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Evening Star, Issue 23862, 17 April 1941, Page 12

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NATIONAL GOVERNMENT DEFER. The Government's reply to the National Party proposal for the formation of a National Government is to -he first communicated to the Labour Party Conference. The Prime Minister attended the gathering this morning, hut it is understood that he made no reference to the subject. Delegates an., ticipated that the Government's alternative to the Opposition proposals will !be submitted to them late this afternoon. Wellington correspondent. METROPOLITAN TROTS. High-class Handicap, one mile and five furlongs.—7-7 Dark Hazard 1. 9-9 Lament 2, 5-3 Gerfalcon , 3. April Handicap, one mile and a-half.—s-4. Kilrca and 4-6 Bronze Eagle (deadbeat! 1,9-9-ManWild 3. In tins President's Handicap, Navy Blue, which deadhoated with Dusky Sound for first place, was coupled with Pot Luck. ABYSSINIAN CAMP A KIN. RUGBY, April IG.--A report that the Duke of Aosta has sent emissaries to the British commander in Abyssinia to discuss terms of surrender is neither confirmed nor denied in London, but swell a. step is considered probable at any time. BRILLIANT R.A.F. RUGBY, , April 16. British fighter pilots are tearing into the 'German formations over Greece, states an R.A.F. Middle East communique, and are showing the same quality of dash and skill and the same brilliant courage that shattered the enenly in the classic battle of Britain. Already tales of their deeds are 'being told which may 'well take a place in legend, making even Greek anthology itself seem almost colourless. The Germans are employing largo numbers of divebonubers in attacks on Imperial troops and their communications. That so many bombs fall harmlessly, on. the mountain sides and in the sea is because no aircraft crew can .possibly concentrate on bomb aiming with the know- * ledge, that Hurricanes are on their trail. The divebombers are being steadily defeated. Already, after the short period, of aerial combat in this theatre of war, one R.A.F. squadron has just accounted for its 100th enemy aircraft—a Junkers 88, which broke off a bric/f encounter to plunge into the sea near the Greek capital. The unconcern of our pilots in describing their encounters gives no . cine to the enormous odds they accept as a matter of course. . Such is theirconfidence and skill that they are emerging from clash after clash almost unscathed, while the toll of enemy aircraft mounts .steadily, higher.