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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 9, 1941.
VICIOUS ALEXANDRIA BLITZ
Another Savage German All-Night Air Raid
The men of the Barrage 9: lloons who have done great work In defence against attack from the air, carry out their jobs in all kinds of weather and to keep them in the peak of condi. tion, P.T. instructors put them through their paces. Here is a fine close-up study of Instruction with the dummy-bayonet— part of the training of these men.
(Copyright, Fox).
P.W.D. MEN STILL ON STRIKE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)
Shanghai P.W.D. coolies
still on s'rike against the
are
tacked non-strikers and damaged a P.W.D. truck. Several agita- dis-tors were arrested. whose Meanwhile Atters of
the reinstatement is Shanghai Waterworits
are still on strike.-International News Pickets armed with stones at- Service.
missal ог
immediate
demanded.
THINKS:
foreman
7 O'CLOCK AND ANOTHER
BEASTLY
DAY
AHEAD
AT THE DOCTOR'S
SUICIDALLY BRITISH
LOW NAZI BOMBING
FLEET
AT SEA
THE BRITISH · AIRCRAFT-
WHILE THE BRITISH AND FREE FRENCH FORCES ENTERED SYRIA, THE GERMANS CARRIERS ARK ROYAL AND LAUNCHED A SECOND SAVAGE AIR ATTACK ON ALEXANDRIA, SUBJECTING THE CITY TO YET ANOTHER VICIOUS ALL-NIGHT BLITZ.
FURIOUS, THE BATTLE-CRUI- BER RENOWN, AND THE CRUISER SHEFFIELD, WITH FLOTILLAS OF TORPEDO- BOATS AND BUBMARINËS, LEFT GIBRALTAR FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN AT DAWN
This is according to a dispatch from La Linea to Vichy yester- day.
Nazi squadrons, swooping_to_almost suicidally low altitudes, showered high explo-YESTERDAY. sive and incendiary bombs wide and far, causing death and destruction at several points in the city. Considerable damage was done in the European and Arab residential quarters alike and it is feared that hundredsing from the Mediterranean an- were killed and injured.
Fires were started but were presently eontrolled
The main attack developed in the port area where a number of 'planes zoomed through a verit- able hell of fire put up by British and Greek warships.
Amidst the inferno of screaming and exploding shells the enemy eemed determined to press home he attack but failed to hit a warship or any military 'objective.
It was also reported from La Linea that 10 merchantships.com-
chored at Gibraltar yesterday morning. Router.
HEAVY DEATH ROLL
IN "ALEX" RAID
The roaring of A.A. guns died (By Reuter's Special Correspondent with the
away towards dawn when Alexandria's heaviest and most sustained rald came to an end. From Malta,
too, comes
official account of а raid
an
by
the island singly dropped bombs
British Mediterranean Fleet)
THE NAZI BLITZING of Alexandria now
several enemy aircraft on Satur- appears to be starting in earnest with 'fre- day night when 'planes attacking quent reconnaissance flights from which one which, however, caused slight aircraft was shot down yesterday afternoon in fact there was neither Service and a large scale bombing extending even to
suburbs.
civilian damage and no casualties.
damage nor casualties..
One Italian light bomber was shot down by RA.F. fighters and another so badly damaged that it probably did not reach its base.
Although no official figures are avail- able, enquiries at various hospitals indicate craft approached the coast but that very many were killed while the injured
were very numerous. The city to-day presents a re-
Yesterday morning, enemy air-
raid did not materialise. Reu- ter.
ASSISTANT LOSES HIS GRIP...
YOUR TROUBLE 15 NIGHT STARVATION.YOU SEE,WHILE YOU SLEEP YOUR HEART: LUNGS · AND OTHER AUTOMATIC PROCESSES CONTINUE USING UP ENERGY.IN, YOUR CASE ALSO, THIS HAS LED (TO AN EXCESS OF ACID, WAS) E
PRODUCTS. IN THE BLOOD.
RECENT TESTS
HAVE PROVED
THAT HORLICKS AT BEDTIME IST
WHAT YOU NEED
YET ONLY JUST BACK FROM LEAVE!
I NOTICE THE TURNOVER FROM JACKSON'S DEPT.) IS. DROPPING OFF. CAN YOU
UNDERSTAND WHY?
AND SO EVERY NIGHT HORLICKS
HE DOESN'T APPEAR
TO BE TOO FIT THESE DAYS ALTHOUGH HE IS ONLY BACK
FROM LEAVE FIVE MONTHS. I'LL TACKLE
HIM
TWO MONTHS LATER
WHAT'S THE MATTER 'WITH YOU JACKSON? IS THE RESPONSI BILITY TOO MUCH
FOR YOU?
YOUNG JACKSON'S A DIFFERENT MAN THESE DAYS. HES GETING ON WELL WITH THE DEALERS AND I'VE DECIDED TO SEND HIM
*TO IPOH AS
BRANCH MANAGER
EXCELLENT/
I'M GLAD TO HEAR IT
ROTOLAK
A33АRAM
IT'S NOT THAT SIR-THE CLIMATE MUST BE GETTING ME DOWN. | |·SEEM TO LACK ALL' | ENERGY – I EVEN
WAKE TIRED –
THINK I'LL SEE A DOCTOR
-DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS USE HORLIOKY
REC
IN HOSPITAL TESTS
ECENTLY tests were made in a great hospital on men and women who.com. plained of always feeling tired,
It was found that these people had an
·excess of acid waste products in their blood
· during sleep.
This held waste-kept the brain and mérves Talon edge"-dil-night, even though the rest of
thú bôdy was sound asleep.
But when. Horlicka was given to these people" laît thlig at night," this Micého "hető"
este was completely hentralised. They woke
hed, with increased energy and vitality,,
DO YOU FEEL WORN OUT, DEPRESSED OR NERVY? DO YOU EVEN AWAKE TIRED?
Take HORLICKS
ENERG
SLEEP SOUNDLY--- WAKE REFRESHED
XT:
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markable sight with miles of long caravans of evacuating Egyptian familles who commandeered every available vehicle, oiling them high with their bedding, scant furni- ture and ancient horned gramo- phones, while the less fortunate slowly plod along the roads lead- ing from the city with bedding.and other bund es
their perched on heads and carrying childreti. the same time they drive a few miserable goats ahead of them.
Whole families of from eight to people crowded into 'taxis which were almost unobtainable in the town for any other pose.
10
Bomb Havoc -
At
pur-
The railway station through- out the day has been an inaes. cribable opectacle being crowded wish corally thousands of Arabs boarding special and ordinary trains on which "It was Impossible to make normal re- servations.
Owing to the structure of the native houses, which are mostly mud, the bombs caused great havoc especially as the poorër quarter is extremely congested..
Despite this exodus there are no signs of panic or disorder; only resentment at the Germafi ruth- lessness-Reuter.
FIGHTER SUPPORT IN SYRIA
FIGHTER SUPPORT FOR THE ALLIED TROOPS IN BYRIA 15 REVEALED IN A SPECIAL RA.F. "MIDDLE EAST: COM- 'MUNIQUE LAST NIGHT. JOS
It says R.A.F. aircraft gave full support to the British, 7.Imperial and Allied troops which crossed. [Into Syria at dawn ón: Sunday
· Fighter aircraft Which Batrailed). the sky over our advanen troop! met with no
RAFAE
fshot n downt Lover alexandr noor and 37
crished:Zehr.
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