HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
CHUNGKING WILL GIVE MILITARY ASSISTANCE
TO INDO-CHINA
SHANGHAL Sept. 13 (Reuter)-The Chungking Government has twice notified the French Indo-China authorities that military as- sistance will be given if the Japanese were not permitted the pas- sage of troops through the Colony, states a Chungking report to the National Herald.
BUCKINGHAM
Indo-China has been offered the free use of Chinese arms and sup- plies that have been held up, at Haiphong since the cessation of the Yunnan- Indo-China railway, while' assis- tance in the form of troops have also been promised, the paper says,
· PALACE AGAIN transportation of
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a large cascade of water and many Palace windows were broken.
Three members of the Star, whose shelter was close to the wrecked Chapel, sustained slight injuries.
"Itcops from Wellington Bar racks rushed to the scene and, with policemen and park keepers, put out the fires which broke out close to the Palace after incendiary bombs were dropped.
Their Majesties afterwards walk-
ed through the cellars of the Palace and talked with members of their Staff
DELIBERATE BOMBING The Alr Ministry and the Minis try of Home Security states "Following last night's ineffective attacks. in which bombs were
The tension remains high in the Kwangsi-Indo-China area and Chinese troops are en- gaged in mining strategic areas and destroying all lines of communication on the Yunnan side of the border.
ROYAL FAMILY'S
GIFTS:
LONDON, Sept. 13 (Renter; --The King has sent.' £1,900 to the Lord Mayor of London's Air Bald Distress Fund.
The Queen has sent C500, Queen Mary £500, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
€230
and the Duke and Duchess of Kent £206.
MEDICAL DEPT.
WARNING
MANY DEATHS FROM
BERI BER!"
CABLE
WICKHAM STEED
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word. We have said that we can stand up to anything he can do to us and he has given it to us. But this time he has found that We are also as good as our word.”
Mr. Steed went on to say that there were. of course, a large number of casualties, more especially among the civilian po-, pulation,
기
"The difference between civilian casualties and army casualties": said Mr. Steed, "s that whereas in the case of army casualties a reply just as effective can be given,
the civilians have to stand their
losses without hitting back them- selves
A FULL DOSE
Brt "Anyway, we
Own The
The Medical Authorities of the
giving Herr Hongkong Government emphasise A squadron of Chinese planes the fact that there has been a Hitler a full dose of his has been ordered to this area to serious increase in the number of medicine and then some. support the land forces. nghting is said to be in progress dietary deficiency diseases
Severe deaths from beri beri and other latest reports indicate that Berlin been given to understand along the Kwangsl-Indo-China | year.
that night raids are a two-sided border.
JAPANESE AIMS
this
to
They state that loss of work-game. lag power and resistance Japan's demand for transit of disease especially cholera-re- troops through Indo-China is only suits from failure to spend wisely a pretext to gain control of the on food of the right quantity and Tonking province the northern} quality” such scanty earnings mus part of Indo-China through, which may be available. the Yunnan Railway runs, says a
times It is very desirable in special dispatch from Kunming to like the present that the prejudicej the National Times, Hongkong, ac- against eating unpolished or red; cording to Central News.
rice should disappear Husked The correspondent quotes well-rice from which the guter hard
"If as one German explain- ed it, Herr Hitler's object is to frighten the people in London. into a panic, this object will not be attained. These raids have not turned our atten- tion away from the bigger issues of the war. Our per- sonal safety is only a minor matter. in this great struggle. "Our people are actually getting
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dropped in London at random informed sources in Kunming as yellow coat has been removed, used to being bombed. They make GERMANS LOSE 90 AIRCRAFT IN through heavy clouds. a small declaring that the Japanese pro- but which has not been polish up their beds and sleep as best I
UNABATED ASSAULTS UNEXPLODED BOMB
ed, has a far greater food value as they can. The house where. Firstly, Torking province to be then white or polished rice.
live has been shaken by the re-
number of enemy aircraft today (posals, in this connexion are deliberately bombed a number of conspicuous buildings in various parth 01 London irrespective of their nature..
"It is feared that the enemy has succeeded in killing and Injuring
a number of civilians.
was
"Buckingham Palace tacked several bombs falling with. In the precincts.
