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VICHY ANNOYS THE HUNS

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CHINA MAIL

FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST. ESTABLISHED 1845.

No. 92,055

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1941

Price: 10 cta.

SECOND ED

INSIST ON

Daisy Brand

Australia's Choicest BUTTER

ITALIAN

RESISTANCE

BROKEN IN 26 HOURS

ATTEMPT TO ROB ENVOY ON TRAIN

Colonel William Dono- van, President Roosevelt's special envoy who arrived in Belgrade on Wednes- day night, was received yesterday by M. Onetko- vitch, the Yugoslav Pre- mier, according to a Bel- grade telegram received in - Vichy.

Colonel Donovan told reporters he planned to stay two or three days in Belgrade and hoped to visit Prince Paul, the Regent, the Vice-Premier and War Minister, as well as other military leaders.

He declined to say whether he --had a personal message for Prince Paul from President Roosevelt.

He cald his mission had thing in common with that of Mr. Sumner Welles who visited Europe last Spring as the Pre- sident's special envoy.

no.

Colonel Donovan will later visit and Athens, Turkey, Palestine Egypt, arriving in Egypt about the middle of February.

ASKED REGARDING RE- PORTS THAT IMPORTANT DI- PLOMATIC DOCUMENTS HAD BEEN STOLEN FROM HIM ON THE TRAIN BETWEEN, SOFIA AND BELGRADE, HE REPLIED

WAS MISSING.

HEAVY RAIDS ON SICILY

Aerodromes in Sicily were heavily attacked by R.A.F. bombers during the night of Wednesday/Thursday. A Middle East com- munique from R.A.F. Headquarters in Cairo yesterday says that at Comiso a quantity of incendiary and explo- sive bombs were drop- ped, causing explo- sions which continued for 20 minutes.-Reu-

ter.

Anzac Hat Now Waving Over Tobruk

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent at Tobruk)

HAVING BROKEN DOWN ITALIAN RESISTANCE IN 26 HOURS CHEERING AUSTRALIANS HAULED DOWN THE ITALIAN FLAG IN THE CENTRE OF TOBRUK AND HOISTED INSTEAD AN ́ANZAC HAT.

The total of prisoners was estimated last

night at 20,000, which includes the Metropo- LATEST

litan 61st Division, the peace-time garrison of

the port, 1,500 members of the naval garri GALLUP

son and 700 of the crew of the sunken crui- ser San Giorgio.

Military police and customs officials re- veal that 100 civilian technicians and fisher- men were also among the prisoners.

C-N-A-C 'PLANE RUNS INTO THUNDERSTORM

a

AN

EXPLANATION OF

rumours

that down in

C.NA.C. plane had been night

:

THAT ONLY HIS PASSPORT Japanese “occupied" territory on

were explained by the local offices this morning.

It was learned that the machine, on the Hong

“REUTER. ·

SUSPENDED Kong-Shiukwan service; left Hong Kong on Wed- SENTENCES before reaching its destination.

nesday evening and encountered a thunderstorm.

SUSPENDED SENTENCES OF HAVE BEEN GIVEN

90-DAYS

BY THE MUNICIPAL. JUDGE IN SAN FRANCISCO ON TWO SEA- MEN OF THE U.S. NAVY, WHO WERE CHARGED WITH' RIP- PING DOWN THE SWASTIKA |

FROM THE FLAG

GERMAN CONSULATE,

They will be handed over to the naval authorities who prom- «ised they would be adequately

dealt with."!.

The State Department has al-

RAID ON

THE RUHR

The

difficulties

to to

As a result of the thunderstorm the radio apparatus was damag- ed and the pilot was forced make an emergency landing effect repairs as he realised that he prevailing weather conditions would entail a certain amount of flight risk if he continued the without radio communication with the Shiukwan aerodrome.

The machine resumed the flight at dawn the following morning without further incident and re- sur-turned to Hong Kong this morn-

mounted by British bomb-ing. ready expressed... regret to Gerers in the successful raid

many over the incident. Reuter.

NEW MILITARY

on th

the Ruhr on Wednes- day night can be judg

LITTLE DAYLIGHT. AIR ACTIVITY®

ed from the fact that day. There has been very little It was officially stated yester- the whole of Western Ger- enemy activity over this country

ATTACHE IN CHINA many was under cloud. to-day. Bombs have been drop-

British

ped it three places on the coast In spite of the great difficulty of East Anglia. A few houses : Major-General Lancelot Ernest of the journey the aircraft reach were damaged at two places. No Dennya, MC the new British ed the Ruhr by 7:30 pm-and for one was killed and only a very

nitary attache to China, arrived some two and a half hours at few persons injured.”.

tacked through gaps in the cloud Wireless, In: Chungking from Burma yes- terday, morning by plane.

and dropped many incendiaries The assistant British military together with high, explosive attache is expected in Chungking bombs on Industrial objectives in clouds at the very moment shortly.

one particularly large explosion the Dusseldorf area.

Major-General Dennys in now the second most · senior military attache in Chungicing, senior be- ing the new. Soviet attache, who arrived recently, Lt.-Gen, Chuy- kof who was active in the Fin- nish: campaign—Reuter,

of

Even when', 'clouds moved and the crew of an RAF alr scrow and hid, the ground from | craft saw debris thrown high pilots watching the growth or into the air.

fires below, the sky still glowed Heavy A.A. fire met the British with a suffused and relfected bombers but none was prevented light.

from reaching it's objectives,

A sudden opening came in the British Wireless.

POLL

in

A sharp increase American sentiment The garrison surrendered at favouring aid for Britain 10.15 on Wednesday morning.

Australian cavalry regimen sin is shown in the latest Gal- stormed the lup Poll which follows Pre-

Bren gun carrlers main road to the town, broke the

steel and concrete sandbagged sident Roosevelt's recent barrier and drove in. Met by a "fireside chat” and Mes- couple of bursts of machine-gun

fire they promptly replied. Then sage to Congress. the entire garrison surrendered. The question asked was: "Which I followed into the town with of these two things do you think khaki-clad Australian infantry, more important for the United men caked with dust from the States to try to do-keep out of Libyan Desert, burnt with the

war ourselves or help Britain win, sun and with uniforms torn

even at the risk of getting into after days of strenuous fighting. war?"

Forts Silenced ・

the

As I entered a gateway with victorious Imperial troops (Continued on Page 181

·Replies showed that, 68. ·per-j cent favoured helping even at the risk of entering the while. 32 per cent favoured stay- Ing out Router.

war

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