Gleaner, The (Newspaper) - April 16, 1941, Kingston, Kingston rr IX tai I Gleaner Wants Work Wonders 4 READ FOR PROFIT USE FOR RESULTS 1 Per Insertion for 30 words The Genuine Host Offers His Guests RUM in BOND BOTTLED in BUND i FRED L SON Wharf Kingston ESTABLISHES ISM SIXTEEN PAGES Vol No 87 APRIL 1941 PENNY HALFPENNY SIXTEEN PAGES THE NAZI BRUK HURLED BACK BRITISH ROBINSON 4 B News came over the radio last week Flight Lieutenant C G and strong British forces S Kobinson age have taken up positions in April was learnt to-night that the man attack made yesterday on Tobruk oh the Libyan hurled back with the loss of 32 enemy craft and fifteen tanks One hundred Germans were kilted and between 200 and 300 taken prisoners news was given in a military and air communique issued in Cairo day Enemy Aircraft shot down over Tobruk included 19 and two fighters The tost eight tanks Today's Cairo communique also revealed that British forces ed losses on the enemy during patrol and artillery action in Sollum area hear the Egyptian frontier POSITION An agency message tonight said that well-informed quarters in Cairo take the that the tion in Libya has become ond son of Mr and Mrs Ken inson of had been awarded the D F C for gallantry No further details have arrived yet Young Robinson the R A F in 1936 He was ed at Munro at wick England He has areas chosen by the High Command Between Libya and the western the position for the Brit- ish forces is now Con- present less grounds for and in the Egyptian sector there is said to be complete un- seen service East for the past between the Egyptian 1 Government and the British London newspapers give full value to the spectacular effect K A four years and has been stationed at Trans- and Nairobi At the outbreak of war he was sent to a staff job in the by the rapid German ad- Khartoum We vance through Cyrenaica though late him and his parents QUAKE HITS MEXICO City and the surrounding dis- were shaken to-day by the I the way give severest earthquake in four years public opinion here and The shock lasted for five this is increased by the cracking walls of buildings news arrived late this starting at least five fires There ing that between 200 and 300 were no reports of loss of life im- man prisoners were taken in the j I t mediately The earthquake caused an mated million dollars in The epicentre was placed by it is pointed out the Germans have so far met with no serious ance by force of the British Com- and action by British forces has been confined to relaying and harassing German movements At the same time the repulse of the attempt Impenetrate town of which their acT vance patrols haye passed on successful British New President Of Haiti f im ture Astrologers See Hitler's Doom Near STARING PRISONERS The latest reports from Cairo 180 of described the exhausted condition here in country many the German prisoners Freighters on the Pacific coast wirelessed they the quake and one said captured their headlong advance across the desert Some of these prisoners said they had dust are rising from had any or water for two less and Canadian by Cable they not carry out and Wireless Ltd their instructions to on as far as possible Royal Air Force bombers made further attacks over a wide area in North Africa In Cyrenaica there have successful British raids on troop motor transport and At El Berna arid military buildings were destroyed made on u- v Japanese fax from parachute troops have been er aircraft shot down two CHINESE MOVE BOTHERS JAPS April Reuters message Shanghai said that several ot Japanese PRESIDENT HAITIAN ENVOY TO WASHINGTON NOW HEAD OF REPUBLIC T Elie Lescot Elected To Succeed Stenio Vincent 1 April centre of the defence hich jutted northwest from Mr Olympus to slanted southwest to the Adriatic coast has been forming p new front deeper in Greece The shift S was disclosed late last night in the Greek High Command com- but not indicating where the new stand was being made I It declared Greek ordered back from Koritza region in Albania and said Of r mans were advancing toward Kozane and towns are forty mites south of the Albania and Yugoslav borders and thirty miles south winch is northernmost hinge of the old Hellenic defence front T BRITISH REPULSE ATTACKS h Repeated German on the British held right flank of the Allied line in Northern Greece have been the Nazis advancing on the left after occupying The British Command said elsewhere in their tor in the vicinity of Mount Olympus there was no contact b with the enemy b The Greeks admitted the Nazis may have penetrated as much as thirty miles from the Yugoslav border in one section of Greece one of the largest cities in has been evacuated Athens reported fierce fighting around 20 miles south of 60 inside of taken by tht Germans ITALIANS CLAIM nv Italy early this morning announced the recapture of Koritza which the Greeks have held since last and the districts ad- were reported taken by the Italians after strong resistance It is clear that the Greeks are withdrawing their outer posts in Albania so as to hold their rear lines intact and their advance positions from being jeopardised by the Axis forces which are advancing down through slavia Retreat of the Greek outposts is the only alternative to having bases cut off from the motherland by the Germans April astrologers have been holding a contention They spent last week-end spotting Hitler's doom on the chart t iVone agreed as to the exact date for the but the concensus is that it will be soon One named April 26 as the date when Hitler will be the ient of the fate that is in store for and another is of opinion that a month Germany will undergo a severe INJURED