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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 7, 1941.

FURNACE HEAT IN DESERT TESTING GERMAN

ENDURANCE

HEAVY SAND-STORMS IN FURNACE-

LIKE HEAT ARE TESTING THE ENDURANCE TOOK BOMB

OF THE GERMANS'IN THE SOLLUM-TOBRUK

AREA, ACCORDING TO WELL-INFORMED TO DUMP

MILITARY CIRCLES IN CAIRO YESTERDAY.

The situation was reported much the same as 24 hours ago and the enemy's attack

FINED £3

When a bomb fell near

is believed to have proved exhausting as well his old home in South- as costly to him.

The position in Abyssinia, where the Imperial northern and south- ern columns are gradually con- verging on Amba Alagi, is des- cribed as very promising for the Imperial Forces.

Observers returning from the the Western Desert

say that Germans are being considerably affected by the conditions there. PRISONERS' DIARIES CON. TAIN FREQUENT REFERENCES TO THE HEAT AND WATER SHORTAGE WHILE DIVE- BOMBING BY THEIR OWN TE ANES IS OFTEN MEN TIONED.

PEACE OFFER REJECTED?

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"

A

BERLIN BROADCAST HEARD IN THE UNITED

East London, Leading Signalman Arthur Pullen was a bit upset.

Then he learned that the bomb hadn't exploded. So they hadn't wrecked his birthplace? Well, that was easy, he'd shift the bomb.

STATES SAYS THAT THE IRAQ

Pullen is forty-two, has been GOVERNMENT HAS REJECTED | twenty-five years in the Navy. A PEACE OFFER MADE BY A and sailors don't care about FOREIGN AMBASSADOR,

"Britain's attitude," said the bumbs. But let his wife tell the Berlin radio, "has made any agree-story. ment with the Iraq Government impossible."

Jt seems that there is some truth in the reports that the Ger- mans trained troops for desert warfare by manoeuvres in sand dunes on the Baltic and by strenuous exercises in glass- houses to accustom them to beat. bringing pressure on Iraq to stop a settee, and was lodged under the hostilities immediately. Inter-floor boards," she told the "Dally national News Service.

"The bomb weighed 110lb, and Meanwhile, a Cairo despatch had gone through two storeys and says that Turkey and Egypt are

German tanks are not prov ing well suited to desert work and British mobi e guna are able to pick them off at close range.

Reuter.

German Losses

In Raids

Germany has lost 41 night bombers already this month.

This total-nearly half of the record April losses--was reached with announcement that two ad- ditional raiders, it is now Armed, were brought down Sunday night by A.A. fire.

con-

WORTHLESS, INCREDIBLE

Mirror."

"He borrowed a saw and some thick wire, sawed round the bomb and pulled it out.

"Some men wanted to help but he would only let my seventeen-year-old son Harry

come along. He told them it was a case of 'one dog, one,

bone.'

"He carried the bomb to a pub-

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 as worthless ile house which had been nearly destroyed In a previous raid. as they are incredible.

These Reichstag deliverances Harry, who is as tearless as his may serve their purpose

within father, followed him in case he Germany for a time at least. To dropped it. the free world they arouse only contempt. Reuter.

QUO TAI-CHI HAS TALK WITH HULL

Mr. Quo Tai-chi, Chinese For- had

on cign Minister, yesterday

Thus this year the Luftwaffe's losses by night total 203, which compares with 130 for the whole of 1940, of which 93 were brought down from June wards.

on-

Two more enemy aircraft were brought down in the Channel on Tuesday in daylight when small formations crossed the Kent coast and flew a short distance inland,

The Air Ministry says bombs were dropped on a town on

another conference with Mr. Cor- del Hull, United States Secretary of State. This is his second visit to Mr. Hull since his arrival in Washington, Central News.

NEW ZEALAND FORCES IN CRETE

Works Were Ticking

"But he thought the public house was too near some houses, so he took it to a dump.

"All the time the works were ticking. He was going to dia- mantle the bomb, when the bomb disposal squad men came along and he was taken to the police station.

This morning he was fined £3 at the police court for ‘removing and tampering with a bomb dropped from enemy aircraft.'

"The money was paid by his flag officer and will probably be deducted from his pay.

The New Zealand Minister for Mr. Jones, announced Defence,

"He doesn't care, and has told. the yesterday that Brigadier General me he would do it again if neces- Kent coast and another on the Edward Puttick has been appoint-sary. The vicar has offered to. East Coast but little damage was ed temporary in command of the pay but my husband told him It done and there were no serious New Zealand Forces in Crete in

was all right. A number of peo- place of Major-General Freyberg.ple whose homes would have been casualties.--Reuter.

V.C. - Reuter.

destroyed also want to pay. it."

TERRORIST ARRESTED

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL").

COOPERATION. BETWEEN THE JAPANESE AUTHORITIES, THE FOURTH U.S. MARINES AND THE MUNICIPAL POLICE RESULTED IN THE ARREST OF A CHINESE TERRORIST FOL- LOWING AN ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE TWO JAPAN- ESE NAVAL SENTRIES IN THE HONGKEW AREA OF SHANG. HAI

One sentry was slightly wound- ed in the finger, a

the Japanese and the SM Police

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A neighbour said that a col- lection to pay the fine was being › made. “I paid 58. — and, would like to give' £5,” said one.. "We have nearly got the £3 already."

The Prime Minister, Mr. Wing- ton-Churchill, was received in audience by the King and re- Last September Pullen climbed mained to lunch with. Their|to the roof to deal with some In- Majesties at Buckingham Palace cendiaries: ~ On, another occasion

Reuter, yesterday. -

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