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GERMANS IN

LIBYA

ACTION

THE REPULSE OF ARMOURED VEHI- CLES, BELIEVED TO BE GERMAN, IS RE- PORTED IN YESTERDAY'S CAIRO COM- MUNIQUE, WHICH SAYS THAT IN LIBYA ADVANCED ELEMENTS OF BRITISH MECH- ANISED FORCES ENCOUNTERED WEST OF AGUILA AND DROVE BACK, A RECONNAIS- SANCE UNIT OF ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES, BELIEVED TO BE GERMAN.

In Eritrea, while the British forces con- tinue activity to contain the main body of the enemy about Keren, further progress has been made by our columns advancing south- wards from Cubcub.

In Italian Somaliland, the rapid | and vigorous advance of South African forces from the line of the River Juba to the capture of Mogadiscio has evidently demor alised the

In the enemy forces

Crea

for

They are offering themselves Surrender all along the large stretch of country which has been overrun,

KILLED BY

A TIME BOMB

St veral thousands of prisoners have already been ecunted and many more continue to come in

In addition large quantities la of war

material of all kinds have fallen into uur hands.

Nut the least satisfactory fea- lure of this highly successful ad- vance has been that we recover- cd 200 Allied

seamen who hard been held at Merca for many months by the Italians N pri- soners of war. Reuter,

TAMSHUI BATTLE

Several people were killed when a delayed action bomb exploded in

London district.

NOW WE KNOW The "Cleveland

News" declares that Germany has more

vital weaknesses than the world outside gen- erally appreciates. Reuter.

WOMEN USED AS "SHIELD"

Another day spent in these small Albanian vil- lages convinces me more than ever of the justice of the Greek demands for more British aircraft.

Italian bombers have just bombed this small village where i am writing. killing numbers of women and children. Since early morning there has been a series of Italian raich without fighting opposition,

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A Greck officer in this village, his uniform still burned from a hand grenade, described to how, before the Greek occupation, the Italians forced women urd children in front of them. com- died in hospital from their inpelling Greeks to hold their artil- Jurles.

A police Inspector died on the way to hospital and another man

Two men, a woman, and two young children were taken to hospital.

The bomb had fallen at a garage behind a motor engineer's pre- mises. Both were wrecked and houses and shops nearby damaged.

The occupants had been evacuat

According to Chinese reports re-ed. ceived last night, Chinese regulars A.R.P. rescue squads were at are in the outskirts of Tamshui work among the debris unt'l dark and a fierce battle with the Japan-but the search had to be discon- ese forces is being waged.

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ANGLO-TURKISH TALKS

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Looting Shops

In another village i talked to many inhabitants, who describ. ed the drunkenness of the ita!- ian troops, who Inated all the shops, stole silver crucifixes from the church, and thrashed old men when demanding the whereabouts of the village wo-

men.

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These women spent days cower- ing in the surrounding woods awailing the Greek reoccupation.

In such villages there are sirens; the simple cry of "Aero- plane, aeroplane!" sends the peo ple rushing to their tiny, rain- shackle homes.

I have talked with Albanian prisoners, who told me they re- ceived drastic orders from the Italian High Command that on no AGENCY account must they retreat, but ANKARA they were hopelessly out-man- MR. EDEN oeuvred by the Greeks and forced AND MEMBERS OF THE TURK- to surrender. They were appar- ISH GOVERNMENT BEGAN ently delighted to do so. YESTERDAY, WHILE GENERAL DILL ALSO BEGINS HIS TALKS WITH HIGH OFFICERS OF THE. TURKISH ARMY.

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rested outside a boys' orphanage, and one asked an orphan lad for water.

The Turkish Premier gave lunch in their honour yesterday A platoon of tired soldiers and the British Ambassador gave a dinner party last evening.

Neither Mr. Eden ner General Dill have evening clothes with them and they were the only guests not in formal attire at the official dinner party given by the Turkish Foreign Minister. tish Wireless.

NO BLACK-OUT THIS EVENING

The boy spoke to the superinten- dent, who sent out a pailful.

When the sergeant in charge re- turned the bucket he took a capful Briof coins-9s. 6d. "We felt we ought

to pay you somehow," he said,

WEATHER REPORT ·

The Royal Observatory reports that an anticyclone of moderate The "raiders passed" signal was intensity has developed rapidly sounded throughout the Colony over North China. Pressure is at I am. to-day to inform the highest over Mongolia and re- general public that the "black-mains relatively low over Indo- out" exercise, which commenced China. An elongated depression at sunset on Wednesday, has been is moving north-eastward across concluded.

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