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20,000 INCENDIARIES TURN BREMEN INTO RAGING INFERNO Devastating New Year Raid By Bomber Command
LONDON, JAN, 9 (REUTER)—TWENTY THOUSAND INCEN- DIARIES AND A LOAD OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES DROPPED ON BREMEN during the first hour of · Wednesday night's fierce bambing raid by the Royal Air Force turning the greatest sea port in Germany-after Hamburg into a raging furnace.
As the long procession of àircraft of the Bomber Command reached the Zuider Zen on their way to follow up the first at- taqka they could see a reð glow in the sky over Bremen although still 120 miles from their target
More Gifts For Purchase Of Spitfires
:
LONDON, Jan. 3 (Reuter) ... Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, yesterday. gratefully acknowledged the following gifts received:-
A total of £1.500 from the Times of Ceylon Spitfire Fund which has now contributed about £60,000.
The Maharajan of Mysore has sent £37.500 for planes.
Chinese Successes In Shantung
JAPANESE TROOP TRAIN MINED
GENERAL
ORGANISATION OF FIRE, BOMB FIGHTING PARTIES APPROVED
LONDON, `Jan. 3 (Reuter)-The Prime Minister has approved of the immediate establishment of a special organisation to be called the "Fire Prevention Executive to secure prompt and vigorous action by various Government departments” and autho- rities in applying effective measures in fire prevention in the target areas
The new organisation. Which ON THE SHANTUNG - FRONT, will include responsible represen-
Jan 3 Central) Chinese forces tatives of all Government depart Death Penalty For
on the Shantung front have scor-ments concerned with the many
ed a number of successes during aspects of the problem of fire the last fortnight:
prevention, will work in close asso-
가
Spies, Traitors
Mr. Hughes "added: "f any
In west Shantung Chinese at-ciation with the Minister of Home CANBERRA, Jan. 3 (Reuter)---- tacks were made at Tsaohsten and Security
Traitors or spies will earn the Tungshan, resulting in the recap- There will be the fullest possible death penalty it caught in Aus- ture of many vantage points. The delegation responsible to regions tralia, declared Mr. W, M. Hughes, Japanese lost 160 men, 75 rifles and to smaller areas within re the Attorney-General and Navy and other war supplies.
etons, and appropriate arrange- Minister, in an interview yester About 300 casualties were inflict-ments will be made for the super-day. Smoke from the fires reached ed upon the Japanese when they vision of work in Beolland. as high as the clouds and mingled made abortive attacks at Pel- The Postmaster General, Mr. W. [traitor believes that a term. of with them and plots found the chlaotsi and Paochialing, points 8. Morrison, will preside over the imprisonment will follow his de- targets they had been detailed to north and north-west of Tangyi, meetings of the new executive. tection, he is very much mis- attack so thoroughly ablaze that. The remnant Japanese were dis- rather than waste the bombs on persed. buildings already gutted they sought other factories and dock. yards in the city.
It Was an intensely cold
night and a young moon elearly lit up the targets, chief of which were the great ship building yards in which war. ships of all kinds, and espe- cially submarines, are under construction, the Deutsche Vacuum Oil refineries, railway communications, wärehouses, rice and stareh mills, and the Focke-Walls air tramo iactory. FORMIDABLE AA, FIRE To defend Bremen the Germans The Maharajha of Mysore has used all the ground defences they also sent £7.500 for the London air could muster and the RAF. pilots rald relle tund, together with a reported formidable anti-aircraft
fire graceful, tribute to the fortitude of the victims,
جمع
A gift of £5.000 has been ceived from the BBC staff for the purchase of a Spitfire to be named "Aerial"
Flashes and fares in the sy and mailed explosions from the direction of the French coast last
TRAIN MINED
APPORTIONING TÁSK
The new committee will appor- tion the task of fire-watching.
