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BRITISH NIGHT BOMBERS LEAVE
HANAU IN FLAMES: Tremendous
SEVERE DAMAGE DONE
Merchant Vessels Believed Hit In Raid On Hamburg
- NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (Reuter)-The R.A.F. "carried out two successive raids on Berlin on Saturday night, the first lasting three hours, according to reports from Berlin. Hitherto there have been no reports regarding the damage done.
In London it is stated that British raiders, 'detalled for Ber- In despite, the handicap" of unfavourable weather, completed" thelr 600-mile flight to "the German capital. They arrived over the city on schedule about midnight, located their targets and bombed the west power station and main transformer and "also the switching station at Friedrichsfeld.
High explosive and incendiary bomb were dropped and bursts were seen close to the targets
Successful attacks were also made on rallway junctions at -Saint-Adal, some. 85 miles due west
uf Berlin.
Other night raiders concentrated on rail communications and scored
NORWEGIAN FAITH IN BRITAIN
Barrage By London Guns NAZI RAIDER FOULS
BALLOON CABLE
LONDON, Sept. 30 (Reater) Three enemy'aircraft, all bombers. have been destroyed over this country since midnight, states an Ale Ministry and Ministry ni Home Security communiqua,
One bomber brought down dur- ing the night fouled a balloon eable and crashed into the sea off the south coast.
A second enemy bomber was shot down in the Thames Valley by our fighters yesterday morning. Later another enemy bomber was het down into the sea off the south-east coast by anti-air- craft guns
Enemy activities in the morn-
GENERAL
"All around Britain's coastline men are watching and waiting for an attempted invasion of the island. Should an invader ap- proach he will be met by strong defence forces of all types. An anti-tank run on the East Coast is shown in the picture.
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Naval Circles Warn That Invasion Danger Not Over
LONDON, 'Sept, 30 (Reuter-A warning that the danger of invasion does not necessarily disappear as autumn and winter approach was given me yesterday by naval circles, writes Ren- direct hits on a juretion nt Ham- LONDON, Sept. 30 (Reuter)ing consisted of a few attacks by
ter's nava! correspondent at a British naval base. burg. bombed the main The The German authorities have late single aircraft. Some bombs were
The weather on this part of the station at Hanover and startedly taken further measures against dropped-at-points on the Thames
towns and acoast, which will probably have a Dres in a wood bordering the rail-private persons and organisations Estuary. at two
village on the south coast and a big influence on Hitler's invasion way line near Ommer.
in Norway.
plans, has been consistently fine The Vice-President of the Nor-, village in the Home countries.
Little damage was done by ane for some time but it is now threat- wegian Press Association has been arrested and his newspaper, one of these attacks and there was a ening to break up. of the largest Socialist dailies. very sinal number of casualties.
TREMENDOUS BARRAGE The most
at Cologne explosions, which"
Iminutes. continued for ten
were seen to break out in the
target area,
ሩ፡
Our aircraft were over Le Havre | stopped. for fully two hours and besides Orly German films are being damage to the docks. two direct shown in Oslo cinemas, hits are believed to have deeni
The Relch Commissariat has acored on, merchant vessels in created a special organisation to supervise Norwegian Trade Unions
Hamburg.
UNFAVOURABLE WEATHER and all Communists must be ex-
In Air Ministry
States: Weather conditions ever north Germany were unfavourable but numbers of our aircraft reach- ed their objectives.
portance in these bodies.
Falth in Britain's war effort is. daily
stronger growing among the Norwegian people. says a telegram from Stock- holm to the Norwegian tele- graph agency in London.
tremendous
barrage yet put up by the guns defending London was let loose on two raid- ers who flew directly over Central London last night.
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Hundreds of shells ripped into ed constantly for ten minutes, merging into a crescendo ef sound that has not been equalled at any time during the last month.
Natural the tendency is to as- sume that the onset of autumn and winter means that the op portunity for invasion has passed.
Fiat-bottomed, boats and barges --the main form of transport for
an invading force-cannot be used
AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS
Independents To Hold Balance Of Power?
La-
successfully in the unfavourable MELBOURNE, Sept. 30 (Reuter) communique cluded from all positions of im- the moonless sky and guns boom. sea conditions which henceforth-An informal count of preferen- may reasonable be expected. But ces shows that Mr. John Curtin. as the Navy knows there are the leader of the Australian seasonal lulls to come and one of hour Farty, will retain his seat these would normally make it pos-at Freemanile by over 500 votes. sible for such craft as the" Ger- mans have assembled to be used. During the next few weeks, for example, there should oc="" cur a "second summer" or a period of temporary calm when an attempt could be made.
