THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 13, 1940
R.A.F. HITS BACK OVER WIDE AREA: OIL PLANT GOES UP
BRITISH OFFICER KILLED ON N.W. FRONTIER
It was officially an- nounced in Simla yes- terday that Captain H. L. V. Russell and one Indian other rank were killed and 14 In- dian other ranks wounded and one missing in a recent en- gagement with hostile tribes on the Bannu- Miranshah road, on the North-West Fron-
· tier.
The engagement took place last Wednesday in the vil- lage of Tappi. The enemy are believed to have lost five killed and seven wounded.
-Reuter.
NINETEEN FOREIGNERS UNDER ARREST
AN AIR MINISTRY communique issued in London last night states that high-level bombing of enemy aerodromes was carried out on Sunday, when the enemy occupied aerodromes at Dinard and Caen were attack-
ed and a seaplane slipway at Brest damaged; Guernsey airport was again bombed.
A Coastal Command aircraft while on re-
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WORK AT WAR SPEED
Mr. Herbert Morrison the Minister of Supply at work in his office. (Copyright, Fax)..
VOLUNTEER
connaissance off the French coast shot down INJURED
an enemy fighter into the sea.
Another member of the M.M.G. Company of the Volunteers, G.
Oil was again the main objective of our Knight, was injured in an accident bomber aircraft in night raids. The synthetic oil plant at Dortmund blew up with a violent explosion and the plant at Castrop Rauxel was fired on.
Planst at Gelsenkirchen, Wan- ne-Eickel were also heavily at- lacked. Other aircraft attacked the oil depot at Cherbourg where tanks were set on fire.
Military objectives in Duessel- dorf, Wanne-Eickel, Hattingen and Dortmund were also attacked, and Hamme and Soest received their usual visit.
A number of enemy planes were also bombed. In all these operations three of our aircraft were lost.
B.B.C.
MALTESE
BROADCAST
IN
MOTHER OF FOUR KILLED IN REVOLVER ACCIDENT
a
A firearm accident during yesterday.
family reunion caused the death He was taken to the Kowloon of the mother of four children. Hospital suffering from multiple Mr. Joseph Machin, of Thickét injuries and abrasions after a col-Avenue, Fishponds, Bristol, was ision between his motor-cycle and examining his soldier brother's car No. 1235, at the corner of Na-revolver when it went off. than Road and Prince Edward The bullet struck Mrs. Machin, Road.
who was aged thirty-seven. .Both vehicles were damaged, Mr. Machin's brother Leonard but the driver
He was of the car, Chaul was home on leave. Sau-kan, was unhurt.
about to go when Mrs. Machin (came in.
RECOGNITION OF ABSORPTION INVITED
During the conversation, Mu
asked Machin's son, aged nine,
what was under his uncle's coat. Mr.. Machin then took up the re- volver to find its weight, and there was a sudden flash.
BRITISH CHILDREN
IN NEW YORK.
The four children are twin girls The Foreign Affairs Commis-aged twelve and two boys-aged- sariat in Moscow has sent a Note nine and four. THE FIRST B.B.C. BROAD-to foreign Embassies and Lega- CAST
MALTESE HAS tions asking them to arrange to DRAWN A WARM RECEPTION close all diplomatic and consular FROM THE PEOPLE OF THAT establishments in the Baltic ISLAND.
States by August 25. This fol- The "Times of Malta," com-lows the incorporation of Lithu- The crew of an R.A.F. aircraft menting on the pure
A British liner arrived in New form ofania, Latvia and Estonia in the York yesterday with 162 which bombed the Heesch benzine Maltese used in
British the broadcast, Soviet Union, Reuter.
children on board.-Reuter. and synthetic oil plant at Dort-points out that Maltese is not a mund reported on returning that form of Italian, as Rome. would they had witnessed an exception- like to make it.
