THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 8, 1941.
HUGE FIRES STARTED IN RAID ON MUNSTER
FIFTY FIRES IN MUNSTER ALONE WERE
COUNTED BY AIR CREWS TAKING PART IN THREE
SUNDAY NIGHT'S POWERFUL BOMBING ATTACKS ON GERMANY OCCUPIED TERRITORY.
AND GERMAN-LAWRENCES"
Enemy resources were attacked on land and sea.
One force went to Western Ger- many to continue the disorganisation of traffic and the break down of industries. The other went to North-West France to at- tack the German warships ai Brest.
In Western Germany, Munster ---junction of many rallways-was attacked while it was still smould- ering after the heavy bombing of the night before. Again the city was made a mass of flames. In one railway yard, there was an enor- mous fire and the railway sheds were rent by terrific explosions.
Though Munster is the capital of Westphalia, Dortmund is the largest town and the great centre of the heavy industry. Here a so there was widespread destruction of which one report stated: "A huge factory building was ablaze with fires all around. There were fires also in docks.”
seen
Cologne, Dusseldorf and Emden where were among other towns our bombers attacked industries and supplies.
In Holland, where various ob jectives including the docks at Rotterdam were attacked during the night, blazing warehouses lit up an enemy supply ship on the Zuider Zee not far from Amater- dam. The ship was acon from one of our bombers, scored a hit on it.
which
Warships Bombed
At Brest, very heavy armour- piercing bombs were dropped on the berths of the three German warships. Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen.
BALUCH
REGIMENT
IN ACTION
A MESSAGE FROM SIMLA SAYS THAT THE 10th BALUCH REGIMENT HAS TAKEN PART IN MUCH
THE FIGHT.
OF
THAT
WORK FOR BRITISH
Count Byron de Prorok, | who has just returned to New York after twenty years' work in Africa as an archaeologist, believes that he knows the names of three new "Lawrences of Arabia" working in Africa for the British, writes the correspondent of the "Evening Stan- dard."
From scraps of information re- by the Cairo communi- vealed
ING CAMPAIGN IN EAST, ques, and from knowledge he has AFTER picked up in Africa, he believes PARTICIPATING; they are:
AFRICA. AND
IN THE VICTORIES IN GALLA- Major Ralph Alger Bagnold, BAT, KERU AND BARENTU, | leader of desert expeditions, THE REGIMENT WENT UP TO veteran of the last war, and one KEREN FOR THE GREATEST of the greatest authorities in the BATTLE OF THE CAMPAIGN. ON MARCH 17, IT TOOK PART, dunes; IN THE ABORTIVE ATTACK ON SANCHIL FEATURE,
On March 25 it passed round behind Sanchil, which was still held, and attacked the enemy on the lower hills over-looking the gorge known as railway bumps. These were a confused mass of steep hills dwarfted by mountains on either side, but were the sever- est obstacles, and were strongly held.
while
The Baluchis captured them and The increased strength of the held them against three strong defences is proof, it proof were needed, of the value which the enemy attached to these warships and of the anxiety to get them ready for sea.
In the course of last night's at tack, a liner of about 10,000 tons was sighted at anchor in the har- bour at Brest. Diving down to at tack and flattening out at about 50 feet, one British aircraft hit the ship with a powerful bomo, the explosion of which was seen, fair and square,
on the
stern.- British Wireless.
LETTER OF FIREMAN'S
WIFE
|
counter-attacks
sappers and miners repaired the road after them.
Afterwards, during the advance on Asmara, the Regiment took part in the fighting at Teclesan, then after the capture of Eritrea | dropped down 7,000 feet to sea level at Massawa and were pre- sent at the capture of that town. The Regiment has so far been awarded one I.O.M. - and three I.D.S.M.'s. Reuter.
