THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 17, 1940.
Library, Supremus
Ever-Increasing Weight
Of R.A.F Raids On Germany
Kiel Dockyard Pounded For Over
Four Hours
SQUARE -HIT ON OIL
REFINERY
THE EFFORT OF EIGHT German fighters to harrass British Blenheim bombers of the Coastal Command while they were raiding Flushing and Terneuzen on Tuesday night were unsuccessful.
The Air Ministry news service says the Mes- serschmidts were driven off with machine-gun fire or evaded, and bombing was carried out with the utmost effect.
Lock gates and fuel stores were
An R.A.F. pilot 'who was busy bombing an oil re- finery in Germany on Monday night said yester- day that when flying over above which enemy aircraft were the Ruhr they could see observed circling
tinguished.
among the principal targets. FROM RIVIERA
The flare path of an aerodrome,
bombed
was
railway bridges and via-before the lights could be ex- IN COAL BOAT
ducts below them and even pick out the streets.
A railway line runs right along- side the cil refinery and the R.A.F. machines ran directly over it. dropping the first stick bombs from south to north.
After a voyage of three weeks I have arrived in this country in British -the company of many people well known on the Riviera, newspaper correspon- dent. It was a never-to-be-for- gotten voyage, accomplished in a collier packed with passengers ac customed to. a life of ease."
Two power stations at Lorient nava! base. were .the main points of attack by other formations, of Blenheims. Fleet Air Arm aircraft operat- ing with the Coastal Command
writes a of dropped large calibre bombs. on harbour works and shipping at Ae they turned round, they Brest. caw that their bombs hạd land- Hudson aircraft were active on ed right on the target.
the Dutch coast and bombed the There was no doubt about it, inner harbour at Willemsoord and btcause 30 seconds later there wasenemy destroyers off Texel. - a big explosion, followed a min-Router.
ute or two later by a great up- hcoval and a shower of sparks.
Reuter.
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS
Increasing Scale
of
BRITISH ARRANGEMENT WITH SWISS
EARL OF
ATHLONE TO
The British Govern- VISIT U.S.
ment has agreed to grant navicerts and export licences to en- able Switzerland to maintain ,a two- months' stock of wor material and will also grant navicerts and export licences for any goods which cannot benefit the enemy. The right is reserved to revise the decisions at any time:
Reuter.
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BRITISH
AID FOR
DE GAULLE
The Governor General of Canada and Princess Alice are planning a visit to the United States shortly, it was learned in Ottawa yesterday.
It is assumed they will sec-Pre- sident Roosevelt.
The Governor-General will be following the precedent establish- ed three years ago by the late Lord Tweedsmu'r, who was the first Canadian Governor-General to visit the United States in his official capacity.
He was then returning a visit by President Roosevelt the year be fore.-Reuter.
Guests Of President
Lord and Lady Athlone will spend the week-end as, guests of President Roosevelt at his estate at Hyde Park, New York.
This was announced yesterday. from the Citadel in Quebec, the summer residence of the Athlones when they are away from Ottawa.
-Reuter.
£50,000
I have a vivid recollection, for BRAZIL, ARGENTINE, URU- instance, of Mr. Somerset Maug- GUAY, CHILE AND MEXICO ham, billycan,in hand; taking his ALREADY HAVE ESTABLISHED place in the daily queue for the Is- FREE ....FRANCE NATIONAL sue of stew, and of Mrs. Norman | COMMITTEES ACTING IN Craig, one of the most popular of CLOSE COOPERATION WITH Monte Carlo's residents, sitting on THE FREE FRENCH FORCES,
soup ration.
UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE Here were people owning in FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, IN villas or accustomed to living in REPLY TO A QUESTION IN THE tacks by British bombers, par-first-class hotels, herded, to the HOUSE OF COMMONS YES- ticularly against military objec number of 700, in a 3,000-ton.coal TERDAY. tives and communications in Germany itself.
boat, the Saltersgate, of London, Mr Butler added that commit- the ordinary human.complement tees have also been formed in of which was her crew of 36.
the steps of the galley eating her STATED MR. R. A. BUTLER, PLAN TO
The ever increasing scale the R.A.F. offensive against the enemy is shown by further, de- alls from the Air Ministry of Tuesday-Wednesday night's
at-
The R.A.F. raïd on Kiel·last- .ed four hours. Tons of bombs
·were: dropped in an almost
THE MEETING OF -PARTY LEADERS SUMMONED BY MR. R.G-MENZIES. THE AUSTRA - -continuous series of attacks. LIAN PREMIER, TO DISCUSS Direct hits were scored on the METHODS OF FORMING Ajelty of the torpedo-boat har- STABLE GOVERNMENT FOL-bour and the Marine Academy. LOWING THE ELECTION IM - PASSE, NIGHT WITHOUT
HAVING
One salvo started a huge oil fire, having apparently struck fuel stores and trucks.
ADJOURNED LAST Shipyard Hits REACHED ANY DECISION. The Deutsche Werft yards and THEY WILL MEET AGAIN ON dockyards.south-east of the main MONDAY,
Jetty were repeatedly straddled Mr. Menzies issued a statement and a line of heavy bombs burst that the talks
ex-long the western border of the were purely
Germania shipyard. ploratory.
Reuter learns authoritatively that the party managers confer- ence will on Monday receive a reply from Mr. Menzies to a pro- posal put by Mr. Curtin, Leader of the Labour Party, that the Gov- ernment should indicate points of Labour policy it would be
pre- pared to adopt if some form of national Cooperation through government or national war ca- binet be found acceptable to opposition.-Reuter.
a
EAT MORE GRAPES CAMPAIGN
the
· Hotels and restaurants in Spain are to serve
RECLAIM FEN
the United States, Egypt, Canada, One of the biggest schemes Australia, South Africa, and Mauritius.
Representatives of General de Gaulle are also engaged in setting up committees in a number of other countries. The British Gov ernment is rendering all assis
Cabins For Invalids There were several invalids on board, and I recall the readiness with which Capt. W. Stubbs and his officers gave up their cabins to them. The crew, too, handed tance in its power and approves
of such development-Reuter. over their mattresses.
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On the evening of: June 17 2 couple of ships entered the Bay of Cannes to take.us. off. They came in response to an appeal from Mr. John Taylor, Vice-Con- sulat Cannes, to Sir Norman King, Consul-General at Mar- seilles. We travelled in n
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QUID PRO
QUO
land reclamation ever,contem- plated in Britain is being consi-. dered by the Norfolk War Agri- cultural Executive Committee. The area involved is 6,000 acres of Feltwell Fen, near Stoke. Fer-
It is estimated that the cost of road making and drainage would be at least £50,000. Most of the land is derelict, The work may be undertaken either, by roadmen transferred for the purpose or by conscientious objectors:-
~~Other similar schemes may be begun, in the near future, at a THERE ARE BERSISTENT RE-Cost of £200,000 as part of the . Besides bombing oil refineries French convoy. of 20 ships to PORTS IN BOTH WASHINGTON; drive to increase food production. and stores at Hamburg, Sarzber- Oran, where we saw the French AND NEW YORK THAT THE Power to build hard roads in
and Gersenkirchen the fleet at anchor.
GIANT AMERICAN AIRCRAFT Fenland areas, is given to county gen
“FLYING - FOR- war committees by the Agriculturę Gibraltar was reached on June KNOWN AS RAF, also bombed Hamburg and Duisburg decks and attacked tar-
We stayed there for three TRESSES", WILL SHORTLY BE(Miscellaneous War Provisions)
(No. 22) Bill, which received its gets at Grevenbroigh, Cologne, days, and passengers were thus RELEASED TO BRITAIN, Schonebrek, Neuhaldensleben and given time to purchase various At the same time, another re-first-reading-in-the House of
necessitles. After leaving Gibral port says that the British power-Commons recently.
