THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 14, 1940
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POWDER FACTORY
EXPLOSION
NAZI HIT-AND-RUN RAIDS ON LONDON: FEW GET THROUGH
THE THIRD AIR RAID WARNING SOUND- ED IN THE LONDON AREA AT 2.55 YESTER-
ARMY IS DAY AFTERNOON AND A FEW MINUTES HUNTING
AFTER THE SIRENS HAD SOUNDED A BURST
OF MACHINE-GUN FIRE WAS HEARD FROM BILLETS
THE AIR. THE ALL CLEAR WENT AT 3:13- P.M.
An explosion wreck- ed part of the Her- cules Powder Factory
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HOW CAROL'S ADDICATION
WAS
Genera
FORCED?
Antonescu, the Rumanian dictator, has issued a communique giv-
at Kenvil, five ing his version of events
from Dover,. Jersey, yesterday. Two hundred were injured.
The company ceived Government orders involving $40,- 000,000-Reuter.
MEXICAN
ELECTION TANGLE
leading up to Carol's ab- dication.
On September 5, he says, he had to refuse a mandate, tq, form a. Government, as everyone he approached made the abdication a preliminary condition of their support,
Early the next morning, the King agreed to grant him dicta- torial powers.
That evening, riots broke out and he had to demand the King's abdication.
After issuing a decree laying down two principles for the Royal Household and saying that future The Mexican Electoral College promotion in the army will be WANTED. Thousands more and Chamber of Deputies yester-based on merit or valour, General During this warning a ‘plane was heard to private billets to help in housing day declared General Avila Cama- Antonescu left Bucharest with the 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 men who cho as official candidate to be young King Michael to meet dive over London with its engines cut out and will be in the Army by the winter. President-elect of Mexico, Queen Helen on the Yugoslav
That is facing the Reuter. after zooming upwards it released high explo-Quartermaster-General's Depart-
frontier-Reuter.. sive and incendiary bombs which set fire to ment at the War Office as premises.
M.P.s
are studying a "victory drive" booklet advising them how to ex-1 plain call-up delays to their con-
Scores of pedestrians fell full length on stituents. the railway and pavement while others raced for shelter.
Five bombs were dropped by
a single German raider which
dived suddenly through low EXPORTS
clouds and attacked a-south-east) town during the morning.
A bomb fell directly on the centre of a road, bursting а gas main, but the flames were extinguished.
• Incendiary bombs started over 12 fires which were quickly put
out.
A lone
raider
dropped A
Hit-And-Run
OF CARS
CONTINUE
The Department are now work- ing on a complete review of the existing accommodation.
Many Under CanvasTM
Already, as Mr. Churchill' re-
vealed in his broadcast, we have 1,500,000 men under arms in Bri-
tain.
The permanent barrack accom- modation of the country was bare- ly enough for Britain's small |peace-time Army.
Although thousands of wall-
GANDHI REBUKES SIKH LEADER
MR. GANDHI YESTERDAY sent a sharp reply to Taran Singh, leader of the Akali section of the Sikh community, who in a letter to the Mahatma, urged that Sikhs should join the army "in as large a number as possible in the interest of their mother- land and their own.'
Taran Singh, who resigned from Congress owing The motor industry has received built and comfortable huts have to a disagreement with Congress leaders, stated he stick of 12 bombs across the from the Board
of Trade a 100 been erected, they have not solved had made a conditional offer to provide 100,000 re- centre of another south-east per cent. allocation of steel for the the problem. coast town in the evening. present quarter; that is to say..
cruits if an agreement was reached between Con- manufacturers are allotted all the The difficulties have been in-
by the steel they require under existing created
return of the gress and the Government. conditions.
B.E.F, the arrival of big overseas Hitherto only one death
The chances of such an agree- has As the sale of new cars has been forces and French, Belglan and
The message adds these inten- ment appeared far from en-tions have arbused indignation been reported but a number were forbidden in Britain since July Polish troops. injured.
20, there is no home market ex- Boarding houses, hotels, and couraging, while the world. situa-among Syrians, especially the already tion was worsening and he Druses, and Syrian leaders are As a result of the night's raid cept for motor-cycles, agricultural public buildings have on a north-west town seven and commercial vehicles and for beth filen over by the military therefore saw no alternative but determined to resist all Axis at- deaths hitherto have been re-military orders. Export, however, authorities in some of the defence to support the free recruitment tempts to this-end.
of a Sikh army. is still being given all possible areas.
It is likely that this will be ex- Yesterday's' raids were carried stimulus by the Export Council. out by enemy planes operating So far motor export has been tended. singly and in small numbers. doing extraordinarily well.
ported.
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+
For
Two Months But It is stated authoritatively that the first six months of the year in the first raid but a few ma-we have exported 5,000 units a
The "victory" booklet, compiled chines reached London and in thejmonth, 80 per cent, of them cars.
America are by the Ministry of Labour, and second, taking advantage of heavy Markets in South clouds, the number is estimated developing satisfactorily, and even National Service, advises M.P.s to the United States have been tak-reply to their "fan mail" thus:- at 15 to 20.
