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No. 32,151
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1941
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SECOND ED
INSIST ON
Daisy Brand
Australia's Choicest
BUTTER
MEN OF HISTORIC REARGUARD SOVIET LAND IN CYPRUS SPITFIRE
MAKING A DEAL
The Soviet Army has begun its Spring man- oeuvres with a con- siderable concentration of troops in the region of Tashkent, near the fron- tier of Iran, according to despatch from the
a
"New
Ankara
York Times" correspondent
quoted by Ankara radio last night.
The correspondent rites diplu- matic reports in Ankara as indi- eating that Rússia and Germany "would appear to bu arranging some sort of joint action in Middle East.”
the
He specifically mentions 10- ports of negoi ations for the use by Germany of Russian ships on the Black Sea to transport wal materials to Russian ports for transit to Iran and Iraq.--Reuter.
Duke Of Aosta's Message
The
Duke of
PILOTS
Thrilling Escape MAKE HAY Of Remnants Of Force Revealed
ROOSEVELT
IT IS NOW POSSIBLE TO REVEAL THAT A PARTY OF IMPERIAL TROOPS WHO WERE REMNANTS OF THE HISTORIC REARGUARD AT MOUNT OLYMPUS, IN RAGS, SOME OF
TO ASK CONGRESS THEM ILL AND WOUNDED, HAVE REACHED
FOR DECISION?
in
According to reports circulating Washington yesterday President Roosevelt has discussed with legislative leaders the possibility that he
soon
to
will
send Congress a special message on foreign affairs, says Reuter.
THE SHORES OF CYPRUS AFTER MOST ASTONISHING ESCAPES AMONG THE GREEK | AEGEAN ISLANDS.
They tell stories of desperate resistance against impossible odds, when Nazi ‘planes, tanks and infantry, in massed assaults, tried to smash their line.
en-
Four Spitfires patrol- ling over the Channel yesterday afternoon countered 10 Messersch- midt fighters, shot down five of them in as many minutes without loss to themselves and then, with ammunition spent, raced home safely though pursued by over 30 other Messerschmidts.
Two of the Spitfire pilots got two each and the third got one, says the Air Ministry news ser- vice.
Only one German had time to bale out,
crashing the others into the sea in their machines. "It was grand," said one pilot, "but I could not stay long, for as WE soon as I had got my two, I saw other *yellow noses' SO about 25
YOU COULD WALK I had ACROSS.
Reuter. "Man for man we were better
A STAND
WAS
more no
ummunition.".
One Anzac said: "The. "ONE, RIVER WHERE
MADE Germans came on
like CHOKED WITH GERMAN (Messerschmidts) going at us and men possessed and deter- BODIES mined to be slaughtered. We mowed them down like flies.
and Mussolini exchanged VICHY'S BETRAYAL
messages before the sur-
render of Amba Alagi.
The Duke of Aosta, after show- ing surrender was no longer
avoidable, said, according to Rome radio: "I am comforted in this tragic and sad moment with the certainty of having done all that was humanly possible.
"But the war in not finished,
DISAVOWED BY GEN. DE GAULLE
A COMPLETE DISAVOWAL of "agree- ments" between the Vichy Government and Soon we shall return to these Germany is contained in a declaration by Italian blood for the glory of General de Gaulle to the British Government and the chiefs of Allied Governments in Lon-
lands once more, drenched with
our country."
The Duce replied: "You and your soldiers have fought hero-don. ically. The Italian people have followed your stand with admira- tion and share your certainty for the future." ― Reuter.
Vichy Pleased
It states that the Vichy "government" hre placed itself in a position which deprives it- self of all independence with regard to the invader.
The source of the Vichy so- The Zamzam
called government lles exclusive-
ly in the person of an old man who for many years had been known to be enfeebled by age.
cannot
Disaster
WAS
LEAST
DECLARED IN
The declaration continues: "Firstly France
IT and must not be held responsible TORONTO YESTERDAY THAT for acts supposedly committed AT
23 CANADIANS In her hame by rulers who WERE ON - BOARD THE usurped power and subjected STEAMER ZAMZAM," LOST themselves to the enemy,
WHILE CARRYING A BRITISH-
The Franco-German negotiations continue to make satisfactory pro- gress," it was officially only the French antion is AMERICAN AMBULANCE UNIT announced in Vichy continuing the war by means of REUTER. according to the German all her military forces and ter
ritories outside enemy control, MADRID AND DUKE'S news agency last night, and should therefore be consider~CH
Permission to enter theTM occu-| ed a belligerent pation by all "pied northern and western areas states, and as an ally by those Is to be granted to officials and who fight the common enemies, leaders of industrial and agricul- — Reuter.
concerns provided their pre-
SURRENDER
Fair prominence was given in the Madrid press yesterday to the surrender of the Duke of Aosta and his troops, particularly in the
* is essential for administra~ of certain categories" of prisoners newspaper "Informaciones," which
nd economic, purposes. of war is at present under consi,} prints, large headlines above the theme fom the repatriationi duration - Beutery UWA NA
knews, says Reuter.
than the Germans, but although our artillery was magnificent we had
Revenge
re-
not swarms of tanks and The fight gave the pilots planes, which was the real secret venge, for earlier in the day a of the German success."
formation of ME109's had pounced
When eventually the tanks un two machines from the same broke their lines, these men be- squadron and shot them
down.
gan to march to the roast, rations Both pilots baled out and were exhausted, without blankets and saved. with most of their equipment d's- carded,
Day and night they This squadron now claims 87,
| trudged on.-Reuter.
victories.-British Wireless.
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