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HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES IN BATTLE
OVER SOUTH-EAST COAST
an hour until the operation
was successful y concluded. Similar caim-and courage was displayed by townspeople general-
GENERAL
Trawler Shoots Down
Dive Bomber
ABORTIVE NIGHT RAID: COUNT. though many people "taxing LONDON, Aug. 18 (Reuter)-It is
BELIEVED AMONG CASUALTIES
"INTENSE AND`
ACCURATE"
Navy Gunners Bring Down Five Raiders
cover in the Anderson shelters
oficially announced that HM. could hear destruction raining on trawler Edwardian yesterday shot
LONDON, August 13 (Reuter)--| their homes,
down an enemy dive bomber and Five German planes were brought SMART WORK BY AB.P. so damaged another that it is down by the Royal Navy yester-
day. "One house was utterly demo-thought unlikely that it reached its lished. The backs of two others base.
The were ripped clean
The trawler Away.
suffered corner of a fourth was blown off. casualties. Hardy a window anywhere near remained intact Tiles and slates littered the roads. Doors tung drunkenly on the hinges. Yet in bursts of machine-guna short time the A.R.P. services catue sprang into action and cleared the wobbing debris away.
LONDON, Aug. 13 (Renter) The Admiralty, Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security have sued a Jolat communi- - que saying that enemy bombing attacks, which began over the Kent coast yesterday morning, were later extended to the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth where large forces were employed.". An Air Ministry communique. Issued later, stated that in the air engagements round our coasts yesterday, the number of
39 enemy aircraft so fat known to have been destroyed is Nine of our fighters are missing. The attack
After on His Majesty's dockyard met
immediately
with little success fire, one German plane Some bombs were dropped on the roaring" over the town outskirts of the dockyard area. and losing height. It came down field behind the setting fire to a store and causing in a cabbage
The pilot Was found minor damage to a fetty. Two town small harbour service craft were wounded.
another Almost damaged and subsequently sank.
followed and u In other parts of Portsmouth a burst of firing
a second enemy plane was seen to was hit and rallway station
Ms. number of buildings, including a dive. The allot baled out. brewery, were set on fire. Casual-chine and pilot both fell into the ties were caused, including some sea and the pilot was later picken deaths, but these were not up by a life-boat. numerous having regard to the
NAZI CLAIMS:
large number of bombs dropped. BERLIN. Aug. 13 (Reuter-It is
CHURCH DAMAGED
claimed by the Germans, regara- that 40 In the Isle of Wight a church ing yesterday's attacks. and some houses were damaged. bombers, accompanied by fighters, and a few people injured.
raided Portsmouth and "were able Later reports have also been re-to drop bombs peacefully ang celved on attacks on the coasts of without interference from British Kent and Sussex: Bombs were fighters and the extremely in dropped at a number of points accurate anti-aircraft fire." and slight damage was caused to It is also asserted that "English several RAF aerodromes. Some fighters kept their distance and houses and other civilian property when the Germans, closed they
tled" were also hit.
*
Casualties in this a1ea were It is further claimed that 23
although every slight
several British planes were shot down and cases of fatal injuries have been the fact that British airmen are reported.
The enemy has been heavily engaged at all points by our Ge- fences which have again inflicted severe losses with a few casualties to themselves...
NIGHT RAIL.
avolding engagements accounts for the small number.""
COOLNESS AND COURAGE
LOSSES ADMITTED LONDON, August 13 (Reuter)— The Berlin News Agency admits that 17 German planes are miss ing after yesterday's air battles LONDON, August 13 (Reuter)over Portsmouth and other parts A force of about 70 German bom-(of "the Channel" bers and fighters raided a south- east coast town last night but little damage was done.
Many bombs fell in open coun- try and others in the sea,
Another air battle was fought coast wow! 1 south-east early in the evening after bomb had been heard exploding some distance away.
over
TWO.. DOWN
Spitfires could be seen high up
[
In the air battle over the southeast coast, over 100 mâ, A.A cbines were in the air. fire
crippled several planes whlie fighters brought down at least five over the sea
H
PILOT IN CHANNEL' The pilot of one machine para- chuted into the Channel and was dead when picked up six miles away. Another machine was bad-
This news was contained in an
communique
which few Admiralty A
stated:
"With reference to the-com- munique issued earlier in the day information is now received that five enemy aircraft were shot down by anti-aircraft fire during an setion between His Majesty's ships and enemy aircraft yester day
ARMY OF 100 DIVISIONS
Invasion Of Occupied Territories Urged
11
ONE FOR WINDSOR
"The Erst enemy aircraft was shot down by B.M.S, Windsor and LONDON, August 13 (Reater) — | HM. : trawler Edwardian shot The creation of an atmay several down the second. millions strong was suggested by Anti-aircraft fre from
former ships was so intense and 50 Mr. Lesile Hore-Relisha,
War, in a speecti`xt | accurate that It. WILS imposible Secretary
sterday evening, to state with certainly which Devonport,
He said that we should plan to vessels shot down the
other
"J
ly hit by AA fire and the pilot strike at the enemy in territories three, tried to land his machine in a he has occupied It was possible "It is most probable that the We bring Edwardian and the brawler Peter lop-sided fashich but a bombardier that only thus should
out of à hedge with athe war to a successful end. rushed
Casey each accounted for at least The project" should contemplate one of them. There were no loss Lewis gun and peppered the ma- obina
the creation of at least 100 divk of lives in the Windsor or the British fighter squadron stors, equipped in a fashion - Peter Casey." signalled him to get out of the proving upon all recent expert- way, but he stuck to his task aridence and provided with its own
air artı." finished off the machine.
