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British Steamer's Exciting Brush With Nazi Planes
MURDER SQUADS STILL ACTIVE JAPAN TO
UNIFORMS FOR CIVILIANS
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Rome, To-day.
The Government is contemplat- ing the mass production of a ein- gle type of shoes, underwear and clothes as a measure to cope with the high price of clothes.
Various clothing corporations have already appointed advisory committees to devise uniform al- vilian clothes.
Measures have also been taken- to ration certain commodities used in everyday life should the war be prolonged.—Havas.
BETTER TALKERS
THAN FIGHTERS 7
SOVIET TURNS TO THE "MIKE”
Helsinki, To-day.
LONDON,
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GERMAN AEROPLANES BOMBED AND MACHINE-"PEACE
· GUNNED THE BRITISH STEAMER PITWINES
(932 TONS) OFF THE YORKSHIRE COAST TALKS"
YESTERDAY.
The crew took to the boats and all were saved; the
steamer was taken in tow.
The bombing could be heard from the Yorkshire
cliffs for nearly an hour. .
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Shanghai, To-day. Japan is starting peace negotiations with Wang
congratulating KRUPP SCION Ching-wei, the Japanese
The crew of the British steamer Javington Court, which has just ar- rived in port, Bre themselves on an astonishing stroke of luck during an attack by German aircraft a few days ago.
The aircraft continually swoop- ed, spraying the steamer twith bullets which scattered the sky- lights and hatches and put the dynamo out of action, but always missing members of the crew.
KILLED IN ACTION
AMSTERDAM, TO-DAY. LIEUTENANT CLAUS VON BOH-
Embassy spokesman told Havas last evening.
The spokesman admitted, however, that the negotia- tions would not necessarily bring peace to the whole of China as long as Chungking
Finally the raider started dropping LEN, SON OF GUSTAV AND BERTHA maintains its anti-Japanese
bombs, which the ship avoided by zig-zagging.
Two bombs, however, struck the sea within six feet of the steamer, and the explosion seemed to lift the ship out of the water.
HEAVY CONCUSSION
The safety valves of the boilers were lifted off their seatings, and the concussion sent up clouds of coal dust through the bunker hatches,
Seeing the vessel had developed smoke, the German aircraft disap- peared.
discovered that the steamer was
Soviet planes yesterday The crew recovered from the jolt, raided Lahti and bombed totally undamaged and continued the the long-wave radio sta-voyage.--Reuter,
tion there, after which
Moscow started broad-LAW SUIT
casting in Finnish on the
Lahti wave-length.
•
also
A large number of planes raided the port of Abo, the town of Riihimaki and several other points on the south-west coast.
Their main objective was appar- ently the railway lines.
Telephone wires were out and communications with Sweden In- terrupted,
AGAINST
A VON PAPEN
(SPECIAL TO “OHINA MAIL"),
Brussels, To-day.
Upon the request of the German Government the Netherlands authori- ties have launched a law suit against Baron Felix von Papen, cousin of the Relch's Ambassador to Ankara, and atauthor of the book on German con-
centration camps.
The air raid alarm was sounded in Helsinki at 2.10 in the afternoon but no planes appeared over the city, and the all clear sounded
The law suit is based on the statute dealing with insults to foreign states-
3.45 p.m.
SNOWBALL FIGHT. The tedium of the Plon wait was relieved
ht-between | me
Finnish
and Am bouring
British
book was published in 1988 antitled: "Af von Papen
imprison
and pro-Soviet attitude.
KRUPP, OF THE WELL-KNOWN GERMAN ARMAMENT FIRM, WAB As to the establishing of contact ba-* KILLED ON WEDNESDAY, STATES |tween Wang Ching-wel and Chung- kian, the spokesman sald_this_depend-
·A-NOTICE-IN-THE¬NAŻI-NEWS- PAPER "KOELNISCHER ZEITUNG."ed upon Wang Ching-wel himself, since Japan Intended scrupulously to
The notice says that Bohlen, who respect the Independence and adminle- was a lieutenant in a fighter squadron, |trative Integrity of China.. and was aged 29, "dled a death for the fatherland."
Bohlem himself is Chairman
hero's
Nevertheless Jupan would rejoice if the restoration of peace was extended of to the whole of China and should
the Board of Directors of one of the Chungking abandon its anti-Japanese vast Krupp concerns.-Reuter,
'and pro-Communist policy.--Havas.
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