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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 7, 1941.

BRITAIN STILL HAS EDGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

IN THE

MEDITERRANEAN 'AREA THE

BRITISH STILL HOED ALL THE IMPORTANT ADVANTAGES AT SEA EXCEPT IN RESPECT OF AIR PARITY OR SUPERIORITY, DE- CLARES THE “BALTIMORE-SUN.”

No matter with what ingenuity the Ger- mans use motor and U-boats, finally they will have to seek a décision in the eastern Medi- ferranean with ground forces.

Throughout such

a!

campaign they will have A.A. GUNS

to reckon constantly with

a Fleet that they cannot COT 4 IN

hope to defeat or even hold in leash.

SECONDS

The "Indianapolis Star" say: that every one of Hitler's victories has added new enemies, who are On bitter in their subjection.

a brilliant

sunny

There is not one among them day on the South Coast. that is not looking for a chance Junkers 87 fighter-bomb-

to get revenge. No one would

hesitate openly to revolt if opers and Me 109's circled portunity, presented itself.

Those 140 million non-German people he has cowed and tram- pled are not conquered. Each one is a handicap to the Reich in its struggle for ultimate victory.

Superb, Heroic

The "New York World-Tele- gram" declares the successful Brl- tish evacuation of Greece seems even more miraculous than Dun-

kirk.

and twisted.

accuracy

First the Junkers dived on their objective, Below, cool A.A, gun- ners with split-second brought down the first in a crater made by its own bombs, then blew another to bits. A third sheered off.

Then the ME's dived on the British guns. Again our gunners. working like lightning, picked off two 'planes-and the attack was broken.

OBVIOUSLY THE CHIEF REASON FOR THIS SUCCESS IS THAT THE MEN OF THE This deadly accuracy was dis- BEF ARE SUPERB, HEROIC closed by a young officer when he SOLDIERS LED BY COOL, BRII visited a factory producing A.A.

He told the workers LIANT STRATEGIST'S.

alone had Certainly the retreat was tas-battery terly and at a minimum cost conaccounted for twenty-two enemy sidering the numerical and 'planes,

machine superiority of the enemy

on the ground and in the air,

Terrible Price

The "Cincinnati Enquirer" says it is evident that the B.E.F. aid sent to Greece made the Germans pay a terrible price for their Bal- kan conquest.

guns,

his

recently

Not a second could be wasted In operating the guns, he sald, because the time for engaging a low-flying aircraft seldom ex- ceeded ten seconds.

Hit Full In Cockpit Describing the action in which the four planes were shot down, he said:

"One Junkers dived to attack its objective. We hit it with the ninth round.

The Battle of Greece has two main factors common with Dun- kirk, It was marked with another exhibition of the almost uncanny genius of the British for one "Other guns swung to a second the most difficult of all military aircraft and brought it down be- operations, evacuation by sea in fore it released its bombs. the face of superfor land and air forces.

of

Secondly, it was another demonstration of ja rearguai¶ action which almost beggara des- cription as herolc.

Finally, it cheated the German High Command on a scale equalled since Dunkirk.--Reuter.

STOCK EXCHANGE FIRM

Un-

"Then three ME pilots dived in a staggered line, firing their can- nons at us,

BRIGHTER COURT

PLAN FAILS

Georgia (U.S.) Senate decided that

they wanted only beauty contest winners to act as women jurors.

must The women 'have won a beauty contest within. two years before their jury service, must be less than forty-five years old, and should wear perfume agreeable to the Judge and the court officials.

But the question aroused So much it controversy that was decided to forget the whole idea of

women serving juries.

PEER IS

on

LEARNING HIS OWN LANGUAGE

Viscount Tarbaf, thirty- six-year-old Highland laird, is learning Gaelic in a German prison camp.

He is a major in the Seaforth Highlanders and was taken pri- soner last June. Writing to his

at wife who is

Castle Leod, Strathpeffer, Lord Tarbat says!

"Officers in the camp pass the time attending and giving lec- tures. I have' always wanted to learn Gaelic but never had the opportunity. I hope, when the war is over, to be able to speak to my Ross-shire tenants in their native tongue."

"The magnificent design and workmanship of the guna Viscount Tarbat's. mother, the enabled us to swing the gun Countess of Cromartie, is a past round through

Gaelic 90 'degrees, chief of the Inverness

She does not speak elevate it to about 60 degrees | Society.

first and hit the 'plätto full' In the Gaelic but was--appointed gookpit with the third round. woman chief of the society be- "Then we were able to swing cause of her interest in Gaelic lore up and hit the engine of a second and in recognition of the' mystical ME. It crashed into the sea:" Celtic stores she has written.

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The undertone of the London Stock Exchange remained firm yesterday although gilt-edged and home rails tended to be reaction- ary. Industrials were steady with Cable and Wireless and Cour- tauld's good features, the latter on useful enquiry finding stock short. Oils were steady, with Mexican Eagle Improving on the reported big British purchase of Mexican oil. Kaffrs responded to satisfac tory April returns and diamonds were supported. Among foreign issues Japanese bonds tendedThis woman is said to be now last few years of her life. It lower while-Egyptian and Iraq living in the metropolitan police, clear that she spent little of the Issues receded. Wall Street was area. She never knew Miss By- money on herself, as she firm,

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POLICE INVESTIGATING the poison death mystery of Miss Elizabeth Byford have had a long interview with a woman whose identity they are keeping secret.

ford, but she has been able to Went out,:

help the police in their inquiries,

It was from a house in the old tin mining village of St. Ann's

Chapel that forty-seven-year-old

'Mrs. Fiske'!»

idom

Most of the money was drawn Miss Byford was taken ten months in notes of small denomination, ago to a Plymouth Hospital, where

puzzling, too, why she she died from arsenic poisoning. chose to call Herself Mrs. Fiske,

Detectives have taken pos. the name she adopted when she Casolaion of "Mise Byf

"opened her "doublefronted groz account. I: lows that sums officer's: shop at Bridport, Dorset, moridy"more than she'

ant | two years agoftwa onHbriel wwerom danily Miss Byford's

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to unravel for

Hitler's latest address to a com- placent-Reichstag, says the New York Times," is notable only for new perversions of history further misrepresentation of facts and a parade of statistics asWorthless as they are incredible,

There Reichstag deliverances heds may serve their, purpose within where this money has gone. But More than a score of witnesses Germany for a me at led To it has Buen dinculty because the are likely to be called when the the free world

aly middle ayu spinster moved to at inquest is resumed at Plymouth in contempt. Reut

least six new addresses in the a few weeks time.

unde the for many in

police have trie nearly a year

The police have tried to trace