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No. 26594 麸牌拾玖佰伍仟伍萬弍第
ENEMY NIGHT
LESS EFFECTIVE
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1940.
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ATTACKS JAPANESE INDO-CHINA AUTHORITIES BLOW
THAN
ANY SINCE SATURDAY
Incendiaries Extinguished By Wardens Before Fires Start
LONDON, SEPT. 12 (REUTERT
' SEVERE LOSSES INFLICTED ON THE ENEMY "IN YESTERDAY'S AIR BATTLES AND THE ATTACKS WHICH FOLLOWED DURING THE NIGHT, WERE LESS EFFECTIVE THAN ANY OF THOSE SINCE SATURDAY.". states an Air Ministry and the Ministry of Home Security communique, which adds "the London area was again the subject of the majority of these attacks, although; as is his custom, many bombs were scattered at random by the enemy over widely separated districts in the capital and the main force of his offensive was directed against south London and its suburbs.
"SHORTLY AFTER DARKNESS FELL, FORMATIONS OF ENEMY BOMBERS APPROACHED THE LONDON AREA AND THESE WERE FOLLOWED. THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT BY WAVES OF FURTHER AIRCRAFT.
KING SENDS
MESSAGE
TO GEN. PERSHING
DEATH ROLL SLIGHT
OFFENSIVE IN HONAN
LOYANG, Sept 13 (Central)- Under the cover of heavy artillery barrage, & Japanese force from Kalteng made an abortive attempt to cross a tributary of the Yellow River near Chungijów, 20 inlles southwest of Kaifeng
the
hai Rallway, on Sept. 10.
The Japanese were greeted by
Intense Chinese Are and forced to beat a hasty retreaty
Fierce fighting has been raging on the Ronan-Shanil, border, re- gions during the last two KAPA. The Chinese are reported to have recovered Lancheche, inside the Shansi border and beveral cler points nearby. The Japanese gar- rtson in Lanchechen was wiped
out.
A
westbound Japanese troop train on the horizontas Tackou - Chinghua Railway in north Honan recently struct a. Chinese mine and was blown, 'up east of Bluwu,
NEW JAPANESE C.-G. AT S'HAL
"Our anti-aircraft batteries | There was not a single search-[24 miles east of Po AU Some 1,000 have been constantly in light in
the sky over London Japanese were killed and wound-. action and heavy barrages devastating barrage which pus up
while the metropolis rocked to a jed. were put up to prevent many a curtain of fre limiting the enemy bombers from. reach-German depredations. ing their objectives. Reports at present available show that two bombers were shot down LONDON, Sept. 12 (BW)-The by anti-aircraft fire. following message has been sent "High explosive and Incendiary by the King to General John J.| bombs have started fires and fallen Pershing, former Commander-in-On many buildings. Two hospitals, Chief of the American Armyman Houses and some - small
"I send you my warmest con factories have been hit. gratulations on your eightieth birthday together with the beat" wishes of the people of this country where you will always be! held in affectionate esteem as the distinguished leader and comrade- in-arms during the Great War."
Britain's War Purchases In Canada
"A marked feature of the rald was the number of incen- diary bombs which were ex- tinguished by air raid wardens before being allowed to develop into fires.
"It is not yet possible to give the Agure of casualties- and although there are a number of persons killed and injured. It is probable that they are less than in any of the four previous nights.
"Outside the London area. enemy activity, although wide- spread, has been relatively slight. LONDON, Sept. 18 (EWS)-Bri-Some bombs were dropped in a tain and Canada together have town in South Wales and towns in Some made capital investment of $222,-the North-Western area. 600,000 in war production plants damage was done in each of these across the Dominion, stated the areas but the number of casualties Canadian Minister of Munitions and Bupply yesterday.
They would have a productive capacity of $300,000,000 value an nually in all kinds of war sup. plies.
Britain's war purchases in Canada to date, he added, totalled $208,000,000, exclusive of lumber and foodstuffs.
KHARTOUM RAID **KHARTOUM, Sept 12 (Reuter)
were smail."
TERRIFIC GUNFIRE LONDON, Sept 12 (Reuter)
UP BRIDGE
AT SHUIKOUKWAN: LARGE NUMBERS OF PLAINCLOTHES JAPANESE REPORTED FILTERING IN
"SHANGHAI, Sept. 12 (Reuter)-The Takangpao carried a report yesterday that the Indo-China authorities had dynamited the Iron bridge at Shulkoukwan, about 25 miles west of Lungehow, on the Indo-China-Kwangsi border a report from the wartime capital reveals."
Reliable Chinese sources at Kwellin declared yesterday that about 4,000 Japanese troops and 5,000 Formosan student volunteers have reached the Indo-China border at Lungchow, concentrated at Yamchow, the report continues.
