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A Happy ITALIAN AIR BASES IN LIBYA S

Christmas

In accordance with cut- tom, the "Honghone Tele graph" will not be published to-morrow, Christmas Day, but will resume publication as usual on Boxing Day.

The management, editor

SMASHED BY ROYAL AIR FORCE

CAIRO, DEC. 23 (REUTER).—A BIG ONSLAUGHT BY THE R.A.F.

and staff of the "Hongkong ON ITALIAN AIR BASES BEHIND THE LIBYAN WAR FRONT IS RE-

Telegraph" wish their rea- ders a happy Christmas, and

a New Year which will bring peace and prosperity

.the

world and thin Colony.

to

PORTED IN TO-DAY'S R.A.F. COMMUNIQUE AS WELL AS A BIG AIR BATTLE IN ALBANIA.

AERODROMES AT BERKA AND BENINA-TWO MAIN REIN- FORCEMENT AERODROMES NEAR BENGHAZI WERE HEAVILY raided on the night of December 21. Big fires were started at Berka while at Benina three

CHIMARA FALLS: hangars were left burning and badly damaged.

-OFFICIAL

Entire Garrison Surrenders.

Special to the “Telegraph”

ATHENS, Dec. 23 (UP).—It is officially announced that Chimara was occupied by Greek troops at dusk last night after the defences on the outskirts of the city had been shelled for 48 hours.

It is also officially announced that the entire garrison of 153rd battalion of the Blackshirts surrendered, including 800 men and 30 officers. ".

Ex-King Carol A Prisoner

Aircraft on the ground were · machine-gunned from 500 feet.

Considerable damage was caused on the same night at the Italian stronghold of Tobruk whore. British bombers attacked the harbour and military objectives.

A fierce air battle took place over Argyro-Castron between nine British fighters and over 50 Eight enemy Italian planes.

were definitely shot fighters down and three more were prob- ably destroyed. Two British planes were lost.

Artillery Harasses Italians

Waiting Game In Libya

Pilot Machine-Gunned The R.A.F. communique continues: Air Fight Over Argyro-Castron "The pilot of one British plane was being machine-gunned by ATHENS, Dec. 23 (UP)-Anglian fighters while he was descend- He died half an R.A.F. communique issued. ating by parachute,

found after he was

from 10 p.m. says that R.A.F. fighter hour planes on December 21 inter- wounds received during his parachute

descent,

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" cepted and attacked Italian

"It is placed on record that this is bombers over Argyro-Castron, the second occasion since hostilities CAIRO, Dec. 33 (UP),A Middle East that General headquarters,mmuni. but. it was "impossible to ob began in the

Irrefutable evidence has been received serve the results, as they were of an R.A.F. pilot having been quo states: "Our artillery -con- immediately attacked by 50 machine-gunned while making a tinues to harass the enemy al Italian fighter planes.

parachute descent. This follows the Bardia. Prisoners from the Eight Italian fighters were depractice Italian pilots adopted in the evacuated main Sidi Borrani

and probably Spanish War" three more, Two British planes are missing,

Feared Life Is Innitely shot down

Danger

LONDON, Dec. 23 (Reuter). "I have good reason for be leving that ex-King Carol's life is actually endangered. He is detained in the Andalusian Hotel at Seville by order of Senor Ser- Taner Suner, Spanish-Minister of the Interior, acting under pressure from Berlin. not move or make any plans."

He can-

Yesterday, British boners raided the Kunovo oll wells in central

Albania.

Rejoicing In Athens LONDON, Dec. 23 (Reuter).—

Flags will be flown for three days in Greece in celebration of the capture of Chimarn, the fall-of-which-has- been officially announced in Athens.

Amongst the Intest prisoners to be

The communique adds that oil wells at Kucove in central Albania were raided by. R.A. F. bombers on Sunday, One ceny aircraft is believed to have been shot down and two British

aircraft failed to return.

Japanese Slain

In Shanghai. Three Chinese With Knives SHANGHAI, Dec. 23 (Reuter)—i

arca now total 35,949 including 1,704 officers. Several thousand more are still waiting to transported.

be

"West of Gallabat our artillery has been active.

"On the northern frontier of Kenya the offensive and patroll- ing continues.” ·

MEN WHO BOMB THE ITALIANS

*

Here are some of the RAF men who have been wrecking hsroo among the retreating Italians in Libya and....... also devastating the Italian, supply bases. They were being address- ed by Air" Chief · Marshal Str. Arthur Longmore when this pio- ture was taken.

Churchill's Dramatic Appeal

To The Italian Nation

LONDON, Dec. 23 (Reuter) →A dramatic appea

the

was made

Mr Eden's

Message To The Army

to disavow Mussolini and to follow the House of- Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, broadcasting from London to-night.

