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The FIRST EDITION
Hongkong Telegraph
TOUNDED 1801
No. 10192
三拜號三月七英港香
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1940.
日八十月五
BINGLE COPY 16 CENTE
RAID KIEL
R.A.F. Planes Score Hits On German Naval Base BATTLESHIP BOMBED IN DOCK AS WAVES OF PLANES ATTACK
LONDON
North Sea
FRANCE
HOLLAND
*•HAMBURG
Bremen Hanover
Baltic Sea
BERLIN
MAGDEBURG
GERMAN
HONGKONG
Loipzig:
DANZIG
POLAND:
Breslau,
MILES 200
LONDON, July 2 (Reuter). It is officially announced that R.A.F. bombers scored many hits on an enemy naval base at Kiel last night,
Other bombers attacked the Hamburg oil refinery, a viaduct at Hamm, an important target | at Duisberg and a blast furnace at Meiderich.
Acrodromos, Damaged
An aeroplane factory at Deich- shausen and an adjoining aerodrome were damaged.
Aerodromes at Wesel, Cologne and
•••] Vento, and a seaplane base at Texel
were also effectively attacked.
The Fleet Air Arm blew up an
MILITARY 800 Hongkong minition barge at Rotterda
GOVERNOR To Fly From India
This Month
Hongkong's first military Governor since Lord Lugard's administration in 1912 will probably arrive in Hongkong before the end of the monthi
He will come from India by air.
Major General E. F. Norton, whose appointment ns Adminis. trator was announced late last night, is well-known in military circles in Hongkong, and many officers at present attached to the Hongkong garrison served under him in India.
The Acting Governor, the Hoh, Mr. N. L. Smith, this morning despatched a congratulatory cable to Maj. Gen. Norton at Queita.
the
At the moment, the full effect of
minintment of a
In Hongkonlary Ad-
not
known, but it will certainly streng- then the defensive position of the Colony.
The probable effect will be to bring Hongkong into line with Gibraltur
Evacuees In Shanghai
1
SHANGHAI, July
Dutch (Reuter). A
sicamer arrived from Hongkong to-day with 800 the largest
passengers, ever carried by the vessel. Many passengers wealthy Chinese.
were
The unusually large `number indicates the large
disorganised river frame.
and
From all operations, four British aircraft failed to return.
Vivid Story of Raid"
An Air Ministry announcement, on the Kiel raid states that the German battleship Scharnhorst was unde- going repairs necessitated by her frecent encounters with` a British sub-. marine and units of the RAF, and
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Amazing Photograph of R.A.F. Raid on Nazi Aerodrome
THE RAUF YESTERDAY ON KIEL makes this exclusive phofögr Tontent Token from an R.A.F. aircraft of the Bomber Command during in agoni raid, it shows the accuracy of our bombers, Bal of high explosive bombs nimed at the runway of the Nazi aerodrome can be seen bursting right on the target Homb aters which pit Finway and surrounding area testify to the severity, of the bombing to which the enemy has been subjected recentl remy alrerai many of them badly damaged, are distributed round
the night attack, which began a few ITALY'S
minutes after midnight, took the de fenders completely by surprise.
Excellent visibility enabled the raiders to trace their route from the mouth of the Ider River right up to the naval base at Kiel, which was located without the need of the assistance of parachute flares.
The Orst plane approached the
scale upon which Hong-inrget at a considerable height and kong is being voluntarily evacuated by non-British nationals.
The passengers stated that the travel agencies in Hongkong are crowded with
persons trying book passages.
to
HUNGARY
HESITATES
then, with engines throttled back, iglided down to launch his attack."
Gliding Divas
.
BIG NAVAL
LOSSES
Four More U-Boats And A Destroyer LONDON, July 2 (Reuter)
The first bomb scored a direct Four more Italian submarines "hit on the floating dock and this) have been sunk in the eastern was quickly followed by others Mediterranean, bringing Italy's which burst among the buildings submarine losses since she on the quayside.
we were
entered the war up to 13. ⠀⠀
successful Africa....
