1941-06-03 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 3, 1941

REARGUARD

RETREAT

HEROIC

IN CRETE

SPECIAL U.S. NAVY

Advancing Germans Held MISSIONS

At Bay

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent)

HOW THREE BRITISH TANKS AND THREE AUSTRALIAN BREN - GUN CARRIERS FOUGHT A REARGUARD ACTION OVER THE WHITE MOUNTAINS IN CRETE AND HELD THE ADVANCING GERMANS ÁT BAY WHILE BRITISH TROOPS RETIRED TO THE DEBARK- ATION BEACHES, WAS TOLD TO REUTER YESTERDAY BY A WOUNDED BRITISH TANK CAPTAIN.

"We began our retreat from westward of

Canea under the most concentrated dive- bombing and machine-gunning from the air any of us had ever seen, "the officer said.

"We passed through Cánea, where not a single house seemed to be left standing. The entire town had been reduced to heaps of rubble by the Luftwaffe.

sometimes as many bombers

the

WHIS

THE HOUSE OF REPRESEN- TATIVES IN WASHINGTON YESTERDAY PASSED WITH- OUT DEBATE AND SENT TO! THE SENATE LEGISLATION. FERMITTING PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO APPOINT AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF VICE ADMIRALS TO HAVE CHARGE OF "SPECIAL AND UNUSUAL" MISSIONS OF THE! NAVAL FORCES.

High naval officials at a recent House Naval Committee hearing said that the new Vice- Admirals would command "task forces" separate from the feet for speciati was! Iduty and that no indication.

given as to where the task forces) would be sent. --Reuter.

PURPOSE

POWERS OF REQUISITION FOR ROOSEVELT

The U.S. War De- partment has sub- mitted to Congress a request for legisla- the tion authorising President during the national

emergency

to requisition property of any kind "necessary to national defence." Officials in Washington yester- day said that this was similar to powers

OF WINANT assumed by President VISIT

THE US. AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN, MR. JOHN G WIN- ANT, RETURNED TO THE US ONLY FOR A GENERAL EX- CHANGE OF VIEWS, ACCORD. ING TO A STATEMENT BY A STATE DEPARTMENT OFFI CIAL

THE PRESS TO

IN WASHINGTON YESTERDAY,

The official, seeking to allay sperulation, said Mr. Winant ask-

ed 10 days ago for permission to return for consultation.

He brought no speclai message

to

“We fought our way along the

This officer was wounded by a road to a buil of bullets

splinter which from three-quch as 20 dive- blown into the sale of his foot by from the British Government, soj

level swooping almost

a high-explosive bullet, and had, far as is known.

Mr. Winant

expected with cit

beach where he furrets and trying to crawled to the

President Roosevelt confer with put us out of action, hut by the boarded a destroyer.

of State Cordel! We A!, ༤༩༣ ༢ ཛྙཱ{ta!

Once aboard, while dive-bomb-and Secretary

Reuter. Hull to-day. -- the vessel, he was mountams the Litis affe sheered ers attacked off and left us alone

he under what operated described as an old-fashioned "We took up a position

anaesthete, CO2- in the tht excellent saucer-shaped depresyon vicinity of deserted village sisting of six double runs and a commanding a ridge over which shot of morphia." we waited for the Germans tol appear.

101 2

"Behind us the last columns of our retreating troop made their way down a steep valley on the Jast 15 miles to the const, many of them assisting wounded,

Rearguard Action

"At 6 a.m, several companies of Germans, with mortars, ap- peared over the ridge. We opened fire at long range - the tanks held the central position across the road, the Bren car. riers deploying on either side. "Our force was very small and we were careful not to allow the Jerries close enough to use their hand-grenades.

WIDE

Reuter.

ROOSEVELT

POWERS

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"

Senator Reynolds, chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Commit-

for

"We were slowly forced to re-tee, is to file a Bill propos- tire down the valley as the Gering wartime power out flanking movements, trying to President Roosevelt to re- encircle us.

mens in great numbers carried

"We made use of every bend inquisition "property of any the winding road which offered a kind and character" in- fresh stand, halting the

enemy cluding factories, ships, and giving our retreating troops us many extra valuable minutes and tangible and intan-

gible assets.

as possible.

Marines Fight

To The Last

典

the in

was

SINO-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP

Wilson during the Great War.----Reuter.

British

Embassy

Damaged

The

British

ANGRY COMMENT

IN DUBLIN

Commenting on the air raid on Dublin on Satur- day morning the Dublin newspaper "Irish Press" refers to the protest to Germany sent by the Eire

and Government that in this protest and

the this demand

Irish Government have the every Irish

support of

| citizen.

State.

says

IL

"This is a neutral has maintained its neutrally with a correctitude which is evident to all belligerents.

"That il should nevertheless suffer the horrors of last Satur- day morning calls for most vehe- ment condemnation.

in Inve

"The heart-rending scenes The devastated areas must Brought into the minds of all who

SO

or read of the a feeling or deepest resentment that grievous a hurt should have been

nflicted on our cupital and unoffending prople."

paper. Another Dublin Irish Independent," writes:

15

it..

