: "We do not expect any turn for the better but I am sure that relations will not take a turn for the worse.**
on
Nazis British
thentic information."
Captured Generals
CAIRO, Apr. 11 (Reuter)-Shortly before midnight-" on Friday last week, Staff cars with Lieut-Gen, Phillip Neame, VC, Lieut-Gen. Sir Richard O'Connor and two senior staff LONDON, Apr. 11 (UP)-The Air Ministry to-day an-
officers had left for new headquarters further east, but they, Brest Bombing Of
were not following the main Dorna road along which demolition nounced that last night a number of targets in the Ruhr and
work was in progress. They took to a desert by-pass where Rhineland areas were bombed, despite the poor weather. The Battle Cruisers
principal target was Duseldorff. attacking German vehicles. Other
they came upon a stationary British convoy with some lorries. "The Fockewull aerodrome at formations on April 7 made low lovel
The Staff cars were attempt-[ A Tommy nearby challenged = the LONDON, Apr. 11 (Router)-
attacks on two German convoys near Bomba specially designed to plerce Merignac was also successfully Mechill, and on April 8 attacked
ing to thread their way through German who shot him. The Gen- Sino-Japanese armour were used in further raids bombed. From all these night German armoured cars and troop The dismissal of the Regent, Emir Commenting
Major-Gen. MD. Gambler-Per carried out by the R.AF. on the Nazi
at a specially-convened meeting of affaire, Prince Koroye feferred to his tho stationary vehicles when a erals had to surrender and operations, seven aircraft are carrying vehicles on the Maus-Mechill Abdul Ilah, was unanimously voted
statement on November, 1940, de- German patrol on motor-cycles was taken in the course of a battle battle-cruisers Scharnhorst
claring. "It Chungking give up the and sidecars, heading from elat ol Mccalll, in which the Brit the Iraqi Parliament to-day. Gneisenau, at Brest on Thursday missing."
Cairo Communique
Lah wont to Bars when Sayid policy of armed resistance, we shall Meghelll in the moonlight, took also took some German priser Persistent Raids night.
the Nationalist be more than glad to negotiate the Staff cars by surprise....... CAIRO, Apr. 11, (UP)-To-day's Rashid el Gallanth LONDON, Apr. 11 (UP)On
cmmunique states that British planes fender seized
the coup general peace. with Chino": ava ing about two hours before midnight
captured in the recent believed that
per-British coldlor, who was an oys and the other about 4 am., and there April 7, five British bombers attacked attacked army, columns, railways and d'etat on April 8, 1 every reason, says the Air Minis- the concentrations of Germans lorries stores yesterday in Greece and Yugo- Parliament have replaced Hah by sonal change in Chungking could witness of the incident, said that a tions in Libya try to believe that they must have and armoured cars and dispersed Slavia and destroyed ten enemy Sherif Sharaf, senior member of the bring about a general peace in China German solder armed with a Tommy It is bellaved that less th
them near Agedabia. The same five planes. In Cirensics there were bad Kasbinite family, a Regent until immediately."
gun approached the Blancat and of the 2,000 British takan been: damaging:
fold the Generals to alight.
aro agliling men Both raiders were viable and were Blenheim planes on April 6twice repeatedly straddidd.
raided to the southwest of Mechil, TURN to Page 2, Column Seven the young King's majorit
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