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warning the population that continu- ed resistance against the British troops would result in the bombing of official buildings and that Baghdad repiled that it such is done, Iraq planes will bonib British residences. declaration by It also quoted a
Rachid All to the nation and urmy thanking the
the nation for the patriotism shown during the first hours of the atruggle and assuring the people that it was the Government's aim to safeguard the nation, and to continue to fight on to victory.
Patrols Watchful
CAIRO, May 5 (Reuter).-Success- ful infantry patrols from Habbaniyah were carried out throughout Sunday night, says an additional Middle East communique Issued to-day.
The communique adds. that yester day there was intermittent shelling ol the
RAF. station at liabbaniyah by Iraqi artillery. It was not of R nature owing to constant ur serious patrols maintained by British fighters and bombers.
Armoured Cars Used
LONDON, May 5 (Reuter)-Brl- tish armoured ears attacked the Iraqi desert fort of Rutbah, states a Beirut message quoted by the German news agency, which claims that the attack was successfully repelled by the Iragi troops.
German Report
LONDON, May 6 (UP)-Radio Berlin announced that the Iraqi troops have occupied Habbaniyah air base and have completely encircled
Basra.
Iraqi Claim
two
BEIRUT, May 5 (UP),-Iran
that sources to-day claimed British troop carrying planes have been shot down,
Six hundred, non-Syrian students
dismissed have been
from their classes at the American University after repeated. Arab student demon- strations ut Behals, Iraq.
Currency Order
new
LONDON. May 6 (UP)-The Trea- sury to-day announced that a order under the defence finance re-. the gulations excludes Iraq from sterling area.
No Nazi Forces CAIRO, May 5 (Reuter)There is no evidence of the arrival of German "aircraft or officers, i was stated In
a review of the position in Iraq in military circles here.
A spokesman estimated the totul strength of the Iraqi air force at 120
of hny
them of all types, hardly modern.
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The unarmed party captured Rutbah, mentioned in to-day's British communique, consisted of three four British officers and a few sup- pers, the remainder being local la- bourers. They were captured by a mobile Iraqi force.
The spokesman said that the situa- tion around Ilabbaniyah was "a little difficult and delicate."
Apart from the men at Basra and Habbaniyah, the British had only a certain number of construction gangs working on the Baghdad-Haffa Road, which passes through Rutbnh.
Direct Hits On Scharnhorst
FROM PAGE ONE!
horst and Gneisenau, states the Air Ministry.
The continued presence of the battle cruisers at Brest after five Ministry, weeks suggests, adds the
that either they bave developed some grave defect while at sea or what has is more probable, that Brest proved a very poor shelter.
They made for port late in March to be refuelled and to munition the ships.
These tasks can be normally com- picted in 24 hours,
On Sunday night they showed up clearly under the moon and pilots report very accurate bombing with direct hits on both cruisers, Sticks of the heaviest bombs also fell re- pentedly across the dry dock In which one vessel had berthed and about a jetty where others were led
up.
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London people were lately able to see the north side of St Paul's Cathedral for the first time from Newgate-street. The removal of a dangerous bilding by dynamite gave this view,
Belfast Bravely Faces Second Blitz Blow
(By "Reuter's" Staff Reporter)
BELFAST, May 5-For the second time in three weeks, the Luftwaffe crossed the Irish Sea on Sunday night to' strike indiscriminately at this patriolic Northern Ireland city.
Nazi Raiders Pay Dearly
Amid the misery of ruined homes, fortitude mingled with tremendous
the relief that casualties were not as heavy as at first feared. The blow was, however, severe as the official communique shows with its reference to "much damage to commercial, industrial and resi- of machine-gun fro but little damage dential property.”
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dong ard there were no Cusualles.
One plone was destroyed by an At a hospital hit in the previous rald and damaged again on Sunday R.A.F. plot who was merely out test- night, I have just been told of then his guns. He and his Squadron Leader were making for a suitable galinntry of the nurses who she place to fire cannon shells when two herded to safety their patients
its German fighters were spotted. mostly
women and children-a5
is now known that in the attack flames swept part of the building on Merseyside on Friday night, an- Their
calm courage was matched by other enemy bomber was shot down
workers that of the firemen, AR.P. and ambulance drivers who battled by anti-aircraft fire, making a total through the night to check the fires and to bring in the injured, and by those ordinary men and women whose homes were gone but who, since they felt that they were in this
war: as completely as any part of Britain now, are not dismayed be- cause they felt its full severity.