Just before the 'all clear in the ing a certain number of British Becond warning sounded a lone "eights." raider dropped three bomba in London near a hospital, a nurses! home and many houses. people were injured.
Employees? Escape
Two
Autumn Outlook
The men who are “wanted ́ ́ for the Army-and they are the great] majority are usually called up at the present time within about two months after their registration. The outlook is less encouraging.
The period may be longer In Severe rationing of petrol begins the case of married men and also in Australia in September and in the case" of "man joining the may restrict car buying among Navy and Air Force. road our best customers. Portugal, our were injured by a bomb which last market in Europe, is also im- damaged six houses and a public posing restrictions.
But at least, as an official of library.
Several hundred employees of the Society of Motor Manufactur- two London firms-a bakery and rs and Traders said, if we are a laundry which received direct not selling cars abroad nobody hits in the second air raid, escap-else is. We are not losing markets to rivals, not even to the United ed without serious casualties.
Eight people in another
MINISTRY'S PLEA FOR OBJECTORS
The British and Turkish Gov- Mr. Gandhi, in reply, tells ernments are known to be close- Taran-Singh: "You have to offer ly: watching developments. Reu- your services to the British Gov-ter. ernment unconditionally and look
to it for the protection of the rights of your community. "You don't suppose
for moment that the British will take your recruits on your con. ditions. They would" commit sulcide if they did."
Reuter.
RUMANIA BORDER INCIDENT
"You have to be either frankly SOVIET RUSSIA HAS PRO- nationalist or frankly, communal TESTED AGAINST AN INCID- ON WEDNESDAY. IN and therefore depend upon the ENT British or another foreign power. GUARDS ARE SAID TO HAVE GIWHICH ́SÖVIET"" ́ ́FRONTIER
BEEN FIRED ON FROM” RÚ. MANIA A
The Rumanilin Minister in Mos- cow has replied that the matter According to a Beirut message will be investigated and the of- to the "A Misri" of Cairo, the fenders punished. Reuter. activities of the Italian military, mission' in Syria show the "Axis"
Cairo Allegations”
policy aims at depriving the
country of all means of resistance so that Italy con lay hands on the country at the earliest oppor
They had taken refuge in shel-States, and if manufacturers can
The case in which the Minis-tunity, ters which wore undamaged al-get the steel, for steel allotted by though the main buildings were the Board of Trade is not thetry of Labour and National Ser- same thing as steel on the factory vice appealed successfully to the partially demolished Reuter:
floor. British motor exports will London Conscientious Objectors continue to help to pay for the Appellate Triburial on behalf of munitions and food we have to two young conscientious objectors import,"
is not to be regarded as a pre- cedent.
BUILDINGS MUST BE OCCUPIED
OF HOME
THE MINISTRY SECURITY HAS ISSUEDIA WARNING AGAINST BUILD INGS BEING LEFT UNOCCUPI ED
It is stated that if the appeal had been dismissed and the men had persisted in their passive re-
UNKNOWN'S GIFT TO stance by refusing to appear be
RED CROSS
ore a medical board ́action would undoubtedly have beun - taken'] against them: Nevertheless, ques tions about the matter,'are likely to be asked in the House of Com-
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woman called at à London The danger of fires in empty newspaper office and handed a mons. buildings is stressed, as it is im- parcel to the doorman, saying: At the outset so the case tha|
men, aged' 21 and 22, wrote to the portant that they be dealt with Give this to the Red Cross." quickly before they get out of She went away without giving Ministry, stating that they would for military control...
her name, but inside were a quan refuse to register Someone must always be left in tity of old medals, some of them service or to appear before the Under his powers a building-Reuter/-
silver and some copper and also local tribunal.
the Minister registered the men nsilver flower stand..
The medals had been wan years as sincere conscientious objectors After the local tribunal had re- ago for running and jumping,
The parcel has been forward-gistered them for military ser ed to the Sales Committee of the vice in their absence, an appea Hed Cross, 149, Park Lane, W.1, against the decision was made by who will decide whether to sell the Ministry and was upheld the articles or melt them down.
WEYGAND'S TRIP POSTPONED
NEW YORK MESSAGE SAYS THAT GENERAL WEY--- GAND'S VISIT TO AFRICA HAS BEEN POSTPONED",
The appeal was made on the grounds that the Ministry was of the view that the men were and conuine in their objection
the
of the French Empire holding al-that the local tribunal had not He was about to set off to colegiance to the Vichy Government, acted in accordance with ordinate the defence of those parte-Router.
spirit of the law.
STOCK EXCHANGE- STEADY
Despite the shortness of yester- day's session the tone of the Lon- It would seem that Italy and don Stock Exchange was fully Germany Intend to use Byria steady,* with occasional trans- and: Lebanon as bases: for their actions in gill-edged and other military
forces againāt » "the market leaders on the basis of the Near East as a complement to previous night's closing levels, the itallan baacar in the Wall Street was narrowly irregu Dodecanese.”
lar. Reuter.
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