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POWER STATIONS IN BERLIN BOMBED BY R.A.F. IN
MIDNIGHT RAID
Pilots Report Fires. Raging: Supply Ships Torpedoed In
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N. Sea
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 25 (Renter)-Sirens awakened Berliners sgain on Wednesday night as planes, which had earlier visited .Hamburg, began to arrive over the German capital. says the
Afton Bladet's Berlin correspondent.
REMARKABLE
SUDAN ACTION
CAIRO, UCL,
23 (Reuter). - A remarkable action in Sudan in
GENERAL
SPAIN NOT INCLINED TO BARTER ECONOMIC GAINS OF HER PRESENT POLICY
LONDON, Oct. 25 (British Wireless) -Information from Madrid and Berlin available in London regarding yesterday's meeting between Hitler and France is almost entirely restricted to the communique issued simultaneously last night ip both capitals.
Yesterday's meeting, following | which very heavy casualties were closely upon that of the pre- indicted upon the enemy with "novious day between Hitler and M. British "casualty was announced Laval, has naturally aroused al in a G.HQ. communique Issued most worldwide speculation: yesterday.
It remains to be seen
!
whether
SINO-JAPANESE PEACE TALKS DENIED
It says that in Suoah one of the Fuehrer's meeting with Chen. our motorised patrols In the Franco himself will yield diftarent Kassala sector surprises, and at results. Hard facts of the situa WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 Reuter) tacked at close range from the ion in Spain have hitherto no-Chinese authorities here declare rear a party of approximately doubt influenced Gen. Franco in that the reports of Sino-Japanese troops indicting the wise and cautious poller he has peace negotiations may be diis.. very heavy casualties. Our casual- adopted. ties were nil.
1,000 enemy"
He said that the attack' clearly followed a definite plan. Particularly heavy bomb detonations were heard in West Berlin
This policy of non-involvement where, it is reported, humerous fires were caused.
In Egypt. during the nights or has, it is everywhere agreed, been Berliners got their morning flights over the Charlottenberg Oct. 22-23, the enemy camp east dictated by a study of the real papers and lettera late owing to power station to make certain of Sidi Barrani was successfully interests of Spain. the raid,
that the bombs dropped dead over raided, one prisoner was taken Economically it has promised the target Fires broke out here and eight motor transport vehicles. pain the advantages which, after
destroyed.
the exhausting civil war, seemed the best calculated to restore normal and prosperous conditions for the Spanish people.
Two of the capital's princi pal power stations were among the targets selected by the RA.F. They were the Berliner Electricity Works in the Char- lottenberg aréa “and the Kiln- genberg Works on the opposita side of the city.s
too.
EMBAN RAIDS
Tons of high explosive bombs and hundreds of incendiaries were unloaded on the dock area and the adjacent rallway sidings in two separate raids, the first last-
-an-hour, on-Emban
ed States Army's Air Corps.to.
ESSENCE OF PROPOSALS
missed as unfounded.
Increasing American aid and the reopening of the Burma Road nad given China $ new deter mination to continue the fight.
TRIPARTITE PACT MENACE TO U.S.
NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (Reuter)- The atmosphere in America today
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1940.
EARLY
DINNERS
October 29th & following nights
IN THE
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HONGKONG HOTEL
WARNING
WILL BE GIVEN
THREE MINUTES BEFORE THE END OF
THE INTERVAL OF
GONE WITH THE WIND"
THROUGHOUT THE
BARS
& LOUNGES
OF THE
HONGKONG
HOTEL
Newspapers discuss the post- resembled that in France in 1938 Extension on Opening Night Oct. 29th|
bfity that the essence of the Axle when the French, imperilled, had Fowers" proposals, which it is be-been told. that there was danger
U.S. AIR CORPS STRENGTHENED WASHINGTON. Oct 25 (Reuter) ing half an hour and the second-The reorganisation of the Unit lleven may have been laid before but did not feel the danger," de- A large factory with Its own increase its number of combat the Vichy Government as well as 'clared--Mr William Bullitt. railway siding 50 miles east
States Madrid, are based upon the Ger- United of groups from 25 to 54 was "aman idea that if Spain and France France to a gathering here today. Berlin, was attacked and Reaching Berlin well after mid-" objectives including railway cars |
other nounced by the War Department will collaborate in the new order He said "we must prepare now night by dead reckoning naviga- et Frankfurt-on-Order, a factory highly mobile fighting force in Eurone, mvolving necessarily, at a war pace, or we may be too
late." the suzerainty of Germany, peace
Ke can be restored speedily and these participate in its
YARDS ATTACKED. The 'great railway yards at Tempelhof. Putlitz Strasse and Lehreter were also attacked.
