THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 9, 1940
CROWDS ON CLIFFS SEE CONVOY BOMBED
NATURAL
as near to Nature as is desirable are Sir William Crookes' lenses.
Thrilling Spectacle For Channel Watchers Something to offset
TURKEY GROWS ANXIOUS
Huge Cascades ITALIAN
But No Hits
Crowds on the cliffs in the South of England
PIPELINE CUT
British patrols in the Western cut the pipe-line
yesterday afternoon watched German Desert have Italian frontier bombers in force atack a convoy in the leading to the Channel.
Before sailing from Is- Numerous bombs were dropped but all fell tanbul yesterday morn- wide sending up huge cascades of water.
ing, en route for Moscow, At least one German plane was; M. Terentiev, the Soviet seen to fall into the sea after the Ambassador, conferred for pilot had escaped by parachute. It is believed. two other planes) over an hour with
von were brought down, one in flames. Papen, the German Am- bassador.
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A lively barrage was put up by the ships' A.A. guns, com- pelling the bombers to with- draw.
Political circles in Turkey at- tach considerable importance
on the Spitfires were quickly the meeting.
Papen has scene and attacked the bombers' curtailed his stay at the Bosphorus escort of Messerschmidts and split summer resort and was to return the large enemy formation up to Ankara last night.
into twos and threes.
Some observers In Istanbul; Machine gun bullets fell in the are apprehensive at M. Teren- streets of a neighbouring town tiev's unexpected departure for and people an for shelter. Moscow as they fear that pub Reuter.
lication of the German White
Book, alleging Turkey had connived in an eventual Allled
Two More Victims
attack on the Russian oilfields Two Messerschmidt fighters are in Trans-Caucasia, may Impair believed to have been shot down the friendly relations between in Turkey and Russia.
made bombing attacks on two coastal towns yesterday mor- ning.
aircraft and A.A. guns went into action. enemy. bombers were down by aircraft.
Fighter
Two shot
Enemy attacks caused some damage and a few casualties in a town in the West of England.
Bombs were also dropped on a town on the East Coast of England but little damage. and no casualties are report- ed from this quarter.-Reu- ter..
FRENCH
EMBASSY
between air battle another German and British fighters over
day afternoon. Reuter.
It is emphasised in Istanbul South-East England late yester- that Turkey has scrupulously ab- stained from fostering any anti- Soviet action.-Reuter.
BOUND OVER
Towns Bombed
An Air Ministry and Min-
Li Hing, 50, was bound over istry of Home Security com- for one year at the Central Ma-
gistracy this morning, when
of
charged with possession of 50 nedy Road yesterday. catties of Dioscorea Rhipogonides! Mr. I. P. Tamworth, roots at Garden Road near Ken-Forestry Department, prosecuted.
the
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munique says enemy aircraft French, charge d'affaires called at the Foreign Office in London yester- day and confirmed the withdrawal of the French Embassy from London to France.
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The British Government will reply to the French communica- tion and, pending the French Gov- Jernment's consideration of the re- ply, the exact position regarding relations between the British and French Governments has yet to be clarified.
For practical. reasons it is be- the lleved the departure of French Embassy is not likely to be immediate. Authoritative British
post of Capuzzo.
Another foray resulted in the capture of a large quantity of war anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns,
material, including 60 brand-new 4,000,000 rounds of ammunition,
and a lot of optical instruments. -Reuter...
the harmful glare is necessary but you don't have to have the whole landscape darkened like a rainy day to do that.
Wear Crookes and know what real eye- comfort means.
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Tung Shun-piao, a well- known accountant, was shot and killed in Rue Lafayette, French Concession, in Shang- hai yesterday.
It is believed that the kill- ing was a mistake, as the as- sassin took Mr. Tung for Mr. Tao Lo-chin, secretary of the Chinese Ratepayers Associa- tion of the International Set- tlement, whose name is in the "black list" recently pu- blished by the Wang Ching- wei regime. Tung and Tao lived in the same house.
Thé assassin, Wei Kao- wounded by po- licemen and arrested.--Cen- tral News.
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cessary to take such a step.-Reu- tween Hong Kong and Bangkok and there is a
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Colony on Thursday via Durban.
The Bangkok service is resum- ing to-morrow, when a plane will leave connecting with the Aus- tralian mail.
To-morrow's inward service
Five people killed in will bring mails from Malaya anc
Sunday night's raid on a Australia.
On Thursday, another plane] town in South-West Eng-will arrive from Bangkok, with land were members of one mails from South Africa, via Dur- ban. It is not certain whether family.
the planě leaving Durban had A woman of 60, released from picked up mails from the UK by the debris of her house after six the new route, but the local office hours, was found to be suffering of Imperial Airways considers only from slight grazes and shock. that this is possible, Her son, buried for four hours, was uninjured.
child was A two-month-old rescued from the debris of an- other house, unhurt.
The plane which caused the damage had twice previously beer driven off after it had dropped bombs and was pursued by Bri- tish fighters-Reuter
MECHANISED UNITS BATTLE IN DESERT
FOUR INCHES OF RAIN LAST NIGHT
The Royal Observatory reports hat the typhoon is, filling up about 200 miles to the north-west of Hong Kong, and the Pacific typhoon is situated about 250 miles north of Yap, moving north- [west, zak
The prefix Special to: telegrams Is Jured by the Sunday Herald and
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The cyclone to the gust of China Mail to indicate nowe which strictly copyright under the prov)- Two Communiques Japan hus increased in Intensity sions of the Telecommunications Cr- ..A communique issued in Nairobi Last night's torrential down- dance, 1938, and may not be re- any. circumstances, yesterday stated all was quiet pour produced a further 4.10 printed under
for either wholly or in part, without prior. Our aircraft were active during inches of rain, and the total
arrangement. the dayReuteri
the year is now 78.25 inches,
A British war communique issued
The body of a new born in- in Cairo, yesterday stated that in
Printed and Published for the the eastern Desert, Mersa Matruhfant was found wrapped in news- was again bombed. There were paper in Connaught Road Central Proprietors, The Newspaper Enter- no casualties and no damage.to-day near the Vehicular Ferry, prise Ltd., by GORDON CADE
Vie On other fronts there is nothing It has been removed to the Pub- BURNETT, Windsor House,
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torla, Hong Kong,
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