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THE BALKAN RIDDLE

Special to the “Telegraph"

CAIRO, Mar. 25 (UP)-To-day's General Headquarters communique says that the forces which captured Marda Pass are now approaching Harrar.

The communique added, "In Eritrea our troops again repulsed another counter- uttack southwest of Keren inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy.

BRITISH ARMY SETS RECORDS

African Campaign® Figures

LONDON, Mar. 25 (Reuter)-The British Army continues to break records upon which the curtain has been lifted further by Lord Croft, Under-Secretary for War, in the House of Lords. He had a special word for the Home guard-“probably the least expensive force in history”—which frees the mobile army to strike wherever necessary from Lofoten to Jijiga.

Without the Home Guard, military commanders could not have risked sending vital reinforcements in men and weapons to smash the Italian army in Africa in the nick of time.

"In Abyssinia a number of prisoners and

quantities of equipment were taken during and after the action at Marda Pass and our forces are now up- proaching Harrar. Meanwhile, operations north of Neghelli continue to develop success- fully."

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"There is nothing of im- portance to report from Libya.

He's Out

UFSI

Air Raids On Keren

Marshal Graziani, deposed CAIRO, Mar. 25 (Reuter),The chief of the Italian military H.A.F. bombed enemy troop positions forces in Africa. Rome says in Keren on Sunday from dawn to that he has resigned of his own

dusk, dropping over ten tons,

That night heavy British bombers free will, but defeat of his swept over Tripolitania to attack armies in North and East Africa shipping at Sirio and shipping at are obvious reasons for his Tamet. Damage is believed to have

eclipse. been considerable although clouds made it impossible to see the details. Slight damage was done by enemy aircraft which raided Malta on Mon-

Lord Croft then made new dis-most no expense in casualties, forces closures regarding the African cum- of the Indian Army on one flank and paigns. Despite the peril of invasion | Somalls and Arabs on the other, re-day. we parted with fine troops and frat captured the capital of Brush Somali- class equipment to meet the menace land after a surprise amphibious Operations Satisfactory to Egypt and our vital communica-attack.

tions with the cust.

10

Whereas six weeks ago British and

CAIRO, Mar. 25 (Reuter)-British

DEFEAT OF ITALIANS

Imperial forces thrusting westward Repulsed In Albania It is the longest distance ever Italian Somaliland were all Iulian, from Jijiga in Abyssinia through the

an by

history in covered

army

10-day this great area is all Brillsh. newly conquered Marda Pass have

LONDON, Mar. 25 (Router). reach a a major theatre of war-it was

Our casualties in all the African reached points within 20 miles of the The repulse of two Italian at- 3123 immenso naval and military lighting are surprisingly small totall-important town of Harrar,

tacks in the central sector of the undertaking in submarine-infested

Operations in this area are stated Albanian front yesterday was uccans. To-day it is permissible to up to February 23, 2,000 of which

to number happly onl

only 004

were killed to be proceeding extremely well. mention that we have placed in sate whilst We inflicted over 200,000 The capture of Harrar, which is with announced on the Athens wire- custody in our prison camps a far casualties on the enemy including the out strong fortilentions, would seri- less to-night. larger number of the enemy than all

capture of 180,000 prisoners.

ously threaten the Addis Ababa- One attack, made at dawn in the forces at General Wavell's dis-

and the These campaigns have been truly Djibuti Railway imperial and troops of Australia, New Diredawn on that railway some 30 A00s Rivers, was defeated after town of the district round the Apsos and Zenland, South Africa, Rhodesia,, miles north-west of Harrar. War At Speed

African colonies and the Sudan, with

The Italian General Dessimonl is sharp fighting. The second at- Ile then described in graphle de-British

an and infantry, believed to have guardsman

a garrison of be-tack, launched in the morning British onslaughts Scots, Welch, many Irish and also tween 12,000 and 15,000 men successive along the Libyan coast delivered at divisions froin Indin have, with the Harrar and Diredawn.

at after long artillery preparation, was also smashed despite des-

posul in the sombre month of lust June, said Lord Croft.

tall

incredible speed against a weli" | Royal Armoured ineers wrliten |

bose,

'speed never

an endurnace surely remitt

and

Aghting might of Germany.

an

precarious

We are not afraid of the issue, (Cheers).

