Sunday Post - 15.12.1940, Qupperneq 1

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Hamburg has had 60
raids and is now un-
recognizable.
Blackshirts make desperate counter
attacks - are repelled everywhere.
London, Dec. 14th.
The latest news from Egypt is given in the Army and
Air Force communique issued in Cairo late this afternoon.
British troops continue to advance and press back the
enemy. The Italians are endeavouring to make stand at the
Libyan frontier. The Italian communique admits that
there has been heavy fighting at the frontier and claims
that a number of counter attacks have been made. These
attacks which were carried out by Blackshirts are said to
have been desperate but of no avail.
Clearance of the battlefield
ls going on and it is now known
that some 26.000 Italians have
been captured. Immense quan-
tities of guns, tanks, lorries,
Munitions and fuel have been
captured.
Throughout the last 24 hours
British fighters and bombers'
have been harassing the ene-
my, making raids on aero-
dromes, landing grounds, fuel
dumps, ammunition stores and
bombing and machine-gunning
transport and troops.
Heavy raids have been made
°n Tobrouk and Bardia where
several enemy planes were des-
troyed on the ground. Yester-
day’s bag was 15 Italian air-
craft. The British lost 4 Gla-
diators but the pilots of three
°f them are safe. Up to Thurs-
day the enemy had lost 41 air-
craft.
The R.A.F. have complete
mastery in the air. The Italian
air force could bring no effec-
tive pressure to bear on the
British forces.
It is announced that the
R.A.F. have carried out a num-
ber of successful raids in East
Africa.
The first Italian prisoners
arrived in Alexandria to-day.
Many of them were badly
wounded. The British soldiers
gave them cigarettes and tried
to cheer them. Some prisoners
have been taken aboard Brit-
ish ships to faciliate transport.
The battle in the desert has
been described as one of the
most skilfull operations in the
history of the British army.
Italians evacuate Vallona.
London, Dec. 14th.
Unconfirmed reports from
Athens state that the Italians
have already evacuated Val-
lona. Greek troops are in
Sl&ht of Chiamara and pri-
soners who have been cap-
tured there have told the
t*reeks that the Italians will
r^t be able to make stand at
this point of the coast.
Agency reports state that Du-
razzo has been bombed so ef-
fectively by the R.A.F. that the
| harbour can not be used any
j longer and for some days no
lorries or other means of con-
veyance have been seen on the
road from Tirana to Durazzo.
The Greek communique
speaks of heavy fighting in the
north where the Italians seem
to have decided to make a firm
stand. They are however in
difficulties as munitions and
food have to be brought by air-
craft.
A communique issued by
British Headquarters in Athens
states that owing to bad Weath-
er no bombing was possible in
Albania last night.
Lull in raids on Britain
German activity over Brit-
ain was very slight last night.
Yesterday no bomb dropped on
British soil.
After a lull of several days
German long range guns shell-
ed Dover for an hour this after-
noon.
London, Dec. 14th.
Despite bad weather last
night British bombers attack-
ed several military objectives
in Germany and German occu-
pied territory. At Bremen the
glow of huge fires lit up the
sky when the British raiders
had dropped their bombs on
railway junctions, goods yards
and docks. At Kiel shipyards
and docks were heavily bomb-
ed. Bordeaux had a particularly
heavy attack and a great ex-
plosion near the German sub-
(Continued on page 4.)
Meeting Air Attack at Sea.
The 5-inch rapid-firing multiple anti-aircraft gun on one of
Britain’s greatest battleships goes into action against an enemy
plane.