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GENERAL
MEDITERRANEAN FLEET IN ACTION: ITALIAN BOMBERS ATTACK
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LIBYA BASES SHELLED R.A.F. Destroy Submarine Piers In Tobruk Harbour
LONDON, August 17 (Heuter) — Heavy units of the British Mediterranean Fleet, including capital ships and cruisers, went into action against the Italians yesterday when they carried out á Revere bombardment of naval and military bases on the coast of the Italian colony of Libya.
con-
News of the action is contained in a brief Admiralty announce ment issued in London late last evening, which said that a British naval force under the Commander in-Chief, Mediterranean, sisting of battleships and cruisers, bombarded the Libyan coast.
Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, shown the French superiority over acted as spotters for the naval the Italians. gunners and reported many sal voes as securing direct hits on the objectives.
------SQUADRON ATTACKED During the bombardment the British squadron was subjected to a heavy attack by Italian bom. damage or casualties bers; no were inflicted on the British ships. At least one enemy bomber was shot down by our fighters.
DIRECT HITS
aircraft.
Direct hits were registered
ABYSSINIA RAID
A communique issued in Ader' yesterday stated that the RF. bomed Adadlen and
are
belley-
SECOND NÁVAL
V.C. OF WAR
LONDON, Aug. 11 (Reuter) ----The second naval V.C. of the war appears on a' List of 688 names from Vice-Admirals to deck-hands in a list of] honours and awards mostly for Dunkirk, issued yesterday.
The V.C. Is Liciténant R. B. Stennard. R.N.R., of HMS. Arab, for the part he played at Namsos, where he saved his ship and many lives after five days of bombing, attacks,
BRITISH ISLES -BLOCKADED!
TWO GREEK DESTROYERS
PRESS DEPLORE HELLE SINKING :
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LONDON, Aug. 17 (Reuter)-Two separate news agencies carry reports from Athens stating that two Greek destroyers were hombed, from the air while on their way to the island of Tinos, of which the Greek cruiser Helle was torpedoed and, sunk while attending a religious festival. “."
One message quotes a high authority in Athens as saying that the attacks were carried out by Italian bombers.
This
statement says that the officers commanding the destroyers ab sloutely identified the 'planes which attacked them on Friday morning.
The two destroyers were only Italians forget that the British slightly damaged.
Heet is fully active in the Mediter- rangan and is seeking an early engagement with the Italian Navy. ་ ་
The British Government has sent a message of sympathy to the Greek Government on the loss of the Helle.
In Egypt, the press points out The Greek press, while it brands that Egypt is interested in this the attackers, makes no attempt quarrel between Italy and Greece. to guess their identity.
Tribute is paid to the firm atti- The American press, the tude of Greece in the face of Itá-
on
ed to have considerably damaged WISHFUL THINKING other hand, pins the blame firmly
transport concentration. Jijiga aerodrome was fully bombed.
success-
BY NAZIS LONDON, August 17 (Reuter)- Buildings and aerodromes At The official German spokesman Dessie, in Abyssinia, were heavily
Berlin
announced yesterday attacked. All our aircraft return.
block" afternoon the "complete. ...ed safely.
ade of the British Isles." ADMIRALTY COMMUNIQUE
Britain, It was announced, had
on Italy.
POINTED COMMENT The sinking of the Greek cruiser Helle as she lay off the island of Tinos, taking part in a religious festival, has drawn pointed com- ment from the press of three
lian threats.
ROME" DENIALS
Rome is following the German model in denying that any Italian submarines were near Tinos when the Helle was sunk.
news
Italian Stefani, the agency, even goes so far as to ac- cept the German story "about the ¡ countries.
In the United States, one of the torpedoing of the Athenia at the
of the
CAIRO, Aug 17 (Reuter) A LONDON Aug 18 (Reuter) broken all international rules of strongest comes from the "New beginning of the war and to de- Communique issued yesterday. communique states that the Com-] stated that Tobruk harbour in mander-in-Chief of the Mediter-sea warfare and Germany would York Times, which says that as clare that the sinking Libya, was again raided by R.A.F.) rentan reports that British naval therefore use all means at her the leader of a Christian country] Greek cruiser, was a similar case.
