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WARSHIPS BOMBARD INVADERS OF EGYPT

LINCOLN Attack Believed ISLAND

EXPRESS TRAGEDY

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- Newcastle express yester- day near Claypole, Lin- colnshire.

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.

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

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before

The train was stopped every ffort made to extinguish the fire but the coach Imme- diately in front and the brake van behind caught fire 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 OF FAMILY ALLEGED

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EASER 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- meht-International News Ser- ‚vice. ¿

SLIGHT AIR ACTIVITY

Stalled To East RAMPART

TROOPS FROM GREECE REACH ALEXANDRIA

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The Rome papers yesterday stat- ed that the first con- tingents of the Bri- tish Expeditionary Force in Greece have disembarked at AL- exandria, says a Rome despatch to Vichy quoted by Reuter.

JAPANESE

PLANS IN

INDO-CHINA

The

possibility that

Of Sollum OF LIBERTY

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SAVAGELY

BRITISH WARSHIPS AND MOTORISED TROOPS ARE FIGHTING

TO 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.

"Destiny has chosen two islands as the last but worthy rampart cf the free peoples of Europe- |the great island of Britain and this Greek island,"

declared the Greek Prime Minister, M. Tsouderos, in @ speech ot

| (Crete) yesterday.

Canae

"The people of these islands are fighting the supreme battic,

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

Cairo tains and 65 other ranks captured.-Reuter.

were

Latest issued communique suggests that the attack has been

Not Advancing stalled well short of Sidi

Although the situation around Barrani.

Sollum is not clear there seems There is no indication that the little doubt that the enemy is not pushing forward the advance made on Saturday evening, when de- tachments penetrated five or six miles across the frontier on which Sollum is situated.

are

Italian and German forces advancing southward through Egypt. International News Ser- vice.

Reuter quotes authoritative) quarters in Cairo as stating last night that it is believed that

Latest information from Cairo shows that the R.A.F. is busy har-

force advanced elements.—British Wireless.

Japan will shortly launch Sollum, which is a frontier post, assing the enemy's efforts to rein-

upon penetration of southern Indo-China, in- cluding Saigon and Cam- ranh Bay, is suggested by foreign observers in Shanghai to-day.

These observers think the time) has come when Japan, for psycho logical reasons, may be expected!

is in enemy

hands following the thrust across the Egyptian border from Libya at the week- end.

Great satisfaction is felt in

Cairo military circles at the fall of Dessie. in northern Abyssinia, which is on the main road from Addis Ababa,

Road Junction

Dessie is also at the junction

to attempt to show some fruils of the road leading north-west from

the Soviet Pact

the and Mr. to Gondar, where

Italians Ma.sucka's visit to Berlin in the still hold out, and that running way of southward expansion. north-east to the Red Sea port

of Assab.

They believe the sudden Japan- esc press campaign against Salgon and southern Indo-China may be the forerunner of such an expan. sion. Reuter.

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U-BOATS SHIFTED?

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 TANA.

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swept over Europe. Humanity has known in the past similar bar-. baric invasions but the civilisa- tion of free men has always pre- valied.

"THE MOVING SPECTACLE OF RESISTANCE TO THE AG- GRESSORS HAS BEEN PRE- SENTED BY EVEN SMALL IS- LANDS LIKE LEMNOS AND SAMOTHRACE, AND THE SPLENDID EXAMPLE SET BY THE GREEK PEOPLE

4 AS WHOLE IN FIGHTING SIX MONTHS AGAINST AN EM PIRE.

"We have come to this land of liberty and courage in order that we should not allow our*:

selves to be enslaved and: toj continue the fight,”—Reuter"

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Call For Help made, in mid-day, must be await" EGERMANT AIR ACTIVITY ed for indication of the progress The" announcer described how OVER BRITAIN, YESTERDAY of the campaign against the Ger- detachments of Storm Troops WAS VERY SLIGHT A

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