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五拜禮 號八十月四英港香 FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1941.

日二十月三

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SLAUGHTER OF Famed Incident

MASS GERMANS

IN FIERCE

BATTLE FOR GREECE

Allied Defences Intact

By RICHARD MacMILLAN

Special to the "Telograph"

ON THE ALLIED FRONT IN GREECE, Apr. 16 (delayed) (UP).- Hurling themselves with sledgehammer blows against the Anglo-Greek | fines, the German army suffered a mass slaughter while making an effort to break through.

The hammering continues on a scale equalling the West Front blitz, with at least three panzer divisions, as well as picked Austrian Alpine troops and brigades of youthful Hitlerian "sturmtruppen” known as "blitz- men” thrown into the battle regardless of the cost. The offensive is staged ́on the Nazis' improved battle plan.

5-Hour Raid On Bremen

R.A.F. Roars Into

New Action

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, Apr. 17 (UP).— The Air Ministry announces that the attack on Bremen last night lasted over five hours, and was concentrated on the shipbuilding yards and industrial centres on

the right bank of the Weiser

River.

Brest was also attacked by Coastal Command bombers.

Wilhemshaven, Cuxhaven and Westermunde were also at tacked.

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British, Australian and New Zealand troops caused enormous casualties in holding the passes, and their front| was still firm when I visited it last night, but a recti- fication of the Allied line will eventually have to be envisaged owing to the German advance south of Grevenc, ÉNEMY GAINS NO GROUND

LONDON, Apr. 17. (UP).—Radio Athens reports that from the latest information, the Greek right flank between Katarini and Serbia are withstanding a violent attack and are continually repulsing the enemy with heavy losses. The left flank of the Allied troops is resisting steadfastly and at no point has

enemy gained ground..

UNCEASING ATTACKS

BY R.A.F.

the

Furious Onslaughts SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ATHENS, Apr. 17 (UP)-It was authoritatively stated in British cir- cles this evening that the Germans, #desplie their furious onslaughts have not succeeded in breaking through the British Imperial line." It was declared that five German planes had

Play Notable Part_ In been shot down.

Battle For Greece

The afternoon newspaper "Etho- nos" stated: "Fierce fighting is going on along the whole front, especially inte Govena...and... Kalombakka.

CAIRO, Apr. 17 (Reuter) sectors. According to reliable in Unceasing. attacks on 'enemy } formation the battle for Greece has supply columns in Greece were not yet been deelded."

Reports from the front state that British Blenheimas attacked carried out by the RA.F. on Heligoland yesterday and Blen- Wednesday and the previous very flerce fighting is going on at the entrance to Sarandperon Pass in the heim fighters raided the acro-night, sintes A communique. vicinity of Servia, where the Aus- drome at Breck Sumer.

Much damage was caused. Kotralians have inflicted heavy losses

on the eneiny.

One bomber and three fighters, zani, Bitolj and Ptolemais were of the Coastal Command

are the main areas attacked. missing.

"Blockade" Raids

By The Luftwaffe

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Railway near Korinos, motor transport near Kitros and station southeast of Katarini were successfully bombed."

Fires were started at an aerodrome and a convoy cast of Salonika was heavily raided.

one

The Germans are also putting very hard pressure on the coast road re- Klon at Katerini, but have not suc- cecded in breaking the defences despite repented thrusts by tanks,

Recent arrivals here say the luft- waffe is extremely active,

the

When youths removed Swastika emblem from a German Consulate

San Francisco recently, Berlini furiously prutest-“

Hon

ed to Washington and two sailors were turned over to Navy officials by the police in connec- with the episode. This remarkable photograph was taken an the Swasilka was being hauled down. It shows, one of the youths clinging precariously to the flag polo as he pulls down the flag.

FEM

Latest Reports From Greek War Front

Nazis Intensify

Their

Assaults

Special to the "Telegraph"

Oil Refused

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GILMAN'S

Navy And Air Force Give Nazis A Rough Time In Cirenaica

Special to the "Telegraph” :

LONDON, Apr. 17 (UP).~The Admiralty to-day announced, "The Commander reports that an extremely successful naval bombardment of Fort Capuzzo at Bardia has been carried out. A large number of salvocs were fired and all were seen to have burst among a concen- tration of about 100 enemy tanks and motor transport vehicles.

Belgrade's Torment

Defenceless City

(BY "REUTER" IN YUGOSLAVIA)

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The aerodrome at El Gazala and its supply dump were again successfully bombarded from the sed, Naval units in the Medi- terranean shot down at least two German divo bombers and damaged two others."

And The Air Force 'CAIRO, Apr: · 17 (UP)-RAF, bombers and, fighters yesterday raid- ed enemy. mechanised units, troops: and an aerodrome in Cirenaica, to-

A

cluding a motorised column near Capuzzo where a number of vehicles

'destroyed and casualties were

caused. communique, stated, "our bombers attacked

Landing

April 17-The death roll sulting from the German air force's raids on Belgrade may reach, 12,000, according to es limales of observers who saw bomb the horrors.

