THE CHINA MAIL, JULỲ 17, 1941.
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1,000 TONS OF BOMBS
DROPPED
Grim Figures On Weight Of British Raids
OVER 2,000 TONS OF BOMBS WERE DROPPED IN THE RUHR AREA BETWEEN JUNE 16 AND JULY 10.
Further examples showing the weight of British night attacks, are the dropping of 1,000 tons of bombs on Cologne and over 500 tons on Bremen during the same period.
Photographs proving that Muenster, the German town re- cently bombed ofi successive nights, contained nulitary ob- jectives, have been brought back by R.A.F. reconnaissance planes. :
German propaganda described Muenster as a "Cathedral town with
no Industry except
breweries."
Photographs showing the effect of the first night RA.F. raid were shown to the press in Laindon yes- terday.
They prove that the bombing was entirely concentrated on the aerodrome and all the aerodrome buildings have been burnt oul and an adjoining barracks very badly knocked about.
Accurate And Effective
BRITISH RAID AT TOBRUK
ON BREMEN
BRITISH CASUALTIES
IN AIR RAIDS
It was officially an- nounced in London yesterday that British civilian air raid casualties from Janu- I last year to the ary end of June were ap- proximately 41,900
killed and 52,600 in- jured and detained in hospitals.--Reuter.
LEAGUE STILL KICKING
that the
SUPPLY CONVOY BOMBED ON WAY TO LIBYA
WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY by the R.A.F. was reported in yesterday's Middle East com- munique which says that early yesterday morning Bomber Command aircraft success- fully attacked a convoy of enemy shipping off the coast of Tripolitania.
Two heavy bombs struck an 8,000-ton vessel amidships and completely destroyed it, and another was damaged in the bows by a direct hit.
Enemy aircraft which attempt- ed to drop bombs on British mer- chant vessel on the Libyan coast on Tuesday were engaged by R.A.F. fighters, and six Junkers 87's and one Messerschnitt 109 were shot down.
During the night of July 14/15 heavy bombers attacked themy-occupied aerodromes at
The raid made by Bri- tish forces from Tobruk,|
A reminder which the
enemy mis- League of Nations is still our
1 took for a major attempt|carrying on is given by Eleusis and Hassani (Greece) and to break out of the town, Mr. Sean Lester, the Heraklion (Crete). took place on July 12, it Secretary-General, in the was disclosed in London Report for 1941, issued in
Geneva yesterday.
The Dortmund-Ems Canal, sur-
and a big railway junction, also suffered.
rounding part of the aerodrome yesterday.
"The photographs show clear. ly to an expert that there was practically no damage on the residential district," said an o
ficial of the Ministry of
Economic Warfare.
"On military targets the bomb- ing was pretty accurate and ef- fective." Reuter.
NO TREATIES NEEDED
ASKED IN THE COMMONS IF HE WOULD PUBLISH THE TREATIES OF ALLIANCE BE- TWEEN BRITAIN AND HER ALLIES, THE FOREIGN SECRE- TARY BAID THAT THE ONLY TREATY OF ALLIANCE IS THE ANGLO-POLISH AGREEMENT REGARDING MUTUAL A6619- TANCE SIGNED IN LONDON ON AUGUST 25, 1939, AND AL- READY PUBLISHED.
Mr. Eden added: "It will, how- ever, be recalled that in the reso- lution unanimously adopted at the inter-Allled meeting in London on
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The raid was carried out astride the road from Tobruk to El Gobi, about 38 miles south of Tobruk.
Mr Lester states that both the personnel of the League and the The operation was the work of budget were considerably reduced a patrol of 40 men and a tank-but the International Labour hunting platoon, who were sup- ofice, of which part has been ported by artillery and machine-transferred to Canada, gun fire from the British posi-working in Geneva on a reduced tions on the Tobruk perimeter.
OBJECT OF THE RAID WAS TO CAUSE CASUALTIES TO THE ENEMY AND SECURE IDENTIFICATIONS.
The Britich inflicted over 60 casualtics and brought back five prisoners, which gave the neces- sary identifications sought. No tanks were encountered. British casualties were 10 men wounded and three missing.
scale.
