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DRAMATIC BELGRADE STORY OF CAPTURE

The story of the cap- ture of Lt.-Gen, P. Neame,

Siri Lt.-Gen. V.C., and

Richard O'Connor was told yesterday by inform- ved quarters in Cairo, who

"

revealed they were cap- tured in the course of a military armed

by motor-

"hold-up" German cyclists off the main Der- na road shortly before midnight on Friday last week.

Belgrade was again attacked by low-fly. ing German bombers yesterday, states Belgrade despatch to the Vichy news

agency.

Reuter.

British

Troops Arrive

O

British forces are arriv- Staff cars with the two generals ing daily and with steadi- and two senior staff officers had ly increasing numbers in left for their new headquarters!

the Western Desert. further east but were not follow- ing the main Derna road, along

work was which demolition progress.

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The

will reinforcement un- doubtedly be larger now after the recent brilliant British victories] in East Africa.

These statements were made

thread their way through the sta-

already He said he had tionary vehicles when a German patrol on motor-cycles and side-cently declared that the Spring cars, heading from El Meghelli in would be full of events and "we the moonlight, took the staff cars must be ready to face the gravest

situation."Reuter. by surprise.

Battle Starts TERRIFIC

On Greek

North Front

IT WAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED IN ATHENS LAST NIGHT THAT BRITISH FORCES CONTACTED THE GERMAN TROOPS MOVING INTO NORTHERN GREECE ON THURSDAY.

First news that British and German troops have met was contained in a terse communi- que issued by British Headquarters in Greece. The communique said: "German troops ad-, vancing into northern Greece contacted Bri- tish and Imperial forces on Thursday.”

"

DAMAGE IN BERLIN

The R.A.F. on Berlin on Wednesday night is de- scribed as the heaviest yet experienced in the Nazi

and capital

damage, especially in Unter den Linden, was "terrific."

This is according to correspondents in Berlin, messages have been received

Lundon via Zurich.

The Government three residential suffered severely,

it

neutral whose in

district and also quarters

added, is

station

while the main railway was completely burned out.

All fire brigades in Berlin were and active throughout the night continued to work until noon on

CORRESPONDENTS ESTIM- ATE

AT CASUALTIES AS LEAST 2,000, POSSIBLY 3,000,- REUTER.

While it is not yet stated where the fight- Thursday ing between British and German troops oc- curred, it is reported that the Germans have reached Yarnitsa, about 50 miles west of Salonika, and have also captured Monastir, in southern Yugoslavia.

NEUTRALITY ACT DECLARATION

They took to a desert by-pass where they came upon a stationary

This thrust has brought Gener-, ED A TERRIFIC ONSLAUGHT LOW-FLYING R.A.F. British convoy with some lorries by the Egyptian Prime Minister,al List's armoured forces to the FROM The staff cars were trying Hussein Sirry Pasha.

head of the famous Monastir Gap, | BOMBERS, WHO SMASHED UP AND OF TANKS from re leading

into COLUMNS Yugoslavia

A state of war exists between ARMOURED VEHICLES AND Greece.

IT IS RELIABLY REPORTED INFLICTED VERY SEVERE CA- Yugoslavia on the one hand and Italy and Germany on the other, proclaimed President Roosevelt THAT THE GERMANS IN CAP-SUALTIES.

SUFFER- I TURING MONASTIR

Meanwhile Rome announces yesterday.

This is a advancing! that an Italian army

necessary prelude to from Italy into the extreme north- invoking the restrictions of the Act, States Neutrality west of Yugoslavia is making pro-United gress in the valleys of the Rivers which already applies to Germany, Italy and Greece. They now ap- Sava and Ljubljanica.

ply to Yugoslavia, Reuter.

Guard Shot

A British soldier who was an eye-witness of the incident says a

with German soldier armed

a

Tommy-gun approached the sta- tionary staff car and told the gen- erals to alight.

A Tommy nearby challenged! the German, who shot him. The generals had to surrender.

The distinctly bad luck which

resulted in the capture of the gen- erals is shown by the fact that an-

R.A.F. HELL-DIVERS

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GERMAN COLUMNS HAVE AN H.B.-

other staff car, with their aides. (By Reuter's Special Correspondent with the

drove on the Derna road and reached H.Q. safely.

Major-General A. D. Gambier-

Perry was taken prisoner in the

course of the battle at El Meg-

helll, in which the British took

some German prisoners.-Reuter.

SHANGHAI

British Forces in Greece)

HELL-DIVING THROUGH sleet and cloud, British fighter ‘planes, their wings ap- pearing to scrape the rocky sides of the ra- vines, are swooping low over German columns the length and breadth of the Balkan fronts, machine-gunning and bombing.

Day and night Greek аего-

ment.

dromes resound to the roar of British aircraft are also bomb- bomber

ABDUCTION engines as relays of ing enemy columns pushing cross

the

R.A.F. bombers fly in to fill their | country towards Albania,

Non-stop patrols over patrol tanks and bomb racks and THE ADVERTISING MANA- take off again to play.havoc with mountainous regions, of the front are being maintained jointly with GER OF THE AMERICAN- Nazi troop concentrations. OWNED CHINESE “SHUN PAO," : Columns of German tanks and Greck aircraft and they are MR. SAUNG MOU-HOO, WAS armoured vehicles were broken ceaselessly machine-gunning Ger- KIDNAPPED SHORTLY BE- up with heavy casualties when man troops and bringing back FORE DAYLIGHT. YESTERDAY the Nazis captured Monastir vital information concerning the BY THREE CHINESE, ONE OF (Bitolj) in southern Yugoslavia, enemy dispositions,

The military situation at pre- it is reliably reported, WHOM WAS, ARMED.

Bixteen miles south of this, sent is causing a certain appre- vital communication arteries in hension among the Greek popu- the Florina aren ̈ were heavilylation but the R.A.F. are dealing plastered. Troope trying to with German dive-bombers and dash, a way through the Greek this constant vigilance is giving lines near the Yugoslav fron- them encouragement and der suffered || Barring -punish: |,faith. — Reuter,

This brings the total Chinese newspapermen kidnapped in the last week to 15, three of whom were on the "Shun Pao," three the "National Herald" and nine. the Cheng Yien Pao."--Reuter,

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