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COASTAL COMMAND PLANES DROP
TONS OF BOMBS IN BIG RAID ON KIEL Enemy Destroyers Attacked Off Texel: Huge Oil Blaze.
LONDON. Oct. 17; (Router)The effort of eight German fighters to harass British Blenheim- bombers of the Coastal Command while they were' raiding Flushing and Terneuzen on Tuesday night was unsuccessful.
The Air Ministry news service says that the Messerschmitts were driven off with machine-gun fire or evaded, and bombing was carried out with the utmost effect.
was
Lock-gates and fuel stores were Dulaburg docks and attacked tar among the principal targets. The gets at Grevenbroigh, Colognem Neul- Schoebrek, flare-path of an aerodrome above Schonebrick,
enemy aircraft' were ob-haldensleben and Lusseldorf.“ which
GREAT UPHEAVAL served cireling was bombed before
An R.A.F. pilot who the lights, could be extinguished.
busy bombing an oll refinery in Germany, on Monday night said yesterday that when 'fly- ing over the Ruhr they could see railway bridges and via- OTGIL ducts below them and pick out the streets.
Two power stations at tha Lorient naval base. were the main points of attack 'by other formations of Blenheims
Fleet Alt Armareraft.operating with the Coastal Command drop |
calitre bombs on the ped large harbour works and shipping at Brest
A rallway line runs right, along- side the ol
retinery
and the Hudson aircraft were active on RAF. machines ran directly over the Dutch coast and bombed the it, dropping the 1st stick of inner harbour of Willemsoord and bombs from south to north.". enemy destroyers off Texel.
KIEL RAD
E
As they turned round, they saw that their bombs had landed right The rald on Kiel Tasted four, on the target. hours. Tons of bombs were drop- ped in almost continuous attacks. Direct hits were scorea on the Jetty of the torpedo boat harbour and on the Marine Academy.
The Deutsche Werit yards, and dockyards south-east of the main Jetty were repeatedly straddled and a line of heavy bombs burst along the western border or, the Germania shipyard.
HUGE OIL FIRE One salvò started a huge dil fire, having apparently struck tue! stores and tracks.
Besides bombing, oil refineries and store plants at Hamburg, Sarzbergen and Gelsenkirchen, the RAF. also bombed Hamburg and
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS
ELECTION IMPASSE
UNSOLVED
CANBERRA, Oct. 17 (Reuter)— The meeting of "Party managers summoned by Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, to discuss methods of forming a stable government following the election impasse, adjourned last night without having reached' any decision.
They re-meet on Monday. Mr, Menzies has issued a state- ment that the talks were purely exploratory
GERMAN PLANES.
OVER SWEDEN
DRIVEN OFF BY GUNFIRE
A
that!
LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuter) Swedish communique stated
German seaplane which, few over Swedish waters off the coast of Southern Scania was. driven off by the air defences.
On Tuesday, several fights over
GENER
Japan's Bluff Called In Political Poker Game
LONDON, OCL 17 (Reuter)-It is unpleasant for Japan when the United States supports words with deeds and gives signs of backing up Britain, said the Gothenburg newspaper Gotposten destroyed.
Japan, the paper adds," knowa the D.8.A. urged Britain no longer to give way on the Burma road.
There are some opponents of an American entry into the "war m Europe but they are considerably reduced when the matter concerns active stewardship of American in- terests in the Far East,
Every Japanese 'net of aggres- ston nels President Roosevelt's
Swedish territory were made by poifey
foreign planes,
seen off
German planes were the coast of Scania and Bobulsaid, where a British plane flew over
Swedish territory.
'BRITISH PLANE
near
A British plane landed Gaellivare, Northern Lapland, yesterday morning after being red at by Swedish A.A. guns,
Tokyo must see that the help Japan can reckon on from her allles so long as England is UD- beaten is plus minus nothing.
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Japan can play the rame of political poker. She bluffed cleverly as usual but has lost the me this time.
STORM HAVOC
IN BOMBAY
HEAVY LOSS OF
LIFE FEARED BOMBAY, Oct. 17 (Reuter)—The. worst storm within living memory struck Bombay in the early hours of yesterday morning.
At 3 p.m. local time, streets were comparatively deserted and many of the most important streets were closed to traffic. Dwellings facing the sea blown flat
Much wreckage has been wash
were
It seems England and need ashore and it is feared that
A fammunique from the Swedish United States should feel them loss of life in coastal craft, is General Staff announcing this says that the plane and crew of two have been interned.
