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"REPORTS OF PILOTS ERR ON SIDE
OF UNDER-STATEMENT" Commons Told How Britain Computes Air Successes
LONDON, Aug. 22 (Reuter)-In the House of Commons yesterday, Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Air Minister, was asked to state the methods used for checking and verifying · figures in view of the wide disparity between the British and German accounts of losses in air battles.
He replied that casualties caused to enemy aircraft were classified under three pain heads: (1) Certainly destroyed; (2) Probably destroyed if it is seen to hit the ground or break up in the air or descena in flames; (3) An enemy aircraft is classi. to break off. combat in fled probably destroyed if it is seen circumstances which lead to the conclusion that it must becom a loss.
FRONTIERS
IN THE BALKANS
གཉི་
GENERAL
BRITAIN PREPARED:
MOVE AGAINST EGYPT A MATTER OF TIME
of
CAIRO, Aug. 22" (Router)—Although the evacuation Somaliland may be a victory for Italian prestige propaganda, It is not regarded as a British defeat. It actually facilitates the Genera) Staff's immediate task in the Middle East as it supplied reinforcements for more important areas.
Italy's goal in Africa remains Egypt for without the control of the Suez Canal and the Red Sea route, Abyssinia is doomed to show strangulation.
Last week, when the Italians marshalled a large army on the Egypt-Libyan border apparently ready for an attack, the R.AF. demonstrated fts superiority and
Chance
RUMANIA. CEDES TWO PROVINCES BUCHAREST, Aug. 22 (Renter) An agreement has been reached between Bulgaria and Rumania re garding Dobruja, The agree ment reached at Cralovs fixes the new frontiers on the 1913 line. The territory ceded
by Rumania to Bulgaria comprises the two provinces of Durator and Callaera. It also includes Balchik The heart of Queen Marie, which is preserved in the Chapel of the Royal Palace, has already been removed.
PLANS ARRANGED Bulgarian troops are already
General Wavell has just return-a Returning from combat, RAF
near Dobruja frontier ready to oc-ed to Egypt after a visit to Lon pilots were interrogated by the
cupy the
new territory asdon where he conferred with the Station Intelligence Officer" When
3 one "residential area, soon as the final agreement is wer Cabinet reports from all had been retely short attack was made on the insigned The Provinces will be oc It is understood that final de- ethe-Intelligence Officer inter- habitants by machine-gun. cupled in three hours and Bulgarcisions were taken and plans ar rogates them again in case where Two enemy aircraft
which an administration will be installed ranged for the coming campaign. bombed a town in any dount exists.
Lincolnshire to prevent incidents. were both shot down, their bombs having caused little damage and
The third category includes these, most of the attacks were cases in which an enemy aircraft otherwise abortive, has been considerably damaged for example, when the under- carrlage has dropped. the engine stoppling or parts of the aircraft
ATOR AWAY
The number of enemy aircraft In each of the three categories are transmitted by each squadron to its group headquarters and tó the
FATAL CASUALTIES "Towns in the south and east England: and in the Midlands. were bombed, damage being done to houses in several places. The number of casualties was though some were fatal.
"IN
no casualties.
small,
"Two of our fighters were lost
Negotiations will continue con cerning technical difficulties in re gard to exchange of population and the method of compensation. Fighter... Command Head. during yesterday's operations butThese are likely to take a fortnight. quarters, and then to the Aur the pilot of one is safe" Ministry.
PILOTS ON HONOUR
22
BULGARIAN REFUSAL
Of Recovery
Slight
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 22 (Renter)
the British Navy steamed up the Leon Trotsky's condition is Libyan coast under the muzzles of reported to be still critical after coastal batteries and,
a trepanning operation and doc morally speaking, knocked the Italians off tors estimate that his chances of their feet. Nevertheless, the in-recovery are one in ten. vasion is thought to be only a
I will be recalled that M. matter of time,
Trotsky is suffering from a fract tured skull as the result of un attack made on him, allegedly by Johnson.
French Jew, named Franck
"
Meanwhile Egypt is ready for whatever the future may hold.
DEADLOCK IN INDIA
The people have every confidence Working Committee
in the vast Imperial forces in their midst.
