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V HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1941.
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LAUNCH GREATEST WESTERN CRASH AT KAI TAK ENEMY
FRONT DAYLIGHT OFFENSIVE OF WAR: FIGHTER AIRCRAFT BATTLE WAY THROUGH SWARMS OF MESSERSCHMITTS
STRIKING AT THE NAZIS IN GERMANY ITSELF, IN NORWAY, IN FRANCE AND AT A CONVOY OFF THE DUTCH COAST. THE ROYAL AIR FORCE ON SATURDAY LAUNCHED TIIE GREAT WESTERN FRONT DAY- LIGHT OFFENSIVE OF THE WAR. HUNDREDS OF BRITISH FIGETER CRAFT ESCORTING BOMBERS BAT- TLED THEIR WAY THROUGH SWARMS OF MESSERSCHMITTS AND SHOT DOWN AT LEAST 15 OF THESE GER-
MAN AIRCRAFT
BRITISH LOSSES WERE THREE BLENHEIMS AND SEVEN FIGIITERS.
On Saturday night Berlin spoke over the radio of the "violent air battles over the Channel" and claimed abe destruction of 38 British planes for two of their own.
HIT
SUCH EXAGGERATED FIGURES ARE USUALLY A SURE SIGN THAT THE NAZIS HAVE BEEN HARD- THEY CERTAINLY WERE ON SATURDAY,
While Germany was listening to the Nazi radio assurance that all British attempts to cross the Channel coast were frustrated. the people of Enden were given the opportunity to observe for themselves the havoc eaused by bombs dropped from American-built sub-stratosphere Flying Fortress bombers.
This was another daylight raid.
Widely Separated Objectives In Northern France Blasted: Bombs Crash On Ships Off Dutch Coast
At the same tune Tour widely separated objectives in Northern France were be-
ing blasted and bombs crashed onto six ships off the Dutch coast.
Away to the North on the coast of Norway, a fish-oll factory was hit while the railways at Hazebrouck and Abbeville, Shipyards at Rouen and docks at Cherbourg were all pounded.
TOLL BY
FIGHTER COMMAND
THIS WAS A CLIMAX TO ANOTHER BLACK
WEEK FIRES IN
BERLIN, SHOT FRANKFURT
FOR THE NAZIS IN WHICH, IN ADDITION TO ALL THE DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY OUR BOMBERS, 53 MESSER- SCHMITTS WERE
(Renter)-
MYSTERIOUS VOICE
LONDON, Sept. 21 (Reuter) -The mysterious voice which breaks into the Deatschland- sender broadcasts with anti- Hitler
comments was heard again last night, when it said that although Hitler did not want the interrupler's voice to be heard by the German peo- ple, the Fuehrer could not stop him. He would keep on interrupting despite all the ef- foris of the Nazis,
$3 BILLION TAX BILL
The C.N.A.C. Douglas DC-2 transport plane which had a forced landing at Kai Tak early yesterday morning. Only freight was carried at the time. None of the crew of three was seriously Injured.(Photo by Yuen Chun).
THE CIVIL SERVICE AND RED TAPE: HOW MANY GLASS
ROCKING HORSES!
EYES FOR
In bls weekly commentary on the news from London last night, MR. E. A. MONTAGUE spoke on the Civil Service and which, he said, was actually white and not red.
red tape
of
BOLTING DOORS
Tanks, guus and aero- planes have been flowing into the Western Desert from Imperial and foreign arsen- als in such a volume in re- cent weeks that pn the enemy's side of the frontier, the process of what can only be described as bolting the doors and double-locking the windows is now apparent, writes Reuter's Special cor- respondent in the Western Desert.
There is no doubt the enemy would dearly like to know if and when the British offensive may be expected and meanwhile prepar- ing themselves as fully as possible to meet t
Although the heat is still op- pressive, the campaigning season is steadily approaching.
RECONNAISSANCE
IN STRENGTH
This week's reconnaissance in strength by two Nazi armoured columns showed eagerness to spy Cont'd Page T, Col. 5
Mr
that Montague sald
the wasted for the Importation Civil Service was answerable to glass eyes for rocking horses. Parliament everyday and any one A question would then be pat to of 650 odd members of Parliament the President of the Board of could ask questions about the ac- Trade in the House of Commons cord kept of the tons of s Government official as to how many glass eyes were transactions. the questions must be answered imported during a certain period
The Treasury, on
most
trivial
the other
no matter how much extra workandume-unfortunate Civil ser hand, watched every department it entailed in getting hold of the vant would have to supply the to see that not one more penny information for the Minister. necessary information.
was spent than was necessary. If For instance, a member of a That was one reason why every-the departments were extravagant HYDE PARK, New York, Sept. 21 certain constituency may be told thing in the Civil Service had to "then up goes the Income
on that shipping space being be put down on paper and a re-next spring." Saturday signed the $3,558,400,000 Tax Bill.
