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GENERAL

BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK IMPERIAL UNITS Hand-To-Hand Fighting In FOLLOWING HEAVY ATTACK BY GERMAN DIVE-BOMBERS

LONDON,

May 30 (Reuter) An Admiralty communique states: "On the day after the sinking of the Bismarck, some of our naval forces, which had taken part in the operations leading up to the destruction of the German battleship were heavily at- tacked by German alreraft. During these attacks. H.M.S. Mas- hana, a destroyer of the Tribal Class, was hit."

POWER & OIL PROBLEMS

and 45

ratings are The next of kin of the are being informed as possible.

"The Mashona had a pesce-time,

SDOL

MOVING ON BAGHDAD

REBEL POSITION AT RAMONDI POUNDED

an

Crete

CANEA ABANDONED

BY BRITISH

QUEEN HAS A RIDE ON

CAIRO... May 30 (Reuter) ----The BREN-GUN

CARRIER

LONDON, May 30

She rode in the carrier over the

CAIRO, May so (Reuter) - The number of German alr-borne troops Imperial troops in Iraq moving in Creta is estimated by one un- "The Board of the Admiralty east from Fallujah are not far official quarter at 30,000,

It must be emphasised, however, The Queen rode in a UNITED STATES regrets to announce that she sub-froin Baghdad and indeed,

(Reuter) - quently sank and that one offl-Air Force communique claims that it is extremely difficult in the carrier yesterday when she visited Bret-gun raissing. the capture of Kahnnusta, half-present circumstances to form any the south coast and inspected the casualties way between the two places, So accurate estimate. Practically no headquarters of a company of the

as that the Imperial troops are mov- troops have been landed by sea

ing towards Baghdad.

In military quarters, the sit-is she is Colonel-in-Chief.

London Scottish Regiment, of which norm13! A message from Basra, delayedtion is described as most confused. complement of 190. in transmission, states that Bri-With very heavy fighting going on country for ten minutes, and dur- WARNING SOUNDED She was completed in March. 1939. tish forces are relentlessly pouna- it is not easy to make out the g the journey through a well- BY HAROLD ICKES and had a displacement of 1870 ing the Iraqi position of Ramond, resttion which is changing all the known coast village, she saw some-

tuns with a speed of over. 36 13 miles northwest of Habbaniyan.time. WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuter)

knots."

thing of the delences, including There has been very heavy hand-heavy tanks the move. -Mr. Harold Ickes, Secretary 01 |

It is here that some of the Iraqi the Interior, at a press conference from the German battleship Bis- from the plateau overlooking the counter-attack, ending in the Bri-through several engagements and More than 100 officers and men troops, ejected early this month to-hand fighting, artart.. and Visiting Brighton, she carried yesterday, advocated national day-marck were picked up by the Bri- Habbaniyah aerodrome, have tish troops being pushed back by after lunching with the officers, light saving time and also susish forces and are prisoners of tablished themselves, writes Heu-sheer weight of numbers. zested that America may have to war states the communique... resort to a restricted use of jelec-

tricity and institute petrol-less

Commenting on the

of electricity, Mr. Ickes

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visited other coastal defences

The King, yesterday visited the

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REINFORCEMENTS SPEED REDUCED

Reinforcements of By cutting the dykes, thus in-

men.. The attack on the Bismarck, iandating the Sundays in order to meet shortages adds, in which A.M.S. Sikh took the Iraqi have acquired a

surrounding Jard.

materials have gone into Crete.

Navy's training stablishment for There has been further fighting candidates from the lower deck for strong of power and ol

ipart in addition to the ships al defensive position. restriction really announced,

around Heraklion, while the post- the rank of others. The King resulted in the declared: speed of the Bismarck being greatly by troops of

From an advance post occupied ties around Retimo remains the saw that everything was done in "It is more important

庭 famous to make reduced. Her steering gear

east. of same.

It is clear, of course, that British lestablishment

"Navy fashion" in this dry-land aluminium than have right base-

was England regiment, I watched wave put "out of action but both the after wave of R.A.F. bombers y troops

where more than ball." (He was

have referring to the

abandoned Carea. 6,000 officers have been produced. main and second armaments re-over to attack the enemy. Great which has been the scene of much; Acknowledging the cheers from popularity of floodlit professiont mained exective. baseball games).

columns of smoke rose Shortly before a.m. on May 27, in particular being so large

up. one fighting in recent days. Mr. Ickes said that the of pro-King George V and the

that

An official message states that blem was strictly one of transpor-1

It appeared that an Ammunition British troops in Crete have with engaged the enemy with thedum had been hit. tation, owing to the transfer to the

drawn to positions" east of sh service" of one-fifth of the

ARTILLERY "ROMBARDMENT Suds Bay. American tanker fleet.

