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No. 16430.

六拜禮號九十月四英港香

SATURDAY, APRIL. 19, 1941.

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Thrilling Story Of War's Most Savage Battle More U.S. Aid

GERMANS MOWN DOWN

LIKE CATTLE BY AUSTRALIAN FORCES

BY

RICHARD, GRIGG

Special to the "Telegraph"

ON THE BATTLE FRONT, VIA ATHENS, APR. 18 (UP).—THE BATTLE OF THE PASSES IS PROCEEDING WITH TERRIBLE FEROCITY, AGAINST THE VAST NUMERICAL SUPERIORITY OF THE GERMAN ARMY AND AIR FORCE, THE ANZACS ARE BLOCKING THE WAY THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS. THE SITUATION IS DIFFICULT, BUT THE BRITISH RANKS `ARE UNBROKEN AND THE TROOPS ARE FIGHTING COURAGEOUSLY AND WITH HIGH

|CONFIDENCE.

HITLER TO CARVE UP YUGO-SLAVIA Probable Designs Revealed

Special to the "Telegraph"

18 (UP). The Axis forces to-day intensified BERLIN, Apr. their attacks on the Anglo-Greek defences as hostilities in Yugo-Slavia ended, releasing scores of German divisions for a concerted offensive on the Greek front.

British Reprisals

As in the past few days, the High Command gave little details as to the direction or results, of the German drive, but informed German quartera declared, the results thus far are equally up to the expectations of the German and Italian High Commands. Thay stated, however, that the

On Rome. Anglo-Greek communiques are

If Atho

*likely to be more revealing than anything released by the German the im-

& Cairo High Command in

Are Bombed

mediate future.

Informed circles stated that the Yugo-Slav troops who capitulated

Everywhere I went along the front, I mot the same determination to make the Germans

pay dearly for every foot of soil gained. Hitler was never so prodigal of his hordes as in these Balkan mountain tracks which are strewn with the corpses of German youth, which, British officers told me, "they flung in in endless waves.”

ALBANIA

TEPELIN

KORITZA

KASTORIA

SIATISTA:

KLISSURA

KON

GREVENAL

1

TYRNAVOS

KALABAKA

JIANNINA

LARISA

GREECE

In view of German threats to According to these quarters, several and Statista. Allied forces are now making a strategical

For China

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"'

WASHINGTON, Apr. 18 (UP). President Roose velt told the presa to-day that he is broaden- ing the war äid pro- gramme under the lend and lease programme to enable America to send materiala to China. He asserted that specific authorisations have been made, but he was not certain whether or not the materials *had actually begun moving. He referred the correspondents to Mr Lauchlin Currie for in- formation...

BOMBS ON BERLIN

$30.00 PER ANNUM

Nazi

LADIES'

Small

KLEINERTS SWIMMING

CHIL N'S SWIM SUITS Inspection Invited

WHITEAWAY'S

Troops In

Libya Exhausted: British Forces Take Initiative

Special to the "Telegraph”

CAIRO, Apr. 16 (UP). It is understood that the Germans show no signs of trying to push further east- ward into Libya. All reports emanating from Libya indicate that the German advance elements are in 2 state of exhaustion, and the initiative in patrol encounters around Tobruk and Sollum is definitely with the British.

Hold On Doggedly

BY JAN YINDRICH ···

R.A.F. Leave Heart Of The Australian

City Ablaze

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

more bombs than ever before,

TOBRUK, Apr. 18. (UP).

troops have doggedly held on to their posi- tions without flinching as Italian guns pounded away, causing a

pall of dust and smoke to hang over the sky line.

LONDON, Apr. 18 (UP). The Ministry announced to-day that more bombers, carrying

The battle began at 3 pm. yeste raided Berlin Inst night and left

day when Italian guns started to shell the outer defences of this former the city ablaze with fires, most Itallan stronghold-second only to of which were in the heart of the capital

The announcement said, "A number of very powerful bomba were dropped on targets in the

Buildings Battered In London

St Paul's Damaged

Pardia in the strength of its fortifien- tions. There was a mingling of dust and shell smoke in thick clouds from LONDON, Apr. 18 (Reuter). the direction of El. Adem, where vast St Paul's Cathedral has again stocks of Italian bomby word

been bombed, the City Temple last January when the centre of Berlin during the infantry broke through the defences been gutted by fire, and Guy's

armoured

the Australian the famous Free - Church has heaviest attack yet made on the

and crushed the resistance of a Hospital and the world-wide enemy capital. Fires immediate superlor number of Italians ly broke out. The attack was

Shelling of the defences which form fridge's and Maple's are among for known department stores of Sel pressed home and many bursts

a semi-circle with a radius of op- were seen across the target.

proximately ten miles, followed the the London buildings, damaged bombing of the harbour which began in recent air raids, Substantial damage was certain-at 10.20 am. on Wednesday by seven ly done."

big black German

.places

with The bomb which scarred St swastika markings..........