Müssolin shows
MISTAKE ALLEGED! forces under his command, con- disposal to enforce the blockade.
strange pre- There is some speculation in ference for Christian holidays. General Metaxas, the Greek on sisting of battleships and cruisers, London as to how she is to do He carried out his assault on Al-dictator, states that convoys will a naval oil tank and submarine vesterday merning bombarded
be provided for boats bringing the and naval Jettles. Many hours Birdin and Fort Capuzza, in Libya, this her navy, is hors de com-bania on Good Friday. later there was still evidence of and other military obiectives in bat, her air attacks on shipping "The aggression against Greece pilgrims back to the mainland
have falled and German troops-there can be no other word for fires caused-by-our-bombers the vicinity
Árm Fleet Air
aircraft were are still as far off as ever from the
sinking of the Helle took Our aircraft continued to harass
place at Tinos where people from enemy "troop movements. In Bri-used for spotting during the bom- England..
all parts of the country assemble for a religious festival," the paper comments.
The Turkish press denounces the Italian press campaign against Greece, pointing out that the
tish. Somaliland our bombers at: tacked Zeila, an island nearby and Adaptel concentrating .on military targets and troop centrations,
con
were
Repeated reconnaissances made over main roads in Somali land.
ENEMY INTERCEPTED Italian bombers tried to raid Berbera but were Intercepted by aircraft operated by a French
was
many
bardment and reported salvoes of hits on the targets.
LONDON, August 17 (Reuter) Following the bombardment the The Swiss telegraphic agency said Fleet
subjected
more that
foreign to heavy yesterday
Swiss territory bembing attacks by. Italian air-planes flew over craft. These caused no damage or during Friday night. casualties in the Fleet.
At least two enemy bombers were seen by the ships to fall into the sea shot down by the fighter escort provided by the R.AF.
PATROL ROUTED CAIRO, Aug. 18 (Reuter)—A
crew who succeeded in shooting communique says that patrols re- down on. enemy bomber and port that the enemy has now with-- driving of the others.
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drawn from Fort, Capuzzo.
This is the first instance of ac· There was nothing, to report in tive participation by: French Somaliländ, crews with the R.A.F. in this In the Kurmuk area, Sudan, theatre of war, Their valuable Sudanese police routed an enemy experience in aerial combats is patrol of 15 strong. killing seven now being successfully used and of them.
the operations over Berbers have The other fronts were quiet.
A
Hundreds Of Bombs Rained On Hydrogeneration Plant
CONTINENTAL RAIDS" BY AIR FORCE
LONDON, Aug. 17 (Reuter)-Details were issued by the Air Ministry yesterday of a large-scale RAF. raid on a large Ger- man hydrogeneration plant at Liguna, near Leipzig: one of the largest plants in Germany, It normally produces 400,000 tons a year."
It was the first time the plant!/
had been bombed and our bomb-
ers were met with intense heavy NEW ANTI-TANK
and light anti-aircraft fire, pom pomas and machine-guns, working in co-operation with searchlights. In spite of the ground fre methodical attacks were carried
out and tanks were left ablage arter hundreds of bombs had been dropped.
CHAIN OF FIRE
WEAPON
"Molotov Cocktails" For Home Guard
"There was a long chain of fire LONDON, Aug. 17 (Reuter) on the ground from which poured The Home Guard in Britain has now been armed with "Molotov
dense columns of smoke
* The defences held their fire un-Cocktális, for use against enemy til-our planes, held by the search-armoured vehicles and tanks.
IF P.I. MUST HAVE A MASTER LET IT BE
U.S. NOT JAPAN
A warning to his people against the Asiatic, Monroe doc- trine launched by Japan and an earnest appeal that they get. prepared for the emergencies that are likely to arise from the precarious situation caused by the wars in the East and in Europe was voiced by Assemblyman Prospero Sanidad of Docos Sur in a speech over station KZEH-recently, 'reports the Manila Bulletin.
He was guest of the Commonwealth Association, advocats of the postponement of Philippine Independence.
Sanidad declared that the. -the only Monroe Doctrine, my Philippines enjoys today peace. prosperity and blessings of a democracy that secures to its citizen the amplest individual -freedom" but asserted that therein might lle serious' dan- gers.
friends was the symbol of a new thought purely American. It was
EXTERNAL DANGER
a renaissance. It was at the same time the resolve of a people to see their living space permian- ently free from the intrigues of scheming chancellories. There was to be the sinister shadow of He said that this danger would no, dictating protector in that human brotherhood. come from sources, external, as scheme of. represented by the aggression There was to be no manifest des
tyrant power · super- [that might' come from abroad tiny, of, a abetted by fifth column tactics, imposed upon the common level and internal, arising from the of slaves and vassals. softening of the physical and
moral sinews of the nation result.
CLOSE STUDY URGED
"My countrymen, I recommend ing from too much peace and most sincerely the closest study you are in a position to give to comfort, ...
