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No. 10474
一拜禮:號二月六英港香
MONDAY, JUNE 1941.
日八初月五
R.A.F. Destroy 10 Enemy Planes
CAIRO, June 1 (Reuter),---- Seven enemy planes were des troyed by the R.A.F. during patrols over British ships in the Mediterranean yesterday.
Aerodromes at Malemi and Heraklion in Crete and at Beng-. hazi in Libya were also bombed.
These facts are given in the following R.A.F. communique:
Mediterranean
"Mediterranean-R:A.F. fighters maintained defensive patrols over British ships in the Mediterranean throughout yesterday. During these patrols they destroyed five German Junkers-88 bombers, one Italian Savola-70 bomber and one other Italian bomber, and damaged other Junkers-88 so severely that a num ber of them are unlikely to have re- gained their bases.
"At Sfax in Tunisia, on Italian ship, previously attacked on May 30, was again bombed and machine- gunned. Three direct hits on the vessel were followed by clouds of black smoke.
Crete
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CONSOLING FEATURES So Cease Being a Snuff!
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CREATED IN NEAR EAST
LONDON, JUNE 1 (REUTER)-WHILE THERE IS NO DISPOSITION TO MINIMISE THE FEROCITY OF THe struggle which HAS TAKEN PLACE IN CRETE, THE BRITISH REACTION TO EVENTS IN THIS BATTLE HAS DIFFERED CONSIDERABLY FROM WHAT THE GERMans has DOUBTLESS EXPECTED.
Lessons To Be
Learned
R.A.F. Difficulties In Crete
CRETE, June 1 Reuter) A senior Royal Air Force officer giving a general review of the situation in the light of events in Greece and Crete, estimated that the total number of planes
Both the strategical importance of Crete and the ruthlessness of the German effort have been fully realised by the British public as a whole, but realisation of these two factors does not by a long way tell the whole | story.
When, over a week ago, it was first realised that the position of the Imperial and Greek forces in Crete had
THAT REMINDS ME; I MUST JOIN THE
BELLOW:
been rendered perilous by the fact that they were fighting Iraqis Yield In Full To The
almost deprived of aerial protection, most people in Britain with memories of the rapid invasion of Holland and other past Nazi successes had prepared themselves for the worst and had expected overnight, hews that the great battle was lost.
WORSHIP
and Heraklion were again heavily used by the Germans in Crete IN RUINED
"Crete Aerodromes at Malem
bombed during the night of May 30- 31. Three enemy aircraft were set on fire at Malemi and at Heraklion. A number of fires, accompanied by heavy explosions, were started near the runways and among aerodrome the buildings, Six aukera-negred
the
and 'damaged.
Western Desert
was about 1,000 with the number destroyed running into hundreds,
The parachutists' division particu larly was considerably "shop-soited." He described the parachutists as a "busted, flush", saying that was the parachutists but the bombers and fighters who captured Moleme, en abling the air-borne troops to land, 1t was the air-borne troops and not
ous.
CATHEDRAL
"Cirenalea Benghazi was attack-the parachutists who were danger- was celebrated by Archbishop
ed by our bomber aircraft during the
night of May 30-31, Bombs were observed bursting on the Cathedral
Mole and on the Julian Mole.
Abyssinia
The concensus of opinion
from
Heroism of Garrison
Since then much time has been gained and heavy losses, have been Infleted on the picked and elaborate- ly-trained German troops, British opinion has consequently tended to place the main emphasis on admiru- lion for the heroic fight of the Allind soldiers coupled with general deter- mination to profit from all the lessons of
campaign,
of
not
British Armistice Terms
CAIRO, June 1 (Reuter),-Axis prisoners in Iraq are to be interned, according to the official terms of the Armistice dictated by the British General Omeer Commanding.
The terms are:
(1) Cessation of hostilities;
the garrison
(2) Return of Iraqi troops to their peacetime stations, including Ramade;
(3) British prisoners lo be released, Axis prisoners to be interned in Iraq, while Iraqi prisoners are to be handed over to the Regent
A
Britons Retained Hostages In Baghdad
LONDON, June 1 (Reuter), the need for ever willcrossing perhaps Within blackened, fire-scarred tion of R.A.Faerodromes.
