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No. 32,146

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1941

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BUTTER

TANKS BATTLE IN BLAZING HEAT

Five-Pointed Thrust By Nazis Into Egypt Commons In Flanking Move Dubious Mood Turned Back FELL OUT OVER

IS GIFT HORSE A

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AN ENEMY FIVE-POINTED THRUST – AN OPERATION ENTIRELY WITHOUT SUPPORT

WAS MADE EARLY YESTERDAY MORN- ING IN THE WESTERN DESERT IN BLAZING

TROJAN? HEAT AND IN A SANDSTORM, SAID THE

"Obviously а further statement will be made in the near future regarding

BRITISH MILITARY SPOKESMAN IN CAIRO LAST NIGHT.

The spokesman added that when they the flight to this country met with opposition the enemy columns re- of this very high and im- tired to their starting line near Sollum. portant Nazi leader,'

declared Mr. Churchill in

the Commons yesterday BENGHAZI

when invited to make a

statement about Rudolf TWICE

Hess.

Mr. Lawson (Labour) raised the question of the German radio reference to "total instabil- ity"

SHELLED

the

"There is every evidence Germans

F 1 • experiencing the greatest administrative problems, particularly supplies of water, food and ammunition," said the spokes- man, commenting on the thrust towards Egypt.

In the thrust (says Reuter's special correspondent with а mobile

Western patrol in the Desert) the enemy appeared to be using about 200 vehicles already

operating an-

independent and various

co umns without supply lines. These would doubtless be

and asked whether the Two bombardments of Premier had any information on Benghazi, this subject.

k

nounced,

In

far

Another member asked whe convoy movements have established later if the Germans ther the Premier was taking stops with the Minister been carried out by Bri-found they had penetrated Information to sce that thitish naval units operating enough to make them necessary.

plece of

of

news is dealt with

with skill and imagination." in the Central Mediter-

ranean during the period MR. CHURCHILL SAID THIS May 6 to 12.

Sunrise Attack

Empire Society

RUSSO-GERMAN Building Wrecked

RELATIONS?

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

O

The theory is held in Washington by number of officials that Hess and Hitler fell out on the ques- tion of Russia and Russo-German rela-

tions.

The | Society's building in Lon- don, which is well-known to visitors from all over the world, was severely damaged in recent air raids.

Royal Empire

Practically the entire law Jibrary, involving between 12,090 and 15,000 books, was destroyed. In addition between 10,000 and. 12,000 books were destroyed in the newspaper room, including the whole of the British Empire

Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, announced

that. no official despatches

section. had been received on Hess.--Reuter.

TOO TOO SHOCKING!

Starting at sunrise the enemy The announcement from London flung out five columns towards, that Hess will be removed to a Egypt. All columns were engaged secret destination, is described in sea, between Sollum and Buqbuq, teresting." and the battle raged from the German circles in Berlin as "in- Berlin political circles feel cer-

IS ONE OF THOSE CASES IN WHICH THE IMAGINATION IS An Admiralty communique SOMEWHAT BAFFLED BY THE states that during these operations FACTS AS THEY PRESENT, nine enemy aircraft were shot THEMSELVES." (LAUGHTER). down and one damaged, while

two British fighters were lost.

Despite the usual exaggerated claims of the enemy, no damage of any sort was sustained by Bri- tish ships during these operations. Thus, adds the communique, during the above period British down from the escarpment, curved southwards from Serand and

ques-

O her supplementary tioners begged Mr. Churchill to bear in mind Hess's record devotion to the evil genius Europe. (Cheers).

of

of

use

Other 10sses involved a com- plete section on foreign colon- leation as well as irreplaceab'e and official foreign periodicals Journals of former German and other colonies.

The entire Hind Collection of books concerning East Africa and the Gibraltar and Malta sections were also lost.

The administrative quarters, together with the India Room.

Room and New Zealand

social Reuter. rooms, were gutted,

FRAU HESS IN GERMANY

50 miles into the desert.

The first German column, tain that Mr. Churchill will pushing along the coastal road the affair for "the vilest purposes Frau Hess and her children are leading to Sidi Barrani, en of propaganda," according to ain Germany, states a message countered British advanced semi-official statement issued in from Berlin, denying reports that defensive positions,

Berlin.-Reuter.

they are in Ankara.-Reuter.

which Another column,

along the

came

coastal

They questioned the prudence naval forces in the Mediterranean endeavoured to advance in a par- of announcing that Hess was in destroyed a total of 16 enemy

Glasgow hospital as being aircraft and damaged unfair to the people of Glasgow, six others.-Reuter.

who might possibly expect a rain

of bombs.

THE PRIME DECLARED: "HE

MINISTER WON'T

ALWAYS BE IN GLASGOW."--- REUTER.

DEATH DUTIES DECISION

ai least

allel direction plain,

SINGAPORE WAR LOAN

A new loan of £1,168,000 is to be raised in the Malay States for the prosecution of the war.

Immense Mobility

On the escarpment, two columns crossed the Egyptian frontier west of Sollum and south of the British forces.

The battle on the escarpment was one of immense mobility, since in the rolling desert columns can paus unnoticed within a few miles of the other. On the previous night, continues Reuter's correspondent, I returned A previous loan of £2,386,000 | from terrain on which this escarp-

THE ESTATES OF CIVILIANS has already been subscribed by ment fighting took place. KILLED BY ENEMY

ACTION WILL HENCEFORTH NOT BE LIABLE TO DEATH DUTIES ON A NORMAL SCALE.

the Malay States.

an-

British Operation

In Singapore, the Government of the Straits Settlements has nounced that a new loan of £2,- I had been accompanying a 300,000 is to be raised and the highly 'mobile British patrol Relief will be granted on the money sent to Britain as, a gift. which, in the course of a lightning same terms as those applying, to Previously, a similar loan of operation, had cleared all German members of the armed forces kill-£2,900,000 was raised and sent to ed on active service.

The Chancellor of the Exche- quer fold the Commons yesterday.. that the new arrangements wou'd be made retrospective to the be- rinning of the war-Reuter.

Britain.

HESS NEPHEW IN

U.S. ARMY

troops west and south of Sollum out of Egypt in the course of a few days' fighting.

After reaching Libya the British patról retired, having achieved its object.

DURING THIS OPERATION Gustav Adolf Hess, nephew. of THE BRITISH COLUMN MET Rudolf, la now serving with PARTIES OF GERMAN TANKS. United States anti-aircraft battery ALL OF WHICH WERE PUT TO In the Panama Canal Zone: -FLIGHT""" · AS WELL AS ABOUT Six British evacuees, women His father, Gustav, brother of 600 TRANSPORT ---VEHICLES. and children, from Iraq arrived Rudolf, died in the United States CONSIDERABLE CASUALTIES

IRAQ EVACUEES

in Karachi yesterday, according in 1020, says a Reuter cable from WERE INFLICTED. ON THE

val Reuter message,

Bristol, (Va), jam 1ZTU ZENEMY-REUTER.

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