The.

the grounds at Gazula, El Adem und Derna..

and

were conveys in the same aree subsequently

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FLAF bombers unceasingly

Men who saw Rotterdam and Warsaw. laid to ruins say that machine-gunned from a low alutude. the onslaught on Belgrade was

bombed enemy supply columns even more severe. After the

and Plolemnia areas where first raid, I counted 200 dead Steve, particularly fix the Kozani, The alone on the main boulevard in much damage was caused.

the motor Korinos, the Terazije district in the centre railway line near

transport road near Kitros and the rallway station southeast of Katerini of Belgrade.

also successfully bombed, wero The city was wholly unprepared for this attacks. A few miserable Fires were started at several hero- shelters were the only air-raid pre-dromes, and a convoy east of cautions measures in being. Fires Salonika was heavily raided. Four could not be fought because of lack British planes are missing.

of water.

Food and exhausted.

soon

became

Berlin Claim

BERLIN, Apr. 17 (UP)—Informed German quarters to-day claimed that the situation of the British troops at Tobruk, Egypt, is "extraordinarily

fuel Barracks Hit Two shelters received direct hits from the first bombs. Three hundred were mown down in one barracks crilleal,"

The War Office, the Prime Minis- ter's office and most other ministries! lind gone up in flames by noon of

first day.

the

Belgrade's leading hotel, the Serbi- German. razed. Tha and Greek Legations were

was

destroyed.

hundred German planes attacked Belgrade in the first raids, Dive-bambers swooped down to 600 Dive

streets feet to drop bombs. Citizens of Belgrade standing in the seemed unable to grasp that war was them. It was nothing

May sacro.

LONDON, Apr. 17 (UP).—The German armies, secking to roll up the Anglo-Greek right and left flanks and to pierce the central front, have intensified their assaults along the entire front, despite suffering severe casualties, according to reports

less, than reaching London.

After a further day and night of The battle-front to-night as bombing, Belgrade presented a picture sumed the form of a deep salient of one vast, interna confined within extending approximately 65 an angle formed by the intersection miles south of the Yugo-Slay of the Save and Danube Rivers,

Fighters Downed 18 frontier.

Serbian fighter pilots shot down 18 According to official Greek reports, fighting is raging along a line start German bombers over Belgrade alone. In the absence of anti-aircraft guns, ing somewhere between Mount Olympus and Servia, running south-soldiers fired at the raiders with

rilles. to a point between westward Greneva and Kalambaka, and

Japanese

Latest Saigon Story SPECIAL TO. THE "TELEGRAPH"

Bitter Fighting ATHENS, Apr. 17 (Reuter).-Bil- ter fighting is raging in Northern Greece, where, the German mechan- A large formation of enemy air- ised hordes are hurling themselves craft which attacked shipping in furiously against the Anglo-Greek LONDON, Apr. 17 (UP). Khallis Harbour on Wednesday were line.

But the latest reports are to the The Luftwaffe returned for their engaged by fighters which shot down

Junkers

dive-effect that the line, although subject- twin-engined “blockade raids" to-night singl-bomber while another was destroyeded to heavy pressure, süll holds.

SAIGON, April 17 (Domei) ing out an area in south England by A.A. fre.

Australian troops are heavily en- The R.A.F. lost four aircraft in gaged around the town of Servia, French Indo-China firms, under into which a procession of war

widespread operations in Greece and which is on the road from Kozani to the control of British and Ameri- after dusk and still continuing night.

Olympus, the right pivot of the oil to Japanese ships. Enemy aircraft raided the some hours later.

Dero- | Allied Inc.,

It is understood that the Japanese They followed the methodical drome of Heraklion on Tuesday but

are said to be giving the

liner Bordeaux Muru of the Kawasaki 1-2-3 tactics-flares, firebombs negligible damage resulted and one Germans a good hammering.

aircraft was shot down," the pilot and high explosives,

The fiercest struggle, however, is Kleen Line arrived, here this after being captured.

in progress some 30 miles south- TURN to Back Page, Column 3oon en route to Tokyo and asked a

then

As I left the city, I met Serb troops

the German advance,

planes poured, starting soon Libya on Wednesday and on Tuesday Larlass; a few miles west of Mount can interests, refuse to Bupply northwestward to Kastoria along the who had received the first' shock of

Wednesday's Blitz On London Described

Stabilising Currency

U. S. Aid For China

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

WASHINGTON, Apr. 17

(UP)-A high Treasury source: Lo-day disclosed that the cur-

rency stabilisation agreement

local oll Arm for 150 tons of oil.

firm

old Greek-Albania trontier.

