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Big Ben Hit
By Shrapnel
In giving the times of the B.B.C.. overseas programmes the announ- cer at Daventry last night said:- Those of you who don't know will be interested to hear that the face of Big Ben, the famous clock, bears a number of small holes on It today caused by shrapnel.
BRAZILIAN NAVAL
BASES FOR U.S.
NEW YORK, Oct. 14 (Reuter)-A Buenos Aires dispatch to the New York Times states that it is learn- ed from an unimpeachable source that Brazil and Chile have agreed to lease naval and air bases to the United States,
The construction of the bases will be financed by the United States and it is also belieyed, adds the report. that Uruguay may re- vise her earlier decision and agree to lease bases.
NEW TYPE DROPPED
ATTACKS ON CHANNEL PORTS.
CONTINUE
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY OCTOBER 15, 1940.
His Majesty, shown here inspecti or New Zealand troops in Bad land, is in just as much danger as his loyal people and he shares all the risks which they face. Recently he had a narrow escape from death while touring an area in Central London, a whistling- bomb crashing just in front of the entrance of one building about a minute before the King arrived. Despite his narrow escape the King remained calm and anmoved.
OF "BREADBASKET" BY GERMAN
RAIDER
Sixteen Bombs Explode In
Less Than Minute
LONDON, Oct. 14 (Reuter)-A new. type of "bread- LONDON, Oct. 14 (Router)-Des-basket," with small high explosive instead of incendiary pite adverse weather conditions bombs, is believed to have been dropped by a German RAF. bombers attacked a number raider in one outlying London district during last night's of places In Germany, on Sunday
raid. night, it is officially stated.
The Channel ports, from Ostend to Le Havre, were also attacked.
A London message. quoting the official German News Agency. states that at one point railway Hines and a factory siding were torn up in Sunday night's raid by the "RAF
Residents report that 16 bombs exploded in less than a minute.
A joint Air Ministry and which were fatal. Elsewhere dam- Ministry of
Home Security age is reported to be slight and
casualties very few. states communique.
that Two enemy aircraft were des- enemy attacks last nighttroyed yesterday and two British were. on a somewhat larger aghters were lost but both the
pilots are safe.
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BALKANS MELTING POT BOILING
CONCENTRATIONS
OVER: SOVIET REPORTED ON BORDER:
GERMAN
NAVAL MISSION DUE IN RUMANIA
A MESSAGE FROM BUCHAREST TO NEW YORK YESTERDAY' ACCORDING TO A NEWS BULLETIN BROADCAST FROM DAVENTRY LAST NIGHT, STATES THAT, INDICATING INCREASING GERMAN INFLUENCE IN RUMANIA IT IS REPORTED THAT A GERMAN NAVAL MISSION IS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE IN REMANIA IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
IT WAS ALSO ADDED THAT: HEAVY RUSSIAN TROOP CONCENTRATIONS ARE ON THE BORDER AND THAT RED ARMY DETACHMENTS ARE ALREADY ON THE MOVE,
THE BALANS MELTING POT, THE REPORT ADDED, WAS NOW ON THE POINT OF BOILING OVER.
The total number of German troops in Rumania is over 30,000 and a further 3,000 arrived yesterday on the Danube. Same sources declare that it is believed that Russia will not allow the Dardanelles to pass into other hands.
According to British Wireless, THE TIMES discussing the Balkans, thrust, says, "Hitler has been compelled to recognise that the biltzkrieg against Britain is yielding no prospects of Hctory and none of those quick and dramatic results" necessary to his prestige at home and abroad. Spain, in spit of blandishments lavished on Senor Suner, has not committed herself so far as can be devined to a departure" from her watchful attitude.
"Graziani hast had time to ex-| "Greece has hitherto been spared perience. some of the uncomfort- because she has presented a firm able realities of campaign launch-tront to the bully.
ed against Egyptat a moment "Turkey is the strongest when German bombers were sup- military Power in the Near posed to be on the point of reduc- East and stands second to ing London to
none both in the proud asser- tion of her independence and In the capacity to resist any Ninfringement of H Turkey-
will "be saved by her" own re- solution.
