New Body to Further War Relief. Work Washington, June 21.
The American Red Cross announced today the formation of a Committee in London and the appropriation of $1,000,000 to further war relief work an Britain, Mr. D. Grant of the Guarantee Trust Company, hes been appointed chairman of ihe London Committee, with Mr. Joseph D. Kennedy, American Ambassador to Britain, as hon. atives mean approved the bill permitting n Red Cro: ps to travel lligerent countries with safe-conduct assurances from the warring n. tion:
The bill w to go to the White ich House, stipu. however, that no s ship will enter a blockaded g—power sion to do so——
Attack on Harbour; Malta Heavily Attacked Swiss Aid Given Cairo, June 22.
Tobruk (in Libya) was the centre of RAF. activity yesterday," states a communique issued by the headquarters of the Royal Air Force today.
"Blenheims carried out a raid at dawn, and after the attack heavy smoke was seen pouring from a large warship in the harbour. Our formation. was intercepted by two Italian fighters, but when met by the concentrated fire of our bombers, the enemy planes retired so badly damaged that it is unlikely that they reached their bases. It is not yet known what damage was done in the raid.
"Subsequently, there was a raid by another formation of Blenheims. One of our fighters during reconnaissance over the harbour was attacked py five enemy fighters. He shot down one and badly damaged another, Our machines returned safely to their bases.
"El Aden and El Gubbi were again raided with considerable success. Several aircraft on the ground were seen to be on fire after attacks at both places. Other smaller fires were also started. One of our aircraft is missing.
"The enemy made a series of raids on Malta yesterday. In the space of me hours, five separate attacks were carried out, three by single aircraft, one by two machines and the other by ten aircraft. There were no casualties and no damage.
"Macaaca aerodrome was again successfully attacked. Garissa (in Kenya) was bombed by enemy aircraft yesterday morning. There were no casualties and no damage;"—Reuter.
Berne, June 21, minent instructed Bank of Switzerland today to forward 200,000 Swiss francs
la the International Red Cross—
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