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THE CHAIL MAIL, APRIL 10, 1941.

Germans Nearly Through Waist Of Yugoslavia

(By Reuter's Diplomatic Correspondent)

THE ENTRY OF GERMAN ADVANCE DETACHMENTS INTO SALONIKA NOT ONLY MEANS THE LOSS OF THE CAPITAL OF MACEDONIA BUT CUTS THE GREEK ARMI ES IN THE FIELD IN TWO.

There may be several Greek divisions in Thrace and eastern Macedonia and they are WOMEN practically surrounded.

While the German armies are thus en-

PATROL

gaged in the south, other forces have practi- RIVER BY cally cut through the Yugoslavian waistline

and are now advancing northwards and west- NIGHT

wards so as to threaten with encirclementi and main forces which are being hemmed in i in old Serbia.

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1: is obvious from this position of the military Posi tion that the immediate out look in the Balkans must bc regarded as serious, but it is significant thal the Germans have

up against

not yet come the British forces,

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This would suggest that the defence

Salonika of part of Britain's plan

Britain's force is one not light-

ly to be disregarded

The Battle of the Balkans

It is learned

GENEROUS

DONATIONS OF LOCAL SCOTS

OF

THE A RECENT APPEAL BY

KONG HONG CHIEFTAIN ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY FOR DONATIONS TO BE REMITTED HOME FOR THE PURCHASE OF COMFORTS TO SCOTSMEN SERVING IN HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES,

IN RESULTED

THE COLLECTION OF $5,737.90.

At a recent meeting of the Gen- eral Committee of the Society, it was decided to send the equiva-

Two women are staunch mem- bers of an Upper Thames Patrol which guards The river be, ween Bray and Maidenhead

Known as "53" and 54** they have not missed a duty of parade sure they began the work in May, They have to contact everything. that is moving on the river.

"Fifty-four" told how, on an inky black night, she could not see anything, but sensed some obstacle. Only prompt action averted a collision with

a boat moored in the centre of the river. In it a fisherman waz sleeping.

During the summer twenty or thirty camping craft provided plenty of work each night Al hud to be examined and こっ cupants' identity cards inspected. Now river fogs are added to chill and darkness.

Fortunately a megaphone is frequently sufficient to warn people living on the banks of the river that they are showing a light, but sometimes a landing has to be made and a slippery bank climbed.

"Fifty-three" is married to the

has not yet been won or lost. lent of the above sum, namely. authoritative | £355.12.7d.. to the Scottish Red circles i London that no British | Cross Society, Glasgow, to be de-commanding officer, and "54" to or Imperial troops were in the voted towards the provisIÐTA of the second-in-command, and as sector of the Vardar.

parcels for Scottish Prisoners of far as possible their duties on War serving with the Army, Navy | patrol are arranged to coincide and Royal Air Force.

with those of their husbands,

Heavy R.A.F. Attacks

The Chieftain wishes to thank So far, despite the danger of The R.A.F. continued on Mon- those members of St. Andrew's shrapnel, they have no tin hals day vigorous resistance to enemy | Society who so generously contri-¦ and they provided their OWN troops in aiding Greece and Yu-buted,

uniforms, with trousers, for duly. goslavia, says an R.A.F, commun-

que issued in Cairo yesterday.

Heavy attacks were delivered.

agast tanks and toʻor transport convoys in the Lake Doiran areil. Bomb were observed to burst among tanks and vehicles on roads between Strumica and Doiran and a bridne under a railway at Dev- derija was damaged by direct hits." German Statement

A special communique issued by the German High Command yesterday says that strong Ger- man armoured units, advancing southwards from Yugoslavia, have taken Salonika

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German troops have also cupied a town about 100 miles to the east of Solonika and have reached the Aegean coust. Reuter.

WEDDINGS TO-DAY

were

The following couples wed at the Supreme Court Re- gistry to-day before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, Registrar of Mar- riages:

Mr. Chu Pak-chuen, merchant, and Miss Lee Hang-to, of No. 14, Bulkeley Street.

Mr. Ng Ting-cheuk, civil ser- vant, and Miss Cheuk Shun-wan, of No. 4. Yim Po Fong Street,

Mr. Chan Cho-yce, of No. 60,

Johnston Road, and Miss Kan Wai-chi, of No. 101, Queen's Road Central.

HUNGARIAN BORDER CLASH

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") A Hungarian announcement in Budapest yesterday claimed that two attempts by Yugoslav fron- tier guards to plerce the border were repulsed.

These are the first clashes re- ported on the Hungarian frontier. International News Service,

BACK FROM DEAD-SORRY

HE'LL HAVE TO WEAR HAT

"THE ONLY THING that worries me is that I shall have to wear a hat for the first time in my life to hide this scar on my head.”

Pieced together by surgical skill after his body had been shattered by a Nazi bomb, Thomas Bernard Northern, whom doctors have named "The Miracle Man" and "Museum Piece," said this to a reporter as lay propped up in bed at Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham.

His legs slung up in a cradle | "But the surgeons and hospital and surrounded by hot

water staft have been wonderful and so bottles. Northern, a forty-three- | very patient with me. I now feel year-old labourer, laughed and a lot better and am able to eat, drank a cup of coffee as he told drink and smoke.” how modern surgery saved his life after his home in Birchfields had received a direct hit by a bomb.

A sister said Northern had made a marvellous recovery because at first the doctors did not think he would live.

"The

"My dear wife and I were alone

Duchess of Portland's in the house," he said, "She was secretary has written to us and killed outright, and I can only re- asked if Northern can be moved member that I was stretching up to a hospital in Worksop," a hos- to get an overcoat for her when|pital officiul suid. "Apparently the everything went dark,

Duchess is very interested in his

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"That was nearly two months

case.

"At the moment we are afraid to move him."

ago. Since then numerous sur | POLITE NAZI AIRMEN geons have operated on me and been to see me.

While a fighter plot on leave

"1 had a fractured skull, in was driving his car home from which 1 have twenty-nine church early one morning he saw stitches, a fractured collarbone, a German bomber which had been five ribs broken, my right leg crippled by a trawler crash in broken in five, placer and my flames on Marshland. feft leg. In three piiloss. i had blood transfusions and was un- conscious for about ten days. "Doctors tell me I was like a piece of corrugated paper when I came into the hospital. They did not know how to start on me.

In

The crew of four managed to escape the flames, They were, dis- armed by a Home Guard, and the British pilot took them in his car to a military depot, "The German airmen wiped their boots care- fully before getting into the car," he said, "and put their life-sav- ing jackets, dirty side up, on the

"All of them were young."

"It was much woren than be ing blown up by a sholl France during the last war, seats. when I lost a kidney.

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