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No. 10437

一拜觀 號一月四英港香

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1941.

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GILMAN'S

ALLIED LINE INTACT: FINE Rescued By Destroyer

HEROISM BY ANZAC FORCES

LONDON, APR. 20 (REUTER)-THE ALLIED Line in greece remainS UNBROKEN SAYS A PRESS MINISTRY BROADCAST FROM ATHENS.

WHILE. THE ALLIED LINE HAS BEEN MODIFIED AT SOME POINTS ON THE DEFENDERS OWN INI- TIATIVE THE LINE CONTINUES FIRM.

THE GERMANS ARE PERSISTENTLY ATTACKING FIERCELY ALONG THE WHOLE GREEK AND BRITISH FRONTS BUT "ALL THEIR VIOLENT EFFORTS TO FORCE A FINAL AND IMMEDIATE DECISION HAVE FAILED,”

The Germans are bringing up more and more reinforcements of mechanised

BATTLE OF

OF THE ATLANTIC

Germans Suffer Losses

LONDON, Apr. 20 (Reuter) —Germany has now lost two of her three best U-boat aces, said Mr A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking of the successes, in the "ups and downs" of the Battle of the Atlantic at Tottenham to-dny.

Schepke, the ace captain of U100, said Mr Alexander, was dead. His submarine had gone to join U99, captained by an- other ace, Olta Kretchmer, who was now a prisoner. Both cap- tains have been decorated by Iitler with the Oak Leaves; the bighest decoration which Germany has bestowed on her under-

water pirates.

Princess Elizabeth

15 To-day

}

To Receive Priceless

Heirloom

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Only three U-boat captains held this décoration.

Both Schepke and Kretchmer and addressed incetings for recruits for U-bont service and Mr Alexander

aircraft, but despite all these units, infantry and New. Greek

efforts the

and Greeks are fighting like lions and still hold

their lines, says a Greek Press Ministry bulletin.

Advancing in waves, the Germans attempted to secure at all costs the passes in the Kalabaka! area but they failed and paid dearly in casualties for their failure.

In the Olympus area: the Germans continued to sacrifice their soldiers in thousands without being able to break through.

The heroic exploits of the Australians and New Zealanders are weaving new legends about Mount Olympus.

SITUATION STILL SERIOUS

CAIRO, Apr. 20 (Reuter).—The situation in the Balkans still regarded here as serious.

Cabinet Meets

Ministers Named

LONDON, Apr. 20 (Reuter). The composition of the new Greek Cabinet, presided over by King George of Greece, was on- nounced to-night, states the Athens radio.

The Deputy Prime Minister is Vice-Admiral Alexander Sakel- ilarious, Chief of Naval Staff who will also be Minister for the Navy...

Mount Olympus, on the right flank of the Allied line, was evacuated by the British troops before the Nazis took it, accord-

to well-informed quarters in Cairo.

added: "I don't think that this sorting

of news will encourage them much."

Kretchmer was known and idolised in Germany as the "Wolf of the Atlantic." He had the highest record of destruction of any-U-boat captain.

Enemy Tonnage Lost

Mr Alexander stated that nearly 2,500,000

of tons

enemy ships had been captured, destroyed or forced to

The scuttle.

burden of the Atlantle battle both grievous and heavy, but never

was

for a moment in day and night was

મ

The operation was part of the British retirement to shorter line, which is proceeding to plan under a heavy air and mechanised action.

Despite terrific casualties, the masses of troops into the battle.

ABYSSINIA SITUATION

there any slackenhut in the prosecu-Selassie Returning To

| tim-uf-the-fight..

"This battle has its ups and downs

but I assure you that neither U-boats

nor German long-range aircraft have

it all their own way," he said. "We

His. Capital

LONDON, Apr. 20 (Router). continue to take toll of both and as-Arrangements for the return

the strength of the co-operation of of the Emperor of Abyssinia to

Was

Germans continue to hurt

Defence Line Intact

SYDNEY, Apr. 20 (Reuter).-The Acting Premier, Mr A. W. Fadden, declared that the defence line Greece is intact,

Personnel

Other Ministers are:

War.-General Panagakos. Air-General Nicolaides.

Communications and Railways.— General Korzas,

Foreign Affairs, Finance and Na- tonal Economy-Mr Emanuel Un-

deros.

Public Welfare and Press-Mr| Nikoloudns.

Agriculture and Labour, --- Mrį Denietratos,

Interior and Public Security,--Mr]

"Australian troops are in

excellenc

spirits and have been engaged in

and Justice.-Mr E. Under-Secretary of State for Ship- heavy fighting and have acquitted ping-Mr S. Theophanides.

The new government took the oath Mr Fadden expressed Australies at 5.15 p.m. this afternoon and held sympathy with the Greeks in the its first meeting Immediately after- loss of their Premier, Mr Alexander wards, Korizis.

themselves with great distinction."

