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KIEL
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 9, 1941.
DEVASTATED
BY HUNDREDS OF BRITISH BOMBERS
SEVERAL HUNDRED BOMBERS ENGAG-
ED ON EACH SIDE IN MONDAY NIGHT'S Burma
RAIDS BY THE BRITISH R.A.F. AND THE GERMAN LUFTWAFFE.
Rd. Kept
Open
The weather over Germany was un- doubtedly exceptionally good but the fact remains that on this occasion as the Ger- mans have themselves admitted – their effort was widely dispersed by the British defences whereas almost the whole of the R.A.F. bom- ASKED THE FOREIGN SECRE ber force engaged in the operations success- fully attacked the primary targets.
IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTERDAY, MR. GIBSON
TARY
WHETHER HE HAD CONSIDERED THE SPEECH MACE IN BERLIN BY MA MATSUOKA PRAYING FOR A
VICTORY FOR GER MANY. AND WHETHER THE HAD CHIANG
SENT
GENERAL
In the attack on Kiel at once the Ports-SPEEDY mouth and the Clydeside of Germany oir- BRITISH GOVERNMENT craft of the Bomber Command carried the heaviest load of bombs ever dropped on Ger- many in a single night.
KAI-SHEK A MESSAGE OF EN. COURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT
ON LINES SIMILRA TO THAT SENT BY PRESIDENT ROOSE. VELT.
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A pilot who had a good view of it was not easy to find among the
Gibson further asked the state in which one mureraft le;t; fires a vacant black spot on which
what steps the British, Indian and the port sond "Only way to put to drop another bomb.
Burmese Governments have taken ut the fires wimild have been t
It was a bright moonlight night the Burma Road in order to and,
jointly and severally to keep open push the whole place in the sea
Hundreds of tons of high ex and with the weather perfert for
the Chinese i resisting the plosive and over 30,000 incen bombing only the smoke of fires
gressor in China, diaries by that time had done occasionally obstructed the view
bomb sight.
Replying, M. R. A. Butler said their work, Smoke was drifting from the
but this
that he had seen press reports T not only over the whole town hindered the defences as well for
Mr. Matsuoka's statement. The several crews noticed the search-
was lights were ineffective when dim-British Government's policy
stated on March 20, and it was, he med by layers of smoke through Said, already fully understood by which they had to pass.
General Chiang.
but out to sea.
Docks and shipbuilding
yards were completely outlined in red One mile square in the ceritre of of the town was a single sheet of fire and every moment explosions shook the level wastes of flares.
Bright Moonlight
In several of the areas attacked, Crew: discovered.
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A strong wind fanned the flames and by the end of the raid it was considered that no fire brigade could hope to control all the tres and many must have been left to burn themselves out.
Wave After Wave
A
Regarding the Burma Road, Mr Butler stated that owing to Ja- Panese bombing of the bridges at Mekong and Salween, there had bren certain interruption of ham. but repairs have been effected and the road is open to traffic over it. entire length. - Central News
BULGARIA
EXPRESSES
For five hours our bombers went in over Keet in wave after wave,
Throughout the first hours of the raid they had to pierce curtain of A.A. fire from one of the most heavily defended areas in Germany but in the end the very weight and resolution of the attack seemed to bear down the defences and there significant fulls in the gunfire. The first wave of bombers soon hat the way for their successors, Land Kiel shortly shoe like
beneon across Schleswig Holstein and out to sea as far as Heligoland, with bated breath the war waves approached operations in Macedonia."
were
As the next the crews watched the glare split
SURPRISE!
મા "All Bulgaria follows
up into a multitude of individual said the Bulgarian Prime fires and were able to observe yet Minister, M. Filov, ad- more detailed signs of destruction. dressing the Sobranje Widespread Ruin (Parliament) yesterday, Glowing shells of warehouses according to a Sofia mes- lined the waterfront, huge build-sage to the official Ger- ings wholly enveloped an flames stood out amidst the general con-
man news agency. flagration.
The submarine building yards
'FALCO PERFECTA' had evidently suffered greatly. A
FUEL OIL
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CRANE'
BOILERS, RADIATORS,
ACCESSORIES
huge building in the Deutsche- werke shipyards was seen to col- lapse and in the town itself ruin was almost as widespread docks British Wireless.
PUPPET TAX MAN'S ESCAPE
as in
Chen Feng-hui, official of the puppet Consolidation Tax Bureau in Shanghai, narrowly missed death yesterday when he Was fired at by a gunman in Welhai- wei Road while waiting for a bus, A bullet grazed his fore- head but did not hurt him other-
The gunman escaped.
Central News.
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M. FILOV COMPLAINED OF THE DROPPING OF BOMBS ON BULGARIAN TERRITORY. AL THOUGH NO BULGARIAN FORCES WERE TAKING PART IN THE OPERATIONS.
and
He also referred to the signin: of the Vienna Pact by the fo mer Yugoslav Premier and Fore eign Minister, M. Tvetskovite
M. Cincar Markovitch, on March 25, saying the
pact es tablished a valuable link between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, between which countries a pact of eternal friendship had been concluded!-- Reuter.
KUNMING'S
HEAVY RAID
Twenty-seven Japanese bʊm- bers carried out a devastating raid over Kunming shortly after noon yesterday.
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Numerous light and heavy bombs and incendiary bombs were For boarding a ship in harbour showered over various parts of without permission of the master, the city causing three big fires, eight coolles appeared before as a result of which many houses Commander J. Jolly at the Mar- were demolished and burned ine Court this morning. Sergeant down.
Medley, of the Water Police, stat-. The British Consulate, the ed that the coolies, although office of the National Red Cross warned to keep away, entered Society of China and several other the ship for the purpose of game, institu'lons were damaged.. bling.
Yesterday's rald was the firs Defendants were fined $30 each since February 26.-Centra or one month.
I News.