The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-03
British Bonbers Have
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try was striving to establish friend- Her relations with che Japanese.
 Menzies, speaking at a luncheon of the Foreign Press Association said:
 T see no resaon to believe that the Pacific ocean cannot be made in fact Pacific if all the peoples who live within its borders merely will be frank, sensible, tolerant and un- derstanding with each other
 Menzies pointed to Australia's ap- pointment of a minister to Tokyo as evidence of Australian friendship for Japan but emphasized that this action should not be regarded as ev- idence o: any separatist movement within the British empire.
 Fear will never control the for- egin policy of Australia" he said. Because we are realists we have pursued a policy of local defense which has been directed at enabling us to resist with uor own forces any attack by any aggressor."
 British Bomb Airdrome
 Cairo, March 3--(UP) - British bombers carried out heavy attacks on the Berat airdrome in Albania and on Italian positions around Keren in Eritrea yesterday, the Roy al Air Force Middle East command reported today.
 General headquarters announced the capture Of the important agri- cultural village of the Duke of the Abruzzi In Italian Somaliland.
 The RAF was said to have scored direct hits on hangars and build ings at the Berat airdrome, starting extensive fires that were "visible from 50 miles," Two grounded en- emy planes were reported destroy cd and others damaged.
 At Keren, British planes, support ing land forces, were said to have hammered at Italian positions. RAF bombers laso attacked Burye .n Ethiopia where large fires were re- ported started.
 One British bomber was said to be missing.
 Rome, March 3 - (U.P0-A high command communique asserted to- day that Italian destroyers had sunk two British submarines in the Med- iterranean and that an Italian sub- marine had sunk three British steamers, totaling 10000 tons, in the Ataltnic.
 The communique admitted that Italian troops who had withstocd a month long siege In the Kufra Oasis of Lihya had been overpowered and captured, but 1t was added that part of the garrison broke through the besiegers' lines and escaped.
 It was arrested that British arm ored cars which attempted to ap- proach" the Giarabub Oasis farther north had been put to flight.
 German planes, the communique said, successfully attacked the Port of Tobruk. in Libya and attacked concentrations of troops and motor vehicles near Agedabia.
 British Bomb Netherlands
 The Hague, Via Berlin, March 3s--4' CU.P) - The ofiicial AMP news agency reported today that Il per- sons were killed and 20 injured in British bombing attacks upon the Netherlands over the weekend.
 British planes, 1t was reported, dropped high explosive and incen- diary bombs on "a rather large number of places" in Holland.
 Six high explosive bombs fell in Q thickly populated area of the Hague and killed nine persons, in. cluding six men, one woman and two children. Sixteen were seriously wounded.
 Two air alarms sounded in the Hague.
 In west Holland one man and one boy were killed. .nr.
 Scores of residences were dam. aged in various places.
 British In S0maliland
 Nairobi, Kenya, March 3 - (U.P) British Empire troops have occu- pied the important colonization and army base village of the Duke of the Abruzzi in Italian Somaliland, term inus of the railroad extending into the country from Mogadiscio, the capital, 1t was announced today.
 Part of the garrison succeeded In breaking through encircling lines and escaped, 1t was added.
 The village, 30 miles from Moga. discio, Is an important agricultural center
 British empire troops entered 1t without opposition, a communique