STOP PRESS NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21221, 18 September 1940, Page 6

STOP PRESS NEWS

ITALIAN ADVANCE 75 MILES IN FIVE DAYS LONDON, Sept. 17 The occupation of Sidi Barrani has brought the Italian advance 75 miles from the frontier in five days, and establishing Marshal Graziani at the commencement of a fine asphalted road running through Mersa Matruh to Alexandria. The spearnead of the invading forces, totalling three divisions, is already on and pushing along this road. Others are frantically digging in at Solium and Sidi Barram, which they intend to use as bases for operations from places further inland. Italian military men claim that Solium is important because it is the only natural harbour between Libya and Alexandria, which Is the Italians main objective. They declare that Solium will afford shelter for the largest naval units in the world, also protection against treacherous African winds, because it is surrounded by a horseshoe chain of hills. HELP FROM QUEEN DAMAGE IN EAST END LONDON, Sept. 17 Ths Queon is sending a number of suites of furniture from Windsor Castle to help refurnish the damaged hom©3 in the East ErTd. WAR AGAINST MEASLES DISCOVERY OF VACCINE NEW YORK, Sept. 17 The Philadelphia University at Pennsylvania announced the discovery of an anti-measles vaccine. BOMB IN STRAND NEW ZEALAND BUILDING HIT LONDON, Sept. 17 A high explosive bomb, hitting a huge building in the Strand in which the New Zealand Fruit Sales Division is housed, did not damage the office or interrupt work.

Th-i London manager, Mr H. Turner, said: “All the staff are safe and well. We were obligod to evacuate temporarily when New Zealand House, which is opposite, was temporarily unoccupied.” The administrative headquartors of St. Dustan’s Hospital in Regent’s Park were badly damaged by a bomb in a recent raid. Sir lan Fraser and his wife were not injured though they were in a snolter 15 foot from where a bomb fell.