on the Dornier
it is stated that this will creste
where capable of operating anywhere in was in progress, the the Western Hemisphere..........
tion because of cloud; they were 40 miles east of Bremer met by intense and concentrated night work. fire from the batteries outskirts of the city and eity itself,
"aircraft
factories al
In the Wiesmar on the Baltic Coast, and
refineries at Hanover
لله
and
But neither guns nor search- Madgeburg which had both been lights could stop the attack. The damaged in previous raids. crew of une bomber, which spent hair an hour over le capital, said they went straight through the outer barrage, picked up post. tion in the target area and rendy to bomb.
go
SHIPS TORPEDOED LONDON, Oct. 25. (Reuter)-The Royal Air Force has successfully torpedoed two enemy supply ships In the North Sea It is officialy announced. The operations were carried out on Wednesday by the Coastal Command.
Bombers which attacked objec tives in the Berlin area fires and explosions, states the caused
CRISP EXPLOSION Some anti-aircraft shells Burst very close and a member of the crew who put his head out of the side windows said he heard them go off with "a" crisp sharp expac Air Ministry. Other forces of sion." Their bombs started
A aircraft carried out 'a concentrat- large fire.
ed rald on railways, wharts and Other aircraft, located their ob-, warehouses at the port of Emden. Jectives by the aid of parachute
PLANE MISSING flares. A squadron leader attack-
Willkie's Reply To Roosevelt
countries can benents,
Ambassador
till 2 a.m.
to
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added that the tripartite pact was a clear warning that "in the minds of the Dictators it is or our turri next."
In a balanced examination the prospects of this latest Ger- man overture, British commenta- tors are by no means convinced that the Axis proposals will be adopteri so readily as Berlin hopes. The Spaniards have some exper!- ence of the Germans.
HARBOUR CREEK, PA., Oct. 25
Despite propaganda with which (Reuter) Mr. Weridell Wilikle Spain have been deluged, there is
POLISH FORCES IN SCOTLAND "
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LONDON, Uct. 25 (Reuter) Polish forces have taken over sector of the Buottish coast in the Coastal Defence Scheme.
made his reply to President Roose-less conviction in Spain that an This was announced in a com-
the
velt's re-election campaign train Axis victory is so certain as
munique issued from General broadcast yesterday.
propagandists would have themrski's headquarters last night believe.
describing Mr. Winston Churchill's visit to Scotland on Wednesday.
The soldiers who have taken over this sector are the First |Polish Army Corps in Scotland.
Mr. Wllikle declared that if Mr. Roosevelt didn't remember his promises of today longer than he did those of 1932, he feared that our toys" would soon be placed on war transports bound for some foreign shores
Replying to Mi. Roosevelt's
-There are signs of a disan- clination readily to barter sway the solid economie gaine which the existing policy pra
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DUNKIRK REMEMBERED Reuter's Diplomatic correspon-
were
AMERICAN ENVOY DELAYED
not unable to leave Lisbon for Amerl
Ing one raUway yard said that Other targets included the of claims concerning the achieve-dent adds that this new canıpaign somebody else put down a flare plants at Madgeburg and Han-ments of the New Deal, he assert-will not refer doubts which were
LISBON, very nicely for them as it was at over, goodayards to the east ofed that the national income under
Oct. 25 (Reuter)- the crucial
expressed when we Berlin,
recent y moment
near Hanover and at Mr. Roosevelt's administration had
Count Mr. Joseph Kennedy, United carried out attacks straight and Frankfurt, various industrial tar
Cand's newspaper Telegrafo which States Ambassador to Britain, was asked whether there. level, ignoring the fire from the Beta and allway, junctions In
47,000,000 Churchills in England, cu yesterday as the clipper de- ground. It was right in the cen- northern and western Germany,
all ready tre of the city. About ten to 15 docks at the Hook of Holland, and
to die rather than be parture was postponed owing to given in. seconds after the bombs burst. several aerodromes.
bad atmospherics. The Spaniards remember Dun- four fires sprang up.
