BIG AIR BATTLE OVER ATHENS
Fourteen German 'Planes Shot Down By R.A.F. Attack On American GERMAN THREAT ELECTRICITY
Aerodromes
Of R.A.F.
AN R.A.F. MIDDLE EAST COMMUNIQUE, ISSUED IN CAIRO YESTERDAY, REVEALS THAT THE R.A.F. ON SUNDAY SECURED ITS BIGGEST BAG IN ONE DAY SINCE GERMANY
BEGAN HER OFFENSIVE IN GREECE.
At least 16 enemy aircraft were shot down. Fourteen were shot down and destroy- ed in a big air battle over Athens between a very large formation of German aircraft and British fighters. Seven were dive-bombers,
five were Messerschmidts and two were un- identified.
A considerable uniber afo,hey German aircut 100 severely i damaged and probably dul
reach their base
SEVEN
BRITISH
not
AIRCRAFT
FAILED TO RETURN BUT IT ISA KNOWN THAT THREE OF THE! -PILOTS ARE SAFE
Some damage was raised at R.A.F. acted mome
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The communique continue that enemy occupied acro dromes and troop columns the INOVE were successfully al tacked by our bumbers during Saturday night.
Heavy bombers were used
a tand on Katar, ty artoftegne a
71
at are calend which W. Veable
60
de way
In Cyrenaica
In Cyretara ota bombeta fighter contained the attacks chemy sport and troup (CETS centration and a landing ground
Dung Saturday night Dertil Benghazi and Ga,ala were heave ly raided but Cloud prevented detaled ezessinen, of The m age.
Malta was raned twice Sunday but without damage いず casualties.
Our fighters intercepted the enemy and shot down three, the pilots
making parachute descents.
In addition to
aircraft seven missing in Greece, two (11 our bombers failed to return to their base. Reuter,
ESSAY CONTEST FOR ARMY
Those fighting men of the British Army who can take time off from their martial duties have been invited to sharpen pencils| and write essays in com- petition for a $100 prize.
Prime Minister Winston Chur- chill has given the Arny essay contest his blessing and he may select the winner.
Income Tax Rate
The people of the Unit- ed States may shortly have to pay more in in- come tax.
It
Trea- Is reported that the xury has proposed to Congress that the basic individual rate for inconie lux shall be increased (from 44 to 66 per cent
part of the programme for raising $3,500,- 400.000 of new Pevenue
the next liseal your.
111
Other proposals are reported to .nclude an increase in the Corporation Tax from 24 to 30 per cent, an Increase in surtax and its application to smaller incomes, and an. w tax railway passenger fares, 1bgber faxon are also saud Le contemplated on the follow
petrof whisky and other Spirits, br.) Wine, Elgarettes, notorears, charac
ale
mel
refrigerators,
.
chewing gum and sout drinks. Reuter
OF "REPRISALS
IN BELGIUM
Following numerous acts of sabotage and "hostility towards the army of occupation" in the Hainaut pro- vince of Belgium, the German authorities
have issued a threat of severe reprisals, states Inbel (the Free Belgian news agency).
These, it states, will include: the taking of hostages, suspension of the return of Bel- gian prisoners of war and the withdrawal of facilities for obtam ing food supplies. Reuter.
WHEN A P.C. WITNESS
NURSE BRAVES BOMB, NEEDS TO BE B.SC.
SAVES RECORDS
Discussing how to prove in court the accuracy of the photo- meter used by the police for measuring the intensity of motori. sis' headlamps, a writer in the Police Review says --
RATIONING
IN SHANGHAI
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
ADMITTING THE FAILURE OF THE INITIAL PLAN TO RE- STRICT ELECTRICITY CON- SUMPTION, THE SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL YES- TERDAY ANNOUNCED AN EX- TENSION OF THE PREVIOUS SCHEME.
Excess allotments will be charg- “તુ SIX times more than normal electricity rates. Users exceeding The
hous 1.000 kilowatt
allot- lines more ment must pay six than normal rates.
The presiden of the Shanghai Power Co., Mr. P. S. Hupkins, an- notimeed multaneously the for meation of an allocations comamattee tostly the rou qu sauli,
Was Fevealed that the co11- io pany's fuel sterks amounted over 150 (10 con in Feed umr y 24 ht that um April 1 the meant was unly 120.000 tons Tonal News ServiCV.