GENERAL FRANCO
TOKYO, LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter)—
Sept 12 (Reuter)--- Although no casualty. Ists have The formal appointment or Mr. yet been issued, it is now known Horiuchi, former Director of East that the death roll in yesterday'a Astatic Affairs Bureau, as the Japanese Consul General; at bombing and shelling of the Dover ares was remarkably slight
NEW YORK Sept. 12 (Reuter) (Shanghai, and coneutrently Mlu-
ister to China, was announced by The National Broadcasting Com→ Not more than a dosen people the Foreign Office today,
pany quotes the Rome broadcast were believed to have been killed
Mr. Horiuchi will succeed Mr. for the statement that Geners although rescue squads are still Yoshiaki Miura, who has been Franco is shortly visiting Berlin digging among the debris where mentioned as the new Minister to at the invitation of the German six bombs fell.
Unless
Mexico.
Enemy
Government.
Cripples
British
Air Power They Have No Chance Of Surmounting
LORD MAYOR'S RED CROSS FUND
LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter)—— The Lord Mayor's Red Cross Fund Terriac gunfire was maintained and the St. John's Fund now throughout the night,
totala £3,116,000.
The Germans appeared to be Among the latest gifts is £200 using relays of very fast machines, from Valparaiso's' British Wo- flying singly, which made quick men's League. dashes.
The Georgetown Committee of
Gufana sent
on
Other
Obstacles
"The Germans said of the last war that nerves would de- cide it and they did. They will be equally decisive in this war,
Large numbers of plain- clothes Japanese are also said to have filtered into Indo- China during the past two days.
General de Ganile's agents have" become very active in French Indo-China, in an effort to induce the authorities to side with "in- dependent France" in resisting aggression, says a Hongkong re- port to the TAKUNGPAO.
Many are already sympathis- ing with Gen, de Gaulle and it is belleved that if the aa- thorities can be won over. British and American' naval. units in the Far East will ren- der, armed support to safe- guard Indo-China, the report continued.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN
APALAGES
Vice-Admiral Decoux, Governor- General of Indo-China is reported to be opposed to the agreement to be signed between the Vichy and CHAMBERLAIN AT Tokze÷Governments, as-he-con-* siders it detrimental to the in- terests of the Colony.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Lord. While negotiations are said to be President of the Council, who re continuing between Adm. Decoux cently returned to his duties after and Maj.-Gen Nishihara, head of his illness was received in au- the Japanese Military Mission,dience by the King at Buckingham their difference in views
over Palace yesterday, states a British many points has not yet been Wireless message. smoothed out.
SOVIET INTEREST SHANGHAI, Sept. 12 (Router) — The Soviet Ambassador to China paid a series of calls upon the Chinese Foreign Minister. Dr. Wang Chang-hui, during the past
Emergency Centres For
few days to ascertain China's Raid Victims
policy and to hear reports on the
LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter)-- developments in, the Indo-Chins Parents of London school children situation, a message to the Sin-are urged to register their children wanpao states.
for immediate evacuation.
The Soviet Ambassador is also reported in Chungking to have
It is officially stated that parties will be leaving frequently and it is
"By far the greater part of the broached other questions with the added that for refugees who are damage to London does not differ Chinese Foreign Ministry.
in
in kind or in strategic effect from the bomb holes which have many places spattered the "re- moter countryside in futile pro-
AXIS EMBASSIES'
DENIAL
forced to leave their homes owing to air attack, emergency centres, providing food and shelter, have been arranged in London and all
SHANGHAI, Sept, 12 (Reuter-large towns., The local Italian and German
LONDON, Sept. 12 (BWS)— Comment in the newspapers the Prime Minister's broadcast "yesterday evening shows" that the
general "opinion, is it drew "all lines of the present phase of the war together into a pleture of truer proportions than is easily achieved by a private citizen under bombardment." For example, THE TIMES points fusion
"Even the civilian knows our Embassies issued a joint state- BOMB FALLS IN One raider was known to have British
Churchill has properly
power to hit Germany will not be ment yesterday denying reports been. brought down in north £2,000 towards the cost of new placed in the forefront of his ad-
B-hole in nettle that Italian and German military dress, the really critical daylight impeded by battles in
a block of missions are now conducting an which the
patch or a bomb on enemy launches attacks upon the RAF flats. They can only stiffen the inspection tour in Indo-China, the bases-so far with insignificant will behind the power." success. It is absolutely neces sary for the Germans to continue these assaults, for unless they can seriously cripple our air power, they have no chance of surmount- ing the many other obstacles that
London.