Mr Churchill also revealed for the first time that messages had passed between him and Il Duce just prior to Italy's entry into the war-messages which disclosed that Italy only took up arms against Britain because of her treaty with Germany.

"To-night," said Mr Churchill, after the war were not akin to ours) Waiting Game--- "I speak to the Italian people and and diverged, as we think, from the overeign impulses which had com- I speak to you from London, the manded the unity of Italy, we could CAIRO, Dee. 23 (Reuter)-British heart of the British isinnds andsu walk together in peace and good- taken by the Greeks are 30 officers Yet another Japanese serviceman has forces in Libya are playing a waiting of the British Commonwealth will. and 860 men composing the 153rd been murdered in the Japanese-game.

"Many thousands of our people Battalion of Blackshirts who arrived controlled ures in Shanghol, This dramatic statement was in Albania

Apart from a steady stream of rein-and Empire. I speak to you

dvelt with you in Italy. We liked fortnight

The fourteenth Japanese victim in forcements, consolidating positions what diplomats call wc-ds of each other, we got on well together. made to "Reuter" to-night by The capture of Chilmara was recent weeks is Satoshi Miyazaki, of around Bardla and Intermittent shell- great truth and respect.

There were reciprocul services; there the former Rumanian Minister in achieved despite very bad weather the Japanese Consular Folles, who ing, there is nothing further to re- We are at war-that is a very was unity; there was esteem. And London, M. V. V. Tilea, now which slowed up the Greek advance, was brutally murdered by three port.

Friday

strange and terrible thought.

now we are at war: now we are-In the final reckoning with leader of the Free Rumania and has taken the Greeks along the unidentified Chinese last

condemned to work each other's rum. Hitler, the Army will have u Always Been Friends Movement.

"Whoever would imagine until the Our aviators are tenting and will tear decisive part to play, fast few melancholy years that the Your African Empire to shreds, and Eden declared in a message to

latters. British and Italian nations would be "We are now only at the beginning General Sir John Dill, Chief of trying to destroy one another? We of this sombre tale. Who can say the Imperial General Staff, on

ave always been friends. We were

"Unjustified Treatment"

coastal

Fund

Valonit. Those

Ex Italians who escaped from the city night" in Nantao, the Japanese- district adjoining the Occupied will have to report what happened French Concession, according to the when Santi Quarante fell; they will Japanese press.

Fifteen slashes were

found on "I want to make it clear," declared have to Bght a desperate rear-guard

attempt to hold the Miyazaki when he was picked up. M. Tilen, "that the Free Rumania, uction in an

Greeks.

He was rushed to hospital, where he Movement does not propose to have anything to da with ex-King Carol Tepelini ecctor where the Aipinl

Heavy fighting is continuing in the died shortly afterwards. and I am not in direct touch with him, divisions have suffered another de- with a meat chopper.

It is believed that he was attacked but my information comes from feat and enabled the Greeks to take reliable sources and 1 feel that protest against this totally unjustified more villages and strategie heights. treatment of a private individual is urgently called for.

"Sunct has ex-King Carol to thank House Of Commons

for his life because lie was given re- fuge in the Rumanlan Legation in Madrid and Curol refused to give him up despite tremendous pressure from Barcelona.

Hit By Bomb

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Dec. 23 (UP),It is re- "It Carol had given way Suner would certainly have met his deathvealed that during a recent German

nir raid, a bomb "crashed on

on the

then.

There is no just reason for not Houses of Parliament within a few allowing Carol to go. He has given yards of the Chamber of the House his word not to mix in politics for of Commons, wrecking the 600-ycur-

old St. Stephen's cloisters, the duration of the war but

while Spanish Government refuses to let other extensive damage was crused, him move."

the

SHELTER HIT MANCHESTER, Dec. 23 (UP)

high explosive bomb hit a shelter

several casualties.

•

ENEMY RAIDED

Mannheim's Seventh Visit From R.A.F.

LONDON, Dec. 23 (Router).

Mr

the champions of the Italian re-where it will end? Presently we leaving the War Office to assume sorgimento. We were partizans of shall be forced to come to much the Foreign Secretaryship.

that rent: movement: Lawards the

Garibaldi, Mazzini and Cavour. All closer grips.

iberty of the Italian nation which

lghted the 19th century was aided

One Man Responsible "How has all this come about and and was hailed by the British Parlin what is it all for? ment and public.

the

"Our fathers and our grandfathers'

To all ranks Mr Eden expressed deep gratitude for their loyal, cheer- ful and unfafling help during a period which had had no parallel in history.

