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CHINA MAIL

FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST. ESTABLISHED 1845.

No. 92,025

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1940

Price: 10 oto.

NIGHT

INSIST ON

Daisy Brand

Australia's Choices. BUTTER

OFFENSIVE OPENING IN KENYA

General Wavell Increasing Pressure On Italians

Hitler Planning

Reinforcements

Mid-February Invasion Pouring Into Action

Mr. Alfred Landon, Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1936, declared on retum- 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 kircles over the failure to co-ordinate American defence ac- tivities. Reuter.

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EARLY CLOSING LAW SUSPENDED FOR FESTIVALS

THE EARLY CLOSING Ordinance, which re- quires all shops to close at 8 p.m., is to be temporar- ily suspended during the Christmas and the New Year holidays of both the western and Lunar calen- dars, the “China Mail” was reliably informed this morning.

SPEED-UP IN A.R.P. TUNNEL SHELTERS

Avote for a further $3,000,000 for the proter-

against air attack is to be requested in Legislative Council to-morrow, bring ing the total expenditure Before April on this ac- count to $4,000,000.

Round Bardia

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)

BRITAIN LAST NIGHT REDOUBLED THE FURY OF THE ASSAULT ON BARDIA WITH THE AID OF A CONSTANT FLOW OF REIN- FORCEMENTS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY OPENED A LARGE SCALE OFFENSIVE AGAINST ITALIAN EAST AFRICA, 2,000 MILES AWAY.

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Following the capture of three more im- portant Italian forts on the Libyan-Egyptian frontier, British troops are now... threatening to capture Bardia, first major Italian port in

Libya.-International News Service.

Very severe fighting is announced in yesterday's British

communique. raging round the Libyan The three forts in question are port, according to latest all on the Libyan side of the reports received in Cairo frontier. last night. and

After battering their way across

Unflagging Speed

the desert British; advance 171e- British advanced mechanised chanised units are carrying out units are continuing to advance a formidable attack on the peri- towards Bardia with unfagging meter defences of the port.

speed.

DEFINITE REJECTION OF NAZI PEACE

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Lord Snell's state- ment in the House of Lords yesterday, when he declared Britain was "resolutely deter- mined to deliver all nations under the heel of Germany," `is considered in London as a definite rejection of Nazi peace feelers. -International News Service.

Advanced forcts of British Behind them, and trying to infantry are following up the keep up with them, is A con- mechanised units, while torry.tinuous stream of infantry; many · final onslaught · againat · Sollum. loads of atores and ammunition | riding in captured lorries and. Although the French army tac-

trucks. bring up the rear,

the tics are very different tropi. The official notification will be "Rush" tactics were employed

Free French forces, which British, months of hard training published in the Government in the British attack three are, right in the front line, are have produced a s splendid figist. Gazette on Saturday.

frontier forts whose capture was.

giving valuable support to the ing, unis. The French are, work- Imperial troops. They showed ing in excellently with their Bri- great courage and dash in the fish cornrades.-Reuter.

In their petition to Government for extension of business hours, the Chinese Chamber of Com- merce suggested that the shops be allowed to remain

open up

to certain fixed hours on differ-

ent days.

Government decided to sus- pend the entire regulations dur- ing the three festival periods.

The Ordinance will be suspend- ed from December 22 to Decem- ber 24 (inclusive), December 30 to December 31 (inclusive) and from January 23, 1941 to January 26, 1941, (inclusive).

additional sum of $2,000,000

of further funds in the Estimates

on

DEATH FOR

WOMAN

TRAITOR

A woman was sentenc- ed to death for treachery yesterday at Winchester-

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Finance. Committee also agreed the first such sentence to tion of the civil population informally to the appropriation be announced as passed of an add and of the current fin- on a woman since the out- ancial year and to the provision break of war, for 3041-42 In order that the pro-

She is Dorothy Pamela gramme which is envisaged may O'Grady, 42 years old. be carried out as early as possible. Charges

on which she Work on the construction of found guilty were that in the Isle tunnels has · progressed "more of Wight she made a plan likely speedily than was anticipated and, to assist the military operations sed that it has been sit, is considered desirable to of the enemy, and that with the in hand certain press on with the tunnelling object of helping the enemy sho the control without disturbing the present al- cut a military telephone wire. reta pens, etc. forment of funds for the other as recently types of protection, 11 is proposed and the, toenmark a further sum of $1,000,000 for this purposeyduring the current financial year and to reduce the provision to be made in the 1941-42 Estimates accord ingl

WEATHER FORECAST:

ekatwirtay freshi¦ fine

The case was heard, in camera and the court wil open to the public only on the pronounce ment of sentence, th O'Grady, a short, dark, ber tacled woman, showed,110 emotion where the Nudge, bassed sentence

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