Shanghai, June 11, Remains of German Bomber Abyssinia, the Allied defences have been growing rapidly Gibraltar, Malta and Cyprus have been intensive~ ly fortified, while the French ports of Oran and Algiers are strong naval and submarine bases.
Allied destroyer flotillas are in a position to begin an unremitting hunt for Italian submarines. The Allied battle fleet is more than double the Italian.
Italy, the Correspondent says, may try to sever the Mediterranean routes from west to east, or the island of Leros may be used for raiding but Local Contingent:
Pictured above is part of the fuselage of a German bomber brought down over the French lines recently, a group of proud "poilus". being evidently engaged in m naking it into an ornament for a mess room behind the lines.
In the last war as well as in this, souvenir hunting among soldiers was a favourite sport indulged in by all those who found it possible to do so.
Allied plans have been prepared for every contingency, he adds—Reuter,
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