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PALACE RAIDS:
BOMB CRASHES THROUGH QUEEN'S DRAWING ROOM
LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter)—More bombs were dropped on Buckingham Palace on Saturday, but the Nasi raider had only flown about a quarter of a mile further before it was shot down in front of Victoria Station
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This was but one of several Nazi ra!ders brought down while Londoners cheered themselves hoarse.
Second Week Of The Battle Of London
GENERAL
| CONGRESS REFUSES TO
CO-OPERATE
GANDHI INVITED TO HEAD PARTY BOMBAY, Sept. 16 (Renter)-- The Congress Working Commdties resolution yesterday adopted a
TRANSPORTS RUN INTO MINEFIELD
NEW NAZI AIR STRATEGY LONDON, Sept. 16 (Heater
BERLIN, Sept. 18(Reuter)-A of 10 French merchant An observer who rushed out in Bombs were again" dropped ou A "swinging" form of attack by withdrawing the conditional offer convoy his pyjamas when he heard the Buckingham Palace during Satur-the German air force has become of the All-India National Congress chips, with demobllised soldiers on drone of aero-engines saw aday's ralds.
apparent as the second week of to co-operate with Britain in the board, ran into a minefeld in the Mediterranean while en route to Dornier-17 bomber flying over St. There were no casualties.
the Battle of London got under prosecution of the war.
Mahatma Gandhi, who dis- Marseilles from North Africa, says George's Hospital, near Bucking This was the third bombing at-way, says Reuter's air correspond- ham Palace. It
agreed with the Congress offer, the Official German News Agency. seemed obvious tack on the Palace. that another attack on the Palace
is invited to resume his leadership in a despatch from Geneva. was being carried out and a few
of the Party with power to "guide
seconds later. It dropped its bombs
it in any action that should be taken " In the Palace grounds.
It did not live to see what dam- age was done.
GREAT EXPLOSION
A Spitfire came roaring down
There were a few bursts of ma- chine-gun fire, and then a great
It t understood that two. heavy bombs and a number of small incendiaries WATE nimed on the Palace. Two bombs fell during the first warning, one on Palace build- Ings and one
lawn. on the Neither exploded.
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A number of small incendiary explosion in the air as the Ger-bombs fell at the same time on the man raider broke up into pieces started small fires on the grass.
Palace grounds and some of them So far as the observer could see. only one man baled out, but his parachute was already badly damaged by the explosion. The rest of the crew were presumably
dead.
The observer says he has. often reen German planes crash, but this is the first time he has seen one break up completely m the air. Pieces of the plane flew all over the place.
BABEL OF SOUND The engine and
most of the fuselage fell in front of Victoria station, a quarter of a mile away from the Palace.
These were quickly got under control by the Palace A.R.P. stuff and Police,
The King and Queer were no in residence at the time and only & skeleton staff of servants and They others were in the Palace. were all in the basement shelters and there were Du casualties.
ST, THOMAS DAMAGED It is now disclosed that Thomas's is one of the "London hospitals damaged in £ recent raid.
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A bomb which struck Bucking- ham Palace crashed through the
by the Queen as a drawing room on the first floor. It tore a hole in the celling.
One wing-fell-In-the street by a tapestry-of-a-room, which is used public house half a mile away.
He went down to have a look and as he got near the "pub"" he heard a perfect babel of sound. He went in and found everyo talking at the top of their voices.
TRAWLERS DOWN BOMBER
ent.
This variation of air strategy
and which allows single raiders mass formations to alternats, is tu some extent explained by increus- ed reconnaissance und also eiquav weather but it may well signify
It is announced from Vichy, the Agency odds, 'that two ships were sunk although most of the mem- The resolution, which is now to bers of the crew and soldiers were be ratified by the All-India Con-rescued. gress Committee, condemns the
more.
The bot reception of the tier-action of the British Governmen
"CREWS SAVED
man mass raiders has doubtless in bringing India Into the war It is announced that caused Goering to call temporary without previous consultaflen. halts while squadrons are being reorganised "
.
Single raiders are designed to maintain pressure until large formatious can be sent out agats REASON FOR ENCOURAGEMENT
While this hardly seems to fit in with the action of an enemy Ponfidently contein- plating invasion, it does sug- gest that he has now brought Into use the major part of his available front-line air strength, and there is "every reason for encouragement in his having reached this stage before an
invasion has been attempted and after less than two months of starting blitzkrieg on Britán.........
PROPOSALS REJECTED
-
three
VICHY, Sept. 18 (Reuter)
French cargo boats struck mines off the coast of Sardinia СП Two were sunk but the third was able to continue the
The Viceroy's proposals of Aug. Friday.. 9 are rejected.
