1941-04-09 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 9, 1941.

NAZI STRATEGY IN YUGOSLAVIA

Endeavouring To Cut Communication Lines Weight of Effort

Of Concentrated On Bulgarian Borders

THE MAIN GERMAN DRIVE AGAINST

YUGOSLAVIA IS AIMED AT THE VITAL COMMUNICATION CENTRES OF NISH AND SKIPOE, IN THE HOPE OF CUTTING THE YUGOSLAV ARMY IN TWO, ACCORDING TO USUALLY WELL-INFORMED SOURCES IN ANKARA YESTERDAY.

Another push is being made from Pe- trich, in the extreme south-western corner of Bulgaria, down the tributary of the Struma River towards Strumica, whence the Germans could thrust across country towards the val- ley of the Varda River.

MATCHEK CALL TO CROATS

The screes state that thr Geimura forers in Bulgaria

of four groups, The firt

has headquarters atj da lengrad, on the Turkish finn- the second is based on Kus- redd. m the Yugoslav Frontier, the third in north wed Bulgaria as being held #1} nor Sofia

A call to the Croats for and the fourth

unity and discipline was

THE GERMAN AIR FORCE

ATTACKING YUGOSLAVIA,

uttered over Zagreb radio, WITH TWO MAIN AIR FLEETS last night by Dr. Matchek, OFERATING FROM RUMANIA the Croat leader and Vice, LAND BULGARIA, Premier

in

General:

Simovitch's Cabinet.

The cata lophe of war, be my can be leserned it they are unterd and diseplined

A suring the Creats, he is goingt, to remain among them and share with them every sorrow and trial. he urges them to have farth God and the unly of the Peasant Party."- Reuter.

BREAKING WITH HUNGARY

German Claims

RUMANIA STOPS

OIL SUPPLIES TO TURKEY

Rumanian oil com- panies have stopped deliveries of lubricat- ing oil to Turkey, re- ports the Istanbul the correspondent of Independent French Agency.

The action is said to have been taken be- cause the entire pro- duction is absorbed by home needs. Reuter.

MEXICO'S GESTURE

THE MEXICAN MINISTRY OF news

FOREIGN AFFAIRS SENT MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY WITH GREECE AND

THE

Meanwhile the German agency last night claimed that German troops are continuing **de6- into Serbia pite great destruction of

the advance

and very difficult country."

roads SLAVIA TO

CONSUL-GENERAL

Considerable war material, n- DON YESTERDAY.

Including a large number of meditan

and heavy

Both the Netherlands and Belgium, whose Gov- ernments are in London, i have decided to break off relations with Hungary, Reuter learns,

Charge

The Netherlands d'Affaires in Budapest has been instructed by The Netherlands Government to leave his post.

The Kdging, Minister in Buaia- post will leave by way

of May. cow by the PORNO route that the j

is expected [

Best

USC

Minte

Reuter.

British Bren gun carriers beelde the battered wall of Fort Capuzzo. Many of the troops who took part in the Libyan operations are now in Greece. (Copyright, Fox).

SOFIA RAILWAY STATION BLOTTED OUT

"I SHOULD NOT LIKE TO HAVE BEEN

| ANYWHERE NEAR SOFIA RAILWAY STATION ON SUNDAY NIGHT, AS THE NEIGHBOUR- A HOOD OF THE RAILWAY JUNCTION MUST YUGG-| HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY UNHEALTHY,'' IN LON SAID ONE OF THE R.A.F. PILOTS ON RETURN

FROM THE RAID ON SOFIA.

MEXICAN

The message says Mexico has

batteries, have been captured," it! Greece and Yugoslavia but an

claus.

guns and notorised no diplomatic relations with He continued: “One stick of bombs from official link is not required by our aircraft scored direct hits on the tracks

It adds that large quantities of two peoples for one to feel mov-

infantry anununition fell into theed when the other is drugged into and we saw trucks being hurled into the air. Thands of the advancing troops a conflict for the development of during these operations. -Reuter. which it has no blame.-Reuter.

