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GENERAL

GALLANT REARGUARD ACTION HUGE MANILA CONFLAGRATION:

OF ANZAC. BRIGADE AGAINST BIG ODDS

Official Account Of Retreat From Greece

LONDON, May 4 (Reuter)—How a small Ansse force, fighting. against a greatly superior enemy force, held a gorgó in the region of Mount Olympus while the main body of the British Xprperial Forces withdrew, is one of many tales of heroism which appear through the terse technical phraseology of the official fecount of the fighting in Greece "published by the War Office.

In this "gallant rearguard action” about one brigade of Anzacs blocked the gorge against., two German divisions--odds which can be roughly estimated at about 10 to one

that

Ja

This is how the War Office, tells but it became apparent the story:-

stand could not be made. Inde tinitely against the greatly supe- rlor German number.

On April 15, a small New Zea- land force which held the "eastern

entrance to Penelos Gorge, south If the enemy could not be held of Mount Olympus, was heavily at Amintalon it was clear that the engaged by a greatly superior whole line on this front must be enemy force and driven back.

Next day two battalions of an Australian brigade went to its support.

flank

EARLIER EPISODF

JAPANESE CABINET CRISIS?

SHANGHAI, May 4 (Reuter)

THOUSANDS RENDERED DESTITUTE

MANILA, May 4 (Reuter)--A huge area" in the suburbs of Manila, near to the Pasay River, was devastated yesterday after noon by a fire which awept out of control in a steady wind and rendered more than 6,000 persons homeless,

Flames were leaping hundreds of feet into the air, engulfing Filipino wooden, houses at the rate of one a minute for several . hours, and raging through timber yards along the river. The United States 35th Infan- |-

The Japanese Cabinet, which, getry was turned out to assist the

cording to the correspondent of Manda are fighters to combat the HEAVY AIR RAID was to hold a special meeting yes- enough fire appliances nor Aremen ON MERSEYSIDE terday, is expected in well-inform-to deal with a task of sech magni.

the Independent French Agency, but there were neither

ed circles to take important de-

tude..

cisions with regard to Japanëse At one time it seemed certain Number Of Casualties

action in Indo-China.

that a large hospital would be-

Believed High

The Soviet-Japanese Pact was come involved and 35 ambulances expected to be violently attacked were prépared to carry away the by the Japanese army and mayy patients, but when the situation

Two German bombers were des- representatives who were to attend seemed hopeless, the wind chang-troyed by British fighters and two

sd direction and the holocaust by anti-aircraft fire during Fr the Cabinet meeting.

The correspondent adds that the swept diagonally to the north day night says an Air Ministry recent decision of Moscow to torbid along the Bay.

the transit of war material is By a strange coincidence, it was Ukely to give further weight to exactly four years to the day yes the arguments of those who oppose (terday when a fire of almost simi- lar dimensions broke out in the closer relations with the Soviets.

same area.

withdrawn, otherwise it would be ENEMY AIR

cutflanked.

On April 11, therefore, the m périal and Greek forces began to withdraw to a new line.

LOSSES IN THE

The official account comment MIDDLE EAST

The air- the

pre-

This small Anzac force, of about brigade group, fought two Ger- man.divisions in Penelas Gorge, on the unpreparedness of the

CAIRO, May 4 (Reuter) Its losses were heavy but the with-Yugoslav forces to resist an RAF destroyed. 12 enemy drawal was secured on our right forewarned German offensive

craft in the Middle East in Yugoslavia, though partly mobi~

week ending May 1. lised, was not ready for war, and

This was lower than the the War Office adds that the dis-vious week bat the number

ground was considerable. Imperial forces to stop the rot pears to have been governed not which developed after the collapse alone by military but also by poll- British losses in the whole Medi-¦

tical considerations, and inadequate terranean. "area, Abyssinia and of Yugoslav resistance in the south

forces had been "allotted to the by barring German egress from

Malta were IV. Monastir Gap.

south of the country. where the red threat lar.

