Show IT jefr J4 A Sunday Morning- - -- £l)c Salt £ak Tribune- - -- Aussies Independence- Briton Holds Greeks Push Ahead With Seized Tanks Play Role in Desert Victory - German Province or Armistice With England Sfeen as Alternatives by Noted Statesman ' By Tribune Leased Wire 14 — Norman Aflgell noted British states Dec CHICAGO man and Nobel prize winner declared here Saturday that an Italian military collhpse would force Mussolini either to turn Italy Britinto a German province or to seek an armistice with Great Albania in and armies gave of rout Italian Egypt ain He said the invasion was averted England Its greatest spur to victory Since “If reverses continue Italy will have the same relationship have to drop crut of the war as then to that France now has Britain' an independent nation” said Sir to Germany Italy might even turn sooner be Norman "and that may side but It Is more Britain’s to than we think As a matter of it will entirely” likely no have fqgt the Italian people stomach for this war They are traditionally the friends 'of Britain not Germany "If collapse is imminent Mussolini can invite Hitler to send his s HAVANA Cuba Dec 14 UP)— legions in That means a German province Its in- The United States embassy anof dependence is gone as muth as that nounced Saturday that the office of France and Belgium I do not its naval attache had been forced believe the Italian people would "by unknown persons on the night ever submit I am convinced there of November 30” would be a revolution before ihey Representative Alfredo Noguelra Australian troops such as these credited with would permit Hitler's legions to head of a Cuban congressional comItalians in amajor part in the rout of the of overrun their country even in their mittee Investigating "fifth column” in the act are making pictured Egypt -activities on the- island -- had said "defense” “On the other hand Italy knows Friday night he had information that even if Britain should occupy that documents "which may have her ports and conquer her miligreat military value” had been stotarily the country would not be- len from the United States naval nacome a British province The ' tion would be disarmed but not attache's files camp in the desert Because the nights are cold equipment includes heavy clothes and blankets Italians in Africa Fight Britain Trims Meat Ration To Avert Annihilation () can export liner Exeter i - SA-ILBIM©- - COMPACT JltAMIOS Troops Disorganized The troops which had escaped capture in the flight into Libya were pictured as so disorganized as to be of little present account British air activity continued to set a high tempo of violence for the whole operation Continuous assaults with bomb and machine gun fire on Italian 6DI44 with the shielded WAVE MAG-- e 1 1 ters was simply one of "clearance” process of rounding up the stray fascist units still in the country The Italian defeat was called a “rout” by the British command As always there was no definite figure as to the number of prisoners captured An incomplete official estimate put it at 26000 together with vast quantities of guns tanks arms equipment of all sorts This estimate which the Brttish said was Conservative placed in actual custody more than one- fourth of the fascist army which invaded Egypt in the early autumn and now has been driven back to the point where it started— an army which at its peak strength had been estimated by the British at 80000 MODEL E (Continued From Page One) —a N T which m f n ates and serial wires ground Terms Model 61)414 150 ELDREDGE 6 ‘ THE i STREET FLOOR Ik ’at 1 1 ' i ROTARY ELECTRIC SEWING MACHINE Produced by 60 years of en- On facts gineering research! and comparison SHE'D choose an ELDREDGE —her greatest aid to easy successful sewing! 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STEN - IKS SHOES materials out of Chimara Intense Greek pressure on Klisura and KIDS Tepelini was reported) Heavy snows raged on the front im the mountains west of Lake Ochrida and north of Pogradec where stiff Italian Resistance has NORTHMONT FINE STOCKINGS been encountered for several days the Despite these handicaps Greeks utilizing artillery to smash HOUSE SLIPPERS Italian pillboxes and strong points in the mountains stormed up the crags and captured positions of strategic importance for their further advance They captured much material including autom a 1 1 c OF rifles mortars and ammunition Greeks be to were said driv(The ing toward the village of Borova in 'the mountain ‘region near the source of the Tomorica river -(In this region and in the mountain ranges south of the Shkumbi river the Italians were said to be SALT LAKE concentrating large forces possibly e in preparation for a STETSON SHOES For SIGN QUALITY McKENDRICK counter-offensiv- OW-BOW-H 24-ho- ur To 70 WHEN YOU GETEIGHT DOWN CAR TO IT MOST LOW-PRICE- Give Her an SALE PRICE ONLY I positions far within Libya — at Derna for example 150 miles and more within the frontier— were reported by the royal air force Hard hit said the British were the Derna barracks wireless station and other military buildings and spreading fires were left in the area Among the announced results elsewhere ln this furious aerial campaign were these: Military Stores Bombed ' Bardia the Important Libyan coastal base hit again military stores bombed in half a dozen points and airdromes landing fields gaso- line storages and the like pounded over a wide area retreating Italians heavily machine gunned During the day a communique put at 15 the number of Italian aircraft shot down in action in a period This was aside from whatever destruction was caused among grounded planes and the total British plane looses were said to have been four No recapitulation was made but the cumulative total as derived from successive R A F announcements placed the aggregate fascist plane losses since the beginning of the British offensive at at least 65 Reg sixty-seven- Worth Giving -- JERSEY CITY N J Dec 14 —Headed for Budapest to augment the Associated Press staff in the Balkans William B King former South Carolina newspaper man sailed Saturday aboard the Ameri- By Associated Press The following “box score” lists sea warfare losses reported during the week of the war from December 8 to Decembr 14 inclusive: Gifts & Writer Goes to Balkans of 19 Vessels cruiser-unknow- Italy-become- "for the sake of their future freedom Italians would prefer I am convinced a British occupation to a German one But rather than submit to occupation Mussolini would probably seek an armistice with Great Britain Italy might not make a separate peace but would cease resistance Italy would 10 A his Embassy Reports Office Forced enslaved Britain Loses A Assault Nears Second Largest Albanian Port g L- December 15i 1940 'i War Reverses May Cost Italy ) J ROME Dec 14 (i P) — The Italians announced to the world Saturday through the Rome radio that "no peace offer will ever be forthcom-- I ing from Italy” and refused to acknowledge defeat in Africa The high command’s daily com-- ( mumque asserted fascist counterattacks had “slowed up enemy pressure” in Egypt but laid no further claim to success in the field and’ authoritative commen-- j tators took the line that what was D BUYERS CHOOSE DELUXE MODELS COMPARE DELUXE PRICES WITH THE PRICE OR THE BIG LUXURIOUS OLDS SPECIAL AND YOUtLL RIND happening in the desert was a long way from any decision They spoke of it as an action still raging over a vast area and described the British force as enor-- I mous - 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