Inauguration Of Civil Disobedience
WARDHA. Oct. 17 (Reuter)- There was no doubt about it The individual civil disobedience because 30 seconds later there was campaign decided on by Congress a big explosion, followed a minute will be inaugurated today, it is un- or two later by a great upheaval, derstood. and a shower of sparks.
RAIDS ON BRITAIN LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter) There has hardly been any enemy activity over this country yester day yet states a communique.
Bombs were reported only in one coast town in Scotland and at one points in the West country.
No damage or casualties are re- ported.
seems
...While full particălars arr not yet available, it clear that despite widespread and quite wanton bombing of civilians in London on Tuesday night, the number of person killed, though larger thân în - recent raids, is considered less than in earlier rakis at... last month.
In the morning an enemy float plane was shot down by Coastal Command fighters.
Gandhi is understood to be in- District Magis- timating to the trate at Nagpur that. Vinoba-a humble member of the Mahatma's Ashram (seminary)-will open the campaign with an anti-war speech at the village of Paunar. seven miles from Nagpur.
Gandhi will not be present.
RUSSO-AMERICAN CONVERSATION WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (Reiter) -M.Oumansky, Soviet Ambassa- dor to the United States, terred for an hour with Mr. Sum- ner Welles.
con-
10-HOUR GALE
selves encouraged to continue on heavy the path taken. As long as China
The gale has now been blowing fights, Japad drags a lengthening! chath from which she cannot be for ten hours. A number of trees free to fulfil her great plans in, have been uprooted and hurled":
uCross the roads. disturbing the East Indies.
If China gets sufficient help traffic..
Falling trees and collapsing Japan sooner or later will reach final collapse and will be forced walls killed one person to abandon the whole exped jured about 60.
and in
SUCCESSFUL ATTACK ON NAZI SUPPLY CONVOY
LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter)--A German convoy of three sup- ply ships with two escort vessels accompanying them has been destoyed...
The Admiralty communique giv ing this news does not locate the scene of action.
One merchant vessel; It is off- elally stated, was of about 7,000 tons. One of the others, which were small, exploded before sok- ing
NAVIGATION OF DANUBE
:
LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter)—Ã Committee, an which the. Com- Another German vessel of about mander-in-Chief of the Yugoslav 7.000 tons. adds the communique, forces would be represented, will was successfully attacked. It was hit with three torpedoes,
WARSHIP DAMAGED Another Admiralty communique cruiser states that the British
be formed to take necessary mea- sures to protect navigation on the Yugoslav section of the Danube, states the Belgrade Radio
The measures are authorized by Although he declined to discuss Liverpool has been damaged in a decree just passed by the Coun his visit, it is believed to have the Mediterranean by enemy tor-ell of Ministers. been in continuation of conversa-pedo-carrying aircraft,
tions started last week and de: signed to improve Russo-American relations."
RUSSIA SAÏD PREPARING TO ENTER THE WAR AFTER SWALLOWING FINLAND
The Admiralty states that the
LONDON, DC, 17 (Reuter) — Liverpool was retaining to her Greece has called a number of base after operations in the Medi-
engineers unc communication terranean when the attack - was made, and she is now safely in specialists to the Colours
Casualties were not heavy.
Announcements of the damage was withheld unth. It was known that the Liverpool had reached her base.
This disposes of ancther angle of the exaggerated Italian claims of this action. The Italians claim- ed to have sunk a cruiser. *.-*
DUNKIRK SHELLED "LONDON, Uet 17 (Reater) Fires were seen and, "It is consi dered, considerable damage was
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 30.-Diplomats returning from the Ba“......... tic states disclosed today that Soviet Russia has been steadily gnawing at the destructive capabilitles of the two great emerx- ing powers of eastern and southern Europe Germany and Italy and carefully weighing all factors before deciding where she must open first before casting the die and entering the fray.
Renter learnis authoritatively
These diplomats asserted that It was still believed here that done when naval units bombarded that the Party Managers Cop- Soviet absorption of the Baltics when Hitler order his grandiose Dunkirk last night, states un Ad- Terence will on Monday receive was chiefly aimed at purely mii- combined land, ses and air in-miralty communiqué. reply from Mr. Menzies to to tary aspirations in order to gain vasion of the British Isles all par- elements will depart proposar_put_by Mr. John Curtin, the best possible strategical post-ticipating Leader of the Labour Party, that tion when the Kremlin has de from various points including Nor- Government should indicate the cided the hour has been reached way. German troops in Norway at points of Labour polley it would, to sound the war-going.. be prepared to adopt if some form of co-operation through a National Government or a National War Cabinet satuld be found accept able to the Opposition.
