Aircraft Shot Out
Of Skies Round Tobruk
Twenty Destroyed By Two British Squadrons
TWENTY GERMAN and two Italian air- craft were shot down in the Tobruk area on Monday. Two British fighter squadrons were success, an- mainly responsible for this nounces an R.A.F. communique issue in Cairo yesterday.
When several formations of enemy 'planes attempted to raid a British Libyan outpost, eight Junkers dive-bombers were shot down by one squadron and four more by A.A. fire.
In the same area another squa-1 tron shot down a German Hein- kel aircraft, two Italian 150D0-
I wan plane fighters and seVAN engined Junkers bumbers
The bombing and
machine.
0:
gunning offensive against enemy aerodromes, concentrations troops and motor transport in Cyrenalca continued
out Monday and night.
Heavy
the previous
damage and many
casualties were inflicted as a
10-
sult of these raids, particularly in
the Tobruk area.
Much Damage
were
de-
Military buildings stroyed at El Adem, Derna and Gambut. while heavy explosions occurred and direct hits were registered on dispersed aircraft,
Full results
difficult were observe but it is confirmed that
nuch damage was clot
BLOOMS GO TO MUNITION GIRLS
are
money
on
DAYLIGHT
OFFENSIVE PATROLS
R.A.F. fighters carried out offensive patrols over the Channel and North- ern France during day- light yesterday and shot down two German fight-
ers.
A Geiman bomber
win also destroyed
ANOT; by our Aghters the Channel. One British fighter is missing.
No bombs fell on Britain during daylight yesterday
The alert sounded in the London aren at a late hour last night and !
were aircraft enemy
reported over areas in the north-west, east
and south-west of England, the North Midlands and East Anglia. --Reuter.
RIGHT TO TAKE OVER SHIPS
By A Special Correspondent The high price of cut flowers in London at # time when they !
is should be
cheaper getting largely due to the fact that girl munition workers in the Midlands
their spending brightening their homes.
Thousands of these girls are ever getting
mora wages than before, and they arc buying flowers regularly for the first time in their lives. Three ITICHE Gerinan planes,
"They
are Anding the joy of Memester {. were destroyed at
having fresh blooms about them, landing ground
Tobruk) where Royal Australian Air Force and are buying from the floristy fighter destroyed two Messerschat whatever price is asked," say! ¦ merchanimen lying idle in Unit- Mr Moyses Stevens, head of the
rault twin-engitie ! fhters in well-knowri London florists.
......
Juarts cimbal ad port phone on the ground.
17
bad
Prest- Legislation authorising dent Roosevelt, during this present emergency, to purchase, requisi- |tion or take possession of foreign
d States ports, was laid before the Senate Foreign Relations Commit- chaiman. by s tee yesterday "Government strictions weather. and lass
Senator George. -- Reuter of foreign
lands factory girls that is keeping
Transport Destroyed I sources have reduced the quanti- !
ties of flowers available, but it is
Many enemy, motor, transport this new flower habit of the Mid-prices up vehicles were destroyed in dan.
aged in this area,
for
of
base Tripoll, main man reinforcements in again was heavily
Ger Libya.j raided on Monday night and, as on Sun. day, bombs straddled shipping, In the harbour.
One vessel was sep:1 burning! Brecely while others must have suffered damage.
Malta Raid
South African Air Force fight- ers, operating in Abyssinia, nm- chine-gunned the aerodrome Gimma, where two Italian air- crail were burnt ou'.
ul.
Malta was raided again Sunday might and some damage caused to both civilian and Ser- vice property but casualties were Tew. Reuter
CHOSE BLITZ JOB
[BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT!
Volunteer nurses for all parts of Britain are coming to London to take fortnightly turns of blitz work in shelters.
They are members of the Red Ambulance Cross and St. John organisations, specially picked to take the job.
