1941-01-10 — Page 16

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ABYSSINIANS Hungry Holland THAILAND ARMY

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pounded by the German authorities just as many thousands of Dulch Italians for there have been reports workers have been transported to Chinese territory, penetrating as far of attacks on transports, ralds Genuany.

Jas 15 miles inland with French troops posts and then duruption of com- Heilant foredooms to failure all the that these reports are completely un- This removal of" workers from withdrawing, the communique, adds munications whenever possible,

Patrol activity on the Sudan has present German efforts to organise true. been

mentioned quite frequently of war effort, for in addition to the fact

Die Dutch industry for the German Kidnapping Activities Into in

oficial communiques and this activity

has fed

"From time to time, Thal patrols to an attack on that there are no raw materials for an enemy post north-east of Kassela.

manufactures available. the have crossed the French frontier and The Italians have evacuated the post voluntary Nazi labour service scheme, sought to kidnap native familles and which has been occupied by our own in Holland is singularly lacking in Every now and then, these patrols draw them into Thailand territory. troups.

recruits.

made contact with our

troops and hurrled back to their own territory,

Occasions have French troops withdrawn before Thal at

war

GI.Q. at Cairo announces that Premier's Son Gaoled while preparations for the reduction LONDON, Jan. 9 (Reuter)-s) sui on of Tobruk Ara proceeding our characteristic loyalty Jins landed mechanized units are now operating Sjoerd Gerbrady, son of Holland's tacks." west of Tobruk. An R.A.F.communi- exiled Premier, In a Nazi gool in que is a bit more explicit and says that Holland. operations have now been extended na far as Gazala on the coast over 30 miles beyond Tobruk and that the aerodrome there has been occupied

by our forces.

R.A.F. Strategy Repaid :- The R.A.F. reports that the weak-1 neas of the Italian air opposition in the Western Desert operations has been largely due to our raids on their nerodromes.. The Italians tried to make a fight of it on Sunday just be- fore Bardia feil. R.AF. squadrons and an Australian squadron welcom ed the challenge and shot down 10 enemy planes. We lost one fighter and one bomber.

Generals Interviewed

The "Vrij Nederland" relates that the Nazis ordered the arrest of Ger brady as a "reprisal arrest" but their quarry was so effectively sheltered that they had to arrest his friend ng hostage.

When Gerbrady heard this he sur- rendered and is now in prison where one of his companions is the son of Van Bocklestein, the Minister of Education,

Allies Expect To Conquer Libya

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Denier War Declared

·SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ofteially denied that Thailand has HANOI, Jan. 0 (UP).—It 13 declared war on Indo-China as pre- viously reported.

Vichy Claim

VICHY, Jan. 9 (Reuter).--Indo- China frontier guards have routed a Thai detachment at Ampil, 12 miles orth-east of. Poipet, according to a "Havas" message from Hanol.

It adds that French aircraft bombed two towns in Thailand as renrial for ralds by Thai planes on Donchene in Indo-Ching.

Fall of Poipet HANOI, Jun. 0 (Domel).—A superior number of Thai forces cap- tured Polpet on January 7 and forced the French Indo-China troops to te- treat 35 miles to Sisophon, French great quantities of war material in authorities here have, admitted for the retreat from Sidi Barrunt, has the first time.

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No force in the world could have sloud up to the merciless pounding of the RAF state two Italian generals taken prisoner when Bardia fell. The R.A.F. machines, they sald, came over as regularly as the hourly chimes of been unable to prevent the encircle- It is reported that the greater part Bardia's clock. They admired the ment of Tobruk. but is now relying at French troops is concentrated in skilful way in which the British on whatever defences In men and the Luos region while a comparative- planes confined their attacks to the material reinnin to the westward in ly small force is stationed in Cata- defences and did not wilfully destroy the neighbourhood of Benghazi.

budia.. However,

reinforcements | 54 the

town.

Reports are that the defences are were reported to be proceeding to Other Italian prisoners also speak larger and on a broader scale than Cambodia. of the great necuracy of the British those of Bardia, though they are French Planes Retaliate bombing. Few targets of military believed to have been hurriedly and Retaliating against the Thailand Importance remain in Bardin al-somewhat ineffectually prepared, attack yesterday on the Sisophon and though the town itself has been

Rome Angle

Angkor regions which resulted in the hardly touched,

Rome Radio continues to broadcast killing and wounding of more than reasons for Graziani's ignominious 20 persons, the French Indo-Chinn defeat at Bardio, stressing the air force this morning bombed the "enormous strength" of Britain's That military base at Sakonnakon,, army in the Middle East,

70 iniles west of Thakhek and Korat Although British Headquarters at and 105 miles from the Indo-China Cairo are

are naturally unwilling to deny frontier, cutting the railway line they trust that 11 Duce will night of January 1, and at Donore derive some consolation from the fact Terrace. Dublin, on the night of that the brunt of this determined and January 2, have now been identifled relentless force is now being con- as of German origin, says a state centrated preparatory to the finall Defence Department.

Bombs On Eire Indentified

DUBLIN, Jan. 9 (Reuter)-Bomba for

dropped at Rathdown Park on the the conßrm the truth of the figures conneeling Ubon with Bangkok.

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the road to the west, cutting off the Italian retreat

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one,

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Their ranks included inany Spalis (French Colonial Cavalry), who following France's collapse, escaped from Syrin by riding into Palestine to Join the British forces,

Italian Air Force Is Caught Napping

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