THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 20, 1940
Decorations For Officers of the R.A.F DARING BERGEN BOMB EXPLOITS
LONDON, TO-DAY.
AWARD OF THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS GERMANY
TO SQUADRON-LEADER GEORGE ERNEST
PEACOCK FOR COURAGE IN LEADING THE INCORRIGIBLE
RAID ON ENEMY WARSHIPS IN BERGEN IS ANNOUNCED IN THE “LONDON GAZETTE.” Similar awards are made to Acting Flight-Lieutenant Ed- gar Norman Ryder, for bringing down a Nazi plane during an enemy raid at sea in the air, and Flying Officer Dereck Jack French and Pilot-Officer William Arthur Mulloy, who successfully attacked a German cruiser in Bergen roadstead.
Mulloy, who was bomb aimer,
secured a direct hit, the "Gazette U.S. SUPPLY
says, while Peacock displayed remark- able courage and determination.
After the original attack by his formation he returned alone and re- peated his run over the target in the face of heavy anti-aircraft fire, and on the return flight to his base he again turned back and shot down an enemy flyingboat into the sea.
INTENSE FIRE
French's and Mulloy's attack on a German cruiser was made in the face of Intense anti-aircraft fire. The operation necessitated more than 1,000 miles of flying over the
sea.
Ryder was ordered to investigate an
enemy raid. He took off alone, shot
down an enemy plane and then was forced to come down in the sea. His plane sank and Ryder, when at con- siderable depth; managed to extricate himself and was picked up by a trawler. Reuter.
CLASHES IN
FRANCE
PARIS, TO-DAY.
LAST NIGHT'S FRENCH WAR COMMUNIQUE SAID THERE WERE
OF WAR MATERIALS
WASHINGTON, TO-DAY. EXPORTS OF WAR MATERIALS
IN MARCH AMOUNTED TO $17,500,- 000
THE
SIX AND IN
FIRST MONTHS OF THE YEAR TO $61,000,000.
The March figures include $1,000,000 worth of munitions, mostly planes, to Norway.
Britain and France, which appear- ed to be holding back until they were
permitted to buy new type planes, slacked off sharply, France receiving licenses for only $500,000 and Britain $2,250,000 of war materials,
the This was partly balanced by large totals for which licenses were granted to the Dominions, particular- ly Canada, whose March licenses were valued at $15,750,000, almost entirely aeroplanes.
Australia's licenses totalled $1,800,- 000 and New Zealand nearly $2,000,- 000.-Reuter.
New York, To-day. Germany is making a big effort to prevent from utilising Norwegian ships at present States ports.
UNANIMOUS VOTE FOR
M. REYNAUD
Paris, Tosday. The Chamber of Deputies yes. terday passed a unanimous vote. of confidence in the Government.
The motion gives unqualified support to the Government and states the Chamber approves the Government's declaration and trusts it to continue to victory the war policy which has always ob- tained the approval of Parlia ment-Reuter.
agents in the United States asking the Allies for the names of ships in Californian
ports and requesting that they in United main in neutral ports until the con- !
Georg Gyssling, the German consul, acting on instructions from Germany, has written to Norwegian shipping
re-
clusion of the fighting in Scandinavia.
These representatives have made. no comment but it is indicated they know no legal reason why they should supply the information.-Reuter.
HOW ALLIES SAVED BALKANS FROM INVASION
Stockholm, To-day.
THE "SOCIAL DEMOKRATEN" points out that an imme- diate German victory in Norway would have affected the Balkans, which would have surrendered to German pressure.
The
Anglo-German war in Scandinavia will influence the attitude of the Balkans and Italy, and perhaps Russia as well.
The Italian tone towards the Allies sharpened the prospect of a division of the Allied Fleet and a weakening of the Allied position in the Mediterranean, but it is already clear that the Allies do not intend to divide their forces as Italy hoped, and since the German action in Norway was not so successful as expected, the situation must give rise to consideration in Italy.
American reaction to the German]gained by the offensive in Scan- There were artillery actions in the invasion is absolutely clear. The dinavia,” Blies district.
latest American aircraft will be de- Our fighters engaged enemy recon-livered to the Allies without objection SHARP ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN naissance aircraft and brought down
in any quarters. FRENCH AND GERMAN RECON- one in our lines and forced down ap- NAISSANCE PARTIES TO THE other out of control behind the enemy EAST OF THE MOSELLE AND IN lines. All our aeroplanes returned to THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BLIES.'their bases.-Reuter.
COMMAND OF NARVIK, The "Gothenburg Ny Tid" says: "The news from Norway but tends to show that the English command Nar- vik. It is clear the Allies will not allow the Germans to dig themselves
A more active American foreign policy cannot be expected before the presidential election but all the in."
Allies require T's that deliveries of The "Goteborg Handels Tidning" material. continue.
says: "It is the Germans' own fault if "Summing up impressions in vari-every one of, the English reports show ous quarters of the world, it is diffl-why one can't trust German reports." cult to see what the Third Reich has Reuter.
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