The Ministry of Aircraft Produc- In east Shantung a Japanese on, the Ministry of Supply and troop train met with disaster at the Admiralty are Fangtze station, south of Welhsien, whose special responsibility will he on the Kiants Rallway. After"
for their own factories. fbeing blown up by a Chinese mine,
among those
The Ministry of Home Security
It was attacked by Chinese troops will assume responsibility for all in ambush. Some 200 Japanese are understood to have been killed buildings, public, private and m [dustrial, which do not come with
and wounded.
Almost simultaneously a Chinese and the homes of the whole clv!. in the scope of other departmerits. unit attacked the Japanese guard-llan population will come ing the iron bridge at Tayuho west ta wing of Weihslen.
In north Shangtung a Japanese attack at Welyuan, north-east of Chitung, was repulsed."
under
IMMEDIATE RESPONSE LONDON, Jan. 3 (Reuter)—"The response to my appeal for the im. mediate formation of fire and bomb fighting parties in busineză and residential districts shows SLIGHT ENEMY signs of being satisfactory," de-
AIR ACTION
clared Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Minister of Home Security In a statement tonight.
Mr. Morrison added that pre-
BOMBING RAIDS night indicated that R.A.F. bomb- MINOR CASUALTIES iminary reports from all regions
IN EIRE
REPORTED
ers had braved the icy weather conditions in the Straits of Dover
to attack again, the German In- vasion ports.
Many
IN KENT TOWN
indicated that without waiting for the approach of wardens and LONDON, Jan. 3 (Reuter) The firemen e great number of men
the services either individually UT
after "making un parties amon themselves
WOMEN CASUALTIES Calls and Boulogne probed the terday has been confined to
searchlights between Very slight enemy air action yes- und women were offering their
DUBLIN, J21. (Heuter)-More bomb were dropped on Elre terrt- tory early yesterday morning.
heavy banks of low clouds.
coastal districts.
An Air Ministry communique MIDDLE EAST OPERATIONS states that little damage and Royal Air Force raids on Bardie only a few minor casualties weré and Derna, and aerodromes in caused by bombs which
High explosive and incendiary Timi and Gazala, are announced dropped in a town in Kent. bombs dropped Wednesday night in a communique Issued by RAF
were
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18 LIVES LOST IN
GALE TRAGEDY ·
BOMBAY, Jan. 3 (Reuter)—At (Bengal) la lives were
Reports received since this killed and seriously wounded a Headquarters in the Middle East. morning's communique, it is add- Noakhali number of British people. One of All bombs at Bardia burst in the ed," show that a small number of lost as the result of the sinking the inceridlary bombs picked up target area but details of the persons were killed when a single jot a boat in the channel between. was identified as German. Other damage were not observed.. Jenemy aircraft dropped bomba in Chittagons and Bandwip Island. tombs have been collected and In Italian East Africa, the a town in the west of England The boat, which was carrying 22 are being examined by experts." Rhodesian squadron destroyed. a shortly
before dawn, this mora passengers, was caught in a gale A statement by the Ere Govern- number of buildings near Sabing.
and capsized in midstream. inent Information Bureau report-derat while other aircraft, of the ing these bombings, lists six areas same squadron made a dive attack in the eastern countles of Eire on enemy positions in Kern 50 where bombs were dropped and miles east-north-east of Kassala, recorded the death of three wo-destroying motor transport vehi- men, two persons seriously injured cles, starting a very large fire and and a number injured.
alencing several· A.A. guns,
"On the Curragh race course," From all operations all British says the official statement. "three aircraft returned safely.
high explosive bombs were drop- ped and a large number of in-
SIDI BARRANI BOOTY
cendiary bombs fell in this area. An incendiary
QAIRU. Jan. 3 (Reuter)-Guns captured in the battle for
91d
Italians Withdrawn From Luftwaffe Against Britain
LONDON, Jan. 3 (Heater)--An Italian news agency message confirms that remnants of, the Italian air contingent which have been operating with the Luftwaffe against Britain, have been withdrawn.