The bill provides for recovery tar matters were casier both re-operated gun-turret used in R.A.F. garding food and conditions. machines may be made available of expenditure on drainage works Moreover, the passenger list had to the United States under the from owners whose land is thus been reduced to 180 by the trans-British/American standardisation increased in value. fer to hospital in Gibraltar of the scheme.-Reuter.
Duesseldorf.-Reuter.
LARGE SHIP ORDER people, as
Southern California's first order for large ships since the World War-a $7,500,000: #contract for
invalids and the landing of old
-well as passengers
with families.
four cargo vessels-is providing CANADA'S
employment for 300 men; working on a three shift basis, with the prospect of much larger crews as the work expands.
grapes gas dessert for at The Consolidated Steel Cor-| least one meal daily,
poration,Ltd., is building the four A decree to this effect was is- C-1 craft for the Maritime Com- syed in Madrid yesterday by mission, as part of a move to res-
'tore' the merchant fleet-and; pro- | Senor Suner, Minister of Interior.
It is hoped to dispose of some vide auxillary naval vessels of the production of Almeria time of war, grapes, foreign trade in which at present is paralysed.
They were formally one of Spain's most valuable exports.- Reuter,
GREECE CALLS EXPERTS TO COLOURS
ANGLO-AMERICAN RECONSULTATIONS
in
REINDEER INCREASE
STEADY ADVANCE ON STOCK MARKET
WAR RELICS
AT WORLD'S FAIR
The London Stock Exchange was firm yesterday despite the quietness of trading. Gilt-edged Glimpses of Britain's war-ef- again advanced under the lead of fort are being given in the British War Loans, Industrials were nar=| pavilion at the New York World's rowly irregular "but guins --ap-Fair. - The fuselage of a wor- peared to have, outnumbered scarred Spitare appears alongside losses," Following recent strength the rear gunsturret of a Wellinga Argentine rails improved while ton bomber that inflcted -great gold minings occasionally were damage, on the enemy at Heljgo- reindeer herd brighter shortly before the close land now comprises more than 5,000 of business. Wall Street was animals, with a fawn increase of higher.Reuter. 1,486, head, the largest yet record-' ed, the Department of Mines and Resources has reported.
Canada's main
The annual roundup in which the animals are examined, count- Led and classified and the animals With the arrival' in London ex-in excess of the requirements, o. pected to-day of Lord Lothian, the heir selected for slaughter British Ambassador to Washing-later when the mentis, prima, is ton, on a short visit, it is now staged cach, year on the summer learned that the American Am-range on Richard's island, 60 miles bassador to London will be return north of Aklavile at the mouth of Greece has called a number of ing to Washington for consuitu- the Mackenzie River, engineersund. communication|tions within a week or 10 days,--| "This year's÷roundup was coin- specialists to the Colours-Reuter-Router.
pleted in four days
AIR BATTLES OVER
BRITAIN
There is also a model of H:M.S. Cossack the destroyer: which dun-¡ der Capt. P. L Vian, rescuedäbe-- tween 300, and 400 British, seamea from the Graf Spee's prison ship' Altmark in Joessing Flort last February N
Defence measures aro.indicated by articles which include an An- THE GERMANS LOST 17 Mderson shelter and a baby's gas. CHINES.DURING DAYLIGHT mask.-Paintings-bye:Mr.onCharles RAIDS ON BRITAIN ON TUES-Pears and other artists-portray DAY, A BOMBER BROUGHT the evacuation of Dunkirk, DOWN AFTER DARK BRINGING Among many additions to THE DAY'S BAG TO 183 * mi vartous sections dre striking ex- We lost 15 fighters, but the pilots amples of British industrial en-, lof nice are safe. Routef."
Sterprise.