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No. 32,060

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1941

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BUTTER

ITALIANS PUT UP

UP FIGHT

IN DERNA OPERATIONS

Majority Of Defenders Get Away

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent at G.H.Q.

of the Middle East)

THE LITTLE FISHING PORT OF DERNA, WHICH FELL EXACTLY A WEEK AFTER TOBRUK, WAS TAKEN BY THE IMPERIAL FORCES FOLLOWING AN OPERATION WHICH LASTED TWO OR THREE DAYS. THIS CONSISTED OF A SERIES OF MINOR ACTIONS.

There was no zero hour as at Tobruk and Bardia. Instead, British and Australian troops first captured the outposts, then mop- ped up final resistance and drove out the Ita- lian garrison.

Those Italian Stories

The garrison was be-1 lieved to have numbered 10,000, the majority of whom escaped.

ply.

President Roosevelt's

AMERICA

Promise Of Further Aid SHOULD

Fresh assurances of the United States' "fir determination to continue assistance to Britain on an ever-increasing scale" were given by President Roosevelt to Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador, in formal exchanges which took place after Lord Halifax landed at Anna- polis, it is now revealed by the State Depart-

ment.

The De artment yesterday published the the text of President Roosevelt's remarks to British Ambassador when he presented his cre- dentials on landing. Reuter.

Raiders

Go For Balloons

London experienced an-

FAKIR IN PAY OF THE NAZIS

DECLARE

WAR

Mr. James Gerrard, who was the United States Ambassador to Germany from 1913 until the Unit- ed States entered the Great War, told the Sen-. ate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday that he favoured an American declaration of war against Germany.

He predicted the Nazis would seize Mexico if Britain were de. feated.

Replying to further question? Mr. Gerrard said a declaration of war might not actually be ne-

THE FAKIR OF-IPI, WHOSE cessary provided President Roose. TURBULENT ACTIVITIES ONvelt was given fuller powers un-

other day of intermittent THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER der the Lease and Lend Bill to

Derna, nearly 100 miles further

air raid alerts following OF INDIA MADE HIM A NO aid Britain-Reuter.

TORIOUS FIGURĘ, 18 NOW along the coast than Tobruk, is Wednesday night's fire-MAKING CONTACT WITH EN uble German colony, are becom- provided with a good water sup- bomb attack which again EMY INFLUENCES IN AFGH-ing noticeable.

ANISTAN, ACCORDING TO A large number of pamphlets After the fall of Tobruk, Bri- was defeated by civilians: REPORTS REACHING NEW tish patrols continued their swift

are being circulated in various German aircraft, working sing~ | DELHI YESTERDAY,

parts of the country and are fil- rush forward which took them to ly, dropped bombs in the Lon-It is learned that German pro-tering into tribal areas, adjoining the region of Gazala, 40 miles don area and in parts of south-paganda influences in Afghanis- the British Indian frontler. west of Tobruk, within the next east England and east Anglia... two days.

tan, where there is a consider. Reuter. The Yugoslav Govern- This advance was carried out damaged but

Some houses and shops were of the number ment has taken action despite harassing attacke by en casualties so far reported is small. against two American Lanised forces.

my aircraft on the British mech-

German fighters reverted to of their pastime of last summer journalists in Belgrade.

shooting at barrage balloons. correspondents of the “New York Times" and the Columbia Broadcast- ing System.

in

- Reason is their allegedly in. itiating reports of, disorders Turin, Verona and Milan, accordi ing to the Belgrade, correspon dent of the talian, news agency in a message to Rome,

Both men have been forbidden to use the telephone for a week

Italians Fight

Thick fog and low clouds above which the balloons floated obscur- cd the raiders from the A.A. de- fences but they were given a hot there is reception.

- For A Change

Although the Derna position was without deep dugouts or permanent · defences, understood to have been more

One German 'plane was de. resistance from the Italians stroyed by fighters in the after-

in any previous battle noon over Essex-Reuter.

than

along the coast.

The Italian artillery poured

shells, into the British positions. ANGLO-U.S.

As the advance continues the

terrain is becoming increasingly CONTACT

'difficult.

The British mechanised forces

and the Columbia correspondent no longer. have flat desert over has been forbidden to use the which to advance and, owing to Belgrade broadcasting station for hills and ravines, they are forced broadcasts to the United States to remain largely on roads. for three weeks.

-Reuter.

INDO CHINA STIRRINGS

Slower Advance

ON FAR EAST

Top news from the field of dishes of food come in contact science this year was the brand with the shelf, heat is quickly new electric, refrigerator for home drawn out and the food is chilled

immediately use. Resulting from more than almost

Strangely. three years of rigid laboratory too, the more dishes placed on the tests and experiments, the new shelf, the faster it works. refrigerator is triple-acting for new-perfect preservation of all types of food.

The new refrigerator. operates by the controlled circulation of dehumidified air which eliminates

ists in further pre- No dia with no mixing

A product of the extensive completely usual refrigeration laboratories maintained in, Phila- odours and delphia, Pa., by the Philco Radio | servatij and Tolevision Corp. the new device, while no larger than the ordinary present day refrigera- tor, embodies three typ and

two distinct

processes. Three

partments in

vide three

dry allege

mainta

as butt.

second designe for coo

SIR J. S. WARDLAW-MILNE There are many points be- ASKED IN THE COMMONS tween Dorna, and Benghazi YESTERDAY: WHETHER THE where a "determined" – anemy UNDER-FOREIGN SECRETARY| ables. would be able to make a stand COULD GIVE AN ASSURANCE

favau *' is it desired."

THAT THE BRITISH GOVERN-

(BRECIAL: TO “CHINA MAIL!) will slow 'down. —— Reuter.

According to reliable reports,

received. In Kwong Chow Wan over 20 Japanese' warships, were sighted steaming in the direction

of Haiphong yesterday,

I may thus be expected that | MENT, IN ALE MATTERS AF- the rate of the British advance | FECTING TM – RELATIONS, WITH CHINA AND JAPAN, ARE WORKING IN CLOSE CO- OPERATION WITH THE UNIT ED STATES GOVERNMENT.

: Mr. R. A. Butler replied: “Ag has been made clear on more than one occasion in the past the

BRITISH TRAWLER

SUNK

e. It is niŝo rumdured that somo - The trawler Felton has been Government maintains . ^ contact 8,000 troops belonging to arill- sunk,, announces/ nn Admiralty" with the United States Govern- lery units are assembling at Hui- communique Issued" in "London" mént in "all matters of common phong to embark for Saigon, yesterday: The next of kin interest, and “that " remains Our Own Correspondent,

casualties wore Inforing. Reuter.

Reuter

our

food and desserts.

new stor

two

end:

On

in shelves

quently used

ind is a second prevents escapage of Rery time the refrigera-

The new, reftigerator, according to: Philco “engineers, represents the-most important step in food riginal | preservation i since: the develop- ment of the electric: refrigerator power- itself.

# for quick "freez» ....... Every model is within your a designed for trozen" "sach, and the agents will be only too pleased to give you a demon-. Besides the electric freezing stration without obligation, All Munit: which operates fon : Freon, the you need to do is phone 27488_or. most economical and practical of 27017 ..(Hong Kong) or 56020 all known refrigerants, the new (Kowloon), or write for further refrigerator also has an alumíniam information to the local agents. Moist Cold Shelf. ··· This: addition | Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd., 48, is a brand new invention And Des Voeux Road, C., Gloucester evolver from a process perfected Arcade, or, 132, Nathan'. Road. by, Philco....... techniéfana, When Kowloon, “.