1941-02-26 — Page 35

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 26, 1941.

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Invasion Like

At

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Dozen Points Tentacles Of Octopus

PLAN FOR British Forces

AIR RAID

VICTIMS

Thrusting Into

Every householder in Heart Of Abyssinia

Britain will receive free compensation from Gov- ernment up to £200 for air raid damage to cloth- ing, furniture and other household goods under a new Government free in- surance scheme outlined by Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exche- quer, in the Commons yesterday.

Up to another 100 fire capr pensation will be psd for at wife. Sand 125 for each chikt

የነ addition to these {itr grauts it is proposed that people should be able to insure aut low

tes, namely one per cent. io 2.000, at 1, per cent from

2000 to £3,000, and at 2 per cent from £3.000 10 £10,000.

anced living on hotels and long-, tages will get free competisation up! 16 £30. Detalls of the schemej will be hard before Parliament Reuter

NO GOODS ALLOWED TO RUMANIA

!

GENERAL ELECTION IN RUMANIA

General Antonescu, the Rumanian Pre- mier, announced yes- terday that a general election will be held in Rumania on March 2, according to a Buch- arest despatch to the German news agency.

Reuter.

FIRST JOB: WIN WAR

MR JOHN G WINANT, NEW UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN, HAS RESERVED. A SEAT ON THE CLIPPER SCHEDULED TO LEAVE FOR

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent at

Khartoum)

WITH THE TENTACLES OF THE BRITISH FORCES THRUSTING LIKE AN OCTOPUS EVER DEEPER INTO THE HEART OF ABYS- SINIA, IT APPEARS THAT THE TEMPO OF THIS CAMPAIGN IS LIKELY TO INCREASE AS THE DUKE OF AOSTA'S FORCES FIND THEMSELVES IMPERILLED AT ONE POINT AFTER ANOTHER.

now being

BANDIT

COUP IN PARIS

FIRING IN ALL DIRECTIONS IN THE CROWDED HEART OF PARIS, BANDITS ESCAPED YESTERDAY WITH 3,700,000 FRANCS AFTER HOLDING UP THREE BANK MESSENGERS WHO WERE TAKING A HAND CART CONTAINING THE MONEY TO THE BANQUE DE. FRANCE.

Suddenly attacked by the arm- ed bandits one messenger was shot dead and another wounded.

cart. Failing to open the hand the bandits hitched it to the rear of their car and, towing the hand cart with, its contents, mude a clean getaway. Reuter.

U.S. BASES

Thrusts into Abyssinia are made at more than 12 different points simul- APPROVED

taneously, from north, south and west, while growing numbers of Abyssinians, hearing news of the Emperor's installation in his own territory, are rallying to the patriot forces.

In action, Halian regulars are themselves increasingly deserting

a result of the intensive Bei tish attacks coupled with appeals mmade Fy means of pamphlet, loudspeakers etc

The interalty of our effec- tive pamphlet campaign can be judged by the fact that in a recent perind of four weeks. 750,000 have been distributed in Abyssinia and Eritrea. PAN-

The Italians have abandoned The threat to shoot men found varying British pamphlets as in- and have instituted practicable perindical "search parades "

LISBON TO-MORROW. AMERICAN AIRWAYS AN- NOUNCED IN NEW YORK LAST

· NIGHT.

All outstanding_navi-¦ Meanwhile President Roosevelt Winant certs and export licences has no ideas which Mr.

may take to London concerning for Rumania were revok the kind of peace which could be cd when Italy entered the established after the war.

Making this statement at yes-

war, declared Mr. Hugh|terday's press conference the Pre-

Prisoners Taken

A whole battalion was lined up and searched for pamphlets but many prisoners we have taken we

Dalton, Minister of Eco-sident added that the first job was found still carrying our pamphlets

nomic Warfare,

when

win the war-Reuter.

questioned in the Com- SNATCH AND RUN

mons yesterday.

