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MONDAY, JUNE 1941.

日八初月五

R.A.F. Destroy 10 Enemy Planes

CAIRO, June 1 (Reuter),---- Seven enemy planes were des troyed by the R.A.F. during patrols over British ships in the Mediterranean yesterday.

Aerodromes at Malemi and Heraklion in Crete and at Beng-. hazi in Libya were also bombed.

These facts are given in the following R.A.F. communique:

Mediterranean

"Mediterranean-R:A.F. fighters maintained defensive patrols over British ships in the Mediterranean throughout yesterday. During these patrols they destroyed five German Junkers-88 bombers, one Italian Savola-70 bomber and one other Italian bomber, and damaged other Junkers-88 so severely that a num ber of them are unlikely to have re- gained their bases.

"At Sfax in Tunisia, on Italian ship, previously attacked on May 30, was again bombed and machine- gunned. Three direct hits on the vessel were followed by clouds of black smoke.

Crete

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LONDON, JUNE 1 (REUTER)-WHILE THERE IS NO DISPOSITION TO MINIMISE THE FEROCITY OF THe struggle which HAS TAKEN PLACE IN CRETE, THE BRITISH REACTION TO EVENTS IN THIS BATTLE HAS DIFFERED CONSIDERABLY FROM WHAT THE GERMans has DOUBTLESS EXPECTED.

Lessons To Be

Learned

R.A.F. Difficulties In Crete

CRETE, June 1 Reuter) A senior Royal Air Force officer giving a general review of the situation in the light of events in Greece and Crete, estimated that the total number of planes

Both the strategical importance of Crete and the ruthlessness of the German effort have been fully realised by the British public as a whole, but realisation of these two factors does not by a long way tell the whole | story.

When, over a week ago, it was first realised that the position of the Imperial and Greek forces in Crete had

THAT REMINDS ME; I MUST JOIN THE

BELLOW:

been rendered perilous by the fact that they were fighting Iraqis Yield In Full To The

almost deprived of aerial protection, most people in Britain with memories of the rapid invasion of Holland and other past Nazi successes had prepared themselves for the worst and had expected overnight, hews that the great battle was lost.

WORSHIP

and Heraklion were again heavily used by the Germans in Crete IN RUINED

"Crete Aerodromes at Malem

bombed during the night of May 30- 31. Three enemy aircraft were set on fire at Malemi and at Heraklion. A number of fires, accompanied by heavy explosions, were started near the runways and among aerodrome the buildings, Six aukera-negred

the

and 'damaged.

Western Desert

was about 1,000 with the number destroyed running into hundreds,

The parachutists' division particu larly was considerably "shop-soited." He described the parachutists as a "busted, flush", saying that was the parachutists but the bombers and fighters who captured Moleme, en abling the air-borne troops to land, 1t was the air-borne troops and not

ous.

CATHEDRAL

"Cirenalea Benghazi was attack-the parachutists who were danger- was celebrated by Archbishop

ed by our bomber aircraft during the

night of May 30-31, Bombs were observed bursting on the Cathedral

Mole and on the Julian Mole.

Abyssinia

The concensus of opinion

from

Heroism of Garrison

Since then much time has been gained and heavy losses, have been Infleted on the picked and elaborate- ly-trained German troops, British opinion has consequently tended to place the main emphasis on admiru- lion for the heroic fight of the Allind soldiers coupled with general deter- mination to profit from all the lessons of

campaign,

of

not

British Armistice Terms

CAIRO, June 1 (Reuter),-Axis prisoners in Iraq are to be interned, according to the official terms of the Armistice dictated by the British General Omeer Commanding.

The terms are:

(1) Cessation of hostilities;

the garrison

(2) Return of Iraqi troops to their peacetime stations, including Ramade;

(3) British prisoners lo be released, Axis prisoners to be interned in Iraq, while Iraqi prisoners are to be handed over to the Regent

A

Britons Retained Hostages In Baghdad

LONDON, June 1 (Reuter), the need for ever willcrossing perhaps Within blackened, fire-scarred tion of R.A.Faerodromes.

