The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-19
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Earlier, the Thai government
announced the Japansse d Q
stroyer Yugure was taking on
supplies 1t the mouth Ct the
Bangkok river. and that two
other destroyers were expected
there. The announcement said
the japanese had asked permis-
sion for the visits and thanked
Thailand for facilities granted
another japanese destroyer a.
ready supplied at the port.
The Australians who disem-
barked yesterday 1t Singapore
sitter . S.000-mile trip which
Britain's China Fleet Comman-
der termed . denomination "pf
the power given by British
Command of the Sea-" reinfor-
ced an already formidable con-
centration of British. Indian and
Malay troops guarding Sings
pore.
Their officers said the Aus
tralisns-the size Of their force
not disclosed-were equipped
fully for front lire service.
Large quantities Of artilley and
motorized equipment were UNI
loaded from the big grey liners
which brought the troops.
On the other side Of the world,
in Europe, trainloeds Of Ger
man war ma4srill ywsre report
ed moving scross Yusoslavia to-
ward Bulgaria amid predictions
In Balkan diplomatic circles that
Greece would be attacked by
German troops from Bulgaria,
unless she talked terms quickly
with italy to settle the fighting
In Albania.
Germsn observation and pho
tographic planes were said to
have been flying deep into
Greece from Bulgaria for SOW
eral days.
In Albania, the pace of battle
was stepped up.
Military observers in Yugo-
slavia said the Greeks apparent
iy had seen writing on the wall
and were striking hard in an
effort to bring the fight in Al
bania to a decisive stage before
the Germans could step in.
Bad weather over the English
Channel was said to have pre-
vented any major activities
overnight by the Raj or Ger
man Luftwaffe, but Nazi war
planes were reported over the
east coast Of Scotland Today.
Authorized Germans said at
Berlin that England-bound for
mer Netherlands tanker Taria
was believed destroyed in q
bombing attack by q long-dist-
ance German plane 435 miles
west Of ireland yesterday. The
10,354 ship was said to haze
been hit amidships BY three
bombs and settled in a giant
oil patch"
Commenting on this latest
aerial assault on Britain's vital
shipping the Germans declared
that 1.-THE air over the Atlantic
has been vibrating with SOS
calls" from British sea victims.
While snow fell over the Eng
lish channel, grounding both
Raj and German night filters,
daylight brought Nazi raiders
swooping over two North Scot
land towns where residents said
they machine-gunned a school
yard and bus without casual
ties. Three persons were killed
and others wounded by bombs.
Children had been cleared from
the schoolyard.
Disclosure that British forces
have knitted 140 miles inside
Ethiopia, in a campaign to re-
gain the African kingdom wres-
ted from Emperor Hale Selassie
by the Italians in 1856, was
made by British headquarters in
Cairo.
This was apparently the deep
est the British have penetrated
into Ethiopia.
A Cairo communique said the
British had captured the strate-
gically important town of Mia
bara, only $50 miles northwest
of Adds Ababa, capital of Ethio-
pia, along with many prison
ers."
The communique also noted
that the British-fostered pat
riot situation"-the rising of
tribal warriors against their
Italian conquerors-"continue
to develop Satisfactorily"
Halle Selassie himself has
gone into the Ethiopian brush
lands and may be playing a
leading role in the drive toward
Adds Ababa.