on
raids "Last Wick's ""Bag"
Italian
The pilot of this aircraft stated afterwards: "Just when
Two basts in Africa and oil, half way through our glide, the tanks in Sicily have been bombed enemy put up a searchlight which while British troops have made swept the sky, but having falled to locate us, went out. We saw our first bamb burst with à ́ ́terrifc ex- plosion on the dock and almost at the same Instant every gun in the district
A naval communique states that seemed to go into 'action,
The barrage was too hot for us British naval forces sanks four, sub- between last Thursday and Sunday to wait and see what damage we had marines in addition to the Italian There were 44 survivors from the Espero, and it is the quayside was getting bigger and believed that there were some from bigger."
the submarines,
and Malto, which also have milliary Soft Pedalling Issue one, but we did turn round and destroyer Espero
administrators,
Lord Lugard, who was Governor of Hongkong from 1910 to 1912, was tho last military officer to be appointed
to this high post. Lord Lugard is now in England.
Japanese Admit Loss
Of Kaifeng
With Rumania
notice that the fire we had started on
LONDON, July 2 (Reuter)—There ero-signs of a change in the attitude?" of Hungary.
Attack Pressod Homo.
The following raiders coming in to
*
to
nine Italian submarines have been sunk before this
He was issued, ave were
attack in rapid succession were met sunk by the East Indian station.Ja
On Monday night both Bucharest with a. continuous barrage of fire the Red Sea off Italian Somaliland.
that Rumanian from pom-pom batteries and guns of
and Budapest, sald
and Hungarian troops had clashed on | the¡ frontier." A few hours later Budapest Radio issued 'an official denlaf,
heavy calibre.
Balbo's Death:
mitted to-day that the Chinese troops withdrawal of frontier troops in order the flashes of shells bursting round New Mystery
The attack, was actually repulsed
เ
Maja Hungariani Killed
him.
end
LONDON, July 2 (Heuter)The
the edge of the aerodromë::
M. C. FOR M. C. FOR FORMER
H. K. MAN
A "Reuter" news agency correspondent who worked in Hongkong for nearly a year in 1932, has been awarded the Military Cross, according to a message received from London to-day.
He is Lieutenant Normant Bradbury, who is now attached to the anti-aircraft artillery,
Lieutenant Bradbury has been a member of “Heuter's" Für Eastern staff for several years. He was stationed in Shanghal, where he became a member of the Shanghat Volunteer Corps, then later came to Hongkong for a brief interlude: afterwards being transferred to Singapore.
While in Singapore ho joined the artillery battery of the Singapore Volunteer. Corps.
5 KILLED BY BOMB
Air Raid Tragedy In Northeast England LONDON, July 2 (Reuter),
i
NEW
FOR
DEMAND CABINET PURGE
LONDON, July 2 (Reuter)-A National Union of Railway- men's Conference at Morecambe unanimously carried a resolution | requesting that Cabinet Minister and other persons in high office Esociated with the previous government's policy of appeasement should be immediately removed from office.
The resolution pledged con- tinuous. resistance to the attempts to crush' democracy until a just and lasting peace is achieved.
Greatest Dangor
of
The mover of the resolution, Mr. A. H. Paton, of Edinburgh, said that all Hitler's triumphs had been due to political weakness leading to amazing and Incredible acts irtason and treachery, What he most feared to-day was not the might" of the German Air Force or its mechanised army, but our atth column, and men who are still In positions of power and ought to have been removed
time at the
the Government was reconstituted.
Mr. Paton said he wanted to see those men. In position where they could not possibly betray this country In the way Marshal Petain betrayed France. L
Somaliland War Communique
**In
CAIRO, July 2. (Reuter), A.G.H.Q..communiqué, states: Somaliland our, patrols made a. suc- cessful maid on Buramo, Thero la nothing to report on other fronts."
LATEST
Son Back Further 'Late
MALAYA SUBSCRIBES FOR 14 BOMBERS
Italy came into the war with:about One aircraft pressing home its at-120, and is now probably wondering tack through a screen of bursting where she can get reinforcements for
those still. In netfon at the sheils was repeatedly hit. "I ex of the Suez Canal. The Hungarian cabinet met on but luckily it didn't," remarked the pected the tall of the turret to fall out Monday night for four hours, and rear-gunner of this aircraft, whose PEIPING, July 2 (Reuter).-A it is believed to have decided against wireless operator reported that the Japanese military spokesman ad- mobilisation and even considered the whole interior fuselage. was lit up by had agala penetrated inside Kaifeng, to avoid Incidents... the capital of Honen province.
