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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 10, 1940.

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STIFFER ITALIAN RESISTANCE

Greeks Advancing Cautiously Against The Flanks

Bayonet Charges In Battle For Argyrokastron

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent in Greece)

THE GREEKS ARE ADVANCING CAUTIOUSLY TOWARDS -CHIMARRÁ, 22:MILES WEST OF ARGYROKASTRON, ON THE COAST BETWEEN SANTI QUARANTA AND VALONA, IT WAS STATED IN ATHENS LAST EVENING.

GREEK

LOSSES SMALL

The movement threatens the flank of the Italians who are withdrawing northward from Santi Quaranta.

Reports received in Athenis indicate that the Italian rearguards are stubbornly resist- ing the Greek push and are employing tactics designed to draw on small detachments of Greeks which would be vulnerable to counter-

Argyrokastron, whose attack. capture by the Greeks was A cavalry screen has officially announced on been thrown out by the Sunday, has only been Greeks in order to counter slightly damaged and the this plan. Greeks have taken large quantities of Italian Bitter fighting is raging in equipment there.

A correspondent who entered the town un the heels of the Greek infantry troops says

that earlier reports describing the town as almost completely devastated by fire are greatly exaggerated.

Greek loses in the operations leading up to the fall of Argyro- kastron have been small, he re- ports.

One expedient forced on the Italians was, the use of tanks to protect their retreating troops, but even this was unsuccessful against the courage and tenacity of the Greeks..

The Greeks are not resting on the'r laurels and the latest re- ports state that they are main-, taining contact with the recreat- ing Italians and continually haṛas- sing them. Reuter.

GERMANY AND THE GREEK WAR

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the centre of the present 80- mile long front where Italian resistance is reported as being very fierce.

Indication of the actual situa- tion, however, is seer in orders found in the possession of an

EXECUTION

IN BORDEAUX

Lieutenant R. B. Wood, R. N.V.R., and his bride, Miss lan- bella Joan Seath, daughter of Mr. W. P. Seath of the Talkoo Sugar Refinery, photographed after their wedding at St. John's Cathedral yesterday. (King's Studio).

COLONIAL BLINDED OFFICE M.O. HERO

The Secretary for. Colonies has DECORATED

appointed: Dr. A. G., H. Smart his medical adviser succeeding Sir

Jan Lasowski, „a Pola who Wilson Jameson, who relinquish-fought at Narvik, where he was ed post. upon his appointment as wounded in both eyes and totally chief medical adviser in the Min blinded, was decorated yesterday The German-controlled istry of Health in November. Dr. by General Sikorski with the Italian officer captured at Pre-Paris Radio yesterday an dical Service from 1912 and was order for military valour.

Smart served in the Malayan Me-Virtue Milltary," highest Polish meti, instructing him to shoot

nounced that a French senior medical adviser in St. Vin- any Italian who "unnecessarily

Lasowski, member of the Polish retired."

wine-merchant had been cent from 1935 to 1938 since when regiment "Chasseurs de Montagn" executed at Bordeaux for he has been assistant, medical of-hes, since he was wounded, been

ficer in the Colonial Office-Bri- l'a patient at St. Dunstan's. "committing an act of tish Wireless.

British Wireless. violence against a member RET of the German armeđ forces."

Hard Fighting Details only just available of the Greek capture of Argyrokas- tron show that the success was achieved only after hard fighting in the suburbs,of the town during the night.

This is the latest of many in- 'd'cations. from · Erench wireless stations of the extent of the re-

Finally a bayonet charge by the Greeks in the early hours of the morning dislodged the Italians from their pósitions and

Lyons Radio yesterday aguin bedraggled, weary and trium- phant, the Greeks staged a vic-spoke of the secret printing places tory march through the town in Paris and of the wide distribu-

tion of patriotic pamphlets during a heavy downpour of rain and sleet.

ice to the Germans in occu- pied France.

Many advance detachments of Greeks are not well supplied with food and in Argyrolastron it was found that the Italians had des troyed food and ammunition,

Much war material, however, was left intact.

Meanwhile all Greece has been celebrating this latest victory.

Resurrection Kiss

Germany desires to li- quidate the · Italo-Greek conflict, as soon as pos- sible, wrote the Rome correspondent of the Yugoslav newspaper "Po- Easter Sunday morning. ́litika“ yesterday.

been

In Epirus, people have giving each other the "Resurrec

radio

The German press and spoke of; the "foolishness of re- sistance" and again went for the students of Paris (who, it will be recalled, staged a riot on Armis- tile Day.)

These students form a useful scapegoat for the Nazis who can abuse them without admitting the wide-spread nature of the anti-Gorman, and, anti- Vichy sentiment. In France. Router.

tlon Kiss." usually reserved for PRINTING

In bomb-scarred Salonika pėo- ple gathered in the blacked-out

The corie ponuen, adds, how-streets singing patriotic songs. PRESS FOR

ever, that Rome newspapers con- There were shouts of ""The tinue to insist that the Italians Dodecanese" and women cried will themselves liquidate "the "Into the sea with the Macaron- war against England now. Eeing ides.". Reuter. waged on the Greek front."

Another Rome correspondenį declares "the problem of even- tual German help has not oven come into question "Reuter.

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ing: notes as the present capacity of - 90 · million lel dally is insuf- Defendant was also charged ficient to meet new extraordinary "with a breach of the Deportation | expenses due to the territoripl The ship has been refused Ordinance.

amputations, the recent. earth- clearance from. Hoihow.since last Some of the money and articles, quakes, and the German occupa Friday,

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