THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 17, 1940.
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Ever-Increasing Weight Of R.A.F Raids On Germany
BRITISH ARRANGEMENT
Kiel Dockyard. Pounded SQUARE HIT ON OIL REFINERY
For Over WITH SWISS Four Hours
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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 the Ruhr they could see railway bridges and via ducts below them and even pick out the streets.
A railway line runs right along- side the oil refinery and the R.A.F. machines ran directly over it.
dropping the first stick bombs from south to north.
of
As they turned round, they saw that their bombs had fand- ed right on the target.
There was no doubt about it, because 30 seconds later there was a big explosion, followed a min-1 ute or two later by a great up- heaval and a shower of sparks- Reuter.
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS
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 among the principal torgets.
The flare path of an aerodrome above which enemy aircraft were observed
circling was bombed be ex-
before the lights could
tinguished.
at
Two
power stations Lorient naval base were, the main points of attack by other formationg of Blenheims. Flect Air Arm aircraft operat- Command ing with the Coastal dropped large calibre bombs on harbour works and shipping at Brest.
Hudson aircraft were active on the Dutch coast and bombed the inner harbour at Willemsoord and enemy destroyers off Texel. Reuter.
Increasing Scale
of
the
FULL SCALE
AIR
SUPPORT
FOR ARMY
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The British Govern- ment has agreed to grant navicerts and export licences, to en- able Switzerland to maintain
two- months' stock of war 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
EARL OF
ATHLONE TO VISIT U.S.
The Governor-General of Canada and Princess Alice are planning a visit to the United States shortly, it was learned in Ottawa yesterday.
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It is assumed they will see 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 Président 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 PLAN TO RECLAIM
FEN
BRAZIL, ARGENTINE,, URU- LORD SNELL, SPEAKING FOR GUAY, CHILE, AND MEXICO THE GOVERNMENT, YESTER ALREADY HAVE ESTABLISHED DAY INFORMED LORD TREN.
FREE .. FRANCE NATIONAL. CHARD IN THE HOUSE OF
COMMITTEES ACTING LORDS WHERE THE LATTER CLOSE COOPERATION WITH RAISED THE QUESTION THAT. The ever increasing scale
THE FREE FRENCH FORCES, STATED
BUTLER, MR. R. A. the R.A.F. offensive against THOUGH AIR SUPPORT FOR
dc-
A MODERN ARMY WAS VITAL
UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE .cnemy is shown by further
..THE AND
OPINION HAD
FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, IN ails from the Air Ministry of
CER- BEEN EXPRESSED IN Tuesday-Wednesday night's at- tacks by British
TAIN QUARTERS. THAT THIS REPLY TO A QUESTION IN THE bombers, par-NEED COULD BEST
BE MET HOUSE OF COMMONS YES- ticularly against military objec-
TERDAY. BY THE CREATION OF A SE- tives and communications in
Mr Butler, added that commit- PARATE AIR FORCE AT THE Germany itself.
One of the biggest schemes of The R.A.F. raid on Kiel läst- EXCLUSIVE-DISPOSAL OF THE tees have also been formed in ARMY, THIS WAS NOT THE the United States, Egypt, Canada, ed four hours. Tons of bombs:
VIEW EITHER Australia, South Africa, and land reclamation ever contem- CONSIDERED
plated in Britain is being consi- were dropped in
almost
OF THE AIR STAFF OR THE Mauritius. continuous series of attacks.
Representatives of General de dered by the Norfolk War Agri- R. G: MENZIES, THE AUSTRA.
Direct hits were scored on the GENERAL STAFF. LIAN PREMIER, TO DISCUSS
The need for ensuring full scale Gaulle are also engaged in setting cultural Executive Committee. was up, committees in a number of The area involved is 6,000 acres METHODS OF FORMING A jetty of the torpedo-boat
air support for the Army
Air other countries. The British Gov of Feltwell Fen, near Stoke Fer- STABLE GOVERNMENT
fully appreciated by Ministry and War
and crnment is rendering all assis-ry. LOWING THE ELECTION AM- PASSE ADJOURNED LAST
was engaging their continual at-tance in its power and approves"
of such development. Reuter, NIGHT WITHOUT HAVING REACHED VANY DECISION. THEY WILL MEET AGAIN ON MONDAY.
THE
MEETING OF PARTY LEADERS SUMMONED BY MR.
an
har-
FOL-bour and the. Marine Academy.
Shipyard Hits
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tention. The Deutsche Werft yards and dockyards south-east of the main straddled Jetty were repeatedly and a line of heavy bombs burst along the western border of the ex-Germania shipyard.
Mr. Menzies issued a statement that the talks were purely ploratory.
Reuter learns authoritatively that the party managers confer- ence will on Monday receive a
One salvo started a huge oil fire, having apparently struck fuel stores and trucks, Besides bombing oil refineries
the
Office
Lord Snell said the experi..
months ence. of the last five gave good grounds. Tor claim Ing., that the proved British aptitude for war, at sea having added to it an equally outstanding aptitude for in the air.
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QUID PRO QUO
TRESSES" WILL, SHORTLY BE RELEASED TO BRITAIN.
