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BUTTER
BERLIN
RAIDED
TWICE IN A NIGHT
Munitions Works At Hanau Blasted
HAIPHONG SEIZURES REPORTED
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE carried out two successive raids on Berlin on Saturday/ Sunday night, the first lasting for over three hours, according to reports received in New York from Berlin.
No German or neutral reports of the dam- age are forthcoming, but the Air Ministry in London states that electric power stations and onti-aircraft gun positions were the prin- (SPECIAL TO "CHINA-MAIL" Cipal objectives.
"
centres and
One of the first results Operations carried out by the portant railway of the Japanese penetra- bomber forces of the R.A.F. over aerodromes. The naval base at Germany and the occupied Chan-wilhelmshaven q was strongly tion of French Indo-China nel ports are described in an attacked and fires and explo has been the reported official communique issued by the elona caused.
Air Ministry. seizure of Chinese Gov- Weather conditions over Nor ernment ⠀⠀ property and thern Germany were unfavour
able, but numbers of our aircraft goods in the "French" co-reached their objectives.. In Ber- lony.
lin and district, the power
· Advices received from Haiphong indicate that the Japanese milk tery at Hanoi and Haiphong have taken possession of foreign mer-| chandise bought by the Chung-j king Government.
This Includes American lor- rica, guns and ammunition and the total value, Including Chin- esc property, Is unofficially placed at. HK$100,000,000.
AMERICAN FLAG
TORN DOWN
tions were bombed.
near Frankfort, suffered
The munitions works at Hanau,
damage.
severe
Along the Channel coast, Le sta-Havre, Fecamp. Boulogne, Calais and. Dunkirk were all heavily bombed as well as a line ofi Wilhelmshaven Raided big gun emplacements near Cap
Elsewhere jn North Gar.. many, the targets Included Im-
PETROL MONOPOLY PROTESTS
Gris Nez.
The enemy base at Lorient was again attacked.
Two of our aircraft are miss- ing from these operations.
Hanau Conflagration
TWO FAR
EASTERN
WORLD CONFLICT
BOYS MISSING PREDICTED
The names of two. Far Eastern boys are mentioned as missing in an Air Ministry casualty list issued in London yesterday.
Pilot They are Officer W... B. S. Cunynghame, bom in Kuching (Sarawak), and Flying Officer P. L. Dakeyne, born in Rawang (Federated Malay States).Reu- ter.
MADAGASCAR WARNING
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)
It was asserted in Vichy yes- terday that the Governor-General
(SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL”) The French press Clermont-Ferrand yester day interpreted the new Axis-Japan military pact as directed against the United States.
The pact is expected to streng- 'hen American determination not to give up her position in the Pacific and to press forward the. negotiations with Britain for, the use of the Singapore Bsae, says
Le Journal."
Public opinion, in the States is at-white" heat and Republicans
and :
alike are agreed. Only
Democrats
enigma ** remaining is Soviet Russia.. Le Journal" fore- casts that the present war will levelop into a huge world con- I'ct, with the Italo-German-Ja- janese bloc opposing the Anglo- Saxon bloc.Havas.
SUDDEN DEATH OF JAPANESE. OFFICER
Colonel Itsuo Ishimoto, mem-
North
of Madagascar has received a ber of the Japanese trade delega- "Describing an attack on the communication from Britain that tion which recently arrived in the munitions factory at Hanau, one the island's maritime routes with denly at Bandoeng yesterday from
Netherlands East Indies, died sud-- of the plots said:
"A fire was already burning in the outside world will be out off an attack of influenza. (SPECIAL TO “CHINA" MAIL"): THE BRITISH AND AMERI-the factory when we got there. unless the colony ceases obeying The conference was cancelled
Japanese troops in Hai-¡CAN AUTHORITIES HAVE We made out two oblong build- the orders of the Vichy Govern-immediately-Reuter.
LODGED STRONG PROTESTSings, one of which waswell ment. phong climbed to the roof WITH THE JAPANESE OVER ablaze
Vichy circles state the Gover-WEATHER FORECAST: The second one had
not nor-General is “taking no notice": "and" north-west winds,`, fresh of a godown and pulled THE ALLEGED DISCRIMINA-
TION IN THE SALE OF PE- caught fire properly but was of the British communication.
to strong; fair at first, cloudy down an American flag TROLEUM AND GASOLINE IN too good a target to miss.
Havas.
with rain and squalls latar. Smoke from the fires was from the flagstaff yester AREAS NOW UNDER THEIR
CONTROL, STATES A REPORT curling up a thousand feet above day.
TO THE SHANGHAI "SIN WAN US when we pulled out of our The matter was, however, setti-PAO" THIS MORNING, «
dive. The whole building seemed. ed following a conference be-The A.P.C., Texas Co and to go up in flames. We came tween, Japanese officers and the Standard Oil hitherto had been round again and bombed the owners of the godown yesterday permitted to push sales, in occu- second time in now level attack. afternoon, the Japanese officerspied areas with special permits We left fires still burning promising that the chlprits would issued by the Japanese authorities, be punished.
but after July no new permits
furiously. It looked to me as
one
if the whole, factory block, had
not gone up in flames, building alone, but all the sur- rounding blocks.
It was just roaring up in a
It was the American Far Eas-were issued by the Japanese who tern Trading Company's, godown; now completely monopolise the! and three soldiers' climbed to distribution of products in occu- the roof and pulled “the ang pled areas through a Japanese down
organised company, the paper mass of flames. *All fighting, has ceased in states. Reuter. Indo-China but the Japanese are reported to be still slowly ad- vancing southwards from Lang- son.
SOVIET AID
On Schedule
British raiders, detalled · for
·Berlin, despite: the handicap : of|| [unfavourable weather, completed their 600-mile flight to the Ger- man capital and arriving over Ithe city on schedule about mid- Problems of common interest to night, located and bombed the China and Russia are understood west power station and mainį to have been discussed by AI. transformer and switching station Alexander Paniouskin, Soviet Am-jat Friedrichsfield.
BURMA RD. TO CHINA OPENING
THE BELIEF THAT BRITAINbassador to China, and Chinese High explosive and incendiary WILL SOON RE-OPEN THE Government officials in Chungking bombs were dropped and bursts BURMA ROAD TO THE PAS-upon the conclusion of the Ger- were seen close to the targets. SAGE OF ARMS, WAS REX-man-Italian Japanese military Successful attacks were also PRESSED BY DR. OONG WEN- and economic pact, well-informed made on railway junctions at HAO, MINISTER OF ECONOMIC circles in Chungking stated, says Standel, some 85 miles due "AFFAIRS,* | IN. CHUNGKING the Shanghai "Sin Wan Yeh Pão" west, of Berlin.
YESTERDAY.
this morning, poj P
Therálders, concentrating
on
→ Dr. Oong said Britain...... must it is believed the question, of rail communications, scored direct have realised that appeasement further Soviet assistance to China hits on the junction at Hamburg. cannot change Japan's liostile at was discussed, says the paper, titude, as proved by the Axis: al- [Reuter.
liance, Ge
The "Ta Kung Pab", leading|tain from whatever treaty-obliga- Chungicing dally, says: “The lattions she might have towards the est action of Japan “relases Bri-|Japanese.”—Reuter,
Thay, bombad; the main line 'station at Hanover and stařtød firða: in the wood bordering the railway linɔ near Ommer, At" Cologne, explosions. which (Questions on: Page:16)ER:
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