Daily Post - 20.06.1942, Page 4

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Briiish Army Takes Up
Frontier Positlons
Fighting Continues Round Tobruk
' London, June 19th.
The latest Cairo communiqué reports that the 8th Army
is now holding strong positions on the Libyian frontier and in
the Tobruk area.
Qneen Wilhelmina
in Canada
NEW SITUATION
The B.B.C. observer in Lib-
ya, Mr. Richard Dimbleby stat-
es that as the new situation in
the desert is beginning to take
shape, our positions are gener-
ally those held before the off-
ensive began last November.
With Gazala gone, there was no
natural defence line left to the
east short of the Egyptian
frontier. Now, as then, Tobruk,
is the most important position,
and while its retention is not
directly essential to us, it can
be used to harass the enemy’s
northern flank. On the other
hand, Mr. Dimbleby observes,
the capture of Tobruk is
of great importance to Romm-
el, shortening considerably as
it would the Axis supply line.
Churchill
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time on all major points . . and
the decision wide, forthright
and courageous.”
OBJECT OF VISIT
Mr. Stephen Early, President
Roosevelts’ Private Secretary,
when asked by newspaper men
the object “of Mr. Churchill’s
visit replied: “The war, the
Winning of the war.” On being
asked about the question of op-
ening a second front, Mr. Ear-
ly thought it “perfectly justi-
fiable to suppose that Mr.
Churchill came for that pur-
pose.
This is the Prime Minister’s
third crossing of the Atlantic in
10 months, the first being in
August last year, when the At-
lantic Charter was drawn up,
.and the second in December.
'This third visit, so closely
following that of Lord Louis
Mountbatten and Sir Oliver
Xiyttleton, Britain’s Commando
War Production Chiefs respec-
tively, is certain to affect shipp-
ing and supply problems, be-
sides those of strategy.
It is believed that the Germans
have a large number of aircraft
in Crete, a constant threat to
our movement down the coast.
MOBILE FORCES ACTIVE
Our mobile forces operating
from the south are confining
enemy activity to the coastal
belt, and yesterday destroyed
three enemy tanks, while dam-
aging four others. Enemy
troops have been shelled on the
E1 Adem aerodrome, and the
enemy concentrations at Gaz-
ala, which was evidently occu-
pied directly our forces evacu-
ated that position, were also
attacked. Our air force has
been very active and has held
off large enemy formations
trying to attack our concentra-
tions.
D.S. to Bnild
Tast Battle fleet
London, June 19th.
A U.S. agency message re-
ports that a Bill passed in
Washington provides for the
building of a U.S. Navy super-
ior to the present combined
strength of the United Nations.
The bill provides for the
building of half a million tons
in aircraft carriers, half a milli-
on tons in cruisers, and one
million tons in destroyers and
other escorting vessels.
Heydrlch Aveoged?
London, June 19th.
The shooting of the two
Czechs in a church in Prague
yesterday morning announced
by the Germans to have been
the assailants of Heydrich, is
not taken seriously by the
Czechs here in London. The
Czech Government describes it
as without a doubt only a face
saving effort on part of the
Nazis, beginning at last to re-
alise that their frightful terror-
ism has utterly failed.
Gurtin’s Appeal
to Workers
London, June 19th.
In Melbourne yesterday the
Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin ad-
dressed a meeting of the Aus-
tralian Trade Union Congress,
and made it clear that with the
destiny of Australia in the bal-
ance, her future depended on
the willing co-operation and
loyalty of organised labour.
FULL SCALE WAR
Mr. Curtin reminded his
listeners that this is a full scale
war, and called upon them to
make the same efforts and
sacrifices as the Russian work-
ers had so conspicuously made
and were making. “This is not
a war of capitalistic nations,”
Mr. Curtin said “but a people’s
war for economic emancipation
and political freedom.”
The Congress will discuss the
allocation of man and woman
power and it is expected that
the Union will pledge full co-
operation with the Govern-
ment.
General MacArthur’s H.Q.
reports that Port Moresby was
again raided yesterday, this
time by 18 heavy bombers es-
corted by fighters. We shot
down two bombers and one
fighter for a loss of two of our
planes. One small ship in the
harbour was damaged.
London, JÍune 19th.
Ottawa announced to-day
that Queen Wilhelmina of the
Netherlands has arrived in
Canada by plane from Britain.
She will be the guest of the
Governor General and will
spend a few days with Princess
Juliana and her grand cbildren
before leaving for the United
States to visit President and
Mrs. Roosevelt.
News in Brief
London, June 19th.
In Burma Allied planes made
a bombing and machine-gunn-
ing attack on the Japanese na-
val base at Akyab, causing con-
siderable damage to military
targets — warehouses and the
harbour. — All our planes re-
turned safely.
*
One German raider was de-
stroyed over the Channel last
night. Over England there
was no enemy* activity to re-
port.
The U.S. Army is training a
Corps of officers “to restore and
operate civil governments in the
countries of Europe as they are
reconquered,” according to Mr.
Clarence Pickett executive se-
cretary of the American
Friends Service Committee, on
June 7th.
Destroyer “Wild
Swan” Snnk
London, June 19th.
The Admiralty has an-
nounced the sinking of the Bri-
tish destroyer “Wild Swan.”
This occurred on Wednesday
about 100 miles off the French
coast. Twelve Junkers 88 at-
tacked the destroyer, and later
turned their attention to sever-
al Spanish trawlers fishing in
the vicinity, >with the result
that three trawlers were sunk
and one damaged. The destroy-
er shot down four of the Junk-
ers and damaged two others.
Then in the action it collided
with a trawler and both sank.
Both the crew of the destroy-
er and also that of the trawler
were picked up, but there were
a few casualties. The destroyer
was 1120 tons, built in 1919,
and had a normal complement
of 130 officers and men.
The first war-time Hyde
Park fishing season has just
been opened on the Serpentine,
Parliament having given per-
mission. Mr. George Hicks,
Parliamentary Secretary to the
Ministry of Works, opened the
season and was the first to try
his luck. Afterwards hundreds
of anglers, the vanguard of
42 000 permit holders, crowded
the half-mile of the South Bank
which has been made available.
The onesomeness wast allto-
lonely, archunsitlike, broady
oval, and a Mookse he would
awalking go (My hood, cries
Antony Romeo) so one grand-
sumerevening, — aftera great
morning and his good supper of
gammon and spillish, having
flabelled his eyes, pilleoled his
nostrils, vacticanated his ears
and palliumed his throat, he
put on his impermeable, seized
his impugnable, harped on his
crown. James Joyce.