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-拜禮 號六十月二十英港香

R.A.F.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1940. 日八十月一十

WIN DECISIVE

VICTORY IN AIR FIGHT OVER WESTERN DESERT

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CAIRO, DEC. 15 (REUTER).——TWENTY-SIX ITALIAN Aircraft weRE DESTROYED IN INTENSIVE R.A.F. ACTIVITIES WHICH WERE CONTINUED IN SUPPORT OF THE LAND OPERATIONS OF THE ARMY.

TWENTY-FOUR OF THEM WERE SHOT DOWN BY FIGHTERS WHICH MAINTAINED AN INCESSANT PATROL THROUGHOUT THE DAY IN PROTECTION OF ADVANCED BRITISH TROOPS.

HARD FIGHTING CONTINUES

British Advance In Sandstorm

("Reuter's" Special Correspondent)

CAIRO, Dec. 15-Hard fighting is still in progress on the Egyptian-Libyan frontier in a whirling sandstorm, according to latest reports received here.

Exact details of the operations are as yet not available but British casualties are still known to be very slight despite de

termined major scrapping,

ITALIAN SUBMARINE

SUNK Naval Units Engaged

The R.A.F. continue to batter Sollum barracks, proving that in this area at least Italian troops are still on Egyptian soil.

British forward mechanised columns are putting up a magnificent show, thrusting at the enemy posi tlets at many points along, thri frontier and infiicting serious casual-

A number of other enemy aircraft were damaged but their destruction is not confirmed.

About 50 Cuprouis were patrolling over Bardia, but the British bombers persisted in the attack, causing heavy damage.

Two enemy aircraft were destroyed at Derna and others were severely damaged.

One fighter squadron of our advanced forces alone account- ed for 14 Savoins and four Capronis. Three more Savolas and three Capronis were shot down by other squadrons,

LOTHIAN FUNERAL RITES Impressive U.S. Ceremony

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16

From these operations, only three of our affcraft failed to return safely, but it is probable that at least one is safe on our side of the line.

Gratone Ilnrbour was raided for the first time by our bombers on the night of December 13 and on the same night, Fleet Air Arm aircraft success- fully attacked Tripoll, securing direct hits on two ships,

Hita Registered

In the heavy attack on Bardia. barracks and warehouses were de- molished and a large fire was started, followed by explosions. Both there and at-Tobruk, fig were still burn- ing from the raid on the previous day.

les on the defending Itallun forces. (Reuter)Funeral services for ollum, barracks and other mili-

The indefatigable manner in which our tanks aki armoured, ears

and lorries have been pushing on more LONDON, Dec. 15 (Reuter).-thun u hundred miles day and night The Italian submarine, Nainde, for a week reveals clearly the terri- has been sunk by British Ae efforts made behind the scenes by destroyers, states a communique preparations for the offensive.

the maintenance corps during the from the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, received by the Admiralty.

Lary objectives were heavily ralded.

were successfully ralded in Italian, East Africa.

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THE ITALIANS ARE FLEEING BEFORE THEM

The brilliant work of the mechanised units has largely made possible the British vic- tory In the Western Desert. This official photograph shows one of the armoured car units which have been operating in the advance on Libya. When the picture was taken officers of theft were making good use of n "brolly" at the side of their cur during a halt.

BRITISH

200

MILES

FORCES

ADVANCE

ACROSS DESERT

("Reuter" In The Western Desert).

December 15-I have just arrived in Sidi Barraní after two days of travel across the desert by the 200-mile route followed by our mechanised forces at the beginning of their drive into Libya.

Only after such a journey is it possible to appreciate the magnitude of the British victory.

Throughout the trip we passed an almost ceaseless stream of

the late Lord Lothian were held with full honours at Washington

All bombs dropped at Grotone Har- Cathedral this afternoon,

bour burnt along the water front while at Tripoli, where shipping in the United States cavalry escorted harbour was the main objective, two the caisson bearing the body hits were registered on one ship and from the Embassy to the Cathe. an explosion followed the bombing dral through avenues cleared of of a second. Clockwork Precision traffic by hundreds of police and

Asmara, Gura Zula and Danghilla captured Italian tanks, lorries, armoured cars and prisoners The submurine had attempted of night to perform odd maintenance

Apart from brief halts at the dead lined with silent people.