Only a few hours after the sun race on the battered city, tidying-up
proceeded as swiftly as possible.
Eire Town Raided
DUBLIN, May 5 (UP)-It is off- clally stated that an unidentified air- craft early this morning dropped high explosive bombs on a town in County Donegal, smashing windows in the houses in, the vicinity. There were no casualties.
Liverpool Carries On LONDON, May 5 (Reuter)-After four days and nights of raids, Liver pool is carrying on.
Following a special meeting of the city's Emergency Committee, special arrangements were considered and a statement was issued that Liverpool
serious
irtal had passed through a and the Committee expressed its grent appreciation of the spirit in which the citizens had met the crisis.
It was great inspiration, the Com- mittee added, to know that Liverpool had not been behind other cities in its realisation of the importance of maintaining the steadiness of civic life.
Worms In Pork Cause Disease
of
The first outbreak trichinosis in Britain for 30 years was reported to the Harpenden Council recently. Pork sausages were the cause.
Trichinosis is due to minuto parasitic worms which cause pain and swelling in the muscles, and digestive Blight fever, trouble....
"This disease is prevalent In Ger many, where there is a 10 per cent. death rate," said the Medical officer of Health, who added that there were eight cases in the district
||to deter.... Efforts were being made: mine the source of the disease, which Hats in the Elephant, and Casile was spread both by pigs and rate ja Marca were found suffering from the. disease, although there were no cases [among the people; there
of six destroyed that night.
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On Heavy Industries
The Chinese Ministry of Economic Affairs' announced re- cently that it will spend a further $100,000,000 in 1941 for de- Emphasis will be on velopment of industries in Free China. heavy industries, but the leather tanning, paper, chemical and petroleum Industries will benefit from the new appropriationis.
Officer
Left Guard For Club
China has suffered heavily in the past from the loss of the amall but laboriously built group of heavy industrial plants due to the war.
On the eve of the war, China had 20 blast furnaces with a total capacity of 4,210 tons per month, but prac- tically all were, lost during the first months of the war. To-day, Free China
newly-constructed has 21 modern blast furnaces, all working at capacity in an effort to make herself self-sufficient in fron
A subaltern of the Grenadier Guards who was in charge of the Whitehall defences-the protec Motor Fuel Production tion of Government offices and
Now equipment is being installed in the Houses of Parliament- oll fields in Kansu, where production pleaded guilty at a Chelsea court of gasoline has reached 60,000 gallons martial recently to leaving his per month. When this new equip
ment begins to operate, production guard and going to a club with will be stepped up to 450,000 gallons a lance-corporal, and a guårds- per month, the production of
man.
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The Yuncan Provincial Govern- ment has drawn/up/plank' for a
The officer, Second-Lieutenant Cyril Edwin Dodd, was described by his counsel as "a typical Eng- lish sportsman.”da kes
He also pleaded guilty to charges $1,300,000 plant for manufacturing of conduct to the prejudice of good asphalt for road surfacing. The Yun- arder and discipline in going to the nan Highway Bureau and the provin club with Lance Corporal G. Sim clal Finance Department are "co- monds, and Guardsman L., Sykes, and operating in the project.
be supplied with causing them to alcohol. Dodd
it was staled, had his din- ner and left in a W.D. car driven by Sykes and accompanied by Sim- monds to go to the round of his posts They arrived at the last post at about 11.15 p.m., and afterwards went to a club in Earl's Court Road..
"PAT" McCORMICK LEAVES £6,500 **
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On Death List Bucharest police recently-raided the flat of a beautiful Jewess named Mme: Lupescu, mistress of a leading Iron Guardist, and no relation to the woman behind ex-King Carol,
Under the floorboards of her, bed- room a dossler was found containing the names of, all the people the Iron Guard
legionaries planned 10`mur-
The Rev. William; Patrick Glyn / der."? - 9.
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as Minia McCormick, who was vicar of St Marlin in the Fields, Trafalgar tors and all the leading Jewish Indus square, chaplain to the King, and trialists were to be first to die. Then well-known as a broadcast preacher, cane at page beaded; with the name Reginald Hoare, 20 British left £6,661, He bequeathed all his of gir property to His widow,