1941-03-08 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 8, 1941

Wavell

Official Silence On Triumphs In Libya Broken

HEINKEL DOWN IN NORTH SEA

A Heinkel 111, which attacked a convoy in the North Sea yester- day morning, was shot down in flames by the British warship Guillemot.

No British damage Or casualties were sustained. ---Reuter.

ITALIAN GUNS PUT OUT OF ACTION

Selected Officers MARKING Report On British TIME IN

Blitz Success

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent)

BULGARIA

Some time must elapse before the German troops

SELECTED OFFICERS ARE BEING CALLED BACK TO LON-in Bulgaria have taken DON, FRESH FROM THE TRIUMPHS IN AFRICA, TO REPORT ON THE PERFECTION OF BRITAIN'S NEW BLITZKRIEG WAR- FARE IN READINESS FOR COMPLETING PLANS FOR WHAT THE WAR MINISTER HAS DESCRIBED AS GREATER STRUG. GLES WITH BRITAIN'S PRINCIPAL ENEMY. GERMANY.

LABOUR BOARD FOR U.S.

SEVERAL ITALIAN BATTER- IES WERE PUT OUT OF AC- TION DURING EFFECTIVE AR- TILLERY ACTIVITY WHICH his press

Pietient Roosevelt disclosed at conference yesterday

up positions "for securing peace in the Balkans and of war the beginning measures against Greece,” according to Wilhelms- trasse officials, quoted by the Berlin correspondent of the "Basler Nachrich- ten."

declare: The officials

"When, where and how this last-named

is for Germany to decide."

Among the first to return are light and heavy tank officers. They are the bearers of official despatches describing how the whole Italian army in eastern Libya was shattered.

The accounts these two officers gave yes-disturbing factor will be reduced LAST ED THROUGHOUT| that he is considering the terday carefully refrained from giving away The correspondent says the THURSDAY. ACCORDING TO from of a Labour Board to get as i

amedation agency and to con- any new military secrets but they painted sider problems of labour pro-graphic pictures of the final spurt across half enemy labour disputes in the interests of Cyrenaica, led by light tanks with cruisers in support, to cut off the last of Graziani's mechanised forces.

Crea-

THE OFFICIAL GREEK SPOKESMAN IN ATHENS YES- TERDAY

He added that artillery caused on and other factors concerning Considerable damage to

Reutet. positions

deferte

--Revter.

DON'T TURN THESE

STOCKINGS

46 INSIDE-OUT "

Most women turn ordinary stockings inside- out when they wear them. They find they look more sheer and dull and that they wear better when worn this way. Perhaps you, too, have found this to be so.

BUT THESE LOVELY STOCKINGS ARE

ACTUALLY MADE INSIDE-OUT

texture

This puts the soft, complexion-like found on the inside of ordinary hose on the outside. With these stockings the ribby, shiny side of the fabric is knit on the inside, next to the leg where it belongs. . . just the op- posite of ordinary hosiery.

TURN about

HOSIERY

OBTAINABLE AT

The WING ON

considers Mr. Eden's proposals to Athens are

wilhelmstrasse exceedingly dangerous.

reserved concerning Marshal Pe-

1-

Officials in Berlin, according to the correspondent, are extremely

tain's regime and believe

that. there are special reasons for Gen-

Lo A light tank officer, among the attacks were made from a highern Weygand's Visit

Vichy. first to meet Italian resistance at level.

They think that it may be con- Not until the British were be-¦nected with the

in every port, made interesting ob-

situation servations about Itaijan morale¦tween Tobruk and Benghazi did | Syria. -Reuter. and general fighting efficiency. enemy pilots try dive-bembing.

He sand: "They fought a great The British officers gave as deal better than many people reasons for the smaliness of Bri- think. Their gunners

the casualties were very tish

mechanised brave and usually died by their character of the warfare, in which "casualties are less," and that the guns.