MASSIVE RAIDS

ON NAZI POSITIONS

IN

BULGARIA

"It was good bombing

all right. We were not BERLIN

the only ones to score be- cause we saw a continu-

OUS

white glow where the station buildings of Sofia should have

when we arrived.

been

"My navigator was saved

much trouble by the fires which

NOT

SURPRISED

guided us to our target. It was The German view of

a small edition of the fires which the

burn every night in the Ruhr.

rupture of Anglo-

"The front gunner put paid to Hungarian diplomatic re-

of a couple of search-lations was given by

the crewS lights and an anti-aircraft gun be-

fore we got down to busmess, OF

HEAVY RAIDS BY FORMATIONS R.A.F. BOMBERS ON ENEMY POSITIONS IN BULGARIA DURING THE NIGHT OF SUN- DAY ARE REPORTED IN A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY HEADQUARTERS OF THE BRI-

AMOY FIRE DESTRUCTION TISH FORCES IN GREECE YESTERDAY.

Eight perished in a conflagration at Amoy at midnight on March 29, a Chinese press report in Shanghai reveals.

Among the dead are sald to have been four Japanese, three Chinese policemen and a Korean

More than $10,000,000 worth of property belonging to the M.B.K. and the O.S.K. is said to have been destroyed in the fire, which is believed to have been started by incendiaries. Reuter,

BELGRADE ON THE AIR AGAIN

Belgrade radio station resumed broadcasting last night ut 9:15 (GMT) after bøing silent since the initiation of the German at- tack.

The announcer stated that the service would be resumed.-Neu- ter.

The communique says a railway junction and marshalling yards in Sofia were attacked successfully, direct hits causing many fires and explosions-in the railway yards and indus- trial area.

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Railway trucks were seen to be hurled into the air, while lorries in the Struma Valley road were machine-gunned,

On Monday, in bad weather, our bombers, escorted by fight- org, attacked a large motor transport concentration

near Strumioa, direct hits being re- gistered in the centre of it. Our fighters Intercepted wore enemy bomber, severely damag-

Ing it,

Another formation bombed the rallway station at Gorna Djumaya, whore iroa started.

an

At Simitli railway and road From all operations all our ma~ junction, a motor transport con- chines returned safely.--Reuter. voy and troop concentrations were attacked,

Crack At Convoys

Wilhelmstrasse

а

spokes-

man quoted by the Ger- man radio yesterday.

"Anti-aircraft fire was pretty

He described it as a "fight be- intense but we got to our targets fore events which was bound to all right, bombed and stayed tu happen one day."

watch the results.

Replying to question the "Then we had a crack at con-spokesman declared Turkey was voys on the road down the Stru-not part of the Balkans and that ma Valley, machine-gunning then, as far as Berlin was aware no- After that we made for home."-- thing had changed in German- Reuter.

LEOPOLD'S

BIRTHDAY

Turkish relations since the ex- change of messages between Hit- ler and the Turkish President. --- Reuter,

SOVIET UPSETS-

KING LEOPOLD OF THE BELGIANS, WHOSE BIRTHDAY. OCCURRED YESTERDAY, 18 DESCRIBED AS "OUR PRISON- ER KING" IN AN 'ORDER OF THE DAY 188UED

HIS TO

BTRIJDOCK DE BURKEL, COM-

BERLIN

The Soviet - Yugoslav TRAGIC EPISODE

TROOPS BY GENERAL VAN Pact made a great impres- Bombe straddled the rallway and road, exploding near some

Referring to Count Teleki's sui- | MANDER OF THE BELGIAN Sion in Berlin. theds and causing many fires. cide, the "Stockholm Svenska" FORCES IN GRUAT BRITAIN. Political circles there are excit- The motor transport convoy was says that to the many instructive He urges his men to "work, edly speculating on the reason for successfully -namoninetyunneu:-jobservations gained on his Euro-train ourselves" and prepare for the Russian action, which is hard- ** The town of Petrich was also pean tour, Mr. Matsuoka may, by victory. We shall chase the ly likely to give raided by our bombers but full this tragic episode, note that harn- Boche, we shail deliver our pression that Russia is particular- -* results could not be observed kiri from patriotic motives is also King, we shall free Belgium wholly friendly," states the Berlin cor- owing to smoke from numerous practised by honourable European will rise again great, united and respondent of the "Stockholm Tid-' fires in the area.

politicians. Reuter,

prosperous,”—-Reuter,

1

Iningen."-Reuter

Berlin an

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