Announcement
ADEN CONFIDENT ADEN, Aug. 22 (Reuter) AL
-WARDHA, Aug, 22 (Reuter)— YESTERDAY'S RAIDS It is understood Rumania re- though the Italians have occupied the National Congress, announced Abdul Kalam Azad, President of LONDON. Aug. (Reuter)quested rectifications of the line Berbera, "only 180 miles across yesterday that after consulting "Only the enemy arcraft Among German losses in yester- as a symbolical gesture in her the Red Sea, the people of Aden with Congress the Working-Com- -the-first-category- are included in ¡day's air raids" were three Dornier favour but the Bulgarians refused are confident that any attempt amittee had sent a reply to the
official communiques. There is 17's which were brought down by
invasion by the enemy would fall. Viceroy stating that there is no The agreement provides that strict instruction to the pilots to Spitfires five miles inland on the Bulgaria will repatriate not only
Italian losses sustained in the exercise the utmost discretion northeast coast. The crew of one all Rumanians in the Dobrudja occupation of Berbera are
meeting ground between Congress const- when reporting. They are on which fell with a wing off and es- but those in Bulgaria who are es-dered here to be out of all propor viceregal declaration of August B.
and the Viceroy on the basis of the tion to the value of the port. No ships of any size can use it but
He added that if a new situation must be out at sex and be served arose in which the Viceroy thought by small boats to and from the that there would be an advantage in the Congress Fresident meeting
their honour and the honour of caped by parachute -the squadron as well as that of the prisoner. "Alr Forte,
"It can fidence that
be asserted
taken timated to number 50,000.
were
.
When a Junker 88 crashed near
with cuma southeastern town. the British pilot who had attacked him land-
the victims. AD were dead..
the reports of Our
::
GREAT DISPARITY_
M. Hory, head of the Hungarian harbour
BUDAPEST, Aug. 22 Reuter)
delegation, returned to Turnu-
The monsoon season is now him, he would always be willing to tinue the negotiations with the of using the port. Rumaniana.
plots tend to err on the side of led to see what had happened to serverin yesterday to try and con-raging increasing the difficulties
under-statement (Cheers). It is known that a number of enemy aircraft in the third category have falled to reach home.
"No credit is taken for the losses inflicted on the enemy by those pilots who do not return." On several occasions during the last fortnight, the total enemy air- craft in the second and third categories exceeded that in the flrat.
"Independent persons who has access to official records have been pressed by the reserve with which the total is anncume. ed."
VICTORY KOLL
LONDON, August 22 (Reutery~. When a Soutary raider visited a South-east coast town yesterday,
a bomb which fell on a road burst the water main.
The machine twice circled the town, the second time machine-
gunning the streets.
Three Hawker Hurricanes,, who shot down a Nazi bomber cele-
five
occupants
A solitary raider who dived from the clouds on a south-
eastern town dropped heavy calibre bombs which reduced eight of a row of working class cottages to debris. It is feared that a number of lives were last.
It is now believed at least 11 enemy planes were brought down yesterday..
The disparity between the two
do 50.
sets of proposals, however, is 90 ALLIED FORCES the House of Commons yesterday.
great that no solution is beileved possible without German inter- vention:
Well-informed observers in
BILL
Budapest think such intervention Six Foreign Armies To
will probably take the form of in- formal pressure behind the scenes, n.both capitals.
Artillery Pound Chinese
Positions In
HUNDREDS
OF
Kwangsi
HOUSES BURNED
SHIUHING, Aug. 22 (Central)The majority of the Japan- ese who landed at Sheungcbuen Island and Hachan Island off the Toishan coast left aboard their warships yesterday morn- Ing. Only a skeleton force remains and is subjected to Chinese attacks.
brated their success by doing a Panghaishan (Crab "yictory roll" in the alr
The Japanese Who invaden
There were a number of case of Nazi armen bailing out over towns.
AIRMEN CAPTURED
and
HIII)
been repulsed. Tanpal in the "Sunwui sector have
reverted to Chinese control.
Both places have.
According to reports from Kwangs, Japanese troops on the
A member of the Home Guard Nanning-Yamchow highway at-
on leaving his home for duty, tacked on the morning of August
S'HAI EDITOR SUCCUMBS
TO WOUNDS
Support Allied Cause
LONDON, Aug. 22 (Reuter)---Sir Edward Grigg, Under-Secretary for War, moving a second reading of the Allied Forces Bill in the House of Commons, said it would enable foreign governments, supporting. our cause to play their part.
"None of them was to be regard- ed as merely refugee governments änd everyone had in some mea- sure the means to play its part in the war.
The Government was gladly seeking to give, legal sanction..to the establishment of no less than six foreign armies on British soil, training under their own flags. commanders and military law.
