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AFRICAN OPERATIONS:

ASMARA, KEREN, BADANA BOMBED BY THE R.A.F.

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CAIRO, Fed, 11 (Reuter)—Attacks on Calato and Maritza in the island of Rhodes and a successful night raid on Tripoli are recorded in yesterday's communique from the RA.F. headquar- ters in the Middle East.

The communique says that on the night of February 8-9. aerodromes at Calato and Maritra were raided by bombers. Bombs were dropped on a number of aircraft dispersed on the landing ground at the former place, causing a heavy explosion and two large fires, believed to be enemy aircraft burning.

Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm onto private property and a few the same night carried out a suc- civilians were injured. Two Ger- cessful raid on Tripoli, bombs man aircraft were shot down and falling on the scaplane station others were probably damaged. where a hangar was set 'on fire From all these extensive opera- In Italian East Africa, continued ttons, four British aircraft failed support was given to the army to return but the pilot of one la "offensive. Keren was raided re-safe.

peatedly. Much damage was caus-

LAND OPERATIONS- ed to stores and motor transport. CAIRO, Feb. 11 (Reuter)The At Asmara, South African fight- British occupation of Mersa Teclat

encountered rumber

of and Karora in Eritrea is announc- Italian planes, one enemy machine ed in a Middle East G.H.Q. com- being shot down and several others munique, badly damaged. Meanwhile R.A.P bombers ralded the town of As mara.

ers

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When enemy aircraft attacked the occupied aerodrome at Agor. dat one Italian plane was shot down by anti-aircraft fre

IN ALBANIA

Af-

Further South African bombers effectively attacked Badana. mondu and the fort at Todenyng.

In Albania a small formation of R.A.F. fighters on patrol in the Kelevre area yesterday" intercepted a large number of enemy fighters In the ensuing engagement, four Italian planes were shot down and several others were so badly dam aged that it is unlikely that they returned to their base.

One British pilot had to goan- don his craft, but made a sne cessful parachute descent and re- turned unharmed to his squadron

Wop Attacks Repulsed

ITALIANS RETREAT

IN DISORDER

LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reyter)— Another Italian counter-attack against newly-won Greek post-

GENERAL

FORMER OGPU CHIEF FOUND DEAD

WINANT NOMINATION CONFIRMED

WASHINGTON, Feb, 11. (Reuter) The Senate unanimously COTL

Worked With G-Menfirmed the nomination of Mr. John

In Spy Probe

| Reu

Winant as the United States Am- bassador to Britain..

The appointment of Mr. Alexan-

detec MR. MENZIES

TOURS BARDIA

BATTLE ZONE

WASHINGTON. Feb. 11 tions in the Klisura area has been ter)—General Krivitsky, stated der Biddle, former" Ambassador to driven back with heavy losses to once to have been chief of the Poland, as United States represen- the Italians, according to a Greek Secret Police in Soviet Russia, tative to the exiled Governments press military statement broadcast has been found dead, according of Poland, Belgium, Netherlands by the Athens radio, “"

to Loats Waldman, an attorney. and Norway, was also unanimous- The statement says: “Like pre- Gen, Krivitsky is sald 'to have ly approved with a number of vious attempts, this attack was been going under the name of other lolomatic changes. completely smashed and the Itall- Samuel Ginsberg. ana were beaten back in great Waldman said that he obtain- disorder"

ed the information: from The statement adds that the tives who told him that Krivitsky situation on the Albanian front shot himself

but, the attorney continues to be highly satisfactory, did not belleve this. He said that Further vantage polts have been Krivitsky had been co-operating secured by the Greek forces, par-with the United States Federal

CAIRO. ticularly on the central front.

Bureau of Investigation.

Feb. 11 (Reuter)-Mr.

VIOLENT FIRE

Gen. Krivitsky

R. G. Menzies, Australian Federal came to the Italian counter-attacks United States several years ago Premier, returned from a 36-hour Meanwhile

visit to the Bardia area in which pressure on the have been repulsed in the last 24 and later visited England but enemy position abun neren 13 hours

he was accompanied by General returned to America last Octo-Sir Thomas Blamey, commanding being continued.

Reports from Athens reaching|ber, South African troops

Australian Forces Overseas. have now here state that two of these coun-

PARTY PURGE advanced 50 miles inside. Itallanterattacks took place west of the,

The party travelled in an RAF. He gave evidence ́ in -October. territory in southern Abyssinia

plane which flew low over the River Drin, where Itallan infantry 1939, before the Congressional the. Hobok are

battle zone enabling Mr. Menzies had been ordered to penetrate the Committee on Un-American acti- The communique adds that the Greek lines. They falled owing to vitles.

