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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1940
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THE CHAOS' OF LONDON SEEN IN
IN LIGHT OF
OF DAY
CYCLONIC CAMMEL LAIRD GALE HITS CHAIRMAN BOMBAY
The worst storm within living memory struck Bombay in the early hours of yesterday morning.
At 3 p.m. (Bombay time) the streets were still comparatively deserted and many of the most important streets were closed to traffic.
Dwellings facing the sea have been blown flat. Much wreck- age has been washed ashore and it is feared that loss of life in coastal craft must have bean heavy.
The gale was still blowing after ten hours. A number of treas were uprooted and hurled across roads, disturbing traffic.
Falling trees and collapsing walls killed one and injured about 60....Reuter..
KILLED IN RAID
Mr. W. L. Hichens, Chairman of the great. shipping firm, Messrs. Cammel Laird, a director of the Lon- don, Midland and Scottish Railway and other large industrial concerns and a mem- ber of the Carnegie
New York Trust, has been killed in an air raid on London: He was 66 years of age.
-Reuter.
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RUMANIA
NAZIS GET TO BE TO WORK IN BLOCKADED RUMANIA
Reuter Tour After Night Of German
Savagery
I FOUND INDUSTRIAL AND PRIVATE LIFE THROBBING AS STRONGLY AS EVER, WRITES A REUTER SPECIAL CORRES- PONDENT AFTER A TWO-HOUR TOUR OF LONDON ON BOTH SIDES OF THE THAMES YESTERDAY.
German bombers which raided the capital. the previous night- had succeeded in laying low a bit more of this vast sprawling city and its suburbs but the unprecedented chaos' and "paralysis of services for some time to come" claimed by Berlin I saw was a hollow EG boost:
I hailed a taxi from the pool of road transport which with the railways had brought all London to work as usual long before lunch. We were held up hardly 15 minutes before starting the tour while taxis, buses, trams and lorries straightened them- selves out in this busy corner of central London.
The jam was no worse than in pre-war days and was the long- est wait I experienced. At the
children evacuating from fresh- ly damaged homes,
FOREIGN POLICY
A Member of Parlia- frst main line terminus 1 reach- SPEECH BY MR. HULL ment suggested yesterday ed by way of diversions which sent
the taximeter up only 1/- above Mr. Cordell Hull, U.S. Secre- Coinciding with heavier that as Germany now the normal fare, trains were run-tary of State, will deliver an ad- dress on foreign policy on Octo- German demands for oil dominates Rumania, that ning normally.
ber 25, it was announced by the and the despatch of war country should be includ- There was a small colony of State Department in Washington materials in return, 65 d in the Allied blockade. people, mostly women and yesterday, says Reuter. Rumanian passenger Mr. Butler, Under-Secretary for | trains, many of which Foreign Affairs, agreed that Ru- mania was under the economic run on important main domination of Germany. lines, were to be suspend- ceased to maintain normal trade ed from midnight last relations with Rumania since it that Rumania night until the end of the became apparent
was becoming increasingly under month.
German domination, stated Mr. R. A.
of Butler, Under-Secretary Official reason for this measure is to make way for goods trame State for Foreign Affairs.
employed in transporting supplies for internal needs which have long been delayed, owing to mili- tary requisitions.
The staff of a German ‘naval' mission, meanwhile, has arrived.
in Bucharest.—Reuter. -
FURTHER
ter.
The British Government has
ITALIANS
HIT H.M.S.
Reu-
U.S.-SOVIET LIVERPOOL EXCHANGES The British cruiser,
Liverpool, has been dam-
M. OUMANSKY, SOVIET AM aged in the Mediter-
BSADOR": TO THE UNITED:
TES, CONFERRED FOR AN ranean by enemy torpedo URWITH MR... SUMNER carrying aircraft.
WELLESM UNDER-SECRETARY.
A railway official commented: "The crowd is no bigger than usual."
Normal Trains
From a night porter in a sub- station I urban section of the
learned that there was no inter- ference with the morning's busi- ness trains.
Elsewhere broken walls, gaps in the road and scattered glass told of a stick of bomba which had fallen in the neigh- bourhood. Squads of workmen wore busy oloaning" 'up · the moss.
Blackened hosepipes ringed an area half a mile square. Two solitary fire engines passed .on their return to station.
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ALL QUIET "All" fronts "quiet"!"); stated: communique Issud by: GHQ.
OF STATE,"IN WASHINGTON The Admiralty stated yesterday in Calro yesterday, reports Rou- YESTERDAY!!
⠀ that. Liverpool":" was ' returning to ter
Although he declined to dis- her base after operations in the cuas his visit it is believed it was Mediterranean when the attack continuation of the conversa-way made, and she is now safely. tions started last week and do- in port Casualties were not was withheld until it was known eigned to improve Russo-American | heavy,
that Liverpool had reached hér relations. Reuter.
Announcement of the damage | basp Reuter.
GERMAN CONVOY DESTROYED
German convoy of three supply ships, with the two escort vessels ac- companying them, has been destroyed.
The Admiralty communique giving this news does not locate the scene of action,
One merchant vessel, it is of ficially stated, was of about. 7,000 tons." One of the others, which were small, exploded be- ..fars sinking.
Another German vessel of about 7,000 tons, adds the communique, was successfully attacked. It was hit with three torpedoes-Reuter.
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