Weather permitting, he is ex- Kirk and are by no means certain pected to leave today, of a Nazi victory. Moreover they might have some sense of humour
One Royal Air Force plane is Another plot made six separate missing from these operations.
SEVERE JAPANESE LOSSES: ATTACKS REPULSED
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BURMA ROAD. RESERVED FOR
GOVT. TRAFFIC
declined by 11 per cent., industrial production by five per cent, farm Incomes by 20 per cent, industrial wages and salaries by 21 per cent.. and dividends by 32 per cent.
JAP. OFFENSIVE TURN TO ROUT CHUNGKING, Oct. 25 (Central) -The Japanese autumn offensive on the Eastern Front has failed miserably, declared Chinese military spokesman in interview.
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a press
CHUNGKING, Oct. 25 (Central) -derious fighting between Chi- nese and Japanese troops is re-
CHUNGKING, Oct. 25 (Reuter) The spokesman claimed that the ported In many localities in -For the next two months the Japanese suffered over, 10,000 cas- Anhyel
Burma Road will be used exclu. ualties,
transportation .of sively for the
On Oct. 22,
a "detachment
The Japanese, the spokesman
and
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which might cause them to regard Smigly-Rydz Arrested
Hitler's present efforts with some contempt
CANADA TRAINING PARACHUTISTS
LONDON. Oct 25 (Reuter) — of Government goods and medicine sald, massed over 30,000 infantry- Ottawa's parachute troops may Japanese troops attacked Luchia-in order to avoid congestion, it is men In addition to six artillery shortly begin training in Canada chih. west of Fengtai, where after officially announced. an encounter
cavalry detachments and as against the time when wel with the Chinese garrison, "they were repulsed with
With the arrival of more trucks started a general offensive with may take the offensive,” reveal- numerous casualties
and spare parts, the freight capa-
Shanghai. Hangchow, Nanking ed the Alr Ministry Power,. city on the road is expected to be and Wuhy as bases u tortnight
Another Japanese unit. which doubled. Its present capacity is, attacked Changlingpu. northwest 300 tons a day.
at Chigan in southern Anhwes The Ministry of Communications
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border
Fighting raged in the regions between Cheklang, Anhwal
and Klangsu and on the
south
The
CHINESE LORRIES ARRIVED KUNMING IN RECORD TIME CHUNGKING, Oct 25 (Reuter)
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CHINESE WATCHING
on Oct. 16. came into a serious
has erected clash with the Chinese, Heavy
a machine shop in bank of the Yangtze River. fighting issted for two days. On Szechuen for the manufacture of
Japanese advanced in three Oct. 18, the invaders were finally spare parts while a tyre retreading columns. thrown hack. leaving many dead plant is already producing goods chow took Linan on Oct. 8 but the ties travelling along the Burton A column from Hang-The first convoy or Chinese for- and a large quantity of arms be- in Yunnan.
Chine e recaptured, the town two Road since its reopening arrive hind.