THERE ARE PERSISTENI;RE- Lord Snell concluded that with PORTS IN BOTH WASHINGTON reply from Mr. Menzies to a pro-and stores at Hamburg, Sarzber-the active help of the Empire and AND NEW YORK THAT THE the the sympathetic aid of the U.S.A. GIANT. AMERICAN AIRCRAFT posal put by Mr. Curtin, Leader cen and Gersenkirchen of the Labour Party, that the Gov-R.A F. also bombed Hamburg and they had every reason for soberNOWN AS FLYING-FOR- ernment should indicate points of Duisburg decks and attacked tar- confidence. Labour. policy it would be pre- gets at Grevenbroigh, Cologne, pared to adopt if some form of Schonebrck, Neuhaldensleben and idently to developments
future Cooperation through national Duesseldorf.-Reuter. government or national war binet be found acceptable to the opposition.-Reuter,
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EAT MORE GRAPES CAMPAIGN
ca-
Hotels and restaurants
in Spain are to serve grapes as dessert for at least one meal daily.
A decreo to this effect was is sued in Madrid yesterday by Senior Suner, Minister of Interior. It is hoped to dispose of some of the production of Almeria grapes, foreign trade in which at present
it is paralysed.
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It is estimated that the cost of road making and drainage would be at least £50,000. Most of the Jand 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 cost of £200,000 as part of the drive, to increase food production. Fenland areas is given to county
Power to build hard roads in
war committees by the Agriculture (Miscellaneous War Provisions) (No, 2), Bill, which received its
'Commons recently.
At the same time, another re-rst reading in the House of port says that the British power-
The bill provides for, recovery operated gun-turret used in R... of expenditure on drainage works machines may be made available from owners whose land is thus o the United States under the increased in value.
They could look forward con- which would come in
months the and in these developments strengthening in the alr, as every way of the army on offensive would receive full share British/American standardisation
Government's attention. British Wireless.
Clear Visibility Monday night's bombing attack on an oil refinery at Bohlen be-of gan in weather which one of the R.A.F. bomber pilots described as filthy but which improved so quickly on the journey that he had never known visibility to be so clear on any of his previous raids.
Over the Ruhr, for instance, we could see factory chimneys, rail- way bridges and viaducts.
One
ANGLO-AMERICAN CONSULTATIONS
the
scheme. Reuter.
STEADY ADVANCE WAR RELICS ON STOCK MARKET AT WORLD'S
FAIR
The London Stock Exchange) was firm yesterday despite the
of trading. Gilt-edged Glimpses of Britain's war ef- With the arrival in London ex-quietness could even pick out streets in pected to-day of Lord. Lothian, again advanced under the lead of fort are being ven in the British towns over which we passed. We British Ambassador to Washing-War Loans. Industrials were nar- pavilion at the New York World's had a good look at Leipzig to ton, on a short visit, it is now rowly irregularra:but gainsap Fair The fuselage of, a war- make quite certain it was Leipzig learned that the American Am-peared to have outnumbered roarred Spitfire appears alongside and then flew south towards the bassador to London will be return losses. Following recent strength the rear gun-turret of a Walling- ng to Washington for consulta-Argentine rails improved while ton bomber that inflicted great oil refinery at Bohlen.
A flare which we dropped ham-tions within a week or 10-days-gold minings occasionally were damage on the chemy at Heligo-
brighter shortly before the close land, of business. Wall Street whe pered rather than helped us be-Reuter.
the
higher-Reuter. cause of the glare of it on slight haze on the ground. In any case the moon was bright enough
They were formally one of 'to show us all we wanted to see. they had landed there were some Spain's most valuable exports.
Reuter
a railway running pr
pretty hefty, explosions which AIR BATTLES OVER
SBRITAIN
There is also a model of HM.S. Cossack, the destroyer which un- der. Capt. P. L. Viau, rescued be- tween 300 and 400 British,sçamen from the Graf Spee's prison ship Altmark in Joesaing Fjord last February.
There was right alongside our objective and went off about a hundred or, two we ran practically dead over the hundred yards apart.
Dotence, measures are indicated line dropping our bombs in one About a minute and a half lat-
by articles which include an An- stick from south to north over the or there was a colossal uphonvál.
of THE GERMANS-LOST 17 MA- derson shelter and a baby's gas target,
First I saw a huge slower GREECE CALLS
sparks. Then suddenly a great, CHINES DURING DAYLIGITT | mask. Paintings by Mr. Charles EXPERTS TO
Amazed Everybody white column of smoke dr steam RAIDS ON BRITAIN ON TUES-Pears and other artists portray
shot up. It rose practically dead | DAY, A BOMBER BROUGHT | the cyncuation of Dunkirk,
Among many additions to COLOURS
various sections are striking ex- As we turned round we saw straight and reached to about DOWN AFTER DARK BRINGING
We lost 15 fighters, but the pilotsamples of British Industrial en- Greece has called number of our bombs burst right on the tar-0,000 feet. It amazed everybody THE DAY'S BAG TO 18.
tórprise. lofinite are safe-Reutor. engineers and communication get. There was no doubt about in the aircraft:"British Wire- specialists to the Colours Router. "It for about thirty seconds after less.
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