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The Secretariat of the League continues to furnish Govern. ments with "useful information on hygiene, nutrition, housing. Cocial acsirtance, protection of youth, help to rofugees and the fight against the abuse of drugs."
Mr. Lester expressed the view that after the war responsible The enemy's description of this statesmen will have to restore the small operation
'a deter-mechanism of international He mined sorile to break out of in order to avoid a return to the Tobruk."--Reuter.
1 tragedy of wars.-Reuter.
was
MALAYA'S WAR TAX YIELD:
M.P. QUESTIONS
ESTIMATED TOTAL YIELD from war tax
June 12, the Governments repre- in the Straits Settlements and the Federated sented were described as being
engaged together in the fight Malay States for the current year, respec-
against aggression and they agree
to continue the struggle against tively, is $10,000,000 and $4,000,000.
German or Italian oppression unti! victory is won, and mutually to
assist each other in the struggle
This was announced in the House of Com-
to the utmost of their respective mons yesterday by Mr. G. Hall, Parliamen-
capacities.
"No formal treaties are Indeed tary Under-Secretary
necessary to express the close ties
of friendship which bind the answering a question. Allied peoples and which are Mr. Hall added the yield from finding expression in deeds rather war taxation on rubber exports than in words:”—British_Wireless. in 1941 was estimated to be, re- spectively, Straits. Settlements $519,000, and F.M.S., $3,000,000.
{S'HAI STRIKE
SETTLED
Since those: estimates were made,, however, the... ratce.... of duty had been doubled in both territorian..
to the
Colonies,
HOSPITAL PATIENT ́LEAPS TO: DEATH.
A 20-year-old patient, in the Precious. Blood Hospital, Ng.Chi- hang, committed suicide early yesterday morning by jumping the Hospital. He died instantly.
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The labour situation in Shang- A question was asked on the hat has been slightly eased with approximate number of Malayan the settlement of the two-week residents earning incomes re from the second floor verandah of long China Electric Company spectively of between £576 and dispute and the Ribbon Blue £720, £720 and £3,4007 and Dairy strike. Several other dead-over £3,400. locks are continuing Interna- tional News Service..
RING-STOLEN
Mr. Hall replied no informa- ilon at present was available; Reuter.
BARRACKS THEFT
A diamond ring, valued at $700, is reported to have been Spr, Robertson, of Wellington stolen from No. 200, Queen's Barracks, has reported the theft Road Central, at about midnight) of “a wrist watch valued at $150, “yesterday, beg
from his room, yesterday.
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EMBEZZLEMENT.
Three months'- hard labour was imposed on Lui Keng, 34, sales- man, by Mr. D. J. N. Anderson at Kowloon this morning for embezzling $32.
Accused collected the money, from his employer's customers.
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At Elouals direct hits wero
Tuesday night, one came down in the Great Bitter Lake and another crashed south of Port Said.
From the above operations two of our aircraft are missing. Reuter.
GERMAN WOMEN FOR NORTH CHINA
made on hangars and runways | (6PECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") and dispersal points, causing a number of large fires and ex- plosions. from the other objectives.
Similar results were reported
Messina Raid
During the same night R‚A.F. heavy bombers earried out a highly successful attack on ducks and other military objectives at Messina.
Some of the 120 Nazis evacu- ated from the Netherlands East Indies are being sent to North China while the rest are tempor- arily living in the German School in Shanghai. Forty-five are leav- Inter- ing for Tsingtao to-day. national News Service.
JAPANESE RAID
IN SHANGHAI
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Several tons of high *x - plosives and incendiary bombe were dropped and great fires In a new Japanese raid in the were started at the ferry rall- French Concession in Shanghai, head, engine sheds, a transform - ¦ seven Chinese were arrested in a er plant building, warehouses, large Chinese hotel with the co- and four lines of trucks were set | operation of the French police. ablaze and the fires were visible The Chinese are suspected by the 65 miles distant,
Japanese of' working for Chung- A number of enemy aircraft: king. — International News Ser- flew over the Suez Canal area on vice.
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