To-day the walls which pointed upwards to seems

efferal feeling here seems to be that despite a dull sky, Pontifical High Mass drawal from Crete, the course

the with- events in the Near East hus Amigo, the Catholic Bishop of brought Hitler appreciably nearer his

BAGHDAD, June 1 (Reuter)-An incident occurred dur Greece and Crete was that low-fly Southwark, in the ruins of his expende seal Hitler has ferociously

expended his

men, petrol fighters were far more deadly than Diocesan Cathedral of St George machines.

anding the rebel occupation of Baghdad which showed that the rebels intended to use the British refugees quartered in the American [to-day (Whit Sunday).

The de

decision In Germany that The officer, expressing his per-

henceforth special prayers for Nazi Legation and the British Embassy as hostages to ensure the conal view, said that the war was, 700 of the "parishioners" of the in all churches until the end of the

A pentecostal gathering of some armies in the field shall be offered immunity of Baghdad from bombing, and would become stili more, an air Diocese knelt before makeshift war may be taken as evidence of the war.

Five hundred Britishers who platform in the growing need to support German remained in While German successes in Crete altar erected on Ghimbi.

Baghdad after

evacuated on April-2-were instructed to seek refuge at the British Embassy, or at the American Legation.

"Abyssinia---South African bomb ers attacked enemy motor transport, tenta and buildings near Bombs were seen to fall on large bulldings, huts and porked motor transport.

"From all the above operations, four of our aircraft are missing."

Dublin Bombing Casualties

dive-bombers,

complicated our problem, the fort of the Temporary Bishop's heavy losses, the coming news of women and children had been British Armed-

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Throne

The Cuthedral which was burned

recent

Cruiser Lost

chapels still presented a desolate tacking British slips under ideal the rebel Foreign Ministry instructed The Admiralty announces that After the outbreak of hostilities, LONDON, June 1∙ (Router).—

The terms apply to the whole fof Tragetas

Its understood that the new...

overnment will accede to. the British request to allow the transit of British troops through. Iraq,

It is also pointed out that the Armistice does not alter the British.

Government's relations with Iraq within the framework of the Anglo- Iraq Trease of Iraqi and Axis p

Treaty. soners is conditional on the prior release of all British prisoners, it

The

any.

who and

is emphasised that there is no question of peace treaty since there has been no declaration of war. The Armistice was signed by representa-

ves of the Iraq Committee assumed control in Baghdad whose leading spirit is the Mayor.

Oil Fields Intact VICHY, June J (Router)

wed/haval position in the Knabenshuc, to hand over all Iraq) cruiser Salopian has been sunk, states a Baghdad dispatch received

the

An hour.

Germans would never find anywhere -else-such-geographical-conditions as existed in Crete and as they went

Navy Still On Top further, resistance would grow and out, and wrecked during a

Moreover, as Mr Churchill declared their commitments too, would grow, rald had been cleared of most of the a few days ago, despite the successes wreckage, but the walls and side of the German dive-bombers in, at- Making Runways Explaining the difficulties of the the fury of the Nazi raid.

spectacle and eloquent testimony to conditions, their point of view la

that "there

the American Minister, Mr Paul the British armed merchant The Mosul oil fields are intact, Royal Air Force in Greece and Crete,

no question whatever the officer said that in winter it was

of the impossible to use

Harmonium Substitutes

in the subjects employed at the Legation as The next of kin of the casualties here, the aerodromes

having been prejudi- the Legation might be bombed within without properly prepared runways

cially affected."

The fact is that thanks to The Mass, was fully choral and as

The situation is quiet in the Iraq have been informed. but after two days of fine weather the organ had also been destroyed in magnificent stand made by the Bri-

Threat. Countered

capital, where the Police had no was possible to create a number the raid, the choir were "helped out" ish troops and the long time they Commander at Habbaniyah had sent the navigator of the Vindictive

The Captain of the Salopian trouble during the past 48 hours. improved nerodromes. The

The rebels said that the British was Sir J. M. Alleyne, who was British by were hampered by the fact that the of "Gloria" and "Credo" rang

lille harmonlum and responses managed to hold out in Crete, the out situation in other centres in the Near

