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THE CHINA MAIL SEPTEMBER 16, 1941-

BIG EGYPTIAN

AIR BATTLE ON

FRONTIER

A BIG AIR BATTLE on the Egyptian Tripoli frontier is recorded in a communique from Royal Air Force Headquarters in Cairo yesterday.

The communique says 'a strong force of South African bombers yesterday attacked and dispersed enemy motor transport and. armoured fighting vehicles in the frontier.”

area.

"A large number of bombs fell among the vehicles. Many direct hits were observed and fires of considerable dimensions broke nut. The last formation of our attacking aircraft, with its fighter escort, was engaged by German and Italian fighters.

"In the ensuing air combats one Messerschmitt 109 and one

LEASE AND LEND

FIGURES

President Roosevelt has-

GOEBBEL'S reported to Congress that

MACHINE

the actual exports of American war supplies, to nations fighting the Axis

REVELATIONS ABOUT THE FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF under the Lease and Lend THE AXIS

NEWS AGENCIES programme, totalled U.S. ARE CONTAINED IN THE THIRD REPORT ISSUED IN $190,447,670 up to August

Italian Cant 50 were destroyed. BUENOS AIRES BY THE FAR-31 last. and others badly damaged. One Italian aircraft of the "S 79" type was shot down in the fron ler zone,

"During Saturday night R.A.F. bombers raided Tripoll, Benghazi and Barce. A Tripoli bombs were dropped on shipping in the harbour and оп the Spanish Mole. Many bursts were observ- ed on and near ships both in the barbour and alongside the quays.

Blazing Furiously

"At Zuara, one large ship, be lieved to be part of the remnants of the convoy successfully attack

•d by the Fleet Air Arm and Royal Air Force in the Central Mediterranean, was seen blazing furtously, and the ship later ex- ploded with great violence.

The

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In one month this news agency spent 20.000 pesos compared with local receipts of 6,000 pesos. Reuter.

an

other abroad.

LIAMENTARY COMMITTEE WHICH IS

This figure represented expen- INVESTIGATING

weapons and ANTI-ARGENTINE ACTIVITIES. ditures for

that report shows

the supplies actually sent Trans-Ocean News Agency, The President added, however, German undertaking, and the that defence articles transferred, Italian Euro-American under including some still awaiting ship- an additional taking have spent enormous sums ment, amounted to in propaganda though the profits $35,946,701, while the various ser- vices, for example repairing of they made were negligible.

Between 1937 and 1940, the warships

additional Trans-Ocean News Agency

re- $78,169,377. ceived one million pesos from Furthermore, expenditure for Berlin while local receipts did' articles for services not yet finish- not exceed 26,000 pesos.

ed amounted to approximately $160,000,000, and the President

that calculated

"through the month of August, the total dol- lar value

articles defence of transferred and defence services rendered, plus expenditures for other Lease and Lend purposes" amounted to about $487,000,000.

President Roosevelt said that "At Benghazi, both the har-

'planes; tanks, guns and ships, bour and shipping were bomb-

have begun to flow from our fac- ed, while at Barce oll storage! Dorothy Cecilia Binns, wife of tories and yards, and the flow will tanks and buildings were dea- Gunner Ivor Binns. R.A., told he accelerated from day to day, troyed.

Carlisle magistrates that when he until the stream becomes a river, joined the Army her husband or- and the river a torrent engulfing "The aerodrome at Gerbini was dered her to send to him each this totalitarian tyranny which bombed by the Fleet Air Arm weck half her Army allowance of seeks to dominate the world."- during Saturday night. In addi- 25s. and

rest in his Reuter. tion to those already mentioned | name. one other British aircraft is miss- "I continued in work as a shop assistant," said Mrs. Binns, who The crew of one British air-noolied for a separation order. craft, reported lost in the Medi- "My husband forbade me to go to terranean on September 12, have dances or to cafes." now been brought to safety." Reuter.

ing.

Later Statement

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An additional communique Issued from R.A.F. Headquarters last night in Cairo says:-

SAYS HUSBAND BANNED DANCES

bank the

The magistrates adjourned the case for a month, told the wife to stick to her Army allowance, and ordered the husband not to molest her meanwhile.

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MOSCOW HELD HIM PRISONER

Mr. Bruce Lockhart, it was an- nounced in the House of Com- mons is to advise the Ministry of WAZIRISTAN QUIET Information on foreign policy.

He was acting Consul-General "Further details of yesterday's

A message from Peshawar in Moscow from 1915 to 1917. (Sunday) air operations over the

Waziristan has been When the Bolshevist revolution frontier zone of the Western states that Desert show that in addition to exceptionally quieter during the broke out he was, recalled, On the destruction of enemy aircraft past fortnight than it had ever being sent back in 1918 he was mentioned in this afternoon's been before. The Fakir of Ip is arrested and imprisoned in the communique,

air-reported to be much worried over Kremlin. two German

the continued misappropriation He was exchanged for, M.. craft of the Junkers 87 type were

Litvinov, who had been detain destroyed by anti-aircraft fire of funds by his lieutenants..

Reutes.

An England. Fle is 52. and another was compelled to make a forced landing, the crew being captured.

"The attack by our fighters on the Gambut landing ground was very successful, a number of enemy aircraft being severe- ly damaged.

"Last night the attack on this landing ground. was resumed by the Fleet Air Arm. Their bomb- ing resulted in eight enemy air- craft being left in flames and some half dozen others damaged."

Reuter.

THINK OF 1944, FARMERS ARE TOLD

Farmers have been asked by the Minister of Agriculture to think not only of the harvests of 1942 and 1943, but also of 1944.

If this year's „excellent-harvest prospects proved well founded and the harvest was gathered in good condition, British • farmers would have produced more: hu- man food this year than they had ever done in pre-war days. wo

In the last two years four mililon» across were ploughed and the Ministry were asking. for another two- million acres) this year, da

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