The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-03
War


leaving the united Kingdoms
ports never returned.
The German high command
said that in last months assaults
on British shipping, Nazi u
boats sank 40, 900 tons while
the luftwaffe destroyed $4,000
tons. Destruction of the remain
ing $4,000 tons was attributed
to surface raiders.
While il would be a serious
blow to Britain's lifeline Of
supplies, If true, the German
high commands figure for May
still fell short of its April claim
of 1,211, 900 tons destroyed.
BY contrast, the London ad-
miralty declared that British
merchant shipping losses in
April totalled only 488, 124 tons
less than half the German
figure.
In the war In the air, Raj
night raiders spread Large
fires" in an attack on Berlin,
the London air ministry an
nounced, and bombed the cities
of Dusseldorf, Duisburg- Ruhrort
and other targets in Germans
industrial Ruhr.
1t was the 10th assault of the
war on the Nazi capital.
Other British raiders struck
at the docks of st. Naziare, Ger
man U-boat base in France, and
at Ostend, Belgium.
The Germans acknowledged
that apartment buildings in
Berlin were damaged by bombs
and q number of civilians kill
ed and injured.
Meanwhile, Britons mulled a
statement by Reichsmarshal
Herman Goering that the con-
quest of Crete proved Adolf
Hitler's assertion that "there are
no unconquerable islands"-and
wondered if the next German
blitz would strike in the Middle
East or in an attempt to in
wade the British Isles.
Nazi quarters in Berlin said
the world would not long be
kept in doubt.
Citing yesterdays meeting
between Reichsfuehrer Hitler
and Premier Mussolini at Bren-
ner Pass, these quarters said il
was safe to assume that the con-
ference would have clarifying
and decisive results"
In a dramatic epilogue to the
IL day struggle on Crete, Brit
ish navy officers who directed
the removal of more than 49,
900 British and Greek troops
from the island declared tina,
10000 Germans drowned when
their transports were smashed
by British naval guns.
The captain of the Australian
cruiser Perth gave this descrip-
ton of the escape by sea:
"We moved in after nightfall
Dead tired soldiers, m a n y
wounded and bleeding, reached
the embarkation point after
long, hard trekking across Gre
tan mountains hiding in
caves, gullies, shrubbery or any
where they could to try to escape
the constant hail of Nazi bombs
"Some soldiers literally had
to crawl all the way to the
coast for II hours while rear
guard units tried to hold of
the Nazi army until the embark
alton was completed.
"The Germans bombed every
thing that moved they turn
ed all Crete into hell on earth.
In the Middle East war thea
ire, the race for strategic posi-
tions was reported shaping
rapidly with the next big battle
apparently destined to flame in
the French-ruled colonies OF
Syria and Lebanon, skirting the
Mediterranean between Turkey
and Palestine.
Both Germans and French de-
MED reports from Turkey that
Nazi motorized troops had
already landed at the Syrian
port of Latakia, with a Berlin
spokesman declaring:
1T is unthinkable that this
corresponds to the facts"
Authoritative sources in An
kara, however, insisted that 9
Nazi contingent of more than SOC
troops QUILTED for desert fight.
ing landed Thursday at Latakia
British troops were reported
poised along the Iraq and Trans
Jordan frontiers to meet an ex-
pected Nazi drive across Syria
into Iraq and Palestine in an
attempt to split Britains Middle
East forces.
Frances middle east mandate!
of Syria and Lebanon, wedgec
between Turkey and Palestine
and separating Germany's east
ern Mediterranean forces from
oil-rich Iraq, appeared today tt
be shaping up as the new Axis
British battlefront.
German infantry units with
motorized equipment, according
to reports from Turkey, already
have landed at the Syrian por
Of Latakia, and British troop!