The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-03
War

tack on the capital.
The raid, starting shortly after
noon, followed . series Of inter-
mittent attacks on southern Ire
land over the past % hours.
Shortly before dawn, 20 Dublin
residents were wounded In IN a.
sault by . lone raider.
Other planes were reported to
have dropped German-type mag
netic sea mines elsewhere In the
Irish republic.
There was no immediate ex-
PLANTATION for the raids. In the
,ast. the German government
has acknowledged that in isolat-
ed instances, Nazi planes may
have accidentally overshot Eng
land and dropped bombs on Fire.
The war In the air burst into
fresh violence in other sectors,
with German bombs smashing
at the BIG coal port Of Cardiff,
Wales. while RAF bombers
pounded anew at the still-burn-
ing German naval base at Bre-
men.
In the Greek italian war, the
Greeks reported that they had
scored an important break
through on Fascist defense lines
from Chimara to the Klisura-
Tepeleni fighting zone. This line
extends from the Adriatic Sea
to Central Albania.
The Greeks also reported that
heavy anti-tank fire had smash
ed an attack by Italian tanks
along the sea coast and sent the
Fascists into 'headlong flight"
Greek troops told Of finding
the bodies of 200 Italian soldiers
on camp beds in a mountain
cavern converted into q field hos
pital-apparently frozen to death
sitter being abandoned by their
retreating comrades.
The war in the air surRed TO
a crescendo of violence today as
German bombs smashed at the
big coal port of Cardiff. Wales,
while Raj bombers rained fresh
havoc on the still-burning port
Of Bremen, in north Germany.
Dublin also was bombed In a
renewal of raids on neutral Ire
land.
German pilots said fires visible
100 miles away were left raging
at Cardiff. and the British Press
Association declared that Sec
tons of the ravaged Welsh town
were "reminiscent of scenes at
Ypres in the World War"
Ypres was the scene of much
of the fiercest fighting in the
1914-18 conflict. and the Belgian.
city, immemorially dub b e d
"Wipers" by British tommies
who wallowed In the Flanders
mud, suffered nearly complete
destruction.
DNB, official German news
agency, reported that the Raj
also bombed two dutch towns
during the night, destroying
dwellings and killing four civil
ians.
In the 18-day old siege Of Bar
dia, on the Libyan desert Of north
Africa, British general head
quarters reported that just after
dawn this morning. tank-sup-
ported Australian infantry pene-
trated the defenses of the strong
hold.
This was the first indication
that Gen. Sir Archibald p. Wav-
ellis besieging forces may have
begun the long-awaited frontal
assault on the outpost. where TO-
600 Italians are strongly in
Operations are continuing"
headquarters said.
London's Admiralty reported
the dramatic sinking Of an Ital-
ian submarine by the British SUBJ
marine Thunderbolt whose COM
after firing his torpedo,
told Of seeing "a tall column of
water rise into the air. "A large
explosion. and when the smoke
and spray cleared away, only one
end Of the enemy vessel was seen
sticking out Of the water at
steep angle. This quickly disap-
peared."
On the political front, Frances
aged chief of state Marshal Phil
ippe Petain completely reorgan-
lied his cabinet by dropping Sec
rotary Of State Paul Baudouin
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