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No. 16376

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1941.

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DISASTROUS ITALIAN In London All Is Quiet On

DEFEAT ON ALBANIAN FRONT: HEAVY LOSSES

ATHENS, Feb. 6 (Router) The violet Italian counter-attack launched yesterday on the central front has ended in a disastrous Italian defeat, according to the Athens radio to-night.

The enemy throw many troops and a considerable number of tanks and armoured cars into the battle in an attempt to break through the Greek lines. The Italians were pushed back behind their base lines and their losses in men and material wore heavy.

WINGS BRITISH

OVER AFRICA

Five-Front Operations

CAIRO, Feb. 6 (Reuter).-A heavy air attack on Maritza aerodrome in Rhodes, the chief island of the Italian Dodecanese group, marked the extension of the R.A.F. Middle East. Command activity on Tuesday night. The aerodrome was bombed, and machine-gunned and fires were started.

WINANT

The British advances on five. fronts in Africa were again fully

AMBASSADOR supported by air activity.

TO U. K. Nominated To Senate

Renewed Bombing

Several tanks and four armoured cars were destroyed.

The Greeks have established themselves firmly in new positions.

The announcer added that operations on the Albanian front yesterday were satisfactory in all areas. On the mountain ranges beyond Klisura, Greek forces are now consolidating their recent gains and are or- ganising new positions in view of the extensive operations which may be expected weather improves.

when the

Greek artillery is active In the northern sector but bad weather is bampering the Greek advance, while In the coastal area some headway hag been made.

Day Free of Raida ATHENS, Feb. 8 (Reuter).-A G.I.Q. communique states that there has been limited activity of patrols and artillery,

An enemy tank attack has been re- pulsed.

of Greece had another day free

+ Ministry of Public raids, adds

To-day's RA.F. communique re- cords the renewed. bombing of ad- vanced Italian aerodromes in Libya night, Including during Tuesday Benina aerodrome near Denghazi and Berka as well as the railway station Security communique.

at Borce.

In Italian East Africa, the army was supported by the R.A.F. on At Barentu two more various tronts. Italian fighters were captured and one

as shot down.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (Reuter)-Mr John Winant has been nominated United States

At Keren, dive attheks were made Ambassador to London. The on gun positions in the hills and on President sent his nomination to the road east of the town.

At Neganit bombs were dropped on the Senate this morning.

motor transport with considerable

Mr Winant, who came Into pro-jeffect. minence in 1034 when he was Chair- man of a committee to Inquire into jamong

At Bessie, several Ares were caused the buildings and motor

a strike in the textile industry, has transport vehicles. specialised in labour problems for

many years,

He was appointed Assistant Direc- tor of the 1.LO. in 1935 but a few months later he returned to America to become one of President Roose- veit's close collaborators in the ad- ministration of the New Deal as Chairman to the Board to administer the Social Security programmer He became Director of the ILO. in 1035.

HAYASHI

UNDER BOND

-Awaits Trial

SHANGHAI, Feb. 6 (Reuter). Hayashi, 70-year-old President

of the Japanese Ratepayers'

After the collapse of France, he Association, who has been held

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•

Dump Blown Up LONDON, Feb. G (Reuter),- "Reuter's" special correspondent on states that Greek the Albanian frontier

long-range

near guns Pogrudetz have blown up an Italian. munition dump north-west of Lin, on the shores of Lake Ochrid,

SOUTH EXPANSION SCHEME Repeated in Diet Committee

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” TOKYO, Feb. 6 (Domel).

transferred the ILO. headquarters under investigation by the Japan's economic "life-line" lies Japanese Consular Police for the to the South, Mr Naoki Hoshino,

to MacGill University, Montreal.

To-day

This has now become a typical scene in London, where women are more and more taking over jobs which in-pre-war days were alled by the men. Here we see a woman bus conductor being inflated into her work under the tolerant eye of a male colleague.

H.K. Border:

No Influx of Chinese Refugees

LINDBERGH OVERAWED BY GERMANY'S AIR STRENGTH

Special to the "Telegraph"

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UP).—Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to-day, Colonel Charles Lindbergh amplified his earlier thesis opposing the Lend and Lease Bill by saying: "Personally I do not believe England is in a position to win the war."

