R.A.F. STRAFES THE CHANNEL PORTS CONCENTRATION
STRONG FORCES OF R.A.F. BOMBERS, IT WAS ANNOUNCED IN LONDON YESTERDAY, MADE HEAVY AND SUSTAINED ATTACKS ON SATURDAY NIGHT ON SHIPPING AND BARGE CONCENTRA- TIONS, MILITARY EQUIPMENT AND STORES ASSEMBLED IN THE CHANNEL PORTS, AS WELL AS ON DISTRIBUTION CENTRES AND LINES OF COMMUNICATION USED BY THE ENEMY FOR THE DOO0OGO
**, MOVEMENT.OF SUPPLIES.
FRENCH CONVOY RUNS INTO MINEFIELD
A convoy of ten French merchant ships with demobilised soldiers on board ran into a minefield-in the Mediterranean.
e n route to Marseilles from North Africa, the official German news agency stated yesterday in a despatch from Geneva.
It was announced from Vichy, added the agency, that two ships were sunk although most of the crew and soldiers were rescued. -Reuter.
The ports of Antwerp. Ostend, Flushing, Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne were heavily bombed, supply depots at Osnabruck, Mann- heim, Aachen, Hamm, Krefeld and Brussels were
attacked and raids made on rail com- ́munications at Rhine, Ahaus, Sundern, Hus- ten and Westhofen.
Our pilots and crews pressed home their attacks in spite of severe weather conditions and heavy opposition from the ground de- fence.
Much damage was done, parti- cularly to the docks at Antwerp.
Gun emplacements at Cape Gris Nez and several
enemy aero- Iromes were also bombed; one of our aircraft is missing.
tric storms and many planca were iced up,
Dagger Blunted
Despite this they struck heavily Large forces of British bombers at the "front line" of the invasion
ranged on Saturday night over in Channel ports of Holland, Germany, France, Belgium and France and Belgium and attacked Holland, systematically
and seeking bases at railway junctions
in out and breaking up the German transport centres Germany High Command's invasion
whence comes its reserves and chines, states the Air Ministry supplies.
News Service.
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The aircraft flew through ap- palling weather, being struck by lightning while radio aerials! were burned off in violent elec“,
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Havoc Caused
THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 16, 1940.-
́ ́A.R.P. RAILWAY' VANS, "To provide cleansing and decon- tamination faclilties at a large number of widely scattered places for railway staff affected by gas, the L.N.E.R. have constructed thirty mobile units from old passenger coaches and brake vans. Photo shows: Helping the engine driver out of his cab during ‘a mock air raid." Members of the mobile unit at work. (Copy- right, Fox).
HOTEL BOY ESCAPE IN
ROBBED
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OLD 'PLANE
One of the night's most de- Sentence of one year's hard During the evacuation of Jersey vactating onslaughts was made labour was imposed оп Maka squadron of R.A.F. fighters oc-ˆ on Antwerp, which an earlier Ying, 28, unemployed, by Mr. K. cupled Jersey airport. One after- report sald would be used to M. A. Barnett at the Central Ma- noon, out of a cloudy sky, appears Invade England and described gistracy this morning for the theft ed one of the oldest type of French as the dagger pointed at the of a wallet, containing $9 from monoplanes. It performed very heart of England.".
Che Chun, Hong Kong Hotel unsteadily a manoeuvre intended "boy," in Queen's Road Central: to be what the text-books call yesterday
"an approach. to an aerodrome -Detective Sergeant J. R. Sykes with a view to landing," and the Havoc was caused in the vast told the Court that complainant actual touch-down" shocked the network of docks, warehouses and was walking near Ladder Street professional onlookers. petrol sheds on, the banks of the when he felt someone touch his They moved forward curiously Scheldt and shipping lying in hip pocket. He caught hold of to discover who the visitor was midstream, as large forces of defendant and another Chinese, and found' a 'middle-aged Fren- bombers dropped nearly 40 tons He saw his wallet on the ground. chman, whose hands shook and of high explosive bombs and over The other man ran away, and de-whose face was wet with the per- 1,000 incendiary bombs *in
fendant also broke loose, but was spiration of a severe ordeal. His
story attack which lasted from 11 pm. caught after a long chase.