Incidentally, Sanidad drew at this momentous question of a tention to the sorry state of Monroe Doctrine projected across Philippine national defenses stat-the seas of the Orient. I urge ing that while all nations are you not to be so complaisant. We want no change of niaster. arming against potential aggres- sion from
the gang of interns-At least we know who our master tional bandits stalking the world, is now. He has been in fact not the Philippines appears doing our master but our father.
With the years he has allowed Dont haz.military-defenses.
himself to become our partner. "FINE AND DANDY"
Colonial experience offers nothing lights, were right over "the target. The "Molotov cocktail" was a Sanidad says everything is "fine to parallel this example of bene- One plane had shells in the product of the Spanish Civil War and dandy" in the Philippines to volent conquest, Master and ward cabin, tail and wing. Another and was also used in Finland, day, there is not the slightest have kept faith with each other. plane had both sides of the fuse where it effectively stopped Rus wrinkle upon the face of our na- who has the right to còme now to lage damaged but dropped its slam tanks. It has now been off-tional contentment. Evenly, we destroy this partnership upon the bombs to such good effect that cially adopted by the British War keep the tenor of our ways. We nimsy excuse of an Asiatic Mon- the plant's 'smokestacks collapsed.Office.
eat, we sleep, we dance, we make roe Doctrine?" DROMES BOMBED
At a recent demonstration i merry, for today we live. · Tomor÷
P. L INTEGRITY "In two instances our planes England a tank was reduced to row? What of tomorrow? Manana Asserting that the Philippines. took care to identify the target flaming ruins by Home Guards will take care of itself."
is not as safe as it should have before bombing. One pilot re-armed with the weapon' which is In that shape of mind lurks reason to feel because of her ported he failed to identify the considered more effective than potential danger to the Phillp-peace and prosperity and the target after cruising about for the hand grenade against tanks. an hour. On the way back he was fired on by an AA battery. and” rodnced its fire with his bombs.
Another pilot also falled to find the target and brought his bombs
back to Britain.
DUKE OF WINDSOR SWORN IN
LONDON, August 17 (Reuter)
pines Panidad said, and in this protection of the United States, connection he spoke of the menace Sanidad said that perhaps Philip- to the integrity of the country pine integrity is as much as at from the Japanese Monroe doc-stake in the battle of Britain trine thus:
now being fought in Europe as
ORIGINAL DOCTRINE
is the integrity of other demo-
!
"The original Monroe of history cracies.
did not think of his self-interest: What the Firpinos can do,
In addition to bombing Leana The Duke and Duchess of Wind No thought of the selfish gain of however, since the things they on Friday night, RAF bombers sor arrvied at Nassau yesterday his country ever inspired him fear have not materialized, 1 to attacked oll tanks at Bremen, The Duke took the oath as Gov. when he gave his now aircraft stores, an assembly plant, ernor and Commander-in-Chief
an air factory, military objectives of the Bahamas,
In the Ruhr, and aerodromes. In Germany and occupied territory.
Three of our aircraft failed to return. ***
– NORWEGIAN--ACTION'
historic get prepared and to be prepared pronunciamiento... Rather, what they have to take the appropriate he did was merely to reassert the measures including what he calls determination of his people, an responsible renunciation, sacrifice, expressed by the original Pilgrima reawakening of the national and LONDON, August 17 (Reuter)—fathers of the Mayflower, that the patriotic-spirit-that guided the President Roosevelt revealed in New World was to be new in the warriors who fought and lost their LONDON, Aug. 17 (Reuter) Washington yesterday that it was true sense of the word, that they lives at Tirad Pass, The Air, Ministry announce that at the request of the British Gov-the Pilgrim fathers did not He said in connection with Hudson aircraft of the Coastal crnment that the United States brave the stormy seas to settle Philippine-American relationship Command attacked and damaged sent three military observers to in a land that was to continue that if the Philippines is to have 8 German anti-aircraft ship in London to watch the Battle of the odious tyrannies of the Old masters at all they might as well Stavanger Fjord, Norway, yester Britain The observers arrived on World:: day morning.
Friday
be Americans because he said "we Monroe Doctrine know America"
from the island of Tinos.
The
İtalian Naval-attache in Athens yesterday apologised, for two Greek the aerial attack on destroyers.
The Attache said the destroyers were taken for British ships.
ATHENS, Aug. 18 (Reuter)-The report that two Greek destroyers have been bombed early yesterday while en route to Tinos to escort pilgrim ships back to the main- land was denied in well-informed Greek circles.
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