BETHLEHEM STEEL STRIKE

Ababa,

con-

CHINESE WAR Rehabilitation Facts

Japan May Have To Act Soon

Royal Arill-

Southern Abyssinia entrenched army with every modes

lery

waves of and Royal

In southern Abyssinia, the threat to perate attacks of weapon of defence until the

axgreat fresh chapters into British in early February when the Army of military history.

Addis Ababa is growing daily as the Italians, whose losses, particular- the Nlie, 660 miles from its

Egypt has been saved; the Suez Imperial forces continue to advance ly killed, were very heavy. pinched out Benghazi and blocked the Canal will not be Italian; another 600 northward from Neghelli along the A considerable number of retreat of all the remaining enemy.miles of the shores of the "Italian Italian-built highway to the capital. prisoners were taken.

North-west of Addis with lake" have passed into British care. With A comparatively short time ago a

The

troops are Italian hold

Abyssinian patriot Abyssinia Is initia watching world chronicled Rumania's a perfection of timing, surprise,

increasingly

talaing some 18,000 Italian and nativę! "the Becoming capitulation to German threats. Her Ilve

crescendo of

pace, the submission was the signal for mass Army had now won a glorious sucrand Mussolini's dreams have become troops at Debra Marcos.

Meanwhile in Eritrea, fighting is the nightmare of Italy. of victories which heartens of patriotic cliizens accom-:ession killing of

Soldiers of the British Empire now going on with unabated fury in the panted by all the horrors of conquest every free man and gives him faith stand braced, hardened, experienced hills around the Italian stronghold of as conceived by an intuuman and in morale over numbers and in the and trained to meet the military Keren.

A few weeks superiority of the British unscrupulous enemy. later Bulgaria likewise fell. Fear men over the enemies,

East Africa and an incredible hope that some-

might be salvaged from the Regarding the events in the great kade a weak Government put series of offensives against the Italian į up little in the way of sustained re- East African Empire, Lord Croft sistance. Bulgaria, lacking true lea- emphasised the immense distances dership. Is now experiencing the involved and suld: "Imagine a vast humiliations which the Germans clock of 4,300 miles in circumference, know so well how to inflict,

with the centre 200 miles south-cast

-Some Violence It is now Yugo-Slavia's turn to be of Addis Ababa, with lightning blows

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH" coerced into a surrender which would į struck from 11, 9, 0.12 0

8, 7, 0, 5, 4 and,

BETHLEHEM, Pa., Mar. 25. (UP). bring Germany to the borders of last week, from two Greece, whose truly remarkable fight

After a

a description of the operations-The city police to-day used tear against Italian. Oggression, has not in Eritrea culminating in the occupa- Kis to disperse 200 pickets at the Of the total, 7,093,750 people were interest to Mr Matsuoka during his only broken Mussolini's dream of a tion of the strategically important main gate of the vast hume plant of alded by the different regional relief visit to Berlin owing to the present triumphant march into Athens, but town of Neghelli, Lord Croft said: the Bethlehem Steel Corporation as offices established by the Commis-situation in the Pacific. has turned the tide of fortune, against "It was worth a Marquisate to Gray tried to prevent workers from slan, 1,713,089 were given the re- Shanghnt and 14,784 in Hongkong Hitler himself.

Yugo-Slavia may ziani and we congratulate ourselves entering the plant on the 7 a.m. shift. tion and other facilities

A worker drove to n give way--the pressure brought to on its capture."

ngate in his Jusce rellet centres ot key cities, and Macao. bear on

is tre- the Government

Farther to the cast, the dramatic car to which the pickets approached 8,477,750 received help from the pro-

attempting to upset iv

organisation and 0,102, The Commission has given $3,205,- vincial relief of mendous, but the fact-that-a-few-of-offensive-was-initiated by troops of mainly le+ ministers

and citizens are brave Nigerin, the Gold Coast, the King's The police repulsed them. The 778 were assisted by public charit- 544 during the same period to help enough to offer resistance, is an in-African Rifles and the Union of Soul and the police fired tear gas umongst 130,453 people were aided by the largest single appropriation of the

worker's car was again approached! able and welfare bodies. In addition, form new colonics.