SOME OF THE INJURED IN HOSPITAL of ston Maxie of Kingston Sergeant O O Montego Bay TREATED AT Miss D Mrs Black Mrs Frank Martin Miss ma and 23 others fering miror YOUNG BIGGER SCALE NAZI DAY RAIDS Formations Of Driven Rack To France Froni Channel t AND BOMBED AGAIN April were seven of them when verandah of the Bay Cricket Club's on which they were gathered toward the end of a early yesterday causing them to fall some 14 feet to the rite injured include a party j of cricketers of fhe ton Club and from numbering who had veiled down as guests of Montego Bay Cricket Club on Easter Monday The collapse occurred about in the morning while the were taking leave of their during the dance given at the ilion in their honour Speeches had just been concluded and the about to return to the railway tion the journey v moving towards the head uf tne accompanied by their The extraordinary on the a coupled with the recent heavy probably account tor the collapse All the injured at the Hospital and only detained B Kensington and Jamaica hand one oi those admitted has not yet recovered ness The attending Dr and Dr hit condition as dnd report a low Reports probably indicating from a south coast town said form- haemorrhage of head Maxie Minor cup player of Kensington and Sergeant were driven back to France several times by fighter patrols to-day as air activity over the Channel reached a bigger scale than seen in area for some time Observers believed the also made an offensive sweep over April answer to Axis ists who have spread reports that British forces are being withdrawn from it was stated in London to-day that far from any withdrawal taking place fresh British troops have been sent to reinforce those already and Canadian Press by Cable and Wireless Ltd O O sponsor oi the visit Kingston to Bay are the others Hospital Henry is from a ol the and Sergeant and a sprained 7th Raid On Brest In TWO northern France A formation of i Raid I was for a Un Coast 1 consistently the sound of others seriously injured are Miss ing bombs could be heard on this D Martin with both legs side of the Channel the right leg at the and tht April There was little enemy activity at the Mrs 3 dropped heavy bombs either on c-r over Britain last night but a joint or 4 fractured Mrs Frank near the and communique issued this morning fractured right Roy German battle cruisers were dropped at Kensington Senior Cup and MUs mf i W p m fm in another Attack last points on the north-east coast and H the body politic of the Yugoslav State being divided on the German naval base at m the south of England Damage even as they light the invader Croatia is declared an Hundreds of bombs were unloaded done was not serious but at one whilst claims by Rumania have taken of the over the dock area in a four-hour place on the south coast there was little kingdom In student demonstrations are shouting for Assault also reported on a number of including power stations at Haarlem and some persons killed Leyden in the Netherlands and Gta The Air Ministry and Ministry IS EXCELLENCY the taken from them in the last world war Hon Monsieur Elie YUGOSLAVS OFFER STIFF RESISTANCE m 11 n j i Haitian Envoy and damaged a kel 52 on the ground The total Extraordinary and Minister enemy destroyed in North Plenipotentiary in more the kingdom of young King Peter may yet be saved There are i one million Yugoslav in the mountainous areas ships were bombed and Home Security reported some the coast I activity over Yugoslav defenders are offering stiff resistance to the high-powered I raid on Brest was the seventh they can hold out for a few the last two England during daylight but very little elsewhere There were ma three ribs broken R L West Indian and Kensington sprained right hand including George who made a century in the and Kenneth escaped with slight bruises Weekes it is clung to a to avoid on Tariff Law Amended To Ci ive Effect To New Rates Of Duty The Tariff Law was amended by the Legislative Council other to give a decision that the rates on wearing other than cotton should be For the information of merchants and others we publish the schedule in regard to apparel which shows the various rates of duty now in force Duty on collars and as well as have not been in- creased ad valorem Preferential 15 General Tariff 25 plus per doz col- ad valorem Preferential 15 General Tariff 25 per doz including singlets and other similar Wholly made of cotton or wholly so made except for or ornamental additions of other material which the lector General is satisfied do not exceed of the total value of the article ad valorem tial 15 General p c plus per doz Other ad Preferential Tariff 25 General Tariff 40 plus per doz Wholly of cotton or wholly so made except for sories or ornamental additions of other material which the Collector General is satisfied do not exceed of the total value of the ar- ad Preferential 15 General 25 plus per doz articles Other ad Preferential General 40 plus per doz Wholly of ad Preferential General 10 plus per States of has been elected President of the Republic of Haiti The has been informed by cable that in spite of the of the Senate and no reports of bombs having been falling Qualified observers expressed the I dropped The visiting team captained belief that failure to remove the One enemy bomber and ing out havoc tote attacking and I enemy fighters were hammering away at lish j by Percy skipper of destroyed by Senior cup OFFICIAL STATEMENT Nazi military and diplomatic sources denied any knowledge Yugoslav request for an armistice as Rome German this morning were troops advancing from Salonika were pursuing the British forces in their retreat The Germans