NAZI BOMBING
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 19, 1940
RAIDS
Heinkels Resume Extensive Visitations
NO TALK: Little Damage MAYOR FU TAKES
DEEDS
THE REAPPEARANCE OF PRINCE KONOYE AS
PRIME MINISTER AND THE APPOINT- MENT OF MR. MATSUOKA AS FOREIGN MINISTER IS INTER- PRETED IN CHINESE CIRCLES IN CHUNGKING AS MEANING
FASCIST.
JAPAN IS DIFINITELY GOING In the meantime, the indepen- dent newspaper Ta-Kung Pao" calls on the United States to emerge as the stabilising force in
the Pacific, and declares the
slightest weakness on the part of the U.S.A. will encourage Japan's expansion southwards, thereby disturbing the peace of the Pacific. --Reuter.
Matsuoka Dictum
Kown as a hater of red tape and Foreign Minister, Mr. Matsuoka, says he is "through with talking."
bureaucracy, the new Japanese]
"Henceforth," he added, "I am for no talk and all deeds."
And Few Casualties
NO ACTION
(Special to "China Mail”) The Shanghai Consular Body has not received official notifica- tion from Mayor Fu Snio-en in connexion with the Nanking govTM| ernment's order for the deportu-
nected with the press. The for-
Powell, C. V. Starr, Randall Gould,
A MINISTRY OF Home Security com-ion of seven local foreigners con- munique issued in London last night stated eigners are N. F. Allman, J. B. enemy aircraft crossed the north-east coast of S. Bates, Hal Mills and Caroli Scotland in the morning and bombs were dropped near the coast.
|Alcott.-Havas.
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Some casualties Labour, had audience of the King
were caused, one of which was fatal.
Some bombs were also dropped at one] point in South Wales but nobody was serious- ly injured. Enemy aircraft dropped a few bombs during the afternoon in the southern and south-western districts of England and Wales. No serious damage was caused.
They all
Mr. Matsuoka, who is 60, is a There was a small number of ren had been taken to shelter in former chairman of the South casualties in a south-western an inner room and apart from Manchuria Railway Company. He coastal town of which one proved shock were uninjured. also spent 17 years in the Diplo-fatal.
behaved splendidly. matic Service and gained great An enemy plane machine. prominence by his conduct of Ja-
gunned a cottage in north-east) pan's case at Geneva when the England. League dealt with the Sino-Ja- panese dispute.--Reuter.
NEW RAILWAY BRANCH LINE OPENED
In The South-West
Two enemy planes are thought A solitary Nazi plane dropped to have been lost over south-two bombs in flelds near the resi- east England one was shot dential quarter of a south-west after- down during an unsuccessful at- England town yesterday tack on a small steamer off the noon.
home.
coast and the other was so dam- Several houses were damaged aged over another town as to and there were some casualties, appear incapable of reaching including a man in a field who was killed instantly and a few people seriously injured. A num- ber of cattle were also killed.
Enemy planes were reported south-west England last
Children Treated
(Special to "China Mall”) The Nankow - Chinglungchiao section of the Pelping-Paotow Only four schoolchildren were over Railway was inaugurated yester-treated for cuts at a first aid evening.-Reuter. day in an official ceremony at-(shelter during the raids on Wales: tended by many Chinese and Ja- yesterday. panese officials, including repre- Four very heavy bombs felf
⚫sentatives from Peiping and Kal-
gan. Construction of this section of the line. started last January and was completed last month, costing $4,500,000. The work was carried out by the North China Communications Co. Havas.
Attack On Convoy
In the front and back garden Enemy 'planes raided various of a group of houses round the parts of Britain yesterday. In the school. Part of the front room morning, enemy aircraft crossed of the schoolhouse caved in the north-east coast of Scotland, coast. and a big hole was ripped in dropping bombs, near the
There were some, casualties, one the roof. Before the explosion the child- of. which was fatal.
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Bombs were also dropped at one point in south-west Wales, but no one was seriously injured.
One raider is reported unof- ficially to have been shot down when enemy 'planes dive-attack- ed several ships off the south-east coast. So far as is known,, no ships were hit-Reuter.
ENGLAND LEFT EMPTY-HANDED
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come to with reluciance and in view of the possible far-reaching consequences from it."
The Premier declined to add to his carefully considered statement when other members raised the Nine-Power treaty.
Belisha Question
Finally, Mr. Hore-Belisha asked. "Is the Prime Minister satisfied that the concession made to Ja- Ipan will, in fact, secure the good- will of that country towards this country and has the Government operated throughout in consulta- in tion and as far as possible. agreement with the United States and the Soviet Government?"
The Prime Minister replied: "I can give no assurance. All that has happened to us in the Far East is probably to be very much in- fluenced by what is happening, to us here Naturally we have made sure that what we have done has not been done without taking into full consideration the attitude of the two very great powers men- tioned."British, Wireless. ..
AMERICAN STAND ON
BURMA ROAD (Special to "China - Mall””) The Sino-American Cultural Committee In-Chungking has wired Mr. Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, its thanks for the American stand on the. Burma road problem and baking the U.S. Government to enforce a com- plete embargo on war materials] to Japan.Havas,k
Mr. Ernest Bevin, Minister of
at Buckingham Palace last even- ing.-British Wireless.
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BOPTICIANDOS
STOP PRESS
When the Democratic Con- vention opened at Chicago yesterday word went round that President Roosevelt had informed his leaders that unless Mr. 'Henry Wallace was nominated for the vice-pres- dency he will not accept the presidential re-nomination. A brief but noisy reception was given President and Mrs, Roosevelt when they arrived accompanied by their sons Elliott and Franklin, Serious- ness of the conflict over Mr. Wallace's nomination is re-. flected in Senator Pepper's comment to reporters. This may be an indirect stop to the Roosevelt fight." In the galleries it was sensed that a dramatic struggle was in pro- gress, with Senator Bankhead Mr. Wallace's chief op- ponent.
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- Reuter.
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