THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 27, 1940
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Belgian civilians being evacuated. (Copyright, Fox).
MEDITERRANEAN TENSION HITTING FAR EAST TRADE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Shanghai, To-day. THE MEDITERRANEAN tension is proving un- favourable to Far Eastern trade with Europe, most of which formerly took the Suez route. British, Dutch and most French ships recently aban- doned that route altogether, while Italian lines have substantially reduced their sailings. From the Chinese standpoint this is extremely regrettable, since beside Soviet Russia, the North African coun- tries form major customers for China's tea.
Access to these markets now be- comes more difficult than ever, at the very start of the 1940 tea export season.
Generally speaking, the recent war developments tend to reduce further Europe's importance in Shanghai's foreign trade.
Instead, the share of inter-Asiatic
and trans-Pacific commerce in Shang- hal's trade will increase further. Havas.
FIGHTERS TACKLED
IN MASS
London, To-day.
72 JAPANESE PLANES RAID SZECHUEN
Chungking, To-day. Two Japanese planes, a heavy bomber and a fighter, were shot down over Chung- king yesterday afternoon in a furious air battle in which the enemy amassed 72 ma- chines the heaviest con- centration fielded by the Jap- anese since the start of the present "bombing season."
Kao Yu-sing, pilot and machine- gunner, was the hero of the day. He accounted for one of the Japanese raiders after a duél in which his
chine-gun fire.-
After yesterday's air bat-own machine was riddled by 'tles, a Squadron Leader spoke of encountering large masses of Messerschmidt 109s.
ma-
in a streak of flame over Siaokwan- yingchiao, forty "kilometres southeast of Chungking,
The enemy machine was sent down
One formation of Junker 88s was trying to bomb ships when a Spitfire
The other machine, a heavy bom- squadron approached. Five Messer-ber, was shot down above the Chien schmidt 110 twin-engined fighters, pro- tecting the bombers, were put out of action and one bomber was destroyed.
This brought the squadron's bag of enemy aircraft since Friday morning to 32.
Twenty Messerschmidt 110s were surprised 17,000 feet over Calais ap- proaching from the sun.
The British fighters broke up the defensive circles the Nazi fighters tried to form.
The Messerschmidts twisted and turned in efforts to manoeuvre into a more favourable position but the Bri- tish fighters put five out of action.
“An hour and half later, the same squadron destroyed five more Mes- serschmidts, damaged, another five and brought down an tion, aircraft.
River, by cross fire Chinese pursuits.
from several
During the Japanese raid, scores. of bombs were dumped on the suburbs of
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Bauer in the morning, some Japanese planes in sévéralTM groups raided various places in Szechwan, including Hokiang, Yungchuan and Chikiang-Central News.
The first meeting of the Council of the Anti-Tuberculosis Association is to pe held in the Legislative Council Chamber on Monday of next week at b.15 p.m.
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