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ANGLO-FRENCH BLOCKADE FRICTION

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CHINA MAIL

FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST. ESTABLISHED 1845.

No. 32,093

TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1941

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Australia's Choicest BUTTER

GREEKS CAPTURE BLACKSHIRT LEADER

Albania Offensive

Furiously Pressed PACT

FIGHTER COMMAND OFFENSIVE

Three offensive sweeps were made by aircraft of the Fighter Command over the Channel and oc- cupied France yesterday afternoon, says

Air Ministry communique.

an

Considerable anti-aircraft fre was. encountered and one British fighter is missing.

There was no opposition by enemy aircraft, the communique adds. There

was # brief alert in London last night but no air raid incidents were reported.

Enemy air ́activity during daylight yesterday was mainly over the Channel and south- eastern England.

Little damage and no casualties! were reported. says an Air Ministry communique.-Reuter.

ITALIAN CRUISER TORPEDOED

An Italian cruiser of the Condotteiria class has been tor- pedoed and also cer- tainly sunk by a Bri- tish submarine, says an Admiralty com- munique quoted by Reuter.

DRAMATIC STEPS BY ROOSEVELT PREDICTED

THERE IS SOME REASON to believe that

THE FOURTH DAY OF THE BIG GREEK OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE ITALIAN CENTRE IN ALBANIA CONTINUED YESTERDAY WITH UNABATED FURY.

The Greek troops, states Athens radio, are pushing on with the utmost determination.

Twa mountain ranges where the attack was launched have now been almost com- pletely cleared of Italian forces.

The Italians, who have been driven from a net- work of machine-gun posts cunningly concealed in deep cavities in the rocks, are stated to be suffering very heavy casualties, with whole detachments being wiped out.

One of the principal units defending the ap- proaches to Tepelini, key-town to Valona harbour, endured particularly severe losses.

Nearly all effectives of the 7th Black Shirt bat- talion were also killed.

A

YUGOSLAV

WITH AXIS

The Yugoslav Foreign Minister, M. Cincar Mar- kovitch, is expected to leave Belgrade for Vien- na at any moment to sign a friendship pact be- and Yugoslavia

tween

the Axis powers.

SOME REPORTS SAY HE

AND

HAS ALREADY · LEFT, THE PACT MAY BE SIGNED

THIS EVENING.

Meanwhile, Yugoslavia. tinues to call up troops considerable scale: --

con-

оп

a

The Bulgarian newspapers daily are becoming more openly A few prisoners were FROM MUSSOLINI TO BOTTAI

PERSONAL MESSAGE visionist in tone. taken, including Major WAS FOUND ON THE UN- IDENTIFIED BODY OF A Pelligrini, a member of

MAJOR, BEGGING BOTTAI TO the Fascist Grand Coun- DO EVERYTHING. IN HIS cil.

POWER TO STOP THE GREEK ADVANCE

"OTHERWISE,” SAID MUSSOLINI,- "FASCISM WOULD DIE WITH A STAIN UPON IT.

Another battalion to meet with disaster was commanded by the Italian - Education Min- ister, Bottal, who may have been killed,

President Roosevelt will announce the trans-TRIPOLI

fer of another batch of destroyers to Britain

shortly after signing the Lease and Lend Bill, HARBOUR

it was declared in Washington yesterday.

This measure, it is thought, will be one of BOMBED

a series of dramatic steps which the President will take before the week is out to give imme- diate effect. to the Bill.

U.S.WARNED

OF AXIS ALLIANCE

FANDENEEND

DESCRIBED IN THE

PRESS AS A “COLOSSAL „TIFICATION" AND "A

GRANT VIOLATION OF THE HAGUE CONVENTION.

Tripoli harbour was again attacked during

It is believed in Washington Saturday night and that now the Bill has passed, many bombs dropped on Italian législators who opposed its passage

will vote the vast sums required aerodromes in Tripoli-

under the Bill, on the theory that

if the country wants the Bill it tania, states yesterday's

should not be half-hearted about

it but should really render all-ald R.A.F. Cairo communi- short of war.

Approval was given by the Bonate to the establishment of air bases on sites acquired from Britain when it passad yeater

(5,225,000), authorls- ation for naval vand ́ ́ public

que.

In Abyssinia, R.A.F. bombers attacked the aerodromes of Dire daws, despite attempted intercep tion by Italian fighters.

A DIRECT HIT WAS

ALSO

action has the effect ot

onal railfication of the OBTAINED ON A TRAIN AF-

*s for bases” đưal - PPROACHING - THE TOWN AND The Beate Naval Committee - ANOTHER ON THE STATION | ported ther a total of 388,025,000 AT ADDA GALLA, represented the amount necessary.

to complete the establishment of In the Keren nrea, troop posi

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"Giornale. d'Italia" remarks it will appears less than ilkely that war the is materials #itipped «from Paneriust: krise

tions were bombed and machine- gunned, while other bombers were harassing the Italian column re- arrive in Europe in view of treating from Burye and bombed intensification of the Axisin village near Debra Marcos.—

#booknded =~ Reuters ** Router;}

General Zhokoff, former Chief of the Bulgarian General Staff, said to Bulgarian students In Sofia yesterday: "We live in stirring times, after which will como: realisation of our na- tional ideals."

His statement, - and Bulgarian "Fascist Italy bases her last press

revisionist claims, were hope on your defence. Save her."; widely published in the Yugosia-

Reuter.

vian press.-Reuter.

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