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Italian Generals Killed In Air Crash
Two Italian genera Is were killed on Satur- day when the military 'plane carrying members of the Italian armistice commission which had been negotiating with France, crashed at Bareacquie, in the province of Piedmont, it was revealed in Rome yesterday.
They were General Pietro Pinno, General of the Air Force, and General Pellegini.
The 'plane was flying from Rome to Turin at the time of the crash, the cause of which has not yet been established. Reuter..
DUSSELDORF BLASTED
PRELIMINARY REPORTS OF THE R.A.F. “RAID ON DUSSELDORF ON SATURDAY NIGHT SHOW IT WAS AS HEAVY AND DESTRUCTIVE AS THE ATTACK ON THE CITY LAST WEDNES- DAY NIGHT.
Much
Speculation In London
LONGEST ALL-CLEAR BROKEN
THE STRANGE LULL in German air aç- tivity over Britain since Friday night has in- trigued British observers. Three reasons are advanced, all speculative, but one or more may have some basis in fact.
"Not a little exhausted by four months of Hardly before dusk had continuous day and night raiding over the clouded the outlines of Channel, Germany may be conserving the
London the alert last
evening broke the long-strength of her air force for a dramatic new est all-clear spell-two blow against Britain here or in another thea- whole days and one night|tre of war.
-the citizens of the Two other reasons find more at high levels to "ground" the capital had experienced immediate favour, however. Luftwaffe on Saturday night for
since the start of the
Probably inter-related; they are the RAF's eight-hour hammer- German air blitz Zoning of Luftwaffe bases in occupied August 7.
One enemy fighter-bomber was shot down into the Chan- nel early yesterday afternoon..
This was announced in the briefest Air Ministry communi- que to date, which adda: "Otherwise there is nothing to report."
The skies over Firitain' have
been permanently clear of enemy
Visibility was good and pilots had no dif-
aircraft since Friday night's at- ficulty in recognising the targets - blast fur-ack on Bristol-and the R.A.F.'s hammering the same night of naces, steel works, gas works, railway yards Luftwaffe bases in occupied ter and the inland port.
ritory. --Reuter,
One of Wednesday's targets. Included an armaments factory.
Roofs caved in under were blazing... the weight of bombs and explosions tore walls of several steel works wide, open.
One experienced crew said "the" largest fires they had ever seen"
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Ports Battered Meanwhile details of the R.A.F.'s: rald on the French At- lantic ports of Brest and Lorient on Saturday night, when the Luft waffe was "grounded for the first time since the opening of the blitz, were issued in London last night.
WHOLESALE
PEIPING
ARRESTS
Brest underwent the most The
severe battering so far.
Japanese authori-
At the outset fires were start-ties in Peiping have ar- ed around the naval school and rested a large number of week's
there followed a vast explosion
at the power station,
Like A Forge
persons
house to bring a
house search for
One observer 'described the the murderer of a JapanTM scone as like a huge blacksmith's forge from which rose showers of ese colonel last Friday. what looked like hot metal, Among those arrested, accord- ing to Chinese reports, are some policemon stated to have been 'ac- tually present at the time of the
murder. ⠀
More warships will mingled with debris of shattered
buildings. Shortly be put into com- Incendiaries and high explo- mission for the Freesives fell on infantry, and naval French Navy, it was stat tween. Reuter.
barracks and buildings in be
ed in London yesterday.
Intense Barrage.
.
Questioned why they did not attempt to capture the assassini, the police replied they were. armed and could not do any thing, hand
These and a number of destroy- The dry dock at Brest was ers, torpedo-boats, submarines, among other targets bombed. minelayers, minesweepers and The attacks, from which one They are reported to have been patrol boats were inspected by aircraft did not return, were severely beaten by the Japanese, General de Gaulle in naval basca, carried out through an intense and some are said to have, died itt" Eqtgland.
barrage of anti-aircraft fire. from injuries.
Chinese Mutiny
General de Gaulle also visit Many shells burst, so close that a training, ship used as the the cabins of aircraft were bril val nondemy of the Fresliantly iluminated, y French Flest where future, of During the raid on Lorient Other Chinese quarters ascribo floors are trained.
fifteen fres were counted in the "unrelaxed restrictions, on General de Gaulle congratulat one part of the naval station leaving the city and the continued ed Vice-Admiral Musclier, Com- alone, around the dry dock. house to house searches to the mmander-in-Chief of the Free Other, objectives theluded hunt for Chinese soldiers who French Navy, on the work al- shipbuilding yards and ordnance mutinied last week.
ready done and the good spirit works. Fires were niso started Some of these men are believed shown by officers and crew close to U-boat refueling to have taken rofuge within the Reliter
city, --Reutor.
wharves--British Wireless,
territory on Friday night, and weather conditions on the 'Con- tinent...
the first time since August 7.
German crows returning from the latest raid on Bristol were, faced with the perilous task of landing on flare- paths, heavily. plastered with high explosivo *bombs.
It is the first time that the main weight of the R.A.F.. night blitz has been directed against It is reasonably certain there aerodromes from --which the|were crashes, and casualties.
Luftwaffe raids London, and
more recently, English ports and Smashing Attack
Industrial towns
Reports of another. smashing In the past thèse have been RA.F. attack on Saturday, night attacked only when British bom-on Nazi industrial targets and her crews have been unable to raids. on more enemy aerodromes: locate their primary targets:
Severe Cold
—were read in London yesterday as the capital debated whether it would experience its third suc cessive night without bombs after the black-out..
The daring with which the new offensive was carried out may have combined with poor visibility near the ground and severe cold sighted
7\LONDON
Up to noon yesterday only one German reconnaissance plane was
Reuter,
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