The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-06
War:


A Berlin onn0oGnenDnont said
the RAP bensh y ~ ancient
German univGrn1ly town Of
Heidelberg. kn0vn 4oe it, STU
dent dusls. and III academic and
hospital BUILDINGS,
The British. omitting mention
of any assault a Heidelberg,
said 80 great Moioht" Of high
explosive bombs Was rained on
Mannheim, while other Raj
raiders attacked the Channel
ports Of Boulogne and Cher
bourg. F
DENY DAMAGE
The Germans aid RAJ bombs
were directed q .unspecified
"well-known" resorts In south
ern and southwestern Germany,
and declared that military OBJ
jectives were nowhere hit.
Hitler's luftwaffe countered
with equally violent raids on the
British, Isles, striking again at
Belfast, the capital Of Northern
Ireland, where a deaths were
reported In Sunday nights raid
and fiercely attacking Scotland's
vast Clyde River shipyards
which stretch. from Glasgow to
the sea. Livefp6Ol's Merseyside
docks were rakod by bombs for
the fifth consecutive night
MANY CASUALTIES
A British ytatsanent acknow-
lodged that the Germans, hitting
in "large-scale'' operations, in
flicted much damage" and that
the toll Of dead and wounded
was expected to be high. A sin
gle direct hit on q Belfast shell
ter claimed AZ lives, II was re-
ported.
With daylight, q formation of
Messerschmitts flashed across
the Channel, spattered machine
gun bullets in the streets of Do
yer and stabbed ut the towns
balloon barrase, sending three
of the big "sky traps" down in
flames.
A flight Of RAJ Spitfires sped
after the Germans a they raced
back across the Channel.
AS an aftermath of the Battle
of the Balkans, the Axis, powers
began taking over Greece's is
lands.
Hitlers high command an
nounced occupation of Lesbos
and Chios islands in the Aegean
Sea, only 10 miles from the
Turkish mainland.
OCCUPY ISLANDS
The italians announced occu-
patton of six islands in the Kyk-
ladon (Cyclades) group, adjoin-
ing Italy's Dodecanese archipel-
ago in the southern waters Of
the Aegean-the isles Of Anaphe,
los, Thera, Naxos, Amorgos and
Paros. F"
Premier Mussolini's high COM
mand said q new British attempt
to break through Axis forces In
the month-old siege Of Tobruk,
Libya, was repulsed thanks to
prompt action by valorous Ital-
ian and German troops, who in
flicted extremely grave losses
on the enemy"
This may have been the same
action described yesterday by
the British middle east COM
mand, which said counter-at-
lacking British troops had
smashed Axis preparations for
q big attack on the fortress.
ATTACK REPULSED
ION the Salum front Tin
Egypt, an enemy tank thrust
was repulsed," the italian COM
munique declared.
In the critical near east stu
alton, decisive battle for con-
troll Of Iraq's rich oil reservoirs
appeared inevitable after both
the British and Iraq were re-
ported to have rejected q Turk
ish offer of mediation and an
Egyptian appeal for a peaceful
settlement.
British troops still held Hab-
baniyah airport and Basra har-
Dor, but the Iraqi already have
cut the oil pipeline to Haifa.
Turkeys offer to act as 20
between in the conflict at her
southeastern border elected 4
British statement that the
friendly motives" of the Turk
ish government were sppreciat-
ed, but that withdrawal Of Iraqi
troops from the siege of Habban-
iyah was IAN essential prerequi-
site" to negotiations.
At the same time the Berlin
radio relayed q reported Bagh-
dad broadcast stating that lraq
would not talk mediation until
British troops left the kingdom.
In London the Daily Herald,
Laborite newspaper. described
the diplomatic prelude to the
Iraq trouble as "the latest exam
pie Of inadequate British meth
DDS" and said there had been
either complacency or incom-
petence somewhere"