In Berlin and district, electric anti-aircraft power stations an
gun positions were bombed
Elsewhere In north Germany targets included important railway centres and aerodromes
The naval base at Wilhelmsha- ven-was-strongly attacked and fires and explosions were caused.
Munition works at Hanau, near Frankfurt, suffered severe damage.
Along the Channel coast, Le Havre, Fecamp. Boulogne. Calais, and Dunkirk were all heavily bombed as well as a line of big gun emplacements near Cap Gris "Nez.
The enemy base at Lorient was again attacked.
Two of our aircraft are missing from these operations.
PILOT'S STORY
There is no sign of any support or recognition of the new Nazi- sponsored government, and the whole system is regarded with the deepest suspicion.
H.M.S. CHURCHILL
IN BRITAIN LONDON, Sept. 30
R.A.F. ACTIVE IN N. AFRICA -
FORT MADDALENA
"BOMBED
If the Germans are hoping that by thus delaying the attempt they'
for the
This unexpected swing of ab sents and preferences and also the Labour improvement" at- Bal- larat indicate that Party strength will be more even,
The final result depends on the close contests for five scats which are still in doubt.
A
start
1!
has been made iz
are likely to catch Britain some counting the votes of troops over- CAIRO, Sept. 30 (Renter)-An what off guard, they will be seas taking part in the Australian R.A.F. communique states that severely disappointed.
General Election. (Reuter)-enemy air activity in the western Navy is determined not to relax
Eight seats are reported to be for an instant.
and
Labour "stili doubtful”
is The ship which will eventually desert was slight.
RAF. bombers made a night
The fact that preparations in given" a good chance of getting bear the name of HMS. Churchill
of attack on an enemy lorry concen- the French Channel ports are still half. Was among the first batch
continuing steadily is regarded as If this is 50. the Independents American destroyers which reach-tration 15 miles west of Bardia,
Enemy positions at Fort Madda-another reason why invasion is will hold the balance of power ed Britain yesterday.
des-lena were bombed.
sti a possibility. These prepara-
The captain of one of the
"The crossing troyers said: entirely without incident. have not seem a trace of
Describing the attack on L-enemy." munitions factory at Hanau, one
of the pilots said: "A are was already burning in the factory when we got there: We made out two oblong buildings, one of which. was well ablaze. The second one had not caught are properly but it was too good a target to miss.
Virtual Martial Law
In Hongkew
was i
We
A mechanical transport concen- tions have been proceeding too tration south-west of Sidi Barrant, consistently to be merely an at- bombing force from more Impor- the was attacked, all bombs falling in tempt to divert a proportion of our tant objectives.
the target areas.
PATROL ENGAGEMENT
A communique issued by British DESERT WARFARE:
GE.Q. states that on
September
27 enemy aircraft bombed Buna (Kenya) causing no casualties.
A patrol engagement near Wat Garis resulted in 12 of the enemy being killed.
There is nothing to report in Sudan Egypt and Palestinu.
MALTA RAID
SHANGHAI, Sept. 30 (Reyter) !Virtual martial law, was clamped
A Malta message yesterday con- 'down in Hongkew, the Japanese- i foccupied portion of the Inter firmed the Calro communiqué and national
Settlement, Shanghai, about Italian raids on Malta on last night following the attempt Saturday afternoon.
"Smoke from the fires was curling up a thousand feet above us when we pailed out of our dive. The whole build- ing seemed to go up in flames. MWA
round again bombed a second time in a level attack. When we left, the fres were still burning fiercely.
came
It looked to me as if the whole gone up in factory block had flames, not one building alone but all the surrounding blocks. It was just roaring up in a mass flames."
GUERILLAS
ACTIVE AROUND PEIPING
of
YUSHE RECAPTURED BY CHINESE
CHUNGKING, Sept. 30 (Central) -Chinese guerillas have extended
wounds.
by a Chinese gunman to assassin- A Malta communique says that i ate a Japanese military officer two formations of Italian planes have been attacked the port. In addition to who is reported to seriously wounded, with two bullet the enemy fighters shot down by Hurricanes, two Italian bombers No detalls of the affair have were damaged and probably full- been allowed to leak out by the ed to return to their base. Japanese, who have, however, in- creased military street patrols in Hongkew ·andı
the intensified searching of all going in and com- ing out of the district-
Damage lɔ civilian property was 'remarkably slight,
A number of bomba fell in fields, causing slight damage to telephone wires.