To-day the walls which pointed upwards to seems
efferal feeling here seems to be that despite a dull sky, Pontifical High Mass drawal from Crete, the course
the with- events in the Near East hus Amigo, the Catholic Bishop of brought Hitler appreciably nearer his
BAGHDAD, June 1 (Reuter)-An incident occurred dur Greece and Crete was that low-fly Southwark, in the ruins of his expende seal Hitler has ferociously
expended his
men, petrol fighters were far more deadly than Diocesan Cathedral of St George machines.
anding the rebel occupation of Baghdad which showed that the rebels intended to use the British refugees quartered in the American [to-day (Whit Sunday).
The de
decision In Germany that The officer, expressing his per-
henceforth special prayers for Nazi Legation and the British Embassy as hostages to ensure the conal view, said that the war was, 700 of the "parishioners" of the in all churches until the end of the
A pentecostal gathering of some armies in the field shall be offered immunity of Baghdad from bombing, and would become stili more, an air Diocese knelt before makeshift war may be taken as evidence of the war.
Five hundred Britishers who platform in the growing need to support German remained in While German successes in Crete altar erected on Ghimbi.
Baghdad after
evacuated on April-2-were instructed to seek refuge at the British Embassy, or at the American Legation.
"Abyssinia---South African bomb ers attacked enemy motor transport, tenta and buildings near Bombs were seen to fall on large bulldings, huts and porked motor transport.
"From all the above operations, four of our aircraft are missing."
Dublin Bombing Casualties
dive-bombers,
complicated our problem, the fort of the Temporary Bishop's heavy losses, the coming news of women and children had been British Armed-
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Throne
The Cuthedral which was burned
recent
Cruiser Lost
chapels still presented a desolate tacking British slips under ideal the rebel Foreign Ministry instructed The Admiralty announces that After the outbreak of hostilities, LONDON, June 1∙ (Router).—
The terms apply to the whole fof Tragetas
Its understood that the new...
overnment will accede to. the British request to allow the transit of British troops through. Iraq,
It is also pointed out that the Armistice does not alter the British.
Government's relations with Iraq within the framework of the Anglo- Iraq Trease of Iraqi and Axis p
Treaty. soners is conditional on the prior release of all British prisoners, it
The
any.
who and
is emphasised that there is no question of peace treaty since there has been no declaration of war. The Armistice was signed by representa-
ves of the Iraq Committee assumed control in Baghdad whose leading spirit is the Mayor.
Oil Fields Intact VICHY, June J (Router)
wed/haval position in the Knabenshuc, to hand over all Iraq) cruiser Salopian has been sunk, states a Baghdad dispatch received
the
An hour.
Germans would never find anywhere -else-such-geographical-conditions as existed in Crete and as they went
Navy Still On Top further, resistance would grow and out, and wrecked during a
Moreover, as Mr Churchill declared their commitments too, would grow, rald had been cleared of most of the a few days ago, despite the successes wreckage, but the walls and side of the German dive-bombers in, at- Making Runways Explaining the difficulties of the the fury of the Nazi raid.
spectacle and eloquent testimony to conditions, their point of view la
that "there
the American Minister, Mr Paul the British armed merchant The Mosul oil fields are intact, Royal Air Force in Greece and Crete,
no question whatever the officer said that in winter it was
of the impossible to use
Harmonium Substitutes
in the subjects employed at the Legation as The next of kin of the casualties here, the aerodromes
having been prejudi- the Legation might be bombed within without properly prepared runways
cially affected."
