1941-01-29 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 29, 1941.

NAZI TROOPS REPORTED POURING OVER BRENNER

THIS WOMAN IS AN ADMIRAL

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Although she

is an Admiral.

{ Britan's only woman Ad-

ral she hates the sea. By Vir

position as Mayor el

• of her

estor, Mrs. Kate Clarke is also Ainiral of the Dee.

Probably not more than two

er women have ever held the ylls brown, who was Mayor of

of Adm tal They are Mrs.

ester last year, and Mrs. L M. ster Welch, a Liverpool wernan

was Mavor

1923

of Southampton

Sine 1342 the Mayor of Chester held the rank of Admiral with ver over the t dal waters of the o from Eccleston to the mouth the aver

than 20 miles.

ity

In the Mayoral regaba the

allet tam a silver

car, 14

he, long, which is the emblem

the Mayor's power and which es presented to the city in 1719.

WEATHER REPORT

Italian Army ITALIANS Loyalty Doubts GROUND

"GERMAN TROOP TRAINS are pouring steadily into Italy through the Brenner and important staff talks are now being held in Rome between the German and Italian gen- eral staffs,” stated the American commenta- tor, Martin Agronsky, broadcasting from Ankara for the National Broadcasting Cor- poration to the United States yesterday and quoting what he described as an "authen- ticated report which arrived at Ankara from unimpeachable diplomatic source

in

an

Rome."

STAY ON

An R.A.F. Middle East communique states: "R.A.F. bomber aircraft continued attacks on en-

emy

R.A.F.

BEAT

NAZI RUSE

He

Goering tried a new trick. sent over a force of Messersch-

stores, landing grounds and lines of com-midts to fly up and down the Kent munication in Italian coast in the hope of luring our East Africa, Albania and Spitfires into a fight over the sea, Libya.

There much larger forces of Gerinan fighters were lurking ready to pounce.

en-

At Elbasan a force of bombers After flying in a wide are over carried out another raid on mili- the shore the Messerschmidts spit tary buildings and stores in the up into smaller groups and enei- town, registering several directed aimlessly over the sea as bant hits. Considerable damage was The R.A.F. pilots refused to caused and the target was

be drawn into the obvious trap veloped in smoke when the raid-

and called the Germans' bluff ers left.

by summoning reinforcements. More Spitfires patrolled up and down the Chan – arrived and

schmidts to make nel coast waiting for the Messer - # bulder bid before attacking them.

According to this source the Fascist Party has become alarmed at the freedom with which the public now dares to criticise the regime and has begun to fear for the loyalty way of the Italian army.

The Royal Observatory reports

The report states that in in- that a moderate anticyclone has dustrial districts in the north peo- eveloped over

China; pressure ple talk openly in public about

itself against German soldiers uniform.

in

More Germans approached the coast, but Goering carefully kept his finger on his pleces and hastily withdrew them when. ever one of the British squa drons swung towards them.

In Italian East Africa our air- craft attacked railway stations at Keren and Aisha, seventy south-west of Jibuti, and a rail- miles

bridge and road east of Adarte, where the road was struck! and bombs fell close to the bridge. Stores and warehouses at As- saband and dispersed enemy air- craft at Gura were bombed,

Our fighters carried out offen- The report also mentions the sive patrols without encountering 1 highest to the north of the the mistakes of the regime,

mysterious disappearance of cer- any enemy. wer Yangtse Valley and is re- Several spontaneous demon-tain Italian Foreign Office officials. Dsively

Kept Out Of Range low over the Pacifte strations are described as having mostly belonging to the aristocra-lonia, in uth-eastward of the Philippines,' occurred in the streets of Rometic and military families suspect- January 26th and again yesterday.

Occasionally A.A. guns fired a ed of having only £2 tukewarm From all operations our aircraft few rounds to keep the enemy at sympathy for the Fascist regime. [ returned safely." British 'Wire-a respectable height, but these

less.

were the only shots fired, for the Messerschmidts never ventured within range of the guns of the Spitfires.

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Royalist Movement

They accepted invitations from various members of the foreign

The landing ground at Apol- Libya, was raided on

Diplomatic Corps and never re- BRIDES

appeared again and when en- quiries were made the answer was invariably made that had left suddenly for an unknown destination.

they

DEFIED

BOMBS

There is a reportedly growing element among the Italian ac istocracy which advocatoa the restoration of the monarchy to

Violet and Marie Rudland, sis- power and the overthrow of theters, were putting the finishing Fascists.

touches to their trousseaux on the Mussolini's fear of the influence ever of their double wedding at this element might have on the their London home when there army is said to lie behind the was a knock at the door. hurried despatch troops.

of German

The report concludes, however, that it would be over-optimistic to look for a real anti-fascist revolt at present.Reuter.

