CALL TO WORLD MOSLEMS

Southland Times, Issue 24241, 26 September 1940, Page 8

CALL TO WORLD MOSLEMS

ITALIANS* MARCH TO ALEXANDRIA RESUMPTION OF OLD CRUSADES SOUGHT AXIS POWERS “ENEMIES OF ISLAM”' (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received September 25, 9.10 pan.) ' LONDON, September 24.

“If the Italians’ march towards Alexandria means anything, it is a call on the Moslems of the world to resume their crusades after seven centuries,” said the Mullah Sahib of Bhutan, in a sermon to a huge congregation at Bagh, in the Tirah district. Germany and Italy were the enemies of Islam and he ordered the Afridis to do what they could to help the Government. The Mullah Sahib is widely respected in the Tirah district and the independent tribal territory on the northwest frontier.

A communique states that there is no change in the situation in the eastern desert. During Sunday evening our artillery silenced some enemy batteries. Mersa Matruh was raided four times during Sunday night. There were no casualties, the communique states. On the other fronts there is nothing to report.

A Royal Air Force communique issued at Cairo on Tuesday states that on Sunday our bombers attacked enemy aircraft on the Menastir landing ground. All our bombs fell in the target area. Yesterday a second attack was delivered and three explosions were seen among the aircraft, followed by fires. Two raids were made on Tobruk harbour yesterday. In the first bombs burst among the buildings and on the jetty. During the second attack bombs were observed to fall on buildings and very close to ships moored alongside the jetty. Zula, in Eritrea, was attacked on the night of September 21. There was a direct hit on buildings and a fire broke out immediately. Four other fires were visible from a distance of 20 miles. They were started in the centre of the camp. Yesterday a successful attack made on technical buildings and an aerodrome at Mai Abaga resulted in direct hits on buildings and aircraft on the ground, two fighters being definitely destroyed. “Aircraft of the South African Air Force raided Sciasciamanna, in central Abyssinia on September 22. An enemy bomber on the ground was destroyed.” BRITISH CASUALTY LIST (Received September 25, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 24. The War Office’s forty-eighth casualty list contains 130 names, including three officers and 56 rankers killed, and two officers and 48 rankers wounded.