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IN A SERIES of daylight raids which be- gan soon after dawn on Sunday and continued until late afternoon R.A.F. bombers attacked coastal objectives and enemy shipping over an area extending from Harlingen in the north to Boulogne in the south-west.
Weather conditions were consistently bad with low cloud and a heavy rain storm restrict- ing visibility.
One early morning raider ap- proaching Calais under cover of clouds attacked a concentration of main barges lying in one of the basins. Two heavy calibre bombs aimed from a low level exploded ! among a group of fifty barges. Another bomb hit a jetty and а fourth struck a large warehouse beside the Carnot Basin.
Almost immediately after this attack the bomber was itself engaged by a formation of twelve Messerschmidt 109 fighters.
In the running fight which ensued the British rear gunner shot one of the Messerschmidts down in flames and held off the rest of the formation unt!! the bomber had gained cover · in cloud.
Barges and shipping at Boulogne and Ostend were also attacked.
One raider crossing over Hol- land into Western Germany locat- Diepholz, thirty miles south-west of Bremen, where two high ex- plosive bombs were seen to burst
ed and bombed the aerodrome at
on
the tarmac immediately front of the line of hangars.
Ships Attacked
in
Other bomber forces ranging over the Dutch coast bombed a
number of supply ships lying alongside the quay at Horlisten, barges in the River Maas and at- Zuider tacked shipping in the Zee ports of Stavoren and Enk- huizen.
FEW NEW CARS TO
BE LICENSED
JAPANESE TRY TO ENTER AMERICAN BANK
The American consulate-general' Shanghai is considering an incident on Sunday. night when uniformed
·Japanese gendarmes, commanded by, an officer, tried to enter the premises of the National City Bank, inside the Settlement.
-Reuter...
decided that only persons engaged The Ministry of Transport has in work of vital national impor- tance will in future be able to obtain a licence for new motor-0000 car's, British Wireless,
MR.DUFF COOPER ON MAGNA CARTA OF EMPIRE
IN A BROADCAST ADDRESS yesterday to mark the launching of the campaign to bring home to the people of the United Kingdom the immense power of the British Empire and the meaning of the Empire to its people in these days of trial, Mr. A. Duff-Cooper, Minister of Information, said it was necessary and right to recall that Britain is not alone in this struggle.
Each Dominion decided for itself to enter the war. This war became not a mere national or im- perial war but a league war, a war of the League of free British nations and their democratic allies..
common
The change from subordinate to choose what they should con- colonies to equal and self-reliant tribute to the
pool of nations was crowned by the Sta- resources and power. Hits were scored on the west tute of Westminster passed nine
These colonial territories were quay and in the northern har-years ago.
The Statute swept away the sending not only their money and bour. Here a number of small ships were hit and fires started. remnants of Imperial control over produce to help the fight but also
the law-making powers of the their men. -British Wireless. self-governing Dominions.
Supply ships in the Dutch harbour of Den Helder, ter- minus of the Great North Holland Canal, were attacked in the afternoon in the face of heavy anti-aircraft fire. Four bombs struck the har- bour works causing a violent explosion and what one, ob- - server described as a cloud of red sparks.
This could indeed be called
a new Magna Carta, for while the ancient Magna Carta was a safeguard rights of
individual for the the King's subjects.
T.U.C. WAR
within the State, the Statute of POLICY
Westminster was a guarantee of national liberty for the King's Dominions within the British. Commonwealth.
Sir Walter Citrine. General-
Union
Yet, spite their complete free Secretary of the Trades One 800-ton ship making to- dom, perhaps because of that Congress General Council, -speak- wards harbour was also bombed freedom, the Dominions instantly ing at the annual meeting of the from a low level in a shallow dive foined in the war against Ger-Congress at Southport yesterday attack. A direct hit was scored many to the surprise and anger of on the present Coalition Govern- council ment, said the General on the stern of the ship which our enemies. was left enveloped in a cloud of Mr. Duff-Cooper noted that not had tried to preserve an attitude steam and smoke. When the air-all countries of the Common-of collaboration and had craft returned to the scenie a few wealth had yet reached political able very greatly to shape the minutes later the vessel had dis- manhood or come under the terms policy of the present Gayern- representa- appeared.-British Wireless. of the Statute but their hopes of ment by persistent
doing so when the time was ripe tion to its colleagues who held were warmly shared in Britain. ministerial posts.
NAZIS SEIZING FRENCH SUPPLIES
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India's Place.
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been
The Council realised that the outcome of the war determined whether the Trades: Unlog "India is rapidly moving to movement as they had known her place as an equal partner init would continue or be the British Commonwealth,. as extinguished, and all the way free as any Dominion or as this through.... the Council ...had Observers of the food situation country itself to choose her own tried to remember that as part in France have been puzzled that destiny.
of the nation it was their duty. although heavy stocks of wheat We in Britain look on. this to concentrate as much as they were available in that country at march of India to full nationhood could on the successful prosecu- the time of the collapse and of with pride as well as hope,-fortion of the war.-British Wine- supplies now available from the when it is completed it will have less. recent harvest, shortage of proved that the British Common- wheat is now, known to be de- wealth holds the secret of peace- veloping in France.
Evidence is accumulating, ac- cording to authoritative quarters in London yesterday, that one of the main reasons for the short- age of wheat, as well as of meat and dairy products, is the com- mandeering of supplies by the Germans.
one
Within the last fortnight they have requisitioned
anillion pigs, 200,000 cattle and 58 by per cerit, of the cereal harvest. British Wireless,
ful cooperation not only among nations. of 'like race but also among nations of different races not yet come so close to full self-government.
LONDON AIR RAID DISTRESS FUND
But each has ila own decrpe The Lord Mayor of London's of self-management,some | Air Raid Distress Fund has rench-
Parliamenta -through
sono ed a totul £1,030,000 as result of
from through local authorities, some several large contributions through, their own princes and overseas which included a fur chiofs and some through tribal ther £60,000 from the Lord Mayor of Brisbane and £10,000 conclaves."
at once in rupees from the Maharaja of Though they moved with us into, war it was for them town British Wireless.