At the same time the resolution voyage. expresses admiration for the Bri-
All the crews were saved--but tisk people in the face of peril three "military passengers" Bre and disclaims any desire to ein stated to have lost their lives. barrass them and promises, to
The vessels Wete maintaining restrict the Congress passive resia-|
the French tance policy to the minimum re- the service between
Mediterranean coast and Africa. quired for the preservation of Liberty,"
Support for "world' ment" I promised
disarm
Gandhi, addressing the Uun-
Committee later. grexx
gave an assurance that there would be no mass civil disobedience and said he could not the
tell them what he would do
This was certainly beyond the most
ranguine expectations of
INTERVIEW SOUGHT
S'HAI JUDGES DEFY THREAT
Threatening Letters Are Ignored
CHUNGKING, Sept. 16 (Central)
"I am searching for something, Britain's defence chiefs. It shows" but if I am unable to find a way. that the brilliant defence action I shall come before you and ad
In a statement issued yesterday. of the BAF. fighters and anti-mit my failure.”
the staff of the First Special Dis- aircraft guns and the presistent Gandhi added that he would These people have been through
offensive of Air Force bombers again seek an interview with the frict Court in the International a. good deal, and the great new
has told very heavily indeed, and Viceroy to explain the position to Settlement in Shanghai defied the anti-aircrafę - barrage has already LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuter). the Air Force is confident that the latter and if no agreement threat to their lives made by -given them now heart. But that An Admiralty communique state. Hitler should try an Invasion were reached on the constitu-Wang Ching-wel's agents.
broken wing of the Dornier in the that two mine-sweeping trawlers without mastery of the air or seational position, he would ask for street cutside did more for them Libra and Conquistador, destroyed be will be dealt a crippling biow. than anything else in the world an enemy aircraft by gunfire could do.
early this morning.
"There either trawler
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THIRD ATTACK LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter
were
casualties D
P.I. President & U.S. High
Commissioner Make Trip Of
Inspection
IMPORTANT OBJECTIVES
provements which have been ac-
CHOLERA RAGING| IN FUKIEN
5,000 VICTIMS
CLAIMED
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Foochow,
freedom to carry on a strictly non- violent campaign against India's participation in the war.
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More letters, threatening dire consequences if they do not give up allegiance to the National Government in Chungking and turn over to the Wang Ching-wei regime have recently been recely. ed by them.
The statement declared that the.
of the Court were for-
FUND FOR RAID VICTIMS SYDNEY, "Sept. 16 (Reuter)-A officials publle meeting is being held here tomorrow to inaugurate a fund for the assistance of British air raid victims.
It is hoped to raise £250,000.
BALKANS CRISIS
BUDAPEST, Sept 15 (Reuter-
mally appointed by the National Government in Chungking and recognised by the Powers con- cerned and their duty is to en- force Chinese law. They have completely ignored the threaten- ing letters received and will con- tinue to execute their duty.
As
፡፡
measure,
FOOCHOW, Sept. 16 (Centra) -About 5,000 people bave perish ed as a result of an epidemic of cholera which is now raging in a The Sayre-Quezon trip is view-number of districts along the ed as likely to accomplish two im-Faklen coast. portant objectives: to show the
The deadly disease, which broke DAVAO'S JAPANESE High Commissioner the public im-
B precautionary month ago, has A semi-official statement issued the Police Department of the In out, about COLONY
spread to
Changio, in Budapest yesterday accuses the ternational Settlement has assign- complished during the Common-Fuising, Putten and other areas. Rumantan "Army of a 10-day President Quezon, President of wealth regime, with national gov Owing
ed special motor cars and armed to rigorous quarantine, reign of terror against Hungarians guards to escort the judges to-the the Philippine Islands, sailed on ernment funds and. the proceeds Aug. 29 aboard the ss Don Isidro of the coconut oil tax, and an in-services instituted along the com-living in the territory ceded to court daily.
munication lines, it has been pre-Hungary.
The vented from further spreading into
statement adds that the Rumanians the hinterland.
are also proceeding The provincial health admink- against 700,000 Hungarians still tration is making feverish efforts under Rumanian domination and to combat the disease. It has declares that the evident crisis distributed 7,000 tubes of serums between the two countries con- to various halen.
tinues."
un a quiet but yet generally re-spection of the huge colonisation garded as significant inspection and agricultural projects. trip to Davao and other Mindanao points, with United States Bigh
Commissioner Sayre, reports Cipri- ANOTHER S'HAI
ano Uld in the Manila Bulletin.