was this. When France until 12.30 a.m. G.M.T. yester-
Defendant who had eight pre-jbegan to falter under the German day.
vious convictions, was ordered to onslaught the squadron of which The general report of the raids sion for two years.
be placed under Police Supervi- he..was adjutant heard a rumour states "every sortie have reported hits in docks areas. Both the eastern and western basins have been repeatedly bombed from al directions. The warehouse, which from the violence of the explosion must have contained explosives was wrecked."
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· BOMBER CHIEF'S
PRAISE
that the bulk of the French Armee de l'Air was going to Morocco. All excapt the adjutant decided to give in. He had not flown an aeroplane since the last War, but he took up this ancient machine and headed west. His idea was to The Commander-in-Chief, Bom-find the Atlantic and alight on ber Command, Air Marshal Sir the water beside the first ship he |C.F.A. Portal, yesterday sent the saw"for" he assured himself, Poles Bomb Boulogne following message to the O.C. of "it is bound to be British."
the Bomber station where Polish; Visibility grew worse, and he Hugh fires were caused every-squadrons are based which took found himself over Jersey and where and oil set alight; and part in Saturday nights raid there were other explosions. Coal Boulogne: "Hearty congratulations squadron welcomed
on thankfully came down. The him gladly and ore clocks were hit and much to your Polish crews on the suc- and eventually saw him off on [debris spouted skywards.
Members of some of the newly operation
cessful completion of their first one of the evacuation ships bound formed Polish bombing squadrons Wireless.
last night.”—British|for England. took part in, a successful attack) on Boulogne.
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OFFER US 100 AMBULANCES
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Icy clouds, constant hazo, pounding anti-aircraft batteries, and glare searchlights failed to prevent the raiders from . Iden- tifying various parts of the har-] hours, finding their targate, and Comada yesterday Issued a pro- Another 100 ambulantes · have bombing them successfully, clamation in Ottawa directing all been offered by the American Red Port shipping, long-range guns, able-bodied men between the Cross to the British Red Cross. In anti-aircraft batteries and search- ages of 21 and 24 to register for addition, a cablegram received light concentrations at and around medical examination.
in London states:— M Calais were all bombed heavily Those found physically fit will "Have ordered fifty ambulancas from 5.80 p.m. until nearly 10 be required to undergo military built according your specifications.
training for 30 days,-Reuter.
p.m.
Barges in one dock sufferad particularly severe damagó. Onaj
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|Almost no limit to number, we can supply. Do not hesitate to ask for all you want, Will cable you”.
pilot estimated that there were DECREE FOR WIFE OF 300 dollars with each ambulance 300 barges.
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The British War Relief Society A decree nisl, with costs, was in America are sending ten mobile granted in the Divorce. Court to diagnostic X-ray units..
· Blaze of the fires, seen 20 miles Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth Wenyon, out to sea, guided some of the of Vallance Road; Alexandra Park, raiders who attacked Dunkirk, N., who charged her. husband, Dr. In face of heavy anti-aircraft Charles. Morley Wenyon, with fire, salvo after salvo of high ex-desertion." ||plosives went home on dooks.. The sult was undefended.
Large numbers of barges were]. They were married in 1900, and... ́ ́Miss V. E. Remedios of No. 24, found in the Ostend Harbour the case for Mrs. · Wenyon was Hillwood Road, has reported that where defences have been consi- that in September 1929 her hus-$70 in Hong Kong currency- was [dorably" strengthened during the band left the houro, Ho - had stolen from a drawer in her; re=: (past week, Many of them were never returned to make a home'sidence between ambar 5 and: Sing the outer: harbour,s-Router,1, 1 with hør;"
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