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No. 32,123
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1941
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Daisy Brand
Australia's Choicest
BUTTER
FIGHTING IN A SNOWSTORM
BULGARIA BLAMES
YUGOSLAVIA!
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Bulgaria has broken off diplomatic rela tions with Yugoslavia on the ground that Yugoslavia has tacked Bulgarian ter
'fomented ritory and
ot
subversiveness.” International News Service
EWO MILL RIOT IN SHANGHAI
Nazi Tank
Tank Attack
Attack GRAVEST On Right Sector CRISIS
Repulsed
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A GREEK WAR MINISTRY BULLETIN, READ OVER ATHENS RADIO, CLAIMS SHAT- TERING AERIAL BOMBINGS OF GERMAN TANK
SUPPLY BASES AND TROOP CONCENTRATIONS IN THE VITAL MONASTIR AREA, ON THE YUGOSLAV. GREEK FRONTIER.
COLUMNS,
The bulletin stafed that the situation of the Greek and British troops holding the main defence line from the Adriatic to the Aegean at Mount Olympus is most satisfactory. The police were report- It is declared that the Greek army's mor- ed to have been compell- ale is better than when the Italians were ed to open fire this morn-thrown out of Greece last autumn. Ving to quell a serious riot at the Ewo Cotton Mill in the Yangtsepoo area of Shanghai.
and 30
It is claimed the Greeks con-
The process of evacuation lasted three days, and on Mon- day the Italians became aware of it and advanced Into the Koritza region. SMALL
tinued to hold their allotted part of the battle front, and that at- tacks by Italian patrols in AL- bania
were repulsed with heavy Twenty strikers re reported losses in the northern and central to have been injured
GREEK COVERING sectors and arrested. Many police were also River, near Tepelini."
_north_of_the Acos FORCES WERE ABLE TO RE- burt, including
TREAT THEMSELVES live
WITH foreigners, A Press Ministry communique OUT LOSING A SINGLE MAN, some Japanese and a comple
of also asserted that the situation in! TO THE ENEMY. Indians, but all were only slight-southern Yugoslavia has further ly infüred except for
The withdrawal has unified the a Briton, improved, Sergeant Phins, whose condition
Greek-British defence line which is said to be rather
for the most part now consists of Britain Rushing Troops territory regarded as very difficult The strikers, who at acked with iron bars, were only subdued In London, it is stated that after the police opened fire.
fighting in northern Greece Is taking place in a heavy show- storm.
serious.
A Japanese military detach- ment is now among a large force of police guarding the mill pre- mises.--Reuter.
STAMP ISSUE FOR BOMBERS
IN THE
LATEST STEP NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES PLANS TO PRESENT THE NETHERLANDS FORCES IN BRITAIN WITH EIGHT BOM- ¡ BERS, AS REQUESTED PRINCE BERNHARD - OF WHICH SEVEN HAVE ALREADY BEEN CONTRIBUTED — WILL BE THE ISSUE OF A SPECIAL
OF SEFIES
"FREE NETHER- LANDS” STAMPS.
High Britich quarters scorn. fu ly dismissed as "hardly worth denying" Nazi allegations that a general British evacuation of Greece has begun.
On the contrary. it was stated, fresh contingents of British troops have just been landed and power- tul reinforcements of British and Greek troops are being rushed to the battlefront to meet the Nazis.
International News Service,
Several Attacks
Repulsed
THE WAR OFFICE IN LON. BY DON.
IN A COM MUNIQUE DEALING WITH THE SITUA. TION IN GREECE, ANNOUNCES: "ON OUR RIGHT SECTOR SEVERAL ATTACKS ENEMY MECHANISED TROOPS WERE REPULSED. IN OTHER AREAS IT IS QUIET."" TER.
These stamps will be sold with a small surplus above the postal value, and it is hoped that at
BY
REU.
least one bomber can be bought Italians Caught Napping|
from the total sum expeeled to be raised by the surplus.
There is good reason to belleve the N.E.I will present even more han the eight bombers requested. is further donations continue to
Reuter. pour in,
RESPITE FROM RAIDS
Details of the Greek evacuation of the northern sector of the Albanian front, Athens yesterday.
announced in show that it Vas carried out with precision and perfect secrecy, the Greeks taking away all material and artil- lery and destroying bridges.
BOMBINGS IN THE NORTH- EAST AND SOUTH."
for mechanised columns. ter.
Reu-
of
Strategic Necessity From the strategic point view the withdrawal from Koritza Continued on Page 16)
DRAMATIC
YUGOSLAV
SUCCESS
THE COLUMBIA BROAD. CASTING CORPORATION
CORRESPONDENT
FROM
"SOMEWHERE IN YUGO- SLAVIA" REPORTS
THE
THAT
YUGOSLAVS HAVE RETAKEN SKOLPJE AND NIGH.
HE
THE YUGOSLAVS,
ΤΟ ADDS, CLAIM
HAVE TAKEN 20,000 PRISONERS AND TO HAVE ISOLATED A GERMAN PANZER DIVI- SION AND 400 GERMAN TANKS-REUTER.
BERLIN GOES
OFF THE AIR
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WENT
During daylong raids yesterday- THE BERLIN RADIO
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") on the south-east many dog-fights] OFF THE AIR SUDDENLY AT THE BRITISH ISLES HAD A took place. No bombs were drop- | 9 O'CLOCK LAST NIGHT, IN- RELATIVE RESPITE FROM AIR: ped, though there were five aluring DICATING A BRITISH RAID ON ATTACK LAST NIGHT. on the south-east coast. Inter- THE NAZI, CAPITAL. - INTER- THOUGH THERE WERE SOME | national News Service,
NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE.
HONGKEW TO RETURN TO S.M.C. CONTROL?
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A statement on the possible return of Hongkew and Way- side to full Municipal control is expected to be made at the an- nual Shanghai Rate- payers Meeting
morrow.
OF WAR
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Warning statements were made before the U.S. House of Representa- tives Naval Affairs Com- mittee in Washington yes- terday by Col. Frank Knox (Secretary of Navy) and Mr. Henry Stimson (Se- cretary of Army).
Committee
Mr. Stimson asserted that the Army to-
must be trained to fight outside the western hemisphere to Interna-
protect American interests.
Не assured the that the United States rearma- ment drive was eight to 12 months ahead of the World War perlod.
tional News Service.
FIERCE BATTLE IN LIBYA
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"Our forces must be prepared for possibilities of war in many and varied terrains, it being quite uncertain what part of North, South and Central America, or even possibly other regions, it ul- timately may be necessary to use in defence of this country and its possessions."
Col. Knox warned that "this country is being gradually en- circled by nations unfriendly to 1."
Fierce battles are still raging at Tobruk and Sellum, it was stated in Cairo last night though it was added that the situation is stabilised and there IS no cause for British anxiety.
HE ADDED: "WE NOW FACE The British forces have taken THE GRAVEST CRISIS OF THE up positions in the most favour- able strategic areas. Interna- tional News Service
BERLIN CLAIMS
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Berlin claims that last
PRESENT WAR. I DON'T WISH TO BE A SCAREMONGER BUT WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF GRAVE PERIL." - INTERNA- TIONAL NEWS SERVICE.
tish destroyers in the Atlantic, off week Malta and in Greek waters.--In- German 'plames disabled four Bri- teinational News Service.
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