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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 13, 1941.

ACTION COMING IN DODECANESE?: AIR ATTACKS CONTINUE

THE ADDIS ABABA aerodrome was among targets bombed by the Royal Air Force on Tuesday, states a R.A.F. Middle East Communique issued in Cairo yesterday, which says: "Aerodromes on the is- land of Rhodes were again heavily attacked by our bombers during Monday night.

Attacks were delivered from a low altitude.

GUAM ISLAND

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAS ASKED CONGRESS FOR U.S. At s898.393.000 IN CASH AND CON-

TO

Maritza, bombs fell among hangars and administra- TRACT AUTHORISATIONS

EXPEDITE THE SHIP-BUILD- tive buildings. At Calato bombs set fire to three air- ING PROGRAMME AND CARRY craft on the landing ground. Other fires were start-OUT

THE UNITED STATES FLEET'S

ed and two of our aircraft machine-gunned the target.

"At Katavia, bombs were drop- ped on

runways and amongst

Laircraft and buildings,

Violent

explosions and

causing

several

fres. This target was also ma- Enemy batteries

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and searchlights were active over the targets.

A.A. GUNNERS INCREASE "BAG"

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The sum includes U.S.$4,700,000 to establish fleet operations facil- tites and bomb-proof shelters on Guam Island in Norther Pacific and

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enemy bombers were destroyed Inspection Welcome! Catalogue Freel on bulup day night and one (11 Monday night by A.A. Router.

"In Albania, military and other

An enemy bomber was de troy- stores were attacked and many direct hits were observed. The mi-ed in Eastern Scotland yesterday litary aerodrome at Addis Ababa morning. according 1) an Air was among the targets bombed by Ministry communique which addi: our aircraft in Abyssinia on Tues-that it is now known that two day. A number of bombs were dropped on the aerodrome and direct hits

set fre to buildings and hangars.

The Keren-Asmara also subjected to a number of ra dy Motor transport convoys i

the road between the two towns were heavily bombed and also machine-gunned. A stores dump. north-east of Keren, was also attacked.

חיז

area

was

African

Italians Shot Down

"Fighters of the South Unit, which encountered five CR-42's (Italian fighters) off Asa- mara on Monday, shot down two In flames.

"One of the most intense bomb- ing raids yet carried out by the South African Air Forca took place on Monday when a number of bumbers dived on military ub- jectives at Afmadu (Italian Soma- liland). Several direct hits were observed.

ati

"Eighty-six unserviceable enemy aircraft have been found by our forces on the landing ground Benina, near Benghazi. These in- cluded one HE-101 and one JU-88 (Gerinan machines).

"From all the operations under review, our aircraft returned safe- ly with one exception."--Reuter.

POET ATTACKS

GIRL--GAOLED

When Peter Gordon Brown was accused at Nottingham Assizes of criminally assaulting Dorothy Cox, aged eighteen, he told the jury:

**] told Dorothy she was not exactly beautiful, but that her beauty lay in her smile."

The Judge, interposing, said: "Don't go on like that, we under- stand you paid her compliments.” Brown said, "How can I describe her lips without sampling their| lovely fruit?" He swore that whatever happened was with the girl's consent.

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Brown, a man aged thirty-nine, met the girl at, a dance and duced her to go for a walk on the following evening.

After they sat down on the grass he produced a bottle of wine, and having persuaded the girl to drink, he started to re- cite poetry of his own compost. tlon.

The girl refused to allow Brown to kiss her, whereupon he put his hand over her mouth and said, “If you scream I will kill you.”. There was a violent struggle, at the end of which he committed the offence.

In a letter he wrote to Miss Cox he said:~-

your

"I lowered myself in esteem, and when I recalled that diabolical night I attempted to write to you. I felt like a sinner entering the shrine of Allah. look upon you as a timid, frighten- ed bird. That is my poetic point

of view."

Brown was sentenced to ave years' penal servitude.

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