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BRITISH ARMOURED Vivid
Vivid Description Of
DIVISIONS IN
FOUR-DAY EXERCISE
London "Blitz Night"
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Insisted on taking her turn of fire and saw the old gentleman lying watching, She said, 'After all on the roof. We rushed up and what does it matter what happens, touched him and we thought we to me now. So there she was had better get him down, We dressed up rather severely as 1fcarried him to the corridor on the she was going to a party,
floor below and supported him
LONDON, May 12 (Reuter)-British heavy tanks, rolling in hundreds across Salisbury Plain, swept a “German panzer division" Into the sea and relentlessly rolled up an enemy invading force, writes Reuter's Special correspondent with the Southern Command.
"And so while the blitz roar until a doctor came, and went back That is what happened during a four-day exercise in which one of Britain's armoured divisions and 50,000 troops have just taken part, went on we saw spurts of flame to the roof. In half-an-hour he In theory, at any rate, all the going up. Then there was a soft was dead-a bit of shell or bonia invading force was wiped out large- whistle and a bomb feil very close. had got him in the middle.
"I had met him before in res ly thanks to a flanking movement We had no chance to get down. undertaken by British tanks whose My tin hat and the old lady's hat taurants where I used to go for I looked round my meals, He WES a harmless commander, using the same tactics were ripped off.
Cannot Depend On Bombing To Win War
GENERAL MARTEL
General G. le Q. Martel. Com- mander cf the Royal Armoured Corps. stated last week that we cannot depend on bombing to win. the war. The decisive action would.
be between opposing armoured forces
so successful in Libya, gave the jenemy no rest but sat on top of them, mile after mile as they made their withdrawal,
To make the exercise as realistic as possible. famous British cavalry regiments, now mechanised, played the part of a panzer division basing its operations on what is known of Nazi methods.
•
Heavy Weight
Of H.E. Bombs
On Hamburg
citizen."
Mr. Marshall described how he and the old lady had gone back to the roof and suddenly seen orange flames bursting out round Big Ben, which showed that the radlers had got" the Houses of Par- liament. They saw dark figures rushing about to deal with the bombs.
BECAME INFERNO - "We were looking down on one Lt. Gen. Alexander. G. O. C., LONDON, May 12 (Reuter-At-small area in a part of London Southern Command, told me the tacks on HAMBURG and BREMEN that had suddenly become whole exercise was designed to test last night show the shipbuilding mferno", continued Mr. Marshall. how speedily and effectively mobile yards and industrial areas of both rhere was nothing we could do.. troops can be brought into battle.jetties were subjected to the heavy The trouble with incendiary Bombs A full infantry division was call-weight of high-explosive focen- is that once the fire gets hold ed in from headquarters seven diary bombs.
spreads quickly.
MOBILE TROOPS
And Bremen
hours after the German "landing." Large Ares started were left
By dawn their advance units were burning.
contacting the enemy and by eleven At the same time. according to
on
T
171
"As I looked I saw a man rush-
ing to one of the windows in block of flats on the opposite side. o'clock in the morning two days the AiÍT Ministry communique, later the invaders were vanquishea. smaller attacks were made
He ran to the balcony trying to Army Co-operation planes, hun-other targets, including EMDEN make up his mind whether he should jump. He jumped and we dreds of mobile radio cars, des- and docks at ROTTERDAM.
From path riders and field telephones, all
these operations. four saw him hurtle down. He seemed Command aircraft
are to land all right and we saw him were utilised for communications, Bomber
stagger away." whose speed and accuracy were as missing. tonishing.
H.Q. STRAFED
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Mr. Marshall said that all The communique adds docks at
and this time the Aremen the YMUIDEN and the seaplane
auxiliary services were working with methodical speed. As water was poured on to the flame they changed into billowing smoke and gradually died down as" they were brought under control.
When a motor-evelist was cap-base on the ISLAND OF TEXEL tured with a clue showing where were also attacked last night but
all aircraft returned safely. the German headquarters was. it was only a matter of minutes be- fore bombers were strafing the place.
General Sir Alan Brooke. 0.0.C., Home Forces,, toured the battle
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night was very widespread but al- though damage was caused at a number of points. It was nowhere heavy.
