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BRITISH PARACHUTE TROOPS GIVE DISPLAY FOR HIGH COMMAND

BRITAIN FREES ANTI-NAZI NO. 1

MANY GENERALS and R.A.F. officers and their staffs, including General Sir John Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Gen- eral Sir Alan Brooke, Commander-in-Chief of the Home Forces, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Bar- ratt, Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Army Cooperation Command of the R.A.F., and ANTI-NAZI NO. 1. General Viscount Gort, were present at para- chutive exercises on the moorlands yesterday, "Exit Prussia" and once one of the

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Over a bleak stretch of moorland an R.A.F. troop carrier emerged from the clouds and suddenly the officers saw parachutists political activities, have taken dropped from it one after another.

Before the 'plane had disap- peared into the cloud again all the men had landed. untarnessed parachutes and silently pre-

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vital enemy objective, which was a small in.aginary factory, where it was known that a high per sonage and some of the most ven or officers of the enemy High Cominand were to watch a private demonstration of a new weapon being made there.

While this gathering of Britain's leading Army and Air Force com- manders

was waiting

the moor an R.A.F. troop carrier un- obtrusively came through the

on

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prominent part in the opposition 10 the Nazi system."

LION OF JUDAH IN CONTROL OF GOJJAM PROVINCE

DANGILA, 40 MILES south-west of Lake Tana, the fall of which was briefly reported on Tuesday, strategically controls the whole

clouds in bad weather. demon of Gojjam province.

⚫trating the surprise nature of the attack.

In accordance with a prearrang-

The Italians had stationed there a Black

ed plan, the troops, weapons ready Shirt division, with other white troops, though

for action, rushed to the fuctory

which, though isolated, was guard- ed by sentries and employed

about 50 civilian workers.

Most Impressive

It was assumed, for the purpose of the exercise, that the greatest care had been taken by the enemy the to preserve the secrecy of rendezvous, and it was the duty of the parachutists to surround the objective until the arrival of more to act as demolition parties in the destruction of the factory machinery and military personnel, The exercise was most impres- sive and showed the potentialities of this method of attack. It also proved the efficiency of coopera- tion between the R.A.F. and the: Army-Reuter.

A FAMILY AFFAIR-

Corporation buses and trams are oecoming family affairs in Leeds.

It is quite common to find that driver and conductress are uncle and niece or father and daughter, Soon there will be husband and wite.

Miss Marjorie Townsend, whose job is placing the girls when they finish their training, told à re- porter: "We found one difficulty was getting the girls home after late duties. If we put them with a relation, that is solved."

BURMA APPLAUDS TROOPS IN AFRICA

The Burmese Senate yesterday unanimously passed a resolution expressing intense satisfaction at the glorious successes of the Im- perial troops in Africa and de- sired heartiest, congratulations to be conveyed to General Wavell General Wilson and. Admiral Cunningham: Reuber.

WANG CHING-WEI'S BROTHER PASSES (SPECIAL TO "CHINA, MAIL”) Wang Im-ping, secretary of the Canton Government and brother of Wang Ching-wel, died in Can- ton on February 9, according to the local press yesterday. The crémation will be held on Satur- day.Reuter Special

it is doubtful whether these troops were there when the town fell.

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of

Abandonment of the town on have facilitated the exchange Monday was the result of guerilla local products, wheat, barley and pressure during the past few coffee, with goods from other cen- weeks by Haile Selassie's patriots tres.-Reuter. led by a British officer.

They on occasion approached

within a to

few feet of the Five town's strong defences. days of close d'tacks followed.

struck As the final blow was

and cooperation with the R.A.F. messages -received, from planes capture enabled the patriots to some members of the garrison they left during the bombardment,

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Remainder of the garrison are retreating north-east fowards Bahrdar Glorgie, a town on the southern point of Lake Tana, and are being harried by small Abyssinian force.

On Edge Of Plateau

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of

ABYSSINIAN

WOMEN AMONG

THE PATRIOTS

Some Abyssinian women are fighting alongside their menfolk in the ranks of the Abyssinian patriots.

This was revealed last night by Princess Tshei, daughter of Haile Selassie, in a broadcast speech from London.

Dangila stands on the edge the northern escarpment of the

The Princess, who appealed Abyssinian Plateau, 7.000 feet up

for gifts of clothing for "Abys- at the junction of old caravan

Einlan fighters, has lived in routes to Add's Ababa from Gala-

Britain for five years in exile.. bat, on the Sudan border, and from"

She announced she hoped Roseires, on the Blue Nile, in the

shortly to join an ambulance Anglo-Egyptian Sudan,

The population is small but unit which is leaving for Abys since the Italian occupation roads.sinia under the leadership of an built along

routes Australian surgeon. the caravan

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