"The line of lent resistance must have end to lead through the k
The first step-the bloodless
A subjugation of Rumania-has been successfully undertake during the
"The second obstacle to the pro-
past week. The credible outline of ect is the growing strength of the Axls plan now seems to be Britain in the Eastern Mediter- shaping itself. It amounts in brief ranean. Had the Axis Powers. to the administration of coup de been able to launch their offensive grace to Egypt and the Suez Canal at the moment of the French by some fresh form of pressure if armistice, the threat might have not indeed by actual attack from been formidable. "Since, however. the north.
successive reinforcements of men "In no other way can the so- and material have reached British called pincers of the Axis be made military. naval and air forces in to close on the British stronghold the Near East."
in the Eastern Mediterranean,
TWO OBSTACLES "There are two obstacles to the realisation of any such grandiose
NAZI-YUGOSLAV TRADE TALKS
DEADLOCK
There was no damage of mil-scale.
CONVENT BOMBED tary importance, clainis
The London area was again the the
but attacks
Tenement buildings, communal Agency, which declares that the principal objective
convent and attacking British forces only flew were also made on Merseyside and shelters,
"among the places over districts in the frontier re- the north-west. There were also houses were
during the widespread isolated raids on the north-easti bombed gions,
RAF formations renewed at- and on some localities in other night attacks on 36 London dis-
tricts and 20 provincial areas. tacks on naval bases at Kjel and areas.
In London and the surrounding There were some tatal casual-plan. Wilhelmshaven and oil plants ana
First is the power and spirit of Krupps works at Essen were also districts damage was caused to re-ties in the tenements, at Liverpool, bombed. adds a Reuter message sidential, commercial, and indus- and at a north-east town, but the Turkey. It is significant that the
auns escaped injury when the successes of the Axis in South- NEW YORK. Oct. 14. (Reuter)-- tal buildings.. from London.
A report on the casualties is convent was hit.
Eastern Europe have been achieved According to a Belgrade dispatch not yet available but it is fear- The early hours of the rald exclusively at the expense of those carried by the New York Times, it BERLIN, Oct. 14 (Reuter)-The i ed that the number of persons
were very quiet in parts but as who allowed themselves to be is persistently reported that trade negotiations between Germany and killed is somewhat larger than
cloud cover developed the bribed or terrorised.. claim that the German Air Force :
during the recent dropped 315 tons of bombs on
night at-
raiders came in relays..
Yugoslavia, though her policy Yugoslavia have reached a dead- may not have always been down-lock. London, Liverpool and towns in tacks.
Many of the casualties were OKYO, Oct. 14 (Reuter-right, has so far been saved from "Southern England in the past 24
The report states that Gerinany by her
well-known stiffened her demands which in- hours was made by the German caused at one place, where a block Spain may extend recognition to molestation
the Nanking Government, declar-determination to defend herself cluded absolute control of Yugo- Agency.
It asserts that the R. A. F. during Pambs were dropped at severaìed the Spanish Minister to China, and by the reputation of her slavia's export of surplus wheat the same period dropped on Ger-points in the Home Counties but on arrival from furlough, accord-troops as stubborn aghters in a and other cereals and ores and many and German occupied ter- reports indicate that damage was ing to a Japanese report. ritory only six to eight tons of done in only a few localities and bombs.
GERMAN- CLAIM
· DUTCH REPAIR WORKERS
of flats was hit.
the number of casualties is not large.
SLIGHT DAMAGE
LONDON, Oct... 14. (Reuter) Buildings were destroyed in the
Dutch workers have been sent to Merseyside towns and in another
repair Hamburg to help
the north-west town slight damage damage done by R.AF. bombers to 's caused. The number of casual- docks and harbour works, accord-" ties is reported to be small and ing to news received in well-in very few were fatal. formed Dutch circles in London. In two towns in the north-east The German-controlled Dutch some houses were destroyed and Radio announces that 14,000 damage done to commercial pre- Dutchmen have been. sent to mises. In one of these, towns two Hamburg to assist in reconstruc- shelters were hit. There were a tion" work.
number of casualties some of
TODAY'S WAR SUMMARY
FEELING IN THE RUMANIAN ARMY is very strong, it ta reported from Bucharest. The sudden arrival, of the German military mission" camouflaging the introduction of a nucleus army of occupation has stupefled the Rumanian public. The Germans are trying to pass troops through Rumania against Greece. Com- menting on the Balkan thrust, The Times deal with two obstacles that confront the Axis project:
THE SPEECH MADE BY MR. Roosevelt at Daytona on Sunday is heralded in the British Press as the most outright answer yet given to the triumphant announcement of the concluding of an alliance between the Axis Powers and the Japanese. A Tokyo news- paper comments that the speech lacked discretion
DURING ENEMY AIR ATTACKS ON BRITAIN on Sunday night, buildings, communal, shelters, a convent and some houses were among the places bombed. A new type of breadbakket is believed to have been dropped by a German raider in one outlying London district and 18 high explosive bombs exploded in less than a
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France: Old
Situation. In France:
Pride And Civic Independence Is Beginning To Raise Head-On Other-
Our former allies, the French, are beginning to realise that our enemies and their conquerors have struck a real snag in trying to defeat us. They have run up against our air force with results they will long remember and, what is more, that we still remain uninvaded-a Uttle battered it is true, but still on our feet," said MR. THOMAS CAVET, former Paris correspondent of the LONDON TIMES, when he broadcast from Daventry last night on the situation in France.
