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No. 32,129

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1941

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BUTTER

WITHDRAWAL TO NEW DEFENCES COMPLETED

NAZI ARMS

SHIP BLOWN UP

Naval aircraft have torpedoed a

tanker,

il

supply ship and an am-

munition ship recently,

all of which were intend-

Epic Stories Of RED CROSS Rearguard Heroes SHIPS SUNK

ITALIAN ARMY

GIVING BATTLE

ed for the enemy armies: NEAR DESSIE

in

in the Balkans, it was officially announced London yesterday.

In addition a large tanker was

hit by torpedoes and probably

sunk off the Norwegian coast by the

French Free

Submarine

"Minerve."

The tanker was of about 10 000 tons, the supply ship about 5.000 tons and the ammunition ship about 7.000 tons.

The

munition : hip blew with a tremendous explos on anich

and fire columns of smoke

3,000 feet into the aur

Lose

One of our ameratt is missing

from these operations.

Reuter

The

sinia

Italian nor

them army in Abys has "turned" and given battle in front of Dessie, ac- cording to a despatch from a special corres- with the pondent South African forces, from Reuter Soys Johannesburg.

ITALIANS TURN AND FIGHT ON DESSIE ROAD

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent with the South African Forces in Abyssinia on the

Dessie Road)

THE BATTLE FOR DESSIE GOES ON. THE ITALIANS WHO HAVE TURNED AND GIVEN FIGHT ARE SHOWING MOST STUB- BORN RESISTANCE SINCE THE BATTLE OF KEREN.

South Africans are fighting in bitter cold at night and in tropical heat by day. Their clothes are torn to shreds by thorn bushes and they are frequently drenched to the skin by torrential thunderstorms.

Through all this they are an- xious to get at grips with the remnants of the Italian Northern Army.

The Italians occupy a strong defensive position where a semi-

ridge circular mountain mands a straight stretch of road across the plateau.

com-

Italian big guns in concrete emplacementa on the top of the Mountain have saddleback poured

barrage out #heavy which has cut furrows In the "Victory Way" over which South African troops have been chas. Ing the enemy tearing

apsod back breaknook

milestone of every hard-won the 1936 campaign.

over

was controlled

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL" DESPITE THE MOST VIOLENT AIR BLITZ UNLEASHED OVER ANY BALKAN BATTLE- HAVE COMPLETED A FIELD, THE ALLIES

NEW LINES, WITHDRAWAL TO BRILLIANT WHERE THEY ARE FIGHTING VALIANTLY TO STEM THE GENERAL GERMAN OFFENSIVE ON ATHENS.

The Greeks and British, according to a Budapest radio report picked up in New York, have completed the establishment of yet a third line of defence running from the Gulf of Lamia west to the Gulf of Anrakia, about

90 miles long.

KEEPING ENGLAND GOING

the

BY NAZIS

(SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL"}

•

The destruction of ship bearing a $120,000 Red Cross relief cargo to Greece, and a four-week silence from a second ves- sel, carrying a $2,000,000 Red Cross shipment to disclosed in Washington yesterday. Athens, was

It was the first specife loss of

of warfare revealed since the be- ginning of hostilities.

any Red Cross cargo through acts

the official said A Red Cross Greek freighter "Gregoris," loaded with drugs. blankets, clothing and Meanwhile, according

food for discharge at Athens, was London "Daily Express," German fost "somewhere in the south At- troops have occupied the Greek lantic three weeks ago."

to

island of Samothrace and attack-

of

was no

Information There

was sunk by whether the ship torpedo or mine, he added. Another Greek freighter, the en route siege Cassandra Loulollis,""

ed the island of Lentos.

The Berlin correspondent the Colun:bin Broadcasting Cor- poration says

state of

has been proclaimed in Athens. to Athens with a $2,000,000 Red Samothrace and Lenings com Cross cargo, had not been heard mand the approaches to Gallipoli of for four weeks, the official de- clared-International News Ser- and if the report of German oc- cupation is accurate, it holds out additional threat to Turkey.

"The war can only be won by keeping the de- fence of the existing sys- tem of Democracy going -and that

is defence England."

Thrilling Stories

Meanwhile, thrilling stories

vice.

of an enemy

RAIDS ON MALTA British fighter planes destroved arcraft and probably raid the heroism of British and Aus- destroyed another during a

re-over Malta on Monday afternoon, So President Roosevelt tralian troops covering the

to There were two more raids dur- told a press conference at tirement of the main force

their new lines are coming through ing the night and another raid afternoon, in which yesterday the White House yester-slowly.

"the war day, adding: cannot be won by one sea- fight or by one retreat in Greece

even in or

the whole of the Mediter-

ranean.

He replied in

a questioner

the affirmative to who asked whether he was cruften that the defence of England would be kept ing.

2847-

"there ship-

"Certainly," he said, will be no lessening of ments of war materials England."

Asked whether the question of convoys new had to be consider- remark- ed, President Roosevelt from Abyssinianed cryptically concealed among live at Delphi (the place of the

legendary Greek Oracle,}

posts c'everly the mountain peaks.

Artillery Battle

The battle is developing into a duel, Fre- ding-dong artillery

drown the quent thunderstorms roar of the battle and drench troops to the skin.

A few days ago. one battle was fought at the height of nearly 9,000 feet. The cold was intense.

may

that he did not

as

to

He described as "too glitter.

Inquiry Ing" a further

being whether any steps were undertaken to protect bridge of ships."-Reuter.

MOVE TO TAKE OVER IDLE SHIPS

"the

Legislation authorising the U.S. to take over and The difficultles in fighting an al- Government most invisib'e enemy, strongly operate "any foreign vessel lying like a idle" in United States waters has at entrenched in a country

probably been introduced by the chairman scenic railway,

Murine. slightly delay the Imperial advance of the House Merchant but the officers of the Imperial | Commilice.

The legal and international ang- forces are confident that the Ita- lians will be dislodged when their les of the situation were discuss- troops are able to get at closered by the committee at a lengthy

secret sitting.--Reuter, grips."

Shells whistled overhead while South African guns were, rushed ahead in an attempt to silence the enemy batteries, Italian fire

Router.

A unit of Royal Engineers did bombs were dropped but no ser- ious damage or casualties are re- (Continued on Page 16)

ported. Reuter.

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