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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 barges lying in one of the main basins. Two heavy calibre bombs aimed from a low level exploded among a group of fifty barges. Another bomb hit a jetty and fourth struck a large warehouse beside the Carnot Basin.
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Almost immediately after this attack the bomber, was itself engaged by a formation of twelve Messerschmidt 109 fighters.
In the running fight whiph ensued the British rear gunner chot one of the Messerschmidts 'down in flames and hold off the rost of the formation until 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
ed and bombed the aerodrome at
FEW NEW CARS TO
BE LICENSED
The Ministry of Transport has decided that only persons engaged
work of vital national impor- tance will in future be able to obtain a licence for new motor- car's. British Wireless.
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AMERICAN BANK
The American. consulate-general in 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.
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 of Bremen, where two high ex-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.
plosive bombs were seen to burst
on
the tarmac immediately
front of the line of hangars,
in
Ships Attacked Other bomber forces ranging over the
Each Dominion decided for itself to enter the 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.
war. Dutch coast bombed a number of supply ships lying alongside the quay at Horlisten, barges in the River Maas and at- tacked shipping in-the-Zuider Zee ports of Stavoren and Enk- huizen.
common
pool of
• The change from subordinate to choose what they should con- colonies to equal and self-reliant | tribute to the nations was crowned by the Sta- resources and power, Hits were scored on the west tute of Westminster passed nine quay and in the northern har-years ago, bour. Here a number of small ships were hit and fires started.
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Supply ships in the Dutch harbour of Den Helder, tor- 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 rod sparks.
These colonial territories were The Statute swept away the sending not only their money and remnants of Imperial control over produce to help the fight but also the law-making powers of the their men. — British Wireless. sclf-governing Dominions.
This could indeed be called
a new Magna. Carta, for while the ancient Magna Carta was a safeguard for the Individual rights of the King's. subjects
within the State, the Statute of Westminster was a guarantee of national, liberty for the King'a Dominions within the British Commonwealth.
T.U.C. WAR
POLICY
Sir Walter Citrine, General- Vot, spite their complete fream Secretary of the Trades Union 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 joined 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- on the stern of the ship which our enemies.
ment, said the General council 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 been craft returned to the scone a few wealth had yet reached political able very greatly to shope the minutes later. the vessel had dis- manhood or come under the terms policy of the present Govern- appeared.--British Wireless.
of the Statute but their hopes of ment by persistent representa- doing so when the time was ripe tion to its colleagues who held were warmly shared in Britain. ministerial posts,
NAZIS SEIZING FRENCH SUPPLIES
...
Observers of the food situation In France have been puzzled that although heavy stocks of wheat were available in that country at the time of the collapse and of supplies now available from the recent harvest, a shortage of wheat is now known to be de 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 supplice by the
Gormans.
Within the last fortnight they havo. requisitioned. one million pigs, 200,000 cattle and 50 cent of the cereal harvest. British Wireless.
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India's Place
The Council, realised that the outcome of the war determined whether the Trades Union "India is rapidly moving to movement as they had known her place as an equal partner in it would continue or be the British Commonwealth, as extinguished," and all the way free as any Dominion or as this through the Council lind country itself to choose her own tried to remember that as part destiny.
of the nation it was their duty
.
We in Britain look on this to concentrate as much as they march of India to. full; nationhood could on the successful prosecu with pride as well as hope, for tion of the war.British Wire- when it is completed it will have less.__ proved that the British Common- wealth, holds the secret of peace- 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
Bạt cách hát He. own doerce The Lord Mayor of London's of self-management, some Ale Raid Distress Fund has rench- 'through Parliaments, doma ed a total £1,030,000 as 'result of through local authorities, somo several large contributions from through their own princes and overseas which included a fur- chiefs and some through tribal thor £00,000 from the Lord conclaves,"
ayor of Brisbane and £10,000 Though they moved at once in rupees from, the Mafiaraja of with us into war it was for themRewa-British Wireless.