THE CHINA-MAIL, FEBRUARY
R. A. F. ADVENTURE
One Blenheim Bomber Attacked By Five Fighters
EXCITING CLASH OVER BIGHT OF HELIGOLAND
London, To-day.
THE R.A.F. CARRIED OUT another extensive flight over the Heligoland Bight and North-West Ger- many on Saturday. The Hamburg and Bremen radio station closed down for three hours while Hitler was making his beer-holl speech.
1,
NEEDED TO BE TOLD
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Paris, To-day.
The "Petit Parisien" states, "Hitler laid stress particularly on the "mirage" that the present Germany is able to resist block- ade. Hla underfed, Il-clad liu- teners needed a bit of encourage- ment."
2—Havas.
This time the R.A.F. met with some opposition. Six NANNING
separate attacks were beaten off, and all the
British planes got home safely after complet SITUATION
ing their task.
One Bristol Blenheim bomber was they gained height again and dived- attacked by five Messerschmidt-109 | down again, from both sides. fighters while it was returning from
OBSCURE
Chungking, Yesterday.
the westward
Whether The R.A.F. 'plane, wheeling to the
the Heligoland Bight and the German left and right, fought' them off by Friesian Islands with some very valu-turning its nose towards dach attack-drive of the Japanese from able photographs taken over enemy ling 'plane as it came down. territory.
Despite the superior speed of the enemy fighters and the fact that one machine-gun was practically out of
action, the British 'plane got away.
The enemy were first sighted when the B.A.F. plane was flying In a clear patch of sky at 2,000 feet. The pilot immediately dived his plane towards pea level, te prevent attack from below and of the restrict the movements Germans.
INTO CLOUDBANK
Three minutes after the battle had
started, the British pilot saw a bank of clouds, 3.000 feet above. He de- in them, and take cover cided to roared up towards them in a series of steep right-handed turns.
Nanning has been halted or not cannot yet be ascertain- ed from Chinese field des- patches from South Kwang- si, according to a report here.
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One Chinese field despatch states: One Messerschmidt promptly at-
“ለ Japanese detachment, tacked from above and another from below. Beating them off, the R.A.F.prising Infantry and cavalry units, machine continued up and entered the reached a point west of Funan, south- cloud bank. Here, the Nazis lost con-west of Nanning, on the afternoon of tact and had to abandon the chase.
The RAF. machine returned home, with six bursts of bullets in it, but one Injured. The photographs
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On the way down, one 'plane at- tacked it from above, and the others followed, three on the port side and no the other astern. After this attack, I were intact.
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February 22.
"Chinese forces launched a coun- ter-attack on the following day and pushed the Japanese back towards Nanning."
Another despatch says:-
"The Chinese are preparing to make a counter-attack against a Japanese detachment which reach- ed a point west of Funan on the night of February 22."
Both despatches state that the total Japanese west of strength of the Nanning is approximately 2,000 men. Unless this number is heavily rein- forced, the statements conclude, it would not be strong enough to make thrust to the any further serious west-Reuter.
REPLY TO WISHFUL THINKING
London, To-day,
WORLD SOCIALISTS SUPPORT THE ALLIES
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Brussels, To-day. The first meeting held since the war started, of the executive committee of the "Second International” (80- cialist), a grouping of the larger part of the anti- Fascist and anti-Communist Labour Movement, will con- clude its proceedings to-day.
It is not known whether the, main decisions reached will be published, but considerable interest is attached to them.
It is anticipated that they deal mainly with the world social and economic organisation upon the con- clusion of peace for the present atti- tude of all the leaders of the "Second International” is unconditional sup- port of the bourgeois democracies in authori- their struggle against the tarian regimes.
Camille Huygens, prominent Belgian of city leader and mayor of the
WOS unanimously elected Chairman of the "Second Internation- Antwerp,
al."
Almost all European countries were represented including Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and also countries occupied by Germany: | Austria, Czechoslovakín and Poland.
The British delegation included Mr. P. Noel Baker and Mr. Hugh Dalton, and the French, M. Leon Blum and
Havas. M. Paul Foure.
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AMERICAN COMMENT
ON THE WAR
LONDON, TO-DAY. THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER AP- "MPEMPHIS COMMERCIAL PEAL WRITES ON THE SITUA- TION IN EUROPE: “DON'T WORRY ABOUT GERMANY SWINGING FROM NAZIISM TO COMMUNISM. IT HAS ALREADY OCCURRED, AC- CORDING TO THE HEAD OF THE FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION." The St. Louis-Post Dispatch says:
in is current
economic "A report circles that the only Russian oil that Germany has obtained since the war began is in reality not from the wells of pre-war Russla but from Russian- Occupied Poland, the annual produc- tion of which has been only 450,000 tons.
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The "New York Times," in article by Anne O'Hare McCormick, says: A Hungarian statesman made a "Tribune" remark that the pilgrim in South- The Swiss newspaper says that the arrival in the Near East Eastern Europe heard repeated in on the Anzacs is a striking reply to every capital visited, "East of Ger- the activities of German agents who many the feeling is stronger than have vainly sought to raise the peo-West of Germany that German has ples of the Near and Middle East already lost the war. It is strange that the nations most terrified of the against "ferfidious Albion.”
powers of the Reich are the least im- pressed by the Ides of Germany's in-
Beuter. vincibility.
of the This is another example miscalculation of von Ribbentrop and his associates concerning the disinte gration of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
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U.S. NAVÁL DIVISIÓN IN EUROPE
Cadiz, To-day.
The Budapest paper, Ujsag" in an article entitled: British Imperial Constructive Work in Ara-
A United States Navy division, con- bia," shows the systematic work of
asisting of a cruiser and two destroyers, the last 20 years, the building of network of bases on the fringes of has anchored in the Bay of ・Cadiz. Arabia, facilitating the work of the Their visit will last for 10′′ "days.
Havas. Weygand Army-Reuter.