Briton Drive On Bardia Tightens As Italians Strike Back
British forces tighten their grip around Bardia as artillery and naval bombardment continue. Italian resistance holds at strong points but is expected to crumble with impending ground advances toward Tobruk. Prisoners, captured guns, and retreating troops flood the rear as air raids and leaflets aim to deter further resistance.
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Bardia
Trailan
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Bardia Uto
Tobruk
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Sali
Wavell
Libya
R.A. F
Derna
Rodolfo Graziani
Night Bombing Puts London Under Heavy Luftwaffe Assault
German bombers struck London and Liverpool amid renewed raids across the southeast coast and Channel. Nightlong attacks on English cities followed Berlin raids as RAF fighters battled high altitude sorties and a Spitfire claimed a falling bomber near the Channel.
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Camnoat
London
Let Junior Have Hot Dogs Says Head of Hospital
Miss Michel Binner, superintendent of Children’s Memorial Hospital, says parents should not argue over meals. She observed children do well on good food and allowed favorites like hot dogs, pie, candy, and taffy apples, with special diets for some.
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Chicago
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Michel Binner
Children’ Memorial Hospital
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Dover and Calais clash light up night skies during shelling
At Kentish coast, shells burst every three minutes for a quarter hour with searchlights sweeping Dover and Calais. Parachute flares over the French shore lit the Channel waters. British air raids claim many explosions in Berlin motor works and raids on Ostend Antwerp Le Havre Amsterdam Flushing and Ruhr. A 5000-ton German supply ship reportedly smashed in Boulogne Harbor.
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Stampalia
Scarpanto
Allies Strike At Italians by Land and Sea in Greece
Air Vice Marshal John Henry D. Albiac reports British forces in Greece achieved strong air war results. RAF fighters set a standout record, bombers dropped 120 tons in 70 raids, with 9 aircraft lost. Albiac notes Italian forces were dispersed and bombing disrupted enemy logistics, while weather and terrain hindered both sides.
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Durazzo
Italy
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Albiac
Albania
Africa
Euerope
Italy says fleet bombarded Greek coast in action
Rome reports Italy’s High Command announced its fleet went into action against Greece with naval units bombarding positions along the Ionian coast and hitting targets. The British claim their fleet moved into the Ionian Sea and penetrated the Adriatic.
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Italy
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Ionian Sea
Adriatic
God Heaven U S A letter from girl seeks parents reconcile
A mailbox discovery in Richmond Indiana reveals a letter addressed to God and signed by a girl who prays for forgiveness and for her mother to recover. She longs for her parents to live together and hints that her father still loves her mother.
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Hichmond
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U.S. A
Mother
Daddy
Anges
Italian and Allied War Reports Mention Skirmishes in the Aegean and North Africa
The Italian High Command claimed an important Albanian coastal position gain and reported artillery action in Libya while Italian bombers allegedly harassed Greek forces along the coast near Porto Edda. The British navy said no Italian ships were sighted and Greek attacks were repulsed according to Italian and Italian aligned reports.
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I Popolo di Roma
Porto Edda
German Troops Reported On Way to Albania
Press dispatches from Struga reported three Italian transports carrying German troops to Albania last night. Official sources could not confirm the reports.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
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Maly
Ten Thousand Dollars Scattered by Express Train
A Cleveland bound express ripping a mail pouch at Edison Ohio scattered ten thousand dollars in $5 to $100 bills along the railroad right of way. Volunteers retrieved most of the cash. Postal Inspector Robert Newton said all but about 200 was recovered and some notes may have been lost under the wheels.
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Santa Claus
Edison
Cleveland
Robert Newton
Aid to Britain Protests Fails to Worry U S
A U S official comments on a German statement show little concern and suggest mixed views on Berlin’s aim to sway American opinion. Secretary Hull says Germany may recall embassy staff. Admiral Leahy to visit Vichy with a Roosevelt message aboard the Tuscaloosa in a mission of unusual diplomatic weight.
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Sol Bloom
House Foreign Affairs Committe
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Germany
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Cecil M. P. Cross
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