HURRICANES
SHATTER RAIDERS
OVER PIRAEUS
R.A.F. FIGHTERS shot down five Junkers twin-engined bombers and severely damaged several others, which are unlikely to have reached their base, yesterday morning when German 'planes attempted the first recorded dive-bombing attack on the Piraeus, the har- bour of Athens.
Slight damage was caused to R.A.F. pro- perty.(
All our fighters returned to base.
R.A.F. bomber operations from Greek bases are playing havoc with German communications.
A pilot officer participating in the initial attack on troop con- centrations near Yanitza described yesterday the "truly remarkable" effect of a tracer. machine-gun bullet attack on a long convoy
"Between twenty-five and thirty; provincial nurses are always working in London," an official of the British Red Cross told me.
"We appealed for help from the country because at first we hadn't enough, nurses to stuff London near Pella. shelters. Now more trained nurses ONE LORRY BURST INTO are joining shelter stuffs.
FLAMES, ANOTHER SUDDEN - "Girls work for a fortnight or
then return to LY OVERTURNED, BLOCKING more in London, their homes.. Some stay several THE ROAD COMPLETELY, AND A THIRD CRASHED INTO A .weeks.
DITCH.
"They are chosen-booMMBE-Of. their experience in similar work. Usually, they work in sholtora with a trained múrað,
"We like the volunteers to be over twenty-five and capable of taking full charge of the shelter in an emergency."
The accuracy and teamwork displayed by these waves of Britten bombers were equalled
alockwork by the
Arrival of
Ares and explosions in marshal- ling yards.
munitions A direct hit on & train tossed one 'plane about like almost a leaf and
blinded the
pflot. — Reuter.
SOUTH AFRICANS FOR LIBYA
"SOUTH AFRICAN MILITARY FORCES ARE NOW LIKELY TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY OF SERVING IN AFRICA BEYOND EAST AFRICA' AND ABYSSIN- IA."
made This announcement was hy the Department of Defence in two sergeant pilots who took Protorla in a statement. yesterday two bombers over Sofla on Sun-calling for recruits for all branches day night and reported large of the defence forces.--Reuter,
STAFF TALKS IN ANKARA ADJOURNED
Lt-Gen. Sir James
Marshall-Cornwall has left Ankara for Egypt. Accompanied by
Air Marshal Elmhurst
he arrived in Turkey from Egypt at the be- ginning of April to re- sume talks with the Turkish General Staff.
Reuter.
HITLER'S PROGRAMME
HEAVY RAID ON SOFIA
Aiming at dislocating German communications at Sofia, the R.A.F, raided the Bulgarian capital on Sunday night.
The main goods station, mar- shalling yards and warehouses were the chief targets. Many fres were started in the goods- yards where two trucks received direct hits and blew up with a detonation that suggested they contamed explosives.
An R.A.F. communique 18* sued in Cairo yesterday records that enemy convoys leading the German march into Graece were again euccessfully attack- ed by bombers,
WORD. IN THE REGION OF YANITZA PTOOEMAIS, KO. ZANA AND GORNA DHIMAVA AND MUCH DAMAGE WAS CAUSED TO ENEMY PERSON- NEL AND MATERIAL.
Parelling R.A.F. fighters shot down two Junkers dive-bombers in the Volos area and IL third near Ptolemais, where 21 Mes- serschmidt fighter was also de-
HITLER HAS APPOINTED stroyed. NAZI CIVIL ADMINISTRATORS No R.A.F. 'planes are missing FOR THE GERMAN-OCCUPIED from these operations.-Reuter, YUGOSLAV TERRITORIES OF LOWER
STYRIA, CARINTHIA AND CARNIOLA, FORMER AUSTRIAN TERRITORY INCOR- PORATED IN YUGOSLAVIA AFTER THE LAST WAR.
MACKENZIE KING FÓR WASHINGTON
The civil administrators will be directly
Hitler, Mr. Mackenzie King, the Can- responsible to
[OR left Ottawa while the execution of military adian Premier. law remains in the hands of the Washington yesterday, says a Ren- Army Command.-- Reuter.
ter cable.
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