"Incendiary bombs also fell in Downing Street, but did no dam- age,"
placed under Japanese control, If red or unpolished rice is verberations of bombs. But every-
Secondly, the province of AR-eaten instead of white or polish- one just carries on as usual
the
ON BRITISH CAPITAL
nam, the central part of Indo-|
"Last Wednesday night was very China, to be under joint control ed rice, only a small amount of of the Japanese and French, and
additional protein is required in noisy. The anti-aircraft barrage
REUTER STATES THAT IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED the form of fish, eggs or salted lasted for nine hours and the next Thirdly, Cochin-Chine,
bean morning the streets were littered THAT REPORTS RECEIVED UP TO MIDNIGHT ON WEDNESDAY southern province where Saigon eggs meat, cheese, or soya at-
is situated, remains a French curd to keep the body healthy and with shell splinters, to the great INDICATE THAT AT LEAST 99 GERMAN AIRCARFT WERE DES
delight of souvenir hunters. That TROYED IN THE UNABATED AERIAL ASSAULT ON GREAT BRI- protectorate.
to assist growth and repair. :
is how it is. You cannot beat TAIN. NAVAL CONCENTRATION
IMPROVES APPETITE
these people.
Só fiercely did Spitfires and Hurricanes attack enemy forms- The dispatch states that nego- Red or unpolished rice improves PREMIER WAS RIGHT
tions on Wednesday afternoon that only a small proportion of the tiations over these proposals are the appetite and assists in regula The Prime Minister was cer-ralding bombers were able to reach their objectives. London docks, continuing, and information is not ting the movement of the bowels,tainly right when he said that the says an A'r Ministry News ServicA. yet available as to whether the The best way is to introduce it bombardment of London is only (Reuter)-Indo-China authorities will accept gradually into the meals until; rumour that has them,
part of Herr Hitler's plan for the the polished rice is wholly re-invasion of England and that it been circulating abroad that Reu The National Times also pub-placed by the unpolished variety. was meant to terrorise Londoners" ter's building had been hit in alishes, a special dispatch from This rice takes rather longer and thus prepare the way for his recent raid on London, dispatches Chungking reporting that over 120 to cook than the polished and ferocious attack that is to follow. received here state that anti-aix-Japanese naval vessels are now requires a little more water craft fire and low clouds hamper-concentrated in the Tonking Bay the cooking. The Medical Au
"I think this onslaught must be made before the end of next ed the German alders last night. region, with over 200 warplanes thorities appeal to importers to month, but I should not like to Only a few bombs were dropped based on Walchow and Hainan keep stocks of red or unpolished be among the men who are to on the metropolitan district dur-islands.
RAIDERS HAMPERED DUBLIN, Sept. 13
Denying the
Ing the early hours of the raid.
ATTACK REPULSED LIUCHOW, Sept. 13 (Central)-A
rice-replaced by fresh consign stage it, Again and again Herr ments every month, if possible. Hitler's preparations have been A similar appeal is made to broken up by our bombers and our
restaurants, éating navy
58 GIFT PLANES
FROM D.E.I.
LONDON, Sept. 13 (Reuter) The King has accepted the offer of the Queen of the Netherlands of 40 Spitfires and 18 bombers to be provid- ed from funds raised in the Netherlands East Indies...
The "all clear" was sounded at 5.45 am. The rald, which was combined Japanese infantry and keepers of said to have been not as severe as artillery force launched a severe houses and food shops to have "It the recert ones, started at 9.11
conditions should enable MALTA USES attack on. Dongdang, west pm. yesterday..
of red, unpolished rice on their bills, Herr. Hitler to land his troops inį 97" Chennankwan, on the Kwangsinf fare, so as to popularise this this country, I think, from what 5{D=.
375-YEAR-OLD French Indo-China border on Sept. variety
amongst their patrons. I know of our defence arrange- defenders, according to a belated will keep beri berl away. report.
Dispatches received here continue to praise London's new defence.barrage.
TERRIFIC BARRAGE
LONDON, Sept. 13 (Reuter) – The new method of repelling night Talcers a terrific barrage with-i
7. but was driven back by Chinese Remember red or unpolished rice ments, that they will be killed and SHELTERS
Incendiary
out the help of searchlights was caused. Brea
not so continuous-last-night-as-on Wednesday, but
even more in-
E.
bombs
elsewhere
A
"DAYLIGHT" "WARNING London had its second daylight
tense when the drone of enemy air raid warning of the day at planes was heard.
8.40 a.m.
1
Lost Three Husbands
In Two Wars
made prisoners in a Have
very short
IN ST. PAUL'S LONDON, Sept. 13 (Reater) --An unexploded bomb discovered in the grounds' of St. Paul's Cathedral
The Dean WES advised to leave, shops and businesses In the neighbouring sirests were evacuated, and "; roads wire roped off pending: metion to render the bomb harm- !CRO
THE WEATHER
The maximum temperature re-
The Germans opened the attack úna 150-mile front. Within a few -minutes big formations totalling. about "225" Machines crossed the coast between Northforeland, and. Dungeness, another 50 simultan- eously approaching the Southamp-corded yesterday was 85 and the top area and a smaller formation minimum 75 compared with sa crossing near Dover with the ob- and 76 on Thursday, ject of attacking fighter aero- dromes In Kent and Surrey.