"The news from France. "But there are real signs that during the past week or two," the real France is not dead and he said, "has been scanty, but that the people are beginning to drag themselves out of the slough from the reports avaliable of despond into which, they were there appears to be little or plunged when their leaders capi-|| no change in the material tulated.A situation of that unfortunate "One of these signa is the in- country. To the credit of creasing Interest in Great Britain and -the tendency to look with some of the members of the more favour on her. I am not Vichy Government it must be suggesting that the whole of said that they are doing, as France is showing this tendency little as possible to please but if one compares the situation their German task masters.
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ROME
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MEDITERRANEAN
SEA
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BULGARIA
AXIS POWERS ENCIRCLE BALKANS. With the protective invasion" of Rumania by Germany on Monday, the Axis powers launched the beginning of a vast en- clrcling movement around the Balkans predicted by observers following the concentration of Italian troops in Albania last week. The movement. It is now believed, is developing into a pincer threat aimed at Greece and probably Turkey, with the object of closing the last doorway to British influence in Europe and at the same time to anticipate Russian infiltration into the Balkans by way of Transylvania. The direction of the drive made by the two Axis powers is shown in the above map.
"Japan Must Be Prepared
To Fight It Out"
·· TOKYO, Oct. 14 ~ (Reuter)-"Japan mast "be" prepared to fight it out with any foreign Power who should obstract her efforts," reiterated Mr. Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister; yesterday at the National rally held at Hibiya Park here, wh
He also urged the nation to make a firm decision to assist Germany and Italy should the situation take an adverse turn against them.
Matsuoka added that the Though he added that he un- pact which has been signed by derstood many Americans In Japan, Germany and Italy pro-Shahghal had reserved passage in moted by their common desires to available steamers for home. prevent current world disturbance The spokesman remarked that from expending further and con- the situation in Peiping is not struct a new order in the world by clear: restoring peace as early as possi-
THAI DENIAL ble,
The Minister of Publicity in The rally was also the occasion Thailand, according to a news for the inauguration of the Na- bulletin broadcast from Daventry tional Service Association, to drive last night, denied that Thailand la force of nationwide movement to is co-operating with the^ Axla serve to assist the throne with each Powers to keep the Burma Road and every member of the com-losed":" munity doing his or her bit.
DIE QUESTION
The oil question is the main
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Item on the agenda which is be- FOR PURCHASE
OF AIRCRAFT
PAGE 3-Radio programmes;, Coming events; Cinema notes: PAGE 4-R, A. F, rain bombe in.
heart of Berlin; Comforting ing discussed by the Japanese presence of Nazi troops; Nazi Netherlands East Indies delegates mission for Moscow: Crack at Batavia, it was revealed by the American air unit to battleForeign Office spokesman, Mr.
LONDON, Oct. 14 (BWS)--Gifts luftwaffe.
Suma, at a Press conference 10-for the purchase of aircraft PAGE 6-Council meeting of day.
acknowledged today "include 81- Anti TB Association; Gover: He added that they had re-¦000) sent by Mrs. Ravenscroft nor visits HK Sanatorium; celved reports from Batavia but from Buenos Aires as well an Round the Police Courts, declined to divulge the contents. contribution of £6,000 from the PAGE 6—–Leading article; Japan
Turning to the United States town of Lewes in Sussex... at the Crossroads.b
State Department's evacuation or- WAE WEAPONS WEEK PAGE 8-Police Reserve orders:
der in the Far East, the spokes- Bridgeford which aimed Habour office notice.
man replied when asked by an raising £1,250,000 during the War FAGE_____9—Japanese brigade American, correspondent, whather Weapons Week, which began on
wiped out in Anhwel: Ameri-
any Americans In Japan are Saturday, has, after two days, al- *** cana evacuating Peking: Air leaving for home, that not many ready received, in cash and pro
port news, Celebrations in are leaving so far as I know, mises £1,509,370. Spain.
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