The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-05
Royal Bombers Smash Warships In Adriatic
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Ethiopian rebels were harassing an Italian column withdrawing from Burye toward Debra Markos.
 "In this area 1,500 Italian irregu- lars and 200 Italian colonial troops hvae deserted with their weapons to join the (Ethiopian) patriots" headquarters said.
 The irrcgulars referred to in the communique apparently were Ethio- plans armed by the Italians to fight the followers of Emperor Halle &c., lassie. The Italian colonials appar- ently were natives armed and trained by the Italian army. ct has been claimed in Rome that Italy was arming Philippians to fight the Ethiopian insurgents)
 To occupy Burye the Ethiopians advanced 20 miles southward from Injabara, which they captured late last month. Injabara is 50 miles south of Lake Tana. British mili- tary quarters in London said today that British and Ethiopian forces were advancing both north and south of Lake Tana)
 Prior to the Ethiopian occupation, Burye was bombed several times by royal air force planes.
 German Bombers Attack
 Rome, March B. (UP) -% British troop concentrations and airports near Agedabia, Libya, 100 miles south of Benghazi, have been at- tackled again by German bombers the Italian high command said to. day.
 The communique said that units of the Italian navy had shelled ob- jectives on the Albanina coast.
 A strong British Greek air forma- ton which attempted to drive off the Italian shipts was repulsed "by the violent anti-aircraft fire of the navy and the quick intervention of Italian chasers." It was claimed that six British and Greek planes were shot down while two Italian planes were lost.
 The communique said Italian planes "efficaciously" bombed Greek troop concentrations and defense works and also bombed ships and port works at the British base in Suda Bay, Island of Crete.
 Canadian Troops Land
 Rome, March 5.--(UP)-virzinic Gayda, who is close to the foreign office, wrote in the authoritative Giornale D'Italia today that Q divi. sion of Canadian troops had been landed at Salonika. He said that thiS action had necessitated dispatch oi German troops to Bulgaria.
 The arrival of Germans armed forces in Bulgaria is connected witi' the landing of men and arms of tht British empire in Greek territory, Gayda wrote. This lnading confirms the Anglo Greek coalition against the axis.
 "The Athens News Agency denied that British forces had arrived a salonika but the denial is worthless since 1t is fact that almost ont complete Canadian division hal ldLkuCV ub tJalVtiAhUs
 Wcygand To Report
 Vichy, March s. - (UP) - Gen Maxine Weygand. commander ol French troops in North Africa, wil arrive in Vichy tomorrow to repor to Mashal Henri Philippe Petain This will be Weygand's first visi to France since he went to Aries soon after the French collapse. It was understood that Weygant would report to Petain on French defenses in North Africa. It was ex. pected that after his report he would return to Africa but there has beer no official announcement as to hi plans.
 Weygand went to Africa, French quarters said. on a special mission for Petain to organize empire de- lenses against the free French movement headed by Gen. Charle: De Gaulle. He inspected defense positions in Tunisia. Algeria, Nor. occo and French West Africa--ex' cept those who are in the hands o1 De Gaulle.
 War Briefs
 Folkestone, Eng. March 5-(UP)- Two formations of royal air force bombers, heavily escorted by layer' of fighters, flew over the coast today and vanished in the direction O Boulognc and Dunkirk, France.
 When the British planes last were visible from the English coast thel had encountered no opposition.
 Earlier a formation of RAF fight CTS was seen to swoop down ane break up a formation of German Mcsserschmitt flying over the chan mel in the direction of England.
 Dublin. March b. (UP) - Frank