The bulk of the bombers, -head-
Total rainfall since Jan. 1 la 111 inches against an average", of 71.70
The report of the Royal Obser-
ing towards London, were survatory states
rounded by Messerschmitt escorts. The anti-cyclone is unchanged They were attacked by Polish over China, Japan and the neigh- squadrons led by a British Flight bouring seas Etentenant..
Pressure is relatively low in a
The Police pilots shot down 14 trough extending from Indo-
China to the Marianas.
A typhoon is developing in the Two Hurricane squadrons fero-vicinity of Guam.
When air raid alarms are sound- of the raiders. ed in Malta, people caught in the HARD PRESSED
streets take cover in shelters and "Herr Hitler must, indeed, be tunnel which were used by the very hard pressed if he makes up knights and people of Malta m his mind to face what we have the Great Siege of 1568, when the in store for him. As we know that Turks were attacking the island, the bombs which Herr Hitler is writes an Evening Standard repor-- dropping on us form only a minor ter.. part of his strategy for a bigger There is no danger in Malta from attack, so Herr Hitler must re- incendiary bomba. Fire damage is member that his prestige is at practically unknown there, because
take.
He must go on trying to of the lack of inflammable building
A very long lull in the barrage During the night raid, a Catho- up to midnight suggested that, lic Church in west London was Mrs. Mary Tennant, aged 45, of either fewer planes were par-struck by a petrol cannister bomb, Scarborough-street, West Hartle- ticipating or
A straller number The church was gutted only four pool, has had three husbands killed hold the people he has conquered materials. was able to penetrate the city's walls remaining. outer defences.
MANY AREAS
a
in two wars..
She first married, at the age of MOLOTOV “BREADBASKET Enemy air attacks during last 18 in 1813. Her husband was killed LONDON, Sept. 13 (Reuter)-Anight, though not on heavy in France, in 1915. In 1918, she mar- Molotov "breadbasket" is thought scale. were directed to many areas įried again, and her second husband to have caused tires which dam-jin Britain, says an Air Ministry was killed in France just before the aged about 12 houses in a rest-and Ministry of Home Security end of the last war. dential district in north London communique
In last night's ralda The breadbasket
Her third husband Corporal Ten- The communique adds that nant of the Duke of Wellington's was followed enemy aircraft, operating singly Regiment was killed in action in by incendiary bombs which
small formations, were Franie on May 31 this year. among the firemen called to the heavily engaged by our defences district
at many points.
in fell or
Spent machine-gun bullets were also found on the spot but there were no casualties."
Incendiaries were preceded by flares which it up the whole-area- SOLITARY RAIDER
In "London's first afr raid to- day, a solitary raider appeared.| dodging in the clouds.
As it flew out of the clouds, it was promptly greeted by a salvo
from AA guns.
to work, Bome in trains got off
Though a number of high explosive and Incendiary bombs were dropped in and around London and some fres were started, the fres--were- quickly controlled and damage caused was much less than on the previous night,
TELEVISION PLANE
U.S. ARMY GETS BLUEPRINTS.
1
In
a state of passive submission." Here Mr. Steed referred to Polish citizen recently as an the execution of a prominent
example of the way in which Herr Hitler uses methods of terrorism to retain his prestige of Invincibility and to impress the people whom he has con- quered with fear.
An
CAUSEWAY BAY ROBBERY
clously attacking a formation of 150 enemy bombers escorted" by ghters did splendid work in pro- tecting London from an attack. “ During the day's fighting, the
armed robbery Occurred enemy lost 56 heavy bombers and Thursday about 8.15 pm. when 22 fighter-bombers. Eleven Messer three robbers broke into No. 131, schmitt 109's were destroyed,
At least 250 pilots, navigators and stole a gold wrist watch, a gold Chun Yeung Street, Causeway Bay, and air-gunners must have been ring and a $10 note. The total lost by the enemy.
loss was valued at about $240. The amah was bound with wire,
Houses built of the local
SOUVENIR HUNTERS stone make excellent shelters,
LONDON, Bept. 13 (Renter)—— as they are bullt so strongly,
Londoners yesterday were busily I was told at the offices of the
collecting shrapnel as souvenirs Trade Commissioner for Malta: and thanking their lucky stars and There is a memorial in Malta to Mr. Churchill for what is probably "Thé | glorious memory. of the the noisiest night London has yet children who fought by the side of
experienced. their elders, in the siege of 1565.
