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August 20, 1941.

FLEET AIR ARM SMASHES CONVOY

FROM PAGE ONE

Blenheims of the RAF, and a direct hit with a heavy bomb set it on fire, with volumes of black smoke pour- Ing from it,

Libya Raided

In Libya, heavy bombers of the R.A.F. raided Benghazi and Tripoli during the night of August 17-18. At Benghazi, the harbour and shipping were attacked. Bombs were observed to burst on the bases of Jullana, the Cathedral and Central moles and en railway sidingo. An explosion and several fires resulted.

ed.

At Tripoll, the harbour was bomb- Its on the Spanish Mole and fort caused a number of explosions. Repelled By Tomahawks

An attempt by a large force of Messerschnitt 109's and 110's to al- fack shipping off the Egyptian coast yesterday win folled by Tomahawk fighters of the R.AE. which gave combat to the 109's and compelled the 110's to drop their bombs some miles from the target.

Abyssinia

In the Wolclient. Debarech and Gondar ureus of Abyssiniu, aircraft of the R.A.F, and the South African Air Force have been co-operating in machine-gunning und bombing enemy positions. Direct hits were scored on huts and buildings and the Fascist Headquarters was destroyed. A number of fires were started."

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DIPLOMATIC CALLER-Russia was assured of all possible U.S. support, when Soviet Ambassador Constantino A. Oumansky called at the State Department. Acting State Secretary Sumner Welles, right, has escorted the depart- ing diplomat to the door.

FROM PAGE ONE Design

will have to be reckoned with even the Germans succeed in obtaining possession of the whole bend.

The question of Russian resistance is largely a question of the reinforce ments at Marshal Budenny's disposal.

for Living-By Young American Girl

Sometimes babes and sucklings open their mouths and utter devastating truths. And sometimes they talk ife has shown, remarkable skill raving nonsense like grown-up people. extricating his men from encircle- ment and the German thrust 'must be losing vigour with every mile of its

progress.

Nazis All Out

It is clear, however, that the High Command is "all out" for a decisive victory before the weather breaks 4172cl puta an intolerable strain on their lines of communication.

The Russians have shown astonish- ing skill in evading being cornered in a position from which there is no Issue. They have practised elastic defence in a most subtle form and have given ground in exchange for heavy losses..

Menzies Warns Of Complacency

treated us

FROM PAGE ONE

that

children

The difference Is occasionally talk sense which is be- yond their elders, befogged as they are by tradition, superstition and erudition.

Without opening her month a little) American girl has told the whole devastating truth about the attitude of many American women towards marriage in four starting lines,

Sticking her pen into the school inkpot, she wrote:-

1 should worry, I should care I should marry a millionaire, He should die, I should cry, I should marry another guy.

Girl Freed

From Forced Marriage

The marriage of Consuelo Fernandez, instructor at Adam- 'son University, in the Philip- From this may be gathered that pines, to Francisco Genato, em- the child has summed up the chances ployee of the Cebu branch of of life and worked out a cynient the San Miguel Brewery, was

annulled recently on the ground

design for living

Lure Of Sex

Even at an age when she is sup that it was forced and the posed to be thinking of nothing but couple did not live together dolls and fairies and candies, she after the marriage. appears to know all about the ture Miss Fernandez and Genato were of sex and to be aware that it is married on May 3, 1930, and since major pulitical issue,

chief weapon l woman's battle that time had not lived together as the Prime Ministër, Mr R. G. Men-

for existence. She knows plready man and wife. The court adduced zies, fold a daily press conference:

that millionaires are particularly that Miss Fernandez submitted to the "There will not necessarily be a vote | In Parliament on the proposal.

susceptible. I

marriage under threats and intimida No ideas

of love, service or loyally tion of Genato and his relatives. think the matter will probably be

enter her stony little heart. Dealh decided by Party meetings before does not appail her, nor will tears at Adanson for the past four years. Miss Fernandez hus been teaching Parliament meets. If the proposal disturb the mascara darkening her Gennta did not contest the complaint

is rejected, I stay here--that is all, Pay of Services SYDNEY, Aug. 19 (Reuter).—The

Commonwealth Cabinet has decided to increase certain rates of pay and llowances of the Australian fighting services.

wide, bright eyes at the funeral, filed against him.

Before she has bought her first! instick she is already in a pent- house-on-F

-Fifth-Avenue-or-down-al

Palm Bench, or at Honolulu aboard

her yacht, the wife of a millionaire any millionaire, or any num-

The amounts and Exact conditionsber of millionaires. of application have not yet been decided,

Must Unanimously Agree MELBOURNE, Aug 19 (UP) The Prime Minister, Mr R. G. Menzies to-day announced that ho will not go to London unless all

She already has wit. Let us pray she will grow up beautiful, too. Otherwise she won't even get work an a stenographer in a militonaire's offlec.

parties of the Federal Parliament Vassar Sophomore

agree.

Commitments Debated by Senators

FROM PAGE ONE

and the American Army and Navy Chiets and other United States officials were aboard.

Dead In Car

The body of Anne M. Greene, missing 10-year-old Vassar College

sophomore, was found in an automo-

blic in on Isolated section of Lexinton, Masa. A medical examiner reported she had committed suicide with enz. bon monoxide

Miss Greene had been searched for throughout the east since she drove away from her Cambridge home on June 11 after leaving a suicide nois. He added: "Did Senator Barkley She was the daughter of. Professor think that the President had dell- William C. Greene of Harvard Uni- berately put himself in a position versity.

where an act of war might have bren The girl was said to have been de committed?"

"Senator Barkley replied that t on studie because she had falled in her

emy plane or warship had bombed Bation.

or destroyed the Prince of Wales

The

at Vassar and was on pro-

automobile was found parket while the President was aboard or in a wooded section of an old rife) the Augusta alongside it, it "might range. The car doors were locked have

created

situation that would and it rubber hose had been run from have exuited the American people the exhaust to the car's Interior. and caused some difficulty with u The medient examiner said the girl fureign Power."

He added that the President was "willing to undergo the risk, If it.

probably had been dead 10 days.

was a risk" of boarding a, belligerent The Troops Must

warship in order to give the world the joint declaration that grew out of the conference.

Marshall Field And

Cordell Hull

Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen,

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Foot The Bill

Soldiers who have wantonly caused damage in private billets are going

to be inde to pay for it out of their

own pockets.

This is a War Office decision made in advance of questions to be asked have been complaints of fences torn in the House of Commons. There

in a recent NBC broadcast reported: down for Brewood, furniture and Cordell Hall hins laid down a flat carpets ruined by horseplay, win-

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broken, and electric attinga decree that no government honour or position shall be given

to Marshall smashed.

Capt. D. Margesson, War Minister, Field, head of the famous depart- is having an investigation. Com- mant store family in Chicago, Kea plaints are being examined by son is that Mr Field's newspaper officers on the spot, and where they "PM" publ

published a serica of articles are proved to be true compensation on the State Department poking con- will be paid at once. Offenders will siderable fun at the Secretary of have to pay back the money to the State

Army In Instalments,

Mr Hull, coming from the moun- -tains of Tennessee, has declared a mountaincer's feud against Mr Field. Japan's Naval Mission Last week. Mayor La Guardia, MADRID, Aug 10 (Router)) organising, his new Civilian Defence. After having been six monina in Germ Commission-invited. Mr Field, to be many, Japan's special naval mission a member of that commission-pro- is returning to Japan from Cadiz of vided he gave up his crusading news. August 22, travelling via South

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