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DAYLIGHT RAID ON COLOGNE Heavy Attack By Blenheims
Patent Absurdity Of
Peace Canard
It was officially dented in London yester- day that there is any truth whatsoever in a statement emanating from America and attri- buted to Senator Schaffer that Lord Beaver- brook notified the authorities in the United States that Britain will negotiate peace with Germany unless the United States enters the war within 30 days.
In Washington yesterday, the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, termed the latest rum- our that Britain may come to peace as "a patent absurdity," according to a Dow Jones message.-Reuter.
VOLUNTEER N.C.O. DIES OF INJURIES: 11 IN HOSPITAL
DENNIS EDWARD`SMITH, 22, Bombar- dier in 1st Battery, Corps Artillery, H.K.V.D.C., died at 7.10 this morning as the result of injuries received when an Army lorry plunged some 30 feet down the hillside from Cape d'Aguilar Road last night.
Direct Hits On
Power Stations
THE R.A.F. CARRIED OUT extensive operations over Northern France and Ger- many in daylight yesterday, it was learned in London last night.
Portugal
These operations included the bombing of Gets
a power station near Bethune and railway communications near St. Omer by Hampden bombers escorted by fighters, and an attack on objectives in Cologne by several squadrons of Blenheims.
St. Omer by Hampden
People on the south-east coast of England watched another armada of British 'planes return- ing across the Channel yesterday afternoon.
Tho aircraft were bromin- ently outilned against masses of white cloud towering above the cliffs of Northern France. They had flown out at inter- vals for over an hour, flying at a great height.
operations following R.A.F. night
JAPANESE
WARSHIPS
AT SAIGON
Relief
The
United States Treasury yesterday un- froze Portuguese assets in the United States.
A statement says the licence was issued after. Portugal "gave:
assurance the appropriate this Government.”
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The order of June 14, freezing More units of the Jap-foreign assets, was accompanied The activity indicated big anese fleet entered Sai-mising Portugal and five
by a Presidential statement pro-
other. raids on three cities of the indus-gon harbour, in south countries exemptions whenever trial Ruhr, in western Germany. French Indo-China,
they undertook not to, uso the exemptions to help the Axis, Monday, says a Tokyo announcement.
Daylight Raid On Cologne
It was announced in London
on
Russia. Switzerland, Spain and Sweden 'had since recely- ed similar exemptions but not, yet Finland,
Lt.-Gen. Shojiro Iida, Supreme that British bombers raided Commander of the Japanese Ex- Cologne in daylight yesterday.
peditionary Force in French Indo- The general licence exempts R.A.F. machines passed over China, yesterday conferred with the Portuguese. Government-and the south-east coast of England Vice-Admiral Seiichi Niimi, Su-its central bank and Portuguese alf day without a stop to Nor-
preme Commander of the Japanese nationals under certain conditions thern France and objectives Fleet-in Indo-China waters, from the Roosevelt freezing order much further inland-
of June 14. Bombers and fighters, flying very high,
in "y": swept over and "diamond" formations.
cession and listened to the con- tinuous heavy roar which con- tinued into the late afternoon,
Eleven other members of 1st Battery are Crowds watched this endless pro- still in hospital with injuries. Most serious of these is L/Bdr. Buckingham, whose condi- tion was stated this morning to be "still seri- ous."
The condition of the others was stated at Queen Mary Hospital this morning to be fair.
JAPAN AND THE SOVIET
“Japan and the Soviet
was
Among those injured L/Bdr. Roscoe, of the Royal Artillery, who was driving ine vehicle. He is now in the Bowen Road Military Hospital.
Twenty 'Planes Lost
During yesterday's daylight ralds, in which fighters escorted the bombers as far as Antwerp, the R.A.F. lost 12 bombers and eight fighters.
Bombers penetrated 150 miles Into Germany, scoring...directi hits on power stations at Quá- drat and Knatṇack, which rare Cologne's two power stations.". The accident occurred half way dromes at De Kooy and objec- -Flying Fortresses attacked 'aero- from the Shel-O Road Junction tives at Cologne and the port and the Cape D'Agullar Wireless of Emden Reuter, Station while the men were; on their way home from exercises,
ONE OF THE" "VOLUNTEERS, GUNNER LAWSON HAD A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM:
HUGE NEW
Union are conducting DEATH, HE WAS THROWN AIR BASES
their affairs in an atmos- phere of qulet trust and accommodation,' Wrote yesterday's Japan Times" organ of the Jap anese Foreign Office,
SOME 10 FEET INTO THE AIR
WHEN THE LORRY CRASHED
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DOWN THE EMBANKMENT, TWO HUGE ZAIR BABES, BUT LANDED ON THE HILL-COSTING APPROXIMATELY SIDE WITHOUT AS MUCH AS $6,500,000, ARE BEING ESTA- A BRUISE OR SCRATCHABLISHED AT MAINE, NEAR Roscoe those involved in the ac- DER, TO SERVE AS FERRYING With the exception of L/Bdr. THE NEW BRUNSWICK BOR-
POINTS FOR THE DELIVERY The paper referred to the re-
— OF BOMBERS AND OTHER peated denials" (of M. Lozovsky, that the two nations are just now WARPLANES. TO BRITAIN. ON the Soviet spokesman, which occupied with their several pro- The buses will be at Presque "should convince the world that blems on other fronts, and for Isle and Houlton. The runways Soviet-Japanese relations are not them even vaguely to consider at Fresque Isle will exceed a mile complicated by any ultimatum such possibilities as have been in length. dematids.","
mentioned by "unhealthy and sub-⠀⠀ It is understood British aviation Such unfounded rumours reflect veralve publicity, can only add to representatives will be included the nervous state of public opin the difficulties, confronting the among many officers to be nsaign- jon says: the par
adda world Reutered to the bases Reuter
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The conference took place
Portuguese assets in the United. board a warship in Saigon har States are estimated at about bour-Reuter.
$160,000,000-Reuter:
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