WAR SECRETARY IN EGYPT present are reliably estimated + LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter)-MI. at between 350,000 men. Nume-Anthony Eden, Secretary for War, reliably estimated that rous airfields have been built and has arrived in Egypt. Soviet soldiers concentrated in the perfected along the south-eastern Baltic states total 1,000,000. Scores coast,
They
1,000,000 TROOPS
YOUNG AMERICA mechanized units are being assem-
SIGNS UP
ROOSEVELTS "AMONG CONSCRIPTS
NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (Renter) Throughout the country yesterday Young America registered at the Tale of over 1,000,000 an hour for possible service with the United States first peacetime draft the Army..
for
Park Avenue millionaires joined Bowery tramps in New York as men between the ages of 21 and 36 queued up to obey the Canscrip tion Law.
Two of President Roosevelt's sons, John and Franklin D. Roose- veit, Jnr., were among those who signed on.
of altfelds and harbors are being Thousands of soldiers riding built and large numbers of horses have been trained to jamp off crags into the black waters of the Norwegian fjords. The latest training has been imparted
bled in Lithuania,
It and when the Kremlin de- cides the swallowing process is ready to begin, Finland will pro- bably be the first victim. But this will not be until Finnish lakes and
swamps are sufficiently frozen to bold the weight of the Russlan armored cars and tanks.
HELP FOR FINLAND Nomally, in view of the Ger man antagonism to any fur- ther Soviet moves westward, Germany would rush help to Finland, should the Kremlin ΜΟΥΣ
to horses alone,
It is understood here that Mr. Eden will have conversations with General Sir Archibald Wavell, C in-C, Middle East, and will also visit contingents of British Allied troops in the Middle East.
Guests
which according to rettable Distinguished
For Hyde Park, NY.
to
Norwegians have ben taken reasonable distances out to sea where they were forced jump off transports and swim ashore,
HORSES AS VICTIMS
QUEBEC, Oct 17 (Reuter)--Lord and Lady Athlone will spend the week-end as guests of President Hoosevelt at Hyde Park, New York. This was announced from the It was claimed that the horses, arriving on shore, wander inland, Citadel the summer residence of Canadian Governor-General which in a hostile country would the
be presumably mined. The aim and his wife when they are away
ppears to be that" when the from Ottawa. horses have set off the mines
But should, Russia resume the landing parties would follow soon. Invasion of Finland, this winter after. with British resistance still effec-
"It was also understood that peatedly throughout the summer
tive, Germany is not believed to thousands of German soldiers were months.
The war has already done trade
be in a position to rush an army concentrated in the Finmark re- across Scandinavian soll, thus gion which is in the northernmost and business considerable damage. area of Norway. Finland's cherish and although the country so far. spared the actual openly fighting at Finland's side.
It was pointed out that Gered port of Petsamo is situated has been many's main job now is to de-only 20 kilometers from the Nor- Physical horrors of bursting shella feat Britain, not save Finland. It wegian border-and-is, focidentally, and bombs, the European war has SPECIAL DAY OF was stated that owing to the new about equal distance from the pinched deeply into the Swedes,
PRAYER
whose government has been oblig polition established in Scandinavia Russian frontier
Ed to increase taxes, issue food since Sept.1 German this time
SWEDISH NERVES ⠀⠀ rationing cards and make them LAHORE, Ozt. 17 (Reuter)-All was expected to help the Finns
Nerves of the honest-living war conscious through mainter- branches of the Moslem League with a sizeable riumber of volun- throughout Punjab have been in- teers and materials. The nature Swedes are at present enjoying a ance of an efficient defense pro- structed to observe November. 1 as of such kssistance would hardly relatively calm period with no talk gramme. Stockholm is now un- special day of prayer for the reach proportions constituting an in the aft of a threatened invasion questionably Europe's most ex- safety, integrity and Independence invasion of Sweden, as so many of their country which Jalted bensive city and this means only
them so badly last spring and re- for rock-bottom necessities. Bwades fear, of Islamic countries.
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