U.S., SOVIET DRAWN CLOSER BY AXIS PACT
.
VALUABLE HELP OF FREE
FRENCHMEN IN N. AFRICA
LONDON, Spt. 30 (Reuter) side by side with British forces in Cairo yesterday.
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BRITONS ARRESTED IN RUMANIA
Permission To Visit Mrs. Tracey Refused
Free French troops are fighting in the western desert, it is revealed
saya
Reuter's correspondent with the
that these British Army Free Frenchmen
from escaped German controlled areas and are now occupying a forward position opposing the Italian advance.
Their French commander, who fought at Verdun in the Great
War, escaped to Palestine from Eugene Mittelhauser laid
Syria a few hours after General down
his arms.
About 80 per cent are French- men, the Test including Spahis and Zouayes,
BUCHAREST, Sept. 30 (Renter) The mystery about, Rumania's intentions tawards the fire British subjects arrested at Eploesti last
They displayed first-class, fight- week deepened yesterday when the ing ability during the early stages British
military attache here of the Italian advance, An ar- visited the authorities to enquire moured car unit manned by Free about an announcement by the Frenchmen attacked the head of Police that their dossiers" had been handed over to a military its tribunal
an Italian column which, despite numerical superiority, was
The attache, was informed that forced to halt. they had no knowledge of any
ed.
*
* INTANBUL, Sept. 30 (Reuter)-The new pact between the
The skirmish was fought at Axis Powers and Japan is considered here as simply consecration
range of 700 yards. The leading of the union already existing between the three partners.
such dossiers having been recely Italian motor cyclists tung them: Ikdam, expressing the general pels them to join with Britain to
selves on the ground and waited front their activities to the suburbs of Turkish view, says that the pact organise a strong common
all attempts by British Consular for the support of artillery and Feping arid plainclothesmen sent is indisputably directed against against the ambition of the totali-officials to secure permission to machine guns before replying to
as the out by them are active inside the America as well
Boviet tarian
Powers to subdue and visit Mrs. Tracey, wife of a Cana- the fire of the French, city, according to a message from Union, and adds: "The community dominate the whole world,"
dian mining engineer, have failed. When the French withdrew, ». Soviet Mz. Cordell Hull's statement of interests between the
One brief visit was allowed to heavy gun lorry got stuck. Its Relping.
The Japanese and puppet an- Union and America arising from that the Japanese-Axis alliance the men prisoners but efforts to crew refused to abandon it al are taking strict vigi- this aggressive coalition now com- had made clear a "relationship see them again have been rigidly though the Italians were attack thorities
which bad long existed in effect" suppressed. lance. Japanese soldiers and arin-
-ed police are patrolling the streets
ex-
is given considerable, prominencs
at night. Even Japanese Rousing Welcome For in the suits a message from Press Reception By sunner returned the fre of the
servicemen are helping to main-
tain order.
Chinese troops attacked the
Volunteers
morning, states a
Moscow.
The Boviet Press also carried a
(Cen
ing from only 400 yards range, They pushed it clear while the
Italians. Both gun and lorry were Colonel Hsieh
saved.
The valuable help they have Japanese at Laohsten and Tushe
FOOCHOW, Sept. 30 (Central) lengthy despatch from the New CHUNGKING, Sept. 30 south of the western section of-Five hundred and ninety-five York correspondent of the Taar tral)-Colonel Halen Ching-yuan. given to British troops in the the Chengtai Rallway in Shansi on volunteers from L'enkong on the agency referring to the ever commander of the "Lone Batta western desert is praised in a September 25. Tushe was recap- Fakien coast who arrived in Foo increasing output of the American lion in Shanghai gave a press re statement from British Headquar-
ception in the internment camp ters in Cairo today. tured. The Japanese suffered chow by boat on Thursday were armaments industry
This statement revealed that about 500 casualties,
given a rowing welcome. The newspaper, Trud, publishes in the International Bettlement In north, Honan the Chinese About 4,000 people lined the ar, article from Gazette Lausanne. yesterday when he reported the there is a large French reserve closed in on Wenhsten on Septem- bund to greet them. They parad- stating that America has a naval, recent shooting incidents force in Egypt ready to take the
tba The newsmen were conducted Deld when its training- la -- com ber 27. Bevérål villages wext of ed the streets, drawing thunderoux superiority over Japan in the city were retaken.
cheer and applause
Pacific
round the ramp by Colonel Hsieh, pleted.
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