HOW BRITAIN FACES UP TO NAZI BOMBING RAIDS
ITALIANS TRY TO RAID ADEN
An Italian air raid on Aden yesterday oftemoon was direct- ed chiefly against shipping in the har- bour.
One merchant ship received superficial damage and one In- dian member of the crew was killed.
There were no other casualties or damage as the result of the raid.-Reuter.
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CAR STOLEN FROM GARAGE
Between midnight on Friday and 8 a.m. on Saturday,
LOCALITIES IN BRITAIN which have had enemy air raids are still quite a small part of the whole country but in the regions most frequently mentioned in Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security announcements there are a few places where, during the last six weeks, siren warnings, the drone of engines, gunfire and occasional bombs have become very familiar.
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 29, 1940.
SHANGHAI RUSH TO
JOIN ARMY
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") The British recruiting authori- ties in Shanghai will be unable to interview any more applicants for enlistment in the Army R.A.F. until Monday, August 5, it was announced in the northern port yesterday.
or
It is understood the decision is due to the fine response of China Britons who volunteered the recruiting scheme was
The decision augurated.
not apply to recruiting for Royal Navy-Havas.
since
in- does the
Mrs. V. Tkachenko, of No. 3, Hankow Road, has reported the
theft of a canvas car. cover from
a motor truck
parked outside!
Experience in these areas of the people's calm-the premises yesterday. ness, patience, irrepressible good humour and kind- liness to one another leaves no doubt how the rest of Britain will behave when its turn comes, or how the nation as a whole will stand up to the air men-
ace.
shelters something exchange the more successful "artistes" whose "appearance" is prospective
Wherever Hitler's "travellers" have called with samples of the luftwaffe's might and menace, the determination to liberute the duly "billed" the previous day. world from domination by ter- Such is the resilence of spirit rorism may be a little more grim with which the enemy's raids on than elsewhere but there is noj Britain have been met so far.
British Wireless. despondency.
The inhabitants are showing: great adaptability and ingenuity in overcoming the inconveniences and disturbances of normal routine caused by the regularly repeated warnings and raids.
SOVIET
To avoid fatigue due to inter- FLEET
rupted rest many people have changed
their
sleeping hours.
Others sleep in their shelters.
Common Shelters
EXPANSION
SOVIET RUSSIA HAS BEEN
somel In many streets of small houses, ENGAGED IN A LARGE-SCALE person gained entrance to the common shelters have been erect- EXPANSION OF HER FLEET, garage of No. 23, Blue Pool Roaded by the authorities and where and stole a car, No. 6071, longing to Mr. A. Evans.
A WRITER IN THE is SOVIET NEWSPAPER "IZVES-
be-warnings are of almost nightly SAYS
occurrence, neighbourliness joined by something of a picnic TIA." spirit.
Mr. W. Wallace, between 8 p.m. and midnight on Saturday, from either lost, or had stolen him, a gold packet-watch, valued at $85, in the Wanchai district.
ANNOUNCING
THE
ARRIVAL
OF
NEW SUPPLIES
OF
DAKS
Shipbuilding for the navy dur- Wives take it in. turn to pro-
greater 'vide hot drinks. Men arrangeing 1939 was five times games, and concerts are provid-than it was at the peak of the ed by young people. Adjacent second Five-Year Plan, and, ac- cording to the writer, they are "first-class ships."
THE PRINCE-
"They will protect the peace- ful workers of the U.S:S.R.," he says, and continues that they are "ready to strike a decisive blow at the enemy.'
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OF SLACKS He did not indicate who the
FOR MEN
THERE IS NOTHING SO PRACTICAL AND COM- FORTABLE IN THE WEARING
"enemy" was. -- Havas.
SHANGHAI SUFFERS
.' (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Following the closure of the
shipping supply
the routes to
NATURAL
as near to Naturė as is desirable are Sir William Crookes' lenses.
Something to offset 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.
OPTICIANDO
STOP PRESS
YACHTING
Chungking Government along THRILLS
the Chekiang and Fukien coasts, the arrival of supplies in Shang- hai in small coastal vessels from Wenchow, Ningpo and
Foochow
Two owners of motor-
has been considerably curtailed yachts had exciting ex- Farms products, instead of being periences in the typhoon! sent to regular shipping ports such "blow" yesterday.
as Ningpo and Wenchow, are sent Mr. T. P. Tong, of the Hong elsewhere and are trans-shipped Kong and Shanghai Bank, had to Shanghai. Merchandise is now considerable difficulty in fighting arriving from Shantung ports in-his way through Lycemun Pass in stead of from Ningpo.
the teeth of the high wind, and Chickens, melons etc. are now eventually reached safety,
Mr. A. D. Coppin, the well- AS DAKS brought to Shanghai from down-
The prefix "Spealal to telegrams 18 river ports.-Havas.
known, broker, who was accom- panied by Mr. Mody, was also try-used by the "Sunday Herald" and ing to battle against the gale when China Mail", to indicato nows which is strictly copyright under the provi- the motor of his craft broke down.alons of the Telecommunications Or They took refuge in a bay outside dinance, 1936, and may not be reprint- Lyeemun and were rescued by aled
any circumstances, either boat from A King Slipway in the wholly or in part, without prior ar early hours of this morning..
THEY GIVE THE MAXI-2 MUM OF EASE AS ALSO OF PRIDE IN THEIR POSSESSION. CUT & FASHIONED FROM SUPERB MATERIALS, WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE NOW, ABLE TO SUP-M
OF FABRICS. IN GREY, BROWN, FAWN AND GREEN, FLANNELS, GABARDINE, CRASH, CORDUROY AND TROPI CAL WORSTEDS.
NISHIHARA RECALLED
PLY THESE IN ALL Major-General "Nishihara, head SIZES & IN A VARIETY of the Japanese' Inspectorate sent to Indo-China to supervise the French undertaking to stop sup- plies to General Chiang Kai-shek, has been recalled to Japan be cause his attitude was "too con- ciliatory," according to a report received this morning in Shang- jhai from Hanoi.
IN A FULL RANGE OF SIZĖS
WE ADVISE AN EARLY VISIT
WILLIAM POWELL, LTD.
10, ICE HOUSE STREET
The report adds the Japanese Government will send else.in his place-Reuter.
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