The United States High Com- missioner departed aboard & U.S. destroyer on Aug. 27 with Admiral John M, Smeallie, commandant of the Cavite Navy Yard, to visit the Sulu Archipelago.
This
COMPLETE CIRCLE
section of the Min- danao Island groups reaches as far
south as the Dutch East Indies groups sprawled all over the Celebes sea and forming an almost complete circle with the Japanese man- dated islands in the South Pacific.
MURDER
ONE-TON: BOMB MISSED CATHEDRAL
BURIED FEET
£5,047,000 FOR PLANES
VICTIM SHOT IN OWN HOUSE SHANGHAI, Sept. 16 (Reuter) — Posing as a
messenger with a package of moon festival gifts, a Chinese gunman killed a Chi- nese merchant, Liu Yu-ying, an employee of a Japanese firm yes terday morning in
LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter)-ion announces with gratitude that the victim's
How St. Paul's was saved from gifts from the public in Britain horne in Hongkew, Japanese con- trolled area in the International destruction by a bomb of the big- and overseas for the purchase of Settlement,
jest calibre ever dropped on Lon-aircraft have reached a total of The shooting was seen by the don, which fell to the west end of £5,047,000.
the Cathedral, is told in a state-
victim's wife.
IN GROUND
LONDON, Sept. 16
(Reuter)- The Minister of Aircraft Product-
President Quezon was due to meet. High Commissioner Sayre in Davao on Sept. 2. They were ex- pected to make a joint inspection Liu was a high official in the ment issued in London yesterday of the province. where more than Yung Hwa Textile Company. a, by the Ministry of Home Security Japanese concern. The killer was
When a bomb disposal squad, caused a crater: 100 feet across 13,000 Japanese are employed in extensive hemp and ramie planta- admitted to the home when he commanded by Lieutenant R. E. and shock windows in houses far tions and where they own or have said to han "mooncakes" Davies, began to dig they found away. leased from Filipinos agricultural other gifts of the season and a fractured, and three men were LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter-
lands covering an area of over personal message for Liu.
60.000 hectares.
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that a six-inch gas main had been
The Gas Company were called in to deal with the leakage which had caught fire,
A shot in the head killed Liu, gassed. Instantly. The motive is unknown; "GOODWILL DELEGATIONS but it is believed it might be a Several "goodwill" delegations personal grievance from Japan have recently visited:"7 Davao. A retired Japanese ad- miral paid a visit to that city al month ago, simultaneously with a delegation of members of the Japanese dict. Another delega tion of Japanese peers is schedul-
U. S. EXPLOSION.
SEQUEL
ed, to make a stop at Davao on its 'KENVIL, NEW JERSEY, Sept. 16 way to the Japanese mandated (Reuter)-As a sequel to the ex- islands this month.
-NO-SERVICE-
For the first time in very mahy years, no service was held at St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday
It was still under the menace of the time bomb which fell on Wed- nesday.
The bomb may have been u dud but no risks were taken. Nearby residents remained eva- cuated and every way leading to the Cathedral was barricaded.
Instead of the usual worshippers -were yesterday morning, thera only steel-helmeted members of a
When the gas was cut off, the disposal section had to dig down seven feet before they found the bomb which was a ton in weight and eight feet long, fitted with fuses which made it deadly dangerous to totich. "
́SPECIAL TACKLE' plosion at the Hercules Powder With great difficulty it was From Davao, the President and Factory, 18 local sheriffs yester-drawn up with special tackle by bomb disposal squad strolling near the High Commissicher were to day swooped down on the camp two lorries in a tandem and then the railinge. motor over the newly constructed run by the German-American driven at high speed in a lorry by
BOME REMOVED highways in Mindanao, going Bund near Andover, New Jersey, Lieutenant Davies to the Hackney Later in the day the bomb was directly to Bukidnon to inaugurate and seized spbversive literature Marshes, the risk of an explosion safely removed by experts, the Davao-Bukidnon national" and Tifles with telescopio sights. being imminent all the time,
For the first time for several highway. The High Commissicher · Afterwards' the locni sheriffs The streets between the Catne-days, traffe was allowed through- was to formally open the new went to the Hercules Factory, to dral and the Marshes were clear-out the area and it is expected highway on Sept 3. as, special check the names on the firm's ed by the pouce,
that business premises which had guest of President Quezon on the pay-coll with a list of persons be- The bomb, blown up on Satur- been closed will be allowed to re- Occasion
lieved to frequent the camp [day at the Hackney Marshes, (open today.
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