(Reuter)--President Roosevelt
was
tax
KIEV NOT CAPTURED: FIGHTING the IN STREETS
PETROSKOJ
LONDON, Bept. 21 (Reuter) DOWN, THIS IS THE HIGH- LONDON, Sept. 21 Since the beginning of this year EST TOTAL FOR WFEKS. Many fires were started in FRANK- This Bill. which is the largest to the end of August, British
British losses were EIGHT | FURT and BERLIN last night, ever enacted in the United States. fighters have exacted three to one BOMBERS and 33 FIGHTERS states the British Air Ministry is designed to help to defray the toll of enemy planes.
communigde issued today.
cosig with six pilots safe.
national defence this statement in Making speech yesterday. Air Vice-Marshal
A
Berlin and other
of
Aircraft of the Bomber Com- The communique states: "Last Lease-Leud programmes. J. O. Andrews said that anti-air-naud, escorted by fighter aircraft. night, in bad weather objectives craft guns and the remainder of carried out widespread offensive at Frankfurt. defence under the control of the operations yesterday." says an Atri places Fighter Command had destroyed Ministry communique more than 1,000 enemy aircraft for Saturday.
1ssued
on
"Attacks have been made on ab- the loss of about 300 British planes.
in Norway. North West Day-nighters had destroyed 636ectives enemy machines, most of them Germany and occupied France as Messerschmitt fighters which were well as on enemy shipping off the
Dutch coast. shot down either over enemy ter ritory or into the English Channel.heims. escorted by fighters, at-
GREAT FORCE
Referring to the Bomber Cam mand, he commented that though Britain's force for strategic bomb
"In the early afternoon Blen
tacked an enemy convoy off the Dutch coast, one of the larger ships was hit and though results) were difficult to observe four ships
ing by night was already a great were seen to be on fire and the one, before long it would gain back of another broken, overwhelming strength,
RAILWAYS ATTACKED
Since the war began. Coastal Other escorted forces of Blen Command aircraft had attackedhelms attacked railway centres at i 710 enemy naval units and supply Hazebrouck and at Abbeville, while vessels, and enemy supply ships another formation attacked ship- and tankers sunk OT seriously ping yarus near Rouen. damaged by torpedoes or bombs in "Another escorted force attack recent months represented 240,000ed the docks at Cherbourg and tons.
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Today's News Summary
ON SATURDAY, THE ROYAL AIR FORCE carried out the great- est daylight offensive against Germany and enemy-occupied terr}- tory. Ships off the Dutch coast were bombed while four widely se- parated objectives in Northern France were blasted.
THE AIMS OF BRITISH PROPAGANDA were explained by the Minister of Economic Warfare in a speech in London yesterday. The Minister, together with the Foreign Secretary and the Minister of Information, has been made responsible by the Premier for British propaganda to the enemy and enemy-occupied territory.
THERE ARE STILL CONFLICTING REPORTS regarding the German claim to have captured Klov, The Russians say that the city is not captured and street fighting is continuing. The Ger- mans claim to have reached the Sea of Azov,
THE TRIAL OF THE EX-SHAH OF IRAN IB being demanded. It is stated that he has accumulated tremendous wealth in the Uni- ted States and oven more in Britain.
...THE ENEMY IN THE WESTERN DESERT IS apparently pre- paring for an early attack by the British. according to Router's Special correspondent,
CHINESE CIRCLES IN CHUNGKING ARE inclined to the belief that Japan will move against Russia in the near future.
ALL THE MAIN JAPANESE CONSULS-GENERAL in the Far East. are attending the Nanking conference today at which far-reaching decisions are expected to be made.
121 North-west Germany were attacked by aircraft of the Bomber Command.
"Many dres were started Frankfurt and Berlin,
"Other aircraft attacked
the
docks at Ostend with good results. "Fuur of our aircraft are miss
Ing."
VON PAPEN
and
ANKARA, Sept. 21 (Reuter)-- The German Ambassador, Franz von Papen. 18 expected to return to his duties early next week. He is now in Germany, consulting
i with the Nazi leaders.