President Roosevell, who is spend-j

Fleet Air Arm

being taken back to the bases. -to-interfere with operations Jobs often-in-disused-Italian-campsing the week-end at Warm Springs, LONDON, DEC 15 (Router) The At some points-we-sawItalian

which British naval forces

British mechanisect are

forces are Georgia, after his Caribbean cruise, Fleet Air Arm has been co-operating ammunition dumps all intact, continuing along the coast in rolling on with clockwork precision.

was represented at the service by his with the RAF in the attack on the covering an area of two square

Libyan coast, states the Admiralty. support of the Army between

At the same time the R.A.F. is consecretary, Mr Stephen Early.

miles. Mrs Roosevelt attended personally. In an attack on Tripoli, four tons) Sidi Barrani and Bardia.

tinuing to plaster enemy aerodromes .Mr Neville Butler, Charge of bombs were dropped. and concentrations in far corners of d'Affaires at the British Embassy,. In addition to direct hits on ships, Enemy U-boats also attacked a naval unit but without success and day and night. Pilots are represented the King, and the Earl explosions and damage to warehouses the attack was driven off,

working ceaselessly, pausing only to of Athlone and. Mr Mackenzie King' were observed. re-fuel and to re-load, bombs before (Governor-General and Prime Minis- taking off again for the battlefield.

ter of Canada respectively) were also represented,

Naval participation in the heavy attack on Bardia is revealed by a communique which says that a night bombardment on that

port WRA carried out with successful result,

Compulsory Service Tribunal

arint.

LATEST

Members of the Diplomatic Corps: and many high officials were present. A private cremation was held later in the afternoon at another service

Army. personnel in Cairo unani- mously declare that a great part of the success of the entire operations is due to Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longinore's well-calculated and con- sistent plans for bombing the enemy's at the church, -aerodromes from the start of the plensive in order to prevent Italian planes taking of

RAIDS END EARLY

cars we were able to push on without Although a breakdown delayed our touching any of our rations knowing that we should find dumps of Italian tinned food along the route. The Italians destroyed virtually nothing at Sollum as they did not have the ilme to do so.

.

Only when the great fortified encampment of Nibelwa, where our urinoured division wiped out General

Widespread German activity the brilliance of this Initial victory be early. Britain to-night ended

over

Drive Along Libyan Border Maintained

-(“Reuter”~—At—~Advanced-Desert ~Headquarters)

CAIRO, Dec. 15.-White British troops are driving all along the frontier, the astonishing total of Italian prisoners and · captured booty continues to mount.

The last pockets of resistance outside Sidi Barrani wore mop-

Axis Press On ned up on Wednesday by a force

Egypt-Greece

Final Round In U.K. LONDON, Dec. 16 (Reuter),—After

plucked up more courage and congra

operating under an Australian- born Brigadier.

Manwhile an armoured brigade with a composite force which had been driving along the escarpment running roughly parallel with the

coast towards the old frontier, came

the situation was "serious but not in contact with the enemy on Thurs- catastrophic," Rome Radio to-day day and is still fighting.

Large numbers

of retreating Italians have been shot up by British fighters and one group of 100 vehicles and 1.000 men surrendered on Thurs- day in the Nibelwa-Sollum arca,

tulated the British putting up such a good show.

The announcer said, "We always thought that the British would not give us a good fight and thus deprive our final victory of glory."

Another group was attacked by re- lays of fighters near the spot known among the troops as Hellfire Pass.” Australian Airmen

Britain's Quiet Sunday Maletti's crack desert column in its announcement on Saturday that couple of hours after the British It is notified for general information

LONDON, Dec. 15 (Reuter).biliz had begun, has been seen, can that a public session of the Compul

French Shipping sory Service Tribunal will be held on

fully appreciated. Disposal and accommodation of Friday, December 20, at 4 pm, in the prisoners from the battle area is a

Line Taken Over Council Chamber, Colonial Secret-task in itself. Many of these arriving

Comparable To Sedan London and a north-east town here are being sent to prison camps LONDON, Dec. 15 (Reuter).The were both clear of raiders before The Importance of this success is In the Nile Delta.

Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, midnight. Three Italian generals who have ar- the Great French Shipping Line, is fell in London and although many since it opened the way to all that Relatively few bombs comparable to the battle of Sedin

The German press, which for rived at Alexandria in British war- now been taken over by the Vichy are bombs and high explosives were followed.

weeks maintained an exaggerated in- ships are now recuperating in the Government as a result of

At Nibelwa, General Malett! had difference to the plight of Germans, the dropped on a north-east town, the Spa Hotel.

Cabinet meeting Ander Marshal attack was nothing like the scale of

established a base from which he to-day nasured the German people In the latter part of the week, the It is believed here that General Petain to day. In future, the Com-carlier provincial "biltz raids.

planned to invade Egypt. The that all would caine right in the end. Italians had been attempting to re- Wavell's brilliantly executed manocu-j pany's Chairman will be nominated

encampment, which has circum-The Voelkische /Beobachter said, "In talinte by air attacks. It was durlug Sunday Without Bomba VIC bas

ference of about four seriously affected the by the State and of ten directors,

miles, was German opinly, the situation in one of these attacks that an Aus- resources of the entire Itailan Army | eight will be nominated by the LONDON, Dec. 15 (Router).—Day-protected outside by landmines and Greece and Egypt gives no ground for tralian squadron of five Gladiators In Libya.