An earlier episode in the

same

account tells of an attempt by the Posal of the Yugoslav forces ap-iaircraft destroyed on the

By the evening of Apr 7 the

disaster to the Yugoslav forces This disposal had been planned

by the Tsetkovitch Government. and General Simovitch had no-

time to revise the plans. briga-

was apparent and the threat to Monastir Gap had become a reality.

A small reserve, under a dier, consisting of a machine-gun battalion, and some medium ar tillery, was formed near Amintaion, south of Florina

J

FURTHER WITHDRAWAL

communique. -

Another enemy aircraft was shot down by night fighters over an aerodrome in

northern France, making five destroyed during the night.

REPEATED EXPLOSIONS During the afternoon, repeated explosions, for no known cause, were heard from the centre of the great conflagration. A large party of firemen concentrated on saving a number of large petrol tanks in of damage was done, the danger zone.

Describing the attack on Mersey- side as heavy and lasting for some hours, the communique says early reports suggest that that number of casualties may be large and that a substantial amount

·EAST ANGLIA RAID

Fugitives from the devastated

An attack was also made on a area are being cared for by the town in East Anglia, where a Red Cross. Hundreds of them

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BATAVIA, May 4 (Reuter

of spent yesterday afternoon kneet-small number of casualties

ing along the banks of the river caused and a considerable number

of houses damaged. praying.

Bombs were also dropped at SHANGHAI, May 4 (Reuter other widely separated points but Nearly four months after his ab Dr. van. Kiefens, Foreign Minis- these did little damage and caused duction, Par Tse-chuen, com- ter, and Charles Welter, Colonial Avery few casualties. Oli tankers were destroyed at decree issued here announces that

pradore of Jardine's, has been Minister in the Netherlands Gov- Liverpool was the principal ob-released and is now en route toernment in London, who went El Argub, 80 miles from Ben Italy has annexed the north-westject of attack by bomber form- Hongkong, stated the Shanghai to Sourabaya on May 1, are ex- ghazi, while in the Sollum area pertion of Yugoslavia. The area stions of the Luftwaffe, says the Evening Post and Mercury yes- pected to arrive in Sydney on May heavy casualties were inflicted on will be ruled by a High Commis-official German news agency. German troops near Gambut. sioner appointed by Mussolini

terday. The paper adds it is be- 12, accompanied by J. H. Ritman. Other German attacks, it adds. Hieved a large sum, probably $1, the Government spokesman, says

directed azainst various 000,000, was paid as ransom to the

a Japanese report quoted by Reu- towns. on the south-east coast. kidnappers -

In East Africa, the aerodromes Official languages will be Slovene were at Benina and Derna were re-and Italian

A further withdrawal to a post-peatedly raided with considerable):

on at Thermopylag was effected casualties to troop-carriers and under very heavy enemy bombing. troops:

Next morning General Mackay

The War Office remarks. that The aerodromes at Kombcicha,| was sent with his divisional head-the artillery of both the British Macanca, Gimma

and Pandeho quarters, one artillery and ode Army and the Anzac forces play-were also raided. anti-tank regiment and an Aused an important part in the cam- Fifty direct bits were observed tralian brigade less one battalion. Paign.

on an enemy fortress at the Pass of Faing.

to augment this force, which re-

Undoubtedly it inflicted very mained in the neighbourhood of heavy casualties and the Germans Amintalon to await the Germans.

themselves testifled to the RC- On April 9 the Germans appear-curacy of our shooting.

NIGHT RAIDS

Four heavy night raids were carried out on Benghazi harbour.

ed south of Florina and hotly at- The story concludes with the During April 252 enemy aircraft tacked General Mackay's forceWithdrawal to points of embark-were shot down by fighters of the during this and next day.

tion covered by one New Zealand Middle East Command, and, Bri- brigade.

tish losses were 58 in the Western Finally embarkation was effected Desert. A total of 123 enemy air- trom various beaches in Attica, craft was destroyed in East Africa enemyArgolts and the Peléponese. 'against a loss of 54 by the R.AF.

