THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 2, 1941.
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Military Analysis Of The Campaign In Greece
(By Reuter's Military Commentator) LOOKING AT THE GREEK CAMPAIGN IN ITS BROADEST ASPECTS WE WERE RIGHT TO SEND ALL THE HELP WE COULD TO GREECE.
The moral issue involved might be said to be without exaggeration to be decisive but the material losses and heavy punishment inflicted on the German army was, in any case, well worth our effort.
It must be admitted that the handling of their forces by the German Command has been good. They are not hidebound pedants in their conception of the conduct of war. The Germans cast rules aside, and a glance at their operations in this war supports this statement.
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The bull-fighter Rafael Guerra, considered by many to be one of the greatest bull-ring figures of all time, has died at Cordoba.
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Born in 1862, Guerra was the last survivor of the great bull-fighters of last century.
He took part in 892 bull-fights, killing 2,339 bulls. He was known to the public as "Guerrita.”
B.B.C. EVEN
BOMB OUT CENSORS
Heads of Liverpool civil defence services and of business firms saw an eendiary bomb extinguished Tu by a time greyish powder at Livers
pool fire brigade headquarters.
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threw some tee into Tripel as WT moved a force nm th acres Mediterranean into Greece,
Napoleonic Strategy
It was the first time anyone in Liverpool had seen a fire bomb actually put out--all other known methods have the effect of merely controling the bomb till it burns itself out.
An official of the London manu- facturing firm poured the powder on the bomb while it was spurt- Aling its molten fire.
In the actual battles in Greece the Germans went back to Napo- leon, broke through the centre of the Allied line south of Monastir Gap, and through the hole thus made pushed forces behind the advanced Allied position m bania, thuy bringing about surrender of the Greek left wing. It is interesting to note that the same method was applied as that employed by Napoleon at Auster- hitz. probably
brilliant his most batlle.
SWITCH-MEN
B.B.C. even censors the political views of its elec- tricians, the National Council of Civil Liberties was told at its annual meeting.
The technical staff are also the Within five minutes the fames put on the mat, not because the the handle of a were out, and only a thin column man who pulls of slightly smelling smoke curled | switchboard can disseminate his from the mass of powder,
repulsive views through the swit- |chboard, but they are equally vic- timised with the musicians and others,
We must now await Hitler's next moves, which are likely to
be:
First, a drive to capture Suez by reinforcing if possible his troops in Libya, and at the same time a concentrated attack in Thrace.
And The Ukraine?
Second. a simultaneous through Spain to seize the British naval base in the eastern Medi- terranean
Third, and this is a possibility, though not such a probability an attack on the Ukraine in order to lay hands on the wheat supplies there and open a road to the vil- fields In the Caucasus.
These are vast schemes but it is recognised that Hitler has huge hordes of well-armed
his disposal.--Reuter.
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THE LAST POST Owing to the lack of demand Nobody could dispute, said Mr. among troops the scheme organ- | Kidd, that the B.B.C., if not Gov- ised by the British Legion last ernment controlled, was subject autumn for placing soldiers in cor- to Government guidance, and its respondence with members of the action, taken in conjunction with of the "Daily public is to be ended, announces the suppression the War Office.
Worker" and "The Week."
HIGH TRIBUTE TO BRAVERY OF INDIAN TROOPS
DESPATCHES WHICH have just been received from the Eritrean front pay high tribute to the bravery of Indian troops in the
SOLDIER TO soaring hills.
DIE FOR MÜRDER OF GIRL
Found guilty of mur-
Along a road dominated from the heights, up and over the peaks themselves, Indian troops fought their way to victory.
For more than a month the bat tle swayed on ridges, fierce coun ter-attack ceaselessly following at- tuck.
heart of the Italian position ond
"The final attack was launched one night and pressed relentless- dering a fifteen-year-oldly all next day, cutting into the schoolgirl, whose body leaving thousands of enemy iso- was found in a block-lated on the heights on either house, soldier a
aged flank.
twenty-eight was sentenċ- ed to death at Liverpool| Assizes.
Before being sentenced, he said: "I still say I am an in-
nocent man."
Ils mother collapsed in court and was carried out. The jury were out fifty-five minutes..
to
soldiers were fighting hand hand with machine-gun crews.
Even while this fighting was going on Indian Sappers were at work dynamiting a new way through, while Bren carriers followed close behind.
Desperate Charge
The enemy made a last desper- Midland and Indian troops ate charge but, shattered, by ma- surged down from the captured chine-gun and artillery fire, they fort of Dologorodoo to conquer halted, hesitated and then turned vital hills along the railway two back. miles from Keren. They smash.
ed their way through a whole It was the signal for the final colonial brigade and a regiment | advance. British and Indian in- of Carabinieri.in the dash for fantry, shouting and cheering, ward
swept forward: They climbed up Even as they consolidated the to the top of peaks and then down position "Scottish troops were the other side to race into Keren. The accused man is Samuel swarming up the 6,000-feet moun- Meanwhile Sappers had cleared Morgan, of Berkeley Drive, Sed-tain of Sanchil, most heavily de-the-blocked road and tanks and forth, Lancs. The girl; Mary fended Italian position, and enemy troops passed along it and into the Hogan, lived in Brookside-troops were being routed out at town. Avenue, Waterloo, Lancs.
the bayonet point. Soon they The Prime Minister, in a mes- It was alleged by the prosecu-waved a white fing and surrender-sage to the Viceroy of India a few tion that while on: an errand on | ed. .:
days after Keren fell, sald: "The November:2," she was enticed In Keren gorge, where, four whole Empire has been stirred-by „ör "dragged Inta the-blockhouse, miles from the town, the Italians the achievements of the Indian
violated" and "atrangled,w
had blasted 200 yards out of the forces in Eritrea."-British Wire- The case had lasted a week... road to block the advance, our less.
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