THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 30, 1940
Nazi Raids From The Tay To Kent RUTHLESS AIR
ATTACKS MAZ
LONDON, TO-DAY,
AT LEAST 14 SHIPS, INCLUDING TWO DEFENCE- LESS LIGHTSHIPS, WERE ATTACKED BY NAZI BOMBERS YESTERDAY IN THE MOST WIDE- SPREAD SERIES OF AIR RAIDS ON BRITAIN YET ATTEMPTED.
The area covered by the raiders extended 400 miles from the mouth of the Tay, in the north, to the Kentish coast, in the south.
British and neutral shipping, and coastal areas, were the targets of the raiders. No bombs were drop- ped on shore, and though about 20 were killed on various ships attacked none of the vessels were sunk.
were
NAZI
DEFENCE MEASURES
Berlin, To-day.
Bix The Island of Sylt and other Islands running in a line off north-west Germany from the Netherlands frontier to the Hell. goland Bight are to ba mill- tary zones for the duration of the war.
All movement on the islands, which include mine-laying and seaplane bases, will be severely restricted.Reuter.
AT
FROM
SHANGHAI
ABDUCTION
Chungking, To-day,
Shanghai International Settlement police are investigating a mysterious case of abduction which occurred on January 25.
Abducted was Mr. Ho Sih-tang. proprietor of the Yuan Feng Hard- ware store In North Shansi Road. Seven men broke into the store and forced him into a waiting motor car at the end of a pistol. The car was later found behind the New Asia Hotel, in Hongkew.-Central News.
As
coast but fled toward the clouds soon as British fighters were sighted.
RAN INTO R.A.F. Two fighters fired at a raider at long range before he disappeared.
A
BRITISH SHIPS ATTACKED Four bombs were dropped near
ALARM IN YORKSHIRE Later in the morning enemy aircraft the Shetlands. No damage was done,
LONDON, TO-DAY.
Or Tyneside, A Heinkel bomber according to an Admiralty statement.raided ships off the Kentish coast.
A NAZI 'PLANE APPEARED OUT Fighters of the R.A.F. Coastal The ships reported to be attacked
SEA NEAR THE TYNE YES-came out of the clouds and the pilot Miriam, the
British Officer, the Command
at engaged
enemy
WAS found himself flying straight into TERDAY MORNING, AND while A.R.P. precau- Atholl Monarch and Danny Bryn. many points,
CROSSING |section of British fighters. When he Further ships reporting attacks at PREVENTED
the enemy climbed tlons went into operation along the
the Stanburn, | THE COAST BY R.A.F. FIGHTERS «aw his danger, whole const. The population rushed various points were
AND ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTERIES. | steeply into some clouds and made off Otterpool, Knitsley and Wellpark. to the shelters.
An air-raid alarm was sounded in but not before the fighters had open. 18 BOMBERS
Yorkshire when explosions
ed fire. aut at sea; the "all-clear" heard signal came half an hour later.
The extremely cold weather con- have not, it will be seen, interfered with Britain's coastal de- fences. Reuter.
TYNE AREA RAIDED
Seven bombs were dropped in the Tyne area, and those on shore heard explosions. Indicating hits on ships at
SCE.
The attack on lightships was the third time the Nazis have used this method of warfare.
—
It is unofficially stated that 18 Ger-
the man bombers flew over
East
Coast.
Fighters went up but owing to the unfavourable weather could not Inter-ditions
Reuter. cept the raiders.
LATVIAN STEAMER BOMBED London, To-day. Seven are feared to have been kilt- the ships were still afloat, thoughed when German planes dropped 10 no-one was on board and the ship's bombs on the Latvian steamer Taut boats were missing.
mila (3,700 tons) in the North Sea yesterday.
the
Lifeboats which put off for lightships returned last night and said
None of the raiders was brought down, as far as is known, and the R.A.F. planes all returned safely. Reuter.
SHETLANDE RAID
London, To-day.
•
were
a
AMBITIOUS ATTACKS
London, To-day. Enemy aircraft yesterday made most ambitious serious of attacks on British shipping they have yet at tempted. Attacks were distributed
miles of coast-from the
Further south, fighters attacked it Heinkel which fled east into low-lying clouds, Aring its rear gun. One fight- er was struck by a single bullet but no damage was done.
Other enemy raiders were driven away by fighters while attacking ships off the Yorkshire coast. Two of the vessels attacked by the raiders were defenceless lightships..
Later in the, morning, enemy air- craft raided. ships off the Kentish coast. Ships which reported such at- tacks were the Miriam, British Of- Danny-
An eighth man was seen drifting alone in a boat which had been dam-over 400 aged by a bomb. A lifeboat is search-mouth of the Tay in the north to the ficer, Atholl Monarch, and ing for him.
Fifteen men and the captain's wife German planes flew over the Shet-escaped in a boat and were picked up lands yesterday afternoon and fighters by a patrol-boat. They are now safe went up. The all clear was sounded on shore. — Reuter. 40 minutes-later...
Further south, R.A.F. fighters at- tacked a Heinkel bomber which fied into lowlying clouds.
One fighter was struck by a single bullet but no damage was done.
Other enemy raiders were driven attacking fighters, while away by ships off the Yorkshire coast.
NORWEGIAN ASHORE
Kentish Coast in the south.
The time during which the attacks extended from shortly were made after 9 a.m. till nearly midday.
Despite severe weather conditions and poor visibility, R.A.F. Fighter Command-aircraft-were able-to-en- gage and drive off the enemy at many points.
In the Tyneside area, anti-aircraft guns were also in action.
at
bryn.
Further ships reporting attacks various points ware the Stanburn, Otterpool, Knitsley and Wellpark.- British Wireless.
WEATHER DEFEATS FIGHTERS
-London, To-day.-
The Air Ministry announced yester- day evening that an air raid warning was sounded in the Shetlands shortly after midday.
London, To-day. Seven of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Faro (844 tons), which went ashore on the north-east coast owing, it is believed, to enemy action, were brought ashore by breeches buoy.
sea. are dead and Three of the crew four missing.
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As a precaution, air raid warnings in several north-east were sounded coast districts.
One raider was reported to have dropped seven bombs near the steam- er Llanwern in the Tyneside area without securing a hit.
Several bombs were dropped in the
No damage or casualties have, been reported.
The raiders passed signal was given after some 50 minutes.
Fighters went up but owing to un- favourable weather conditions
was
Another enemy aircraft attacked the interception s.s. Imperial Monarch of the Scottish Wireless,
made,
REVISED VERSION OF
NAZI'S WAR
AIMS
Berlin, To-day.
no
British
A REVISED VERSION of Germany's war aims was given by a German Army officer in a broadcast
to the German people from the soldiers in the Siegfried Line.
sensational stunt. Do He admitted that the war was not, as the Nazis
not miss seeing the
Human Rocket, defy
the claws of death. A
n shot out from a
gigantic cannon to `a`/
height of 80 feet. You cannot. * bølleve it, yet is true, ecl ipsing all you have seen befor in umany world att
claimed, forced on Germany. He said that Ger- many was trying to win the war she lost in 1918 and to wipe out the disgrace of Versailles."
Last week, Dr. Lay, the Labour | war: - Political struggles, says, the pa leader, bluntly announced that Ger- peri need nerves, coolness and
many was
vise the
Treaty
deliberately for
kald down in
"the
ability to “walt.. the All this has involved Dr. Goebbel's 1648, which Mini
formation and Pro
-recognised United King-
Switzerland.
(including
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