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Raid On Scapa Flow Naval Base: Enemy Repulsed Over Yorkshire
GERMAN PLANES INTENSIFY RAIDS ON GREAT BRITAIN
FINE WORK BY ROYAL AIR FORCE REPELS INVADERS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, OCT. 18 (UP). FOLLOWING QUICKLY ON THE HEELS OF THE RAID ON THE FIRTH OF FORTH AND ROSYTH, GERMAN PLANES YESTERDAY RAIDED THE GREAT NAVAL BASE AT SCAPA FLOW, IN THE ORKNEY ISLANDS NORTH OF SCOTLAND.
Nazi warplanos also reconnoitred along the east coast of Scotland and England throughout the day. They wore repulsed by Royal Air Force pursuit planes and anti-aircraft fire and no bombs were dropped.
THE IRON DUKE
Scapa Flow Invasion' Creates A Sensation
STRONG GERMAN ATTACKS ALONG THE SAAR FRONT
PARIS, Oct. 17 (Router).—The last two French communiques, which report successful Gor- man attacks, east of the Saar, reveal A significant change in operations on the Western Front.
After the defeat of the FEAR AND
BOREDOM
British C-in-C. Says Of War
FRANCE DEMOBILISING!
Over 50 Mon Boing Released From Army
PARIS, Oct. 17. (Reuter). ~~FRANCE is to demobilise N.C.O and men of the 1909 class that is, men over 50 years old.
When this demobilisation is completed, men of the 1910 class (49 years 'old). will also be released.
An official communique explains that the step is be- ing taken to assist the economic life of the country by sending home men who. are not indispensable.
A certain number of re- serve officers are also to be demobilised.
CHINESE SUCCESSES
Defeat Of Japanese
Army In Shansi
CHUNGKING, Oct. 17 (Ren- ter)Reports of success by Chinese forces in south-cast
Shansi are given prominence in the press here to-day.
Polish armies, the French Command decided to re- constitute the furthest posi- tions reached on German territory on defensive lines. This involved the creation of
According to Chinese reports, lightly held observation posts LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter). Japanese forces in south-east LONDON, Oct. 17 (UP).-The disclosure of the with a wide dispersal of men. "I am supremely confident Shansi, with bases at Tungyang- was supposed to be Pro-Arranged Plan that come what may, the British kwan, Hokwan, Changchi and invasion of Scapa Flow, which
When, as long foreseen, the Ger- Army which I have the honour Changtae, launched a drive on impregnable, has caused a sensation in London.
mans attacked after heavy artillery to command will prove itself October 8 southward along the British reports admitted that it was a "remarkable are, which fell mostly on emply worthy of its history in the highway between Changchi and
spaces, the French outposts withdrew,
while machine past," said General Viscount Kaoping towards Kangning, exploit of professional skill as pre-arranged,
guns and artillery took heavy toll Gort, the British Commander- and daring."
of German concentrations.
in-Chief. Lord Chatfield, Minister for When the Germans reached the the Co-ordination of Defence, line of real resistance in the neight
bourhood of the Apach village, two revealed to-day that n Board of and a half miles beyond Sierck, they | Inquiry is now sitting at Scapa were everywhere checked.
In the raid on the naval base at Scapa Flow, two bombs exploded near H.M.S. Iron Duke, the Great War veteran which was demilitarised under the Washington Naval Treaty and has since been used as a training and depot ship. The Iron Duke sustained "certain damage" but there SUBMARINE
were no casualties aboard.·
Only four raiders participated in the air attack on Scapa Flow. One was brought down in flames and another was probably damaged.
ENEMY AIRCRAFT ALSO SUCCEEDED IN PENE. „TRATING INTO. YORKSHIRE, BUT WERE INTERCELTED BY ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE AND R.A.F. PURSUIT PLANES AND WERE PURSUED OUT TO SEA.
The initial Air Ministry announcement on the raid on Yorkshire does not state at which part of the county the German raiders were intercepted. or whether bombs were dropped.
Premier Tells
Of Enemy
Air
House
Raids
LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter)-First intimation of the German uir raid on Scapa Flow this morning was made by Mr. Neville Chamberlain in the House of Commons, after he had given an account of yesterday's Firth of
Forth raid.
The latter raid, said Mr.
Relentless Chamberlain, was carried out by
Naval Hunt Sweeping U-Boats From The Sea
RETURNS
Daring Commander Flow.
He said that the U-Boat apparently To Be Decorated fired two torpedoes at the Royal Oak.
One hit the bow and the ship's store. LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter).of Inflammables exploded.
