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DAYLIGHT RAID ON COLOGNE
Heavy Attack By Blenheims
Patent Absurdity Of
Peace Canard
It was officially denied in London yester- day that there is any truth whatsoever in а 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.
Eleven other members of 1st Battery are 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.
Among those injured was L/Bdr. Roscoe, of tho · Royal Artillery, who was driving · the vehicle. He is now in the Bowen Road Military Hospitar.
The accident occurred half way from the Shelt-Ó Road junction and the Cape D'Aguilar Wireless (Continued on. Page 16)
AUSTRALIAN WAR CABINET
A meeting of the Aus- tralian War Cabinet is
JAPAN
AND THE SOVIET
Direct Hits On
Power Stations
THE R.A.F. CARRIED OUT extensive
operations over Northern France and Ger- JOINT
many in daylight yesterday, it was learned in London last night.
These operations included the bombing of a power station near Bethune and railway
GUARANTEE
communications near St. Omer by Hampden TO TURKEY
bombers escorted by fighters, and an attack on objectives in Cologne by several squadrons of Blenheims.
A joint Anglo-Soviet demarche to Turkey has BOTH POWER STATIONS been officially made, it of England watched another A.M. AT POINT BLANK RANGE. was revealed in London armada of British 'planes return- A GREAT NUMBER OF BOMBS
People on the south-east coast, WERE ATTACKED AT 11.30
ing across the Channel yesterday, SCORED DIRECT HITS AND yesterday.
afternoon.
THE TARGETS WERE LEFT IN promin-FLAMES.
The aircraft were ently outlined against masses.
Withdrawal Covered
The British and Soviet Ambas- sádors in Ankara called on the Turkish ForeignTM Office-on August of white cloud towering above
countries. 10 and declared their
or the cliffs of Northern France.
had no aggressive intentions They had flown out at inter- "Fighters met the returning claims towards the Straits and Mori- vals for over an hour, flying at a bombers near Antwerp, covering confirmed adelity to the great height:
their withdrawal across the North treux Convention. The activity indicated
The two Governments, they big Sea, whilst another strong. force
stated, were prepared scrupu- operations following R.A.F. 'night, of fighters patrolled the raids on three cities of the indus- coast in support.
lously to observe Turkish ter ritorial integrity. trial Ruhr, in western Germany.j "About the same time Hamp-
den bombers, with
BOTH WILL BE PREPARED fighter B
IF AT- escort. attacked the railways TO ASSIST· TURKEY
BY A EUROPEAN · near St. Omer and the power TACKED station near Coinay in Pas de POWER-REUTER.
Daylight Raid On Cologne
Calais.
Dutch
It was announced in London that British bombers raided "THREE ENEMY FIGHTERS Cologne in daylight yesterday. WERE DESTROYED BY THE R.A.F. machines passed over ESCORT. FORTRESS AIRCRAFT the south-eas: coast of England ATTACKED THE AERODROME all day without a stop to Nor-AT DE KOOY AND OBJEC- thern France and objectives TIVES AT COLOGNE AND THE much further inland.
PORT OF EMDEN.
Bombers and fighters, flying "Our losses in all these opera- very high. swept over in "y"
tions are 12 Blenheims and "éight and "diamond" formations.
fighters."-Reuter. Crowds watched this endless pro-
cession and listened to the con-
tinuous heavy roar which con- tinued into the late afternoon..
Twenty 'Planes Lost
During yesterday's daylight raids, in which fighters escorted the bombers as far as Antwerp, the R.A.F. lost 12 bombers and eight fighters,
Bombera penetrated.150 miles Into Germany, scoring direct hits on power stations at “Qua- drat and Khatsack, which are Cologne's two power stations. Flying Fortresses attacked dero- dromes at De Kooy and objec- tives at: Cologne and the port of Emden-Reuter.
Six Squadrons
"Japan and the Soviet
Six, squadrons of Blenheims Union are conducting penetrated into the Rhineland their affairs in an atmos- yesterday morning to attack the phere of quiet trust and great Cologne power stations at Quadrath and Knapsack," says accommodation," wrote an Air Ministry communique. t
"Tighters accompanied Ling yesterday's Japan
bombers as far as Antwerp. Then often flying less than 100 feet up in the 50-mile penetration of the German defence system.
being held in Melbourne Times," organ of the Jap the bombers went on alono, to-day and a meeting of anese Foreign Office. the War Council to-mor-| TOW E
The
paper referred to the "re- peated denials" of M. Lozovsky, which The Cabinet has already sat for the Soviet spokesman 15 hours in two days.
"should convince the word that occupied with their several pro If Parliament approves the Soviet-Japanese relations are not blems on other fronts, and for Cabinet's suggestion that Mr. complicated by dny ultimatum them even vaguely to consider such possibilities as have been Menzies should go to London, demands
Such unfounded rumours reflect mentioned by "unhealthy and sub- when it meets on August 20, Mr. Fadden is likely again to become the nervous state of -public opin versive publicity, can only add to acting Premier with full adminision, says the paper, which adds the difficulties confronting the
Router rative power Reutor LED that the two nations pre-just now worl
HAVE AN
CONGRESS LIKELY TO APPROVE
The U.S.-House and Senate has decided tentatively to extend the Conscripts" train- ing for 18 months; beyond the original year, says Reuter from Washington.
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