1941-03-31 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 31, 1941.

FIVE ITALIAN WARSHIPS GO TO BOTTOM IN IONIAN SEA

Naval Battle

Survivors In Greece

Survivors have been landed ot Piraeus from four of the five Italian ships sunk in the eastern Mediterranean by British wor ships.

Three Italian cruisers, the Fiume, Polo and Zora, and an Italian destroyer are presented among these survivors.

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They were brought in by a Greek destroy-

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U.S. STRIKES ENDING

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DOUBLE MURDER

CHARGE

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Navy with a revolver dustries show some in- provement.

It

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that a settlement has been reach-¦ Chicago, agreed to jelun to work ed in Bethlehel Steel Company's aun.ediately at fir International factories Company works at Johnston, Pennsylvana | Harvester

Congre of Industrial Organ

which have been closed for eight

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LATER NEWS OF THE NAVAL AND AIR BATTLE IN THE MEDI- TERRANEAN SHOWS THAT BRITAIN HAS STRUCK THE GREATEST BLOW OF THE WAR AT SEA.

Five Italian warships three cruisers and two destroyers have been sent to the bottom without a single casualty or the slight- est damage to the British Fleet.

It is officially confirmed that the enemy

cruisers sunk were the Fiume, Pola and Zara, Call To

and that a large and a small destroyer were also destroyed.

Catholic Germany

News of the successful outcome of Ad- miral Sir Andrew Cunningham's operations is described in the following communique is- sued by the Admiralty in London last evening: "The Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, re-

A call to Catholic Ger- ports that no casualties or damage were sustained many to awake and face by His Majesty's ships throughout the recent opera- the pagan tendencies which the Nazi regime is "Some of our aircraft are, however, not account- spreading throughout the

tion.

ed for.

"So far it is confirmed that the following Italian warships hav** been sunk:

"The R-meh gun cruisers Fiume, Pola and Zara

The large destroyer Vicenzo Grobert, and

"The destroyer Muestrade. "Further detalls are awafted **

10,000 Tons Each

AUSTRIAN

DISCONTENT

It is learned from re- liable sources in Vienna that the severity of the The Fame, which was heavily winter is causing much Austria.

armed, carried eight 8-inch guns among her

ratings.

in

Reich occupied territory, was made in a broadcast by the Vatican radio yes- terday.

The announcer declared that the religious situation in Germany was highly unsatisfactory and condemned the Nazi attitude tu the Church in outspoken terms."

The threat of State religion hung over all religious life in these territories.

The announcer said lecturers, teachers and propagandists incul- cate pagan principles into German

Instruction.

and her discontent amancat. complement was 7038 officers and The shortage of food-youth, deprived of proper religious

All three cruisers were of 10,000

tons.

The destroyer Vincenzo Glober- to was completed in 1936 and had a displacenient of 1,700 tons and a complement of 157.

The Mestrade had similar arm- aments but her displacement was 1,500 tuns. Reuter.

British Wireless adds that two of our aircraft are not accounted

for.

Italy's Losses

With the sinking of the three 8-inch gun cruisers, Fiume, Pola and Zara, Italy has now had over half her total force of these ves- sels, which at the outbreak of war consisted of seven, put out of action, the Bolzano having been severely damaged in a torpedo at- tack some time ago.

Even in schools, where a priest

stuffs, and especially of fuel, is very great. Coal is in theory adinitted, he often is almost unobtainable infinds

Reuter.

Vienna.

Under such conditions enthu- siasm for Nazism, which was evident even among Austrians at the period of the German vic- tories, has almost disappeared. The townspeople have now to face and think of the difficulties of the situation, and the belief in an eventual German victory has markedly lessened, especially among the workers.

Cancelled Meetings

The results are already apparent in the internal political life of Austria. Many meetings organis- ed by the Nazi party in the workers' quarters of Vienna had

of the

The Flume and Zara were commissioned in 1930 and the to be postponed or cancelled ow

the ing to

smallness Pola later. With a main arma-

audiences. ment of eight 8-inch guns and a displacement of 10,000 tons. these cruisers had a designed

· speed of. 32 knots. The destroyer Vincenzo Gioberti was one of the largest and fastest Completed of Italian destroyers.

in 1930 .her designed speed was: 39 knots and she had a displace-

ment of 1,729 tons.

The Maestrade was a smaller

the door closed to him.-

THRILLS?

OH, NO!

When a British freighter sailed into Boston (Mass.) after a voyage from Cardiff, the skipper of the vessel told repor.ers on the waterfront: "No news, boys, Uneventful trip."

But the ship's log contained the following record:

Escaped Nazi bombs while leav ing port in convoy,

Passed liner which apparently was a dive-bomber. victim.

Broke down three times with engine trouble,

St

Even threats of personal re-

· Forced to drop out of convoy. prisals did not have the desired Ship's dynamo gave ou*, leav effect, and in some cases the ating ship in darkness most of the tendance was only five or 10.

The Nazi salute is given in-voyage, but for crude wax candles

mode by the crew. frequently, and many persona American newspapers refer to were recently · arrested for ex- this as "a British understatement." pressing

open dissatisfaction-Reuter.

with conditions.

Many Austrians are again hay

vessel displacing 1,449 tons. She ing dreams. of Austrian indepen-

was completed in 1934 and had a dence. Communist propaganda SHE CAN SMOKE, SO

speed of 38 knots.--British Wire- has also revived, and many be-

less.

FEELINGS HURT: POCKET HURT

lieve the recent railway accident

on the Semmering was the result |~"A ̈woman who is-sufficiently-- of sabotage.

manly to smoke is sufficiently Many belleve that Italy will many to go to gaol for this sort drag Germany to disaster in this of thing.” That was the sheriff's war as Austrîa dragged Germany to ruin in the last one.

PRESIDENT ENDS HIS HOLIDAY

comment at a West of Scotland court, when he sent. Ella Bain, thirty-seven, of Great George

·Street, Glasgow, to prison for six weeks for having cigarettes and matches with her in a war fac LOTY,

For slapping an amh on the face after she had accidentally Having concluded his holiday The procurator-fiscal said · · the stepped on his foot, Wong Wah, cruise on the pres'dential. yacht deliberate y brought in cigarettes 30-year-old shop fokl, was order- Potomac, President Roosevelt 'yes-to have a smoke when she felt in- The fact that she was a ed to pay $5 compensation by Mr. tarday left by train for Washing-clined.

H. G: Sheldon, K.C. this-morning.ton, says Reuter from New York.woman did not lessen the danger.