Over 800 men died The commander of the U-Boat versel was lying at the end of the
because the¦
gone by air to see Hitler who is before the rescuers could be organis- which sank the Royal Oak, has harbour and many were drowned conferring a special honour onjed
Scapa Flow Inquiry him, according to the German Radio.
LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter)---Rely: ing to Mr. A. V. Alexander, Mr. The U-boat reached her base Churchill said in the Ilouse of at 9 a.m. and was met by Ad-Commons that the boom defences at miral Raader, Commander-in-Scapa Flow were not old defences from the last war. They had been Chief of the German Navy.
newly placed in position.
MAGINOT: PLINĖ
FRENCH THRUSTS
-BitCYKIFO
Where heavy Bghting is how taking place. The Commander, describing the An inquiry was now taking place. exploit, sald: "It was quite a job to When it was complete, he would be been considerable for tha shallow German losses are believed to have singgle ourselves into the Scapa in a position to answer other ques-gains, and it is significant that they Flow through the British defences, tions,
"I saw two warships and discharg- two torpedoes at once turning my Boat and leaving the harbour."
Two Vossols Hit?
The Commander alleged thai an he left port he heard explosions and saw a column of water rising from a Bri- Ush ship lying farthest to the north. | A moment later another ship explod-]
and disappeared.
{were checked wherever they met
resistance.
No lanks or ueroplanes were used. The French are still fighting on German soll.
Before they reach the Maginot
The C. in C. was speaking at a luncheon "somewhere on the Western Front."
Clover Flanking Attacks
Fifteen thousand Japanese cavalry troops and 7,000 infantry, supported by 80 field pleces, 140 tanks and armoured cars, and micro Ulan 20 Warplanes took part in the drive, it
At this luncheon he entertained 26 Is stated. British and nine American wer correspondents.
Viscount Gert described war as a "long period of Intenso boredom, intermingled with short periods of Intenso fear.*****
Ife
P.B.I. Will Win War
emphasised that the final result, despite mechanisation, depend- ed on the man.
He was sure that the British soldier to-day would stand square and fight for what was valued by ull |right-minded democratie people,
General Gort proposed the health' of His Majesty the King, the Presl- dent of the French Republic and President Roosevelt.
Daring R. A. F. Planes
Line the Germans must take four Make Daylight Flight
to alx Ilmes, each defended by a curtain of continuous Are.
Wearing Steel Vests PARIS, Oct. 17 (Reuter)--Some
Over Germany
While Chinese forces resisted the Japanese southward advance on the highway, other bodies of Chinese freeps attacked the Japanese flanks the east and west, reports say..
fald
Japanese Driven Back Me CHUNGKING, Oct. 17 (Reuter). Alter ten days of sovere fighting, despatches from the Shansi front claim that the Chinese anally succeeded in repulsing the attack and driving the Japanese back towards their bases.
Chinese forces, It is further claim- ed, are
now converging on the Japanese buses.
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More than 10,000 men are reported to have been lost by the Japanese,
LATEST
Raid On German City Rumoured
LONDON, Oct. 17 (Houter)—There aro persistent rumours in Amsterdam LONDON, Oct. 17to-day of an air raid on the German
Russia Seeks New Spheres Of Influence Designs On Iran Are German soldiers in the latest attacks on the French lines are wearing steel Reported By US. vests and visors.
Onslaught A Failure NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (Reu- LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter),—A LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter)Lord ter).-Soviet Russia has extend-special commentary says that the Navn: casualties were caused on Chatfield, the Defence Co-Ordinationed her designs to the Near East, German attack on the Western Front yet come back. H.MS. Southampton, H.MS. Edin- Minister, made a similar statement burgh and HMS. Möhawk.
on the sinking of the Royal Oak in according to diplomatic circles on October 10, took place on a front The flight followed by several the House of Lords this afternoon to in Washington quoted by the preliminary bombardments against Germany at night.
after hours a previous foray over
12, or possibly more aircraft in As the U-boat left harbour the sen waves of two or three at a time. was lit by British searchlights and a Two civilians were slightly injured number of depth charges exploded. by shell fragments, but damage to the civilian population was
igible.
16 Killed, 44 Wounded
neg-
U-Boat's Escapo Accepted
of about seven kilometres,
that of Mr. Winston Churchill in the New York Times" correspon-already evacuated positions.
dent. Replying to Lord Gainsford (Op-
The enemy nowhere succeeded in passing beyond the zone which had been occupied by advance French troops.
LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter).—| Continuing his statement (the) Altogether three officers and 13 Commons. first part of which is reported ratings were killed or died from on Page 6) in the. House of wounds, two officers were silently position Liberal), who naked whether This correspondent states that Commons to-day, Mr. Winston Jured, il ralings were seriously there was any ground for believing through the medium of trade nego
Damage to the Southampton and sank the Royal Oak had been sunk, to re-assert her lost sway in Nortic miralty, said:
the Edinburgh was slight.