Invaders Lose Heavily

In Honan Hostilities

Gauss Nominated. alleged wounding of Mt. W. J. Governor of the Board of Indians Excel

Petain Receives Leahy

embracing

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In Eritrea

were

He urged the United States not to attempt to assist England through the establishment of bridgehead on the British Isten against Germany because the overacas supply lines are vulner- able to enemy torpedoes and it would mean that the "American neck would be stretched clear across the Atlantic ocean."

Wants Negotiated Peace

way

The Colonel told the Committee he

CHUNGKING, Feb. 6 (Central News).-Heavy assaults were made against the Japanese falling back from Siping to Sul.

The United States also possesses "another island bridgehead in the ping on the Pelping-Hankow Railway in south Honan. Up till

Philippines; hence, to follow the yesterday morning approximately 2,000 Japanese were killed.

The Japanese to the south-policy outlined in this Bill we must maintain and protect supply lines east of Wayang, about 30 miles stretching two thirds of the

Ground The earth terminating In west of Siping on the Pelping-

positions exposed to the attack of thin WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (Reuter). Keswick, Chairman of the National Planning, told the

Hankow Railway

prac most powerful nations of Europe and -The President hur nominated Mr

tically all cut off as a result of Asia." Clarence Gauss, Minister to Autra-Shanghai Municipal Council, and Lower House Committee this

Chinese encircling attacks and lia, to be Ambassador to China in two Japanese officials at the morning expounding the objec succession to Mr Nelson Johnson. ratepayers' meeting on January (tive of the new national economic

those driving south-westward, Familiar War Terrain from Wuyang to Nanyang and did not believe the United States 23, was released to-night under structure. bond.

Mr Hoshino held that the proposed :

NEW DELHI, Feb. 6 (Router) Shechichen were hotly pursued was to-day in any danger of invasion, sphere Hayashi will be confined to his co-prosperity

although it might be if England falls. Details of the fine work of and attacked. home

urged a negotiated peace, al until his

for Jupan, China and Manchoukuo could departure

Up to nuon yesterday most of the He

desire for a Nagasaki in the near future where not succeed unless "the eastern por- Indian troops in Eritrea now

Japanese reaohing Shechichen had though, he stressed Bon of the South Sens" was included. available here show that Punjab, been annihilated and those invading British victory as the outcome of the he will be brought to trial

Pointing out that world Powers are

He asserted that his study of charge of attempted murder.

entering into a new period of isola- Garhwal, Baluch and Frontier Nanyang had suffered, about 4,000 latter.

casualties, tlonism through the development of Force regiments fought through-

A Japanese unit invading Tung- European aviation convinced him the natural alr Ambassador, according to a Vichy Nomura In U.S. A.

bloc economy. Mr Hoshino asserted

out in the battle resulting in the yipu, a town between Nanyang and that Germany is establishment of a that

Tangho, has been surrounded while power of Europe, Just as England is economic syslem through Japan, occupation of Barentu.

about half of the 2,000 Japanese the natural sen power.

He said "es-

that the Join Army & Navy

majority of SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 0 (Reu-] China and Manchoukuo was

American wor planes are now |ter).-Admin) Nomura, the new sential to the maintenance of our

The occupation followed a five-day reaching Tangho have been forced to semi

retrent eastward. LONDON, Feb. 6 (Reuter).—Radio Japanese Ambassador to the United national prestige."

battle fought by an Indinn brigade A thousand Japanese at Shanghe-"obsolete" according to the standards

of of modern warfare. stations in unoccupied France to-day States, arrived here to-day. He told

He declared that this bloc could

The danger to the United States in urged young Frenchmen to join the reporters that there were no

not from abroad, but from "placing Army. This followed the recent ap-tions between Japan and the Unite not operate without the inclusion of through a narrow, gorge and a ten-kwan, about 25 miles north

Eastern South Seas in it and deplored day battle fought along the Alcota-Miyang west of the Pelping-Hankow

Railway, are being engaged there. peal to young men to join the French❘States that could not be settled that some countries "do not under- Barentu road by another brigade, In cast Honan Chinese troops have TURN to Back Page, Column 3

important stand what creation of a co-prosperity With their experience of mountain recaptured Shihlscho, an

south-west of aphore signifles."

outpost warfare, the Indian troops excelled Japanese Asserting that appropriate measures themselves in the difficult country Pohsien, and Sankuanmlao, south of tries in order to achieve the creation North West Frontier, forcing the and 200 rifles.

LONDON, Feb. 0 (Reuter)~~Mar- shal Petain to-day received Admiral William Leahy, the United States

message to the offelal German news agency.