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BORDER DELEGATION TO
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SEE GENERALISSIMO
A delegation of 13 Chiang tribesmen from Lifan on the border of. Szechwan now visiting in Chungking will present 2,000 glistening silver dollars, savings of their many years' hard toll, to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek,
The border people came for an
FAR EAST
Bombs were dropped in many interview with the Generalissimo "NEWSLETTER FOR ITALIAN WORKING
widely separated areas but no con- because they declared that the na- centrated attacks were made and tior's supreme leader is one of the PARTY ATTACKED
the number of casualties is not two greatest objects or worship for In the meantime. bombs were large.
them, the other one being the sun, LONDON, May 12 (Reuter)-In-
continuing to fall, One fell
City workers, on their way to The 13 representatives were aren, as did. Major-Gen. Martel,perial troops from Tobruk have about a hundred yards away and office today, had to pick their way chosen from among more Commanding the Royal Armoured made another sally and attacked Corps.
an Italian working party of about set up a black column of smoke through hosepipes and at a few 4,000 Chiang tribesmen
Immediately after, came the sound points where smoke from soaked Luhua-Heishul district. They walk- I rode in one of the latest heavy | 300, inflicting casualties. tanks now mass produced, which
Further raval attacks on Beng-of the rumbling fall of collapsing members still persisted but in the ed all the way to Chengta where Inside is an inferno of noise, but hazi on Friday and Saturday are masonry. Mcre bombs and more streets generally dust and debris they arrived after a month. From The lights had had already been set aside, and the Chengtu they came by bus to from without looks as smooth and reported by the Axis High Com-falling masonry.
gone out and there was a good deal rhythm of ordinary life had begun. of rushing about....
sinister as a battlecruiser.
mands.
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Japanese Use Fewer Aircraft In
Refering to this MAJOR ALIEN Raids On Chungking
MURRAY, B.B.C. commentator, u
a
broadcast from
London last! CHUNGKING, May 12 (Reuter)-The first week of the aerial night, sald that with the invasion bombardment of Chungking revealed so far that there has been a of the Low Countries, we had few casualties and very little property damaged, while the down- learnt the lesson of the new tech-town section of the city was almost untouched.
nique of armoured divisions break- It is also significant that the number of aircraft participating ing through defence lines that were in the raids were far fewer than those which carse over last year considered to be Impregnable. and even fewer than those used two years ago.
We were far behind but were rapidly making good this de- Actency.
FURTHER ADVANCES IN ABYSSINIA
WATER TANK HIT ⠀
A water tank on the roof of the opposite flat had been hit and the! water was pouring down. The Smoke was driving across the sky
"On the roof on which I stood
Chungking.
than
of the
During the last few days they have interviewed government off cials, including Mr. Chen Li-fu, Minister of Education, General Wu Chung-hsin, Chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs General Feng
One of the most remarkable features of the attacky" has been the manner in which the Londoner accepts what hap- pened and readapts himself to the changed conditions. This was equally in evidence to-Commission, and was one wireless mast", said Mr. day although with inevitable excep-Fu-hatang. Vice-Chairman of the
National Military Council, Marshall, "on the top of it I saw tion those who arrived to find their something which I thought was offices non-existent and remained have brought is musk for which 2 pigeon. I looked again and near the site of former employ-
Szechwan's border regions are saw it was an owl huddled up and ment in small groups discussing especially noted. It was presented obviously very frightened. He sat next moves and awaiting orders.
to Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the there for five minutes and then
Those whose march to work took National Government, düring their showed the wisdom of the owi by them past the Houses of Parlia- Interview with him. (Central flying away.
Iment, and the Westminster Abbey, News), "I looked at my companion and paused and gazed sorrowfully at
Among treasured articles they
'Listeners to the BBC's Newsletter for the Far East bear one of the oldest hands at broadcasting in the BBC's service-0. M. Green]
the almost archale days of Savoy
found that she was as black as the damage but found comfort cial policy of the present war of who first faced the microphone in was we looked like a couple of from the fact that Big Ben though not publicising "aces.""" nigger minstrels. And all the with its face blackened and scar- while new ares kept springing up." ed. still told the correct time.