Paurs fell in the north trangept, Planes Downed

where it hurled tons of masonry Earlier, reconnaissance planes dow into a fantastic pile of broken over the town. Anti-aircraft bat-columns and stonework. teries shot down three bombers, be

Eigat Brilah planes are missing from all the attacks last night.

Three formations of Blenheims, escorted "by, several squadrons of attacked Cherbourg during daylight yesterday. The good weather permitted very accurate bombing of the docks,

Bombs were also dropped on targets in. Holland, including Rotterdam and Cologne as well as a number of places in northwest Germany,...

Dfficult Weather "Reuter" adds that the weather was difficult and the bombers had to Journey. 1,200 miles there and back.

what each bomb had done. · · Butį the- bombs were dropped by the light of fares while all defences of the Ger- man capital were working at full Many more bombs, both high ex-

Nor was it easy to see, from aliove

LONDON, Apr. 18 (Reuter)-Inat night are mostly concentrated in illustrates the approximate position of the present battlefront---

THE NORTH GREECE BATTLEFRONT. This map The following statement was the mountains between Sarajevo and issued from 10 Downing Street Mostar, as well as a few remnants in North Greece. Extremely fierce fighting has been going on

who are holding out near to-day:

the in the Mount Olympus area as well as at Kalabaka, Grevena Danube. bomb- Athens and Cairo, H.M. Goy-

withdrawal from one unnamed section of this battle line, ernment wishes it to be understood capitulation requests were received that if either of these two cities lain the past couple of days from sub-

The brunt of the infantry fighting is being borne by molested systematic

last night's request came from the the Australians who have broken the main German drive con- who said the capitulation was based in the Servia Pass. The German "Sturmtruppen,"

on the fact that the Premier, General not be greatest care will be taken Simovich had left the country. The newly formed Hitler blitzmen who were recruited from number of troops involved in the the Hitler Youth Movement, staggered up the precipitous strictest orders to that effect have capitulation is not yet known, been issued.

To Carve Up Country!

"Once

ordinate Yugo-Slav commanders, but

will;- commence · a lit

bigitest: Yugo-Slav military authority,

Combing of Rome. tinue till the end of the war.

"The

.

It is expected that Germany, as the

stretch.

plosives and incendiaries, were drop- TURN to Page La Co were Fo

hairpin slopes in deep lines, dying like cattle under M. Renner

It has, however, como to the knowledge of HiM, Government that

With the conclusion of hostiles British machine-gun fire. These battalions of death an Italian squadron is being held ready. in Rome to drop captured bomes upon Vatican City should a military victor, will call a conference came up from the valley hour after hour until the defen- British rald take place. It is, there of interested powers in the very near ders were exhausted with killing. fore necessary to expuse this charge-Yugo-Slay state. It is assumed that teristic trick beforehandi:

Regular Policy

future and caryo

up the former

| the states participating will be Ger-. thany, Italy Hungary, Rumania,

is a mistake to describe the TURN to Pago 2, Column Four bombing of Berlin last night by the

RAF. as reprisal for the rald on:

London the night before. It was not Portsmouth Bombed

but part of the regular policy.

Tooted by the R.A.F. under the

PORTSMOUTH,

Apr. 18

Instructions of H.M. Government for (UP).—Thousands of incendiary bombing objectives in the two guilty countries, which are likely to weaken

their military and industrial capacity

bombs and some high explosives caused extensive damage, mostly This policy will be continued to dwellings, on the outskirts of the end of the war, it is hoped, on the city during raid: Inst night an ever-increasing scale irrespective in which, the first reports say, made on the British Isles or not." five were killed.

of whether any further attacks are

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OFFICIAL REPORTS

Over the passes, deep with dend, the tanks then thundered. and were knocked out one by one by the British anti-tank guns mounted on the ridges.

Going To Mukden

After 13 Years Here After 13 years as a Vice-Consul of the French Consulate in Hongkong, M. Charles Renner is leaving in a few days to take charge of the con- turn-sulate in Mukden, aw membebel.

i

Hidden behind rocky boulders far above the main body of British Ent pire, troopstanka out-gunned the Situation On All

enemy. In the face of this flaming wall, the German battering ram Fronts Discloseded to other sectors where the terrain

was comparatively ensler. CAIRO, "Apr. 18 (Reuter)-

In the face of increasing pressure

the German advance in this area has been a costly one,

2z]

He rolloves M Germain who goes to Hankow while they; vacanest in. Hongkong will be filled by M, Raoul Duväl who is en route from Francă vin American

the popular consul is

loved to have been Junkers 87s and Another bomb fell in

nearby

Almost overy-pane of

Hurricane shot down one Messers Cathedral, alast swept round the chmitt 110. The planes were parently plioted by Germans and few glass some dating back to the time only a few hundred feet above the the Cathderal has been blown out. of Sir Christopher Wroni, who hullt ground: but, missed the ships in the harbour which is filled with the Most of the fabric'is' unharmed but wrecks of vessels sunk by the

the north transept wall is pitted with TURN to Page 2, Column Six deep holes. The Great Dome and the

Whispering Ga

Gallery are unaffected.

