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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 16, 1941.
R.A.F. BOMBS BLOCK CORINTH CANAL TO SHIPPING
„AN R.A.F. MIDDLE EAST COMMUNIQUE
| ANNOUNCES THAT THE CORINTH CANAL HAS BEEN RENDERED UNUSABLE FOR PAS- SAGE TO ENEMY SHIPPING FOR SOME CON- SIDERABLE TIME.
For the loss of only one aircraft, R.A.F. bombers achieved the following operations: heavy bomb attacks on the Corinth Canal on the nights of August 8/9/13/14.
Subsequent examination of photographs shows considerable landslides on the banks of the Lanai which were sufficient to prevent passage to enemy ship- ping for some considerable time. Bombs were dropped on the
Heavy bombers attacked Tri-
TURKEY
PLEASED
aerodrome at Heraklion (Crete). The Istanbul morning| poll on the night of August 13/14 papers carry full front- oblaining hits on government
buildings and A.A. gun positions, page headlines giving the Swordfishes' Feat substance of the texts of Fleet Air Arm Swordfishes the identical declaration!!
ITALIANS PREPARED FOR BAD NEWS
“One should spread the conviction that the war may last 10 years," says Bottai, Italian Education Minister, writing in "Critica Sociale" and recommending Ita- lians to prepare for a long war.
This view is support- ed by Ciano's paper "Telegrafo" and the Milan Catholic news- paper "Italina.“- Reuter.
raided the submarine base at handed to the Turkish KUNMING
Augusa (Sicily) on the night Government by the Bri-
of Augus. 13/14, two hits being
observed on the submarine Jetty tish and Soviet Ambassa- HAVOC
and a large fire breaking out on the quay.
оп
dors.
In the newspaper "Yeni Sabah" the well-known Deputy Yaltchin **The Anglo-Soviet joint real
I declaration
causes Turks
had of sians
against Turkey. trenches "A point that
evil-minded
DE- IN ONE OF THE MOST VÁSTATING RAIDS MADE ON KUNMING SINCE THE BEGIN- 27 NING OF THE WAR, JAPANESE BOMBERS RAINED
Other Swordfishes bombed bar- ruck blocks at Syracuse, starting a fire which spread over a large says: area causing two explosions.
Reconnaissance by Swordfishes conten ment because it annihil of Syracuse harbour showed that ates all malevolent rumours SEVERAL HUNDRED BOMBS a merchant vessel attacked by tending that the British and Rus- Swordfishes
the night August 10/11 was sunk. In Abyssinia enemy and buildings were August 14 at Wolcheft. previous day at Gondar two snontaneously from London and western direct hits were made on build- Moscow." ings near military headquarters and three on a training depot which started a number of fires.
Reuter.
ON THE BUSINESS DISTRICT plans
AND SUBURBS. Particularly Investigations show that cultur bombed an overjoys Turks is that the initiaal institutions, totally or partially demolished included the. -South- On the tive of the declarations came
the United University, Kunming Office of the well-known National Tsing Hua University (transplanted from Peiping) and the Yunnan Daily News, Central News.
SPECIAL U.S. FUND FOR TANKS
The Joint Committee of the House of Representa- tives and the Senate has agreed to the provision of a special fund of $750,000,- 000 for the manufacture of tanks and other Ordnance.
The Committee's decision fol- lowed, receipt of a letter by its Chairman from the Secretary of War, Colonel Stimson, saying
that the manufacture of tanks and other ordnance was "of ex- treme importance to the try's security.
1
coun-
Senator Adams explained in an interview that the Committee had agreed to restore $750,000,000 of the $1,347,000,000 eliminated by the Senate on Thursday night from the measure allocating $6,883,000,000 for national defence. -Reuter.
CHUNGKING
WELCOMES STATEMENT
THE CHURCHILL - ROOSE- VELT DECLARATION HAS BEENAGENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIVED IN BOTH OFFICIAL AND PUBLIC CIRCLES IN CHUNGKING.
“The "scheme ndicates broad statesmanship and will go a long way towards omoting even closer.coopera among all the powers oppos eto aggression," semil clat statement says, th
Chinese political circles, it adds, I "derive particular satisfaction from the fact that disarmament of therAxis powers after the war is made one of the major war alms of Great Britain and the United States." Reuter.
Reuter.
NEW FREE FRENCH
COMMANDERS
General de Gaulle has issued al decree appointing General Gentil-
forme ne
ALLIED OFFICERS RETURNED
Commander-in-Chief | A contingent of Allied officer
of the Free French forces in prisoners taken to France during Africa and General Larminat the Syrian campaign has arrived as second-in-command to Gener-in, Beirut. having been returned al Catroux in Syria and Lebanon by the French authorities, says --Reuter.
Reuter from Beirut:
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