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THE NAVY EXPERIENCES WINTRY WEATHER-Photograph taken of one of our destroy.
(Copyright, Fox).
SON DIED
MILITARY POSITION NO AID AS IN NORTH AFRICA SUMMARISED
A mother with a new- born baby dead by her side shouted half an hour for help in a maternity raid shelter home air while two nurses on duty were having their supper.
This was revealed at a Cardiff
Sarah Roberts, Cardiff.
Fidlas Road,
THE CROSSING OF THE Egyptian fron- tier by Axis forces was made by two motorised columns believed-largely to be composed of quest on the baby boy of Mrs. Italians. They advanced eastward south of the escarpment which runs to the sea at Sol- lum.
The advance is believed in usually well- informed circles in Cairo to extend no more than 15 to 20 miles from the sea, and there is no indication of a sweep to the south.
Activities on this front hitherto have been confined to the Capuz- zo-Sollum area,
The
situation is said to be roughly the same as that of last
the when September, reached Sidi Barrani.
Italians
It is believed, however, that the enemy dispose of consider. four or five ably less than the divisions which the Italians used
Barrani for their push to Bidi last year.
This new enemy advance has not been effected without some losses of material as the result of the successful harrying tactics of British armoured vehicles.
as a
Brake On Progress These are maintaining contact with the enemy and acting brake upon his progress.
The possibility of an enemy push against Sidi Barrani is not ruled out
In usually well, in- formed circles In Cairo. But even if the enemy reaches this port, it is stated, the situation
DAD'S
BOOTS
SAVED BOY
Father's big rubber boots help ed to save Peter Wilby, thirteen, who was trapped by falling brick- bomb-damaged when work sheiter collapsed outside his Lon- don home.
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When workmen ran to his re- scue his legs were under a mass of debris.
Peter,
conscious throughout hla ordeal, did not shed a tear. While the workmen tore at the bricks and concrete Peter slid his his feet out of his father's boots which he had been wearing and was dragged out.
But one of his legs has had to would be less favourable to him be amputated below the knee,
The shelter had been damaged than last year since his forces are
a bomb some by the blast from not so strong.
Moreover, the British are sold-time before and was due for re- ly entrenched at Tobruk
threa-pair. tening his flank.
So far, there is little sign of enemy air activity-Router.
"SMILE" SERVICE DRIVES SUNDAY BLUES AWAY
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Soldiers travel as far as twenty
miles to the... Northumberland
village of Haltwhistle.. to attend
"The boy never whimpered," a
CHINESE
was
The child, two days old, suffocated by blankets. Misadven- ture was the verdict.
Nurse Katherine Jane Jones ad- mitted to the coroner, Mr. Gerald Tudor, that for half an hour she and the other nurse were in the kitchen having supper and could not hear the mother's shouts from the shelter.
Unattended
She agreed it was not right to
unattended so. have left patients long without means of communi- cation.
The coroner said it was not pos- sible to say whether the absence of the nurses made any difference to the fate of the child. He added:
"Whether there are regula- tions or not, it la far from satis- factory that patients in-a-ma- ternity ward should be taken to a shelter and left there without nurses or means of communicat. ing with them."
ar-
The sister in charge said rangements had been made so that this would not happen again.
workman on the scene told a re- porter.
"It was his presence of mind which led him to wriggle out of the boots which helped us to get him out in a
few minutes and rush him to hospital.
"He has been brave all through."
REPORT
SUCCESSFUL COUNTER-ATTACKS
CHINESE GOUNTER-ATTACKS are in full
the Sunday night "Service with a swing in the provinces of Chekiang, Fukien and Hu®
Smile" In the Olympic Hall
peh, according to the latest field despatches receiv......
There, amid magnificent trap-
old ed in Chungking.
pings: removed from the
Olympic, ocean greyhound broken:
up a few years ago, they kneel
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On the Chekishg coast: it is south bank of the Min River, in prayer, and sing hymns for a stated that, the Chinese troops the chat: of: Foochow.
In the province of Hupeh, the have re-captured the port of: Tal-. quarter of an hour.
For the rest of the evening chow, while the vanguard of they drive the blues away with another Chinese force which Chinese troops holding out in lively choruses and dancing on a stormed the defences of the imm. the Ta Hung. Shan mountains are floor which in its Olympic days portant port of Wenchow, once reported to have completely re- was often trodden by royalty actually succeeded in entering pulsed all; big Japanese attacks and to have re-occupied all "It's the brightest Sunday night the city,Manh
in Britain, says its originator, On the Fukien coast; the Chin- points-held-prior to the recent Mr. Douglas. Smith.
ese, have retaken Changlo on the Japanese offensive-Reuterg
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