Klistura Evacuated Radio. Athens Issued a war: com- unique to-day which stated that the TURN to Page 7, Column Five

The initial German armoured drivo) cost the Germans 200 tanks out of a force of 700.

Everywhere the behaviour of the civilian population was heroic.

LATEST

Berlin Raided

·BERLIN, Apr. 17 (UP)—It is off- cially stated that the RAF, attacked Berlin on Thursday night.

Greek Reverses

ATHENS, Apr. 17 (UP)—It is oficially stated that the Greeks have. suffered reverséu and that the Ger man advance continues despite the herole Allled resistance.

·Soo Back Page - For Further Late News

The Arti which is controlled by PREMIER VIEWS 20,000 Street Sleepers

British and American interests, how- ever, refused the request compelling the Japanese ship to change its schedule and call at Nagasaki to re- ceive oil prior to sailing for Tokyo......

President's Son On Way

9.

To Hongkong

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

THE DAMAGE Tours London After Blitz

THE

17 (UF)-Mr Mrs Winston Churchill toured dam- aged London to-day.

LONDON, A (UPA and

Once the Premier climbed on the

Crowd H.K. Pavements

Twenty thousand street sleepers were accounted for in the recent Colony census undertaken by the Air Raid-Precautions Department under the direction of Wing Commander A. H. Steele-Perkins, Director of A.R.P., we

rim of a fuming crater and waved

his

口

to people on root who

and shouted, "Are

no

carted?. No

built car."

However, 20,000 were accounted

The reasons why the census figures should be fairly accurate pere given

by

the Director „ön, follows:.

(By "Reuter's" Air Correspondent) LONDON, Apr. 17-Wednesday night's rald on Greater London, described by the Nazi High Command, as a reprisal for

The census also served to reveal the number of people living the R.A.F's hammering of Berlin on April 9, was of a character

Mr. over mounds in each district...

fhust have lended to drive habitual that might be expected to precede a Nazi invasion...

smoking his cigar. He of rubbish. saw an automobile half buried There are approximately 15,000 street sleepers to sheller. Tons of high explosives were

underwrocked house and told a People residing at. Aberdeeni, 30,000 In the event that an invasion was between China and America will dropped not only, in the metro- ordered for the morrow, it would be to signed not later than next SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 17 man who was rescued from, the car at Bay View, 100.000 in the Central for

district, 210,000 in the Eastern dis polis itself but also in the outer Huer's three-fold objective by 'n pre-Wednesday.

(UP)-Mr James Roosevelt ar-that it must have been a very well trict, 3,000 af: Gough Hill, 22,000 Ilminary blitz on London to create

Shaukiwan suburbs, particularly those to confusion and despondency of the It was asserted that Mr T. V. Soon rived here by plane from Los Later, waving his stick at smoking Quarry Bay 31,000 at

and Mr Henry Morgenthau, Secretary Angeles to-day and is reported wreckage, on which Bremen were 9,000 at Stanley, 09,000 in the caught in the heaviest and most public and paralyau normal services ment and that a formal announcement Mr Roosevelt was non-committal be doing a pretty good job hero."

district, $1,000 at Hunghom, 83,000 att prolonged blit this area has and communications,

at Kowloon City, 116, 1000 regarding It might be issued but it is learned that two reservations

at Mongkak, in the event of attack.us uffered, sogn, de

Shamshulpo 88,000 at | Xem the 2000918148,000 at: Yaumati. İ∙Kİyon" BE U It is probable that one or more morrow, agreement was reached were made in Washington for the Evacuating Istanbul Heavy bout sometimes fell in other large cities or areas would be verbully last December, and provided fight to Hongkong on next Saturday's

ognahing the night with attacked on the same scale at the the Treasury Department Clipper dedaro: "All I knowThe British Legation has ad- Street Neepers were included in random oral co

LONDON Apr. 18 (Reuter). Brect Of Rain Medical & Department nding flashes and an ear-splitting same time or at least on successive

nights. One red might well be allocate: $80,000,000 for the stabilien- Mr Roosevelt declared: Northern Ireland, which the Luft- tion of the Chinese Yuan. Observer is that I have been ordered to report vised British women and child the census but it is pointed out that been rendered and

the count regarding them cannot be most districts {Tillandzh: both; aticks and anivoog wallobilized-on-: Tuesday ni stated that the decision to proceed to the Commander of the Department ron in Istanbul to leave; Boys 5. véry, accurate because of the Kowloon, and thugs "came: tumbling's down together for Hare an attempt would obviously betwith the agreement? showg that the of the Faciño". He added definitas raport received here from that fact that on the night of the census warrants, and held a

public, were told that, tho ob

the cennis was to mumerate

Fee, Bostihdzzt - where in wa¤ fore of the event among the general of the Treasury, will sign the ages to ba en route to the Orient,...playing a hose, he said. “You seem to Levels area, 166,000 in the West 2lants for heir, öwn safety |

the height of the attack before

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