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CHINA MAIL
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·No. 91,977
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1940∙∙
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LATE FINAL
NIGHT
INSIST ON
Daisy Brand
Australia's Choicest
BUTTER
BERLIN BOMBED FOR SIX
RELAYS
HOURS IN R.A.F.
Objectives Hit In Heart Of Capital Watch on
SHANGHAI AMERICANS INDIGNANT
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
Some indignation has been aroused among Americans, in ~ Shanghai by the high fares being demanded by shipping companies for evacua- tion.TM
Minimum passage on the Mon- terey and Mariposa is US$345, and US$450 in the Washington | for a cot in the smoking room.
Officials of the American
GERMANS SHELL
DOVER AREA
German long-range guns fired shells from the French: coast at intervals into the Dover area yesterday afternoon-Reuter.
CHUNG KING BUSINESS TAX
THE R.A.F. ON Sunday night operated at
.
American
Far East
both ends — and in the middle of the (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"); Berlin-Rome Axis.
The French press is Simultaneously with two raids on Berlin, ex-evincing considerable in- tending over six hours, British bombers were terest in the United States launching high explosive bombs upon the Italian attitude in the Far East. motorcar and aeroplane manufacturing regions and steel works.
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The newspaper "l'Effort" affirms that American opinion is even
ments in the Pacific than to European developments.
inter-
"Any direct American
vention in Europe remains ex-
A heavy ground mist kept the first raiders more sensitive towards develop- to Berlin circling for half an hour trying to find their targets and then the haze cleared and the big railway yard of the Outer Moabit was seen unmistakably glinting in the moon-Such unanimity seems
light:
• President Lines explained, that accommodation -in" "the" „four evacuce-ships does not include "tourist clans, and in all one clats. Meanwhile at stream of appli- cations for evacuation facilities is
Direct hits were made on sid- piling up in the offices of the steamship.company, having gain- (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") ings with high explosive and five ed momentum after a short Government--taxation-of-busi- fires were counted as the result. breathing spell over the week-ness transactions in the Chung-of incendiaries..
king area. brought $18 million end.
More than 200 further applica- from January to the middle of tions were registered yesterday, October, it was officially announc- bringing the total of evacuating led in Chungking yesterday. The Americans in the Far East to figure represents a $4 million, in- over 4,000 of whom at least crease
Lover the estimates. 1,800 are in Shanghai-Havas.
Havas.
SECRET BOMBSIGHT GIVEN TO BRITAIN?: SENATE STORM
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Following raiders directed their attention to an objective. near the centre of the city-and Industrial targets in the north-
·western, suburba.
The official account states that here, also the bomb-aimers saw
WISDOM OF SECRECY
QUESTIONED
Americans unanimously admit the
tremely unpopular although all
necessity of supporting Britain.
still more real as regards American interests in the Far East:" Havas.
Japan's national power or else provide hostile countries; ̈ ̄with material for anti-Japanese pro- paganda and suspension of pub- lication of the figures may be inevitable:
However, the paper warns that matters
bombs bursting round the tar. (SPECIAL_TO`"CHINA MAIL") rigid control of such gets.
The Japanese Govern. might arouse needless misgivings and uneasiness among the. Japan- After two hours respite thement's decision to ban the ese people, while the lack of au- second attack began.
Clear vicibility now favour-publication of trade re-thentic figures might lead to the circulation of false figures abroad. ed the operations and one turn figures may be harm- The paper says suspension .of pilot, dieregarding: 2 hot & A¡A.
the fire, dived to within 2,000 feet ful, says the Tokyo "Chu-publication will not serve
purpose intended since countries of the roof-tops to straddle the gai Shogyo."
trading with Japan publish freely heart of the city with a stick'
commerce with sot bomba
The paper agrees the figures figures of their Ho like other
reveal defects and weaknesses in Japan. Havas. pilots, zaw big fires start.
Railways Hit
The pilots recorded hits on the Fullitzerstrasse and Ehrter rail- way yards and goods sidings at Charlottenburg.
The raids to Italy involved a 1,600 miles non-stop flight with a double crossing of the Alps Here active operations began soon after midnight when bombs
and the Fiat works in Turin, as well as the Pirelli accessory tac-
THE DEMAND MADE ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE THAT THE SECRETARY FOR WAR, MR. H. K. STIMSON, ANNOUNCE PU-fell on industrial plants in Milan BLICLY WHETHER THE UNITED STATES HAS RELEASED THE SECRET BOMBSIGHT TO BRITAIN, HAS FAILED TO EVOKE ANY RE- PLY FROM RANKING ARMY OFFICERS.
Stirred by widely circulated reports that
the Government has given Britain the bomb sight and has promised delivery of a fleet of
Flying Fortresses after the election, Senator Holt demanded that Secretary Stimson af- firm or deny the allegations,
tory at Sesto San Giovanni and
blast furnaces at Aosta,
on
Between these extremes there was the customary activity ports and on industrial targets (Continued on Page 16).
CAIRO GETS FIRST RAID
Thay Chief of the Army Air Chairman of the House of RE-ALCOMMUNIQUE (IBQUED Corpas Major-General-H. Hy presentatives army appropriation Arnold, dismissed queries with sub-committee, after inves igat—| terse "no, comment,"
ing, said: Representative J. Buell Styder,
HER FORECAST: — Bouth „moderate, backing to and north east and honing considerably;
Crálni. Intor.
"You can say for me that our】; super-bombalght, «has not and will not be released to anyone." Congressional... circles express fears that the prized bombsight might fall into German hands if released to Britain Interna flonal News Service,
CASUALTIES - WERE ¿CAUSED FIN-TWO Ể NIGHT SAIR÷RAIDS IN THE CAIRO SYAREA: ON BUNDAY NIGHT:
BY THE MINISTER-OF-NA- TIONAL – DEFENCEYES- STERDAYA BAYS –THAT IN
THE AIR RAIDS, WHICH: OCCURRED BETWEEN 8.80 AND -10 -P.M., SEVERAL BOMB WERE DROPPED ON A FARM CAUSING: DAM- AGE TO THE CROP, WHILE, THERE WERE SEVERAL CABUALTIES—~REUTER.
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