CONTINUES:
UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE FROM FINNS
THE WHOLE OF THE TOWN OF KIEV IS NOT CAPTURED AND STREET FIGHTING CONTINUES IN THE CITY, ACCORDING TO THE BERLIN CORRESPON- DENT OF TIDNINGEN, THE STOCKHOLM NEWSPAPER, SAYS REUTER.
Attention is directed to the possibilities of the German forces from Briansk and Poltava in uniting to stretch an arm Found Moscow while another arm may, the cor- respondent thinks, stretch north-eastwards from Velikiyelugi,
The Finns say that Petroskoj is under their artillery are but the toughness of the Russian resistance make its capture unlikely for some time.
PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF SUN
Much Royal
Cloudy Conditions Caused Disappointment: Visit To Observatory At Height Of Spectacle
AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS POSSESSING NO MORE POWERFUL EQUIP- MENT THAN SMOKED GLASS AND THEIR TWO EYES WERE GREATLY DISAP- POINTED YESTERDAY BY WHAT CLOUDY CONDITIONS LET THEM SEE OF HONG- KONG'S FIRST PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN BY THE MOON SINCE JUNE 19. 1938.
The eclipse did, no doubt, take place. It had been well-published and veran- dahs everywhere were laed after mid-day with the curious. There was no great rush to the various opticians for smoked glasses, which, the public was warned, it was es- sential to have on their noses for the occasion.
Necks were craned every-r
where, though it was gener- FIRST IN FAR EAST IN MORE
ally accepted that in groups
of four and five it was suf- fcient to take the word of just one-usually the most SHANGHAI, Sept. 21 (Reuter)----Thick" black stouds allowed only venturesome-member of the acting glimpses this afternoon of what is described as the flest total eclipse of the sun in the Far East in more than 300 years. party, who would take one hurried look at the skies-extoh
For nearly an hour, Shanghai's millions craned *kywards to
ก glimpse of the rare phenomenon, bring his eyes back to face- HANKOW reports that the eclipse was seen through ghi, level, beam Intelligently and clouds and the aura was most brilliant. otherwise intimate that he
More than 60 astronomers and scientists gathered at Wuylshan in northern Fukien to ohmerve the total solar eclipse, says Central News
THAN THREE HUNDRED YEARS
(mountain) in the district of Tsungan seen everything there
had was to sec,
The smoked-ginss suggestion scomed to upset everyone. Bros
"
The galaxy of astronomers and scientists were sent by more than 30 academie organisations, including Boclete Astronomique de are a precious asset and none den Meteorological Observatory, Geological Survey under the Min- Chine, Land Survey Administration, Astronomical Observatory, Fu- cared to damage his or her private istry of Bemorate Affaire, and the Chungshan Amhy she Cheklang
Cont'd Page: 7, Cóf. 1. Univeritak
Further north, following the capture of Rukajaervl, the Finns claim to have reached the branch line of Murmansk railway which is 30 kilometres to the East.
Soviet troops have encircled the east of Kiev making violent at- tempts to break out, the official German News Agency reports.
State Of Emergency In Bulgaria
LONDON, Sept. 21 (Reuter)-A state of emergency has been de-
One attempt on Friday nightclared in Bulgaria according to an was frustrated by the concentrat-Ankara broadcast. ed, German fire which destroyed The Prime Minister, M. Filov, numbers of Soviet lorries, the issued a special statement to an- agency adds.
nounce that stern measures are.
against Bulgaria's
A Nazi military
taken spokesman being claimed in the operations against enemies. the pocket of the Soviet resistance east of Klev, the Nazis on Satur day took "all the town" captur- Ing several prisoners, ten fallway trains and much other material.
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Page
2-Lawn bowls; Rifle shoot. University swimming cham- pionships.
缸
3-Radio programmés; Coming
events; Crossword." -4Early Cable news.
6 Of Interest to women.
Leading article: Retrograde Step.
Bykes accused of obtaining money by false pretences, 11-Round the Police Courts....
A.R.P. SCHEME
IN INDIA KARACHI, Sept. 21 (Reuter)- scheme for affording temporary relief in food and shelter for peo- ple likely to be rendered home less in the event of an air raid on the city is being prepared by t Karachi Municipal Corporation Consultation Special ARP. officer.:
The scheme is estimated to cost about £8,000.
"MAGNETIC STORM
NEW DELHI, Sept. 21 (Router)- A magnetle storm upset general wireless rècoption throughout India yesterday and the B. B. O and other foreign stations were Hot heard.
Normal recopilan la expected to: and be restored in two or three days