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No, Sir, the Black Out does not start for forty minutes. Captain Jenkins and five other gentlemen coming over with you from the Mess? very good, Sir —- -I'll put out drinks in the billiard room. You think they'll be staying late, Sir? Then I'll tell cook to prepare sandwiches. And a piano? Certainly, Sir. Might I suggest the cottage piano from the nursery, not the grand from the music room. No, Sir, no light showing through the blinds

I have taken every precaution. And I will also make a point of leaving out six bottles of Rose's Lime Juice to avoid any possibility of what are known in civilian life as hangovers. Ia times like the present, Sir, we must be prepared for any emergency. Goodbye, Sir. I'll be back about 5 a.m. No, Sir, I won't forget the Rose's. Goodbye, Sir.

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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 25, 1941..

TOBRUK SIEGE IS NOW IN REVERSE

(By Russell Hill)

THE MORALE OF AXIS troops in the western desert, particularly that of the Italians, has suffered considerably in consequence of the sorties and offen- sive patrols carried out by the British garrison at Tobruk, Libyan port encircled by Axis forces in their drive into Egypt in April.

Moreover, the knowledge that the "rats of Tobruk," as Lord Haw-Haw, the Berlin radio com- mentator, has dubbed the Australian defenders, can attack as well as defend themselves worries the com- manders of Germany's Afrika Korps.

The

commanders know that falls upon Tobruk daily and parti- | whenever the battle is resumed cularly upon the harbour, the along the Libyan-Egyptian fron- enemy has been unable to close tier the British forces at this harbour to shipping and thus Tobruk may sally forth and cut sever the garrison's only line of | Axis lines of communications and communications-by sea. Ships

attack their rear.

bringing reinforcements of men and munitions still arrive regular- ly in the port.

A month ago, when this cor- respondent was at Tobruk, the garrison there was still on the A few days ago Tobruk claimed defensive.

But a

raids. endured 037 air British major to have Who has just returned from there

With a touch of pride the major has told me of events that have said this was a new record, con- taken place since then.

siderably surpassing that, pre- viously held by Malta. "Yet," he added, "as far as the military damage they have inflicted is cun- The story of Tobruk's resistance cerned, they might as well have already has assumed its place stayed at home." alongside other herole episodes which have dis' inguished great

All Prisoners Italians

wars of history and helped men TWIN TO

forget their stupidity, brutality and waste, This resistance has been made possible partly by in- domitable spirit and partly by the skilful uflisation of the defensive weapons available.

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SEVEN CHILDREN

AT A BIRTH

The wife of a shoe- maker in the village of Sanmiguel de Machded, Portugal, has given birth to seven children, all girls:

The birth was pre- mature, and all died.

The mother is thirty-nine, and the father, Vergilio Sal- gado, 41.

They have previous- ly had ten children, of whom nine are living. The eldest is seven- teen

years and the youngest eighteen months.--Reuter.

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GERMANS FOOLED IN

CURE TWIN HOLLAND

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R.A.F. doctors are trying to

A music-hall compere

The point of departure for the arrange for twin brothers to be one of them is present British sorties and offen- united because sive patrols as well as the corner- Suffering from what is described has made stone of the sixteen-week defence as "frustrated twin complex."

a laughing-

of Tobruk is a line of Italian Jack and Lionel Horton belong stock of Nazis at Gron- forts in the shape of a great forty-to Glasgow and have been on the ingen, northern Holland. mile long are known as the peri- ground staff of the Air Force for meter. Recent British operations, some time at different stations in have succeeded in wiping out the England. salient the Germans made in ear- lier attacks, in which they oc- cupied a small number of these forts on the western side of the perimeter.

Main Complaint

He billed himself as "OZO”---a popular Dutch term for "Holland will be victorious under Orange" -and produced orange ribbons and other emblems from his hal. Patriotic songs were sung.

When spring, has

Lionel is married and Jack, who hopes to be married to a Bradford girl next been ill for the past six months.

Doctors found him to be suffering from rheumatism,

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the audience roared their approval a Nazi Storm Trooper leapt on to the stage and cancelled the performance.

but separation from his brother is the major complaint. Doctors are endeavouring to hall.

Silently, 1,200 people left the Outside they encircled the

the crowd.

It has not, however, been the object of the British patrols to capture ground outside the peri- meter. A few square miles more of territory in the desert could useful purpose and obrve no would be difficult to defend. The patrols have been most arrange for Jack to be posted to Storm Trooper and his men who, successful in gaining information the same station as Lionel. They while the police looked on, had to regarding the enemy's dispositions are convinced it will make him use their fists to break through and hastily erected fortifications. better. The captured prisoners are all Itallans. This fact alone is in- teresting, since it is taken as an indication that in the Tobruk sector, at least, all German troops have been withdrawn. The British major who has just returned said. that the "Germans have handed the job back to the Italians, and the Italians are doing just as poor- ly as ever."

Foes Demoralised

The major object of these

patro's probably has been to com- plete the demoralisation of Ita-

lian troops. In the first raid the

Italians are said to have run away

WIFE

SHOT AT

PARTY CHARGE

WHEN BROTHER OFFICERS made merry at

a farewell party, the man they were honouring sat shot in the head in an adjoining room beside the body of his wife.

That was disclosed when Major William Mac- kinnon Gray, 39, of the Royal Scots, was charged screaming into the night. Now, on remand at Radstock, near Bath, with the murder whenever they observe the slight of his wife, Helen Amaryll Gray, at Chilcompton, on est sign of activity on the part of the British, they lay down an April 10. He was also charged with attempting sui- artillery barrage of an intensity cide with a revolver on the same date. calculated to halt a large-scale

offensive.

The major wore battle dress, without the major, leaving him

in the garden with his wile. "Mr. Gordon Clark, prosecut- The major's batman found the ing, described the cass as "the major in the ante-room. story of a man'in great-financial distress and personal difficulties. who, finding no honourable exit, Lattempted to destroy hloown life and destroyed that of his wife."

He was sitting bolt upright In an armchair," and there was blood on his head..

The Germans now have con- in court. 'firmation of what they probably knew long ago-that they canhot rely upon the Italians to hold any part of a line anywhere. Thus the Germany, are face to face with a dilemma. Apparently they need elsewhere the troops which have been fighting in Libya and would like to be able to retire and leave. A statement alleged to have the defence of the desert to the been made by the major was to Major Gray was alleged to have Italians. But they dare not do the effect that he was completely said: "I shot my wife with a 38

penniless and had given a cheque revolver..........

this:

Lying on the sofa was Mrs. Gray with her, head hurled in A cushions,

When he arrived at hospital,

Or if it lo decided the troops for a mess bill which could not shot myself, through the are so badly nooded that they be meter Y PROR HAS SAS head. I don't want to be saved, must be withdrawn, the Axia The major was relinquishing i want to die.cl have.com faces the possibility of losing command of a company on Aprilia mitted two crimesan S all of Libya and leaving. Africa 9, and had handed over the busl-] :: entirely in the hands of the ness matters. On the state of British Par

Meanwhile, the bombing and

shelling of Tobruke continues.

Here again the Italians seem to

those funds something might turn.

Head Under Cushions

A detective sald that In room which had been occupied by the major, he found several pawn tickets. There were also unpaid bills totalling more Major. Gray was remanded with

have been left completely In A photograph was taken at a charge. Nearly all the planes one farewell party on April 10, Mrs. a view to his, committal for: trial sees over the fortress are identi- Gray was under the influence at. Winchester Assizos. His soll- fled as Italian. In spite of the hall of drink and very gay. The citor said that the defened, would of steel from land and air which other "officers went in to lunch be reserve