HOW TO WIN THE WAR

"THE ONLY WAY WE ARE GOING TO WIN THIS WAR IS TO HIT THE HUN AND ITALIAN IN GERMANY AND IN ITALY HARDER THAN THEY CAN HIT U.S." LORD TRENCHARD SAID.

"Kill the Hun and the Italian in their own country and not in

someone else's.

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The rival fighter formations flew patiently up and down for half an hour, the Spitfires check- Ing every move on the part of the Germans.

Finally the game ended in check- mate in favour of the Spitfires when they had manoeuvred in front and on both sides of the main German formation, which quickly made off towards the French coast.

for

Earlier the attacks began with two waves of fighter bombers crossing the coast at Dungeness and heading

London. The "Sorry, but you will have to first wave consisted of a score of evacuate the house. There's an enemy aircraft flying very high, unexploded bomb next door," a and this was followed by a se policeman told them.

cond wave of about a dozen.

The girl's father, a naval officer home on leave, pleaded with the policeman that they should be al- lowed to stay, in the house until after the wedding and the re- ception. He pointed out that as guests had not been warned, con- fusion would be caused.

The policeman was unrelenting.

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DORIS TWISTS FISH'S TAIL

Eventually the father visited the Her morning bath has become police station and obtained special an adventure for Doris Duke permission for his family to re- [Cromwell, the world's richest girl, main in the house till after the in her Honolulu home of fantastic reception had been held.

luxuries.

The wedding was held at a lo- Long dissatisfied with a inere Cal church. Marie, who is nine-bath as used by poorer folk, Doris teen, married Lance-Corporal designed and had made а bath George Alfred Wilson, a military worthier of her millions. policeman. Twenty-year-old Violet the form of a gigantic fish carved married John Frank Hardy.

first by an artist in wood, then cast in metal.

It is in

He was speaking at the Uni- lever "Bomber" luncheon in Lon- bands returned

Then the brides and their hus- don, A cheque for £20,000 has home to find that adjoining houses is graciously pleased to twist its The shower is sprayed from been sent to Lord Beaverbrook by had been evacuated.

to the Rudland the mouth of the fish when Doris the employees and management

of Lever

Brothers to provide a Mrs. Hardy, bomber. Lord Trenchard hand-in-law, said: ed to Mr. R. B. Bennet, of the Ministry of Aircraft Production, a cheque for a further £16,000.

KESWICK SHOOTING

ECHO

tall.

Violet's mother-

a

Electric lights glow from fish's eye sockets. Each scale has "You wouldn't have thought Phosphorescent glow.*^ When next you eat an unexploded

sardines, bomb not far away If you had think of Doris twisting the tail of been at the reception, We had a her big fish miles away in Hono- wonderful time.

lulu.

that there was

"Nobody was at all nervous, and we kept the party up into the early hours."

For

STOLE BICYCLE

stealing a bicycle from outside No, 3, Lion Rock Road on Chinese New Year's day, Chan Tung, 33, was sentenced to. six eks' hard labour and order- ed to be expelled by Mr. E Himsworth At Kowloon this'

An application for bail has been BROKE INTO A received by Mr. T. Horiuchi, Ja-] panese Consul-General in Shang-

STORE hal, on behalf of Mr. Yukichi Hayashi, President of the Ja-

morning. Pleading guilty to breaking into panese Ratepayers' Association, a store and stealing eight bundles who shot and wounded Mr. W. J. of wax and eight bundles of Keswick, Chairman of the Shang-, newspaper, Lam Shu-hol, 33, Wu hai Municipal Council,

SAFES ROBBED Tong, 31, and Lo Sung, 42, was The application, submitted by sentenced to three months' hari Two safes were "cracked" last the Japanese Amalgamated Asso labour by Mr. E. Himsworth at night by an unknown person, at ciation of Street Unions, was also Kowloor this morning, No. 81, Jervois Street, during the addressed to the Chief of the Ja Kwok Chat, 50, and Ip Wan, 95, absence of the owner, Mr. Tse panese Consular Police in whose who pleaded guilty to receiving Hui. A sum of $878.10 in bank- custody Mr. Hayashi was placed the stolen property, were each notes and coins were stolen from after: the shooting Heater walzlyen two montius dete

the crates.bus

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