1941-05-09 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 9, 1941.

FLIGHT OF RASCHID ALI FROM BAGHDAD

REPORTED

Hostile Demonstrations In Iraq Capital

DEATH SENTENCE ON TRAITOR

George Johnson Arni- strong. 38-year-old

R.A.F. Pounds At Military Positions

THE R.A.F. BOMBED Baghdad airport on engineer, was sentenced Wednesday and damaged buildings and the to death at the Central aerodrome road, according to an R.A.F. com- Criminal Court, Old munique issued in Cairo yesterday. Bailey, yesterday for an offence under the Trea- chery Act.

130 ARRESTS R.A.F. IN MARSEILLES SWOOP ON ST.NAZAIRE

Moscow radio reports from Vichy that 130 people have been arrested in Marseilles by the order of Admiral Dor- lan on the accusation of enlisting French- men into General de army, says

Reuter.

Gaulle's The communique states violent explosions occurred when direct hits were obtained on a The first dienth sentence magazine at Washash, near Baghdad. Mili- passed on a woman, Mrs. Dorothy, Pamela O'Grady, was reduced by: tary buildings were hit. the Court of Appeal recently to, 14 years servitude, for under the Official Secrets Act.

Three spies posing as refugees.

British troops occupying

BUDAPEST

offences

dis-

for

mand communique admits that! Bumbs were dropped on

which had Iraqi troops

been! persed aircraft at Hanaidi.

high "besieging" the Britian camp have

forced to relire

on better area been

intense strategic positions by British bombin,;.

the R.A.F.

1 Esten to cureless talkers and ground in the Habbaniyah

send mubtary secrets pack

met little opposition except

Germany by portable radio trans-joccasional shiping.

mitter, were hanged last Decem-

tar

Reuter.

AUSTRALIAN LOSSES IN GREECE

east Hostile forces British positions were attacked.

of

RUMOURS

It also admits the

bombed the town of Falluje and heavily

or

TSPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL"1 RUMOURS, PERHAPS GER. ARE GOING

Ramadi in addition to Baghdad MAN-INSPIRED, railway station.

Rolling billows of smoke, which even travel- led some miles out to sea, obscured the countryside as R.A.F. raiders left the St. Nazaire region after Wednesday night's suc- cessful attack on two large oil refineries and oil storage plants there.

According to the Air Ministry bombe the first news service found the targets and following aircraft saw great fires sudden. ly appear while the great chim- neys of the refinery toppled over one by one.

In a raid on Bergen (Norway) THE ROUNDS IN BUDAPEST good visibility enabled our aircraft HAS GRANTED to make perfect runs over the tar- Reported Flight

Telegraphic communication be- THAT VICHY tween Iraq and Syria has been, FREE PASSAGE TO GERMAN get and carry out precision bomb- RASCHID ALI, LEADER

Wednesday night, TROOPS THROUGH ALL ing-Reuter. THE IRAQI COUP D'ETAT, HUR- { severed since

FRENCH COLONIES. RIEDLY LEFT BAGHDAD says a Beyrout message.

Baghdad radio was much DEMON- AFTER A PUBLIC

It is under- STRATION AGAINST HIS weaker yesterday.

"O stood The transmitter has been MOVEMENT, ACCORDING

NEWSPAPER removed from the usual position,

Reuter. EGYPTIAN

in the Royal Palace. REPORTS FROM BAGHDAD

The former SP

Foreign

Ministe

ISPECIAL 10 CHINA MAIL"} A cable received in Canberra by the Australian Army Minister, Mr. Spender, from General Thomas B'amey. the Deputy of Iraq. Tewik Suewich Bey, CLC of the Allied Army in the stated to have left Baghdad Middle East, states that the totall or for Aminan in order to meet number of Australians sent to Regent About Hah Greece was 16,000 men.

Australian casualties, sand the

cable, did not

amount to Face

Iraqi Communique

y

Cairo Communique

A communique issued by British GHQ. in Cairo states: "Libya-in the Tabrik and Solluni areas our; patrols have again been active.

