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„Information received by authoritative Dutch chroles in Lon- don gives a distressing picture of the destruction in the Nether- lands as a result of the ruthless German warfare --
Rotterdam affered most. After the fierbe tightlar to
throw the Germans out of the central part of the city there
·was strafing by wives of German bombers in the afternoon of Tuesday, May 14." It was this bombardment, coupled with the `threat, to subject the town of Utrecht to the same fate, which
led the Dutch High Command to surrender.
BOMBS IN OIL DEPOTS
GUN BATTLE OFF CHEUNG CHAU
An attempt by pirates to robi fishing Junk off Cheung Chau. Is-
SATURDAY, JUNE 29-1940.
FOREIGN MAILS
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 28th JUNE 1940, 230 AM,
ĜENEBAL”“ HOLIDAY
land on. Thursday afternoon re- On Monday the 1st July, the General Post Office and Kowloon sulted in a gun battle between Central Post Office will be open from 8 am to noon, Bheungwan the pirate Junk and A police Branch Post Office will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 am and the other launch from Cheung Chau Sta-Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed.
On "information received by the
tlon it was learned yesterday, yo There will be one collection from the pillar boxes as ón Sundays," Many thousands. In Rotter station, a párty of police.-incha, jone delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11.30 am, and ona"de-
were killed or wounded. An area in the centre of the town, three miles long and half a mile wide. was completely destroyed.
ALL IN RUINS
aron, rece od livery of registered correspondence at 11 am to be dians and two Chinese, boarded a There will also be one delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11 launch for the scene of the alleg-am. from the Branch Post Offices at Stanley, Taipo and Un Lan
The Money Order Office will b entirely closed ed attempt and when approach- ing the pirate Junk were fired
· LONDON, - June 28, (Reuter)— Some indication of the work done by the RAF was given by photo graphs which appeared in the Hritish press yesterday.
One picture shows 10 bombs the town hall, the general post caped among the rocks. One man dropping on oil tanks at Mulheim, office, and the new stock ex-was arrested the same day and, near Cologne. A second picture change. All this has been laid in another was taken into custody America and Trans-Atlantic Bervice has also been introduced the shows three bomba" dropping on ruins. Or the houses along the yesterday. marshalling yards at the" impor-famous Boompjes--the picturesque
by Air mail letters will be accepted for transmission to Europe by All visitors to Rotterdain knew upon. the central Coolsingel boulevard.
Pan-American Service to New York and onward thence by sea, at The police launch returned the $2.80 per half-ounce for the air transport, plus 15 cents per ounce with one side cafes, hotels, shops, are and the pirates made for to British possessions and 25 cents per ounce to foreign countries in and theatres, and on the other shore where they landed and es- respect of sex. transport.
täni railway junction at Hamm northern quayside of the River
NAVIGATION the cliffs The second bomb hit of Holland-is blocked by ships repeatedly bombed and shelled.
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A third picture was taken by a Mass not a wall is left standing.gether with a number of the Em- young Canadian pilot of the Fleet South of the river the harbour bassies, a prison, and a maternity Air Arm. It shows a German gun district has suffered, as well as hospital. The well-known park of emplacement near Calais. Clouds the neighbourhood of the Waal Zorgvlled was bombed, and the of smoke show where one bomb haven aerodrome. The Nieuwe wireless station at Scheveningen, fell between the emplacement and Waterweg-the canal to the Hook The serodrome Upenburg was
the gun.
which have struck magnetic mines and one bomb fell on the barracks et Waalsdorp, just outside. The Even the Germans admit that laid by the Germans.
Large stocks of raw materials, Hague, killing a number of soldiers trie RAF. are doing a lot of work, wheat, oil, and military reserves and sending horse stampeding
Manila round Rotterdam. lisve been through the district. stated that 371 bombs were drop-systematically destroyed by the
The famous tourist centres of Shanghai. ped on, German territory in one Dutch. It is estimated that the Middelburg and Veere, on the Shanghai and Amoy night alone.