Regent in Baghdad weather did not improve until two with more than usual fervour though East has considerably improved for

CAIRO, June 1 (Router)-Fight- days after the German advance, the absence of the roof meant also Britain. The Germans had the advantage of the absence of echo. Ane weather and were also ruthless

Other Bases Stronger conscripting labour,

Cathedral had

While Crete was being held, forces never before been the scene of Mass and acroplanes from East Africa had The main trouble however, was in such unusual, not to say, tragie been made ready that the British were forced into the surroundings, but the gratifying at where. Tanks

for action else apex of a triangle with the enemy tendance of the faithful, who num-hauled and serviced, and the situa having a wider ring of bases round bar among some of the poorest of lion in Iraq has been cleared up.

have been us. One of the problems then arla London's poor, is a happy augury of All this has given the British solid In an editorial to-day, the "In-aerodromes and more commitments how the £100,000 needed to rebuild to

ing was that the British had more their determination to raise some-encouragement which has done much dependent" says: "We are sure that to defend and at one time it was their beloved St George's. Mr de Valera, who visited the scenes proposed to destroy all Cretan aero- of destruction yesterday and who dromes except one, but eventually all sympathised with the sufferers, will were destroyed except three. protest vigorously to the belligerents concerned.

DUBLIN, June 1 (Reuter). Casualties in the Dublin bomb- ing were established to-night at 27 killed and 88 injured,

The search for victims continues. There are 300 homeless.

In

Long-Range Fighters

The century-old

U.S.S. DAKOTA

For air as for sea warfare it was Eire has been strictly neutral since essential to have secure bases and a SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH”. the outbreak of war and she has the lance at the map would show why, right to expect and to demand that with the existing ranges of British (Domel)-It is learned that the CAMDEN, New Jersey, May 31 her territory and the air above that fighters, we were unable to have 35,000-ton battleship South Dakota territory should not be violated by fighter protection in Greece any of the nations at war."

and will be launched on June 7, four TURN to Back Page, Column 5 months ahead of schedule.

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counter-balance the inevitable, anxiety that was felt for the Im- perial forces in Crete..

Numbers Evacuated LONDON, June 1 (Reuter)-It is believed that: the number of 15,000 TURN to Back Pago, Column 4

the

an ultimatum that unless there when she was sunk as a block-ing ceased in Iraq at 8 am. to-day flabbaniyah, the British would bomb ship in Ostend harbour in 1918. following the signing of the Armis Army withdrew from the vicinity of

Government

buildings of He was for some time the King's tice lost night, according to Tragt Baghdad, said that they had sent

Harbour Master at Singapore.

sources which also report that the Regent entered Baghdad this mom- ing.

The

a counter-ultimatum threatening that TURN to Back Page, Column 5.

LATEST

NAZI BOMBS ON DUBLIN

Civilians Returning

To Ningpo Area

". Boy King Safe - CAIRO, June 1. (Reuler)It is understood that the Boy King Feisal of Iraq is safe in Baghdad.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" NINGPO, June 1 (Domel). The

Earlier reports from unconfirmedTM population of Ningpo which declined sources had asserted that the six- at the beginning of the Japanese Raschid All in the latter's flight to year-old Felsal was carried off by occupation, is now quickly returning Iran.

as refugees are to normal

flocking

It is also learned that the Govertior back to their

homes.

of the Mosul arca, where the oik The Chinese population in the wells lie, has throughout been oppos neighbourhood of Ningpo at presented to Roschid All's movements. DUBLIN, Junc 1 (Reuter)-A| is estimated at 250,000 to 260,000, 80 Therefore, it is considered in usually Government statement issued lo- per cent of the population prior to well-informed circles that the Iraq

trouble is virtually ended. ed on Dublin on Saturday were of German origin.

night declares that the bombs dropp- the Japanese occupation. AMERICAN

A HOSPITAL

TO BOMBED

New Air Chief Appointed To

Conduct Middle

East War

Hit In Heavy Raid On Chungking

strong protest, together with aj demand for compensation, has been addressed to the German Govern- ment:

The statement says; "The Govern- ment regret to announce that as the result of bombs dropped on

in the early hours of Saturday

morning, at least 27 people were killed and about 80 injured.

