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HITLER INVASION

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SECOND ED

INSIST ON

Daisy

Brand

Australia's Choices

BUTTER

INFANTRY MOVING

UP FOR THE BIG PUSH

Hitler Planning Mid-February Invasion

Mr. Alfred Landon, Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1936, declared on return- ing to Topeka, Kansas, yesterday from a visit to Washington that he had been advised "by reliable official sources that Hitler is planning to invade Britain about the middle of Febru- ary."

Mr. London said he found a "definitely dis- turbed feeling" in Administration circles over the failure to co-ordinate American defence ac- fivities. Reuter.

GRIM BATTLE TRAITOR

DEATH FOR WOMAN

FOR BARDIA

Final

Stages Of Assault On Sollum

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent in the Western Desert, Now in Sollum).

BRITISH INFANTRY WERE YESTERDAY PREPARING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BIG PUSH ACROSS THE FRONTIER INTO LIDYA THEY WEREWEARY BUT TRIUMPHANT WHEN THEY OCCUPIED SOLLUM ON MONDAY AFTER DAYS OF CHASING THE ITALIANS RIGHT OUT OF EGYPTIAN TERRITORY.

Sollum is only a tiny port, surrounded by

a few white houses. Above the port is Upper ROOSEVELT

Sollum, main feature of which is a large bar- racks belonging to the Egyptian army but lòng ago blown to pieces by British bombardments while the Italians were in occupation.

With a little group of British correspondents and one American, I have spent the last few days watching the final stages of our assault on Sollum, the tactics for which were just as well thought out as those at other points in the present campaign.

Sollum was first imperilled a completed on Monday at Bug Bug, weck ago when the British where over 12,000 have already armoured division, after dealing been fed and watered before pass- A woman was sentenc-¡ with a whole series of other ob÷ing on. ~~~ Reuter.

ed to death for treachery yesterday at Winchester- the first such sentence to be announced as passed on a woman since the out. break of war.

She is Dorothy Pamela O'Grady, 42 years old.

jectives, came smashing through Bug Bug from Sidi Barrani so

quickly that the whole Catanzaro Division, under General Giuseppe had been happily Amico, which en route to Sidi Barrani on nor- mal relief duty, believing the war was miles away, was taken com- pletely by surprise.

Division Taken Prisoner Majority of its men were taken prisoner and nearly terial was left to assist the military operations

Charges on which she W.IS Very severe, fighting is found guilty were that in the Isle raging round the Libyan Wight she made a plan likely part of Bardia, according tó latest reports received in Cairo last night.

After battering their way across the desert British advance me- chanised units are carrying out a formidable attack on the peri- -meter defences of the port,

Advanced forces of British the Infantry are following up mechanized units, while torry. loade of stores and ammunition bring up the rear.

"Rush" tactics were employed

in the British attack on

three

frontier forts whose capture was announced. In yesterday's British communique.

The three forts, in questionare

of the enemy, and that with the object of helping the enemy she cut a military telephore wire,

The case was heard in camera and the court was open to the public only on the pronounce- ment of sentence.

sides of the road.

PLAN OF AID TO

BRITAIN

A plan to lease or mort- gage war material to Bri- tain was outlined by Pre- sident Roosevelt at his

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States might take over future British orders for armaments in press conference yester-

the United States and then lease dr mortgage them to Bri- tain on their completion. After the war Britain would re- turn the supplies if they were in good condition or replace them.

The President gave an emplia- the negative to a question whether all its mato involve

the plan would be "more likely the United States in strewn along the

the war." Reuter.

Those British tanks swept up on Sollum while others wore coming up across the escarp- ment from the interion A hail of fire was poured into the defenders of Sollum by the British tanks, while the R.A.F. continued their Incessant bomb-

O'Grady, a short, dark, bespec- tacled woman, showed no emotionings. when the judge passed sentence.

Reuter.

BRITAIN'S

HOSPITALS CARRY ON

--all on the Libyan side of the HIS MÁJESTY THE KING

frontier.

Ethi

con

ALL

A slight check to the British forces occurred - when some of the tanks

in became bogged salt fields outside Bollum but this did not seriously hamper our offensive operations. The British tanks dashed on to territory beyond Occupy coastal Bardia, 30. miles or more inside Libya.

Sollum. Contained ·

While they did so, an infantry brigade moved up with instruc tions not to attack Sollum direct- y but to contain it, letting no- body escape.

By Sunday, the defenders of

YESTERDAY EXPRESSED HIS ADMIRATION FOR THE WAY Unflagging Speed IN WHICH HOSPITALS British advanced mechanised OVER THE COUNTRY ARE CARRYING ON DURING THE ifts are continuing to advance.

fds Bardia with." unfagging AIR-RAIDS.

This 'message was read at the Sollum, alarmed at their pre- arnual meeting of the King Ed-carious position, had moved up to them and trying:

ward Hospital Fund by the Duke the top of the escarpment, blow- of Kent, who said that the grants ing up the road leading from stream of infantry, many made by the Fuud constituted a Lower to Upper Sollum.

captured lorries

and record.

The Britials infantry pressed in on Bollùm despite fire froin the escarpment and Docupied Lower Sollum without Heavy casualties by Monday morning, and by the same afternoon the Halians on the scarpment had alven up. S

andh

The total amount distributed forpes," which came to more than £10,000,000. In the frantine, are Reuter.

support to the

El troops. They showed British, mouths of hard training: 'courage and dash in the have produced a splendid fight= onslaught against Sollum. ing unit. The French are worke izh the French army tucing in excellently with their Bri-

věry ferent from the tish comrades-Reuter.

All arrangements to receive the fresh prisoners from Sollum were

day.

The President declared the plan would aid Britains and at the same time strengthen United States defence.

He expected to submit the plan or a similar one to the new Con- gress. on January 3,

Under the plan the United (Continued at foot of Preceding Col.)

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HIR

AND THEN TRY!