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COLOURFUL STORY OF VICTORIOUS

BRITISH INVASION OF LIBYA

CAIRO, DEC. 17 (REUTER).

-BRITISH IN.

FANTRY WERE TO-DAY PREPARING TO PAR-Britain In Arms Till

TICIPATE IN A BIG PUSH ACROSS THE FRON- TIER INTO LIBYA. THEY WERE WEARY BUT TRIUMPHANT WHEN THEY OCCUPIED SOL- LUM YESTERDAY AFTER DAYS OF CHASING THE ITALIANS OUT OF EGYPTIAN TERRI TORY.

Sollum is only a tiny port surrounded by a few white houses. Ábove the port is Upper Sollum, the main feature of which is the large barracks belonging to the Egyptian Army but long ago blown to pieces by British bombardments while the Italians were in occupation..

With a little group of British correspondents and one American, I spent the last few days watching the final stages of our assault en Sollum, the tactics for which were just as well thought out as those at other points in the present campaign.

Sollum was first imperilled ajomcers and men, marching down

Europe Is Freed

could never accept any arrangement having the effect of

per.

LONDON, Dec. 17 (Reuter),-"The British Government

petuating German domination of Europe and the British Govern- ment are resolutely determined to do all in their power to deliver restore their former independence and prosperity." the nations now under the heel of Germany from that yoke and··

This statement was made by

Lord Snell in the House of Lords to-day, replying to a request by

Lord Noel-Buxton for a Govern-

ment statement with regard to any suggestions purporting to be aimed at peace terms which had been made to Britain by the German Government since Italy's entry into the war.

Woman Is Convicted Of Treachery

week ago when British "Victory Avenue" through Egypt, by the late Lord Tryon on November death for treachery to-day at

a

Capital Sentence LONDON, Dec. 17 (Reuter). Lord Snell recalled the statementA woman was sentenced to

armoured division, after dealing two or three hundred of them being had frequently suggested that the Winchester--the first of such But they marched as prisoners, every 20 that during recent years Germany! with a whole series of other ob-guarded by a single cheerful Cockney woukt be happy to maintain good sentences to be announced as jectives, came smashing through private and the "Victory Avenue relations with Britain provided that Bugbug from Sidi Barrani BO down which they marched was the Germany was given a free hand in Barrani which Marshal Graziani hus rond between Sollum And Sidi Europe, beon building several months past.

The road, which will now be a.uice present for the Egyptians, would love cast at least £60,000 to build.

quickly that the whole Catanzaro Division under General Giuseppe Amico, which had been happily en route to Sidi Barrani on normal relief duty believing the war to be miles away, was taken completely by surprise.

Majority Captured The majority of its men were taken, prisoner and nearly all its material was left strewn along the sides of

the road.

sun

The British Government had never been prepared to discuss such an arrangement since it could only be sit the expense of her former French ally and other tree European countries; which are at present British nilies.

Serious Approaches

A fantastic sight met our eyes as our car came over the rising ground near Bugbug. We saw the entire nury valley shrouded in clouds and dust,

Lord Shell added that more serious through which the evening slowed while from the dust emerged suggestions to this effect from the a scemingly endless stream of dark-utinans were naturally made prior green uniformed figures with khaki- to the outbreak of war. From time clad British soldiers marching to me there had been indications smartly at their alde,

that Germany was prepared to renew these suggestions but not with sumclent authority to justify any The Italians were chatting, laugh-statement by the British Government. A half of fire was poured into the ing and smoking, apparently defenders of Sollum by the British pletely heedless of the fact that the tanks while the R.A.F. continued in- whole Illusion created by Fascist cessant bombings. A slight chock to propaganda has been swept aside in the British forces occurred when a single week.

These Bellish tanks swept on up Sollum while others were coming up across the

the escarpment from interior.

Cheerful Prisoners

com-

· some-tanks-berama-bogged-in-the The Victory Way to Sidt- sait fields ontsida Sollum but this Barrani, a typical straight Roman did not seriously hamper our offensive road whose rapid construction was a operations. The British tanks dashed considerable engineering feat, bears on to occupy the coastal territory be- many signs of this propaganda, yond Bardis, 39 miles or more Inside Liby

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H.K. Stock Market

The following quotations were passed on a woman since the issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar outbreak of war.

She is Dorothy Pamela O'Grady, 42 years old.

The charges on which she was found guilty were that in the Isle of Wight she made a plan likely to assist the military operations of the enemy and that with the object of helping the enemy, she cut a military tele- phone wire.

