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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 27, 1941.

SARDINIA FOREST

SET ON FIRE DURING 'ARK ROYAL" SWEEP

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent Aboard

H.M.S. Ark Royal)

We are returning to Gibraltar after a most interesting trip which has one usual and two unusual features. The usual feature is

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ior strength, have demonstrated anew their unwillingness to attempt to engage British surface craft.

The unusual aspects are that we have attacked and set blazing an important cork forest in north Sardinia and have shown the Spaniards that Ark Royal has once again been resurrected from the watery grave to which the wishful thinking of Axis communiques have so often consigned her, by

NAZI RAID ON LENINGRAD BEATEN OFF

Nazi 'planes attack- ed Leningrad on Mon- day but were dispers- ed, says

a Moscow radio report quoted by Reuter.

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FIRST VOYAGE ON

steaming an hour off Valencia and giving an air THE HOOD--HE IS SAFE

display.

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The success of the attack the cork forest was aptly express- ed by the Admiral in a congratu- "Esti. laury signal which said; male enough burnt cork to give every Nazi a Hitler moustache."

25-lb. Boveral hundred plosive incendiary bombs were dropped on the forcat. A cork factory on the outskirts of the town of Templo was aloo at. tacked.

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HOTEL REFUSED ROOM

TO INDIAN KNIGHT

An Indian knight bombed out in a London raid, was told at suburban hotel: "Sorry. We don't take foreigners."

This was revealed in the House of Commons when the Home One of the pilots said: "We Secretary expressed "strongest dropped flares and could see a disapproval." huge area of forests on the slopes

of the hills around Tempio.

The knight was Sir Hari Singh "Evidently the Italians were not 'Gour, distinguished publicist and expecting a reid in this quarter as lawyer. only one A.A. gun went into ac-

tion and no fighters appeared.

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of

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roughly 16 milas square

of forest. We could easily see the tiny vivid flashes all over the forest at the rain of bomba exploded, scattering flames over a wide

arca.

Was

a

**The cork factory

big three-storeyed building which was blazing furiously when we left it against a background of the red glow of burning trees.

"There were two huge fires rag- ing in the forest and many small- er ones which were gaining hold. The flames were s.ill visible 75 miles away.

Off Spain

"We in'errunted the homeward journey to look in at Valencia. As we approached the Spanish coast we passed many small shing craft whose crews must have received a tremendous shock at seeing powerful British naval vessels steaming so near Spain.

W nen the morning mist lifted we could see the tall chimneys of the industrial quarter of the town and white houses gleaming in the sunshine.

"When the

about ships were eight miles from the coast we turned and steamed parallel with the shore.

"Then 18 bombers, escorted by eight fighters, flew to and fro just outside the three-miles limit in 'V' formation,

"FIFTEEN OF OUR FIGHTERS ROARED OVERHEAD IN FULL VIEW OF THE TOWNSFOLK, THEIR FORMATION MAKING A HUGE 'V' FOR VICTORY SIGN.

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"While the display, which lasted an hour, was in progress, a sub- marine came to the surface. two or three miles ahead. An aircraft was detached to look at it but found it to be a Spanish submar-. ine,

Reuter

BARONET'S WIFE GETS

..

DECREE NISI

Lady (Ruby Joy Gordon) Map-' pin, of Garden Cottage, Guild- ford, was granted a decree nisl against Sir Charles Thomas Hewitt Mappin, Bart.

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THE MIDSHIPMAN WHO ES- · CAPED FROM THE MOOD DIS- ASTER-HE AND TWO RAT- INGS ARE THE ONLY KNOWN SURVIVORS — 16 BEVENTEEN YEARS OLD, IT WAS LEARN - ED IN LONDON.

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