Government and two by shareholders. light raids to-day passed without a inside by 18-pounder, field, machine anxiety."

distinguished itself by engaging 12 single bomb being dropped on any and A.A. guns, -

Capronis and destroying several ot part of England, but nightfall brought

them as announced in Saturday's to the capital the usual stert.

BASLE, Dec. 10 (Reuter), RAF, communique. The main weight of the night raid, best Libyan troops led by Italian According to the Wilhelmatrasso, the

Despite the extent of British suc- however, appeared to be concentrated

unfavourable turn in Italian opera- cesses, however, it should not be im- on a town in north-east England. extremely heavy and elsewhere when influence German military decisions up any resistance.

at Sidi Barrapi was ons in Albania and Egypt will not ngined that the Italians did not put though towns in the south-west were the British tanks got among them.jor lead Germany also visited.

give italy active thele guns put up a hot though assistance, says the Berlin correspon ineffective fre, ***

dent of the "Basler Nachrichten." is still impossible

Germany, he adds, is tenaciously total Italien casualties but they wore sticking to her plan to seek n final certainly heavy and they are believed decision against Britain in the British to have lost thousands of killed and Isles themselves. wounded while, In addition, a number

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Desert Win Cements

The camp contained 3,300.of Italy'si

officers.

Their Are

Nazis Not Helping

Egyptian Friendship Canadian Minister. It all Impariate to artimie thea Chong to a boil.

Rescued

In Torpedoed Liner Beaverbrook, Minister of Alrecaft OTTAWA, Déc,,18 (Reuter)-Lord Production, has Informed the Cona

[of high officers have been captured.

CAIRO, Dec. 16 (Reuter.).—¡ months have even refused to pay The momentous military events rent, tolling the landlords that any action against them would be useless of the past week have had a tre as it was only a matter of weeks be mendous effect throughout the tore Marshal Graziunie victorious country.

troops would enter the country.

Immediate reaction to the British Egyptians have always be successes in the Western Desert is dian authorities that Mr C. D. Howe Soviet Army Paper lieved that Egypt's fate is linked manifested in a wave of confidence Canadian Minister of Munitions and

Supply, is safe. closely with Britain's. During throughout the country. A small

Mr Howe was a passenger on

recent months, however, they example of this is the fact that 400 British liner Western Prince, which Moslems on Saturday registered with have had to face a tendentious the Government as intending pilgrims was torpedoed 400 miles north-west whispering campaign into Mecca. This number: exceeds all of the Irish count on Saturday morn augurated by thousands of those who had previously registered. Ind Mr Howe, had been on a visit to Newspapers continue to display re- Great Britain with other Canadian Italians living freely in the ports from the Western Desert under officials. country abusing Its hospitality banner headlines. Representative and deliberately circulating re- ports calculated to now distrust of the Allies.

of

Remains of

Italian Prisoners

All day long a continual stream of captured Italian lorries crammed with prisoners is bumping across the TURN to Back Page, Column 3

Dictator's

Retracts Article Son Returned to Paris

The newspaper "Red Star," organ

of the Soviet Army, recently dise

"a mistake,"

avowed is article published a few LONDON, Dec. 15-(Router)The remains of the Duke of days previously on imperialistic war Reichstadt, son of Napoleon I and Empress Mario Louise, which and announced that publication was have been transferred to Paris from Vienna were placed next to In the original article the "Red Napoleon's tomb in the Hotel des Invalides in an elaborate mid- the opinion of the entire Arabic press, SINGER PASSES Star declared that the U.S.S.R. night ceremony, according to the German-controlled. Paris "Al Ahram" declares, "British success proves that the Anglo-Egyptian LONDON, Dec, 15 (Reuter) would keep its hands off what it wireless.

comin to the entrance where at 1 am. Treaty is a necessity for safeguarding Madame Blanco Marchese, the well- called the imperialistle slzuggle in The coffin arrived in the Gare de the German Ambassador formally Nevertheless the Egyptians have the country's integrity. There is no known oratorio and concert singer, the Balkans,

l'Est escorted by German soldiers furned it over to Admiral Darlan, remained steadfast in their loyalty to doubt that the week's events have died in London to-day, ngéd 77,

"The U.S.S.K., faithful to its bearing torches late on Saturday representing Marshal Patain, the Allies, dan pen

strengthened in the greatest degree She had sung before all the crown-policy of peace and neutrality in evening and was taken to the Holal French municipal guards then

· Examples of Italian undef ground | Anglo-Egyptian friend to ex- from all over the world to her sing the imperialistic struggle In the Anti-aircraft guns fired' a', salute placed it, draned with, the Tricoloses ed heads of Europe and pupils came the present war, is staying out of des Invalide) on.a guh-enrriage. carried the coffin into the chapel, and activity reveal the arrogance of the The Inhabitants of Italian colony. Many ...in recent! pressing the greatest jubliation.

carried the at the foot of, Napoleon Riam

'ing academy in London,

A

Balkan Peninsula,” It said,

while German guarda"