New
R.A.F. Bombers Meet Opposition In Turin Raid
Italians Post A.A.
EXPLOITS THREAT RACE TO
IN DESERT TO BOMB JOIN R.A.F.
Guns In Alps AIR WAR BANGKOK CADETS
A NEW ATTEMPT WAS MADE BY ITALY TO BAR THE NOW FAMILIAR ROUTE USED BY BRITISH BOMBERS BETWEEN BRITAIN AND NORTHERN ITALY ON SATURDAY NIGHT, WHEN FOR THE FIRST TIME BAT- TERIES OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS RANGED ON THE ITALIAN SLOPES OF THE ALPS OPENED FIRE AGAINST R.A.F. BOMBERS GOING TO ATTACK THE ROYAL ARSENAL AT TURIN.
Hundreds Of Letters
Several hundred letters and
Thai forces are con- Benina and Berka aero- tinuing to advance into personal calls already received at dromes were heavily raid- Cambodia and have seized the Air Ministry Information
Air Training
ed during the night of further French positions, terest in the new
Bureau indicate nation wide in- January 10/11, states an according to a Thai High Corps scheme. R.A.F. Middle East com- Command munique.
"Bombs straddled buildings causing large fires and a number of explosions near dispersed air- craft,
Our aircraft also raided Bein Ghosi and one heavy bomb hit a large building of military import-
Fires were started on
ance.
have been badly damaged,
The raiders reached their objective one after another soon after midnight despite this jetty and shipping is believed to addition to the hazards of winter flying over the Alps.
EVERY CANADIAN IN FIGHT
"There ain't no civilians in Canada any more more. We are all fighting the Hun-every man, womanl and child of us." The
An almost clear sky which waited them over Turin enabled hein to identify railways and the and the
sweep of River Po clearly.
Some aircraft carried a num- her of very heavy bombs, which were released toge her with il tower at incendiaries right into the Arsenal.
Fiat Works Bombed
Explosions which followed the burs's of bombs went on Intermittently and
could still
he Ecen
bombers when the were back over the Alps. The fires were equally impres- sive.
One pilot, prevented from at-
bomb-release had dozen over the
Aircraft of the Fleet Air Art also carried out a raid on Palermo where shipping in the harbour was the main objective.
One bomb feil very close to a merchant vessel of about 8000 tons. Or 12 ships along the outer male one received a direct hit and four others are believ. ed damaged. Fires and ex. plosions were caused among
warehouses.
Our fighters in Eastern Libya maintained constant patrols and reported Derna, Matuba, El Tmimi and El Gazala all clear of enemy aircraft except for a considerable number that were unserviceable.
Twenty burntout aircraft were reported as abandoned on Gazala landing ground.
Fighter Sucesses
speaker was a woman in a tacking the Arsenal because the One of our fighter squadrons factory where thousands Alps, flew on until the mechan-accounted for two CR 42's sho
ism had "come alive" again, and of workers are turning bombed the Flat Works and an-
other factory.
out anti-aircraft shells on
a site which only three
months ago was swampy farm land.
Canada's war-time expansion of production is surging forward with such terrifle speed that there is in- deed ground for unbounded opti- mism here among citizens, not one of whom has expressed doubts about the Empire winning a thum- ping victory.
"Be British. Keep Going. Keep your chin up--you and me," the
slogan pasted on thousands of spirit of Canadian labouring folk
motor-cars, exemplifies the
These facts, most of which were
given by officials of the Dominion
Department of Munitions and sup- ply, give a small idea of what this spirit is contributing to vic,ory:--
Artillery Factory Canada in the past few weeks has sent Britain various kinds of motor vehicles. The Dominion Government in the past three months has bought thou.Ends of such vehicles; nearly all from Canadian factories.
In the same period the factories supplied the Government with 15,-
·000,000 yards of military and naval cloth enough to stretch from Ot- Lawa to London and back. not unusual for the
It is
Government
to place 600' cóntracts daily with the nation's factorles.
"Plane are being rushed for
0,000′′naval: arthrry fat which will be the biggest and the most modern in the Em-
down and one CR 42 destroyed on the ground on January 9, and two S 79's destroyed while at. tempting to land at Derna and Four-page pamphlet copies of three G 50's shot down in com-
Churchill's recent speech hut on January 19
base appears were also dropped. Reuter.
Bomba seaplane
Mr.
REMARKABLE NAZI ATTACK ON CHRISTIANITY
THE NAZIS CHOSE yesterday for an- other attack on Christianity and for talking about what they call "the creed of our time."
Breslau Radio, broadcasting to Germans in Silesia, said:
"We believe in the Nation and The Fuchrer. We believe in you.
We believe in the nobility/of our NAZI
people, in the righteousness of
our arms, in our flag, in the God SALUTE IN
who stands by the brave, in Ger- man greatness in eternity,"
The Breslau Radio continued:--
"But what about the old creeds, what about the Scriptures?
"
NORWAY
The Nazi salute has been :of-
"The Scriptures are dead. The ficially introduced in Norway; ac- creed: of our time draws from the sources of the past ages, but cording to an Oslo message quof- we need no fairy talesy no 1sed in London yesterday, from the gende in this age of modern in- "Dagens Nyheter," the Stockholm ventions and ›arma."
newspaper.
At about the same time, Munich An edict has been issued order- Radio was talking about piety in
a sort of pagan.. Sunday service ing the salute to be given in buses mostly concerned with the my-and trains. Failure to give the slical conception of the Reichi salute is to be punished as an aut of treachery against "New Nor-
arms contracts have been in
provideć millions of]; ammunition ann
Copadinna
"The Reich cannot be "defined" | way.”
After words, Ɔabimur bélfeve
eich,” said Munich Radio
Another “Osló message quoted
da of "Ozio
Quislingis ina
West Hartlepool. and Whitley
communique Bay are the first two towns re-
in Bangkok yesterday.
The Thai air force is terdi" effective cooperation and severe fighting is developing. the com- munique continues.
Unofficial reports state that the Thai army has already oc- cupied large stretches of Cam
bodian territory.
questing the formation of local commands, both towns having telegraphed. Local squattrons are to be formed.
The Air Training Corps, as al- ready announced, will provide pre-entry training for the R.A.F; and free air arm groups formed in schools and towns throughout Britain. British Wireless.
Thai bombers have raided many important towns in Indo-China.
Hitherto no French aircraft have There is a great race all visited Bangkok, but every pre-over Britain to form air caution has been taken and A.R/P. measures are in force.-Rether,
to have been
enemy.
squadrons of boys between 16 and 18 years of age un- der the new R.A.F.
pre- abandoned by the entry scheme.
In Italian East Africa a raid
Detence positions of Berbera (Somaliland) were also raided and one Sei on Jigajiga landing ground was bombed and machine- gunned,
R.A.F.
Each squadron of the was made on Maiadaga, where "prep school" - as the scheme is Caproni
will be 200 strong and workshops and petrol called
already dumps were bombed.
quotas have been given
o countries, cities and towns.
For instance, London is to have
Lancashtre 100," 80 squadrons, Glamorgan 24 and Birmingham 20. About 700,000 boys from all walks of life are eligible, and the R.A.F. will soon have an im- mense reserve of youths to draw on for final training as gunners,
Reuter. pilots and air crews. —
Numerous reconnaissance flights were carried out and from all these operations our aircraft re- turned without loss." Wireless.
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