1940-12-17 — Page 8

BIG ITALIAN

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 17, 1940.

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British Mobile Units Sweeping Over Libyan Frontier

MARSHAL GRAZIANI'S TROOPS ARE STRONGLY EN- TRENCHED AT SOLLUM, WHICH IS JUST INSIDE EGYPT, AND BRITISH FORCES HAVE ENCIRCLED THEM, AND ARE SWEEP- ING ON ACROSS THE LIBYAN FRONTIER, IT WAS STATED IN LONDON LAST NIGHT.

Meanwhile the R.A.F. continues to ham- mer the enemy's bases, including Bardia, which may be the next objective of the Army of the Nile.

Reuter's special correspondent with the Army recounts a vivid story told him of a trip of five days across the Western Desert by a band of picked Australian cameramen trying to catch up with the Imperial troops.

The story was told by Captain

Frank Hurley, official cameraman ARMED SPY

in

with the Australian forces in the Near East, who has made a com- plete film record of the offensive. Capt. Hurley, who acted as offl- cial photographer in France the last war and made five trips to the South Pole with Shackle- ton and Mawson, described how, after driving 40 miles, they found a camp full of some 2,000 miser- able Libyan prisoners guarded by

score of Tommies.

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Moved On

A sergeant-major was watering the prisoners in batches of 20 from a disused Roman well cut in solid rock.

Capt. Hurley described Ni- belwa camp

unforget ลด ลด table sight, silent as the grave. Everybody had moved on ex- cept two British Tommies, left! in charge of British tanks dam- aged in action.

Italian dead lay all around, their bodies caked in dust.

Capt. Hurley counted 38 Italian tanks some smashed, others abandoned undamaged.

Stray mules and dogs were

CAUGHT

BAN DÂN NAZI PAPER

The current issue of "Dos Reich," Germany's im- portant political weekly, has been seiz- ed by police and pro- hibited in Switzerland owing to attacks Switzerland

AT STATION against

A German spy has been caught in a Scottish town on his way to London.

Detectives had been looking all day for the man, who was known to be in the town.

They found him at the rallway station a few minutes before the London train was due to leave.

Hundreds of people on the

platform were unaware that the first Nazi spy to be caught in Scotland since war, was do- clared had been trapped. He was questioned but refused to give any information and was taken to a police station.

When searched he was found to possess a revolver, a passport, ration coupons (belleved forged), and a bottle of aspirin tablets bearing the label of a chemist in Berlin.

The man, who was between 25

prowling round a dump of am- | and. 30 years of age, was taken munition and stores,

Italian Prisoners

Near Nibelwa the party came acress another camp holding at least 7,000 or 8,000 Italian pri soners, sitting in groups, laugh- Ing and smoking.

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Capt. Hurley described Italians as well fed, clothed and shod, in contrast to the Libyans.

Scenes Of Confusion

Sidi Barrani.

Similar scenes of confusion met the eyes of the party at the Ita lian camp at Tumma, just south of were lying all over the place, and Italian of ficers had left so hurriedly that even their valises were left be. hind.

Fléid-guns

Capt. Hurley said: "We pelted on in an endeavour to catch up with the battle but the Imperial forces were moving at a rate of 50. miles a day.

Then we heard the rour of na-

to London under armed guard.

embodied in the lead- ing article, letters to the editor, and an article by Dr. Schaff- ner, representative, of the so-called Swiss National

Movement.

The Reich's campaign arose from the recent storm in a teacup con- nected with President Pilet-Golaz's action in granting an audience Frontists, to Swiss which resulted in protest campaign throughout the coun- try.

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SHE HAD TO TEND

HIS

KILLERS

AS SHE TENDED wounded German airmen, a V.A.D. commandant heard that the place where her husband was working had been heavily bombed. She tried to phone him, was told that it was impos- sible to phone the spot.

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The woman, Mrs. Hilda Young, returned to the Nazi airmen, who were in a Sussex institution. She knew that if her husband were dead, these were some of the raiders who had killed him.

Without flinching, she calmly face and her head held high. val guns bombarding Sidi Bar-worked on, then went home, She was biting her lower. lip rani. Reuter.

had "Everyone guessed what happened, but we were all amaz-

at fler courage,

"She just went on with her work of tending the German airmen: She, must have known that some of thêm: were among those who had bombed han. husband's place."

Relatives told her that her hard." husband had been killed by a Sollum Falls

bomb in the raid. The master of the Institutioned An

official

communique paid a tribute to the bravery of in Gairo, says an Inter-Mrs. Young. national News despatch, “She Guessed” announces the capture of "When she heard that the place

The ordeal of the bombing Fort Capuzzo and Sollum. at which her husband was work-

Ing had been bombed, and learn- during which the nurses carried It is presumed that the ed that there was no telephonic on carlier in the afternoon was Young bad enough, but she faced this. large Italian force encir- communication, Mr

seemed to have a premonition terrible news like a heroine." cled at Sollum has been that he was dend, He told"♬ either decimated or cap-reporter- tured

"She walked away, pale, but with a steely expression on her

Mr. and Mrs. "Young had one son, a boy, aged four pa

Her husband's friend was killed with him by the bomb, s