strong force of aircraft fighter is missing -i Enemy aircraft crossed the coast An Air Ministry at several points tonight and were various areas pair Other ad of Deputies that also reported troop landings off the port of the Adriatic coast of the Bomber Command bombed BOP and Canadian Press Vincent MERCILESS BOMBING BY ALLIES serve a third term he the naval base at Brest last night by Cable and Wireless Ltd the attack which lasted for about British Army to-day that British and im four hours began in cloudy weather r f f J M HW v K I Slippers and complete or way to Haiti's troops had repulsed several thrusts by German units incomplete of all made j Sn the right flank of the Allied defence line in Greece made observation of the -J M M r j Vinin f f i f wholly or partly of balata and brilliant diplo- outer part of the uppers apart from stitch fastenings -or ornaments is made entirely of I public yesterday ad Preferential 15 General 25 on the right flank Allied defence line in Greece Athens Radio announced that RAF and both battle cruisers or gutta-percha where who was mercilessly bombing and Germans in Monastir area Scharnhorst and henJ where the enemy appears to be concentrating troops me ot ine seen to be still in their berths British planes bombed Brindisi on the Italian side of the Adriatic dreds of heavy bombs were dropped Light With much colour and plus II per pair Rubber soled with uppers of leather or tions ad in with and feasts one on the Albanian side last Italians reported to-day NAZI PRISONERS ARRIVE IN ATHENS An Athens message said a large number of German prisoners have there from the fighting zones in Greece Yugoslavia and have been to prison camps Another message stated that although Germans have have strengthened their m dock areas and bursts were seen confirm rect aircraft Command Enemy Tanker tottaS the A of with cs ad by The General Tariff 25 in the move to honour President carried out on Sot April Joss British cruiser and a operation by a British submarine are announced in The frt vessel of 15 General 251 in plus per pair apparel of ail Railway Worker Killed In Mishap April tele- graph from our Joseph of Cross who for years had been working on lines of the Railway was this way to work three-quarters of a mile froin the station here He a fracturing his The accident was reported to the local police who rushed to tht scene and FURTHER DETAILS in or incomplete not I January last at a big Latin can gathering at the Pan American day and Press by Ltd on -in appreciation of tai of other which the Collector General is do not exceed the the tribute Mons Lescot started his career in the service his total value of toe an interp eter in the Tariff 15 Port de a once thriving of the Republic as Other ad back M 36 years ago After Preferential 25 General serving thus for six years he was 40 plus per doz by his people to represent articles them as a Deputy in the Legislative r 1 I rf Articles of wearing apparel which For three till in the opinion of the proper Officer 1914 he sat as a after- of Customs are fide worn which he was appointed Director clothing sent by persons abroad as the High school of Port de gifts to persons m this for one of the of his country's their personal use and not educational institutions Ho was ad Preferential Tariff 151 appointed by his Government General on Story For Readers Of Sunday Gleaner i i B m The many thousands of readers of the Sunday Gleaner can look forward with pleasurable the opening chapters of a new detective thriller which has been Secured by this paper and which will be started In our issue of this Sunday H to at and Is written by the well-known American authoress Isabel with illustrations by Henrietta Starrett We can promise our readers that it even exceeds our last de- Stolen in the finesse of Us and the excellence of its literary and is calculated to hold one with absorbing interest from the chapter to its de- nouement See that you your Sunday Gleaner and do not Che a number of aircraft from low both with bombs and but instances poor prevented observation of the but a supply ship of about tons was hit and left with clouds of steam escaping i stations at Haarlem and Leyden were hit by several bombs and a wireless station near Leyden was bombed and one of its pylons collapsed Troops guarding tion were The crew of a gun emplacement near were also the course of these daylight operation enemy fighter patrols were encountered but these failed to prevent our bombers pressing home the attack From all thesg operations by day and night one of our aircraft is and Canadian Press by Cable and M S Bonaventure and was torpedoed and sunk acting -as escort to a The successful submarine was H.M.S Tigris oi the Triton class She sunk a heavily laden tanker of tons off pied Wireless and Can Press by Cable and Wireless Ltd phone from our Joseph r from near a labourer employed to the Railway met his death in trolley accident at about 6.50 o'clock this morning at a point three-quarters of a mile from tht Linstead station Page and a fellow Adolphus left the Linstead station by trolley this morning to the ing out just behind a passenger to the rear of which they held on When about ters of a mile from the station saw the foreman and released their Press by Cable and hold on the train which had been April Star thern along it is the Mail to-day hinted Vichy j applied the and the VICHY SUSPECTED OF AIDING GERMAN TRANSPORT TO LIBYA was implicated in the German cess in transporting mechanized divisions to North trolley capsized between the the trolley went over the axle box him on used Trench waters off head which was split open Death JL T L was instantaneous ft
