1941-04-18 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1941.

NAVY IN ACTION ON LIBYAN COAST Inflict Heavy Damage On Stalled Nazi Machine FIVE-HOUR Axis Force LIGHTNING LOOKING

Completely A BROTHEL

Checked

RAID ON BREMEN

RAID ON

Carying out a lightning raid on large brothel at No.

AHEAD

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)

Rear-Admiral Byrd dis-

292 Kaung closed last night at In- Street, first floor, on Wednesday dianapolis that the use

ight, Miss Phyllis Harrop, Lady

A: tant tu the Secretary for of Antarctica as a site for Chinese Affairs, found 11 girls, naval bases was under was disclosed before Major A. N FACE

OF PRISON-

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”) By attacking Bremen OVER 76,000 ITALIAN TROOPS on Wednesday night, air-SURRENDER AND THE STATUS craft of the Bomber Com-ERS OF WAR UNDER CAPITULATION TERMS IN ITALIAN EAST mand struck double NOW BEING discussed

21 blow, both against Ger- AFRICA AT THE HEADQUarters of GEN- man industry and against ERAL CUNNINGHAM, WHERE AN ENVOY OF the resources which help THE DUKE OF AOSTA IS NEGOTIATING. to sustain enemy's com-

At the same time, on the North African merce raiders in the At-front, German and Italian troops remain com- lantic, says the Air Minis- pletely checked at Tobruk and Sollum, ac- try News Service.

cording to official information in Cairo.

Shipyards which, in peacetime, used to build great liners like thei

"Bremen were une focus of the

attack, while other squadrons con- centrated on the industrial cen-¦

tres of Bremen on the right bank

of the Weser.

The attack lasted for hours

were

Over

five

It was not a night when the, results of the bombing could observed in detail, but our plots

able to get some idea

of the damage they were doing by watching the spreading patches of suffused red in the dark which covered the city.

Pega

were

veil

The big guns of powerful units of the Bri- fish fleet have been in action along the wide stretch of the Libyan and Egyptian coasts and have inflicted severe losses upon the stalled German armoured machine.

The Navy has further aided the operations by partially enerching) the Imperial garrison at Tubruk by protective guns, it is officially.

lated International News Ser

Vire

th

A comantiniejiie Issued by the British Headquarters in the M. dle East vesterday says that Libya, Turther attacks on the de Jenets of Tobruk were inpaket

the

Many Prisoners

hanks!

Mactanyen at Kowloon this morn-consideration by the U.S. mg. when two women were charg-Government. ed with keeping the brothel.

Accused, Wang S, 60, widow, way dined $50 or

two months Hard labour and 116 Wah, 37, mar-

med wom

who failed to ap- per had her bail of $50 estreat-

Inspector Moreton, of the S C.A.. aid that at 11 45 p.m. on Wednes- day Miss Harrop found 11 girls and 17 men on the premises.

Accused were partners in tablishment.

the

penetrated.

Ma

position WHN wanted be taken 85 a major el- gige ment.

At the same time, it is point. ed out in Cairo, the latest Ita-

mor lian defeat, coming on the row of the repulse of the Ger

man attack. fatty disposes of

the Axis claim that isolated

There is

Tobruk is

no further informat.up

The explorer stated that he had been ordered on active duty just before his departure from Wash- ineton for a week's lecture tour,

"The President," he said, "is very interested in the possibility of these bases below South Ameri- ca to protect the route that even- tually may become a vital traffic route for the Navy should the Panama Canal be destroyed." International News Service.

CUSTOMS PASS FATALITY

As the result of a fatal accident March in Customs Pass Road on 15. Cheung Fat, lorry driver, was fined $25 by Major A. N, Macfad- ven at Kowloon this morning for dangerous driving.

It was stated that at 11 am, on

During Wednesday's operation-

and 787 other 25 officers were captured. In addition, over jubout the mission of the Duke of March 13, accused, driving a lor-

to the British 200 enemy dead were left on the Areta's envoy B4-11.

ANYON Reuter.

Britisn In the Soltum area. patrols continued their activity

Admiralty Statement

Mednerzaneat, reports that

y along Customs

knocked

Pass

and down

【* }1!!༽<!!s¢& Woman

Road.

killed

a

A traffic officer said they found #67-feet skid mark on the road,

Admiralty emmmunque buggesting aceused inust have In the Sellum area. our pahiols state. "The Commander-in-Chiet, been driving at 35 m.p.h. The

thear i have continued

rigorou

19 feet wide and In one encounter, a con- activity

istiene'e successful naval bom-mad was only

deceased was one of 14 women aniderable borly of the enemy was hardment of Fort Capuzzon the walking on the mad at the time

and sustained surprised

severe. Badia area has been carried out

Steadily and methodically they by asliny fire and the enemy j

fires, bombed

them, and agam suffered heavy cansualites triev

stretching out

One of

British patrols;

warte begere they turned for

successfully penetrated home to make again the journey

position outside the de I enciny clouds which hung! through the

fences North Sea. - British.

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In Abyssinia. further

A large number of salvoes were progres has been made by British colizmi? fest and these were all seen 10 Converging on Dessie

a concentration burst among about a hundred enerny tanks and motor transport vehicles.

Prisoners of war returned to Addis Ababa now number over 5,000 Italians and 4,000 native

troops.

A number of deserters Italian colonial units have volun- tarily formed themse ves 131) '1- regular bands to cooperate with

the British forces

Claim Refuted

Successful British operations at Tobruk on Wednesday, when 47

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The arrudrome at El Gazala and supply dumps have again been successfully bombarded from the

sen.

Qur naval units in the Mediter- rancan have recently shot down at east two Ju88 dive-bombers and damaged two others.

Na damage or casualties have been sustained by any H.M. ships IT These operations." British W.reless.

PUNISHING ATTACKS

BY AIR FORCE

PUNISHING ATTACKS, it was officially announced in Cairo yesterday, were main- tained by R.A.F. bombers and fighters on enemy mechanised units, troops and landing grounds in Cyrenaica on Wednesday and the previous night.

A motorised column near Fort Capuzzo was attacked and a number of vehicles des-

Casualties

troyed.

troops.

Landing grounds were subject- ed to night attacks at Gazala, El Adem and Derna, where one aircraft was destroyed by direct hit.

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Convoys were bombed and subsequently machine-gunned in the same area.

Fighters maintained continuous offensive patrols

In Abyssinia, R.A.F. bom- bere raided Dessle aerodrome on Wednesday, and the South African Air Force bombed and machine-gunned enemy troops. -and enoampments at Uadaram

and Alghe-Reuter.

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were caused among

NAZI INFANTRY MOWN DOWN AT SIATISTA

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Athens

munique broadcast from radio last night.

On the Albanian front, adds the cornmunique, certain move- ments of evacuation have been carried out without impediment. have been Klissura and Ersak evacuated.

Germany Claims Serb Surrender

In Berlin last night, the Nazis claimed that the Yugoslav army had surrendered.

A statement issued by the offi- cial German new agency yester- day says: "AII the Yugoslav armed forces which had not been disarmed before, surrender un-

conditionally ut 9 p.m. to-day. The capitulation comes into force at noon to-morrow."

No confirmation of the above report has hitherto been received in London

or from any other Reuter.

source.

The prefix "special" to telegrams is

by the

Herald" and "Sunday "Chloa Mail" to indicato news

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