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BOMB INCIDENT AT ZAGREB

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BRITISH TROOPS AID GREEKS

Participating In Military Operations In Albania HEAVY Many Thousands Of LONDON

Prisoners Taken

U-BOAT ASSAULT

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cessful recent blow British shipping was vealed yesterday in series of S.S.S. (attacked by submarine) S.O.S. flashes saying that nine, and possibly ten, British and neutral merchant- men had been bombed or torpedoed in a combined U-boat and air raid off Ireland.

Six vessels reported they had been torpedoed and two bombed, while another vessel merely said: "In distress."

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At least three of the ships are sinking, Including the Loch- ranza,

Frequency of the attacks, which were carried out at widely separ- ated points, showed that several U-boats were involved.

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It is indicated that two, and possibly three, convoys were at tacked, and since the area is with- in 300 miles of Ireland, It is as sumed that British warships and

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No sirens sounded in the London area last evening but raiders were reported over other parts of Britain.

SLOWED DOWN BY SEVERE SNOWSTORMS AND FLATTER TERRAIN, WHICH FAVOURS THE ITALIAN MECHANISED FORCES, THE GREEK ARMIES YESTERDAY NEVERTHELESS WERE REPORTED TO BE CARRYING OUT GENERAL OFFEN SIVES ON ALL FRONTS AND TO HAVE BROKEN THE ITALIAN

LINES AT SEVERAL POINTS.

Five thousand Italians were captured yes-ped in a south-west town, terday in the northern sector alone, where the Greeks passed forward although the Italians are fighting every inch of the way.

DESTROYER RUNS ASHORE IN SCOTLAND

An Admiralty com- munique in London yesterday stated that H.M. destroyer Sturdy (Lt-Comdr G. T. Co- oper)- ran ashore on the Scottish coast in thick weather and has since become a total Icss.

Five ratings were lost. Reuter,

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'planes are speeding to the rescue. International News Service.

WESTERN DISTRICT OF SHANGHAI BLOCKADED

The London “Daily Express' says that another 8,000 Italians have been captured on the central front, where the Italian lines were “cut to pieces."

In some areas it is unofficially reported that Italian resistance has been broken completely and the retreat has become a`rout, but

The uprising is regarded as a definite threat, placing the Italians between two fires.

Bombs have been drop-

which had other heavy raids recently, and the

blitz appeared to be deve- loping.

Razors were also again ever acouth coast area recently at tacked and ware greeted with heavy, anti-aircraft fire, Raiders were also reported in the vicinity of Liverpool, a Scuth Wales town and an East Anglian town, where bombs were dropped early last night.-

in the Argyrokastron, Tepelini British Troops in Action Router. and Podgradetz· sectors strong Italian counter-attacks are ad- mitted.

The Athens correspondent of the London "Evening Standard" reports that heavy casualties were inflicted on the Italians west of Lake Okḥrida,

2,000 Deserters The newspaper adds least 2,000 more Fascists have deserted into, Yugoslavia.

that at

The "Exchange Telegraph” saye the uprising against the Italians la spreading in Albania, parti- cularly among the "Malissores," or mountaineers,

U.S.

AID TO CHINA

Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of Treasury, yesterday explained to the Senate and House Com-

UNPRECEDENTED IN THE history of the In: ternational Settlement and beginning to resemble the Japanese blockade of the British Concession in Tientsin in 1939, the Japanese blockade of the Jap-mittees details of the pro- anese-controlled western area of Shanghai following posed China loan agree

the murder of another Japanese gendarme on Satur-ment. day by a Chinese gunman in the area, entered its third day to-day with no signs of relaxation of the precautionary measures.

He said later: 1. got what I came for a vote of confid ence," and added he would -proceed. * immediately to close Instead, the Japanese late last

the deal with China, og night・・ extended the blocitade

Now we are going to do busi- arca right up to the Settle Meanwhile the Japanese ~ are ness us fast as the lawyera will ment.boundary.By

conducting a house-to-house let us

ed in the area, as little.fresh food is allowed to enter,

* Hundreds of foreignera and search; steel-helmeted soldiers THE SECRETARY OF STATE, Chinese have not been able to entering all Chinese as well as MR. CORDELL HULL, WHO return to their hamen for over foreign residences and subjecting OUTLINED SA GENERAL FO- 48 hours while others have been the inmates to close scrutinyLICY OF AID FOR GENERAL unable to leave the area either | Reuter.

CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S" GOV- to obtain food or“ proceed to

ERNMENT," STATED HE CON~ work.

Barbed-Wire Barricades SIDERED THE CHINA AGREE *** The barricaded, aros rasom-

TEREN MENTAWVITAL (MATTER. bles a basloged city with all The Japanese have further ev- UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES shops closed and barred. The tended their blockade of the weat- IT 15 THE LEAST, WE CAN DO spectre of famino hovéťa over ern, district of Shanghai which FOR THE JOB CHINA IS DO- -thousands of Chinese margon. Continued on Page 10) .............ING " - REUTER.

With the aid of British.

A Quiet Day troops, who are now actively participating in the operations, An Air Ministry and Ministry and the R.A.F., the Greeks of Home Security communique are reported to be pressing states: "There has only been beyond the permanent l'alian slight enemy activity over this fortifications on the north front country to-day. after the capture of Podgradetz. During the morning a number The Greeks officially claim of enemy fighters and fighter the occupation of Promete, 18 bombers flew in over the coast miles inside Albania, on the but were turned back by our central sector. International @ghters whilst still over Kent. News Services.

No bombs so far have been re- ported.

Two enemy fighters have been WEATHER FORECAST North shot down by our fighters with

British cast winds, fresh; fine Bon. out loss to ourselves." erally.

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