The

"This

the eighth time within

nines

have

terri-

Embassy months on which bombs

was badly damaged and ef dropped inside our

French consulate

the

demolished when 27 Jap- anese aircraft

Bry. Bitish Wireless.

raided BARN NOW

Chungking yesterday.

cicl

EMPTY

There were no casualties among the Embassy staff when a bonb immediately behind the Chinese newspapers in Chung-landed king yesterday gave prominence effier of the Ambassador but to the text of letters exchanged not explode. between the United State: Scere- : The American Methodist Hos- tary of State. Mr. Cordell Huti. pital was damaged by two bombs too late to prevent escape

Mr.

and

Lo Chinese Foreign

which the United to relinquish

Thi thi.

new

Very heavy casualties were suf-

The view that it was

Minister, in fered by junkmen along the river of Axis funds from the States agrees fronts and 70 dead bodies have United States by a "freez-

extraterritorial already been recovered.-Router.

Central News adds rights as soon as peace and order are restored in China,

(.

that the ing" order, was expressed house of Sir Arthur Blackburn, yesterday by the Secre- The Chinese press unanimously Counsellor of

the fourth, tary of the Treasury, Mr. . hails this assurance as a proof of demolished. Sino-American friendship. Reu- time Sir Arthur's house had been Henry Morgenthau, when

ter.

bombed.

the Embassy, was It was

NO REASON FOR ALARM IN EAST

NO REASON FOR ALARM at Japanese threats in the Far East is seen by Major Alexandre de Morais, Portugal's best-known military commentator, writing in “O Seculo“ Under-Secretary of War Pat- terson has sent a copy of a letter in Lisbon yesterday. urging passage to Mr. Rayburn, Speaker of the House, who will refer it to the House Military Affairs Committee. The Chairman may indicate that he will intro- duce a measure for speedy enact- ment.

SHANGHAI

NEWSPAPER VIRULENCE

asked by reporters whe- ther he still considered a freezing order necessary.

that the

"My own feeling is barn is now empty," he said. The

removed Axis had already selzable funds in anticipation such an order.

its

of

the Treasury, is restricting new tax requests to $3,500,000,000 des-

Mr. Morgenthau also said that

pite increased spending estimates.

-Reuter.

U.S. DEFENCE HIGHWAYS

He says: "Japanese attention is focussed on Singapore, through which they would reach the Mal- acca Straits and the coveted President Roosevelt yesterday Dutch Indies, whose products are sent Congress a message recom- so tempting.

mending an additional appropria- "Singapore, however, is not to tion of $125,000,000 for special. be taken easily. Garrisoned by defence

highway construction, 100,000 men, it can count on fur- says Reuter from Washington. ther support from Hong Kong, Manila, Java, Borneo, and Port Darwin, in the event of serious emergency

even

a

DUBLIN AIR RAID

TOLL

"The objective is tempting to the Japanese but the enterprise la risky."

"The enemy advance was thus delayed and our troops reached comparative safety behind

British line last prepared Crete, which I understand held by Marines until the last.

Meanwhile the War Department "We crossed four bridges, to

that it has the the coast each of which was has announced

President, the blown up by a small party of approval of the

War Secretary explaining that it Sappers when we had crossed.

make all property and [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] "Four hundred yards from the will

the subject of а AN ANTI-SEMETIC, GAM- beaches we looked over the de- machinery

THE JAPANESE- serted scene

from a precipitous "draft" of power for Mr. Roose PAIGN IN slope.

velt to take munitions and plants PUBLISHED 'RUSSIAN LANGU "Only a handful of soldiers was or for any other reasons deemed AGE DAILY THE "FAR EAST-

The death-roll from Saturday's "Therefore there is no reason to visible and

we discovered that to be in the interests of defence, ERN TIMES" HAS DRAWN THE the hillside was honeycombed and that the seizure and use of ATTENTION OF THE SHANG- regard as alarming Japanese bgl-Nazl air raid on Dublin is now 34.

HAI with caves crammed with British, patent licences is needed

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL tation against Britain, the United At least 500 people are homeless. L WHICH 18 STUDYING THE States and Holland, who also Reutor: Australian and New Zealand essential war materials, soldiers waiting for nightfall, The requisitioning of ships, VIRULENT ARTICLES, WITH would enter the lists at the first VIEW TO TAKING STEPS symptom unless, of course, an im- when British warships would wharves, railroads and farms and stand off the coast and take men any other facility to sell or other- THROUGH THE JAPANESE mediate menace to its own Atlan- tic coasts necessitated withdrawal wise dispose of-at-whatever terms AUTHORITIES aboard by means of burges,

"Reuter. deemed satisfactory any requisi- The newspaper, which earlier of the fleet elsewhere." Road Blocked. tioned property, right, and inter- had flung derogatory terms at

est, will also be approved.

Council members, now calls. on. "When we reached the pre- The War Department must the general public to wage "bat attacked for their "speculative General Weygand arrived in 18 Sin Victor Vichy yesterday, afternoon states. parod British line we destroyed make "fair compensation" for all tle" against Jewish "birds, of machinations

Inter-

Sassoon, International News a Vichy despatch to Berlin quot the tanks, leaving them to block requisitioned property.

prey."

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