SHARP ALONG
Britain's
STINGS
A
THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 3, 1940
READY
SUNNY
DAY AND NIGHT
Coast Defence SHELLING
A HIDDEN HAIL of fire awaits invaders of England, writes Reuter's special còrrespon- dent who visited the Southern Command yesterday.
Looked at from the sea the foreshore looks still what it was, a sunny lido with hills on both sides and woodland beyond.
MYSTERIOUS BOX FOUND
was of
Rolled barbed wire is the only! snag an invader would see, but rifle and machine-gun marksmen would be at concealed posts the moment the alarm came and there' is a series of the most ingenious-
An unlocked strong box
feld ly concealed and camouflaged ound on the football
de Recreio, King's pill-boxes to be found anyhere the Club
Park, yesterday, and taken to the' Yaumati Police Station. The box had apparently been forced open, Narrow roads leading to the and inside was a bottle of tablets, country through which an in-
a blank cartridge, and a visiting vader might spread out to capcard with the name,
"Madame ture the two main cities would be under fire and flame.
in Britain.
The further
west an
encing
lands the more treacherous the
roads become,
getting narrowe
and steeper every few miles.
Moors Patrolled
Widmer Drouth.".
THREAT
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA,MAIL")
German long-range guns along the coast of France will swing into action in the near future as the drive against Britain gets into full swing, according to Berlin official circles.
These guns have so for fired only test shots, say these same circles, but once they begin they will keep it up "night and day, like the present air raids."-Havas.
GERMANS TURN IN
PELL-MELL FLIGHT
I
Expert horsemen enrolled in (Continued from Page 1) the Home Guard patrol the moors by A.A. fire. after dark, astride ponies on the] Seven of our fighters had been look-out for parachutists.
lost at this time, but four of be the pilots were known to and safe.
workers as usual and many
mako decided to
for home while the raid was still in pro-i gress.. Some, streets,
und
walking along the Counter - bombardment
as British gazed up close defence both from fron- The second air raid warning fighters passed overhead, tal attack by sea and from in- in the London ares lasted 86] then went on their way reassured land is well provided for.
minutes.
Three of a formation of about · Sight Of Century ! There is every hope that a 40 German bombers were shot drive across England from the down by A.A. fire within two Thousands last evening watch- west and south-west, should a minutes over the outskirts of ed what one of many Empire landing be made, would be soon the London area last evening. localised, Reuter.
Buses and traffic carried
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soldiers among them described on as the "sight of the century"
German raiders fleeing pell-mell before the defences of London.
All day long, from the time, of the city's first" warningsjat 7 a.m., the German Bale force had tried to attack: time and time again they were flung back, and before London's sirens had walled for the se cond time 25 rälders had been shot down,
Then, at 3.25 p.m., raiders ap- peared to approach from two} directions.
Masses of German 'planes. ran into one of the most tremen- dous anti-aircraft- barrages watchers had ever seen, and concentrations of R.A.F. fighters hurtled down among the raiders: already scattered by A.A, shells.
Fled Madly
The Germans fled madly and the all clear sounded at 4.50 p.m.) as Spitfires. were seen flying över having, with their colleagues. once more cleared London's skies,
About 70 raiders in three formations twice tried to break through over one dis. trict alone but A.A. gunners blew two to bits in mid-air. When another formation twice: attempted to pierce the defences at one south-eastern district, Dornier bomber and a Messersch- midt crashed flaming into felds two miles apart.
The AirMinistry, announcing that 26 enemy aircraft. were shot down up to 5.30 p.m. yesterday, says that during the year our fighters have shot down 1,752 enemy 'planes while A.A. guns accounted for 198.--Reuter.
Fighters In Walt
LIDO
STOP PRESS
A China National Aviation Corporation 'plane is reported to have made forced land- ing at Ngaushiwan yesterday morning. The report stated that the pilot was forced to land beyond the aerodrome. The pilot, it was added was hurt and the machine damag- ed.
An official of the C.N.A.C. at Kai Tak, told the "China was "no Mail" that there accident" and that the ma- chine "only landed near the fence surrounding the nero- drome."
"No one was hurt," he added.
squadron
whose
at
Hurricane pilots saw :29 Dornier bombers. coming
the Estuary up 15,000 feet with Messerschmidt 110 fighter-bombers stepped up above them to 20,000 feet.
Sent Crashing Before the Messerschmidt could had arrive one of the bombers
one to crash on the aerodrome which it had been sent to attack. Spitfire pilots who watched
after thej.
The cholera outbreak in Kowloon continues of serious dimensions. During the three days ended at midnight, 19. fresh cases were reported from Kowloon. There were also two cholera cases in Victoria and one each from the New Territories and the harbour.
Over one hundred German bombers and fighters · tried to AA guns driving back the bom break through the Thames Estu- oer formation went ary defences between eight and protecting Messerschmidts 109. nine o'clock in the morning, de One crashed and another burst The prefix "Special, to ‘telegrama
Once again Fighter Command into flames.
pilots waiting for the raiders in Other Spitfires did not their Spitfires and Hurricanes for the enemy to arrive. could see the discouraging effect went over to Franen from of anti-aircraft fire on the enemy, Kent coast and destroyed The pilots of a Spitfire squadron Messerschmidts 109.", reported that a bomber forma tion heading up river was turned back by the intense anti-aircraft barrage. Some of the raiders came in by the Estuary, others crossed from the Bouth Kent coast.
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On the way back one Spitfire rangement. pilot became roparated from. his squadron, Seeing 60-Dor- nlore 17 and
1
Messerschmitta
Ithout."
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