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GREEKS CONTINUE ADVANCE

Yesterday marked the end of the second month since the invasion of Greece but how differ- ent was the position from the rosy expectations of the Italians when they be- gan to invade Greece.

Instead of an easy victory and an early one, the Italian troops have found themselves pushed back into Albania by the Greeks. Unconfirmed reports in the Belgrade newspaper "Politikas" state that the Greeks have taken an important town between Pod- gradetz and Elbasan.

The Greeks, says the paper, out- Banked the town after heavy fight ing in snow. - Reuter.

Heights Occupied

It is stated in press reports from Athens that Greek troops advancing north of Chimara have gained possession of an importanti mountain position.

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In the Tepelini-Klissora sector the Greeks have occupied strategie heights from which the Italians have withdrawn their last troops.

Prisoners have been taken and material captured includes a field gun.--British Wireless,

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 30, 1940.

TWO LONDONERS "FLEW" IN AN IRON BOX

By A Special Correspondent

TWO BIG BOMBS crashed in a London street. This is what happened: Two people were sheltering in a disused water tank standing inside a building

which received a direct hit.

The tank was blown into the air. It came down on top of the wrecked building. The two people were still inside it and very much alivé.

The other bomb-a thousand | pile of bricks and dust directing pounder - landed opposite 1 wardens to them. building in which Old Bill is night watchman,

Bill, his spell of duty over, was asleep when the explosion wreck- ed the front of the building and shuttered every piece of glass

around him.

When anxious wardens ar. rived to rescue BIR he told them to go away. "No Hitler or anybody else is going to apoll my sleep." he said. And turned over in his bed of braken glass and debris.

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In a house which was almost levelled to the ground three young girls were buried by debris. They were dressed unly in thin night clothes and lay between a heavy

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"They were extremely brave," said a warden who helped to rescue them. "They képt call- ing out 'A little to the left' or 'A little to the right until we reached them.

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"All they asked for when got them out was a cup of tea.“

Baby's Escape

With a doctor standing by with oxygen, A.R.P. wardens worked desperately in darkness for three- quarters of an hour to dig out a g three-month-old baby from the wreckage of a house in a London suburb.

They reached the baby--and found it unhurt.

Over the child rafters had formed 0 protective barrier which took the weight of tong of crashing debris. The other occupants house were unhurt.

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Blind Folk Bombed Seventy blind men and women in an institution at a South-West town were being led back from their shelters when one bomb hit a shelter and another the bed-

rooms to which they were be- ing taken.

Only two men were injured, both by flying glass,

"There was no panic," the ma- tron told a reporter, "Some of the men were thrown on the floor, but they picked themselves up, and the attendants and my- self led them to another shelter that had not been touched.

"I could not find an old man, but just as we were going to the shelter he came along the corridor saying: 'It is all right, matron. I have got my gas-mask and over- coat.'"

RAGGED BODY. OF RAIDERS

By A Special Correspondent

The first bombing squa- drons came over Dover high during the morning, taking advantage of huge cloud-banks, which roof- ed the Channel, and which, except for a large blue gap over the Dover area, stretched for miles inland.

A.A. fire met them and forced them to change course into a lane, at the end of which our fighters awaited them farther inland, Barely had the noise of their engines died away than it began to swell up again, as many, at least, of the bombers started coming back coastwards.

Soon in a great open blue patch of sky they came swarming back in a ragged body of about 50. Spitfires tackled them, split them up further, and dispersed the mob of bombers east and west along the coast.

Terrific Dog-Fight

A terrific dog-fight followed. A burst of cannon fire, succeeded quickly by ja, whip-like crack and crackle of machine-gun fire out. of sight in a black, rain-charged clout, and a Messerschmidt dived down from over the sea a few hundred feet above the cliff-top where I stood.",

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As I watched a tiny flame broke out at his tail. The plane turned over. The pilot, working desperately, righted it again" tem- porarily and tried to pancake.

But ho was too late and the Messerschmidt struck the earth and in a fraction of a second wra hidden in a burst of purigent black smoke and lurid flame.” The pilot had no time to balayout.