Both Lord Chatfeld said the Admiralty Iran by obtaining control of the rice "Something from a third to a quar-vessels are ready for sea,
had no reason at present to believe output and concessions for ell felds wer of the total U-boat fleet of Ger- Damage to The Mohawk was that the U-boat had been destroyed, which are believed to exist there. control. many is destroyed, and the gaps made superficial,
Vitally Important Movo
Churchill, First Lord of the Ad-injured and 31 slightly injured, the report that the U-boat which tiations, Russia is said to be seeking The Germans recently broadcast a
,
•
in skilled officers and crews cannot The enemy were nt once engaged,
be speedily toplaced.
Comparative LotsCE
"On the other hand, the
Brilishi Mercantile Marine of 21,000,000 tons! has experienced the loss of 100,000 lara by U-boat action, to which may bo added 18,000 tons through mines
or accidents a total of 174,000 tons.
by the fighter squadrons and anity WAR EFFECT ON, The "New York Timea Washing
ntrcraft fire.
Four Planes Brought Down
Continuing, Mr. Chamberlain said: "Four enemy bombers were brought down, of which one was shot down by gun-fire.
U.S. BUSINESS
series of clumsy statements as part of
an attempt to influence neutral op- inion against the British contraband
Propaganda Contradiction
(Reuter). R.A.F. planes have made a daring daylight reconnaissance raid. Germany.
over
One of our machines has not
Financial Aid For Brazil Stabilising Exchange
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (UP),
town of Emden, which is at the
mouth of the Em River, opposite Dutch territory.
People living on the Dutch frontier : report having heard gundre from the direction of Emden and say they saw many aeroplanos
No confrmation is obtainable of these reports.
In London it is officially stated that no British plane raided Emden.
Soo Back Page For Further Lake, Newa
NORWEGIAN SHIP SUNK
Germans Claim New Neutral Victim
On one day, Japan was said to have ten correspondent says this is regard-protested against the boarding of her ed as vitally important here because linerchant ships in her territorial of Iran's strategle, position in the waters. The next day it was Chile-It has been learned from Near East,
who made demands for an apology, reliable sources that the United SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
How strongly the Soviet pretensions
These statements were repented States Treasury has sold Brazil CLEVELAND, Oct. 17 (UP).—The are being pushed is a matter for with variations.
Contradictions also occur. In one three million dollars worth of
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHS "During the same period we have "In addition, a number of other eminent political economist, Mr. conjecture in Washington. captured from the enemy 20,000 tons enemy aircraft were heavily engaged, business review to-day sald that ex-ment in United States Government next say they are fattened with the change,
Leonard Porter Ayres, in his monthly
breath the Germans claim that the gold for the purpose of stabilla- Meanwhile there is private com- Britials at short of food, and in the ing the Brazilian foreign, ex from Bergen state that the Nor "OSLO, Oct. 17 (UP),—Reports and have been refreshed by the and some of these may not be abpectation of war orders, not actual circles on the fact that the Soviet has riches of war, arrival of new ships amounting to to reach home.
wegian steamer Lorentz W 104,000 tons.
"As the attack was local and ap-orders, had caused recent business not yet acknowledged, let alone "It will be seen, therefore, that peared to be developing only on a Improvement.
A significant feature of their pro- Tho zalo is reported to have follow-Hansen (1,918 tons) has been answered, President Roosevelt's note While our Mercantile Marine remains small scalo and as our defences were He said it was impossible to esti-in regard to Finland to M. Kalinin, Paganda is that the entire program-ed several weeks of negotiations, and sunk in the North Atlantic.
mes are devoted dolly to denying and represents the frullion of” the 1937 (på pieneticaly unaffected by U-boat war-fully ready, it was not considered mate the duration of hostilities and President of the Soviet Union.
The 21 people aboard wore saved; distoring English news, which is agreement under which Braeft is It is not known whether the vessel fare, losses have been inflated; upon | appropriate at this particular Instance "unless the nature of the the enemy, which, if continued could to issuto an air-raid warning which changes, the probable effects on our particular attention to Russia's possible entirely to conceal the truth 500,000,000 worth of United States The Loretta W. Hansen was "on-
war The State Department is péring clear proof that it has not been pos- antifled to purchase a maximum of was torpedood or mined, suppos certainly not be endured."
*PLEASE Turn To Page 2. business are likely to be meagre." Uon and moves,
from the German people.
Hold for stabilising purposes.
route from England to Canada,