Navy.

amicably,

on 1

Britain To Win Air War As Prelude To Victory

LONDON, Feb. 6 (Revler),—“Britain must win the air war as a prelude to victory," declared Air Commodore Goddard in a. "broadcast to-night.

man alve-bomber-had been shot

common

Reports from the Sheung Shut to Shataukok border, posla this morning revealed that the recent sorties by Japanese naval and land forces have been carried out with no effect on the Innd border position.

The Japanese have been in occupation of the Chinese half of Shataukok for months. No fresh activity has been discorned along the border.

Manoeuvres Not Visible

The result of the Japanese move- ments has been to pinch the routes covered by Chinese, entering free China along the sea coast several miles cast of Shataukok and the manoeuvres are taking place beyond the hills at Shataukok and out of aleht of that post.

It is likely that the busy traffic that hos passed this post of recent months will cease If the Japanese remain in possession of the points occupied, but it is recalled that they have previously entered the area, "mopped-up" and retired leaving the Chinese to return and live there.

No Influx of refugees is reported.

Willkie On Inaugural Flight

NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (Reuter). The Dixie Clipper with Mr Wendell Willkic aboard has alighted at Bolama, West Africa,

announced Pan-American Air- ways.

Ta machine is inaugurating a new homeward course for American clip- pers from Europe. This is the first time that an Americii comnterelat aircraft has visited on African port and the first time that any part of. United States by air.

Africa has been linked with the

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would be taken against these coun-around. Barentu resembling the Pohalen. The Japanese lost 420 men Thousands Of Americans

of this sphere, Mr Hoshino declined enemy to retreat from their moun- Fighting around Taiho In north- to elaborate this saying that he was tain positions at the point of the west Anhwel where the Japanese are "not at liberty to state here as it is bayonet and repulsing numerically attempting to push into Honan, has increased in severity. A Japanese closely related with diplomacy, mill-superior attacks.

unii

moving south-west-of Talho was tary and other matters."

Intercepted" Tuesday. Another unit pushing toward Chichahon, a town on the Anhwel-Honan border, north-west of Talho, is being sub- jected to heavy attacks.

Free French Chief In Hongkong

Indian troops are among those now advancing from Agordat to Keren.

NEW CRUISERS NAMED

ob

Now Serving In Britain

LONDON, Feb. G (Reutor).—Thousands of Americans have come here in Canadian uniform, declared Mr Robert Hutchison, President of the American Eagle Club, speaking at an American Chamber of Commerce luncheon in London to-day.

He added that the recent lulldown near Malta In the last two

Ho thought that there were told American journalists that he Trans-Canada meant that the German air force months with only two British losses.

It was a grand beginning.

M. de Chompre, head of Free

7,000 or 8,000 Americans in had cast a covetous eye on the enemy. ships tied up in the ports of Amories. had been having diflculties. Wo

Since June, RAF, squadrons in the Frenchmen in the Far East, arrived

service in Britain. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" "Line Air Crash

Ile added, "The song and dance had got through the winter Middle East had destroyed over 360 in the Colony yesterday to organise

Mr Ronald Cross, Minister of which then emanated from Derlin WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UP).–

WINNIPEG, Feb. 6 (Reutor), Shipping, speaking at the same had for ms high entertainment valu pretty well. Over 480 enemy Italian acroplanes in the air and the local movement en route to other

ports in the Far East where he will The Navy Department, to-day, an- aircraft were destroyed in the probably na many on the ground.

nounced that President floosevelt has All nine passengers and three luncheon, said: "I feel that I may because of its bogus qualities. carry out similar functions. last two months,

Ho disclosed that since June Dri- The new official designated by named six new cruisers the Philip-of the crow woro killed when a look forward with confidence to the would only say now that the ships The ratio of British successes to tain had "collected" over 140 night General de Gaulle, was formerly pines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Trans-Canada Airlines plane day when I shall know of the speed are still there and that I still have lossos In December and January was bombers apart from those brought Vice-Consul in Tientsin but he to Guam and Alaska, thus honouring crashed near Armstrong, Mani and scale of American shipping or on eye, and that I am still capabla

of that little spiritusi delinquency throo to one. Forty enemy planes | down in the sea. Brillah night gun- signed his post to throw in his lot American territories

toba, to-day.

Mr Cross recalled that recently hé which I have already confessed.” most of them the much vaunted Gerners had shot down most of them. with the alles.

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