HEAVY CASUALTIES

The heavy

lunperial forces inflinte casualties on the

EXTENSION

OF CONFLICT TO PACIFIC

Rumours Played Up

By Batavia Press

BATAVIA, May 4 (Reuter) - Rumours that the European war

· might soon ́extend to the Pacific "were played up by the Batayla newspapers yesterday, especially in view of reports from the United States indicating America is de-

|H.M.S. DIAMOND LOST IN ACTION OFF GREECE: CASUALTIES FEARED HIGH

LONDON, May 4 (Beuter) The British destroyers Plamond, of 1,375 tons, formerly on the China Station, and Wryneck, 908. tons, were attacked by German dive-bombers and sunk during the evacuation of Greece, states an Admiralty communique.

On the night of April 25/26, 13,500 men were withdrawn from the Rapthis and Nauplia areas. A transport toaded with froops was bombed and set on fire, and Diamond at once went to the

rescue.

The destroyer was continually attacked from the air but she picked up 600 men

Diamond was joined by Wryneck

termined to carry out aid to Bri-and the latter rescued 100 men.

tain to the fullest extent, even at and then the Diamond torpedoed ANNIVERSARY

the risk of war, says a Japanese the burning and wrecked transport Teport...

CONSTITUTION

as she was a danger to shipping OF THE POLISH Citing the United States deef- and a torch for dive-bombers. alon on the neutrality patrol sy Next morning both destroyers, tem and the German threat to having left Nauplia, were attacked sink all ships in combat zones, the by dive-bombers and sunk

Bataviasche Nieuwabald" predicts It is feared casualties were that fighting between the United heavy, though 50 were picked up 15th anniversary of Poland's con- stitution was celebrated by Foles

LONDON, May 4 (Reuter)--The

States and Germany may take by a third destroyer and at least all over the world yesterday, ex- place sooner than generally ex one boat is believed to have cept in Poland itself, where all

pected..

manifestations of national life have been suppressed.

:

reached the Greek shore, The Java Bode "says" that If the

"ALMOST A MIRACLE” United States enters the war. Dunkirk had come to be regard- Japan will then be forced to fulfil¦ed: the greatest combined Centre of the celebrations of her obligations as a military part evacuation operation in the his-National Day this year is Britain, ner of the Axis powers-

tory of wariarę but in Greece the where are concentrated the Pulish | Navy had to go in and take out, Government, · Polish army units

CHUNGKING

terday.

MASS AIR RAID ON almost with any protection against and many Polish refugees.

dive-bombers, 45,000 men, said the A special Mass was said early First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. yesterday morning at Westminis- CHUNGKING, May 4 (Reuter AV Alexander, in a speech yester Cathedral. The Binu-British Boxer Fund Board building was demolished and that in this last evacuation we lost miration to the British Common- The Polish President, broadcast- "Tregard it as almost a miracle ing, expressed gratitude and ad- the press hostel badly damaged at noon yesterday when 81 Japanese'. aircraft subjected Chungking to

the first bombing this year.

only two destroyers," he said.

CRITICAL PERIOD Britain was

to

wealth and

the American Democracy, "whose great Pre- now facing the sident puts all the powerful moral early days of the most critice) and material fatros of the United The raiders rained down bombs period of the war, he continued States on the side of justice in on the downtown district and the and had to meet new problems in this decisive struggle.” Western zuburbs...

the Athantle and the Mediterran

The Japanese aircraft, in ean, and even in the Persian Gulf. spreadeagle formation, rained Faith in the ultimate result was

bombs across the city without in strengthened by the resources of LONDON, May 4 (Reuter) terference from Chinese fighters, the growing arsenal in the United Palo Badoglio, son of the former which did not appear though anti-States, and he seemed to see signs Chief of General Star of the aircraft fire was very heavy they were coming bear the time Italian armed forces, Marshal The western suburbs were par- when, it necessary, the United Badoglio, was killed in action dpr- ticglarly heavily bombed. Several States would throw the whole of ing an air engagement in North fires were started but all were her

Into the struggle. Africa on Aburaday, reporta the quickly controlled.

There was sold ground for faith, German radio guoted by Reuter

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