Crete Invasion Effort Rebuffed By Allied Naval Fire
London dispatch reports German attempts to reinforce Crete by sea faced heavy losses. An enemy convoy of two transports plus escort was sunk, another 30-vessel convoy intercepted a day earlier. British forces held critical airfields at Malemi and Heraclion while German casualties mounted and Allied forces repelled landings in several coast areas. Churchill signaled confidence in Allied countermeasures with news expected to be favorable given available forces.
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Malemi
Candia
Churchill
Crete
House of Commons
Britain
Heraclion
Kethynne
Canes-Sida Bay
Gloucester Militia Call-up At Universal Trainees
About 108 men passed medical exams at the School of Arts in Gloucester on Wednesday for militia service. Captain S W Aldenton M C led the call-up from Kempsey with H H Bird and Corporal Lavender. The cadre were of fine type with low medical rejections. Training will run 90 days at Rutherford camp starting in June.
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Gloucester
Universal
School of Arts
Kempsey
S. W. Aldenton
M.C
H. H. Bird
Lavender
Aldenton
Lkely
Channon
Rutherford Camp
Golf Notes Par Handicap Draws For Tomorrow
The Associates join a Par Handicap competition starting at 2 p.m. tomorrow with matches including Glover versus Charlton Brennan versus McRtac Coote versus Cox Lynn versus Punton Highfield versus Rye Stevens versus Channon McGown a bye.
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Tne
Glover
Charlton
Brennan
McRtac
Coote
Cox
Lynn
Punton
Highfield
Rye
Stevens
Channon
McGown
Astonishing World War I parachute escape by L A Strange
Squadron Leader L A Strange trained Britain’s parachute troops and made a legendary 1915 escape when his Lewis drum jammed on his 80 hp Martyn biplane at 8500 feet above Menin. He held the drum with both hands while the plane spun, dangling from the air in a near fatal, lone bid to survive.
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Britain
L. A. Strange
Royal Air Force
Martyn
Menin
Navy chief calls repeal of Neutrality Act needed
Washington the secretary of the navy Col Frank Knox calls the Neutrality Act a terrible blunder and urges a return to Freedom of the Seas. He cites aircraft deliveries to Britain and the navy and says training has accelerated to equip 15 000 planes by year end with pilots to match.
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U.S. Secretary of the Navy
U.S
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox
Sydney Kfilman
Office of
New York
London
Klnos
Navy
Britain
U.S. Navy
Goebbels Admits Air Havoc in Berlin Speech
Berlin reports the German propaganda minister Goebbels described the Allied air raids on German industrial cities as “havoc” in a candid address to Berlin’s ARP organization. He rebuked critics and claimed districts have suffered heavily with front line boundaries blurring Germany’s home and war zones. He defended German endurance under prior leadership and contrasted it with wartime leadership under a “real man.”
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Berlin
London
R.A
Germany
Dr. Goebbels
A.R.P
Goebbels
A.R.P Organisation
Kiel
Bremen
Hamburg
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Ysem
F.E. Jones
Church ST
J Supremacy
S. J. Bennett
Radio and Garage Service
Nye
Gloucester Hotel
Cester
F. M. Smith
Mr. Churchill
See Street & Parish Pty. Ltd
Now
Henderson
Clem Walsh
ST. Gloucester
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