MIDDLE EAST ARENA

Evening Star, Issue 23689, 24 September 1940, Page 8

MIDDLE EAST ARENA

BRITISH NAVY SHELLS ITALIANS GOOD RESULTS REPORTED FIRST ENEMY AIR ATTACK ON CYPRUS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright' CAIRO, September 23. (Received September 24, at 9.5 a.m.) A naval communique says that naval forces attacked the enemy position in the Sidi Barrani area during the early hours of yesterday, with good results. A British Official Wireless message states: The first enemy air attack on Cyprus is recorded in a communique from the headquarters of the Cyprus troops: “ Hostile planes, flying at a great height, raided a town in the Morahoii Bay area on Sunday morning. The attack lasted from 11.20 a.m. to 12.2 p.m. Bombs were dropped in the sea. Later a part of the town was machine-gunned. There were no casualties and no material damage. An air raid alarm was sounded in Nicosia from 11.25 a.m. to 12.5 p.m.” A Nairobi communique states: “A South African Air Force squadron successfully attacked Birikau, in Italian Somaliland, for the second time in a week. Direct hits were obtained on ,a camp, and fires started.’ Other South African aircraft carried out normal reconnaissances. From these operations all our aircraft returned safely. Early on Saturday Italian aircraft attacked the Isioto Archers post area in Kenya. A number of bombs were dropped, ! ' but there were no military or air force casualties and no damage.” MARTIAL LAW IN EGYPT CAIRO, September 23. (Received September 24, at 9.5 a.m.) Martial law has been declared throughout Egypt. SEIZURE OF URUGUAY NAZI PLOT THWARTED EIGHT LEADERS TO BE TRIED MONTEVIDEO, September 23. (Received September 24, at 8 a.m.) Eight Nazi leaders, including Arnulf Fuhrmann, are charged with conspiring against Uruguay’s sovereignty, and will be tried in the Supreme Court. The indictment of the Nazi Party includes an alleged military plan for the seizure of Uruguay as a German agricultural colony. [A message received on August 12 stated: The police, arrested Arnulf Fuhrmann, who confessed that he was the author of a Nazi military plan for the seizure of Uruguay ns a Gorman colony. The Uruguayan police seized correspondence showing that Fuhrmann was the leader of Anti-Semitic agitation throughout South America, and also framed plans for armed action whenever and wherever desirable. A document outlining military plans for the seizure of Uruguay was found in Fuhrmann’s files. It was in his handwriting, but he claimed it was merely a joke. The German Minister in Montevideo issued a statement to the Uruguayan newspapers that Fuhrmann was an Argentine citizen of weak mentality, and could not bo taken seriously.] ARMY CASUALTIES WAR OFFICE LIST LONDON, September 23. ("Received September 24, at 11.30 a.m.) The War Office’s forty-seventh casualty list contains 136 names, including three officers and 32 other ranks killed and one officer and 65 other ranks , wounded.