This news is contained
In an
bomb picked UP Burrant and during the advance announcement that General kes
into Libya total 329 and include serias. Commander of the
near Curragh "na identkied German."
The statement adds that the
Ger-
20 heavy and 48 light AA guns, man air fores in the west, ha's conferred the Adlerschild (Eagle first bomb fell near Drogheda, states yesterday's communique.
The Italian garrison at Bardia Shield) Trophy, which he him shows no signs of activity and is self created, on the Italian Corps. con- The award. according to the
three at
tive at Duleek and Julianstown. There were no casallowing British forces to valties.
HOUSES DEMOLISHED
tinue preparations and concentr■- agency, was bestowed on the occa- tions without any interference sion of the "repatriation" of the At 6.10 a.m. yesterday, two bombs here is no change in the situa- Italian Corps, to whose comman- were dropped at. Rathdown Park, tion on other fronts
der General Kesselring wrote, Terenur Dublin Two houses
thanking them for their effective were demolished and several houses
collaboration in the fight. were damaged.
Seven persona were trapped in the demolished houses but were later rescued. Several people were Injured.
ITALIAN BARRACKS Only & group of Italian fighters will remain in the Channel as a SET ON FIRE
link "testifying to the continance LONDON, Jan. 3 (Reuter)-Bar af soildarity between Italian and racks uccupied by an Italian gar-German aviation." Two other bombs dropped in rison at the frontier town of Fortfield Road and the Laverna Postumia Con the road from area of the sale district.
'NAZI AIR AID
NAZI MENACE
IN PACIFIC
12 MORE RAIDERS
in
BEING ARMED LONDON, Jan. 3 (Central) Reports that a Nazi raider shelled the island of Nauru recently and that more raiders are being sup plied and refuelled between Aus- trallan and Indian waters and are making rendezvous in the Japanese mandated islands have aroused · silent, Indignation. London, though comments are withheld before the facts are con Bome Trieste to. Ljubanal (Yugoslavia) The announcement of the pre-firmed,
selice of contingent of the Ger- Twelve Naal ships are re man air force in Italy means portedly, being armed Four civilians have been arrest- that to a greater or lesser degree pared for raiding Pacine shipping
and pre At Knockroe, near Borris Countyed, suspected of sabotage and the Mussolini has surrendered control between Japanese ports or Jap- Carlow, bombs were also dropped. entire garrison is under strict over his air force to Germany" Three women were kliled and two men were seriously injured,
Bombs were also dropped in Enniskerry Kilmaçandgue (County Wicklow) district. Some of these have been collected and are being examined by experts.
houses were damaged but were no carnalties.
NIGHT ATTACK A
there have been set afire.
observation.
Į
British Journalist Expelled
anese-controlled Chineze harbours. This is the view of well-informed, The Reynolds News reported U:8. air circles In London.
defence officials in Manila as ex The news has not come al-pressing the opinion that the Nazi together as a surprise. The extent vessels may be completely armed of the surrender of control will be by mid-January, constituting proportionate to the measure of Hitler's help, in Japanese south- Mussolini has been ward expansion, which has been
was bombed last night, for
the forced to accept. It is well-known suggested to coincide with the
second successive night.
London Times correspondent in that Mussolin! has always been German, march into southeastern Three bombs teh near Enni- Portugal, has been ordered to most reluctant to accept auch Europe. corthy, County Wexford. There leave the country within 48 hours German "support" was no damage and nobody was on account of an article written injured.
LONDON, Jan, 3 (Reuter)-Eire
LISBON, Jan. 3 (Reuter-Mr.sistance
for many the W. Lucas,
years
* 1 comes to attempting t by him in the American Review explain the matter away, the Ita-
" RAID KUNMING in which he alleged that German lans will probably try to "suggest inquence existed in Portugal,
that it is merely quo pro quo fór
12 IAP. BOMBERS
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