Mr. Marshall remarked that through it all the people went LONDON, May 12 (Reuter)—The
SUCCESSFUL PILOT
A Polish sergeant pilot also H, (the BEC's first headquarters), During last week, the raiders
claimed, another raider.
and has been broadcasting inter- appeared to concentrate on the
SUPERINTENDENT KILLED mittently ever since. He has also Western suburbs. Though some
LONDON, May 12 (British Wire- lived in the Far East for twenty Mal. Murray said that the pro-bombs, were dropped on the down-
about, their wok of fighting the most successful fighter pilot in the less)It is understood that Capt. three years. duction of tanks must be pushed town business section on May 3,
flames as I was a part of their E.AF shot down one enemy E L H Elliott, Resident Superin- ! After eight years as Foreig forward on the same scale as the on the Yangtse River front down-
customary work, Though it was bomber" In Sunday night's ralds. tendent of the House of Lords, was Correspondent and Features Editor production of planes. A country town on May 9, and the north
all very horrible they did not seem This is disclosed by the Air Min-killed at his post while fire fight for the London. Morning Leader could not be held by flying about bank of the Chialing River Fester-
LONDON, May 12 (Reuter) to think it so. That was the sort Istry News Bervice which states Ing.
he became Assistant Editor, theti over it: Combination between the day, the majority of the bombs)
STATESMAN WOUNDED dropped in these raids landed in Successes by British patrols in of feeling that was aroused in war that his individual score is now
| Editör of the North cana Daly aircraft and armoured divisions the western suburbs.
Libya and further advances in time.
the highest figure of aircraft de- LONDON, May 12 (Reuter)-News, Shanghai, which posts he the ground was necessary.
Both on Friday and Saturday. Abyssinia are described in today's It left people detached and un-finitely destroyed and attributed General Sosnkowski, Polish Deputy held for twenty years. He is no
worried and with the feeling that to any RAF. pilot. bombs fell dangerously close to the Middle East communique...
Minister, Was seriously in the Far Eastern department residence of the British Ambassa- At Tobruk, British mechanised whatever. was happening would The name of the pilot was not wounded during Saturday's air raid Renter's. dor, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, patrols surprised considerable happen. All the fat dwellers had given in accordance with the offi-on, London, which has been made almost un-party of the enemy and inflicted gathered in the big entrance hall mhabitable. The Foreign Minister, casualties and captured 32 pri- where they were playing cards and Dr. Wang "Chung-hul, yesterday scuers.
waiting for the rald to be over.
BROKEN GLASS
[General Martel is the inventar of the one-man tank).
WAVE OF ABDUCTIONS
IN S'HAI
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sent a representative to call on the Sollum area, our patrols the Ambassador to inquire about yesterday continued their "harass- "One of the things I remember the extent of the damage to his ing tactics capturing enemy tanks. is seeing one of the porters busy residence, because houses in the In Abyssinia. Indian troops ad-sweeping up the entrance and western suburbs are widely scat-vancing from the North on Amba neatly piling up the broken glass,
cupied the fort at Rutbah.
In daring raids on the respec- dropped along the Tangtse and tive homes in foreign areas, Chi-Chek Rived front as junk NAZI CAMPAIGN
nese gunmen, it is reported, spirit-men were killed or wounded. ed away Yu Sze-wel, one of the
While Chinese fighters engaged
OF LOOTING
I left her.
"So there it is-that is just a blitz night in London".
Prime
China's And America's Common Interests
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Outside his work, Green's in? terests, he says, pretty well dess cribe the four ages of man-at: Cambridge rowing, în China riding followed by golf on his retira tó England, and now by gardening; and listening to music,
AGREEMENT
SHANGHAI, May 12 (Reuter)-tered and many bombs landed, in Alagi have made important pro as if he took it for granted that ciple laid down by Dr. Sun Yat-fight against the aggressor-the GERMAN-SOVIET Following the recent abduction of opeas fields, cansing comparatively gress, capturing Gums and taking there would be no more raldsen, Father of the Chinese Repub- Japanese militarlets to the bitter Miss Chow Bing-tsia, Secretary for little property damage except to quantities of war material.
