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The SECOND EDITION
Hongkong Telegraph.
No. 10101
FOUNDED W+=A=ANT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1940.
日二十月二
R.A.F. Rain Bombs On Sylt In Dramatic All-Night
AMMUNITION DUMP
BLOWN UP:
By REUEL S. MOORE
UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT
LONDON, MAR. 20 (UP).-BRITAIN TOOK SWIFT VENGEANCE LAST NIGHT FOR THE NAZI RAID ON THE ORKNEY ISLANDS.
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IN THE GREATEST AIR RAID OF THE WAR, PRO- BABLY ONE OF THE MOST SUSTAINED THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN, R.A.F. BOMBERS RAINED A NIGHT- LONG STREAM OF BOMBS ON GERMANY'S FORTRESS OF SYLT.
WHICH,
ISLAND
WAVE AFTER WAVE OF BRITISH PLANES RE- LENTLESSLY ROARED OVER THE GERMAN BASE IN ATTACKS
COMMENCING SHORTLY AFTER DUSK, WERE MAINTAINED ALMOST UNTIL DAWN.
Salvo after salvo of giant 1,000lb. bombs were released
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Vengeance Attack
HORNUM
PILOTS
French Shock Troops Go Into Action On Western Front
FIGHTING BREAKS OUT ACROSS THE RHINE
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH”
BERLIN, Mar. 19 (UP)—FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF WAR, FIGHTING OCCURRED ACROSS THE RHINE RIVER TO-DAY, WHEN FRENCH TROOPS OPENED MACHINE GUN ATTACKS ON THE GERMANS ENTRENCHED ON THE EAST- |ERN BANK,
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This admission was made in the D.N.B. official report of to- day's activity.
also
French shuck troops were jobserved on reconnaissance in con-
niderable force.
The Nazi report adds that weak French artillery Bre occurred at the usual points in front of the Siegfried Line (the first time the Nazis have mentioned their "West Wall" as be- Mering the object of French artillery as the squadrons of Wellington and Wellesley bombers CHARLOTTESVILLE,
co-heiress to the No Man's Land Scouting power-dived from the night sky to within a thousand feet 19 (UP)-Mrs. Ethel Dupont nre).
"At some points the enemy artillery wife of President Roosevelt's fre was answered," the communique of their objectives, their pilots showing a reckless disregard Dupont munitions millions and
adds:
develop- "Mutual scouting activity for the intense anti-aircraft fire to which they were sub-third son, Franklin Delano Jr.,
suffered a pelvic fracture to-day ed in No Man's Land, and enemy patrols were forced to return without when she fell from, har horse. jected.
She was unconscious when she was completing their tack. picked up.
HOLLAND HEARS 82 EXPLOSIONS
"The weather permitted very little Mrs. Roosevelt was immediately acrial netivity." rushed to hospital where her condition
The reported fighting olong the the Upper Rhine area.
war-Tonight was reported as not being banks of the Rhine River occurred in
serious.
The attack was easily the longest any belligerent has launched in time, and it was not until the early hours of the morning that the last British machine returned to its base ́ “somewhere in England."
At least 82 explosions were audible in Holland.
One bomb is believed to have exploded a huge munitions dump, for
She Is the daughter of Mr. Eugene du Pont. She was married in 1037 and has
Franklin one son, Hoosevelt III.
reports from observers in neutral territory tell of a terrific explosion fol- Big Tests By lowed by a huge fire, the flames and smoke of which reached high into the sky. MUNITION DUMP BLOWN UP
The brunt of the attack was borne by the Nazi air base at Hornum. from here that the Germans launched their attack on the Orkneys, and from they launched their attack on British and neutral shipping.
It is which
It is almost certain that Hornum has sustained heavy damage. The munition dump was apparently exploded by one of the first ten dropped in a midnight raid.
bombs
The explosion of the bombs was followed by a terrific blast which was
in Holland 38 miles away,
audible
of
First indication that a heavy British raid was in progress was conveyed to an electrified House of Commons shortly after 9 p.m., when Sir Kingsley Wood, the Minister for Air, reported the receipt of radio messages from the leader of one the British squadrons, reporting that he was about to attack.
CONTINUES ATTACKS ALL NIGHT
U.S. Navy
D.
