THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 26, 1941.
COMRADES THREE.
Pat Twohill, Chips Rafferty
and
Grant Taylor are featured in Charles Chauvel's romance of the Australian Light Horse, "Forty Thousand Horsemen”, now showing at the King's Theatre.
FIRST FULL STORY
HOW THE ANZACS STRUCK AT NAZI PICKED TROOPS
(From RONALD MONSON)
FAMILY TRADITION SINCE WATERLOO
Eighteen-year-old.
Haverford Silvester Ward, whose fore- fathers have served in the Army since Water- loo has been refused enlistment in the R.A.O.C., armourers' branch, as a regular soldier, on the grounds that he is not yet 19. His case is to be raised in Parliament by Lt. John Morris, Cons., Salford, who is to ask the Secretary for War, Capt. Margesson, if he will reconsider his decision in view of the fact that Ward can strip and do repairs to a Service rifle, is an expert shot, is a mem- ber of the Home Guard, and wishes to make a career in the Army.
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MILE BY MILE, YARD BY YARD, FIGHTING "SPIRITUAL
THE TERROR OF MASSED DIVE-BOMBERS, FIGHTING THE ONSLAUGHTS OF HITLER'S PICKED STORM TROOPS, THE AUSTRALIANS AND NEW ZEALANDERS IN GREECE CARRIED OUT ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT REAR- GUARD ACTIONS OF ALL TIME.
Their forces as a result remained intact around Mount Olympus. Between Olympus, Salonika and Monastir were scores of blown-up bridges, dynamit- ed roads, blocked valleys.
Here is the epic story of these warriors of Em- pire:-
A private from Rainbow. New South Wales, telling of the same battle, said:
"The Germans tried all sorts of stunts to get through us without While the small force that had|fighting, but we tumbled them. I been sent to Monastir to help the | reckon we killed 20,000 in the the Yugoslavs was battling with fighting up to here. the enemy, another Australian
force was holding the Verrai Pass, south-west of Salonika, with units in position on both sides of the slopes.
Too Right
They
barred the way for week. Then the order to with draw came.
"It was very cold in the snow, especially coming direct from the desert, but the boys stood it well
Driven Back
OPERATION" ON WOMAN
Charged with fraud, a 60-year old quack doctor named Chung Hsiang-fah, alias Hu Kwung, faced the First Special District Court in Shanghai and was remanded in custody for a week pendipg further investigations. An HC complice was also detained by the court but a third alleged accum- plice was released on bail.
Accused, who was sentenced some time ago by the same court to eight months' imprisonment on a similar charge was arrested at his "affice" in Lane 334 Burkill Road following a complaint made by a Cantonese woman,
Accused was alleged to have performed a "spiritual" operation of Buddha on through the help
a blokes. The way they drove a one some time.
the roads, machine-gunned
"I would like to say a word, too, about the Army Service Corps the woman, who has been ill for She paid $20 as the and first instalment of $80 but she was Instead of some medl- dive-bombed all the time. was, not cured.
woman cine, the
was said to simply marvellous,"
ashes of have been given some The day's heavy fighting and
incense which she was asked to the rigours of withdrawals Over
cook in water with some sugar. mc that terrible country to a reformed line She took the "holy" medicine but the men were given cups of teal left the victors of the Western
They fought in the pasecs un. til many dropped from fatigue. Ambulance men told
roused by the medical
been defrauded,
and fell asleep until they were! Desert with the highest spirits, 500n she realised
officer and cheerful grins on their still investigating as with "Sorry, old man, but you've battle-grimed faces: got to get back to the job."
The Diggers would struggle awake, grin, and with "Too right: I'm ready for them again,” would move back Into positions.
A New Zealand transport driv- er told me how stirred he was to be fighting again in line with the Austra'ians,
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he
"We're Anzacs this time.' said. "It did me good, when I picked up some of your boys in
Another officer, telling of the Monastir PREB fighting. said that despite repeated attacks by vastly superior numbere of the enemy equipped with machine-guns, automatic rifles, trench mortars, tanks, and large quantities of artillery, the Aussies drove them back ro- peatedly during three daya of fighting.
have similarily sick persons.
that she had The police are accused might victimised other
INDO-CHINA BANK TO OPEN IN JAPAN
The Bank of Indo-China has
He went on. "We had taken up just been authorised by the the pass, to see the way they car-nositions eighteen miles from the Japanese Government to open a ried wounded New Zealanders, Yugoslav border when the Ger- branch office in Yokohama, whom they had brought across mans Invaded Yugoslavia. On following the recent economic the mountains on their backs. Good Fridav we moved forward
| agreements signed between Japan "They were gentle as mothers to new positions, lust reaching and Indo-China. with them. It nearly made me them two hours before the Ger- cry to see it. They were out on mans arrived. their feet themselves, too, bui when I saw them the next day preparing new positions they were as cheery as ever."
Mowed Down
Nazi: Dodges
It is considered natural that the bank should establish a branch in Japan where it has never had an office until now, and thus to "We saw them rushing up buses contribute to the strengthening of economic and financial ties, bě- and dashing into the cornflelds on tween Japan and Indo-China, the plain below us. The first shot The manager of the Yokohama of our artillery struck a bus-load branch will be M. Jacques Got, of them, sending them sky-high Inspector of the Bank of Indo-
"It was then 5 p.m. It started snowing heavily as night fell. Ger China, who came out to the Far The Germans came over under mountains, trying to locate our The address of the new branch man patrols came up through the East in 1911. He will be assisted
by M. Georges Bouvard.ed cover of artillery and tanks: Theit positions by pretending they were is 53 Yamashita-cho. Nanaku fire power from automatic arms Australians. was intense,
A young lieutenant from Mel-
bourne said:
"The main attack began on East- er Sunday,
"Our chaps. mowed thom down, but they kept up the at: tacks all day, th
“Thủy, triad euch dodges - na calling out in good English
Come on, Steve," "Put that rifle down.....
Yokohama.
FATAL BOMB FIND
"We were driven off one posl-
Raymond Partridge, a 19-year- tion, but retool. it very shortly. They also roamed through the old Cardiff-schoolboy, was killed afterwards. Our boys were very darkness jubbering In Greck when a light bomb, which had cool. New Zealanders alongside "At first some of our lads fell been concealed in an Anderson us dealt out terrible slaughter. for it, and a few were captured jehelter at the back, of the house,
"We were ordered to withdraw, before they could fire. as the Greaks had been forced to "I heard that some of these The bomb had been picked up reform their line-south of Gro- Germans wore Australian. uní-by boys who, unknown to their
forms."
parents, hid it in the sheltor.
exploded.
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