THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 10, 1941.
Armoured Units In Libya
On Tripolitan Border
Now
NAZI
U-BOAT
THREAT
Five Senior Generals Captured
ADVANCED ELEMENTS of the British "Submarine war- what armoured forces in Libya have occupied El we understand by sub- Agheila, a coastal town over a hundred miles marine war-begins in south of Benghazi and well on the road to Spring," said Rudolph
Tripoli. Hess, Hitler's deputy, on the occasion of the in- auguration of new Gaulei- ters or local Nazi Chiefs.
"England has only reezived a
split taste in advance of what is
going to happen after Sand Hess.
a pause,“
"The greatest war-machine of all time is ready and manned by final German soldiers to bring
→ victory."
Agency speech, Hess
The German News
his says that ir declared that war
last was the thing
Hitler wanted In the realisation of his plane and that German stranglehold on Eng
Jand
daily was growing hourly.
and
statements
Anther of Hess' was that German submarines ani the Luftwaffe" were gaining in- creasing successes. Reuter.
LONDON "ALERT”
The sounding of air raid sirens in London
Five senior Generals and many thousands of prisoners have been taken at Benghazi, in addition to the Army Commander and Corps Commander already reported.
East com. The R.A.F.
italian
is
Eleven prisoners were captured from Capronis shot down un it is confirmed February 3 and that one other enemy 'plane was destroyed that day.
In Eritrea, the disorganised | buildings. Only one British ma- Italians, according to last night's chine is missing. Caire communique
being were chased towards Arreza. The R.A.F. Middle munique says harrassing the retreating forces. Motor transport, troops, gun emplacements and other ob- iectives in and around Keren have been repeatedly bombed.
on
In Abyssinia, sight Italian machines were destroyed the landing ground at Álcmata, south of Lake Tana, and cun. siderable damage was done by
British aircraft to the camp.
At Karora,
Eritrean on the Sudan frontier, near the coast, an enemy concentration was bombed,
the landing grounds
at Dassie were also raided, bombs falling among the hangars and
while yesterday afternoon
was followed by short alert.
British Wireless.
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Small Town
the
El Agheila, occupied by British Forces, is a small town of about 1,000 inhabitants.
It had barracks for the Cari- binieri, a wireless station and an emergency landing ground.
ATTACKS
CONVOY FOR LAST TIME
The enemy 'plane which attempted to attack a convoy yes- terday was promptly shot down into the sea by the escort vessel "Pythchley" it was an- nounced in yesterday.
London
Admiralty
The communique said that there were no survi- vors from the enemy aircraft. Reuter.
R.A.F. RAIDS OF
A WEEK
Vatican
Radio Jammed
The Vatican Radio has been jammed for several weeks, and this was the explanation given by the announcer for the slow speed and constant repe- tition of messages given out yesterday.
"We beg our listeners," sald the announcer, to excuse us for speaking slowly and repeating all the time, but for several weeks now the Vatican Radio has been Jammed by an unknown source,
We have never put over the air anything that was not in accordance with the law of nature and God, and no
of which we had not
re-
previously obtained irrefutable
ports
proof.
"We
conclude
are
this
is a manoeuvre by certain people who afraid of the truth: being heard and the work of thut
shun the light, of propaganda."
Reuter.
Royal Air Force raids ATTACK
over Germany occupied The town stands at the south- ports and beyond, were em
ernmost point of the Gulf of Sirte.
powers
lying
175 miles by rond from Benghazi larger scale once again ON ENEMY
and 10 miles from the border Tripolitania.
of during the week ending
at dawn on Friday.
Altogether
Travelling westward, El Agheila is the last place of any importance before the desert of Sirte.
Big Advance
were
three raids made on docks and other objec- tives at Brest, Boubloget and Os-
docks and shipping were also al tend while at Dieppe and Dunkirk,
tacked.
SHIPS
IN
ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS, ‘ES-
A further big advance by Bri-
CORTED BY DESTROYERS, OFF THE COAST OF SOUTHERN tish forces in Libya was announced
NORWAY, WERE ATTACKED BY COASTAL COMMAND AIR- in yesterday's Middle East Com- Fighter aircraft escorting 21 inand communique, which states small bomber force twice made CRAFT ON SATURDAY, STATES AN AIR MINISTRY COMMUNI- |that El Aghella-about 145 miles offensive sweeps in daylight over
south of Benghazi-has been OC- a wide area in northern France,QUE, ISSUED YESTERDAY
LONDON, cupied by the advanced elements attacking both ports and inland
A small force af bombers, con- of the British armoured forces. aerodromes.
tinued Meanwhile,
the communique, carried the communique During the week, various tar- adds that the clearance of battle-gels in the 'Dusseldorf area in out attacks on industrial targets at Mannheim on Saturday night al- fields, south of Benghazi, is con-Germany were attacked. tinuing.
included two railway junctions. though weather conditions again an aerodrome
were unfavourable. and a large fac- Lory. -Reuter.
Owing to the extent of the area covered by the final operations, some time will elapse before the exact number of prisoners and the amount of war materials captured can be known.
Keren Defence
SITUATION
These
During Saturday, adds the com- munique, our aircraft bombed ob jectives at Rotterdam and Flush- ing.-Reuter.
AT SHA YU-CHUNG TWO RAIDS
Chinese reports that the Ja-
panese have left Sha-yu-chung ON MALTA
were authoritatively denied this has
In Eritrea, operations around Keren have been developing satis- factorily although the enemy reinforced the troops holding posi- tions in that region.
morning.
In fact, the Japanese troops
which occupied Sha-yu-chung Enemy raids on Malta on Fri- Further south, British forces have spread to neighbouring vil-day and Saturday are described continue in close pursuit of the lages along the coast, east and in an R.A.F. communique issued
disorganized Italians who are west of Sha-yu-chung. making their way over difficult
country towards Arreza, close sive mine-flelds which are to the Abyssinian border,
in Cairo yesterday.
It states that a number of bombs were dropped but there were 'no nowRA.F. casualties or damage.
being cleared while in Italian
One R.A.F. aircraft which was
British progress along the Gon-Somaliland, intense patrol activity stated to be missing in the com--· dar road in Abyssinia have been has still further deepened the areas munique of February 3 has now temporarily slowed up by exten-lof British penetration.-Reuter. returned to its base, Reuter.
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