"If the Italians tried to invade “One gets a good notion of the Malts the same thing would hap-
immensity of Herr Hitler's gamble pen again, Everyone would want to JAPANESE
the looks at what is taking place light them, The Maltese hate the in the Africari theatre of war," Italians,”
continued Mr. Steed. "Herr Hitler Malta has a population of 285,- is evidently putting pressure on000. Italy to begin an attack there.
a time.
LONDON, Sept. 13 (Reuter) --Casualties in - Wednesday's. raids on Londen were 125 kill- ed and 250· Infured in' the afternoon and 40 Killed and 170 injured at night.
RESUME
AIR
ATTACKS ON CHUNGKING
Few Casualties: Newspaper Plant Totally Demolished
CHUNGKING, Sept. 13 (Central)-Resuming their wearying aerial bützkrieg after a three-week respite, 49 Japanese bombers in several waves raided Chungking twice yesterday......, both in the forenoon and evening.
The evening rald which occurred
Mussolini will be prepared to do, where tha French authorities a73. this if he is certain that Herr not keen on accepting all the de Hitler can do the same against mands made on them by the Jap- Britain.
anese. Herr Hitler will hardly like Full detalls of the casualties
"There is already much anxiety to allow the Japanese to have their In Rome about the outcome of the own way in the face of Mr. Cor- are not yet available, but reports far indicate that the number
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3-Lee dear and Mussolini has had to dell Hull's warning to Japan. killed or wounded in the London
order the arrest of several pro- "All this must be governed Forest, television radio authority.minent Italians on this subject. by the impending attack ön When the first warning sound-area, was very small. ∙ed, 1.000 people were on their way Some houses were destroyed in asserted today that blue-prints
"Herr Hitler and Mussolini have Britain, for Herr Hitler's creed
The morning raid occurred be- | being demolished and less than 10 two Lancashire towns and one for a secret "television torpedo no doubt been frightened by the has always been one victim at
tween 10 and 12 o'clock as 46 tri-persons killed and wounded. into shelters and after the planes London. There was a small num-hands of United States Army Africa have rallied to the call by town on the eastern outskirts of plane" have been placed in the way in which North and West
motored bombers in three waves had passed, resumed their journey ber of casualties in each of these fight engineers at Dayton, Ohio. General de Gaulle. This is why confident that we can withstand incendiary bombs on the South We, for our part, are quietly dumped both fragmentation and
"EVENING. BAID. When the second warning.
places. Elsewhere there was little
said that the
plane's they have been putting pressure, him. His bombing of London has Bank, where all the foreign em- shortly after 7 o'clock was a brief walled, many proceeded to
damage and a few cadunities, "greatest use would be observa- on the Vichy Government to pre-not deterred us in the slightest basses and consulates except the affair, only 3 enemy raiders par their office and " workshop
tional, with a television iconosco vent any other French possessions degree and we feel sure that he has Soviet are concentrated, and the ticipating and without stopping at the shel-
ANOTHER WARNING
note of the from Joining in with Gen. de not yet taken our full measure.
dropping a The air raid warning was re-pic camera in the
bombs on the suburba Several incendiary bombs were sounded in the London area at plane. This could flash back to Gaulle.
"I Herr Hitler came to London suburbs of Chungking city the mother plane well up out of "Herr Hitler and Mussolini are, in these days today as an observer, "It"" was "a" fine, sunny day, and Most noteworthy loss to Chung- dropped and later heavy explo-(6.37 a.m. G.M.T. sions were heard in quick succes The "all clear" was sounded at anti-aircraft range-close-up de- in short, trying to keep West and he might begin to understand it eye-witnesses had a clear view of king in the raids yesterday was slon.
7.32 a.m.
tails of objectives seen from a North Africa in storage form and We should send him back to Beriin the raiders lying at a high the total destruction of the China Today's second raid was Lon-
CONVOY ATTACKED distance through powerful bino-, we shall now see what we shall in a British bomber and drop him altitude, 11 in the first wave, Times, transplanted; to Chung- don's longest in daylight.
Several enemy bombers attack-culars."
near the Victory Column which our in the second and 26 in the third ring from shanghai at end of An incendiary bomb fell in aled a convoy off the east coast of De Forest said the robot plane's "Here again, much will depend airmen have made piecemeal of. Compared with the Aug. 19 and 1937. The staff dormitory, the well-known thoroughfare. With Scotland late last night, but all nose could be loaded with explo- upon Herr Hitler's attack upon He can then tell his people a tale 21 hombicas. casualties and ma- priting plant and composing complete sangfroid
ARP the vessels in the convoy es- sives, increasing its destructive Great Britain..
which I feel sure they will not re-terial damages in yesterday's room were completely demolished warden placed a chair over it. caped unscathed
egg possibilities.
raids were slight, over 30 houses but no one was injured
iers.
an
He
see.
Then there
Indo-China, lah hearing.