Three badles were found in the plane. One is believed to, 24-year-old" German -
be
A
count.
N.W, FRONTIER FLARE-UP
BRITISH OFFICER
KILLED
The present incompleteness of our Industrial mobilisation should moment not be tolerated for a longer. We could not beat Ger- many with 800,000 unemployed.
ECONOMIC TASK Our
economic task was to recruit and embody fully al available productive capacity.
The output of goods for consump tion should be the lowest, com- patible with the indispensable 70 quirements of the people.
Export trade should be kept at
SPANISH GOVT. DENIAL
Recall Report
False
And Fantastic
LONDON. August 13 (Reuter)-~~- A Moscow report appearing in the Foreign Press has brought the following dental from the Spanish Government through its embassy in London.
are false, and fantastic and are entirely devoid of foundation
Such an order, says the embassy. has not been Issued. Spanish ships will continue to with their normal trade.
Rumours in the foreign press SIMLA, Aug. 13 (enter)-it is a minimum level which supple-to the effect that Spanish ships officially amounced that Captain menting our other means of pay
at present in foreign ports have HL V. Russe and one Indian ment, could meet the cost of our received instructions not to sail other rank were killed, 14 Indian necessary importations. other ranks were wounded and The whole of the rest of the LONDON, August 13 (Reuter)-one is missing in a recent engage- | Industrial machine should he Yesterday's air raids produced a ment with hostile tribes on the concentrated day and night on crop of remarkable examples of Bannu-Miranshah Road on the the output of war production. coolness and courage.
| North-west Frontier. 2 surgeon had The engagement took place last For instance,
mastuld Wednesday
the village of just started a critical operation on a woman patient in Tappi. the operating theatre or a hos The enemy are believed to have pital in a south-east town when a lost five killed and seven wound- bomb crashed nearby.'
in the sky engaging about 20 The surgeon and his staff of Messerschmitts and they account-
ed for at least two."
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WORST HARVEST
FOR 70 YEARSTM LONDON, Aug. 13 (Reuter) Sweden's harvest 18 very poor, de-
"NOTHING WILL
"
.
DETER US"
LONDON, August 13 (Reuters
The other day four Nazi bombs fell on a cricket ground some- where in southeast England,
The following notice now a pears at the gates:
"The local cricketers are
4
SAVER
shall
clares Moscow Radio, It is added: pleased as you. Each peardrop
This is especially so in the case which falls on this ground of the Island of Gotland, an im-lives and property. We portant harvesting centre, where carry on Nothing which falls crops are the worst for 10 years from the skies will deter us owing to the drought."
cept rain."
ex-
FUEHRER OF S. AMERICA
ARRESTED FRENCH AIR FORCE
MILITARY SEIZURE
GAINS, LOSSES
LONDON, August 13 (Renter)--- American
OF URUGUAY In an interview with
NEW YORK, Aug. 13. (Reuter)—ress correspondents, the French According to the Buenos Aires Under-Secretary for, Air at Vichy that the start of the correspondmt of the New York atates
Times, Arnule Fuhrmann, so-call-invasion of the Low Countries ed Fuehrer of South America, was on May 10 up to June 6 brought arrested on Sunday night at Cou-down 982 Nazi planes at a lo cordia, a border point on the of 306 French aircraft. Uruguay River. The arrest was French" planes, he said, had') made at the request of the Buenas a numerical inferiority of five to
one. Aires Police
It is expected that the Argent- ine Government will order the de
portation of Fuhrmann as it has CLARE FLIGHT ·
ordered the deportation of Karl Arnold who was accused of being a prominent Nazi Secret' Police agent.
During a recent investiga- tion of Nazi, activities by- & Committee of the Uruguayan”, Congress a document, outlin- Ang plans for the military seizure of Uruguay as a Ger- man Colony,' 'WAS, found in Fuhrmann's possession,
PRAISED
SYMBOLIC GESTURE
LONDON August 13 (Reuter) During the week-end, the glant British flying boat Clare return" ed to Britain from Canada and the United States completing her first round trip.
ONLY A JOKE!
She carried six passengers and Fuhrmann admitted the plan mail including a message from Was in his handwriting but con Mayor La Guardia of New York tended that
was only a joke, to the Lord Mayor of London, The correspondent adds that the "The Daily Telegraph stresses German Minister in Uruguay has the importance of the flight, as a issued a statement disowning symbolic gesture. It is good to Fuhrmann is an Argentine citizen resume the air lok with America of weak mentality who should not at a moment when the aeroplane be taken seriously. T is an instrument par excellence Correspondence seized by the for the military destruction of Uruguayan Police showed that he nations
was one of the most powerful Nazi It reminds us that man hay not leaders in Uruguay and in con- wholly forgotten the civilised stant communication with Nazl use to which he can put his leaders in Germany.
mastery of the elements.
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