Violent Explosion
Jally violent explosion, states
Air Ministry news service.
the
An early raider at midnight| [dropped four bombs on the
oil
It is the language of the Phoenecians and of Carthage and ranks with Hindustan)...as, one of the oldest languages in the British Empire.
plant and a big blue flash follow-| ed. There was a violent explo-
It is over 3,000 years old and sion and even though they were has resisted the onslaughts flying at several thousand feet the lianisation.-Reuter.
Nineteen foreigners have crew of the bomber could hear it Jabove the roar of the engines been arrested in Man-which usually drowns the noise
(of explosions. chukuo since July on а A large fire followed the ex-i charge of engaging in plosion.
the Klockner Wintershall oil
of Ita-
AUSTRALIAN
MANOEUVRES
"malicious propaganda Krupps Again against Japan," according A half hour attack just before to a semi-official Japan-midnight by several bombers left ese sources in Tokyo to-plant at Castrop-Rauxel burning 'ONE THOUSAND AUSTRA. day.
briskly, while another section of LIAN TROOPS HAVE BEGUN A "HIKE" ACROSS The arrests are being continued, raiders in the early hours yester-100-MILES
MOUNTAINS ΤΟ the same sources state, adding that day severely damaged the Krupp THE BLUE
Triebstoffewerke at Wanne Eickel BATHURST, NEW SOUTH the majority of the foreigners re- ceived broadcasts from New York causing widespread fires, repeated WALES. or Moscow on short-wave radios, explosions and dense clouds
the contents of which "were anti- Japanese.
Nationalities of the arrested persons are not revealed.-Reuter.
GRENADA'S WAR GRANT
A special session of the Legis-
thick black smoke.
of They are wearing full service, kit and will carry, out -intensive:
- At Gelsenkirchen over 60 training en route, including train- heavy bombs and many incen-jing against dive-bombing attacks | diaries were dropped on the carried out by the Royal Austra-į Gelsenberg Benzine Company's lian Air Force..
explosions were caused.
oll plant and here too fires and Further batches of 1,000 will
follow at two-day intervals.-— The pilot of an aircraft which Reuter. attacked Dortmund electricity power station near Herecke four bombs hit the buildings and Ja vivid blue flash follow.
Another electric power station
saw
lative Council of Grenada yester was bombed at Hattingen, wherel day unanimously voted a grant of three fires were started. £15,000 to the British Govern-
ment "as a token of the Colony's Daylight Raids
earnest desire to assist in thef
common cause of prosecuting to a Accurate bombing from high victorious conclusion the war altitudes was a feature of the day- which is being waged for the pre-light raids by medium bombers. servation of those principles of
*** The Blue Mountains are co- vered with eucalyptus trees. The highest peak is 4,100 feet, the average being about the] size of Talmoshan.
"BOMBS
of Guernsey airport was bombed WELCOMED
humanity, liberty and freedom for the third day running. held dear by all people of the The aerodrome and seaplane Colonial Empire.”—British Wire-base at Brest were successfully less.
bombed.
MISSING BARONET IS a building was hit with high ex-
HERE"
Fires were causedˇnt Dinard aerodrome and at Caen aerodrome THE OTHER DAY, FOUR NAZI BOMBS FELL ON A CRICKET" plosives.-Reuter.
GROUND ́"SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH EASTCENGLAND.” THE; |FOLLOWING NOTICE NOW AP-
PEARS ON THE GATES:—
A PRISONER OF WAR many. He is well.
Sir Peter, who is twenty-six, is "Local cricketers are as pleased News has been received at his a stockbroker, and son of the late as" you. Each '"peur-dróp" which] home at Marden Park, Wolding- Sir Bernard Greenwell. He was falls on this ground saved lives} ham, Surrey, that Captain Sir married in February to Miss and property. Peter Greenwell, Bart., Röyal Henrietta Halg-Thomas second]""We shall carry on. · Nothing Artillery/reported missing on May daughter of Mr. and Lady Alexan- which falls from the skies will 23, is a prisoner of war in Ger-'dra Haig-Thomas,
|detoruus-Sexcept rain."--Reuter.}}|
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