He said that he broke brilliant campaign.

to follow the whole story of the clearing up of areas Aghella in Libyu

up to the violent Greek Are, leaving be- with M. Stalin because he re Ls proceeding hind dead and wounded.

Mr. Menales' visit was marked fused to take active part satisfactorily and that intensive

by an atmosphere of friendliness, Another of the counter-attacks purge of the Communist Party patrol activity in Italian-Small-was attempted in the region of in 1988 and 1937.

and good cheer. land, continues.

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in

Four

VILLAGE OCCUPIED "

SALONIKA RAIDED Mersa Tacla in Eritrea, which fifth century Salonika Cathedral LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reuter) - ATHENS. Feb. 11 (Reuter)-The

has been occupied by the British, of Saint Sophie damaged in an air is a village on the Red Sea coast raid yesterday, is to be repaired forty miles from the Sudan-immediately, following orders of

Eritrea border.

Karera is a small town lying in- **side the Eritrean horder forty

miles inland.

It is pointed out in London that this advance into Eritres from the

the Premier. Mr. Kortzis,

"

in the

NATIONAL RAID

DISTRESS FUND

ANOTHER BIG GIFT, FROM BRISBANE LONDON, Feb. 11(British

One part of the building has. almost entirely collapsed but the mosales of the cupola have not Wireless) - The Lord Mayor of suffered much.

Brisbane has sent another £5,000 Crowds massed round the Ca-to the Lord Mayor of London's north would constitute а now thedral after the "all clear" and National Air Raid Distress Fund During the same night, a consi- movement as today's communique demonstrated derable force of enemy aircraft is the first to make any mention daten raided Malta. Damage was caused of this direction.

MALTA RAIDED

GENERAL LI TSUNG-JEN ON HONAN VICTORY

Initial Success Of

against

the

Woman Gets

van-bringing the total of Brisbane's

contributions to £112,200,"

CHUNGSHAN 14 Years For

FIGHTING Treason

JAPS, MEET WITH STIFF RESISTANCE

Other gifts included $1,000 from the Cape Town Red Cross Market, £500 from the Philip- pine Islands, £247 from Panama and £100 each from St. James, Manitoba, and the Government and people of Port Moresby, Papus.

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The total of the Fund is now

LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reuter) Mrs. Dorothy Pamela O'Grady, £2,117,000. who was previously sentenced to death on charges under the

"Year Of Victory" Fighting has broken out again on nounce that

SHTUHING. Feb. 11 (Central)-cote in the Court of Appeal an-

Treachery Act, heard Lord Calde- GREEKS FIND

the conviction was ENCOURAGEMENT ON THE NORTH

HUPEH the Chungshan-Sunwul border quashed. FRONT, Feb. 11 (Central)—Thegions.

Her life was spared but on the IN PREMIER'S Chinese success in south Honan About 1,000 Japanese and pup- other charges sentence 01 14 was attributed by General Li pet troups from Chungshan made years' penal, servitude Was Im SPEECH Tsung-len, well-known Kwangtung a forced landing at Yuehkong, posed

army commander, to the mobile Namao and other points under) Both the trials at Winchester tactics of the Chinese troops and protective aerial and naval bomb- and the Court of Appeal were held the assistance of the people's self- ardment on January 6. They en-in camero defence units in an interview.

countered stubborn Chinese resis-

The Japanese offensive, accord- 'tance and withdrew toward night.

. The

following morning they!

attack at Pakao, and

ing to General Li. had long been anticipated. On his recent visit to made an Chungking he had conferred with Wongyeongshan in the district of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on Chungshan, but met with equally!

this and had received snecific

structions regarding defence.

The recent victory was there-

fore

the result of a pre- arranged plan.

General Li

described the Honan victory as the initial success in China's. "Year of Victory."

JAPANESE ROUTED

Field dispatches from south Honan claim that the Chinese troops are making progress on

strong

resistance and suffered

heavy casualties. Failing to make.

PREPARATIONS TO COMBAT INVASION

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ATHENS, Feb. 11 Reuter)-Mr. Churchill's speech following Great Britain's.. successes at Benghazi and Genoa has

sent a Wave of encouragement. throughout

Greece.

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The newspaper Estia says: **I contained important facts disclos- ing the most hopeful situation in the Mediterranean.

"Mr."

