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HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1940.
Noon Raid On London Lasts Almost An Hour: 300 Nazi Bombers Driven Off By British Fighters
LONDON, Sept. 15 (Redter)-London's first air raid today came about noon and lasted for almost an_bour.Screaming bombs were seen to fall in a south-east district. Watchers atop Londoa maw six enemy planes high up in the sky.
Later fragments of an enemy plane were seen falling like leaves in the centre of London and three airmen baled out.
Two enemy bombers were brought down in the London suburbs.
GENERALISSIMO'S
MESSAGE
TO H.K. STUDENTS
FROM
A MESSAGE TO THE STUDENTS OF HONGKONG GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK in which he expressed op- timism regarding Chinese resistance against the aggressor and arged Chinese youths to do their best in the Interests of China, was brought back by a delegation of six students who returned from Chungking on Friday, after presenting a sword to the Leader of
Chinn
The delegation comprised Messrs.
Ha Kit-wah (representing Canton
University).
Young Kim-DONE
(Hongkong Students Asscn.),
Chang Chee-wün (9'hal Students' Asscn.), Chu Hol-kwin. (Kwok
.Ming University), Lam Chee-
ming (Y. M. C. A.) and Lam Chee. The sword, which was made of steel, was subscribed for by the students in Hongkong. It had the monogram of Generalissimo Chiang on it and had been forged by a well-known local goldsmith shop.
Mr. Ip Chor-chang, secretary of the Central Kuomintang Party, received the sword on behalf of the Generalissimo who was busy on that day, but a few days later the delegation was granted Interview at which the above mentioned message was 'given them to take back to the Colony.
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COURTESY CALLS While in Chungking the de-. legation paid courtesy calls several high. Chinese officials and also inspected several educational institutions.
Among the officials
they saw were Dr. H. E. Kung, Minister of Finance. Dr. Suri Fo President of the Legislative Yuan, and Dr. Wat Yu-yin President of the Control Yuan. A valedictory banner was presented to Dr. Wal by the students.
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Mr. Ip Chor-chung, Secretary of the Central Kuomintang Party, who received, on behalf of Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek, á sword presented by a delegation of students, is here
shown carrying the sword.
capped by lack of apparatus, the students continued their study, unbroken in spirit,
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An Air Ministry communique states that during Saturday's at- tacks bombs were dropped in the London area, South-East England and East Anglia..
One south coast town's town hall and hospital were hit. Casualties in London and elsewhere were very sight,
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CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE
During the early afternoon bombs were dropped in south- west London and several south coast towns where damage and casualties were slight except at Brighton, where several persons were injured," and Eastbourne where considerable damage was done to houses, and some people
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SENATOR GERMAN INVASION PORTS
BANKHEAD
DEAD
NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (Reuter) -The death has occuffed of Sena- tor W. B. Bankhead, Either of the actress, Tallulah Balkhead.
Senator Bankhead was taken ill on Thursday when addressing a meeting in support of Mr. Roos8- velt's Presidential campaign.
Antonescu Forms New Government
FOREIGN POLICY BASED ON AXIS.
ALONG FRENCH COAST
ARE HEAVILY BOMBARDED
Details
Of Latest Hammering
LONDON, SEPT. 15 (REUTER)—THE GERMAN INVASION PORTS ALONG THE FRENCH COAST APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN HEAVILY BOMBARDED BY BRITISH BOMBERS LAST NIGHT.
The attack seemed to be fiercer than the previous night raids.
Searchlights, parachute" flares, flashes of bursting bombs and A.A. guns lit up the waterfront for many miles as endless explosions shook the Kent coast.
The main objective appeared to be Calais.
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The Straits of Dover was calm and the wind light.. Details of the latest hammering | of the German invasion bases are giver in a bulletin issued by the Air Ministry news service which stated that operations lasted from soon after 9 p.m. (GMT) until shortly before dawn.
directed against the harbour of The first sortie of night war was
Boulogne, barges in the harbour
BUCHAREST, Sept. 15 (Rea- - ter)---General Antonescu, has
formed a new - Government. A Royal decree proclaims the structure of the State to be hence- forth totalitarian with a foreign policy based on the Axis. High explosive bombs were drop-
basin were bombed in a series of The Iron Guard becomes the low-level and shallow dive attacks ped in a town in North-West Eng-sole party in the State. land and severe damage was done
and hits were also scored on ad- It is understood that the new joining wharves and jetties. in and near Industrial buildings.
Government was formed under About 300 Nant bombers and German supervision Cghters approaching, from the south-east coast, made a desperate efort to reach London during two afternoon alarma yesterday? They, were driven off by British Oghters without, so far as is known, drop- ping any bombs.
