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No. 91,942
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1940-
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LONDON WARNING
Another Night Of Severe Bombardment Expected
Five Alarms During Day
LONDON'S SECOND air raid warning yesterday lasted only 15 minutes and the all clear was given at 3.16 p.m. The third warn- ing in the London area was sounded at 4.25, the all clear went after '18 minutes but an- other warning was given at 4.56 p.m., and a fifth warning at 7.14 p.m.
It is officially stated that at various times during the afternoon a few enemy 'planes; making use of cloud cover,. penetrated the London area.
They were apparently on re- connaissance and no bombs were dropped in this area.
Bombs, however, were dropped | at a few points in Kent and
LONDON DEMANDS REPRISALS
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"We will take all. that Hitler has to offer, so long as the R.A.F. gives Berlin and the rest of Ger- many the same treat- ment" that is the reaction of Londoners to the continued night raids.
Delayed action bombs are still ex- ploding here" and there.
One large fire and several smaller ones are still going fairly strongly, but most of the fires are already either extinguished or well under control. Havas
Sussex and a small number of persons injured.
During the morning several enemy aircraft bombed a town on the coast of East Anglia. Four houses, were, demolished--and--0 smalt number of persons In- jured, some, fatally.
One enemy bomber was sho down by our fighters;
Lone Raider
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KA LONE RAIDER DROPPED À SALVO OF BOMBS |SOUTH-EAST COAST TOWN
YESTERDAY MORNING," AND| THERE WERE SEVERAL CAS- UALTIES.
One bomb fell on an unoccupiec house in a terrace of four, wreck- ing them all; while another fel in the yard of an Auxillary Fir Service station, where, fortunate- ly, no one was hurt.
The other two bombs fell ΟΙ open ground-Reuter.
8TH ROUTE ARMY'S OFFENSIVE
Preparations for coast defence are still going on at high speed, and in the West Country; where this picture was taken, holiday girls are helping the troops to make and erect barbed wire entanglements. {Copyrisht, Fox)."
OFFICIAL POLICY ON EVACUATION
The Colonial ... Secretariat. this morning emphasised that the Em-' ergency Regulations published in the Government Gazölte: of "6th |September, 1940, mean that Gov- (SPECIAL TO "CHINA_MAIL")ernment is determined to imple-
les In the matter: of the evacua“
ment to the fullest possible degre The 8th Route: Army-the instructions received from the the Chinese Communist Secretary of State for the Colon- forces--has put 16 regi-tion of British women and chil ments in action in North dren. ** China against the Japast few weeks been received for */; "Frequent requests have in the panese and has recaptur- the return to the Colony of evacu- ed 46 strategic points, it the Acting Governor wishes to ated women, and His. Excellency was stated in Chungking make it clear that he is only pre- pared to consider the use of his permissive powers in entirely ex- The offensive was launched in ceptional cases,” Appeals on me- forder to prevent the distribution dical grounds or on grounds of of Japanese reinforcements from individual hardship will not gen- Japan and Manchukuo which had erally be considered. arrived to strengthen the positions The question of dealing with in southern Shansi, Hankow and those women and children who,
either by failing to depart inde Hainan.
|pendently, on an agreed date or These troops were to have by other means, evaded the gen been used shortly in a decisive eral evacuation is being actively SHORTLY, THE BWISS'TELE- offensive against. Chungking:34 #OJAPHIO AGENCY STATED] 1-However, the 8th -Route Army YESTERDAY QUOTING THE has created a diversion which, MR. CHURCHILL TO ITALIAN NEWSPAPER RE-Jaccording to Chungking quarters, NGINE FASCISTA?”S
*4. prevents the distribution of the BROADCAST
CANAL ACROSS yesterday NORTH ITALY
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") “A CANAL LINKING: THE "MILAN"REGION STO THE “ADRIATIC:/WILLZSBE BUILTI
The canal, to be known as the newly arrived Japanese troops, et Mussolini → Canal, will start at A Chinese source added that the The Prime Minister, Mr. Win- Cremona" and end at Mantua. It 8th Army Intends by its offensive ston Churchill, will broadcast, at will give Italian coastal and river to save the autum tropa” which} 5«o'clock this afternoon,– G.M.T. shipping, greater · facilities to uso "might otherwisa ¿dostroyed by}=1\ams to-makrow: HK., time.- Tufand? waterways between the the
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NEW ATTACK NEAR ICHANG
THE RIOM MOCKERY TRIAL
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M. Edouard Daladier, M. ¡Paul Reynaud and Gener- al Gamelin are now await- ing trial by the French Supreme Court at Riom and are staying at Chazer- on Castle, a 12th Century structure, near Chatel Guyon, in central France.
The castle rears itself into a series of square. towers, massive and severe. A large dungeon spreads below the bulk of the buildings.
While the building la severa in appearance, it is nothing like prison. Neither of the three men are under surveillance and they are not leading the lives of Erisoners
Each has his own apartment ^in“ modern style, and there is nothing to tell them they are in custody. Only a single guard stands at the gater
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LONDON'S RESPONSE
TO RAIDS
Latest gifts towards the pur- Jchase of aircraft acknowledged by the Minister of Aircraft Produc- tion include a donation of - £417,- 000 from the East London Ware-
housemen's Association. An- other gift is of £51, being the amount of last Sunday's takings of a London public house given by Serious fighting has broken outfits landlady.-British Wireless.. [between Kingmen and Tangyang, north-east of Ichang, where Ja
panese forces have launched a WEATHER FORECAST: - North Imulti-pronged offensive-Central and north-west winds, mo*
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