Netherlands had enough supplies island of Walcheren, suffered hea-London and Straits BRITISH RAIDED, NO for a year, even if they had been vily. Fishing is, partly in ruins, Japan and Manila..
completely cut off. Very little of like the other Dutch naval base, Shanghal this has fallen into the enemy's Den Helder. in North Holland, Japan... NAIROBI June 28 (Reuter)-hands, but the destruction could Breda and Tilburg. near the Bel- A Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai - (San
Francisco date, 8th June). ponevráce communique states that three air- not always be confined to materiar glan frontier in Brabant, have craft yesterday attacked British of military importance. The town been the scenes of fierce fighting. Canton Moyale on the borders of Kenya of Pernisse, for instance, is burnt and Maastricht, in the appendix Shanghai. and Abyssinia. Fifteen bombs were out as a result of the setting on of Limburg, has also suffered Japan and Shanghai. dropped but there were no damage fire of the big oll tanks in the much On. the Zuyder Zee. the Shanghai
ancient harbour of Stavoren was Japan and Shanghai. or casualties. Two planes attacked neighbourhood.
Haiphong OTHER CITIES
shelled. Wajir today when again fifteen
Bandakan. bomb were dropped without dam- Amsterdam suffered much less MATERIAL FOE LOOTING
London" and Straits, age or casualties.
material damage. Some bathbs Apart from the irreparable losses fell in the centre of the old part of historical monuments and trea- London, Straits and Mantia.. of the city; and the Central Station sures in these and other Dutch Shanghai and Amoy was slightly hit The new East cities, the Netherlands have had Air Mail by "Imperiai Airways Service AS BRITAIN'S Station, at Mulderpoort, a beauti most of their great bridges des Shanghal
ful modern building, was more troyed, which were built with so
Haiphong TASK GROWS
seriously damaged The Schiphol much genius and pride. All the WELLINGTON, June 28 (Reuter) aerodrome and neighbourhood were bridges, over the rivers Lissel and Palembang..... "As Britain's task becomes har- heavily bombed.
1 Mans are blown up. The new Strata der and her peril greater, we in The Hague was the object or bridge over the Waal at Nijmegen, Al-Mail by "Pan American Airway Direct Sar-
én San Francisco date, 25th June, New Zealand. are: increasingly several attacks from the air. 'n masterpiece of engineering skil atrengthened in our determination Bombs dropped on the Pleft, the is no more. At Verlo, in Limburg, Shanghai: to stand by her and give all the square surrounded by Government the Dutch had at least the satis aid in our power," said the Prime offices, without causing much faction of seeing a German ar Minister, Mr. Peter Fraser, in a damage, Beveral houses nearby. moured trkin disappear with the statement in the House of Repre- however, were partly ruined, to-bridge. sentatives on the war situation
British peoples, he continued, had no Illusions regarding the dangers and difficulties ahead, but were fully determined to carry on and prove that their resolute tem- per and spirit of independence were sufficient to withstand and overcome the fiercest attacks. --
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Haiphong and Holhow HSENALINEN, ASAKUSTANN Air Mail by "Air France Airways Servise" ...
Rabani shanghai
JU8. A., and Manila-(San Francisco date 11th
June),
Air Mail by "Imperial - Always Service” Formosa, Amoy and Swatow, ng miqu
Churchill Cabinet, predicted lead-Canton
Will Canada, USA, Japan and Shanghai (Vancouver British Communists,
B.C. 15th June.)" shortly suppress the Communist
Bangkok and Balgon. The War Office officially claim-Party. The Government decreed a
“LIE DOWNTM”
Manila. ed to have nothing to do with the $1,750 benalty for the new crime Shanghal
of exporting from the United nationwide campaign sweeping British zolf, chibe to have all Kingdom copies of either Action,hanghai and Amoy ........................................................
