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Announcing-
NAZI
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 10, 1940.
U-BOAT BASES
IN FRANCE ATTACKED
THE R.A.F. MADE a return visit to Ger- man U-boat bases at Brest and Lorient on Sunday night - attacked only 24 hours be-
·fore as well as to that of Bordeaux.
A great fire was started among buildings. between two of the dock basins at Bordeaux; and at Brest the roof of one dockside build- ing was seen to fall in, while other bombs struck around the port, military and naval barracks and dry docks.
"We clouted Dusseldorf `good, they, returned to base one after and hard,” said one pilot of a Bri- another reported great destruc- tish bomber which participated|tion and stated that from 30 to 40 in another concentrated attack on miles away it was plain that many Sunday night on the large indus- fires had taken a firm hold.--Reu- trial area of Dusseldorf.
ter.
The pilot sald the raid began
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Supply Train Attacked
bombing the steel works dived One aircraft ten minutes' after
it
shortly after 6 p.m. in bright moonlight. Visibility was excel- lent, the Rhine bridges being clearly distinguished. One pilot, bombing from down upon a supply train.near Dussel- height of several thousand feet, Geldern, south-west of actually was able to see flames dorf, and machine-gunned streaming from windows of a
from a height of 50 feet. chief The raid on Bordeaux, chief factory in the area of the
Bay Biscay, was target, which was again blast fur-port in the naces of the steel works, manu- carried out by a strong force of facturing railway and shipping heavy bombers which flew right across the plains of western equipment and other war mater-. ial.
France:
many
Three large fires, and small ones, followed the bursting
of the first bombs.
Hundreds of Incendiaries.
The British aircraft then crowd-
ed in in quick succession, says the
RUMANIA DROPS BLOOD-HUNT
The Rumanian.com- mission of enquiry into the "crimes com- mitted against the Iron Guard" during the previous regime has been dissolved because all instiga- tors of t these crimes gre either dead have fled the coun- try," stated a Buchar- est despatch to the official German news agency yesterday.
or
Last of the men against whom the
As part of the much adver-" tised "New phase of the war" commission had pro- the Germans are using deaux as a submarine base from
Bor-
ceeded were massacr-
which to attack our merchanted by Iron Guard ex- shipping in the Atlantic but tremists in Jiliva Pri-
son a fortnight. ago... -Reuter.
the R.A.F. are tackling this as they did the phase of pro- jected învasion.
are
The flight to Bordeaux, is one Air Ministry, dropping heavy with which British pilots
familiar. The great stores of bombs accurately on the
steel
works and pelting the entire area oil which the Germans accumu
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with hundreds-of-incendiaries, lated in Bordeaux bave already ALBERT
Great banks of smoke obscured been fired. the scene for some of the late- comers but the pilots generally did not meet this trouble and as
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Find: Dock
A heavy raid was made on a neighbouring aerodrome from
ROAD FIRE
which some of Germany's larg- ALARM
est bombers go out to attack
'the Atlantic trade route.
First of our bombers arrived WITH BELLS CLANGING, EN- over Bordeaux at about half GINES ROARING AND GEARS TWO FIRE EN- past seven In the evening; states: CLASHING,
the Air Ministry news service,GINES ROARED UP GARDEN and it was more than two and AND UPPER ALBERT ROADS a half hours before the Inst THIS MORNING TO PUT OUT turned for home....
A FIRE WHICH NEVER EVEN
All pilots were extremely pleas- GOT AS FAR AS THE PUFF ed with the weather and clear OF-SMOKE STAGE.. sky. Many sought arid found
the No. 1 work dock where Ger It turned out to be that bug- man submarines are moored bear of the fireman's daily routine along the dock wall..
-the false alarm.
-Aircraft came over one by one
in quick succession and made The "fire" actually started late their attacks independently. last night, according to a coollé, Pilots' reports make a long and who says that a European police businesslike catalogue of fires sergeant on a motor cycle crash- ed into the alarin with his ma- and explosions.
Two points stand out an ex-chine and "bent it" consider- plosion, because it lit the inside ably.
without smoke from
near
of aircraft flying well over 11,000; Around 10 o'clock this morn- feet, and a fire because it could ing, apparently, some one decided be seen burning very fiercely to investigate the damage, touch- the ed the alarm and bells and things mouth of the Gironde, some started ringing furiously in Cen- Afty miles away;
tral Fire Station, which promptly turned out two machines.
Still, it was a nice morning for a' ride.
Lock Gates Hit
Pilots are certain that many heavy high explosive bombs fell very close to, If not on, sub- marines in dock and it is believ ed the lock gates were hit when a large number of bursts was followed by a chattering --ex- plosion at the entrance to the docks.
Other heavy bombs fell among warehouses, railway sidings and Jetties with good effect, and the bombers had time and am- munition to spare for an attack on a nearby aero-engine con struction works which was, hit and set alight,ipada ***
Bordeaux was found heavily defended by batteries; of: / anti- aircraft guns mounted in ships and on land. British Wireless
FILM NOT EXPOSED
PROCURER FINED
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Yip Lin-Kam, 50, widow, was charged before Mr. G. T. Lowry this morning,-with procuration of women:
It was alleged that accused was taking twa: young, women, Loung Kwan and Pang Chan to become inmates of a brother In Kwon Chau. Wan ho
Inspector. G.-W. Moreton, ot the S.CA, told the Court that the Police visited the 3.9. Tal Fo Sheld yesterday. The two wo men admitted that they going to Kwong Chau Wan F'défendant to enter -
Defendant was fined $100- two months, hard-bour,
BURGLARY IN CAINE ROAD
Appearing on behalf of her husband, a pilat employed. :" by Fatirasto "Aviation "Corpóratión; Mrs. Chan Wing-ka, of No. 10, York Road was ined $10 at Mr Yip, King-wah, of No, 11, Kowloon Court for possession of Caing Road, has reported tha camera în a prohibited urea --- | theft of $110 in money@wand Waterloo Roads 13 49
Jewellery from his realdence, The police said that the film in between 1 a.m. and 4 am, yes- the camera had not been exposed, terday,