Great R.A.F. Activity CAIRO, Apr. 20 (Reuter)-In

our

.al

our

the Navy with the Coastal Command his capital, Addis Ababa, are Greece, there was considerable and increases and the number of escort-

progressing with all speed, successful activity by the R. A. F. ing destroyers and corvettes expands. ]

*Renter"

informed in yesterday and the previous day. the toll of the enemy will Increase

German dive-bombers, escorted by until the Battle of the Atlantie is ondon to-day.

fighters, attempting to attack Emperor Haile Selassie was last re-ground

shipping won,"

troops and ported to be at the head of his army Khalkis, were intercepted by in the Debre Marcos are some 100ghter patrols.

During the day, without loss miles northwest of Addis Ababa.

themselves, our fighters shot down. three Junkers 87's, two Junkers 68's four Messerschmitt 109's, one Heinkel 120 and severely damaged many others.

The First Lord said that we had got to continue fighting, labouring and struggling to get back to some thing like the escort position

And in the last war when we worked noti only as a single fleet but had five powerful Allied flects and five times the present number of destroyers.

"The amazing thing is that the TURN to Back Page, Column 3

R.A.F. Activity CAIRO, Apr. 20 (Router).In the Dessie-Alomata area, enemy positions and motor transport were bombed

SHAOSHING

CAPTURED

Ningpo Entered

The work of the British navy is not confined to fighting, hunting and convoying, but often its ships are engaged in errands of mercy. This remarkable pleture illustrates the point. It shows survivors of a ship sunk by the Nazis, be Ing rescued in the lifeboats by a British destroyer. This is another phase of the Battle of the Atlantic,

BULGARS GUARD GERMAN GAINS

LONDON, Apr. 20 ̊ (Reuter).—Bulgaria' has been granted temporary new frontiers in Macedonia, Thrace and the Moravia region in Yugo-Slavia, according to the German radio.

Bulgarian troops will continue

to advance in Western Thrace so as to occupy the territory limited in the east by a line leading

from the Bulgarian frontier town of Servengrade southward

to Edegach on the Aegean Sea.

In Macedonia, the Bulgarians will proceed as for west as the River Vardar and south as far as the former Greek frontier: in the northwest, the advance will be to the River Morávia,

HITLER HAS

A BIRTHDAY

Rome's Left-Handed Compliment

LONDON, Apr. 20 (Reuter). The Germans emphasise that these-Hitler spent his birthday

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" CHUNGKING, Apr. 20 (UP). toThe High Command admits unes are not to be regarded as

that the Japanese have captured definite frontiers." Shaoshing, the wine producing! centre. but claims that the Chinese repulsed a Japanese landing at Haimen after very bitter fighting.

and machine-gunned, direct hits be- Yesterday several other Savola ing obtained on fortifications and 79's were seriously damaged by our

fighters over Melos. military buildings.

R.A.F.

fighters machine-gunned motor transport north of Dessie, causing considerable damage King's oldest daughter on her setting of tankers are. 15th birthday.

and

Mopping Up

(Reuler).m

This will easily be Princess Eliza- CAIRO, Apr. 20 beth's must vnitiable possession, but | Imperial forces Isave practically Ishe will not be allowed to wear it reached the outskirts of Dessie, one

until she becomes at least 18 years of Tof the tast

Italian remaining LONDON, Apr. 20 (UP), since the Queen only permits her strongholds in the country. Princess Elizabeth will receive a daughter to wear a simple silver wrist Operations in Abyssinin are bound priceless Royal Family heirloom watch and a plain engraved branch to slow down somewhat because of io celebrate her 15th birthday

The Princess will spend her birth-the task of mopping up various en Monday. It is a turquoise day somewhere in

Italian columns, it is pointed country" the and diamond set comprising a where she has been evacuated since here. necklace, a brooch and bracelets Christmas 1930. It will be the most which once belonged to Queen The King and Queen hope to ter quiet birthday she has ever spent, Victoria and which, according to themselves away from their dulles in family tradition, passes to the London to visit her.

R.A.F. Make North Africa Uncomfortable For Enemy

CAIRO, Apr. 20 (Reuter).-R.A.F. bombers and fighters inflicted heavy casualties and damage on enemy personnel and material in Tripolitania as well as in Cirenaica during yester day and the previous night, according to an R.A.F. communique.

Enemy motor transport was boriber and damaged a number of destroyed in numerous localities, Flat Fighters on the ground.

Two Messerschmitt" fighters were including Acroma, El Adem, shot down over Gazola. Bardia and Monastir."

