Daily Post - 11.12.1941, Page 4

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DAILY POST
WESTERN DESERT
Imperial Advance
Speeds Up
... »
Gerraans Short of Tanks
London, Dec. lOth.
There is only good news from the Libyan battlefields to-
day. The tempo of the battle is increasing again, but this time
TOKIO ADMITS LOSSES
it is set by ourselvtes.
Cairo Headquarters announc-
ed to-day that our troops had
entered E1 Adem, 18 miles
south of Tobruk, and that there
were now no enemy pockets left
east of Tobruk-El Adem, except
the strongholds at Bardia and
at Halfaya and Sollum on the
Egyptian frontier.
An enemy infantry column
south of E1 Adem was driven
westwards after having had
many prisoners taken and hav-
ing suffered heavy losses.
Most of the enemy forces,
mainly infantry, are now cent-
ered west of E1 Adem.
ROMMEL WON’T PLAY
Rommel, who up to now has
shown himself quite wilBng to
fight, is now declining to give
battle. A military spokesman in
Cairo to-day probably hit on
the truth when he said that this
was thought to be due to lack
of fuel and tanks.
During the last few days our
forces have destroyed 66 Ger-
man tanks and registered direct
hits on 27 others. In addition
the Germans abandoned 18
tanks, which were picked up
undamaged in Sidi Rezegh.
South African mobile troops
are now working round to the
south of General Rommels
forces, and the R.A.F. is busy
bombing the road around Ag-
heila, south of Benghazi.
Daily Wewstelepram
Queen Mary
Gives a Hand
Queen Mary, simply dressed,
wearing aprons, has been help-
ing in an Army Canteen, and
many men have been quite
unaware that they were being
served with a snack by royalty.
A few days ago two soldiers
entered the canteen, and, seeing
the Queen Mother behind the
counter, hailed her “Hi, Missus,
two cups o’ tea please.” They
were duly served.
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the Burma Rcad farther north,
having already made contact
with British forces. This is not
confirmed in Rangoon, where
everybody is said to be calmly
awaiting further developments.
It was announced from Sin-
gapore that reinforcements had
reached there to-day, and that
Batavia had ordered the mo-
bilisation of all men in the
Dutch East Indies.
DEFENCES PIERCED AT
HONG KONG.
At Hong Kong the Japanese
launched a very heavy attack
against our lines at the frontier
of the small peninsula of the
mainland and penetrated them
at first; but now their attack
has been halted. In one place
an advancing enemy detach-
ment was completely wiped out
in a savage hand-to-hand battle
with Tommy guns, rifle butts,
and bayonets.
CHINESE ATTACK
The Chinese Government an-
nounced to-day that Chinese
troops were already attacking
the rear of the Japanese army
in the Kwang-tung Province,
invading Hong Kong. and also
the Japaneso garrison in Can-
ton. They say that a battle has
already been joined. Should
this prove true, it will relieve
some of the pressure on Hong
Kong.
ROOSEVELT’S VIEW
In a broadcast from Wash-
ington last night, President
Roosevelt summed^ up the
situation so far developed in
the Pacific.
“So far all thte news has
been bad,” the President said.
“We have suffered a heavy set-
back in Hawaii and losses in
the Philippines, where our forc-
es are, however defending
themselves vigorously.”
ISLANDS PROBABLY LOST
The President went on to say
that so far there was only con-
fused news from the Guam,
Midway, and Wake Islands, but
the people of the UB. must pre-
pare themselves for the news
that these three islands were
seized by the enemy.
Casualties were undoubtedly
already heavy. He wanted to
give all facts to the public as
soon as they were available-
“We must share the bad news
as well as the good.”
GERMANY AND ITALY
The President said that Ger-
many and Italy, the instigators
of the Japanese attack, consid-
ered themselves at war with
the U.S.A.
The American war effort
would call for a 7-day week-
The U.S. could well supply n£>t
only themselves but also all
other nations fighting as their
Allies.
“This will be a hard war and
a long war,” the President con-
cluded. “But we are going to
win it, ar.d we are going to Win
not only the war but also the
peace afterwards.”
JAPANESE LANDING
FOILED
The first official commum-
que from the U.S.A. battle-
front was issued from Washing-
ton to-day, as a report from
General McArthur, C.-in-C.
the Philippines, stating that a
determined Japanese attempt
at landing in Vigan, on the west
coast of Luzon, had been de-
feated.
Vigan is 200 miles north of
Manila. The Japanese tried to
land from six large troop trans-
pcrts, but American aircraft,
registered direct hits on them
all; sank three, one of which
capsLzed, and the three re-
maining were severely dam-
aged.
There were no operations in
the scuthern islands yesterday
or to-day, and no reliable news
about the landing the Japanese
claim to have effected at Ap-
arri, at the northem end of
Luzon, only 200 miles from tbe
big Japanese island of Formosa-
JAPANESE LOSSES
The Japanese admit offidally
to-day to have last 38 naval
planes, 13 army planes, two
transport ships sunk and two
damaged.
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