Meanwhile our land forces kept

GERMAN REPORT Mr. Tekes comments were made

(up a steady artillery bombard- LONDON, May 30 (Reuter) - simultaneously with a statement sink the Bismarck with torpedoes, that all return fire was silenced. Ennounces that the Germans yes. So heavy was our attack The official German news agency

by an official of the Federal Power Commission who foresaw "perhaps history's most serious" emergencs In power supply

mam armI BADET) IN

Rodner

Gunfire of these two battleships rngaged the enemy and the C-in-C then ordered the Dorsetshire toment.

says the communique,

SOVIET COMMENT

MOSCOW, May 30 (Reater) Comment on the naval bartIA in the Atlantic, a lengthy article

SYRIA EVACUATION In yesterday's Red Fleet, organ of

HAIFA, May 30 Renter-Te! British Vire-Consulat Beirut cross ed the frontier into Palestine by

arms

- Soviet Navy, states "the opera tion was of great interest, firstly because almost all naval participated: German and British The Consular Corps are now battleships met In this enga

car,

quidated and apart froin the few visitors staying behind voluntatily

all have now left Syria.

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the

On the second day of the action, terday morning captured the town, however, a sharp machine-gun harbour and aerodrome at Herak- engagement took place and an ad-on, fotherwise known as Candia) vance party of our troops who had a Crete. crossed the river found them-

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selves in precarious position. POST-WAR They were forced to return and the occasion was notable for a

strike- Ing act of bravery on the part [of the Australian- war corres-

AIMS

OF BRITAIN

ment, practically speaking, for the heavy fire, he swam

pondent. Ronald Monston. Under Wisdom Of Disclosure

some 500

first time in the present war and parts to bring back one of the ad- aircraft and their mobile bases.vance party hit by a machine-gun aircraft carriers, played a promi-bullet ent role, and the importance of the

confirmed.

further detalls are known."

had been brought pp to

the crowd, gathered to witness his arrival: the King smalled broadly when a woman called out "What about old Bismarck now?"

"Later he inspected a company of "WrensTM ---- Women Naval llaries...

Auxi-

HELP THE

'BLIND SOLDIERS!

Much, though still not encugn, has been done für crippled Chinese soldiers. But as far as it is known, nobody has thought of

helping those blinded to do some as "hopeless" cases, to be support-

thing. Usually, they are given up

Debated In Commons

LONDON, May 29 (Reuter, ed until they die. Simultaneously with Mr. Eden's However, at least one man has

Value of the torpedo was once more Meanwhile RAF armoured cars speech at the Mansion House, the tried to do something for these Assist House of Commons yesterday, on a "worst victims of this war of ag- Lessons cannot be drawn until our troops and these. helped by motion to adjourn for the Whitsun Bression." He is Mr. Hermann

R.A.F." bombers. silenced the

.. PRINCE EUGENE

enemy's attack. The article specially

The garrison at Ramondi is be- that it expected that the fate of lieved to comprise some 2.000 Tra- the "Prince Eugene" would be qls. cleared up in the next few days."

"The operation is specially sign- ficant for its length which is th precedented in this war." "

mentions

A well-known writer, Ivanov, a member of the Academy n: Sciences, commenting on the same setion in the "Trud" declares: "The role the British naval al- craft played throughout the opera- tion combining reconnaissance with assault on the enemy, demanas

notice."

Spectacular Car Crash

N.Z. PREMIER HAS NARROW ESCAPE

recess, debated the question of an- Becker of the Famine Orphanages [nouncing Britain's post-war aims. and Evangelistic Bands in Chih- The principal speaker was Malang, Hunan. A China missionary Geoffrey Le M. Mander,

who is for over 30 years, Mr. Becker himself the author of E compre- was recently called on to help over hensive plan of post-war recon- 1300 Chinese soldiers who have lost

the use of both eyes.

struction.

He was returning on the Alexan- This theme

dria-Cairo read after visiting New throughout the debate.

COURTESY CALL ON LORD GORT

Algeciras.Governor sault.

Mr. Mander ze-echoed Lord Hall- One day in April Mr. Becker fax's words in advocating he walked two hours to a place where possibility of utilising the British these blind soldiers were staying. Commonwealth as the bridge of a He was so touched by their plight| greater world unity."

that he decided then and there to "We ought to convince the Ger- do something for them. The fot man people that we are not going of the ordinary wounded soldiers is to make slaves of them as they bad enough, he said, but that of would of us," he said, but there blind ones is infinitely worse. Most CAIRO, May 30 (Reuter)-The would be refusal to make peace of them are young, badily strong. New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. with Hitler because "it is no good full of imagination and yet are Peter Fraser. narrowly escaped having conterences with crooks and compelled to think it is useless for crash serious injury in a spectacular car gangsters whose word you cannot them to go on. They hate every-

trust."

thing, even themselves. They have predominated no ways of killing the time which seems so much longer "in their darkness than it really is.