Junkers

dive-bombers which raid-

and one was shot down and drome and the Berka airport was also others were damnged: raided on During the night of Apr 18, R.A.F. Fighters carried out continuous bombers ralded Benghazi, obtaining offensive patrols and Inficted heavy direct hits on a ship and starting fres casualties on motorised troops; they on the quays. On the same night, machine-gunned-Gazala derodrome, Tripoll was heavily raided and about

destroyed, one Savola 15 tons of bombs were dropped. :

A number of enemy, aircraft were ed

bombed and damaged at Derna aero-] fighZobruk were engaged by British |

LATEST

Spanish

Cabinet

Convened

MADRID,

Apr. 20

(Reuter).

Japanese In Ningpo

INDIANS AT TOBRUK

(52nd) to-day at his headquar- iers, presumably somewhere in south-eastern Europe.

After celebrations in the morning, he "resumed his work at 1 pm,," according to the German wireless.

Field Marsha} Walter von Brau- chitsch, C-in-C of the German Army,

SHANGHAI, Apr. 20 (UP).—It is) CAIRO, Apr. 20 (Reuter).— officially announced that the Japanese Indim mechanised troops are in a Hitler birthday Order of the are entering Ningpo one of the most) important ports in Cheklang, Japanese among the British forces defend-Day to the troops, declared: "Trusting reconnaissance planes naw 1,000 junising Tobruk, well-informed circles | in loaded with Chinese troops withdraw

from the town after it had been revealed to-day. heavily bombed.

Chinese Reports

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" CHUNGKING, Apr. 20 · (Central News),Chinese troops are offering

the Fuchrer and confident of victory, we shall beat the Inst

The Indians have been taking part enemy." In the fighting in the Western Desert

This order was read over the and have been in action in the west Germon radio. Jaround Gebėt and Akhdar.

There was no Indication to-day of

Axis forces in Libya.

Admiral Raeder, C-in-C of the Nazi

out "Senor Suner inde a statement on TURN to Back Page, Column ny change in the situation of the Navy, also issued an order express-

the various aspects of the inter- national situation relating to the lin- portant diplomatic huppenings of the present moment," declared an official) statement after a two-lay Cabinet! meeting ending Ihst night.

The

Phalangist newspaper, "Arriba," follows this up with an article

somewhat reminiscent of others printed at the time when Spain was faced with political decisions.

"Arguments allen to, the only foreign policy to which our destiny

Nazis Lay Trail Of Death

London & East

In

Anglia

(By “Reuter's" Air Correspondent)

LONDON, Apr. 20.-Reports filtering through from the ties us cannot be considered," states dazed villages and small towns in East Anglia and the home

“Arriba,” adding that foreign affairs

cowards..

must be viewed in unity and those counties and from the Thames Estuary districts to-day confirmed who think otherwise, are traitors and that there was a wider path of the German air blitz on London and the neighbourhood on Saturday night even than on Wednes- day when many outer suburbs, including the southeast; suffered as heavily as the metropolis.

BULGARIANS IN

MACEDONIA

ing himself confident of victory in the "Anal struggle against a powerful enemy?

Second To Duce

LONDON, Apr. 20 (Reuter) Rome Radlo, broadensting birthday greetings to Hitler to-day, declared: "Hiller is no doubt one of the greatest men in history, but fate has decided that he should only reveal himself after Mussolini has been acknow- ledged everywhere as the greatest statesman in the world."

Koo And Quo To Meet At Lisbon

· CHUNGKING, Apr. 20 (Reuter),

According to the German High) The communique-adds Upl the Command, this was another ropriaal bombs dropped outside London in the Dr Wellington, Koo, the Chinese-Am- raki for the RAF attack on Berlin, the eastern and southern counties bassador to the Vichy Government, SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH“

but from the communique in which did damage at several points but the Is on his way to Llabon to meet Dr. SOFIA, Apr. 20 (UP);An omelat the

of chauoltlea on the whole were not Quo raid was given prido

Tal-chl, the new Chinese communique says that Bulgarian ploce, the large fros einfined in the heavy

Foreign Minister, who is to return troops yesterday began the occupa Thames bend, the Millwall dock and

to Chungking from London by way tion of the former Bulgarian por- Greenwich appear to Have glyon the

of the United States: FRE (lons of Macedonia, and have cata- Nazis the most satisfaction,

Dr Quo Tal-chi has been for the bished headquarters at Skoplje

past nine yeafs Ambassador to Bri- of Kent and northeday Scotland ann

Edenbs were dropped by singin hires qu

Bulgarian troops have reached the The Air Ministry stated to day that towns of Zaribrod and Pirot. The the attacks on London: Ward heavy occupation is confinuing to plan and and caused much damage and that the fulgarian 1 troops have been very the corunlilar were expected to be Warmly received everyw

Mfairly high?

From Kent To Scotland! LONDON, |- Apr.- 20 -(Reuter) There was some enemy alr activity during daylight to-day over the courts

craft at two points in northeast Scot. After conferring with Dr Q land, causing a few. Curusilios, säter chỉ, Dr. Wellington Roc, 10113

proceed to London,

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