At this time, he added, Rumania

was already passing under Ger-

man economic control. No goods

RAID ON SHOP

had, therefore, been allowed to Wong On Yeung, 32,

in their pockets.

was rood.

go through the British control to charged before Mr. G. T. Lowry Rumania since last June.

this morning, with stealing $600 Asked for an assurance that from No. 49, Connaught Road similar treatment would be meted West yesterday. - out to other countries likely to be Defendant entered the shop. drawn into the German orbit, Mr. snatched the money from the Dalton indicated that the Ruman-counter, and ran. He was caught ian precedent might usefully be by a Chinese detective. followed. Reuter.

A $10 dollar note was missing when de- fendant was arrested. Appar- ently he dropped it during the chase.

GRAVE CHARGE ADJOURNED

The case

of Frank Kennedy

Jacobs, R.A.M.C., who is charged with rape and indecent assault, which was to be heard at

Sentence of two months' hard labour was imposed.

THREE MONTHS'

HARD LABOUR

the Criminal Sessions this morn- Three months' hard labour was ing, was adjourned till Thursday, imposed on Ng Hing, 21, by Mr. March 6, to enable accused to ob-G. T. Lowry, this morning, for the

tain defence counsel.

The force of the British thrust has been materially strengthened in recent days by the provision of well-organised supply lines, bringing through mountainous country such necessities as am- munition, medical supplies and

There is also the growing strength of our Air Force, The technique of surrounding and cutting off Italian forces, al- in Libya, is ready so successful being applied at a number of points besides Keren, although the difficult nature of the country hampers the swift employment of

mechanised forces ul several points.

Attacking In Rear

In muny cuses enveloping movements are being carried out by infantry clambering through rugged mountains and destroying roads and bridges and attacking the Italians from the rear.

Apart from retreating outposts, the main body of the Italians, so far as any line can be said to exist, appears

to run npproxi- mately from Keren, where the

white forces

of the

is

theft of a raincoat from the offices cream Accused was remanded in mili- of the Sun Life Insurance Com- being employed in an attempt to tary custody.

pany, Gloucester Building. The hold that town at all costs, south- raincoat belonged to Mr. J. P. wards to Lake Tana and then; to Whitham, branch manager of the Debra, Marcos and Addis Ababa.

DYING MOTHER EXCUSE

That he had come to Hong Kong

on his way to Macao to see his dying mother was the excuse of

company.

Accused pawned the raincoat at the Tak Wing. Pawnshop, Des

Voeux Road: Central, for $7.

FOUR ITALIAN

Lau Tak-tal, charged with re- 'PLANES SHOT DOWN

Reuter.

AN UNEQUIVOCAL NEGATIVE

ASKED IN THE COMMONS turning from banishment at

YESTERDAY TO ACCORD A; SE- the FOUR Criminal Sessions this morning.

ITALIAN AIRCRAFT|CRET DEBATE ON THE BASES WERE BROUGHT DOWN BY LEASED: TO THE UNITED His Lordship, the Chief Jus- GREEK

FIGHTER 'PLANES STATES, THE LORD PRIVY tice, Sir Atholl MacGregor sen- AND A.A.. GUNS ON MONDAY, SEAL, MR. C. R. ATTLEE, GAVE| tenced him to 12 months! hard SAYS A GREEK PRESS MINIS- AN UNEQUIVOCAL "NO" AND

labour

[TRY STATEMENT BROADCAST | ADDED THAT MR, CHURCHILL Accused with four convictions FROM ATHENS LAST NIGHT. HAD: NO. INTENTION OF AC- for larceny and six for breach of Three other Italian 'planes were] CEDING. TO. SUCH A REQUEST the Deportation Ordinance, has, badly hit and it is thought un--A STATEMENT WHICH WAS spent most of the last ten years likely they regained their bases. RECEIVED: WITH CHEERS:- in prison.

Reuter,

REUTER.

WEATHER REPORT

The U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Commission has approved the authorisat tion of a credit amounting to $242,373,500 for im provements on the islands of Guam and Samoa.

The Royal Observatory reports

The naval spokesman, Admiral that the anticyclone continues to Morrell, declared in Washington; evver China, Japan, and the neigh-yesterday that these and improve- bouring seas, and is regaming in-leased from Britain, were "abso

usity ver Manchuria; pressure lutely vital to the defence of the is relatively low over indo-China. United States," Reuter.

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