Sandakan. Shanghai. rolfers carry riffer in their bags, the British Fascist weekly, or the GOOD OMEN FOR shoot Nazi parachuteers on sight. Communist London Daily Worker Java and Manila,
US. A Honolulu and Japan (San Francisco date, NOT CORRECT |
Everywhere Britons again day 18th June).. Many of our readers, particured their gas masks" and the larly those living in the gaires," whole Air Raid Precautions sya Calcutta and Straits
Shanghai A small while, measuring not said the London Times, "have al-tem was pepped up/afresh. "If more than three feet, was donated ready written to ask what is the you are caught in the open and to the Minatogawa Aquarium by correct method of dealing with cannot reach shelter," advised the
FISHERMEN
a fisherman who caught it in a net these missionaries of Hitleris Home Omice, lie down and cover
near ShikaTOSITED
dropping from, the sky...
your head with your arms,”
OUTWARD MAILS
Registered and Parcel Mall are closed 15 minutes earlier than It is one of a species of porpoise It would not be correct for Newspapers urged the people to the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are found in the Indian Ocean and in country gentlemen to carry their keep cool 1 and when death advertised to close at or before 9 am registered and parcel malls are bays in the southern part of Japan. suns with them on their walks dropped out of the akles, told closed at 5 pm, on the previous day. When mails are advertised to and take #ying or running shots them that the one you hear close after 5 p.m. Registered and Parcel mails are closed at 6 pm. as opportunity is offered,
doesn't get you, that Britain has such action would put them into plenty of fighter planes and anti- the position of francstireurs and aircraft guns to drive off aerial should therefore be avoided." Blitzkriegers.
Whitsuntide had been chosen by Army
It comes to the inland sea in search of food mostly sardines and tal (sea bream), and is regarded by the shermen as the fish of good omen for its appearance indicates that the tai fishing will be good.
The largest of its kind grows only to about 41 feet and its meat
ig unsavoury.
sentries were rapidly
Adolf Hitler to get his total war posted at every conceivably vul- under way. Whitsunday is a big nerable point with orders to chas calentes.
SATURDAY
For
Date and Time
Sat. 29th Farcels 10.30 AM. Od 11.30 AM 13.30 M
MOVIES 2.30 PM Dur GP.O&KPO, King-Reg
British holiday. but the holiday tenge and open fire if the chal shanghai (Parcels only). ........................ areas. was cancelled and the Govern-lengee should not stand perfectly Formosa, Shanghai and Japan, angka ment called on ferery Briton to stih and cry, “Friend!" That Air Mail for "Imperiál Airways-Service” keep a sharp eye aloft for Nazi in- these orders were in lethal earnest ban and thence by Sea Service to United vaders. King George called 2,500.- the war Office emphasized by an-dom. The Shanghal Municipal Counci
000 more conscripts to the colours, nouncing: "Those suffering from Manila wishes to draw the attention of and the War Once announced deafness are advised to avoid any straits. Ceylon, India, Mombasa, Beira Lourenco the rickshaw-using public to the that soon there will be in the Bri-point occupied by troupe at which Marquet, East and Bouth Africa. necessity for paying public Tick-ish Isles some 4.500.000 prospesa sentry is known to be posted, shaw pullers justly and even gen-ve soldiers in various stages of erously. The Council has permitted training
an increase of 15 cents per day as HEAVY PENALTI A rickshaw rent pending more rez- haustive examination of the wine dustry..
LONDON June 28 (Rent King Zog, accompa Geraldine, and his thre arrived in London today
WASHINGTON," Jum ter)"A" Clause estab million
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Rellet Dill agr Roosevelt yester
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IKELY QUISLERS S Austrian and German-refugees, hitherto permitted their freedom; Stern Home Senfetary Sir John were rounded up and interned Anderson announced that saven just in case some of them might | years of penal servitude or a fine turn out to be Quislers Outside of $1,750 or both is now the London, curfew for all aliens, penalty for any Briton caught friendly or not, rang st 8 pm. "systematically fomenting on Motorized troops and police roved position to the war but still per everywhere, stopping cars and Batavia and Boursbays. mitted, were mere expressions of examining credentials, so
Shanghai and Parcels only, for naked the London's always truculent week-Balgon, Mauritius Reunio
Bill Toly, The Aeroplane, datly predict renco Marques.
anded Britain would be bombed soon, Manila and Batavia. ini-implored the Prime Minister In-
for stantly to open "swlapméthodical attacks by the Royal Air Force on
ving to Germany's communications, muni
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