"Considerable damage to property

was caused.

יי

further bomb was dropped near

La

Terrific Of New British

Blasting

Power Bombs

LONDON, June 1 (Reuter),The Air Ministry, giving de- SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"

tails of the damage done in Hamburg, Kiel and Wilhelmahaven, LONDON, June 1 (Renter)-The appointment of a new Commander-in-Chief, R.A.F., to Japanese bombers to-day scor Arklow early this morning. No lives are doing their best to counteract these reports by publishing

CHUNGKING, June 1 (UP).

Bays that reports of the terrible effect of the latest British bombs the Middle East with effect from today was officially announced by the Air Ministry to-night.

are spreading everywhere in Germany and that the authorities The new commander in air Vice-Marshal A. W. Tedder, who, as commander of the R.A.F., pound bombs on the American Investigations having shown that in prachura, one of these new sives and incêndiaites d

ed two direct hits with 500 wore lost but there was some dam- Far East, was one of the pioneers of the development of the British, air base at Singapore. --

elaborate comparisons of the damage done to London and Berlin. Methodist Episcopal Mission the bombs were of German origin, bombs fell into the Steinwerder during May Photographic recon- Air Vice-Marshal Tedder is

dropped there Air Vice-Marshal R. M. Drummond Ministry ng Director-General or hospital, causing damage estim- the Charge d'Affaires in Berlin promoted Temporary Air Mar- becomes Deputy Commander-in-Research and Development, and later ated at over 1,000,000 Yuan,

ing directed" to protest in the industrial area. Industrial buildings naissance has already shown 36 very shal.

Chief of the RAF. in the Middle joined the Ministry of Aircraft Pro The patients, doct strongest, teres to

of space, East with the rank of Acting Air duction. *. The previous C-in-C, Air Chief Marshal;

ernment against violation of Irish yards were completely demolished. demolished or very seriously damaged Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore,

During the lost war, he served with dugouts and ware uninjured.

nurses were sheltering in the territory, and to claim compensation here was severe damage from the and many others less

seriously the Air Force in France and in

and reparation for loss of life, in yards, and at two points more than

hyvin is appointed Inspector General

Middle East, and was later in Turkey storey women's and children's section

of 75,000 square the

The bomba demolished the four-juries and damage to property 1,100 feet apart the effects of the A similar tale is told of Mannheim:

Similarly In Mannheim .... of the RAF succeeding Air has been second in command to Air Air Chief Marshal Longmore, hax of the aliospital which was built in definite assurances that the strictest

Temporary Air Marshal Tedder during the Chanak crisis in 1922.

"He is further directed to bak Marshal Sir William Mitchell, Chief Marshal Longmore in the held his post since May 1940. He 1922: The two-storey men's section that converman elecraft, vver scribe Hamburg as a tragic picture industrial suburb of Ludwigshaven

were very obvious,

After the attack on the night of May The onelali, announcement Bay Middle East dined November. Dur has been in Englend

Reports from

within Germany dam0, the great chémical works in the flight of was heavily damaged,nated onC that Al Marshal Mitchell has coming the past seven years, he has held May when he was recalled for cone Kian Raided Irish, territory and territorial waters, and it said that there is scarcely any were cordoned off by the Army, and

early in plated his time of duty in this once several important posts, being sultations with the Ministers and CHUNGKING, June 1 (UP)-Nine witch in the Middle East Director of Training at the Alt Chlair of Stany about general Japanese bombers raided kishin Command among number of ap- Ministry before going to Singapore operational matters in the Middle Kiangel, antawis antichida falarid pointments announced in the same in the autumn of 1986,

SAULTENtarym yn later, He returned to the navi inter promi Pondinkabeer: Manor

East During this time,

Previous Experience

ince

blast

over

space

district in this second largest city umbulances were seen leaving the

Ing

Germany which has not suffered works throughout the day je magick It has not yet been posibis to get The docker at Marnheim have been, anything like a comp