THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 6, 1941.
HITLER'S INACCURATE FIGURES ON GREECE
ALTHOUGH IT IS GENERALLY AGREED
THAT HITLER'S LATEST SPEECH TO THE INTERNED
REICHSTAG WAS DEFINITELY CONCOCT- ED FOR GERMAN CONSUMPTION SOME
PRISE IS EXPRESSED THAT A MAN CLAIM-PILOTS
ING TO BE SUCH AN INVINCIBLE CON-
QUEROR SHOULD FEEL IT NECESSARY TOESCAPE
DISTORT FIGURES TO SUPPORT HIS CASE.
By Reuter's Special
Correspondent
After escaping from in- ternment in Djibouti, Somaliland, three mem- bers of the R.A.F., six South Africans and two
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Information available in London proves that the figures he gave of German troops employed in the campaign are quite inaccur- ate and a certain suspicion attaches to his extremely low estimate of German losses losses which might have been admitted at a higher and possibly more truthful figure Greeks, eager to join the without danger to prestige.
his
It is a revealing fact that c'aim to have sunk or damaged over 200 British ships during the Greek campaign is carefully omit- ted from the version of the speech in English
One of the widest general dis- tortions is Hiller's claim that Ger- many has been the largest pur- chaser i Balkan markets #d budhaid for products with the labour of the industrial workers of Germany and not with foreign exchange.
Bitter Complaints
It is well known that even be- fore the war Balkan countries were complaining bitterly of use- Jess goods Germany was dumping upon them in exchange for their own useful conimodities.
Many small shops in a Balkan town have been stocked with high grade cameras and microscopes of German make which were quite unsellable but were all the return to be gained out of trade pacts.
In different vein were Hitler's tributes to his ally.
HAILE
SELASSIE'S RETURN
Greek forces, have arrived in British Somaliland.
lunded in
The R.A.F. men French terri'ory when they ran short of fuel on their way back from a rald. They made the land- Ing in darkness and miraculously escaped when one remaining bomb if the rack exploded.
and
They were Imprisoned later sent to Djibouti. The South Africans similarly
Rejoin Formations
THE FORTHCOMING RE- made a forced landing in French ENTRY OF EMPEROR HAILE, territory, believing themselves in SELASSIE INTO ADDIS ABABA, ; British territory, and they also IN ANTICIPATION OF WHICH
were sent to Djibouti. THE ETHIOPIAN CAPITAL IS BEING DECORATED AND DIGNATORIES ARE CROWDING IN, IS AROUSING THE DEEP- EST ENTHUSIASM AMONG THE¦ LOCAL POPULATION, RE- FORTS OF WHICH ARE RE- CEIVED BY THE BRITISH PEO- PLE WITH GREAT SYMPATHY.
and
Their escape was well planned and after crossing the border two
the men left the others crussed overland to Zeila against a blustering wind, which whipped salt sand in their eyes and faces. "The Times" draws attention to At Zeila they were able to the significance of these events, arrange for a dhow to be sent to Africans fetch the others and they have all to the rest of Africa. everywhere have had their faith now rejoined their formations. restored in Britain as the cham | Reuter. pion of justice for African peoples.
IRAQ GESTURE
صيد
Politically and economically the assistance which Britain is able
is Iraq Mussolini must have rejoiced at
to reported
have to render to the development of
resume to
diplomatic the restored Abyssinia will serve as decided receiving congratulations on Italian army having "weakened" the touchstone of British policy in relations with Germany, says the the Greek army after six months the future development of Colonial Vichy news agency quoted Aghting.
Reuter. Africa, British Wireless.
"Delighted"
his
his
The Duce must have been even more delighted, as junior partner in the Axis, to hear from generous senior partner that "setback" in Africa - In which he lost his Libyan army was due to the technical inferiority of the anti-tank defences and of the tanks themselves.
Most significant of all was. however, Hitler's claim that next year the German soldier will get even better arms.
This reference to the future, together with Hitler's call for more women industrial workers und for the taking of necessary
tion and thoroughness" to harness
ENEMY SHIPS HARRIED FROM
by
NORWAY TO FRANCE
AIRCRAFT OF THE Coastal Command
measures "with Nazi delerm na- took advantage of moonlight on Sunday the entire labour power of the night to harry the enemy from Norway to the nation to the most gigant.c coast of Brittany, states the Air Ministry in ironic conflict with Hitler's news service.
armament process in history, is
own New Year promise to the
German people of a speedy vic- A German supply ship of 3,000 tons, an-
tory during the present year. British Wireless,
CONCHIE OBJECTED
TO UNDRESSING
choring in the Skagerrak in convoy, was bombed and hit a few minutes after midnight
by a Blenheim, the pilot of which made three
runs over the target. Clouds of black smoke belched from the ship's bows.
Large Prize
QUOTING THE SCRIPTURES Other Blenheims on the same damage was done not only in the THAT IT WAS IMPROPER TO patrol straddled a second supply neighbourhood of the battle cruis- BE SEEN NAKED, A CONSCIEN- ship with bombs and attacked ers but among docks and quayside TIOUS OBJECTOR, RONALD docks at
Egersund, in southern buildings on both sides of the har- JOHN BROWN. OF MANOR Norway.
bour mouth.. FARM, CORSCOMBE. DORSET, The gunner of a Blenheim which REFUSED TO STRIP AT A reconnoltred Stavanger shot out! MEDICAL EXAMINATION.
three troublesome searchlights, Summoned at Bristol Police Blenheims also bombed" Quer- Court for failing to submit-him- self for medical examination when llable for national service, he was fined 10s. The chairman told him he would be taken by a policeman to have his examination.
Brown: told the Court: "I con-. sider it wrong to be stripped and I gave my reasons to the medical examiners."
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queville aerodrome, hear bourg, and hit barracks.
Columns of smoke and the red Cher-glare of fires were left behind.
Among other" aircraft operat- Ing further north one had "a suc- cessful encounter with an enemy vassel.
Another Coastal Command equadron attacked docks at St. Nazaire, on the Breton coast, In a few minutes there was a great The pilots was about to attack rectangle, of: fire in the naval two small boats off Antwerp when base. Incoming pilats saw in the moonlight he saw a larger series of explosions and, added, prize. He circled round to
own bomb load to the supply ship cc 1,500 told a
Dive Attack :
their
QUEEN WILHELMINA
TO BROADCAST: One of the aircraft attacking Brest made a dive attack on a Queen Wilhelmina is to broad-Nazi battle-cruiser, going down cast in the Radio Orange-pro-from 4,000 to 2,000-feet before, he gramme at 0.45 pm (GMT) in pulled out and dropped his bombs, the evening transmissions of the The attack was concentrated B.B.C.'s European service on rather than prolonged... It began Saturday, May 10, says Router shortly before midnight but in the from London,
two hours that followed great
The pilot said: "I came down to about 20 feet above the bridge of the ship and we let go our bombs. I thought we had missed.
Then a searchlight from the shore, suddenly obliged use, In Its beam-we..could..ane columns of thick smoke, going up from the ship to above 600 feet. There was then no doubt we had 'scor- ed a direct hit."—British Wire- Bass,
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