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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 28, 1940
AERIAL SIEGE OF LONDON SLACKENS IN SEVERITY
(By Reuter's Air Correspondent)
THE AERIAL “SIEGE” OF LONDON, WHICH ENTERED ITS EIGHTH WEEK YES- TERDAY, WAS NOTICEABLY SLACKENED IN SEVERITY. THE REGULARITY OF THE RAIDS IS FAR FROM AN*. ACCURATE GUIDE TO THE INTENSITY OF GERMANY'S ¦ EFFORT.
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It is recognised that the present pause may be only temporary and that Germany may be prepar ing a fresh onslaught with redoubled energy but un- less this is the outcome of the Hitler-Petain agree- ment, the evidence of the past week justifies the be- lief held by qualified observers that the Luftwaffe's energy will be dispersed over a wider field.
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ANN SHERIDAN PAT O'BRIEN JOHN PAYNE,
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Directed by Lloyd Bacon. A WARNER BROS, Picturo Berwyn Picy by Big Horzig and Walty Kielo' » Based on a xlity ky Howard Hawks
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GERMANS MOSTLY LOYAL
The loyalty of American citizens of. German descent, with a "few unhappy exceptions," is without question, 'the Carl Schurz Memo- rial Foundation had declared in statement which denounced the suppression of German culture under Nazi domination as "humi- liating" to every American with German blood in his veins.
This has not been the case by day, for Hitler and Goering "have had to rely since the smashing defeat of September 15 on the use of bomb-carrying fighters whose effective range is strictly limited, but at night the Luft-
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ATTACK ON TWO OCEANS
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The United States has been brought into a position where it must consider the pos- sibility of a simul- taneous attack in both oceans, said Ad- miral Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, in a Navy Day broadcast. yesterday. Reuter.
BLACK-OUTS IN MANCHURIA
waffe is now winging its way (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") more over England and
AR.P. EXERCISES ARE TO BE and even. some parts of Scotland HELD IN HARBIN AND PING- seeking new targets.
KIANG PROVINCE TOWARDS Midland towns, in particular, | THE END OF THE PRESENT have become "ittle Londons." MONTH, SAID. THE "MAN- The great sprawling capital CHURIA DAILY NEWS" YES still attracts the majority of the TERDAY. night bombing fleet as with day Preparations for the black-out raiders, primarily because it is must be completed by this week So conveniently close to the end when the lighting equivalent European, bases, but this does not of every house will be inspected alter the fact that night raids are Inhabitants have been warned to becoming more widespread.
be prepared for air raid signals which may be sounded at. »any time in the next few days.Havas
Worsening Weather
and
The Defiance aircraft which, it. lo announced, will revert to their role of night fighter, is
intensity over the
Key To Mastery
widest
Losses in aircraft and men or
yet another type to harry Nazi either side are fast losing their past. significance and unless the present course of the air
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The worsening weather With the pronouncement that thickening of the night defences the present German attacks on when the weather is fine, detracts ing London constitute the "peak of from the wisdom of making Lon-possible area. outrage," the Foundation revealed don the sole or even main target: that as long as five, years ago It! had reduced its awards for re- search work in Germany almost to the vanishing point, and had, instead, in the past five years, spent $200,000 in placing German refugee teachers and students in American schools. About 95 per cent. of those assisted, it added, were of the Jewish faith.
In raiding over an ever widen- how quickly the R.A.F., with the The Foundation, established to ing field, especially at night time, help of American supplies,
càn promote the better integration of the enemy is following closely match Germany's strength in Americans of German descent the R.A.F. plan of campaign, | bomber 'planes as we are with the body of American citi-which seeks to cripple Germany's rapidly overhauling the enemy' zenship and to carry on the pro-war effort with aftacks of grow-total of fighter aircraft-Reuter gramme of cultural improvement initiated by Carl Schurz as Sec- retary of the Interior, first Pre- sident of the Society for German- istic Culture and first President of the Germanic Museum at Harvard, had been asked recently to tell of the effect of the Nazi rule on its programme:
'planes after dark. The Blenheim has been used is dramatically changed, in Bri- for some time and there is evi- tain or in another theatre of war dence that. a new American type the key to air mastery may wel is suitable for night use.
resolve itself into a question of
The Foundation statement de- clared that other expenditures, beyond refugee aid, have gone toward the support of literary, musical and artistic enterprises
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German derivation the contribu- tions of their race "in the old days" toward the culture of America. Last spring it began seeking a $2,000,000 endowment fund to convert the old Customs| House at New York into a clear- inghouse for information on Ger- manic contributions to America.
"Excepting where official por- mission has been necessary on occasion, for the removal of works of art from Germany for exhibition hero or In securing entrance to German scientific or Industrial plants for Ameri- can observers, the Foundation has not the elightest touch with the
present-German govern
ment," the statement reported. "The Foundation holds totalf- tarianism itself, with the excesses of which the World has become all too familiar, in abhorrance and prays for the day when, through the final triumph of democratic ideals and democratic, power, the processes of civilisation, wherever they have been violated, will be restored. maila
"As an organisation, its major concern has been for the thirty millions of German blood, citizens of America, who with but a rela-;^ tively, few unhappy exceptions are, and will continue to be, tho- roughly in accord with American thought and opinion in the present crisis."
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