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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 31, 1940
Game Of Hide-And-Seek SECOND DAY OF AIR ATTACKS
LONDON, TO-DAY.
NAZI AIRCraft yestERDAY REPEATED THE
PRESS COMMENT
ATTACKS THEY MADE ON MONDAY ON NAZI
BRITISH AND NEUTRAL SHIPPING IN BRI-
TISH WATERS; ON MONDAY, THEY AT AERIAL
TACKED WITH BOMBS AND MACHINE-
GUNS TO MERCHANTSHIPS AND 12 LIGHT- BARBARITY
SHIPS.
Few details are as yet known of yesterday's attacks,
London, To-day. The British press yesterday
BALKAN
ENTENTE CONFERENCE
Ankara, To-day. M. Sarajoglu, Turkish For- eign Minister, left Ankara yes- terday afternoon at the head of the
the Turkish delegation to conference of the Balkan En. tente at Bucharest, En route, ho will visit the Bulgarian Prime
Minister-Reuter.
EXTORTION CHARGE
but at least one Nazi 'plane was shot down and commented bitterly on the another Heinkel had its rear gun put out of ac-growing burden of sacrifice tion before it escaped into the clouds.
caused to neutrals by the! The only ship so far reported lost yesterday is a small | Nazi sea war, which is con- ship of less than 1,000 tons, the Jersey Queen,sidered proof of the essential whose S.O.S. was heard by radio sets on shore. evils that the Allies are fight-two others not in custody to extort She reported that another ship was being at-ing and that Finland is fight- tacked nearby. A lifeboat put out to the rescue.
Several Grimsby trawlers were ma- chinegunned and bombed but none was lost.
The skipper and mate of one trawler were killed by machine- gun fire.
CONVOYS ATTACKED
ing as well.
Some papers also stress that the economic front must Some of these were in convoy and be strengthened before the naval escorts drove off the enemy with Allies can achieve their aims. anti-aircraft fire.
"The Times," after giving details of From a North England fighter sta the Nazi air attacks on neutral ship- tion, two pilots went off at mid-dayping on Monday, says:-"These bar- and, despite poor visibility, brought barities, revolting as they are to all down a Heinkel bomber which had who are swayed by conscience, An enemy plane attacked a British been trying to destroy a helpless fish-ligion or a sense of human obligations, trawler, which fired back and drove ing boat.
are indications of the evil spirit which off the plane, making her way Into At almost the same time, another is in the ascendant in Germany." harbour undamaged.
Heinkel was Intercepted by fighters Although Dr. Goebbel's propaganda off the Firth of Forth as it was trying machine may try to conceal all this,
"The Times" continues,
TRAWLER HITS BACK Explosions and gunfire were heard in Great Yarmouth at 5 p.m.
zag.
re-
the cloven
A Heinkel bomber swooped down on a patrol vessel which began to zig-to bomb a 'merchant ship. One of
the fighters fired a burst of bullets hooves cannot be concealed. The that put the German rear gunner out Nazis at sea show what Nazi-ism real- of action before the Heinkel divedly is, and nothing could more clearly into a cloud.--Reuter.
HIDE-AND-SEEK
the
Two bombs were apparently dropped and water was thrown up but ship did not appear to be damaged and continued as the plane made off.
The Nazi planes appeared to be playing hide and seek In the clouds with R.A.F. planes, which earlier had -driven off another big grey-plans........
After they had chased the first one out to sea the other appeared further south.
ONE DOWNED The Air Ministry announces that an enemy aircraft was shot down by R.A.F. Fighter Command aircraft off the East Coast early in the afternoon. Reuter is authoritatively informed that the plane was downed off the coast of Northumberland.-Reuter.
ATTACK ON SHETLANDS
London, To-day. Three German warplanes dropped 12 bombs but all fell in the sea, states the latest report from the Shet- lands, which were unsuccessfully at- tacked on Monday.
There
attacks, were three
each
demonstrate the need, if the world is to be brought to peace, for untiring perseverance until the evil is over- come.
HOPES OF IDEALISTS
Alleged to have conspired with
Chan Sek, Ho So, 46,
$1,000 from proprietor of the Wing Hing Garage
of No. 6, O'Brien Road, Wanchal, was charged before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this morning. Accused was remanded for 48 hours on $2,500 bail.
Inspector Hopkins appeared the prosecution.
BING CROSBY IN HOSPITAL
for
Los Angeles, To-day. Bing Crosby, crooning star of screen and radio, has been taken to hospital
suffering from appendicitis.
His doctor says an operation may not be necessary.--Reuter.
"Manchester Guardian" and other pa- pers-that the economic and financial dimculties which we are involving the enemy in are not sufficient by them- selves.
ECONOMIC FRONT
AIR MINISTRY COMMUNIQUE
London, To-day. The Air Ministry announced at two o'clock yesterday afternoon: "The enemy are repeating the widespread attacks on East Coast shipping which The Labour paper "Daily Herald," "Positive and drastic steps are neces» they undertook yesterday.
referring to the "epic, though bitter- |sary to organize our own economic Reports so far to hand indicately tragic tale of the Finns,” says that and financial effort. that early this morning reconnaissance more is frozen on the northern battle- The "Daily Telegraph" deals with aircraft appeared off the East Coast fronts than the bodles of the Finnish
a little-publicised work, the work of but disappeared out to sea on the and Soviet dead-the hopes of some the salvage department of the Minis- idealists in the Soviet system and the try of Supply. The paper says that all approach of R.A.F. fighters.
Enemy aircraft attacked shipping prestige of the Red Army have grown local authorities should be as efficient off Yarmouth but was pursued by cold.
as Birmingham, which makes £25,000 Alghter and coastal patrol aircraft The paper supports "The Times" In
a year by using up the contents of with results which are not yet known," the view that every free nation must garbage cans and waste-paper baskets.
Half an hour later the Ministry an- do its utmost to help Finland.
The needs of the national effort call nounced: "An enemy aircraft was shot "The Times" also emphasizes what for a more vigorous. salvage · depart- craft off the East Coast shortly before down by R.A.F. fighter command air- has also been emphasized by the ❘ment, says the paper-Reuter.
one p.m. to-day."
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A further bulletin at 3.15 stated: "With its rear gunner out of action another Heinkel escaped into the clouds off the Scottish coast after be-
made by one machine, and one attacking intercepted by a Royal Air Force Was a determined dive to a low height.
The enemy planes encountered a terrific barrage from AIA. guns on sea and land. Reuter.
RAIDERS SURPRISED
London,, To-day.
German raiders received a surprise when for the second day in succesalón "they tried to attack shipping »yester- day morning atong à 500-mile British "const, it faintated.
The raiders retired, leaving one bomber in
another, dis- abled.
fighter aircraft at midday.”—British Wireless.
NO BABIES IN 1961
New York City, To-day.
If: New York's birth-rate continues to decline at its ̈ present rate, it is posible that no children will be born In the olty In 1961.
This imaginary possibility is con- Owing to the fact that Europe is intained in a report issued by the Health the grip of the severent winter for 46 Commissioner.
years, the German Air Staff no doubt Thy1900, the birth-rate was 35.7 per. assumed that Britain fighter force mille; häst year it was 13.5 per mille.
Renter
would be famobilised.
But from Aberdeen to the Kentish
Coast, the Aghter and coastal
AIR CHIEF'S TOUR-
man raide
words:
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light