R.A.F. POUNDS
IN
LIBYA
LIBYA AND
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 21, 194
AWAY GREECE
Ten German Planes Shot Down In One Area
I.N.S. MAN HAS NARROW SQUEAK
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respondent had a nar row escape in the Ger man blitz on London on Saturday night.
He was knocked un conscious by a bomb explosion and remain- ed unconscIOUS for over an hour before being revived in hos- pital Though not wounded, his tin hat was broken in two International News Service.
REGISTRY WEDDING
The marriage took place this morning at the Registry Office of Air Lu Pong, merchant, and Miss Lung King-hang, of No. 17. King Strert
Havoc Amid Nazi Troops And Convoys
R.A.F. BOMBERS and fighters inflicted heavy casualties and damage on enemy per- sonnel and material in Tripolitania as well as in Cyrenaica during Saturday and the pre- vious night, according to an R.A.F. communi- que issued in Cairo yesterday.
Enemy motor transport was destroyed in numerous localities, including Acroma, El A number of Adem, Bardia and Monastir.
enemy aircraft were bombed and damaged at Derna aerodrome, and Berka airport was also raided.
Fighters carried out continuously raided, about 15 tons of bombs
miflcted being dropped. offensive patrols and
motorised heavy
1973 casualties
troops: they machine-gunned where they Gazala aerodrome destroyed one Savona bomber and dainaged a number of Pat fighters un the ground.
Two were shot Junkers
over
Messerschmidt fighter
down
Gazala.
which dive bombers raided Tobruk were engaged by British fighters and what down and others damaged
one
Benghazi Raided
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During the night of April 18. RAF bombers raided Benghazi, 1 i ship obtaining direct hits
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IN GREECE. THERE WAS
AND CONSIDERABLE
SUC- CESSFUL ACTIVITY BY THE RAF ON SATURDAY AND THE PREVIOUS DAY.
Stukas Intercepted
German dive-bombers e corted by fighters, attempting to attack ground troops and shipp ng at Khalkis, were intercepted by ou fighter patrols.
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During the day, without loss to themselves, our fighters shot two down three Junkers 87's, Junkers 88's, four Messersch midt 109's and one Heinkel 126 la total of 10) and severely damaged many others.
On Saturday several other Savola 79's were seriously dam- aged by our fighters over Melos. In Abyssinia, in the Dessie- Alomata area, enemy positions and motor transport were bomb- ed and machine-gummed. direct hits being obtained on fortifica- tions and military buildings,
Dessie Visit
RA.F. fighters machine-gunned motor transport north of Dessie. causing considerable damage and setting oil tankers afire.
The enemy attacked Mal'a dur- ing the night of April 18, caus- ing some damage to civilian pro- perty, but there were few civilian casualties One Junkers was shot down into the sea.
From all these operations one of our fighters is missing.--Reuter.
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MR. MACKENZIE CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER, VISITED PRESIDENT ROOSE- VELT AT THE LATTER'S HYDE PARK (N.Y.) RESIDENCE AND CONFERRED ON GRAVE PRO- BLEMS OF NORTH AMERICAN DEFENCE.
Although specific subjects dis- cussed are not mentioned, it is persistently reported that the President is considering opening Halifax, Nova Scotia, to American shipping. International News Service.
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FIGHTER PATROLS Aircraft of the Fighter Com- mund in the course of an offensive Dn patrol yesterday destroyed enemy fighter over the Channel. One of our aircraft is missing, HBET | British Wireless,
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ar.
That these are no Bus.dist regarding the possible
situati
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out-
In
the of Greece, where Empire troops Doud the Greeks are rights one of the world's preatest riefensive battles.
as stressed 171 to-day's Loncen press comment on the new of the
Pokert..
All newspapers. Dily very high tributes Lo the dignity and resolution of the Greeks ant to the "spirit of the AN- zacs in their resistance to the relentless pressure of the eneiny.
Recalling the decision by Greece to stand against the Ger- onslaught without British Laid, apart from the fact that Bri- tish support for Greece was al- ready pledged, "The Times" says it is idle to suggest that Britain could take any other course than that which was actually followed.
The newspaper adds "Nor must the be forgotten that when forces of the Empire first began to disembark on Greek soif there did appear the possibility of forming such an alliance against aggres- sion as could alone afford any prospect of upholding the German onrush.
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For various reasons that com- bination was never formed. Ger- many was in consequence, able to tinue her old strategy of # piecemeal advance and piecemeal conquest, conquest by bluff when possible and by force when bluff failed.
"WE
ΤΟ MAY WELL HAVE BEAR FURTHER BAD TID. INGS."
adds: "But if them
The newspaper
they bring with
a
re-
proach, it will not be for ουτ present action but for the un- habby and ineffective past."
THE "DAILY MAIL" OPENLY DISCUSSED THE POSSIBILITY OF AN EVACUATION
It says that from the moment it became impossible to form a united front of Greece, Yugosla- via and Turkey, it was clear we could not prevail against the enormous weight of the German ariny.
WE
..GREECE IS OUR ALLY. ARE BOUND TO HER IN HON- OUR. WHAT IT COMES TO NOW IS THAT WE MUST NOW DECIDE TO EVACUATE WHEN THE GREEKS THINK THE RIGHT MOMENT HAS ARRIV- ED.
Such a movement appears to be almost inevitable.
. The Germans have an over- whelming local air superiority, and once again the air has been the final factor to tip the scales. 'The newspapers, however, sound an optimistic note as to the future, "when other forces now gathering will finally overwhelm Hitler,"
"The battle of the East will not "Daily over," says the soon be Telegraph." "and the legions of Naz sm will strike on dangerously where the sea does not constrict them, but the power to conduct a vast battle with the unified might of Navy, Army and Air Force is ours, not Hitler's."-Reuter.
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