COMMERCIAL GOODS BANNED days later. einteng was also re- safely at Kunming in rocord time. Chinese troup: operating in the While prohibiting private trucks taken by the Chinese after two They left Laslo on. Oct. 18 and Taihangshan (mountain) area in from operating on the road, the days' occupation by the Japanese. made the 720 milles trip in under southern Shansi recently opened Chinese Communication authorities After crossing the Fu Chun River, three days. Before the closing of a general offensive on the Japan are also refusing permission to the Chinese pushed eastward and the road it took at least Ave days ese there commanded by Generat hire trucks from Burma and else re-entered Chuki on Oct. 17. The to cover the journey. 'Suzux Fighting has been in, where for the shipment of com- defeated Japanese retreated back progress since the middle of the mercial goods to and from China to Hängehow. month. The Japanese suffered a for the next two months at least, POSITIONS ABANDONED severe reverse on Oct. 20, when. In doing so the Government hopes. Another Japanese column com they were surprised by a Chinese to get the maximum of goods in ing from Wukang, northwest of column and sustained heavy and out of the country during the Hangchow, captured. Hataöfeng on" CHUNGKING, Oct, 25 (Reuter)- casualties,
shortest possible perlad,
Oct. 10 but was repulsed later. The Chinese are watching the During the recent pattle in The Ministry of Communications
They also took Kwangteh on Oct, situation in Shanghai in connex- Fengain, northern Klangst, the has formulated plans for anti- but was forced to abandon the ion with the evacuation of Ameri Japanese suffered severe losses aircraft defences along the road:
town the following day. The rem-can nationals, Several detachment commanders which at present have been sub-southeast of Nanking, the spokes- Government banks have suspend- nant Japanese fled to Liyang, i It is noteworthy that Chinese, of the Sato Division are reported mitted to the Government for ap- to have been killed in action.
ed all remittances to Shanghai man stated. An
A third Japanese column, ac-Remittances at present are only Renewed Japanese military Reti Mr. John Earl Baker, represen-cording, to the spokesman, pushed possible to Hongkong. vity in, northern Kiangsu is also tative of the American Red Cross, from Wuhu to Wanchih and, reported. A Japanese unit, under declared that 850 tons of drugs occupied Chinghsten on Oct. 8, Killed In Air Crash the cover of, artillery fire, lately sent by the American Red Cross The following day the Chinese Jaunched an attack on Hsiaoko, in Rangoon are awaiting trans-recaptured Chinghsien and forced
proval.
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EVACUATION
LONDON, Oct 25 (Reuter
in the vicinity of Kaoyu, Import portation to the interior of China the Japanese to retire in a north-Alc Vice Marshal C. H. B. Blount ant city on the Grand Canal Fifteen tons of quinine have alad easterly, direction. On Oct. 12 the bus been killed in an alt crash. The Chinese counter-attacked and been purchased by the American Japanese took Batancheng but He commanded the Air Compou- drove back the invaders on Octo" Red Cross for distribution in were driven off to Langt on the ent (Army Co-Operation Squad- ber. 19.
China
following day,
tons) of the RAF in France
In Rumania“:
LONDON, Oct. 25
(Reuter) Marshal Smigly-Rydz, the Pollsh
when Commander-in-Chief
war began, has been arrested in Rumania, according to the Rome. radio,
WORST MAN
"Got the ring safely? "The ring ? Oh. Wait a minute. Ring. Here it is. No. Confound
th.
Where is it?" Gould have sworn it was in this pocket.” "You will find it nestling coyly in the bottom right-hand waistcoat pocket."
"Oh yes. Of course. So it is. Hal Hal Fury I lost it. Yes. I say let's go over this business once more. Now what do "I do when..."
"My dear Peter, look at your tie. Full yourself together. Remember, I'm the man who's going to be married, not you"
"Oh. Are you? I mean yar—of course. Fact is, old boy, I'm in a rather weak state. That celebra-
TRAWLERS SUNK LONDON, Oct. 25 (Reuter) Two trawlers, Celia and Lord The Marshal was interned in Stamp, have been sunk by enemy Rumania on his arrival there on mines, according to an Admiralty September 19, 1939.
announcement.
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sion of yours last night. Oh my poor head. I'm sure I won't be able. to squeeze it vito, that wretched. topper."
"If you'd only taken my advice last night and stuck, to gin undi Rose's..
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"Roses? Oh yes. For the brides- maids. I thought you said they were to be carnations." "Rose's Lime Juice, blockhead! Prevents hangovers. Therapeutic action. I wish I'd rammed a quart of it down your silly throat. Next time I get married, Peter. remember you stick to gin and Rose's the night before," "Oh yes: Thinks for the sip. I will. I say →→ Charles - where did I put that ring ? « 1 cinuld have !
STUNFI
25 LONDON, Oct (Reuter) All Germans have been removed from Bessarabia with the depar- tuge of the list batch of 3,000 Germans according to the German radio yesterday. A total of. 90,00 Germans was transferred
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