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BRITISH ARMY TAKING INITIATIVE IN DESERT ANOTHER Offensive Against

GREEK TRIUMPH

Argyrokastron, capital

of south-west Albania, has fallen to the Greeks. Reports received in Athens yesterday state the Italians had been slowly evacuating the town for the past 48 hours 'and its evacuation was completed on Thursday night.

Effective bombing raids were carried out yesterday by Greek aircraft through narrow val. leys in the region of Premeti and on Klisaura,

Greek newspaper reports state

the Greek advance in the north

is beginning to threaten the Al-

banian oil fields between the Devolvi and Skumbi Rivers, ¦ which is at present Italy's only source of natural oil---Reuter,

HITLER'S PEACE

FATE OF

Graziani Possible MRS.

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent in the Western Desert) THE TIDE OF BATTLE ÎN EGYPT'S WESTERN DESERT HAS GRADUALLY CHANGED RECENTLY AND IT IS NOW THE BRI- TISH ARMY THAT COMMANDS THE INITIATIVE.

The tactics of British advance posts, *********** | which are well within sight of the

enemy, have now become so aggressive that they amount almost to an offensive.

QUIET NIGHT FOR BRITAIN

After a somewhat later Alert in the Lon- don area yesterday the "raiders passed"

Formerly British mechanised units waited for occasional Italian columns to advance close to their lines before taking measures because they had orders to conserve their equipment.

But now the Italians have been made aware that the slightest move they make outside their en- trenched positions will call down

signal was sounded upon them a swift onslaught from at one of the earliest hours of recent times.

Reports from the provinces so far show that a number of bombs were dropped on a south-western" town.-Reuter..

WARY NAZI

FEELERS COURSE IN

Further "peace feelers” from German-inspired sources in non-belligerent countries · continue to be put out while the German

FAR EAST

British mechanised patrols, who are definitely hitting more fierce- ly than ever before.

The new British aggressiveness does not denote increasing, exas- peration by British troops thirst- ing for action, but the fact that what Mussolini called the "cream of the British Army now facing the Italian army in the Western Desert", is now, after. months of

Fascist

Crack-up

In Year

Yet another American reinforcement, in fighting trim, who has made an inten- fully equipped and at last in a

position to decide not whether. to sive tour of Britain has do battle but when to do it.

Vast Supplies

Soldiers who have been in the front line for a few months and have returned to Cairo for leave have been amazed at the vast sup- plies of war material accumulat- ed in their rear.

Here

reserve troops and equipment 'have not been allow ́ed to stagnate but are being ac- tively employed on large scale

training in tactical exercises to. accustom newcomers to desert warfare.

The Wilhelmstrasse | propaganda machine is spokesman's remark that

I found a marked spirit of op- still going ahead with its Berlin is not influenced by claim that a total German General Chiang Kai-timistic expectation among all pa- tionalities of the British Imperial shek's declaration after Army that the time is not far off victory is inevitable.

"Peace feclers" came from the Japan-Nanking treaty when they will move forward Budapest on Thursday, and Zurich has led to the disclosure and rising columns of dust just against those long black patches yesterday. To-day, they may that the Reich attaches visible a few miles across the de- their origin is the same in all the utmost importance to sert which are the Italian

positions-Reuter,

come from somewhere else -- but

cases, Berlin,

In London, semi-oficial com-

maintenance of existing

mentators say that Hitler now normal relations with the KASSALA

knows that Germany cannot face Chungking Government.

a war of attrition and he is try-

Ing to find a way out of the This was cabled from the, Ger-

morass,

4

....

He still needs to keep up the appearance of a series of victories and is shifting from plan to plan, but none of these have come any- where near a solution from his point of view.

His "terror bombings"! have only Increased the hatred of the free world for Nazi-ism and its ad miration for – Britain, while his

man frontier yesterday by a spe clal correspondent of the London- "Times,"

A

Germany, the correspondent says, is not disposed, to contom- plate any stop in the Far East likely to prejudice her rela- tiong with the Soviet, which country has already stated em "phatically that show/will cons

"New Order in Europe" has merelnus to support ** General

ly hardened the resistance of "lits victims. Router, XANE

SULTAN OF JOHORE IN CAPETOWN

Chlang.

In other words, Germany, does not intend to recognise Nanking despite the pact Reuter.

COLUMN BOMBED

front

· Enemy motor transport concentrations north of Kassala have been attack- ed by aircraft of a Rhode- sian squadron, operating over Italian East Africa.

Enemy positiqus and transport were heavily machine-gunned | stated on 2 Air Ministry. · bulletin | yesterday, which adds, that many reconnaissance flights were also carried out over the whole oper- the ational area, and valuable Inform- Capetown" yesterday on a brief Administrator of the Cape, Reu- ation obtained before all aircraft visi They were welcomed on-ter.

returned safely to base-Reuter,

Sultan of Johore," accom-"

panied by the Sultang, arrived in behalf of the Government by

come to the conclusion

that the war will end with a British victory.

of

the New York paper "PM," and He is Mr. Ralph Ingersoll, he writes:

DEEGAN

The State Department in Washington yesterday made an official-an-

nouncement in connection with the detention of Mrs. Elizabeth Deegan, clerk in the United States Embassy in Paris.

Twice within a week Mrs. Decgan has been invited by the Germans to visit acquaintances at the Cherche Midi Prison:

On the second occasion, on the morning of December 1, Itwo, German civilians visited Mrs. Deegan's apartment and "Invited" "hor to go to Chercha Midi to visit one or more Bri- tlah officers,

two

Mrs. Deegan went with Germans; later she returned to obtain warm-clothing. ---

. During the evening one of her friends received 'a message 'from an unspecified · source to

the effect that Mra. Deegan.

re-

was comfortably lodged and that she would doubtless port for duty at the Embassy on December 3.

Mrs. Deegan did not report, and appropriate' action is being taken by the United States Em- bassy in Paris.-Reuter.

Fascist regime will crack within

a year.

"I am not impressed by Gör man claims of the decisiveness If it does not, he says, the peo of mass bombing.”:

ple of America will have to do Mr. Ingersoll is certain that more financially for, Britain and Britain

the her Allies, — Reuter.

can win and that

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