LEARN TO WRITE "We must give the blind some- Mr. Fraser's secretary was seri-Foreign Affairs, wound up the de- thing to do," Mr. Becker told him- ously injured.

bate briefly by drawing attention self. "Their thoughts must Mr. Fraser and the Chief, of his to Mr. Eden's statement and then turned from themselves, to some- GIBRALTAR, May 30 (Reuter-Department, Mr. Berendsen, suffer-confined himself to the statement thing else. They must learn to read The Governor of Algeciras, Gen-led only minor bruises. eral Munoz "Grandes, yesterday

that it would be the greatest mis- and write the Mandarin Union, morning" returned an ofacial call

take to give the impression that Braille System." A senior New Zealand Staff Offi-Britain was not fighting for the paid on him on May 19 by Lord cer was suffering from a

Taking immediate action, Mr. broken greatest social security at home Becker wrote to several places Gort. newly-appointed Governor ut Gibraltar.

and crushed ribs another and throughout the world as also asking for advice and help. The Salutes of 17 guns were pred to severe shock while the English had always had to

Staff Omeer was suffering from for the freedom for which Europe China Inland Missien at Hungkiang the arrival and departure

of driver suffered broken thighs.

tight and offered him the services of Mr. which it would achieve with Bri Yang, a blind teacher who was The three injured men

were tain's help. of the car before it

In Gibraltar

Generaj Munoz Grandes,

Zealand Troops and was injured

SOCIAL SECURITY

when the car turned a somer- The Government spokesman, Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for

B.172)

OFFICERS INJURED

Guards of honour were drawn Aung out, yp at the landing of the wharf and stopped. Assistance was given by

Government House where the re-two South ception was held at which

African officers who were passing at the time of the. principal Naval, Military and Air officials were present,

accident,

the

THAI PREMIER

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U.S. AMBASSADOR JAPAN VISIT OF

CALLS ON KUNG CHUNGKING, May 30 (Central) Mr. Clarcrice E. Gauss. American Ambassador to China, made his first official call on Dr. H. H. Kung, Vice-President of the Executive Yuan, yesterday morning, when they conversed for about half an 'hour.

It is Tearned that Mr. Gauss will call on other high Chinese officials next week

Reports Denied By Bangkok

BANGKOK, May 30 (Reuter) - Reports that the Premier of That land might visit Japan are not substantiated here.

It is understood that while the

OTT-MATSUOKA CONVERSATION

be

engaged to teach the Braille system to the blind soldiers. Meanwhile, Mr. Tang, a Famine Orphanage graduate, is, learning the system so that he could be TOKYO, May 30 (Reuter) The of help, too. Both have since gone txternational situation in the to work among the blind soldiers. Light of President Roosevelt's As the soldiers are not all living

broadcast was believed to have at one place, they start teaching

been discussed by the German at one place and then go to the Ambasador. Herr Ott and Mr. next one and so on til all will have Matsuoka yesterday.

learned the system Lately, Mr. The meeting lasted. over an Yang, the blind teacher, has been hour.

basy embossing several hundred The British Ambassador, Bir sheets of paper as, primer for his Robert Craigle, also saw Mr. Mat-pupils.

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Inland Mission, Chihklang, Hunan,

suoka for half an hour but the The blind soldiers rejoiced when subject of the talk was not yet they learned that, two teachers disclosed"

bad come to teach them, and new hope came into their lives. MR. R. G. MENZIES Mr. Becker, care of the China Premier would like to go aboard for TO REVIEW PLANS will be glad to receive any books EIRE SCARE

a holiday and to study the condi- CANBERRA, May 30 (Reuter) which have been printed in the Mons of various. foreign countries The Australian Parliament will Mandarin Braille Union System DUBLIN, May 30 (Reuter) It he feels he cannot leave the coun- adjourn until June 18 to give the for use in his work for the blind; is officially announced that during try in view of the present war Prime Minister. Mr. R. G. Menzies, soldiers.--(CLG.). Wednesday night and Thursday situation.

an opportunity to review his Imorning a number of aircraft. Bew.

(It is hoped that Mr. Becker will The Cabinet Minister informed plans expected to result in over Eire territory.

an receive not only useful books but Reuter that the Government is not immediate step-up of Australian funds needed for him to extend the In Dublin the ground defences aware of any proposal to send a war production based on In-scope of his humanitarian' work WATCH FOR OPENINGS opened fire, No incident are Japanese Economic Mistan to formation. collected during his among a blind soldiers in Hunan

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