Lessons Of Current War
To Be Learned.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ABOARD U.S.S., PENNSYL- VANIA AT SEA, Mar. 19 (UP). Twenty-one, giant American warships are expected to con- verge on the Hawaiian Islands Many will voyage' further west during the current manoeuvres. towards Guam...
It is reliably stated that the
in naval warfore as affected by the
manoeuvres are to test developments present European War,
Five Important Tests
The Graf Spee drama of Mon- tevideo, which upset many pre-war notions held, apparently, by all Ad- one of the fundamental developments which will be the subject of test in Other sub-
Thereafter, the British planes flew over in a continuous stream of squadrons miralties except the British, will be
at between half-hour and fifty minute intervals.
The last raid was completed shortly before 3 a.m.
The Air Ministry was in constant radio communication with the British squadrons. Messages were flashed in code to the Air Ministry and were instantly rushed to the Premier, Mr. Chamberlain, who permitted them to be broadcast to the public while the raid was continuing.
This running commentary on an air raid is unprecedented in the history of warfare.
FAST ACTION BY R.A.F. PILOTS
Meanwhile, from Roemoe and other nearby Dutch cities, news correspondents wero flashing half-hourly reports of further British attacks.
the current manoc NEW SHEK jects will include:
1.Vulnerability of tand-locked naval bases to undersea craft, a ques-
the
on that has been changed by ease with which a Naxi U-Boat entered Scapa Flow and British sub- martnes entered the Sylt area:
NOW YOU
KNOW
French-shock -- troops”.......WCTC. observed in No Man's Land yes terday. What are shock troops?
The War Office do not recognise the existence of shock iroops as such; technically speaking, there Is no such thing.
Is
But, especially as far as the German ATTHY concerned, shock troops are taken to mean iroops of ex- tough cellent soldiers. They do not man the front line, but are kept in post- tions a title to the rear until they are needed for a vigoraus at- tack.
done When they have
specially pickod
their job of work they are with- drawn behind the lines again.
Nazism Like A Ghastly Disease
Outspoken Speech By Mr. Paul McNutt
CONVOY SYSTEM BEATS U-BOATS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPḤ"
LONDON, Mar. 19 (UP),—The convoy system has broken the back of Germany's U-Boat warfare, as it did in the last war.
The Admiralty announced to-day that the entire Allied and neutral merchant shipping losses as a result of submarine and mine action last week totalled only 28,992 tons. Almost all this. tonnage was sunk by magnetic mines.
Mussolini's Assurance
*No Demands While War
Is Localised
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" 2 Effectiveness of wines and tor-
NEW YORK, Mar. 19 (UP). pedoes on armoured warships:
3-Effectiveness of AA defence-National Socialism, as it exists to-day in Germany, is a ghastly disease like typhold."
aboard warships;
AreValue of the touvor. against air raida,
system
Yangtse Reopening: New Promise
"The germs, like the Germans, are always with us. But wo. Americans can protect ourselves if we know how to keep our resistance bish.”
The ships comprised three British, two French and four, neutral vessels. Submarine Campaign Fails
Only four ships have been sunk by U-Boats since February 24. This is a clear indication that the Nazl submarine warfare has failed.
The opinion now expremed In London that U-Boat losses likvė been so heavy that Germany has sinco recalled all submarines, there has been no attacks on ship- SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
ping for some days now. VATICAN CITY, Mar 19
Despite the advantage enjoyed by (UP). Responsible Vatican Germany as n result of illegal quarters revealed to-day that Mr. methods of warfare such as mines Sumner Welles had informed His and a
Eht" policy, and aslak on sight" Holiness the Pope that he had also by the fact that most of her shipping has been swept from the received
from assurance an
seas, Germany's losses last week ex- Signor Mussolini that Italian re-ceeded those af Britain and France visionist demands would not be combined and were only 7,000 tons advanced as long as the present less than the combined losses of Al-
remainedes and neutrals. European
Germany's Lossos Among the German shipping casualties for the same week in which
23,902 tons of Allled and neutral ships were sunk, were the Hannover (5,537 tans), captured and
Jamaica taken to Kingston, March 13; the La Coruna tons) scuttled by her own crew, and the Eschercheim (3,305 tons) scuttled
localised.
conflict
1.K.
The Pope is reported to have sured Mr. Welles that, in his opinion, Signor Mussolini's assurance merited absolute faith.
