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FRENCH BOMBERS RAID ZEPPELIN FACTORY
BERNE, TO-DAY. ALTHOUGH DENIED BY THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND, CONFIRMATION OF THE AL- LIED AIR RAID ON THE ZEPPELIN WORKS AT FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, ON LAKE CON. STANCE, IS CONTAINED IN A STATEMENT BY THE SWISS GENERAL STAFF. The statement says that explosions, followed by anti-aircraft fire, were heard on the Swiss side of the lake.
The raiders, it is believed,
French air force bombers,
were
The raid lasted from 8.15 to 11.30
in the evening-Reuter.
RAID CONFIRMED
Berne, To-day.
RED ARMY SHOOT
Another communique issued by the LANDLORDS
Swiss General Staff says that the French air raid on Friedrichshafen started soon after 9 p.m. and ended between 10 p.m. and midnight.
of the Swiss-German frontier con- flrmed the extent of the raid. Reuter.
Moscow, To-day.
A communique issued by
Other reports from different parts the Red Army says that Po- |lish "officers and landlords” who resisted the Soviet forces at Grodno have been shot.
AND ADMITTED
London, Later. The Nazi radio has at last admitted the French air raid on Friedrichsha- fen, though earlier broadcasts, from Germany had denied it.
From Berne, it is now learned that two separate attacks were carried out by French bombers-Reuter.
EXPLOSIONS
NI
The Poles barricaded themselves in the Cathedral at Grodno and held out for two days.
Their snipers, it is stated, killed several Red Army officers,
When the Cathedral surrendered, the Red Army "shot the officers and | noblemen and spared the other de-
fenders."-Reuter.
OILFIELDS OCCUPIED
London, To-day.
A Red Army communique issued in Moscow states that Soviet forces have occupied the main oil fields' centre in southern Poland.--Reuter.
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London, To-day.
Two further explosions oc- curred in Germany yester- day.
One occurred in an unspecified factory in Hanover, where 10 were killed and 17 injured.
ROBBERS FRUSTRATED
AN UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO ROB A CARPENTER'S SHOP AT The other explosion, reported in a TSUN WAN, EARLY THIS MORN- message from Kaunas (Lithuania),ING WAS MADE BY TWO ARMED took place in a chocolate factory near ROBBERS. Berlin. Several were hurt.
At 2.30 a.m., Cheung Ping-wong, 47, In Sunday's coal mine explosion, master of the Hop Cheung carpenter's 17 were killed and 14 seriously in-shop, and his wife, were awakened by jured, according to an Amsterdam a noise, and found two men in the
despatch. Reuter.
R.A.F. RAID:
LEAFLET
MESSAGE
London, To-day.
shop, one holding a torch.
Cheung and his wife seized the man with the torch and shouted for help. The other immediately ran to the rear of the shop and escaped.
The robber with the torch manag- ed to free himself and also escaped.
When the police arrived, they dis- covered a loaded five-chambered volver on the floor.
Cheung was found suffering
re-
from
а wound in the back presumably
The leaflets dropped by the caused by a dagger. R.A.F. in their latest "raid”
over Germany, stated:
"The British and French Navies have swept German merchant ship- ping off the seas.
"Your supply of a range of essen- tial materials has almost gone, and from can no longer purchase neutral countries, as in 1914, as you cannot pay cash.
you
"Night after night the Royal Air Force has shown Its power by flying far into: German territory."
Rautor.
BRITAIN'S “YOUNG
CONTEMPTIBLES"
BRITISH R.A.F.
CASUALTIES
London, To-day. The second Air Ministry casualty communique issued last night an- nounces As "casualties on various dates," three killed, one previously re- ported missing now reported miss- ing (believed killed), and 'twenty missing-British Wireless,
BRITAIN'S FOOD SUPPLIES
A military observer, attached to the Field Force in France, sums up the impression made by the British troops in following words: "We have an Army that lacks nothing of the fight- ing spirit of those who were describ- ed in earlier days as "Contemptible." "It is impossible to encounter them without a feeling of pride and con- The Agricultural Research Council Is to have the assistance of a special self with honour."--British Wireless. | body of these experts-Router.
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