Prior to the Cabinet meeting, the The aircraft reached its objective death of Marshal Balba is now was delivered on June 29 and peace interview with the German Minister
The Chinese attack, he declared, Hungarian Foreign Minister had an and the pilot dropped his bombs on mitted by Roine to be a mystery, ah was restored after the Chinese had at Budapest.
the docityard and saw heavy ex-nounces in official:: German- news Five persons were» reported plosions, followed within a few agency. In any event whatever killed and any injured, includ- Colonial Air Fleet Of 200 Machines been "annihilated" inside the city
minutes by a huge outbreak of fire caused his plane to crash in flames it ing seven children, when a bomb walls,S
which was still visible when the crew was not in an aist
(battle: with British fell on a town in north-east on June 30,
BUCHAREST, July 2 (UP) is of the crippled raider were 05 miles planes 30, the Japanese losing 20 authoritatively reported at 70 away on the homeward journey.
A curious
us post-script to a Romo England to-night. dead and 97 wounded. ::
The last attack. by the Chinese was they invaded Rumanian territory be
Hungarian soldiers were killed when
Four Direct Hitradio announcement was that Mar-
slint Balbo's
0's will was found in the on April 23 when a force of 3,000 tween Satul Mara and Halmeu For nearly an hour the balticably wreckage of the plane. No explana- strong stormed the city and engaged It is understood that the Hungarian and dockyard were continuously at tion a given how the will man the Japanese garrison in street fight-dead will remain where they fell-be-tacked by successive units of the tó, aurvive after the plané, had comi- fore the Rumanian ambush until a strong raiding force. Four direct pletely burned agit out or why the neutral commission investigates. hits on the Scharnhorst and on the Marshal should be carrying his will
dock were claimed by one aircrafi.“ with him on his last journey. Meanwhile, travellers from Galatz Another, gliding down to within assert, that. 300 dock workers were 2,000 feet of the dock, dropped three UP JEWS killed during the rioting due to the of the lienviest bombs which burst In
Bessarabian decupation. However, a row across the battleship and start LONDON, July 2 (Reuter)ho this report has not yet been confirmed fires on the ship and on the adgo rounding up of foreign and native ed Jews in Italy is continuing according The anti-aircraft fire came unem- Exchequer, sed in the House of
of the docks.
The plot of
of Uils aircraft-said;
LONDON, July: 24(Router) Gir Ro the Jewlan telegraph agency,
Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the „This agency states that it is now LONDON;July
(Reuter) fortably close
but as we were not hit, believed that the round-up, Include "Reuters" Lobby Correspondent I made a second run. In the fret, 1 Ceremonis today that up to: als all foreign Jews and all Jews who learns that it is now unlikely that the was off the target and did not drop been made to the Government free morning offers of: (£0,760,080 had were deprived of their Italian citizen- Prime Minister will make a ataleany, bombs I could see the Scharn-of inter during the war ships under the radial laws in Sep Iment before the early part of next horst porfectly as we came over various other offers moreover had AN Turn to Page 5. Third Colum „been faciented, to him:
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Houses and a school were damaged.
so far as is known only one raider appeared over the town and it dropped only one bomb.;
The Injured received prompt' treat- The Ministry of Aircraft Production | Malayan, aircraft after prominent mont at the casualty clearing station, told "Reuters" air correspondent to place names such - da); Singapore, while A.R.PI. workers had many day at the scheme outlined rester Penang, etc. Naturally the planes, offers of 'nsklstance, olet me kn day, hitherto uncompleted in detall, will not curry their named into battle..
The population
romained calm, but the next stage would be to find. We do not want the ecémy to die- out in which RAF- squadrons tinguish and, perhaps mako į capital Colonial personnel are serving.in out of the origin of my "cha shat order that aircraft can neitar as
LONDON, July 2 (Reuter)-Malaya, has 14 bombers in the Colonial Air Fleet of 200 aircraft ready for service. “
No August Bank Holiday
oficially announced that August bank LONDON, July 2 (Reuter) -- It is
holiday, har been tartale4.2000
possible, be attached': to them and Miles Me
mabnes by pilots and gunners from a la tiot known up to now whather.. the different colonies concerned there bre sufficient personnal from
Malaya" serving in the RALF. A spokes part of the Ministry said. Public there have so ✨ • Planes To Be Christened gang all the aircraft" towards, which
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