BRITISH COMMAND
in principle, these forces would be at all times under the British High Command in its character of Allled High Command. They would be used, as far as possible, CHUNGKING, Aug 22 (Central) the command of their own officers as operational formations. under
assistant within the British Command. necessary, British
saw a parachute level with the 18 Nalan, Napl and Panchong-Cheng Chen-chang, rool-tops and seized the German which had as he landed.
been recaptured by news editor of the Ta Mel Wan where
in-
the Chinese. Heavy artillery fire Pao, who was critically wounded structions were being detailed to Three German airmen descended was directed against the Chinese by an assassin in the French Con- tamiliarise the forces with British rear a village. Two surrendered but the latter stubbornly elune cession on August 19, succumbed material and British practice..
yesterday morning, states a Bhang. NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM - hai despatch.
The Bill provided the necessary
to farmworkers and a third to a to their positions... farmer's wife and her 14-year-old
son, who armed himself with his
airman who
authorities..
HEAVY CASUALTIES
father's rifle. The
Mr. Cheng, 36, was on the "black-machinery for enforcing various Fighting raged until noon. The list" of 87 persons whose "arrest" foreign codes and also dealt with cried for mercy," was given tea Japanese were, driven back with was ordered" by the bogus Nan-the action our and had his wounds dressed be- 180 casualties. Those retreating king regime. He was the second were to take with regard to the fore he was handed over to the from Pancheng set fire to hun-member of the paper's Chinese arrest of deserters, the holding of civil authorities
dreds of civilian houses:
staff to have fallen victim to as foreign servicemcn sentenced to A Japanese unit pushing south-sassins' bullets, the first Being Mr. imprisonment, the power of billet- ward from Shaaf on the Yangtze Samuel Chang, who was killed, on ing servicemen sentenced to im was engaged by the Chinese "at River, 110 miles above Hankow. July 91.. Kuanyingssu, on August 18, states
NAZI LOSSES LONDON, August 22 (Reuter?- Sir Archibald Sinclair, Minister for Air, during a broadcast yester
day stated that three more Gera Changte report. After sustain. man planes could safely be added
ing considerable losses, they with-
to the day's total of enemy losses drew to Bhasi,
during raids, which were now ten
OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUES Chinese troops have been active
The Air Ministry announces:
[prisonment and also the power-of-
billeting foreign troops.
The House-might well be proud-
Gestapo Round-up to pass the Bill because a new
Communists
ly harassing the Japanese around) LONDON, August 22 (Reuter) LONDON, August 22 (Reuter)Klangning, otherwise known as The Gestapo carried out a round
Kingchow, a neighbouring town of up of Communists throughout Norway a few days ago, according
gian telegraphic agency
"Up to 4.30 seven enemy air shas}.. craft had been destroyed by our fighters."
BOMBER DOWNED to news received by the Norwe
Those arrested included most of Communist
LIUOHOW, Aug 22 (Central)- Another couitdunique: · said:
One of a squadron of nine Japan-the leaders of the "Enemy activities over the coun try yesterday have consisted of a ese planes, raiding Kwangs ge- Party and a number of leading Feries of attacks by · aircraft terday was brought down by Journalista including Christian operating singly or in small num-Chinese anti-aircraft gunfire at it, who was also manager bers.
Lungyentsun, Chwanshan County the Soviet Travel Bureau In Nor "There
have been many such in the District of Lluchow. It was war attacks, some of which were deli Partly burned up in the crash vered far Inland. In some cases Two Japanese airmen were taken it is evident that the enemy's prisoner.
birth of freedom was implicit in it and it represented the frumost aspiration of at least 100,000,000 human beings at present under the Nazi heel.
Australian Aid For Chinese Students
The Australian Student Federa CHUNGKING, Aug. 22 (Centrai)
tion has remitted £200 to Mr. the Board of Trustees for the of Han Li-wu, Becretary-General of
Administration of the Bing-British Boxer Indemnity Fund, to distri bute to the Chinese, refugee stu- dents in the bombed areas.
The Cyprus Corps of Police, 1 dinarily an armed body, has been suburbs of incorporated in the island's mult
tary forces
objective wai, RAF. Berodromes, The other enemy planes dump but though damage was done to ed bombs in
the living quarters att tone of Linchwan
The Federation has previously made generous donations for the relief of the Chinese students.
LONDON, Aug, 22⋅ (Réntar)--Mr. RA. Butler, in a written reply in
states that Government is not aware that Italy has addressed a demand to Greece for the cessior
of Corfu,
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