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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 20, 1941.

BRITISH PARACHUTE TROOPS GIVE DISPLAY FOR HIGH COMMAND

MANY GENERALS and R.A.F. officers

and their staffs, including General Sir John DETAINED Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Gen-

eral Sir Alan Brooke, Commander-in-Chief of AT KAI TAK

Detained at Kal Tuk on landing

the Home Forces, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Bar- ratt, Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Army by 'plane from Chungking yester- Cooperation Command of the R.A.F., and General Viscount Gort, were present at para- chutive exercises on the moorlands yesterday, ing charged with a breach of De- states the Air Ministry news service.

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

Before the plane had disap- peared into the cloud again all the men had landed, unharnessed the parachutes and silently pre- 24 remote und

│pared to attack

per-

vital enemy objective, which was | a small imaginary factory, where

it was known that a high sonage and some

the of

most en or officers of the enemy High Command 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- inanders was waiting

day, Yiu Hing-lim, 36, auditor,

Mr. appeared before

D. J. N.

Anderson at Kowloon this morn

fence Regulations.

Accused was alleged to have had in his possession a letter, con- veying it into the Colony other than by post.

Appearing on $50 bail, accused was remanded for 24 hours for the letter to be censored.

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.

mor an R.A.F. troop carrier un- ubtrusively came through the

strating the surprise nature oľ the attack.

In accordance with a prearrang-

ed plan, the troops, weapons ready

for action, rushed to the factory

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

duty rendezvous, and it was the

The Italians had stationed there a Black Shirt division, with other white troops, though it is doubtful whether these troops were there when the town fell.

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

to within a few feet of the Five town's strong defences.

of the parachutists to surround the objective until the arrival of more to act us demolition parties cooperation with the R.A.F. in the destruction of the factory messages received machinery and military personnel, enabled the

days of close a'tacks followed. As the final blew was struck and from 'alanes patriots to capture

as

The exercise was most imptes-some members of the garrison sive and showed the potentialities they left during the bombardment. of this method of attack. It also proved the efficiency of coopera- tion between the R.A.F. and the Army-Reuter.

BOMBS IN SCOTLAND

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

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 On Edge Of Plateau

Princess Tshai, daughter of Haile in a broadcast speech Dangita stands on the edge of Selassie, the northern escarpment of the from London.

The Princess, who appealed Abyssinian Plateau, 7.000 feet up

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

sinlan

lived in fighters, has routes to Addis Ababa from Gala- BOMBS WERE DROPPED AT bat, on the Sudan border, and from

Britain for five years, in exile. Sht announced she hoped TWO PLACES ON THE NORTH- Roseires, on the Blue Nile, in the ICO

shortly SCOTLAND Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.'

to join an ambulance EAST COAST OF YESTERDAY MORN IN G,

unit which is leaving for Abys- STATES AN AIR MINISTRY since the Italian occupation roads sinía under the leadership of an

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Some damage was done to buildings and there was a small number of casualties.

A few bombs were dropped near the East Anglian coast but did little damage and nobody seriously hurt.-Reuter.

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BURMA APPLAUDS TROOPS IN AFRICA

The Burmese Seriate 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 bé conveyed to General Wavell, General Wilson and Admiral Cunningham. Reuter,

WANG CHING-WEI'S BROTHER PASSES (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") Wang. Im-ping, secretary of the Canton Government and brother of Wong Ching-wel, died in Can.. ton on February 8, according to the local press yesterday. The cremation will be held on Satur- day-Reuter-Speolali

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