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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1941.
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PART IN MEDITERRANEAN German Troops Hammered In Greece And Libya Constant Strafing By Bombers And
Fighters
RIDING THE
THE R.A.F. CONTINUED on Sunday to harass German troops hammering at the
STORM: HITLER'S gateways to Egypt and Greece. Both bomb-
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"The Empire about to pass through the greatest test since of the collapse France," declared the Australian Army Minister, Mr. P. C. Spender, appealing in Sydney yesterday for recruits.
all
on
we
"Hitler 15 staking the next
When months. have ridden the storm he will be doomed."
Reuter.
ers and fighters were employed in dispersing enemy concentrations in various areas in Cyrenaica.
Successful bombing and machine-gun- ning attacks were also made on enemy motor transport convoys astride German road com- ! munications between Msus and Sollum.
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Bombers carried out number of sorties against enemy columns t Fods in the 'ce. operations in Greece and, accord. R.A.F. Conantinique, ing to an
obtained |"direct hits were
one large vessel was be burning fiercely. The power etation and customs house were also attacked.
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South African Air Force 'planes, on cleaning up the last nests of enemy Africa, these columns by met Di our aircraft in Italian East
made another successful raid Kombolcha aerodrome, in Abys- Sta
atreraft."*
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Fighters intercepted a ber of enemy bombers escorted
T'wo enemy bombers were ! by fighters in the Koritza area.
several other One Flat monoplane fighter was burned out and
damaged bombers and fighters number destroyed and
Explosions were caused.
Bombs On Malta
others damaged.
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of
of RAF.
A Messerschmidt twin-engiued
shot down west gliter was Mount Olympus by 212 fighter
Tripoli Raided
On Sunday night long-range RA.F. bombers winged their way in the central Mediterranean and bombed the harbour at Tripoli, base for German reinforcements to the African war front.
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In the five days ended at midnight, nine cholera cases A number of enemy bombers!
were notified to the Medical dropped bombs on Malta in
Department, three of them combined fighter-bomber raid on
from Victoria, five from Kow- Saturday night but caused
From
Shay- loon and one One Messersch- serious damage.
T Sixty-four kiwan. midt and one R.A.F. fighter were
cases were notified shot down but the British pilot
same period. is safe.-Reuter.
Italian
Army's New Role
has
Italian troops in large numbers are reported to be replacing German troops in occupied France.
An importar.t contingent already arrived at Angers, western France, and it is plannel to send 40,000 Italians to occupy Paris, declares the Independent Italian French Agency, but no troops will be entrusted with coast protection.
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It is also understood that the Armistice Commission has ended its sessions at Wiesbaden will henceforth function in Paris, whither many of its clejar arrets I have already been transferred.
Reuter.
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The Russo-Japanese Pact is al- most the sole topic in political and diplomatic circles in Washington, with
the real everyone secking significance of this unexpected happening.
cance
Opinions of the Pac's signifi- from vary considerably. the extreme view that it means Russia will hold Japan's coat while she fights the United States to the view which sees it as evid- ence of Japanese weakness — that Tokyo has been forced to com- promise with Communism in Rus- sia,
which doctrine she she has been lighting in China for the last four years.
The
asserts
Pact surprised offcial Washington and it is believed Mr. Matsuoka himself was probably quite surprised in obtaining the agreement.
For him personally it is unques- tionably a personal success. Re- ports from Tokyo state he is practically "due for the skids", as far as the Japanese army is con- cerned.
The "Baltimore Sun" expresses as its opinion that if Japan thinks this apparent strengthen- ing of her position vis-a-vis America will soften United States policy, her calculation is incor- rect,
The "Washington Post" says the militarists in Japan are hard- ly likely to forgive Russia for the help she has given China but "the god of expediency which the Nip- for re- ponese serve has called adjustments."
The paper thinks that by hold- ing out threat of action in south- cast Asia, which is always a pos- sibility while Hiller is winning in Europe, Japan can recoup losses in China.
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The paper adds it must now be apparent to the most shallow mind that Moscow's role in the world strife is more devious than all- and now she applied the match seems bent on keeping the con- flagration ablaze,
"News" The Scripps-Howard thinks the Pact would be of the if most inomentous significante either signatory could be sure the other would adhere in both the letter and spirit, but the records of both sides show that they will stav hitched only as long as it is in their mu.ual interest to do 50.--- - Reuter.
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A lawyer has been cured in Saigon for M. Egal, Free French leader in Shanghai, who is being taken to Indo-China for trial.
"Legal représentation was secur- ed for M. Egal by M. Paul Pre-- met, his lawyer, who is staying in Shanghal to represent M. Egal at this end of the Investigation,
The Saigon lawyer is M. Mọ tals de Morbonne,
M. Premet foresees a long probe lasting "possibly a year," the trial-International
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