1941-03-27 — Page 8

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R.A.F. BACKING UP SIEGE OF KEREN

MANY RAIDS ON enemy positions in support of the successful military operations in Eritrea and Abyssinia were carried out by R.A.F. aircraft on Tuesday, states an R.A.F. communique issued in Cairo.

Keren was again persistently attacked and several tons of bombs were dropped dur- ing the day.

GERMAN TANKER SUNK

The British submarine Sturgeon (Lt.-Comdr. St. Clair Ford) has sunk an 8,000-ton German tanker off the Norwegian coast.

Announcing this yesterday, the Admiralty in London

says the submarine fired at the tanker during mist and rain.

An explosion followed and

The railway between Addis Ababa and Diredawa was heavily and

bombed successfully

and trains, railway stations and bridges damaged. Motor transport un the road was also bombed and machine-gunned.

Frco French aircraft raided an enemy encampment 20 miles north of Gondar. Bomba fell amongst buildings and trans- port.

R.A.F. bombers raided Tripoli on the night of Monday, causing res followed by explosions among Government buildings and

in the harbour.

Dodecanese Raids

ITALIANS CONFER WITH JAPANESE

The Italian Ambas- sador in Tokyo had a half hour conversation on the international situation, with par-

ticular reference to Japan-Italian rela- tions, with the Japan- ese: Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ohashi, yesterday afternoon, says Reu-

ter.

Bombing

By Odd Raiders

Enemy aircraft, operat- ing singly over the south- Aerodromes at Scarpanto andern half of England yes- Calato and shipping at Astropalia terday, dropped bombs

Island, in the Dodecanese, were

when the mist cleared 20 minutes bombed and machine-gunned on which did little damage:

later only part of the tanker could be seen above water. Reuter.

"BURY ME UNDER A TREE," PILOT ASKS

Pilot Offr. P. K. Bone, Barton, on-Sea, Hunts, who died on war service in France in May, stated in his will dated the same month:

If I die in friendly territory I should like to be buried, not in a cemetery, but under

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Several houses in the West of England were destroyed, how- ever, and industrial buildings in two Southern towns damaged.

Casualties wore nowhere large though some

were killed, cording to the Air. Ministry com- munique.

A number of German alr- craft on the ground at Scar panto were severely damaged. At Astropalia, a merchantship received a direct hit and machine-gunned and other dam- age was caused at Calato.

From all these operations our TWO RAIDERS WERE DES- aircraft returned safely.--Reuter, TROYED.--REUTER,

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EL AGHEILA MOVE CAUSES

NO ANXIETIES

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LITTLE SIGNIFICANCE is attached in London military circles to the announcement in yesterday's Cairo communique that a small enemy detachment had occupied El Agheila one of the farthest out- posts of the British defence in Libya, some 180 miles from Benghazi.

MEAT RATION REDUCED

THE MINISTRY OF FOOD ANNOUNCES THAT THE MEAT RATION WILL BE REDUCED

Certainly there is no cause for apprehension. El Agheila is but a small village and before the war had a population of only about 1,000 of whom ten were Italians.

There is, however, a landing ground for. aircraft and a small wireless station.

We had only a small. patrol 'reaching out to El Aghella and -this-had been withdrawn. before the small enemy force took possession.

The Germans have claimed that FROM 1/2D TO 1/. FOR THE the place was occupied by the WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 31.German African Carps" but so The child's ration has been re-far information reaching. London duced from 7d to 6d.

would suggest that this "corps" is Since January 8, when the nothing more than an armoured Ministry stated that for the fu- vehicle or two which are acting ture the meat ration would vary as a sort of advance post. between 1/8d and 1/- the ration has been kept unaltered at 1/2d. The reduction now to be made is due to a decline in the num- bers of home-produced, fat stocks coming forward for slaughter. — British Wireless.

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Government departments, her family" and friends have searched in vain for The Woman in Black Mrs Caroline Maude Mann, aged fifty-seven, of Alberta House, Blackwall Way, Poplar, London. E-who has not been heard of at her home since she was evacuated by motor coach.

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The small enemy motorised de- tachment which occupied the post- of El Agheila unopposed after the withdrawal of the British -troopur. consisted: mainly of Italian motor transport, though possibly a, num- ber of Germans parilcipated, ac- cording to the military spokesman at headquarters in Cairo yester- day.

He added there has been a «fale amount......... of: patrol, activity along the Tripolitania-Cyrenal- ca border for some time · past and the British -Command de- folded-that-in respect of the praŋ

per defence of Cyrihalca, El Ag-- hella wanafrather exposed to being cut off."-Riuter.

County Council, ca

What makes it difficult to trace Mrs. Mann li the fact that she lost her, Identity card and Every Government department || may not have a new one. that had a hand in the evacuation

When she left home she was

has tried to find her. So have dressed in black and was wearing the Salvation Army and London an identity disc on d necklet.