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U.S. DESTROYERS Shell (Bearers) s/- India To Intern ·

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (Reuter).| Italian PrisonersThe award of contracts for the construction of 40 additional destroy- ers at an estimated cost of over NEW DELHI, Dec. 17 (Reuter), $253,000,000 is announced by Colonel Internment camps are belag prepared Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy. All along the road are stones erect- In India for the reception of at least Colonel Knox also announced the ed in honour of Mussolini and at the 20,000 Italkins from the Western award of contracts for the expansion While they did so, an infantry Sidi Barrani end is

memorial put Desert who ore expected to be of shipbuilding fachities at a cost of brigade moved up with instructions up even before the road was finished brought to India soon,

over $8,000,000, not to attack Sollum directly but recording that "The 12th Artillery contain it, letting nobody escape, Company, in the face of the malice

of Fort Charged, Taken

enemy, the burning sun and By Sunday, the defenders of the biting wind, made this road to Sollum, alarmed at their precarious Egypt her the sands of Libya and

position, had moved up to the top

of the escarpment, blowing up the road leading from lower to Upper Sollum.

The Brilish infantry pressed in on Sollum despite fire from the escar- ment and occupied Lower Bollum

link

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Though it is not yet asphalted, this road forms a useful line of munication for the British forces: advancing into Libys.

Empty Bugbug There is hardly anything at Bugbug|

on.

"Victory Avenue” I have just watched 8,000 Italian soldiers, officers, non-commissioned

with

With D

Vichy Hopes Italy May Lighten Peace Terms

WAS

to

LONDON, Dec. 17 (Reuter)-Though internal policy is without heavy casualties by Monday self-just n solitary house and af halleynd to be the chief cause of M. Laval's dismissal, reports morning, and by the same afternoon, serica of Italian watertanks now from Vichy fail entirely to clarify the reasons, the Italians on the escarpment had guarded by British sentries distribut- given

ing water to the prisoners as they It is probable, however, that Darian is the leader, that a separate All arrangements to receive fresh stream through. prisoners from Sollum were com Several more thousands of prison- Laval's efforts to make Marshal peace between France and Germany pleted yesterday (Monday) at Bug-ers had been gathered round the Petain a pliant tool for his pro- the hope are that Italy has been so may be concluded. The grounds for bug, where over 12,000 had already water tanks last night. An infantry German policy encountered in-greatly weakened that Germany may been fed and watered before passing major was in charge of their teesing creasingly stubborn resistance, now be able to persuade her

While we were talking to him

an which

renounce most of her claims against Italian officer enme up, saluted and

fortified by the France. The rock on which carller officer to take seven wounded men

rked for transport for a

ical situation in the Mediterranean. Franco-German negotiations came to medical

It is reported that Laval last week grief might thus be removed.. to hospital., The major fixed him up lald far-reaching proposals for

in-

Nazis Suspicions which an Italian doctor ternal reform before the Vichy was allowed to

himself. drive

Cabinet together with a new German Laval's policy, M. Flandin is bound Owing to the complete failure of Meanwhile the crashing to bombs peace offer, both of which were re-to move cautiously in the direction of and the roar of anti-aircraft fire fected. has been making Bardia look like: Marshal Petain is reported to have Otto Abetz has gone to Vichy sug- such a policy. The fact that Herr Hem in Germany when the Royal summoned M. Flandin Air Force are having a busy night. The latter is held to be anxious to satisded with Flandin's nomination this gests that Germany is not entirely Bardia Assailed

adopt a more dignified policy than and indeed it is rumoured that Ger- From a height on the coast east of Laval, and it is thought that he would many may feel obliged to send troops Sollum I watched the hottest firework colonial basen at

never consent to placing French to occupy Lyons,

the disposal of display of flaming onions and anti-Germany. aircraft fire and bombs that I have

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Reports from Italy show increasing confusion and uneasiness concerning the war situation. An example is the Britain's Mediter-runour current In Italy that Marshal the Italians at Bardis to capitulate rantan quccesses have revived hopes Dadogo and other generale have

among the group, of which Admiral been executed for treachery,

seen in this part of the world. It Separate Negotiations

was all part of the encouragement to

rapidly.

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to send a small number of lons bern-

bers to harass the British troops.

Feena mint INVASION PORTS

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EPENIAL TO THE "TELCONARIO** LONDON, Dec. 17 (UP)-Heavy explorions from the direction of the French const shcok the Dover arca nt 2 o'clock this afternoon."

They are believed to have been enused by a daylight raid by the R.A.F. on the invasion ports.

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