THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 8, 1940.
SYSTEMATIC RAIDS ON GERMAN FORCES DISCLOSURES
R.A.F. Active SIR STAFFORD Over Front Area HAS ALARMING
Of New Battle
LONDON, TO-DAY.
THAT AN AIR MINISTRY COM MUNIQUE SAYS
THROUGHOUT THURSDAY, THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY MEDIUM AND HEAVY R. A. F. BOMBERS MADE SUSTAINED ATTACKS ON ENEMY LINES OF COMMUNICATION LEADING TO THE BATTLEFIELD AND OVER A WIDE VARIETY OF TARGETS IN THE FORWARD AREAS IMMEDIATELY BEHIND THE FIGHTING FRONTS.
ADVENTURE
Bucharest, To-day. Cantacuzino, the Rumanian air aco who piloted Sir. Stafford Cripps, new British Ambassador to Russia, from Athens to Sofia, related on arrival here that the plane was struck by lightning! while passing through a severe etorm near Balonica.
The plane was out of control for Stafford a thousand yards; Bir was unhurt-Reuter,
Railheads, railway junctions, bridges, crossroads, GERMAN
troop and tank concentrations and gun posi-
tions have been systematically and repeatedly DISREGARD
Five of our
bombed along the whole front. medium bombers failed to return. Formations of our heavy bombers on Thursday night at- tacked refineries, marshalling yards, lines of com- munication and aerodromes in southern Belgium and north-west Germany. All these aircraft returned safely.
Aircraft of the Coastal Command and Army co-operation units carried out a continuous series of patrols and reconnaissances by sea and land. One of these aircraft was lost!
Our fighters have again, been ac- tive. Fifteen enemy aircraft were destroyed, and four of our fighters are missing.
Principal objectives of Thursday night's R.A.F. raids on German oil supplies were a large storage plant near Delmenhorst and a refinery south of Hamburg.
New Fires Many fires were seen to break out at the refinery following the dropping of about 70 bombs.
A group of oil tanks near Ghent, still burning following the previous day's raid, was again attacked and new fires spread rapidly.
OFFICIAL RATE OF STERLING
FOR HUMANITY
London, To-day.
A naval officer who was
BY NAZI PRISONERS
London, To-day. Analysing the war situa- tion, the Paris correspondent of the "Goteborg Gothandel” says that Nazi prisoners taken imagined the war would be over in a fortnight as they had been told that the English and French were revolting against their Jewish leaders.
They disbelieved us when we said that the Allies were fighting for life... and home and were certain of vic- tory.
The German planes were terrifying at first; the troops are now fighting them.
German losses have been fantastic. One-tenth of the attacking wave come through the lines. The rest, are shot The operation. is repeated with the same results. Those coming through are easily killed. or taken prisoner afterwards..
Whole divisions have been sacrificed
present throughout the eva- for nothing. Reuter. cuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk last night disclosed.
a further example of the ENGLAND AT
Germans' utter disregard for
the common laws of humani-
ty.
He said: "There were many wound- London, To-day.
ed men on the beaches and a signal Reuter learns there has was made stating it was felt hos- been no variation in the offi-pital ships should be sent in daylight
to evacuate them.” cial sterling-dollar rate since the outbreak of war and there is no present intention of changing it.
The sterling-dollar rate in the free market has depreciated considerably, with violent fluctuations.
While the greater proportion of Bri- tish foreign trade is conducted on the
for
A few miles south of Aachen the basis of the official rate, in some parts main line was blocked by the col-British exports are being sold lapse of one end of the tunnel which sterling on the basis of the unreliable was repeatedly hit..
free rate which so widely diverges from the official rate as to render im- ports paid for on this basis relatively too expensive, while exports are be- ing bought too cheaply.
In the western battlefield damage was inflicted on rail communica tions at Hirson, Bethune, Abbeville, Amiens, Arras and Etaples, A convoy near Hedsin was hit. Enemy aerodromes at Norderney
and Arras were raided-Reuter,
The Treasury's policy aims at foreign business being conducted official rates.-Reuter,
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THE
"STAND-TO"
London, To-day. Sir John Anderson, the let one unwounded man go in these Minister for Home Security, ships. It was felt, therefore, that last night broadcast an ap- the enemy would refrain from bombing Red Cross ships.
The officer continued: "Within three hours of the message being sent, Nazi planes came over and bombed and sank a British hospital ship." Reuter.
ON STRETCHER TO WEDDING
peal for
more A.R.Pand Civil Defence volunteers.
The war, he said, is already at our
doors.
To-morrow, it may be in our midst. "For months we have waited on a 'stand-by' basis. Now it is 'stand-to.". At any moment, the civil defence re- 'serves may be called upon to go into 'action,
Lying on a stretcher attended by a
"You must see to it when the call nurse holding a hypodermic syringe
-Reuter, in case she had a relapse, Mrs. Daisy comes that we can go into action at May Abrahams (36) was married at full strength." Banbury Register Office.
She had been brought in an ambul- ance from Horton General Hospital, Banbury, where she is a patient suf-- fering from heart trouble, for her. wedding to Reginald Walter Eborall, 32-year-old Banbury aluminium worker.
Witnesses were the House Governor › of the hospital and the Matron.j The ceremony was curtailed and took only a few minutes.
Among the well-wishers who showered confett!
the three also
happy
little
on
couple word children
who
placed posles of spring flowers on the stretcher as it was carried to the waiting ambulance. ::
Nurses at the hospital greeted the, bride on her return, and in a shower. of rose petals she was carried back to her. bed..
PARIS RAID ALARM (SPECIAL TO “CHINA" MAIL") Paris, To-day.
A short-air raid alarm sounde terday morning bet en 5:20, and 5.50 but no enemy Havas.
lanes, appes
Karla
and to-morrow
(the Queen'