Referring to the Egyptian cam- Pasgn, Mr Eden declared that the Army of the Nile's brilliant victory was the first reward of much patient fort no less than of dash and daring. The quality of the Army of the

macy of the United States of would be proved in Europe,

LONDON, Dec. 23 (Reuter),

"Italions, I will tell you the truth. One Spreading wastes of flame longed to see Haly freed from the man and one man alone has

man one ranged were seen by R.A.F. pilota after Austrian yoke and to see all minor the Italian people in a deadly struggle last night in which 450 persons were dropping their bombs in Sunday riff in people well their fair land against the British Empireath and Middle East to command success has barriers Italy swept away so that housed, It is believed there were night's raid on Mannheim.

might take their honoured, place as prived Italy of the sympathy and been proved in Africa an one day t Most damage was done in the one of the leading Powers upon the Manchester Casualties

neighbourhood of the main rail-continent, and as a brilliant and glit- That he in a great man I do not LONDON, Dec, 23 (Reuter)-The way station but there was also ed member of the family of Europe deny, but that after 18 years of number of fatal casualties in the raid damage on the Ludwigsaven side and of Christendom.

unbridled power he has led your on Manchester on Sunday night was of the Rhine.

Last War Recalled

country to the horrid verge of ruin comparatively small in view of the

The rald was the seventli on Mann-· "We have never been your focs cun. be denied by none, severity of the attack, it, is stated to heim since the beginning of Decem- until now. In the last war against "It is all one man who against the ber. It already, known from the barbarous Huns we were your crown and the Royal family, against sources other than reports of British comrades. For 15 years after that the Pope and all the authority of the pilots that great damage was done in war we were your friends. Although Vatican and of the Roman Catholic earlier raids, which were by no means the institutions which you adopted TURN to Back Pago, Column 3 the most severe.

night.

BOMBING Empire Air Scheme Is IRELAND Ahead Of Schedule Enemy Planes Do No Damage

Barges Hit

Whine harbour was hit and barges were sunk, had it is reýenied that the traffle which helps to give Mannheim Its position, as the most important industrial centre in south-west Gor- many was seriously impeded,

Furness Millions Heir

hayal Missing, Believed Dead

Mannhelm is also a vital railway Junction and traffic to France had to bo diverted to another and lets antis- | factory line,

in an official statement by the 104 schools and institutions of memberg Bured Mr Churchill and J. Feared Dead - He is the, Ian. · Christopher in France on May 24, No otte has

have

Tokyo Blaze

.

LONDON, Dee. 23 (Reuter)-The Empire Air Training Scheme in Canada is well ahead of schedule, it was revealed to- day by Colonel J. L. Ralston, Canadian Minister of Defence, who is visiting England for discussions with the Government and the

LONDON, Dec. 23. (Reuter)-A British officer, who was LONDON, Dec. 23 (Reuter). military authorities. The dropping of bomba in

131. The flow of airmen from Canada

reported "missing, believed dead,” is named the chief heir to the Colonel Ralston said that the compared with what was called for,

Farness millions. Northern Ireland, is announced Air Training Schemo called for was most satisfactory,

fed since he fell lending his platoon

Northern Ireland Ministry of various sorts by next autumn. Government that Canada is united

Furness, son of Viscount Fur. ceen him dead. There is no informa- of the, United Kingdom.

tion of his being a prisoner of war. ness, shipbuilder and Indus-Inquiries in France have had no Public Security, pri

"I am in a position to say that whole-heartedly-s The statement says: "On these establishments will be com- was before-in every activity that

ZESPECIAL TO THE "YELEGNAPHN hever

trialist, who died in. October, result. TOKYO, Dec. 24 (Domel)-Nine leaving unsettled" estate valued. It is considered that succession to several occasions during the past pleted six months earlier than will help in connection with the war persons were belloved to have been at over, £3,681,000, of which the title cannot be determined until week, enemy aircraft have the programme."

cffort," he added.

burnt to death and eight received in-

the end of the war. In the event of the death of Christopher Furners being Northern Ireland. Bombs have scheme three times more than was OTTAWA, Dec. 23 (Router) Ward destroyed two houses and

which started from a cafe in Shiba paid.

presumed, the new Lord Furness will Viscount Furness fork seven-eights. been dropped, all of which fell in called for and the number

be the 11-year-old William Anthony, of Britain has placed orders in Canada partially damaged another. graduates from the air training es- for another 12 minesweepers This open country. No damage was tablishment would be doubled, brings the total number of daval Nine persons were found to be It was revealed here today. that whilam Anthony was bequeath

The dre was extinguished at a zm.the residue of his property on trist son, of the Viscount by his second

fór his son Christopher,

wila, now Mes Theimã"Converse, caused and, there were no Plans: for aerodroma development vessels, to be bulle is Canadian ship- missing, after the fire had been put in spite of far-reaching inquiries, no the remaining eighth of the Tridue casualtios.""

I would be completed before December yards up to 120.

news of Christopher has been receiv-löf the Viscount's property.

Canada

been identified operating over Canada would be, spending on the Minesweepers Ordered Jurica early this morning, when a fire £1,850,000 estate duty has been

out,

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