The fact is that thanks to The Mass, was fully choral and as
The situation is quiet in the Iraq have been informed. but after two days of fine weather the organ had also been destroyed in magnificent stand made by the Bri-
Threat. Countered
capital, where the Police had no was possible to create a number the raid, the choir were "helped out" ish troops and the long time they Commander at Habbaniyah had sent the navigator of the Vindictive
The Captain of the Salopian trouble during the past 48 hours. improved nerodromes. The
The rebels said that the British was Sir J. M. Alleyne, who was British by were hampered by the fact that the of "Gloria" and "Credo" rang
lille harmonlum and responses managed to hold out in Crete, the out situation in other centres in the Near
Regent in Baghdad weather did not improve until two with more than usual fervour though East has considerably improved for
CAIRO, June 1 (Router)-Fight- days after the German advance, the absence of the roof meant also Britain. The Germans had the advantage of the absence of echo. Ane weather and were also ruthless
Other Bases Stronger conscripting labour,
Cathedral had
While Crete was being held, forces never before been the scene of Mass and acroplanes from East Africa had The main trouble however, was in such unusual, not to say, tragie been made ready that the British were forced into the surroundings, but the gratifying at where. Tanks
for action else apex of a triangle with the enemy tendance of the faithful, who num-hauled and serviced, and the situa having a wider ring of bases round bar among some of the poorest of lion in Iraq has been cleared up.
have been us. One of the problems then arla London's poor, is a happy augury of All this has given the British solid In an editorial to-day, the "In-aerodromes and more commitments how the £100,000 needed to rebuild to
ing was that the British had more their determination to raise some-encouragement which has done much dependent" says: "We are sure that to defend and at one time it was their beloved St George's. Mr de Valera, who visited the scenes proposed to destroy all Cretan aero- of destruction yesterday and who dromes except one, but eventually all sympathised with the sufferers, will were destroyed except three. protest vigorously to the belligerents concerned.
DUBLIN, June 1 (Reuter). Casualties in the Dublin bomb- ing were established to-night at 27 killed and 88 injured,
The search for victims continues. There are 300 homeless.
In
Long-Range Fighters
The century-old
U.S.S. DAKOTA
For air as for sea warfare it was Eire has been strictly neutral since essential to have secure bases and a SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH”. the outbreak of war and she has the lance at the map would show why, right to expect and to demand that with the existing ranges of British (Domel)-It is learned that the CAMDEN, New Jersey, May 31 her territory and the air above that fighters, we were unable to have 35,000-ton battleship South Dakota territory should not be violated by fighter protection in Greece any of the nations at war."
and will be launched on June 7, four TURN to Back Page, Column 5 months ahead of schedule.
pver=
counter-balance the inevitable, anxiety that was felt for the Im- perial forces in Crete..
Numbers Evacuated LONDON, June 1 (Reuter)-It is believed that: the number of 15,000 TURN to Back Pago, Column 4
the
an ultimatum that unless there when she was sunk as a block-ing ceased in Iraq at 8 am. to-day flabbaniyah, the British would bomb ship in Ostend harbour in 1918. following the signing of the Armis Army withdrew from the vicinity of
Government
buildings of He was for some time the King's tice lost night, according to Tragt Baghdad, said that they had sent
Harbour Master at Singapore.
sources which also report that the Regent entered Baghdad this mom- ing.
The
a counter-ultimatum threatening that TURN to Back Page, Column 5.
LATEST
NAZI BOMBS ON DUBLIN
Civilians Returning
To Ningpo Area
". Boy King Safe - CAIRO, June 1. (Reuler)It is understood that the Boy King Feisal of Iraq is safe in Baghdad.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" NINGPO, June 1 (Domel). The
Earlier reports from unconfirmedTM population of Ningpo which declined sources had asserted that the six- at the beginning of the Japanese Raschid All in the latter's flight to year-old Felsal was carried off by occupation, is now quickly returning Iran.
as refugees are to normal
flocking
It is also learned that the Govertior back to their
homes.
of the Mosul arca, where the oik The Chinese population in the wells lie, has throughout been oppos neighbourhood of Ningpo at presented to Roschid All's movements. DUBLIN, Junc 1 (Reuter)-A| is estimated at 250,000 to 260,000, 80 Therefore, it is considered in usually Government statement issued lo- per cent of the population prior to well-informed circles that the Iraq
trouble is virtually ended. ed on Dublin on Saturday were of German origin.
night declares that the bombs dropp- the Japanese occupation. AMERICAN
A HOSPITAL
TO BOMBED
New Air Chief Appointed To
Conduct Middle
East War
Hit In Heavy Raid On Chungking
strong protest, together with aj demand for compensation, has been addressed to the German Govern- ment:
The statement says; "The Govern- ment regret to announce that as the result of bombs dropped on
in the early hours of Saturday
morning, at least 27 people were killed and about 80 injured.
