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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 14, 1941.
BRITISH CONTROL OF MEDITERRANEAN
THE BOMBARDMENT of Genoa shows that the British Fleet continues to dominate the Mediter- ranean and the Italian African armies are virtually separated from Italy, writes the military correspon- dent of the Swiss newspaper “La Suisse."
The "National Zeitung" of Berne says that the speed with which General Wavell's on-storming Em- pire troops reached and captured Benghazi has not only surprised laymen.
The performance of the British troops and High Command calls for the respect of all unprejudiced
observers.
Whether the course of the African campaign. is of inmort-
inlice
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for the final decision whether the British advance con- Duues. the widespread rumour that England is an old country and the home of an ok prople without power to live or resist is after all only a rumour.
The way
have the English borne terrible bombing attacks without weakening or crying
ARMY TO
LADY (AUSTEN) CHAMBERLAIN PASSES
on-
London
The death was nounced in yesterday Chamberlain,
of
Lady
widow
of Sir Austen Cham- berlain, former For- Secretary and
GROW FOOD eign
A SCHEME
HAS
BEEN
LAUNCHED UNDER WHICH
SOLDIERS OF THE SCOTTISH
COMMAND WILL GROW VEGETABLES ON ALL ARABLE LAND UNDER ITS CONTROL.
"The army will grow food on it: for the world's recognition has and just as any other occupier"
aestroyed this rumour. Not many of the
so-called young peoples could have achiev ed thus record of sang troid and nervous endurance. Reuter.
Nazi Problem
said the officer in charge of the scheme, "always with the pro- vision that the Army must be al- lowed to tram.
half-brother
of the late Mr. Neville Chamberlain.
Lady Chamberlain passed away after short illness.--Reuter.
а
3,985 INTERNEES FREED IN ENGLAND
Three thousand eight hundredt
internees ninety-une and
have been releared temporarily or per- manently on medical grounds, and sixty-nine doctors and dentists.
The Treasury has made a grant for tools and seeds and hundreds of gardeners or farmers now serv- The "Gazette de Lausanne" saying in the Army will be employ- Britain is armed, strong and ready
ed wholly on the new scheme as The Tribune de Lausanne"
advisers and instructors. says: "Germany is now obliged to seek a dec sion in Britain. A sur- Tractors will be hired to plough and twenty-five employers engag- prise attack is hardly possible and 'up larger areas although a greated in work certified by a Govern- could only be tried when the Bri- deal of the work will be on the al- ment department to be of value to tish feet and air force have been lotment system. Main crop will be the community, also have
This will be long and potatoes. enfeebled. Custly." British Wireless.
HE SAVED HIS LIFE RISKING IT
A sailor aboard a ship which hit owes his 1 fe lu
an enemy mine
the fact that he risked death to retrieve from his cabin a letter from his wife and photographs of his children.
While he was collecting his treasures the lifeboat in which he hould have taken his place cap. s sed.
all
The letter the only one he has received for a year
and the photographs are
that Alfred Ekines, aged fifty-eight, has to re- mind him of the home he once had in Norway.
In the last war I was torpedoed twice, but it was different then, for I had a home," he told a reporter.
"Now I do not even know where jmy wite is. The Germans are in
our country,"
Ekines's ship was bringing a cargo of food to England when it struck the mine.
Navy To the Rescue
Though the engineroom was quickly under water and they had temporarily to take to the life- boats, the thirty-one Norwegian sailors on board refused to aban- don their ship.
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