THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 12, 1940):
GOERING'S AIR SQUADS OUT IN FULL FORCE
London, To-day.
BENNEKING
DENIES ANY
LINK WITH WANG
Chungking, To-day. An emphatic denial of
AT reports alleging
STANDSTILL
YESTERDAY'S VISITATIONS of German aircraft BUSINESS AT
were on a scale unprecedented since the begin- ning of the war, but it is not known how many planes took part as they turned out to sea im-IN CANTON mediately they were challenged.
Anti-aircraft guns were in action in the Firth of Tay, Firth of Forth, South Shields, the Humber, the Suffolk coast and the Thames Estuary.
After they were driven off, these or other German machines turned their attention to the bombing and machine-gunning of shipping, but no ships were sunk and casualties were few.
One raider attacking a trawler was engaged by an R.A.F. fighter and a running fight followed, the fighter chasing the Germin for 40 miles. When last seen, one of the Nazi ma- chine's propellors appeared to be failing and smoke was seen issuing from the port wing.
ITALIAN SHIP SUNK
An Aberdeen trawler was rescued by other R.A.F. fighters from the at- tention of two Nazi planes, and yet another trawler was slightly damaged by bombs when assisting In the rescue of the survivors of an Italian ship blown up by a mine..
A motor-lifeboat, which had. 30 survivors on board, eventually towed the trawler into harbour!
The German attacker dropped four bombs and machine-gunned the traw- ler.
The skipper was wounded. One other ship was the victim of German mines.
EL 080 BLOWN UP This was the 7,000-ton tanker, El Oso, which blew up when she struck a mine off the west coast. Three of her crew of 36 were
LLOYDS COMMITTEE RESIGNS
London, To-day. Lloyds Underwriters have been unable to persuade the rating committee to reconsider their decision to resign.
Consequently, it is understood, the committee will continue to confine itself to a purely advisory capacity.
Meanwhile the advisory sche- dule is proving a useful guide, and in response to many requeste an amendment to the war risk in. surance rates may shortly be is- sued. Reuter.
and
drowned and | British fighters ascend eight were-injured by the explosion. the raiders out to sea-Reuter.
The 1,500-ton steamer, Leonard Pearce, was sunk in convoy as the result of a collision while nearing the British coast. Her crew were rescued from her lifeboats by other craft in the convoy.
Reuter.
CROWDS WITNESS DISASTER
London, To-day. A steamer, believed to be Italian, struck a mine off an East Coast town crowds on the pro- yesterday, and menade saw the vessel burst into flames.
The lifeboat rescued the crew of 30 and the English pilot.
Reuter.
OFF EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND
London, To-day. Two German bombers yesterday made an unsuccessful attempt to sink
pursue
SPITFIRES IN ACTION` OFF NORFOLK COAST
London, Ta đây.
Three Royal Air Force fighter aircraft saved three British cargo a German ships from damage by raider in the North Sea yesterday morning.
raider.
After a running fight the was last seen with smoke pouring from one wing and his port engine disabled.
Three pilots, all sergeants,
were in
on patrol off the Norfolk coast their Spitfire fighters when they sighted a Heinkel bomber circling 50 feet above the ships.
As soon as the enemy spotted the
a trawler off the east coast of Scot-Aghters he hurriedly dropped a salvo land.
The Nazi planes flew low ma- chinegunning the vessel and also dropped a few bombs, but scored no direct hits, though slight dam- age was done by splinters-and-bul- lets.
Upon the approach of British fight
flew out ing planes the Germans to sea, and the trawler returned to port.--Reuter.
NO BOMBS DROPPED
London, To-day..
In bright winter sunshine German aircraft yesterday made the most extensive visitation to Britain since the beginning of the war.
They passed the coast at points from: Scotland to South-East land.
No: raports-hava:1
of bambi where,
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of bombs, missing the ships, fled eastward.
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and
The Spitares, diving thousands of forty feet, chased the Heinkel for miles out to sea.
bursts Each fighter in turn fired as the enemy skimmed almost at sea | level.
One British pilot, swerving ⠀ round from the attack, could see the bullets of another Spitfire. hitting the Hein- kel.
When the enemy was last seen the propellor of the port engine was turning slowly and smoke was com- ing from the port wing---British Wireless.
ISTRATE
Canton, To-day. Chinese business through- out the city yesterday was brought to a standstill owing to the refusal of shopkeepers, tradesmen and restaurants to accept Kwangtung cur- rency, while National cur- rency was discounted at 60 per cent. compared with the military yen.
Adding to the confusion, money- changers refused to change Kwang- tung and National notes into yen.
Unless immediate drastic action is tuken by the authorities it appears that the Chinese population will soon be in a desperate plight, without means for purchasing rice and necessities.-Reuter.
FACTS ON MOSCOW
other
London, To-day.
that
had
Wang Ching-wei reached an understand- ing with the Chinese Government in Chung- king concerning his plans for the proposed new central China re- gime, was voiced by the Foreign Office spokes- man at a press confer- ence yesterday after-
noon.
The spokesman em- phasised that the Chin- ese Government had no connections with any puppet regime, de facto or de jure. Reuter.
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Helsinki, To-day.
Prince Ferdinand of Liechtenstein arrived here yesterday as a volunteer with the Finnish Army.
He joins his regiment to-day. Havus.
The full story of the Anglo-Franco-PADEREWSKI ARRIVES
be
IN FRANCE
Paris, To-day...
Soviet talks last year will soon available. A Government White Pa- per is expected to be issued soon after Parliament meets next Tuesday.
M. Paderewski, the famous pianist, Sir William Seeds, British Ambas- who is First Member of the Polish sador to Moscow, who arrived on leave | Council of State, arrived at Angers, on Wednesday night, called at the the Polish Government headquarters Switzer- Foreign Office yesterday morning.in France yesterday from
Reuter.
land. Reuter.
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