BIGGEST BATTLE...
A witness described the battle during the second afternoon raid
LARGE FIRES
"INVASION SEASON"
NEAR CONCLUSION
LONDON, Sept. 15 (Reuter)-The most obvious fact after a week of the most desperate onslaught by the Luftwaffe is that its efforts to smash the RAF as it smashed the Polish, Dutch, Belgian and French air forces as a prelude to over-running the country has hitherto failed. Far from being even worn down the strength of the British Fighter Command is actually higher than ever after six weeks of battle.
The "invasion season" is nearing conclusion. Several large fires broke out as a result of the bombing, one of These are the general conclu- which fellowed a heavy explosion slons of the week-end newspapers- accompanied by a brilliant red in their assessments of the past flash. At Ostend the Zocks were week'd--mortelitomsmávents, subjected to one hour's bombard- The SUNDAYTIMES Air cor- ment Sticks of heavy calibre "respondent said that" for the first. bombs flew across rows of barges time the Luftwaffe had to accept and several crews reported the defeat-a defeat whose extent has bursting of bombs followed by not been fully realised. The following are the results of flashes of red and green flashes For the first time the enemy has
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Incendiary bombs were also of attack: dropped оп barges along the quayside starting a line of fires on one side of the outer harbour.
The raid on Dunkirk began
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A bomb also hit, railings en- closing a church in the London area and shattered windows in the vicinity. Seventy-five people in the crypt of the church were all marshalled safely away. The church was built in the year of the Battle of Waterloo.
In an interview with Mr. Chen LA-fu, Minister of Education, the
FIFTH WARNING. delegation was urged by the
The fifth warning was sounded Minister to go back to the interior when a blg formation of German
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Rumania Replies To Soviet
MOSCOW, Sept. 15 (Reuter) Replying to the recent Soviet pro- test about the frontier. incidents, the Rumanian Government has emphatically denied responsibility which it places on the Soviet frontier forces.
pitomised by an article by J. L has taken measures to preserve
Garvin in THE OBSERVER.
The reply adds that Rumania
good neighbourly relations.
He says that If Hitler means it, the madness would seem to lie in attempting any serious invasion BRITAIN
of Britain before gaining full mastery of the air once and for
all. It is impossible that he can SEEKING US.
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Yet, if he is to come at all, he CARGO VESSELS
must dare it this week.
NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (Reuter); -Britain has re-entered the American market for certain
Mr. Ha told our representa❤ tive at a Press interview yes- terday that the people in the
The full moon and fall tides are interior were very sympathetic
tomorrow and the weather may toward the Allied cause and
break at any moment. were anxious for a British victory.
Perhaps Hitler is masking Axis types of cargo vessels it is learnt It was revealed that some
Ticket Nos. 184, 457 and 468 geted docks and harbours at Antwerp plans against Egypt and the Nile. 11not appear to have dropped any
in merchant marine circles, says where large numbers of barges Bpeaking of education in Hongkong University engineering bombs and no guns opened fire.
Perhaps the man broods with the New York Herald-Tribune. Chungking, Mr. Ha said that there graduates are at present working | In the fourth raid on London
were sighted in the middle of the deadly fanaticism on the thought Mr. J. J. Walsh, West Coast re river alongside the canal and in of attempting at all risks a blow presentative of the British Minis- were four universities there and for the Chinese Government under enemy planes dropped a number
docks leading down to the river at Britain's own heart. all were still carrying on-despite the Department of Economics. of bombs close to a bridge.
Salvoes of high explosives and in- the Japanese raids. There were The delegation left Chungking | About seven bombs were drop-
In a few days we shall know. ceridlary bombs were dropped on altogether about 8,000 students, two
these targets as well as on docks momentous days. months
and toured ped at a south-east town yester-
Maybe time has not seen more In Chungking.
Although having various parts of China before re day by a German raider being
and quays. to lead a hard life, and hand-turning to Hongkong.
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Six Raiders Downed In Chungking
CHUNGKING, Sept. 15 (Reuter Japanese aircraft at noon yes
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CHINESE PRIEST MAKES
TOUR OF WORLD
FR. JOSEPH LIU, A PRIEST OF THE PREFECTURE OF CHU- MATIEN, HONAN, passed through Hongkong yesterday on his way to Shanghal after a four years journey round the world.
His tour was begun at the suggestion of the Apostolic Delegate to China, Archbishop Zanin, who was anxious that a Chinese priest terday bombed the south bank of should give to people of other nations the Chinese viewpoint re- the Yangtze River, the majority of the bombs falling in the hills a garding Catholic missions In China and the development of the
native clergy there. considerable distance from the river.