By far the dication that Hitler's power to in-Africa under General Cunningham, timidate is waning. Indeed, the fact who was starting with high velocity the pickets who retreated leading joint offices of air mid relief in the commission amounting to $1,120,000,

temporarily blinded com-

provinces, cities and hsien of Free was given to the reclamation colony that Hitler is endeavouring to beguile from the Ladian Ocean and seemed their

China. Yugo-Slaviu into submission by pro-anxious to spend Easter with his panlons,

near Kweilin, Kwangs! province. mising to respect her integrity, so famous brother, the Commander-in-

The figures show that 580,000 were The colony, with an area of 119,300 cared for in Nanking, 421,500 in mow, can support 8,480 xelugeen.

linc

not

FIRST AID FILM

as he be permitted to use her Chief of the Mediterranean. long as he

in- of communications, is on

This column, having swept right] A special film, entitled "The History dication of weakness tha

that should through Hallan Somaliland, is now of the Shanghai Trouble-August to be allowed to pass unnoted,

300 miles over the Abysslan border November 1937," will be shown at the Hitler has several reasons for at- and is

and is rapidly approaching Harrar Queen's College on Friday, March 28, tacking Greece. He fears the psycho- and threatening the Djibuti railway, at 5.30 p.m. The film illustrates first and the effects of fogical effect of a small country re- Its advance 770 miles from the Kenya aid treatment

for the maining master of the battlefield in frontier and 1,000 miles from the bombing, and is intended which his colleague has been beaten. railhead must surely be a world re-benefit of First Aid personnel. Mem. An attack on Greere would also be cord of distance in such astonishing bers of the Auxiliary Nursing Ser- useful in diverting attention from time. With great rapidity and at al- vice are cordially invited to attend.

is fuilure to invade Britain. The conquest of Greece would bring his

rmes near Turkey and would take

ท

to the civeted much nearer *50 ouwells of Iran. But his plans Inve gone awry, Hiller tells the world that he wishes to save Mussolini, but it is extremely doubtful whether he considers his partner worth sav ing,

As far back as December, when the Greeks Arst proved themselves to he tougher soldiers than the Hallan; when Gruziani's men were beginning to realise that Mussolini's aspirations in Egypt were not se simple of execution as they were led to helleve, it was known that Ger

had miny

already obtained D On on Italian economic Stranglehold life. It Was

that known that time 11. Duve was a pawn it

The Hitler's diplomatic intriques. Intier has, howover, hesitated too

even

11

long it be were sincere in desiring

to help his Axis partner, Britain is

now in control of the Italian African

and of the Mediterranean

Empire from one end to the other, while the Greeks aru fast annihilating the

forces in Albania.

'my

did Hitler wait? It has been reason that he would not object very strongly to weakening of the Hallan which would, on a result of the dis- nstrous African and Albanian cam- paigns, be able to offer little resis Lance to his open domination of Italy. If this be so, he has waited 100 too long or Italy's defent has been more rapid than he

anticipated. In

tance

any case the Fuehrer has again seriously mincalculated. Even should he score somu successes in the Dal- kans he can never regain the ground ho has lost by his hesitations. The myth of Elitler's invincibility is being exposed and every nation that realats hlin, even temporarily, ia alding to- wards the final destruction of his at- tempted demination of Europe.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

PORTREMENT DIVISION

DEFENSE

Lichtay 2-19

DURING OF, Al Ras Ren

"The Government is spending $27,000,000,000 for defonco and it's up to us to see it's spent wisely!-Who put a 3-cent stamp on this letter, when a 2 would hard dono as well?”

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ROME, Mar. 25. (UP), The CHUNGKING, Mar, 25 (Central "Popolo di Roma" to-day printed an News)Between May, 1030, and editorial declaring that Japan may December, 1040, a total of 25,548,439 soon be called upon to carry out the people were aided by the national terms of her agreement with the Axis and provincial relles organisations for action in the Pecifle ocean. and publle charitable bodies, accord- The paper adds that the present to oficial statisties of the German uir and naval engagements National Relief Commission.

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