LATEST

Start Strategic Withdrawal

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Desecrated Altar

The Cathedral, already desecrated by a bomb which damaged the High Altar, has had to be closed to visitors and any remain so for a con- siderable time

The Chelsea Old Church, the scene of many fashionable weddings and which: contains the tomb, of Sir Thomas Moore and many ancient monuments, suffered a direct hit and Is now in ruins.^i

Showers

of firebombs fell on

Guy's Hospital. **While, those threat-

• LONDON, ̈· Apr. 18- (UP).--The ening the occupied blocks were British and Greek arinies, started being smothered, others fell on the their strategic withdrawal in northern unoccupied three-storied wing. This

wing Greece after announcing that they

in 100 feet long, was had inflicted heavy 'casualties against Butte, Hitler's Grecian biltzkrieg in which The Chelsea

It is estimated that 1,000-aeroplanes historic Long For Athe

military

and probably several hundred thous pensioner was severely damaged by: sand picked troops participated in a bomb and among the 13 persons some of the bloodiest fighting of the killed was the oldest pensioner, aged war.

Meanwhile the collapse of bian armies has treed a huge number.

pse of the Ser

City Temple Only the walls of the City Tem- of German troops for a possible ple, which is the only Engilih Free offensive against the British .ond Church in the city of London, re-

Geographic details of the new mass of Allied front have not been revealed.

Greeks,

maitz

was

The interior is

starred wood dan

Maples, the big furniture store, burn out and Selfridges won also damaged by fire, but trading tinuas on the lower floors

con-

The world-famed duction rooms of TURN to Page 2, Column Six

Roosevelt. Warns Of Grave Situation In Europe

Continuous. Action" While the battle of Servin Pass was by German forces, which are being fought out. British tank qua With M. Renner will go: his wife daily being reinforced, the Greek drons, supported: by machine gun and two daughters, all of whom have regiments, fought desperately against come to regard this Colony, as their and Imperial forces on the Greek permitting: bulges in the Allied lines, home. They have many friends out- northern front are gradually steming the endless hordes side their compatriot circle, who will withdrawing to a shorter ling of

They are everywhering the 1-7189- baille front-one defence.

day Grecke, the

day going next

doing out to

definitely leaving the Colony this This is announced in a Middle East counter-attack on, a British sector, time, it is etting to recall what was arid the next being ordered to mop written of him in these columns ex- communique issued here..

up

actly four years E Moto The communique adds Umat so far Up the Austrian Alpine troops,

ago-when he went Thessaly Drive Held on leave. NEW YORK, Apr. 18 (Reuler)-A lane of destroyers across

LONDON

Apr. 18. (Reuter) —

"Adventures. On Service the Atlantic in an effort to thwart the German, threat to vital

› M. - Konner Joined the. Ministry of

Special to the “Telegra war supplies from America and the abandoning of the present In Libya, says the communique, Aller, withdrawing to a shorter line

British patrols have been active in of defence, the Greek and British Finance and was secunded for four

WASHINGTON, Apr. 18 (UE). —At a press confer convoy system is the advice of some American experts, according to vicinity of Tobruk and also st forces. Northern Greece, have years from 1022 to the Sair at Ansis day, President Roosevelt declared that the American pi to reports in New York ap

York shipping sources. T

Sollum. Many casualties in men and checked the new German effort to Superintendent of Chirtoms. He

ther transferred to the Consular Ser. not appreciate the extreme seriousness of the European "outline, the new plán | Atlantic; every inch of which would vehicles have been inflicted on the smash through in vice" and came out to Hongkong A experiencing

in the implications thereof concerning life in the United State would call for a constant patrol or Usree hours, and hides of our imperial troops in hand General Headquarter communique, when he went home on leave in He assorted that although Singapore today mor

be policed by a warship every two enemy who

dash and determined Aghting

says a British 1028 for his frat forelen terma ja low pilers College Regina, cre quall of some 50 destroyers along the "At no time would a destroyer be to hand encounters)

was made in the face of increasing 1932, M. Renner and his family were public awarenes 2,000 miles of the Great Circle more than an hour's distance from

A further five officers and 72 other German pressures The German caught in the tragedy of the **ficance of" merchantmen in the Inne,

making her melden from Labrador to Advocates of the new plán declar, ranks have been captured,REATEST Dminand Slaɔpouring, reinforcements j-stricken Philliparʼn

Grooce from Yugoslavia and is voyage from the Far East. The liner gradually Britis Isles. They would be that it would mean adequate protec-extensivo

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