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BASQUES RALLY TO DEMOCRACY
A
THE FORMATION OF BASQUE NATIONAL COUNCIL. TO CONTINUE THE WORK OF THE BASQUE GOVERNMENT AND TO JOIN WITH THE DE- MOCRACIES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE TOTALITARIAN POWERS WAS ANNOUNCED "An officer before attempting | BY THE BASQUE DELEGA- AN UNEXPLODED BOMB lay a few yards from!
to give evidence in a prosecution | TION IN LONDON YESTER- valuable equipment and records at a London hos-in these eases should be fairly DAY.
(By A Special Correspondent)
The Council alms at attaining
pital. But, ignoring the warning of doctors and well acquainted with the subject
of Bght, the law of illumination, † full national liberty of the Gov- after time to enter the massage and light depart-ectors, as a variety
refraction. and parabolic at Guernica in October, 1936, and
her nurses, Sister Hammond risked her life time the law or intensity of light, re- ernment of Euzkadi established
of ques-recognition of it by ult nations,-
Reuter.
ment to bring out instruments and papers.
"I don't care about the danger," she told me. 'All I want to do is to get this equipment set upi somewhere and carry on. tients wanting treatment. That's our job."
It was the third time the bra- pital had been bombed,
When the bombs tell that night nurses and soldiers were attending a dunce in a hospital rest-room.
The lights went out, the music stopped, glass tinkled from the windows. For a moment
was silence.
Then, from
there
a soldier shouted: "They'll need US. Let's go and see what we can do."
After all, there are pa
We must think of them
THERE IS
NO TELLING
"THERE
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NO TELLING WHICH SIDE IS GOING TO WIN THE THE EUROPEAN WAR IN the darkness, a
LONG
THE RUN." DECLARED NOTED JAPANESE POLITICAL
MURO COMMENTATOR, I
MR. BUSE, SPEAKING AT A DEBATE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE NEWSPAPER "MIYAKO" IN TOKYO YESTERDAY.
The debate was altended by many notables.
So, with the nurses still in their thin dance frocks, with coats thrown on hastly, they raced to the lock when had been struck by a high explosive bomb.
They Carried On
Then, sule by side with rescue
Mr. Murobuse added that a set- tlement is the Chinese war should drive precede any attempt to
workers, they dug at the debris southward, and any Cabinet which with them bare hands.
had no
confidence that it cetild
Their prompt action saved dispose of the China affair
cessfully, had better dissolve it- self quickly. Reuter.
many.
"Thanks to the nurses," a res cue worker
our sald, "we did Job In just over five hours in stead of taking about twelve.
"They must have been frozen In those thin frocks, but they carried on until everyone was out."
The bomb fell on wards occupi- ed by male patients. Two of the nurses on duty were buried. One
Five subjects, sel by Maj. Gen J. H. Beith, better known, per- of them, Nurse T. Smith, was -haps, as Ian Hay, the novelist killed. The other, Nurse Gre-
were:
1. Are Americans our cousins? 2. Liberty of speech.
3. Britain's larder.
Internal
4. The effect of the combustion engine on mankind.
5. Is there a weaker sex? Preliminary judges will be a
gory, was seriously injured.
On the roof, fire spotting, was an auxiliary nurse. She was in jured, and rescue workers brought her to safety by lowering her down a lift shaft in an improvised stretcher.
Some patients were killed and panel of writers and critics. The others injured. One man, trapped essayists-officers ure barred have two months to submit their by the legs, sang to cheer his res- -1,000 to 3,000-word entriés..
VALUABLE-RING...
STOLEN
cuers,
Then, as the pain grow worse, he asked for a cigarette.
the bedroom of Mrs. Wong Yiu, A platinum ring, set with dia-
No. 2. monds, valued at $1,200, is re-
Humphreys Buildings, ported to have been stolen from ❘ during Saturday night.
A
6,800 PETROL COUPONS VANISH
warned Police have
gar#ge owners all over Britain not to ac- cept petrol coupons bearing cer- tain serial numbers.
The coupons--all of which were for commercial vehicles-had been stolen from a Ministry of Tran- sort depot at Romford Road, Strat- ford, E.
The thieves. got away with some 6.800 coupons, represent. Ing more than 30,000 gallons of petrol, mostly In ton and five unit coupons.
"The thieves will probably try to sell the coupons to unscrupulTM. ous car owners," a Ministry of Transport ofcial said,
"But they won't get very far with them without being caught, The check on commercial coupons is extremely rigorous."
tions is likely to be asked. “
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