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WARSHIPS BOMBARD INVADERS OF EGYPT LINCOLN Attack Believed ISLAND

EXPRESS TRAGEDY

Stalled

TROOPS FROM GREECE REACH ALEXANDRIA

news-

Six boys of Ampleforth College, Yorkshire, were killed and seven injured when they jumped from a blazing coach at the rear of the midday London- The Rome Newcastle express yêster-

papers yesterday stat- day near Claypole, Lin-ed that the first con- colnshire

hgents of the Bri tish Expeditionary Force in Greece have disembarked at Al- exandria, says a Rome despatch to Vichy quoted by Reuter.

TWO SONS OF THE BELGIAN PRIME MINISTER, M. PIERLOT. ARE REPORTED TO BE AMONG THE KILLED. AND ANOTHER SON WAS AMONG SEVERAL BOYS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL SUFFERING FROM BURNS.

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Official account of the tragedy says the coach next to the brake van caught fire.

was stopped

and

The train every effort made to extinguish the fire but the coach imme. diately in front and the brake van behind caught fire before] the train could be uncoupled and cleared of the blazing coach. The coach in which the fire started was reserved for 64 Am- pleforth College boys, and a num- ber of them jumped from train before it could be brought lo a standstill-Reuter.

MURDER

the

JAPANESE

PLANS IN

INDO-CHINA

The possibility that Japan will shortly launch upon

of penetration southern Indo-China, in-

OF FAMILY cluding Saigon and Cam-

ALLEGED

(SPECIAL: TO CHINA MAIL") EABER GIBSON, 32-YEAR- OLD FARMER AND RELIGIOUS FANATIC WAS CHARGED AT MOBILE (ALABAMA) YESTER DAY WITH THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE AND THEIR FIVE CHILDREN.

The mother and the children, aged from seven months to seven years, were found burned to death in the ruins of a farmhouse near Mobile:

Officials believe they were dead before the house was set on fire. Gibson refused to make a state- ment—International News · ·Ser-

Více,

COMMUNAL CLASH AT CAWNPORE

ranh Bay, is suggested by

To East

RAMPART

Of Sollum OF LIBERTY

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”) BRITISH WARSHIPS AND MOTORISED

TROOPS ARE FIGHTING SAVAGELY ΤΟ

STEM A MULTI - HEADED ITALO - GERMAN DRIVE WHICH IS ACKNOWLEDGED TO: HAVE. CROSSED THE EGYPTIAN, FRONTIER NEAR SOLLUM WHICH IS BELIEVED TO HAVE FALLEN) AND TO HAVE PENETRATED TO THE REGION OF SIDI BARRANI:

While warships heavily shelled Axis forces advancing along the sea road, Cairo military circles said British land forces are harassing the enemy's flanks.

"Destiny has chosen two islands as the last but

free peoples of Europe worthy rampart of the

the great island of Britain and this Greek isländ,” declared the Greek Prime Minister, M.și soudelor ant speech (Crete) yesterday.

"The people of these islands are tighting the supreme battle of liberty, A black flood has swept over Europe. Humanity has known in the past similar bar- baric invasions but the civilisa- tion of free men has always pre-

Latest issued Cairo ing the British force which car-valied. communique

suggests

that the attack has been stalled well short of Sidi ***Barrani.

ried out a destructive raid on the

Libyan port of Bardia.

5

Call For Help

"THE MOVING 'SPECTACLE OF RESISTANCE TO THE AG- GRESSORS HAS BEEN PRE- SENTED BY EVEN 'SMALL IS- The announcer described how LANDS LIKE LEMNOS AND detachments of Storm

AND Troops | SAMOTHRACE,

THE were sent out in pitch darkness | SPLENDID EXAMPLE SET - BY following a call for help from a THE through

GREEK PEOPLE AS A IN FIGHTING SIX AGAINST · AN EM-

There is no indication that the Italian and German forces are advancing southward

Egypt-International News Ser-

vice.

Reuter quotes authoritative quarters In Cairo'as stating last night that it la believed that - Sollum, which is a frontier post,

is in enemy

German wireless car.

The car was found empty but there was no sign of the British. Suddenly there were heavy detonations from several places.

The announcer claimed that hands following | eventually one major, two cap- the thrust across the Egyptian tains and 65 other ranks border from Libya at the week-captured.—Reuter. end.

Great satisfaction is felt In Cairo military circles at the fall

of Dessie, in northern Abyssinia,

foreign observers in which is on the main road from Shanghai to-day.

| Addis Ababa.

Road Junction These observers think the time

Dessie is also, at the junction has come when Japan, for psycho✩|

north-west logical reasons, may be expected of the road leading

Italians to attempt to show some fruits to Gondar, where the

the Soviet Pact and Mr. still hold out, and that running from Ma suoka's visit to Berlin in the north-east to the Red Sed port way of southward expansion.

of Assab.

They believe the, sudden Japan- ese press campaign against Saigon and southern Indo-China may be

the forerunner of such an expan sion. Reuter,

RALLYING POLES

OF AMERICA Matt A

THE VISIT OF GENERAL SI- KORSKI, POLISH PRIME MIN BETWEEN MUS- ISTER, TO AMERICA HAS CON. NDUS OCCURRED TRIBUTED IN THE HIGHE

OF CAWN- DEGREE TO STIMULATE THE

WAR EFFORT OF 6,000,000% the mob and 10 LES, DECLARED; POLISH CIR

CLES IN NEW YORK YE. ER tense and the DAYSCAMMER thas banned an Hir appeals to Poles in

than five per- to help the British and cause have been heard b Bombay city, and enthusiastic audiences in nt and Ahmeda York, Chicago, Detroit and

falo: Reuter:

The Italian forces defending Dessie were actually defeated at Kombolcha Pass, 14 miles to the south.

IT IS POSSIBLE THAT PART OF THE DESSIE GARRISON HAS WITHDRAWN TOWARDS GONDAR WHICH IS NORTH OF LAKE. TANAM

were

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WHOLE MONTHS PIRE.

"We have.come, to this fand of liberty, and courage in order that we should not allow our- solvce to be enslaved 'and...', continue, the fight"—Reuter,

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GERMAN AIR ACTIVITY CALL ON US FOR A OVER BRITAINE YESTERDAY WAS VERY SLIGHT//eve

A few bomba were dropped on the north-east-coast of Scotland erica and the east and north-east coast Allied | 61. England but very small damago:

was/done. E New. A low were Buf- official erat Reuter

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