-Helped by a fine moonlight 89 GERMAN
night, Italian war planes raided the town on Sept. 10 but caused
no damage and there were no casualties.
On Other Pages
PAGE 2—Cuming and going by clipper Entries for Race Meeting Boxing meet in al₫ of war funds; Weddings; Crossword puzzle, pe PAGE 3-Radio programmes, Coming events; Cinema notes. PAGE 4D E I; better defend- ed than is generally thongfit; Discontent in Syria; Charlie Chaplin's new nim on Dicta- tory,
PAGE 5 Possession claim;
Round the Police Courts. 'PAGE Leading article, China Takes no Chances: Legislative Council meeting; Famous magician in Colony, PAGE 2-Invasion of Indo-
Live Yuan, meeting. Prisoners
in Germany poorly fed, PAGES 9 & 10-Finance and
*Commerce,"
planes.
further a
AIRCRAFT
DESTROYED IN BATTLES DURING WEDNESDAY
out:'
"Mr.
Einwanpao says.
ROOSEVELT SUPREMELY DETERMINED TO KEEP
NEWSPAPER OFFICE
LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter) bomb fell in the offices of a London" newspaper and --crashed through a 15,000-gallon water tank on the roof to the basement. There were no casualties"
LONDON, SEPT, 12 (BRITISH WIRELESS) IT IS stand in the way of their prom WAR FROM U.S. SHORES Two watchers on the roof; hear-
NOW CONFIRMED THAT IN YESTERDAY'S "AIR BAT-
·TLES 89 ENEMY AIRCRAFT WERE DESTROYED 80 OF
ed invasion.
"No amount of night bombing," at the expense of civilians, can
ing the scream of the descending
WASHINGTON, SEPT. 12 (REUTER)—"I HATE WAR missile, dashed to a sandbagged MORE THAN EVER AND AM SUPREMELY DETERMIN-shelter and were not injured
TO DO ALL I CAN TO KEEP WAR AWAY FROM THESE SHORES FOR ALL TIME," declared. President Roosevelt addressing the Trade Union Convention,
THESE BEING SHOT DOWN BY OUR FIGHTERS AND help to achieve the essential sucED NINE BY ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE. Twenty-four of our cess. Yet so long as they are fighters are missing but the pilots of seven of these are forced to risk daylight attack. safe," states an Air Ministry communique.
they will continue to suffer losses Figures of enemy losses here confirmed are those issued in the devastating proportion of after and as a correction to the official intimation in theo one in crews.
three to one in machines and six
early hours of today that reports received up to midnight Indicated that 90 German aircraft had been destroyed. "
WELCOME ADMISSIONS
"The German Wireless indis
the world that the object of the |bombs which have been scatter-
A.A. Barrage Based On Newcreetly, but obligingly, informs
Methods Of Prediction ed' is to intimidate the British
LONDON, Sept. 12 (BWS)-Deep impressions have been caused people into a change of Govern- in London by the effect of the anti-aircraft barrage in last night's ment. These are welcome admis- raidst
slons even though superfluou8,
170 BRITISH CHILDREN: FEIN WELLINGTON WELLINGTON, Sept 12 (Renter) "I stand upon the Democratic Party platform adopted party of 170 British children in Chicago. We won't participate in foreign wars and we has arrived after an uneventful won't send our army, navy or air force to fight abroad, ex-voyage. They will be mostly stay-
ing with relatives and friends. cept in case of attack.
Let us have an end to the sort of appeasement which seeks to keep us helpless by playing on fear. Appeasement is a polite word for misdirected partisanship.
Strongest Preparedness Is Best Defence
Responsible military authorities today admitted that anti-aircraft “"The fatal Impairment of British "The American people have known that against the raging forces fire last night was in the form of a barrage based on new methods military power, now growing daily loose in the world the best defence is strongest preparedness," of prediction which it is believed will get better
in all its forms, would be one. The remainder of the President's speech was devoted to a political
address to Labour in which he promised continued support of or ganised labour and increasing improvement in labour standards and social security
No detailed reports are available to the authorities at present thing, but the attempt to break apart from facts already announced in the communlade this morn- the British nerve is least of all ing, but it can be said that in competent quarters, the experiment likely to succeed when the enemy is regarded as having already gone a considerable way to justify it- blatantly advertises his terroristic self and it is likely that it will be continued.
purpose:
The speech was substantially a major campaign appeal to or- ganised labour to continue to support him
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WAR-TIME H.C.L. ALLOWANCE IS DISCUSSED
The question of granting a war-time high cost of living” "allowance to certain lower trades. of the Government service was, the Hongkong. Dally Press understands, dis cussed at a private meeting of members of the Finance Com- mittee yesterday afternoon immediately after the Legisia- tire Council meeting.