Fr. Láu expressed himself highly Italian and Spanish. His mission Japanese aircraft never appear-gratified with the reception that to other countries was to teil of ed over the city proper, merely he received, everywhere, and he be-conditions in China today with passing over the outskirts. The leves that a great many people, special reference to the Catholic bomb explosions were faintly especially Catholics, in other coun- Church there,
audible here.
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Before leaving China, in 1936,
NOT FOREIGN Everywhere he stressed the fact Fr. Liu had been engaged in active that the Catholic Church is not work as a priest in Honan, for a foreign institution in China, but has ́·· 3,000,000 members with 23 twenty-six years. He was Rector Chinese Bishops, and more than of a seminary for the education 2,000 native priests, 4,000 native of Chinese priests, and the Pre- fecture of Chumatten to which he sisters, and 7,000 seminarians pre 18. attached is staffed entirely by paring for the priesthood.
He addressed thousands of audiences," and often spoke several
Meanwhile, an official Chi- nese announcement on the re- sult of Friday's Sino-Japanese aerlal battle above Pishan, north-west of Chungking, states that six Japanese born- 'bers,' were shot down in the vicinity of Pishan and Tung- ling and many others damaged. Chinese losses in the battle In Chinese clergy. clude one aeroplane which failed In addition to being exceptimes in one day. He avoided all to return to its base and one pilot tionally well versed in Chinese reference to political questions killed. Three other plots were literature, Fr. Liu is a man of and in answer to all requests to wounded" but managed to land very wide culture and has address. their machtes safely.
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Coming events. PAGE 4 British ready for Egypt Invasion; Royal Chapel wrecked; Mysterious Nazi activities in the Balkana PAGE 5 Rental claim Judg-
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St. Teresa's Hospital open- ed; Training gallops. MAN PAGES 9 and 10-Finance and
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PAGE 11 New hightsoil re- moval methods in Hongkong, China hard passes,
try of Shipping, has, according to advices from San Francisco, made it known that a limited number” of vessels in the 7,000 ton class or During the previous" afternoon them and beat them.
We are ready-ready to meet larger are being sought for "im- the bomber forces successfully at-
mediate delivery. tacked. à number of barges moor ed in the river at Ijsselmond and a convoy of six or seven tankers, each of about 2,000 tons, which were sighted off the end of the Mole at Zeebrugge. In the attack on the convoy direct hits were scored on one vessel which ex- ploded in a mass of dames, änd was soon enclosed in dense, black smoke.
"Battered But Unbowed"
KOWLOON DOCK WORKER HACKED TO DEATH
A67-YEAR-OLD EMPLOYEE OF THE KOWLOON DOCKS WAS MURDERED In the Hunghom district yesterday morning.
His body was found on the staircase of Nos. 35-37, Gillies Ávenus, at "the Junction of Cooke Street, about 6.15 o'clock.
The man, LEUNG YUK-KWAN, was attacked with a chopper and all the wounds were on the neck and head, according to as police report.
Leung, who was employed as No,
1. turner at the Kowloon Docks, BREMEN RADIO was, it appears.. in the habit of
72 OFF AIR NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (Reuter)— going to the Fung Tin teahouse in What is regarded here as one of Bulkeley Street and he was ap- LONDON Sept. 14 (Router) Britain's most testing weeks of the parently on his way there when Bremen and Brussels radio both war ended yesterday with almost he was waylaid from behind.
went off the air yesterday, In- every American expressing his ad-
dicating the presence of RAP Shortly after the discovery of miration for Britons and more es the crime, police officers, includ-bombers over Germany and Bel- pecially for the bravery of Lon- ing Mr. LE C. Caltarep, DP A german news agency state- (Kowloon), Det.-Insp. A. E. Carey. ment says RAF planes carried Insp. H. E. Rogers and Insp. C. S out a daylight raid on Germany. Madgwick, and a number of Chi- No details are available in London. nese detectives,
on the scene.
doners.
The verdict, of newspapers yesterday was "Battered but still unbowed.
[were]
WAR - PRISONERS SIMLA, Sept 16 (Reuter)- further contingent of Italian pra
The activities of the Luftwaffe, however, is by no means given the monopoly of attention and the The motive and assailants are at RA.He's raids on Germany and present unknown. German-held objectives receive The body was removed to the soners of war, consisting of 65
equal newspaper prominence
Kowloon Public Mortuary.
officers and 114 other rankwahaz arrived in Indla