sald Mr. Marshall. "Gradually the lic, are equivalent to the American end whatever sacrifices may be In Iraq, British forces have oc- dawn crept on and still the bombs principle of government of the involved. the Chungking District Court in shops and houses along the main
TOKYO, May 12 (Reuter)-In d the Settlement, the staff of the roads. Casualties were also report
fell and the guns kept firing. I people, by the people and for the A is quiet at Habbanlyah and
"The American Government and front page editorial the Japanese ed to be few. ! Court has been further reduced by
went down to the old lady's fat people."" The heaviest death toll occurred Basra.
people have shown the deepest Army organ, Kakumin Shimbun more kidnappings.
to see how much it had been
"As both are dedicated to the sympathy with China in her war declared that Japan could sol May 9, when bombs were
damaged. It was not too badly democratic principles of indepen- of resistance from the very start. look on with folded hands in thể damaged and she thanked me as dence, freedom and equality, China Under the ruthless aggression of event of a German-Soviet agree
and the United States," General the Japanese militarists China and ment granting Russia "a free hand issimo Chiang added, "have always the United States are vitally link- in Asia' in return for larger Bo been opposed to aggression and ed together by their common in-viet supplies to" Germany. are therefore the pillars of per-terests and responsibilities in the The paper wamed that Japan manent world peace and human Pacific from the standpoint of his must, guard against unilateral and welfare in the Eastern and Westory, geography and international opportunistic territorial transfers tern Hemispheres, wherein lle the treaties. If one of them should, or hegemony by any foreign power national spirit of both the Chinese fall victim to brute force, it will before the fundamental condition and Americans and their common mean also a blow for the other for a new world order had been responsibilities. China and, the who in such a case should not realised. United States should, therefore stand aloof."
Meanwhile, the widely read poł Referring to the "peace terms " |litical commentator. Kiyosawai strive together for the realisation of this common mission.
set down by the JAPAN TIMBwriting in the leading commercial BROKEN DOWN
ADVERTISER, mouthpiece of the dally, Chugal Shogyo, states
judges, and Chang Chung-ade, one the raiders last year of the procurators.
and two
NEW YORK, May 12 (Reuter)- years ago, it is learned so far that The German Army in Serbia is con-
"In addition, the wife and son of no fighters had taken off this year ducting a systematic campaign of Fong Ching-wei, another Judge, to oppose them. were abducted from their home in
the French Concession late last night.
A.A. DEFENCE
Tooting and corffiscation of homes The Chinese defence depended and property of Berbians and for- eigners, and American Legation- entirely on anti-aircraft gung which however, were not effective seals placed on British property
feet.
from Budapest.
RECRUITING APPEAL
...
OTTAWA, May 12 (Heuter)-"We as the raiders came.over the city have been violated, according to a need about 32,000 men in the next ENEMY WITHDRAW at great heights, mostly above 7,000 message to the NEW YORK TIMES two months" declared Colonel Rals
ton, Defence Minister, in a broad- LONDON, May 12 (Reuter)-It 18
cast recruiting appeal. Dugouts again proved effective. learned in London that in Southern Yesterday several bomby landed The laying of the Foundation, Mr. Coldwell, Acting Leader of "The peaceful" order in the Calmusho, on Apr. 30,General- "Common sense makes it clear Abyssinia, the enemy has with both directly above and in front Stone of the Extension of the Po the Co-operative Commonwealth Pacific," Generalissimo Chiang Issimo Chiang said that judging that if the European war drags off drawn from their positions astride of one dugout, practically closing Leung Kuk by Lady MacGregor Federation, in the House of Com-said, "has now been broken down, by those bearing upon the United the United States will Jofa Bez the road north of Wadala, where the entrances, but all occupants will take place on Wednesday, May mons, announced that over 900 in China has been made the object States and the Pacific it was obtain" and adde "it would be dan the British troops have surrounded were safe. After the raid they 26, at 5.30 pm. His Excellency, the ternees brought to Canada from of aggression before she has com-vious that Japan's aggression in gerops to jump to the hasty con the positions held by the enemy had no difficulty in leaving the Governor. will be present at the Britain have been released to serve pleted her national defence pre-China was the preliminary step to cinsion, that a Germani victory
In the British Army.
parations but she is determined to 'ward aggression in America.· rearguard.
would mean peace in the Pacific
dugout
Ceremony