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AMERICAN ATLANTIC PATROL
---Washington, To-day. United States naval pa- trol are already collecting data on the activity of bel- ligerents in American waters.
Two destroyers and coastguard cut- ters are patrolling the Atlantic coast. Destroyers which have been laid up since the last War will be re- commissioned for help in this work. --Reuter.
THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939.
SUBMARINE ALARM ON JOURNEY OF AMBASSADOR
London, To-day.
Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador to Berlin, and all his staff arrived safely at Gravesend yesterday afternoon."
Half-way across the North Sea, the destroyer escort which accompanied Sir. Nevile's ship dropped several depth charges. Reuter.
IRAQ AT WAR WITH GERMANY
Baghdad, To-day.
Iraq has decided to sever relations with Germany.
Iraq has informed the German Minister that he must leave the coun- try within 24 hours, and the Iraq representative in Berlin has been in- structed to ask for his passport.
A number of Germans in Iraq, of military rank or otherwise regarded as dangerous, have been interned.- Reuter,
THE CHINA WAR
Milo, Hunan, To-day. Kaopanchiao, east of Linsiang in north Hunan, has been recaptured by Chinese troops.-Central News.
One of the pocket-battleships, the Graf von Spec, Is shown above. There are two others of the type, the Deutschland and the Admiral Scheer, each of 10,000 tons, and armed with six 11-inch and eight 6-Inch guns. The British Government do not claim that any battleship has been sunk, but bays that one of the three ships named above received two direct hits during the R.A.F. rald on Wilhelmshayon.
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THAT TWO DIRECT HITS were secured by British R.A.F. bombers on a pocket-battleship of the Deutschland class during the attacks on German naval units at Wilhelmshaven, was revealed by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons yesterday. The Government would like to pay a tribute, said the
Premier, to the very gallant attack made by units. of the R.A.F. on certain German warships off Wilhelmshaven (cheers), during which at least two hits were scored on one of the so-called pocket battleships.
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jectives attacked, namely, the Ger- The House might also be interested man fleet bases at Wilhelmshaven and to hear that those who took part in at the entrance to the Kiel Canal, the attack included a-number were probably among the most were from the Dominions. strongly defended points in Germany, and the manner in which the R.A.F. attacks were pressed home despite the strength of the defence, was worthy of the highest praise.
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BLINDING RAINSTORM Mention had to be made of weather conditions prevalling on the afternoon of the attack.
Visibility was extremely poor. and the final stages of the attack were carried out in a blinding rainstorm.
A high degree of navigational skill was thus necessary to enable the attack to reach its objectives at all, and the fact that hits were registered showed the ability of the R.AT. to carry out its attacks under conditions of great difficulty.
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Mr. Chamberlain He might stress the fact that high proportion of officers and 'man' In the squadrons concerned had entered and received" ́their training since the expansion of the
R.A.F. began.
As the House knew, extensiva reconnaissance fiights "had been carried qut aver Germany on three successive nights during the last week by unlta of the R.A.F.
DEFENCE OUTWITTED
More than 10,000,000 coples to the German people were distributed over a wide area of northern and western Germany, including the Ruhr.
Although on each occasion the de- fence was set fully in motion, no con- tact was secured by enemy fighters and all our aircraft returned safely Reuter.
COLONIES OFFER LOYAL AID
London, To-day. Messages still continue to come from the colonies with offers of all possible help while England is at war.
Latest is from British Guiana, where Legislative Council have passed a resolution unanimously pledging as- sistance-British Wireless,