Abyssinia further positions the Though claiming that Iraqi air-

bud

bontang covering the approach from continued

Alagi have been Habbaniyah, an Iraqi High Com-north to Amba

captured and a number of prison-

In taken.

other all operations are continuing factorily.

than 3000 men, International craft

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The rumours cannot be confirm- ed, but speculation is that Ger- man forces may soon cross Syria to aid Iraq, whose forces are in # serious pight and are retreating on all fronts.--International New's Service.

MASTERY IN IRAQ

areas satis-18

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") BRITISH MASTERY IN IRAQ RAPIDLY APPROACHING, WITH "ALL QUIET" AT HAB- BANIYAH AND BASRA,

The arrival at Ankara of the Iraq Foreign Minister, Naji

Iraq-following our successful action on May 6 against, a portion of the Iraq army which, at the in- stigation of military adventurers treacherously attacked Habbani-Shamket, who is reported to be yah, the situation both at Hab appealing for Turkish mediation, the baniyah and Basra has remained has led to predictions that

backbone of the revolt has been quiet.

broken.--International News Ser-

Our captures include six guns and over 400 prisoners."-British Wireless.

CONVOYS WITHIN A

help.

FORTNIGHT?

(Continued from Page 1)

The struggle is already on," said Mr. Wilkie, "and we cannot shut our eyes to it. Whether you call them patrols or convoys or what-nots. we want thosę cargoes protected and protected at once."

Figures Wanted

war

vice,

ATTEMPTED SHOPLIFTING

Charged with stealing a gown from a tailor's shop at No. 139, Lalchikok

Wednesday. Road on Wong Nul, 17, spinster, was fined $50, or one month's hard labour, by Mr. H. C. Macnamara at Kow- loon this morning.

The girl went to the shop with two other girls and asked to be shown some dresses. Accused the gown seen concealing under her dress and was arrest-

was

Meanwhile, Senator George, ed. Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has urged the President to reveal the extent

The prefix "special" to telegrams i of sinkings of United

Herald" "Sunday

and used by tha States

materials, declaring

"China Mail" to indicate news which the information was neces-la strictly copyright under the provi. Or. sary "because of the issues before sions of the Telecommunications our country.”

dinance, 1930, and may not be reprint. sither ad under any circumstances. Senator George said they were

in part, without prior entitled to the best figures ob- wholly or

rangement. tainable because of their bearing the the Seizure Bill and convoy Issue.

on

He added that the Maritime Land's Commissioner, Admiral

report that only eight out of 205 ships clearing with war material for England in the three months ending March 31.were sunk, may not tell the "whole story.

This is borne out by the official statement subsequently issued in London,

Berlin Comment

An official Berlin spokesman attacked Mr. Stimson's demand for US Navy action in the Battle of the Atlantic ad the speech of a notorious warme

which

the Reich "prefers to regard as unofficial."

The spokesman added: "Never- theless Mr. Stimson 'should be |-} aware of what fulfilment of his demand would lead to Inter- hational News Service, ut

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STOP PRESS

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"We want those cargoes protected and we want them declared protected at once,"

Wilkie in Mr. Wendell speech in New York last night in which he appealed to the people of the United States to of ensure the safe delivery war materials to Britain.

Mr. Willkie, who was addressing a Freedom Rally in New York, called upon all Americans to keep Britain's lifeline unbroken, "whether you call it convoying, patroll- ing, aeroplane accompanied, or what not."

The philosophy of totalitar- to janism which was trying conquer the British Isles was a threat to the freedom en- joyed by the American people.

Axis agents, he said, were in South America and were slipping among the people of the United States.

Mr. Willkfe warned his hearers once more against locking themselves behind their own defences. That policy be rejected utterly as the adoption of defeat.

It was the United States' Job to provide 'planes so that air su- Britain would have periority, to give Britain des- troyers and ships and to see that those ships were loaded "with the ever increasing pro- ductions of our factories and farms."

Mr. Willkie added "Thus the most monstrous menace to the liberty of free men everywhere will be eradicated utterly."

After his speech, the meet- ing sent a telegram to Pre- s'dent Roosevelt appealing to him to see that material, and provisions being sent to Bri- tain were not consigned to the bottom of the Atlantic,

"If this means convoys," said the telegram, "we call on you to supply them."-Reuter.

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