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No. 32,152

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1941

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ENGINELESS GLIDERS

USED IN

DOCTRINE ROOSEVELT OF FUTURE STATEMENT OF EUROPE

"The doctrine of the future Europe consisting of five or six federated blocs working together, and working in such а way that no one bloc in a posi-

"SOME GRAVITY"

President Roosevelt

is expected to make a statement "of some gravity" to the no- tion this week, says Reuter from Washing-

ton.

would even be hegemony NO SPECIAL

tion to achieve

in Europe, was very well received in America and was found to be

highly reassuring."

General Sikorsky, the Polish Premier who has recently return- ed to Britain from the United States, made this statement yes- terday.

MESSAGE

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DOES NOT EXPECT TO SEND ANY SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

CRETE FORAY Nazis Face Tough

Proposition

THE GERMAN ATTACK ON CRETE, WHICH BEGAN JUST BE- FORE DAWN YESTERDAY MORNING AND WHICH WAS PREFACED ON MONDAY BY A HEAVY AIR BOMBARDMENT, HAD BEEN EX- PECTED, AND THE APPOINTMENT OF MAJOR-GENERAL FREY- BERG, V.C., AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, TOGETHER WITH REIN- FORCEMENT OF THE DEFENCES AND MANPOWER, WERE INDICA- TIONS OF ALLIED PREPAREDNESS.

Crete is a considerable menace to the GERMAN land, but its capture will prove extremely ATTACK

enemy because of its proximity to the main-

difficult.

Lacking sea power, Germany must rely SMASHED

on air-borne troops, lacking landing grounds --the island is very mountainous Germany must rely on parachute troops.

Use of engineless gliders, which He announced this at his press can land more easily on uneven General Sikorsky discussed conference yesterday, thus disap-ground, was a surprise move, but not caught with President Roosevelt this pointing upwards of 100 journal- the defenders were plan to ensure a peaceful and ists present. They had jamined unawares. prosperous Europe, and General] the President's office for what was Sikorsky says America is deep ly interested in after the war reconstruction of Europe,

He also told a reporter “All of- ficial matters which I went over to raise have been satisfactorily setiled.

"In Canada we have several agreements

signed

of a military

as well as a financial character, as

a result of which, within a month

or two, military camps will be in being in Canada."-Reuter.

U.S. BOMBERS IN SERVICE IN N. AFRICA

AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURED IN THE U.8. HAVE BEEN USED AS BOMBERS IN THE NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN FOR THE FIRST TIME.

expected to be a momentous con- ference, in expectation of an indi- ; cation from the President of "8 big decision."-Reuter,

FALLUJAH CAPTURE IMPORTANT

even

arc

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The fall of Italy's last big stronghold in East Africa, Amba Alagi, was followed by the announce- ment in Cairo that a new attempt by two German- Italian armoured columns to invade Egypt smashed.

British

was

Imperial mechanised

back

The British and Allied forces are assisted in the island's de- fence by the warlike Cretan hillamen) whose womenfolk accustomed to the constant necessity of fighting

WAR MATERIAL SENT FROM troops and low-swooping R.A.F. to protect their homes.

SYRIA HAS NOT GONE and Sou h African bombers ham- Led by "The captains of the THROUGH TURKISH

Axis columns TERRI- mered the Hills," such

Captain

Holy TORY,

ACCORDING TO A into Libya, International News George, who had killed 10 men USUALLY RELIABLE SOURCE Service. when he was still only

IN CAIRO YESTERDAY, years old, and the thrack-bearded giant Captain Tan, the hillsmen are banded together armed chiefly with knives and swords.

THEY CONSTITUTE

nine

This source reveals the war ma- terial was sent by rail to Aleppo. where it was unloaded and trans- ferred to a fleet of Iraqt lorries

LOSS OF "CAMITO”

The sinking of the Royal Naval Auxiliary vessel "Camito" was

A which conveyed the material by announced by the Admiralty in

卓 London yesterday, says Reuter.

AND CAN BE RELIED UPON TOS=

The great strategic FORMIDABLE "HOME GUARD road to Mosul-Reuter. value of the Iraqi town of AND INTELLIGENCE SERVICE, Fallujah, captured by the DEAL WITH ANY NAZI PARA- British from the rebels, is CHUTISTS UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH TO FALL INTO stressed in Cairo military THEIR HANDS. REUTER circles.

Fallujah Bridge is the only crossing of the Euphrates between Habbaniyah and Baghdad.

Had this narrow, one-way traffic bridge been destroyed-- and it is thought that the rebels had mined it-Habbaniyah would have been cut off from British They participated in the air land-borne reinforcements, and bombardment of enemy positions since the Euphrates is in full

Great

Emotion

The Rome correspon-

round Fort Capuzzo on the after-flood, would have caused consi-dent of the "Basler noon of May 18, It was revealed derable embarrassment to British

by the Air Ministry news service operations in this area. Reuter. Nachrichten,” writing of

yesterday.

Heavy bombe were dropped on German tanks and machan- ised vehicles dispersed near the old Capuzzo aerodrome. The squadron in question

has

an American citizen on its nomin-

al roll. He is a sergeant air gun-.. ner, who received the. 1.F.M. for gallantry in the Abyssinian-cam- paign Reuter,

CONFIRMED

the Duke of Aosta, says: has "The capitulation caused great sorrow and profound emotion"

AS GOVERNOR Rome.

OF MALTA

in

Rome had hoped that the Duke's prolonged resistance would have prevented the British with- drawing troops for use in Libya,

However, according to the MAJOR-GENERAL SIR WIL- "National Zeitung," Berlin circles LIAM.... GEORGE SHEDDEN say the Duke's capitulation is un- DOBBIE, KNOWN AS THE Important because the main part STAFF AT ALEPPO “MODERN GORDON” OWING of the British forces in Abyssinia TTO HIS RELIGIOUS FERVOUR, had withdrawn long ago and sent Aleppo airport, in Syria, la oc- HAS, THE COLONIAL OFFICE to Libya and Iraq, — Reuter. cupied by a German ground staff, A-NNOUNCED YESTERDAY,

GERMAN GROUND

and all the 20 or more Syrian air- BEEN APPOINTED GOVERNOR the troops in April, 1940, with the ports are available for German OF MALTA.

exception of a short period in

use, says the Ankara correspon- Sir William has been adminis- May, 1940, immediately before dent of the Columbia Broadcasting tering the Government of Malta General Sir Charles Bonham- system,quoted by Reuter.since her assumet command of Carter left the colony. Reuter.

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