MOVE TO CLEAN-UP
IN SHANGHAI
world on the movements of sand
Mr. William Boyd Kennedy Shaw, B former member of the Sudan Forest Service and the Palestinian Department of Anti- kulties, a noted botanist and archæologist;
Captain Norman Hillier, ex- plorer, author, veteran of the last war, and organiser of a trading company which operated across Desert, using light the Libyan cars instead of camels.
Count de Prorok declared "two other probable that heroes of Britain's North African campaign" are Major John Glubb known to the Arabs as "the man with the scar," who organised the Bedouins in the twenties to fighti Saudi Arabian raiders; and Ma- jor James Maxwell, former com- mander of Kurmuk, a friend and adviser of many Ethiopians.
"For years he has been study- ing trails through sand dunes. He must be the man who found the way to get light tanks through to attack Sidi Barrani, where the Italians were so confident it could not be done that they did not even post sentries over the dunes.
1,000ft. Hills
"Behind Sidi Barrani the dunes form hills 300 to 1,000ft. high, the height of the Eiffel Tower. They change constantly. [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] Major Bagnold knows the winds Gambling dens in Shanghai of those parts; he knows how the and with were struck a new blow yester dunes would change, day when Mr. C. C. Pan, Western his records and data and personal SEVENTEEN FIREMEN FROM District Police Commissioner, an-knowledge, he could very well he would personally have keept track of the changes THE CATFORD: AREA
OF nounced LONDON AND THEIR WIVES close up the Argentina Nite Club until the exact moment when the dunes would pass and light cars HAD TEA YESTERDAY AFTER-gambling rooms to-night.
could fly along on the rock sur- NOON WITH MRS. WINANT, The raid completes Mr. Pan's face beneath. WIFE OF THE U.S. AMBAS- declared anti-gambling war in the Western District, and removes the This was the outcome of a let-majority of the big gambling ter received by Mrs. Winant from'
It is believed, a **Mr. Shaw could have been the establishments, the wife of a London fireman in number of minor dens are still link between the British and Catford. The writer said she operating but that these will be Free French forces coming up wanted Mrs. Winant to know her forced to close shortly-Interna- from Lake Chad. He used to spend coming to England to join the tional News Service. Ambassador had *roused the admiration of all wives and mothers in London, especially those who know what an un- comfortable experience it is to endure the Blitz in order to keep the home fires burning.”
SADOR,
She added the that "Anglo-
MOTORING
American cooperation would co- OFFENCES
dure.
en-
"In the Libyan desert that rock is as hard and flat as a billiard table.
his time mapping the desert spaces in winter and then going to Eng- land in the hot weather to Ice- ture and write.
Captain Hillier was without a job after the last war. With his experience of the desert he or- Desert ganised the Western Transport Company.
"His headquarters
were at
Mersa Matruh where the British
Expressing appreciation of the Mr. G. J. P. Carey was sum-drive into Libya started, and spirit underlying the letter, Mrs. Winant sent out the invit British Wireless.
TWO KILLED IN ALEXANDRIA RAID Two persons were killed fourteen injured in an air on Alexandria on Sunday enemy aircraft-Reuter..
and
moned before Mr. H. G. Sheldon, Siwa, the great Oasis of Jupiter, K.C this morning, for leaving in the heart of the desert. his car No. 4045 unattended in "He had rest houses and de- Chater Road near Union Build- | posits of water and food
placed ing.
strategically all over the desert. The: Senussi, wha, still call Graziani the Butcher," are bes hind Hillier. They are behind anyone who is against, Graziani.
"Hillier helped hundreds of the
A fine of $5 was imposed; MrH. D. Bidwell, and ... Mr. STA VAN. Fortescue, were each fined $5 for parking overtime in Connaught Road car park,'
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A similar summons against frblesmen to escape from the Ita- raid Mrs. E. C. Fredericks, of White lians through the barbed wire by House, No. 177, Repulse Bay, was fence Mussolini, had set up along
adjourned, for one week.
the Libyan-Egyptian frontier."
"I can tell
Page
WHITE
HORSE blindfold
.... it's equal to a fine liqueur”
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