"So also were the tank crews British never undertook an oper- opposing us in the last desperate ation without careful preparation,

both effort to break through south of and minute reconnaissance, Benghazi."

aerial and ground.-Reuter.

Had No Chance

Many of the Italian army, how- ever, were infantry armed with rifles and had no chance against charging tanks.

THE GERMAN INFANTRY IN FRANCE, FACED WITH SIMI- LAR BRITISH OPPOSITION, ALSO RAN, AND "WOULD DO SO AGAIN."

He described the Italian light tanks as "the most appalling fight- ing vehicles I have ever seen."

Lightly armed and with two. machine-guns forward. which could only traverse 30 degrees, they were thinly armoured.

Relying too much on their air force to give them information, the Italian army was badly let down, and consequently the British near- ly always effected a tactical sur- prise and thereby more than half won battles before they com- menced.

Bad Feeling

Graziani was also let down by his Black Shirt divisions. They were not half as good as the Ita- lian regulars.

The officer declared: "There eeemed to be very bad feeling

between regulars and Black

A.R.P. MEASURES IN

ASSAM

APPEAL TO GERMANS

ANOTHER EXHORTATION TO GERMAN PEOPLE TO GO

ΤΟ SHELTERS AS SOON AS THE SIRENS ARE SOUNDED, WAS BROADCAST LAST NIGHT BY GENERAL MILCH INSPECTOR- GENERAL OF THE LUFT- As a precaution against pos- WAFFE, sible enemy air attacks elaborate The German people, he said, measures have been adopted all will not swerve even if things go over Assam, particularly in pro-hard and they look with the full- tected areas in the Dibugarh dis-est confidence to their leaders.-- trict. Reuter,

Reuter.

RESERVOIR OF UNEMYLOPED

NOW EXHAUSTED

“Britain's available reservoir of unemploy--

ed man is now almost exhausted. This is the Opinion drawn by the Minister of Labour from the latest figures of unemployment. "I heard a senior officer say..that| While the total number of un- politics' dietated Italian strategy

Shirts. It was a case of poll-

tics spoiling military efficiency

in moving into Egypt at Musso-employed men, boys, women, and lin's orders, which was unsound girls on February 10 was 580,849, because the army was insufficient representing a reduction of 114,- 757 since January 10, it is pointed ly equipped."

large

workers a

HIT & RUN

RAIDS ON BRITAIN

Single enemy aircraft Thus, further Industrial ex were active yesterday:in

The Libyan troops who fought out that these figures include n at Sidi Barrani were never seen large number of persons tem- again. It was the officer's impres- porarily stopped while changing alon that they took off their uni-jobs, casual workers, forms and went Bedouin again." number of elderly

THERE WAS VERY LITTLE those classified as unsuitable for HATRED BETWEEN THE OP- ordinary employment. POSING ARMIES. THE BRI- TISH, AT THE CLOSE OF AN ACTION, WOULD GET DOWN FROM - THEIR TANKS AND HAND -CIGARETTES TO ITA-| LIANS:WHO HAD SURRENDER- ED. THE ITALIANS OFTEN SHOWED CHIVALRY TOO.

pansion

will involve tapping

new sources by transfer from Various parts of England. non-essential ́ ́‚Industries-and-pl Bombs were dropped at...one .great employment, of women, point -north-east Scotland, with The increase in the number of little elect, but a number of per- Women at work is indicated by sons were killed and others injured the fact that while the register of in the Midlands, where some wholly unemployed women only buildings were damaged. decreased by 1,869, actually 10,893 Incidents, says the Air Ministry, were: placed in work.

were reported from several other These figures • exclude very areas, especially along the East Used dispersal.on,the move..to fofl large numbers entering industryCoap, but damage was nowhere

atious and casualties very few air attacks. Bombing attacks direct without registering

Reuter, against..them..failed because the exchanges. Reuter.

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-Italian Air-Fallure

„British tanka: suocessfully prac