Popo's Opinion
Mr. Welles is believed to have ex- pressed the opinion that the conflict can be limited to its present bounds,
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on
(7,414
The Pope is believed to have in-off the coast of Jutland on March 13. formed Mr. Welles, on the basis of diplomatic information reaching the
thint
Holy See Rumania appears ut
to be heading towards a
present secure neutrality: that Yugo-Slavia is alco secure and that Germany Is showing great interest in persuading Soviet Russia to maintain peace in the Balkans.
·NAZIS CAN'T FOOL DUTCH
Reject Explanation Of
Sea Warfare 2-
LATEST
Eyewitness Account Of Raids
ap-
"I saw one RAF. bomber, parently crippled, firtar -low, out to sen, but was not pursued..
"At 8.45 p.m. another attack was AMSTERDAM, Mar. 19 (Reu-launched on Hornum and I heard the
The "Exchange Telegraph's" Correspondent at Roemoe said that the raids commenced at 8.15 p.m., when two R.A.F. machines, flying at a low altitude, crossed The British the Sylt and dropped eight bombs on the northern point, of the island. machines had disappeared before’the Germans could even bring their Air Raid sirens | assurance that the Yangise River Women's Jewish Congress in New paper "Nieuwe Rotherdamsche Hornum.
into action.
VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS HEARD
The Germans were prepared for the next R.A.F. squadron, which ran into a This squadron came over, at 8.20 p.m., barrage of searchlights and A.A. shrapnel. dropping its bombs on the northern part of the island.
Simultaneously, heavy firing was heard from the direction of Hellgoland Bight, and many bombs were seen exploding on Hornum, at the southern point of the island, and on the Hindenburg Dam, which connects Sylt with the mainland.
The detonation of a single bomb was heard at 8.40 p.m., and a few minutes later there was a violent explosion followed by a brilliant flash which lit up the whole island.'
WALL OF FIRE ACROSS ISLAND
have
(ter)-Nazi attempts to justify detonation of ten bombs.
"Following several other distinct the German methods of sen "attacks," another wayd of Belilah warfare have been rejected by machines came from the north and America's Danger
the Netherlands llberal news dropped bombs on List and on SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
This was part of a speech at the
"The planes continued over the NANKING, Mar. 20 (Domei)—An
bombs on Island and dropped two York to-day, by Mr. P. V. McNutt, Courmant."
The paper declares that on a nuantum. Then one of the machines would be re-opened to third Powe former Governor General of the
Federal ber of points. the neutrals shipping as soon as possible w Philippines,
currently given last night by General Nishio,
ing barrage of anti-aircraft fire. Supreme Commander of the Japan Security Administrator, and conten- formed their own opinion, an opinion flew back to Llet and dropped another
German standpoint. forthcoming elections,
It is not only according to British but was not hil
"The next attack was launched at with Mr. H. H. Thomas, British Con-
Mr. McNutt added that America ese Forces in China, in an interview der for Presidential honours at the which differs considerably from the bomb. It was greeted with an amaz- sul at Shanghai, and Mr. E. F. Stan-
***was not greatly menaced by the reports that Dutch crows have been
Brillah machines as they flew to their ton, U. S.. Censal at Nanking.
the paper. Various hazards still existed along danger of an invasion by the legions shot at and Dutch ships Bunk, says 11 p.m. We heard the roar of the
of Stalp or Hitler,
Nearly the whole of the German destination and then the thud of their In continuing "Our danger les
"All along the mainland people the river, however, he claimed.
along the road permitting the cen- procedure against the Dutch ships has bombs.
stood and watched the explosion, the resultant üres and the pyrotechnic display furnished by bombs, ant]- sirerait shrapnel,... star shells: sud searchlights
Calm Day On The trailsation of control of business and aroused indignation in Iloiland.
Western Front
PARIS,'
nis, Mar. 19 (Reuter) —-TO- day's communique abys that there
was a calm day on the whole front.
finance until we are driven by poverty and despair to accept a dicta tor of our own," he said.
PARIS, Mar. 20 (UP)A new West of the Saare German recon- reciprocal trade agreement has been naissance party fell into one of our concluded between Spain and Japan:
to the value of eight million Yen.
Soviet Ratifies Peace Treaty
...
LONDON, Mar. 20 (UP).The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
The terrific explosion, which broke windows 38 miles away, was followed by a ambushes and sundhed fairly serious It provides for the exchange of goods has raifled the Russo-Finnish Peace
PLEASE Tum To Pago 10.
Treaty."
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