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No. 92,021

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1940

Price: 10 cto.

LATE FINAL

NIGHT

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Australia's Choices.

BUTTER

HEADLONG RETREAT

OF ITALIANS REPORTED

DUKE OF WINDSOR Speculation In Washington

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL":

The United States Gov- ernment last night made ready an American war- ship to return the body of Lord Lothian for burial in his war-scarred native England.

The offer of a U.S. Navy vessel for, the funeral voyage came

British Command

THREE Swift To Exploit DIVISIONS Sidi Barrani Coup ERASED

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent In The Western Desrt) THE BRITISH OFFENSIVE IN THE WESTERN DESERT OF EGYPT IS DEVELOPING SO FAST THAT RUMOURS OF A HEADLONG ITALIAN RETREAT ARE CIRCULATING IN CAIRO AND ALEXANDRIA.

It is realised that the communiques from British General Head- quarters tend to minimise our successes rather than make claims until they have been cɔnfirmed beyond doubt.

without hesitation, shortly after 2000000000****

President Roosevelt

was

of the Ambassador's sudden death..

Officials minimise any possibili- ty of an attack on the United States warship in the war zone and pointed out that the procedure is customary when foreign diplo- mats die in America,

Duke Of Windsor Speculation

Meanwhile speculation is rife concerning Lord Lothian's suc- cessor.

Mention was immediately made of the Duke of Windsor.

Well known and with a large popular following in the United -States, it was hold that the Duke and his wife would fit well in the delicate job of increasing: United States sentiment and action on be half of embattled England. ternational News Service,

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CHINA CONTRACT WITH SOVIET

China has signed a contract with Soviet Russia by which China will deliver during the coming year $100,- 000 worth of tea to Russia, according to an official announce-

ment in Chungking yesterday-Reuter.

It is thus reasonable to suppose that the figure of 20,000 prisoners given in the latest communique is an under-estimate.

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”).

Italy's last remaining base on the Egyptian coast, the fortified town of Sollum, is threatened with imminent capture by swift-striking · British desert troops which are pressing on the heels and flanks of the headlong Italian retreat.

The Turkish radio in Ankara

troops have already occupied Sollum.

The speed of the offensive has meant that last night reported that British communiques have hardly been issued before a fresh important advance and captures are! taking place.

It will be days before the exact carried out incessant attacks in. number of prisoners, guns and the north, resulting in many tanks taken will be known.

clashes with the invaders.

AS THE PICTURE OF THE FIRST THREE DAYS OF THE OFFENSIVE ·IS GRADUALLY | FITTED TOGETHER" AT G.H.Q. FROM REPORTS ARRIVING

They kept open a gap in the enemy's front positions and frustrated all attempts to com- 'plete the "chain, of highly forth;

fied camps.

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It was announced in

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that more than 20,000 Italians have been taken prisoner and

|| three entire Fascist army divi-

·Flona comprising between 39,000 and $1,000 officers and from man, have been erased the field of action by the four-day British blitzkrieg.

Under constant harassing by British naval, shells, air bombs

| FROM THE DESERT FRONT, IT At zero hour on Sunday. the and machine-gun fire, thousands BECOMES EVIDENT THAT THE breach was still open, thanks to of Italians are stampeding west MIDDLE EAST! COMMAND, this regiment's persistent attacks, and south from Bug, Bug and WITH A BRILLIANT PIECE OF and our motorised; units were able are trying to reach Sollum. MANY WEEKS, HAS DELIVER-Reuter STRATEGY PLANNED FOR to drive, in according to plan International News Service.

ED A BLOW AGAINST THE ITALIANS THAT MAY® ROCK THE FOUNDATIONS AND TOP-

1000000000000000000 PLE THE EDIFICE OF THE

ARMIES BATTLE IN SWIRLING

BLIZZARD

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

UNDER ́ ́ SWIRLING blizzards Greek troops wearing white capes to make them mvisible against a blanket of five feet of snow are reported to have shattered repeat

FASCIST EMPIRE.

There is already general spe- culation in Cairo in regard to whether the Italians will have to relinquish their hold on Abyssinia,

East African Shock

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For months Italian morale It East Africa has been bolstered up by the empty assurance that Mus- solini's army was ready to march to the Nile Delta at any moment and open up the Suez Canal, y

But if the British offensive continuca as satisfactorily as at present, the italian army in Abyssinia, it la suggested, may throw up the sponge because of pressure being 'exerted by Bri tish forces already hammering at the frontier, d

Details of the operations which

enabled British motorised divisions

ed Italian counter-attacks on the mountain-to penetrate to the coast and cut ous northern front in Albania.

current Fascist counter-at-, tempts to stem the triple-pronged in the cen- Greek push which threatens to tral and southern sectors are also engulf the vital central Fascist reported to have been thrown to Tirana, the Albanian capital, base of Elbasan, and open a path back, permitting the bayonet 33 miles further north, —— Inter-

charging Greeks to advance, national News Service. further in drives ogainst. Tepe-1.

lini, Chimaru and Valona.

off the Italian forces in the Sidi Harrant area were revealed last night.

Harassing Tactics?

when Marshal Graziani's troops From the moment in September

reached Sidi Barrant, a famous mechanised regiment was given special instructions to harass the enemy at a specified point and provent them from completing the

coast to their southern most camp.

For weeks mechanised units

Reinforced Italian Alpine troops WEATHER FORECAST: North: line of camps, stretching from the

launched a very heavy counter- Attack in the northern zond west of Podgrudètz in desperate·nt-

rast winds,

moderate:

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