Churchill's disdainful words about Signor Mussolini are

any headway, they sent a column Possible Use Of Gas echoed by tens of millions of free

in the afternoon to attack Wang- shan in the Sunwul district

WU TE-CHEN IN CHUNGKING

their drive toward Singang. Large Conditions In South

Seas Reported To Generalissimo

Not Overlooked

LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reuter Preparation for the detence

men and will be repeated even in Italy."

REFERENCE TO BULGARIA STOCKHOLM, Feb. 11 (Reuter) Mr. Churchill's reference to

Britain against invasion will take Bulgaria in a broadcast on Sun-

full account of the possible use of day has caused a sensation in gas by the German Army and Air Berlin according to a newspaper Force and steps will be taken to correspondent in Berlin who says icounteract this use, which will that

probably come chiefly from the deny that German

competent quarters there

numEers of Japanese troops in the

troops have skies and the seas area between Mingkang on tise

entered Bulgarian territory and Britain has pledged herself unsay there is not a single soldier or Peping-Hankow Railway and the

der the Geneva Protocol of 1925 airman there. horthwest of Sinyang have been

hot to use gas unless this is first Mr. Churchill's routed while the Japanese troops!

speech was Inflicted on her in War. Thus the printed in full in the Blockholm åround Tangpch, a strategie toën CHUNGKING, Feb. 11 (Central) about 50 miles northwest bi Sin--The Generalissimo le very much initiative in its use must remain papers. Headlines specially em- yang. are facing annihilation.

reference to Bul- interested in the situation in the with Germany, who introduced the phasised the

garlan aerodromes being occupied According to reports from An- South Seas and is most solicitous weapon in the last war.

Germany has also pledged her- by German ground personnel. hwel, following the recapture of of the welfare of the Chinese com- Talho in northwest Anhwel, the munities there," said General Wuself not to use it again but may follow the example of her Axis Chinese have regained Kwoyang, Tc-chen,

Overseas

Abyssinia. ΟΣ

Minister

of

a large town northeast of Talho, Affairs, who was received by Gan partner, Italy, in the conquest of VICHY CABINET

The German are not believed to new gas. Indeed. to the possess any

scientists, consider that no

The Japanese have retreated to eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek Pohsien near the Anhwel-Honan Sunday after his return from an border. There la no more trace of extended goodwill visit the Japanese south of the Fel South Seas. River.

RE-SHUFFLE

LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reuter) new A complete re-shuffle of the Vichy gas which can be used in chemi- Cabinet will not take place before During the interview General (cal warfare exists. What would the middle of the week, Wu exhuastively reported the con-be new would be some hitherto ing to well-informed circles FANCHENG, Feb. 11 (Central)-ditions in the South Seas, General unforeseen. method of using the vichy, says a despatch from that A Japanese plane was brought Wu said that his goodwill mission weapon.

PLANE DOWNED

accord-

In

work

down by

centre to the official German news Chinese anti-aircraft had not yet been completed and TERRORISTIC WEAPON guns at Wanghuantien, north of expressed the hope that he would

agency. Wholesale use of gas to terrorise Tungpeh in south Honan, on Feb. soon be able to resume the tour the civilian population is hardly new French consultative body, the Another despatch states that the 1. The wreckage has been trans-to French Indo China, India, likely for this is a weapon which National Council, will, according ported to "the rear for exhibition. Borneo and other south Pacific, recoils on the user.

to the Nouvelliste de Lynen, meet regions where large Chinese com- Complete safety against all poi- for its inaugural session at Lyons LITTLE ENEMY AIRmunities exist."

son gases is provided by the ser- but will later continue its vice gas mask and the civilian casat Vichy, where it will be in ACTIVITY

mask, the only difference between closer touch with the different LONDON, Feb. 11 (British Wire- NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (Reuter) the two respirators being that the ministries. tess)-A joint Air Ministry and Mr. Henry Morgenthau. Secretary former is designed to stand up to

The newspaper understands that Ministry of Home Security com- for Treasury, stated that he is field conditions.

at the first meeting, the Coun- munique states: "There has been preparing to ask Congress for a Also statistics show that even ellors will agree on the list Di

enemy activity over this four-year extension of the $2,000,- in the last war, the percentage of

names, to be submitted to the country during daylight yesterday. 000,000 Stabilisation Fund, accord- tatal casualties and permanent head of the State with a view to No report of damage or casualties ing to Washington correspondent disabilities from gas was lower the establishment of a bureau for

of the Dow Jones agency.

little

has been received,"

than from any other cause.

assembly.

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