"Considerable damage to property
was caused.
יי
further bomb was dropped near
La
Terrific Of New British
Blasting
Power Bombs
LONDON, June 1 (Reuter),The Air Ministry, giving de- SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"
tails of the damage done in Hamburg, Kiel and Wilhelmahaven, LONDON, June 1 (Renter)-The appointment of a new Commander-in-Chief, R.A.F., to Japanese bombers to-day scor Arklow early this morning. No lives are doing their best to counteract these reports by publishing
CHUNGKING, June 1 (UP).
Bays that reports of the terrible effect of the latest British bombs the Middle East with effect from today was officially announced by the Air Ministry to-night.
are spreading everywhere in Germany and that the authorities The new commander in air Vice-Marshal A. W. Tedder, who, as commander of the R.A.F., pound bombs on the American Investigations having shown that in prachura, one of these new sives and incêndiaites d
ed two direct hits with 500 wore lost but there was some dam- Far East, was one of the pioneers of the development of the British, air base at Singapore. --
elaborate comparisons of the damage done to London and Berlin. Methodist Episcopal Mission the bombs were of German origin, bombs fell into the Steinwerder during May Photographic recon- Air Vice-Marshal Tedder is
dropped there Air Vice-Marshal R. M. Drummond Ministry ng Director-General or hospital, causing damage estim- the Charge d'Affaires in Berlin promoted Temporary Air Mar- becomes Deputy Commander-in-Research and Development, and later ated at over 1,000,000 Yuan,
ing directed" to protest in the industrial area. Industrial buildings naissance has already shown 36 very shal.
Chief of the RAF. in the Middle joined the Ministry of Aircraft Pro The patients, doct strongest, teres to
of space, East with the rank of Acting Air duction. *. The previous C-in-C, Air Chief Marshal;
ernment against violation of Irish yards were completely demolished. demolished or very seriously damaged Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore,
During the lost war, he served with dugouts and ware uninjured.
nurses were sheltering in the territory, and to claim compensation here was severe damage from the and many others less
seriously the Air Force in France and in
and reparation for loss of life, in yards, and at two points more than
hyvin is appointed Inspector General
Middle East, and was later in Turkey storey women's and children's section
of 75,000 square the
The bomba demolished the four-juries and damage to property 1,100 feet apart the effects of the A similar tale is told of Mannheim:
Similarly In Mannheim .... of the RAF succeeding Air has been second in command to Air Air Chief Marshal Longmore, hax of the aliospital which was built in definite assurances that the strictest
Temporary Air Marshal Tedder during the Chanak crisis in 1922.
"He is further directed to bak Marshal Sir William Mitchell, Chief Marshal Longmore in the held his post since May 1940. He 1922: The two-storey men's section that converman elecraft, vver scribe Hamburg as a tragic picture industrial suburb of Ludwigshaven
were very obvious,
After the attack on the night of May The onelali, announcement Bay Middle East dined November. Dur has been in Englend
Reports from
within Germany dam0, the great chémical works in the flight of was heavily damaged,nated onC that Al Marshal Mitchell has coming the past seven years, he has held May when he was recalled for cone Kian Raided Irish, territory and territorial waters, and it said that there is scarcely any were cordoned off by the Army, and
early in plated his time of duty in this once several important posts, being sultations with the Ministers and CHUNGKING, June 1 (UP)-Nine witch in the Middle East Director of Training at the Alt Chlair of Stany about general Japanese bombers raided kishin Command among number of ap- Ministry before going to Singapore operational matters in the Middle Kiangel, antawis antichida falarid pointments announced in the same in the autumn of 1986,
SAULTENtarym yn later, He returned to the navi inter promi Pondinkabeer: Manor
East During this time,
Previous Experience
ince
blast
over
space
district in this second largest city umbulances were seen leaving the
Ing
Germany which has not suffered works throughout the day je magick It has not yet been posibis to get The docker at Marnheim have been, anything like a comp