Evening star., 1941-04-07
Communicates of Warning Governments

drag Yugoslavia into the war arose
and overthrew the regency, arrested
the ministers who signed the pact.
excited and aroused the people and
imposed regime of violence. turn
ing Yugoslavia against the axis.
Thus, while odious violence was
done to German and Italian citi-
zens and institutions, even by the
army element, the new Premier Or
dered general mobilization, threat
ened Italy with war, came to closer
understanding with the British and
Greek general stats and appealed
for aid from Britain and the United
States.
From the night of March 81,
Yugoslavia Immediately Joined enc
mics of the axis.
The italian government followed
with great attention and the great
est calm the course of these events
which led Yugoslavia to make a
common cause with Britain and
Greece and to become, like Greece,
base for operations by British
forces in Europe.
In the face of this the Italian
government decided to act with mill
tary, naval and air forces in close
cooperation with those of Germany.
German
BERLIN, April THE Ger
man high command issued this
comn,uniQue today
On the southeast front, the at
tack is proceeding on schedule
against stubborn resistance. Strong
units of the Air Force are sup
porting the advance of the army
by reconnaissance attacks on col
umns positions and means of trans
portations Of the enemy.
As already reported, fortifications
and other war vital objectives in
Belgrade were repeatedly attacked
during the day by strong German
combat units with destructive ef-
fectS
The Belgrade main rail station,
a pontoon bridge across the Danube
east of Belgrade and several trans
port trains we're especially hard
hit.
Numerous conf1agrations lighted
the way of German combat planes
at night for the fourth attack on
Belgrade Notifications. Further
more, airports of Central and South
ern Yugoslavia were effectively
bombed and attacked with ma
chine guns.
In this action we succeeded in
destroying numerous planes on the
ground A large number of enemy
planes was bagged in air fights.
In Libya, fast German and Ital-
ian units threw back the enemy
rear guards to the northeast and
southeast of Bengasi and effective
ly warded off a counter-thrus of
enemy armored units. We bagged
a large number of weapons and
motor vehicles and took numerous
prisoners.
Four Ships Sunk.
In the region around England, the
air force yesterday sank four mer-
chantmen totaling $4,000 tons. Two
additional merchantmen, including
a large tanker, were badly damaged.
Last night bombers scored hits on
three medium sized merchantmen.
Effective raids also we're directed
against port facilities on the British
east coast.
On April we made an especially
effective attack from the lowest al
titudes on a convoy in the Bristol
Channel southeast of Pembroke.
Three merchantmen totaling $4,000
tons were so badly damaged that
total loss was apparent.
Another merchantmen was badly
damaged. Thus, the air force from
April until the morning of April
7 destroyed total of 13 ships of
roughly $4,000 tons and inflicted
heavy damage upon an additional
IA merchantmen.
The enemys air activity was lin
tied. In the southeast. several
enemy planes penetrated Styria
austrian Germany and dropped
scattered bombs with no noteworthy
damage.
In the west, the British air force
during the day and night limited
itself to coastal flights into North
western Germany and France. In
these regions three enemy planes
were downed by chasers, two by
anti-aircraft and one by a patrol
boat.
According to reports presently at
hand IS planes were downed in air
fights in the southeast, 81 planes on
the ground and an additional nine
on the ground were badly damaged
Seven of our own planes are miss