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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
3 Italian
July 8, 1940.
Not Fighting Cheated
To Make
Submarines Millionaires U-Boat:
Sent To
The Bottom
Daring Attacks By R.A.F. Machine CAIRO, July 7 (Reuter)
Further details of recent successful actions by the R.A.F. against Italian submarines in the Mediterranean are just publish cd,
A.E.U. CHIEF Now Loses
MR. JACK TANNER, in his presidential address to the No-
ilonal Committee of the Amal- His
gamated Engineering Union, at Morecambe, said that the workers were not prepared to
Ship
FOUR days after war
give labour, make sacrifices, broke out Captain - Hugh carry the burden, to make this Roberts outwitted a U-boat country safe for capitalism. and shook it off after a three- "are not battling amid are and fury
"The men at the front," he said, hour chase. to make more millionaires, depressed areas. and starving peoples."
He described the war na ca- gineers' war-n machine war with a
A flying-bool on patrol sighted avengenace." submarine periscope and delivered d dive-bombing niinck.
"We shall be tried and tested to
For this exploit he was decorated with the O.B.E.
Recently Captain Roberts" luck was out:
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boat released special bombs, two of and understanding," he said..
The Sying the utmost of our courage, capacity other ship, the 5,406-ton Glas which fell abaft the conning tower, and immediately the submarine's
nose rose sharply to the surface. MEDICAL BOARD was sunk by enemy action.
After this, vessel slid downwards vertically.
An oil patch rose and spread to several hundred yards.
same
Submarino Capsizes On the following day the flying bont sighted another submarine on the surface and promptly made a dive-bombing attack, making several hits with special bombs.
The submarine capsized and some of the crew were thrown into the water
TRICK ALLEGED
Two Men Missing
Ten men were remanded at, Bowly Merseyside men-two are missing Of the Charges'. crow of 84-most- Street recently charged with con-and the remainder have been Innded spiring together and with other pe-at a North-West coast purt, slons of the National Service Act and burns are in hospital. sons unknown to defeat the provi They were:
Eight men suffering from scalds Jack Brack (20), salesman, Burton pool-the bo'sun, Arthur Riley, and The missing men are both of Liver- Brick Lane, E.; Maurice Breman Hugh Gribbon. Road, Brighton; Joseph Barnett (24), saved by his shipmates, who pushed ravis (22), machine operator, King's) The bo'sun was within 2ft: of being The flying-boat descended and
Inbourer, Medin Road, Hackney; rescued three lieutenants and a pettymer, Lynton Road, West Acton, W.;
Sydney Israel Barnett
trim-an aar out to him, but he was too (23), ostcer
exhausted to dutch it and vanished. While returning, the flying boat Bent mort (10); Co
Bert Aur
Auronberg
The fireman was apparently trap- of Gilda Cres sighted another submarine on
ped below Conny Rifkov not get to the deck when the boats by the explosion and could surface, but having no bomb left, it (57), traveller, Commercial Street. E were lowered. dived low and machine-gunned the Street, Stoke Newington; James Boul-developing a heavy list soon after Samuel Rifkov (23), taller Old Hill The ship sank in a short time after conning tower and bridge with all its
ton,
guns.
After a second similar attack,
submarine crash-dived.
the
cent.
(23), amusement caterer, no fixed an explosion. The survivors were thehune; George Old (31), driver. Dry-picked up by a vessel after being
sdale Road, Lewisham; and Louis nearly two hours in the lifebents. Barnett, labourer, of Hampton Rond, Forest Gate.
Four monkeys, belonging to mem- When Brack
bers of the crew, were lost. asked for bail "on; grounds of health" Inspector Salis- of Liverpool, who was at the wheel, Twenty-two-year-old Harold Jones, bury, objecting, said: "He is de- said, "We had the boats down in a Anitely a Grade 4 man who has been few moments and piled in, assisting impersonating other
before the injured as best we could. medical boards,""
Messerschmitt Fighters
Brought Down
Nazis Pay Dearly For Raids
LONDON, July 7 (Reuter), In addition to two bombers off the south coast to-day, it is pro- bable that two Messerschmitt fighters were demolished in dogfight over the English Chan- nel between British fighters and Ave Messerschmitts.
One' German was seen to topple to the sea with smoke pouring from the engine, while another, tralling sunoke, dived out of the combat, rapidly los- Ing height until it disappeared.
Turned And Fled
Then the enemy formation turned and fled.
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It is ascertained that the ralders crossed the const at several points before and after down and resumed the raiding in the afternoon without, however, any apparent result.
Apart from two killed and some injured in south-cast England yester- day evening, as already reported, t The authorities
Is learnt that a few deaths resulted erecting sandbag-walls around Gov-months. from a raid In the south-east-yester-ernment--- buildings, including thei day.
headquarters of the Volunteer De- German Claims
fence Carps, the Colonial Secretariat: LONDON, July 7
(Reuter)-A and the supreme Court, German High Command communi- que claims that an 8,000-ton mer- chant vessel was sunk in Falmouth harbour by bombs while a 6,000-ton vessel was sunk by a torpedo boat off the Isle of Wight.
In the North Sea, it claimed, two. British destroyers were so severely damaged as must be reckoned total losses and a 10,000-ton cruiser was, severely damaged.
British attacks on north Germany are said to have caused "no impor- tant damage."
Other Losses
LONDON, July 7 (Reuter). The Air Ministry announces that two Dornier bombers were shot down in the Chunnel to-day by Hurricane nghters.
A third Dornier engaged was last seen in dificulties and may not have reached its base.
Further Raids
LONDON, July 7 (Reuter).—An Air Ministry communique states; thai there were more enemy planes near the Channel coast this after.. noon but anti-aircraft defences were active and no more important at- tacks developed.
were
destroyed юще casualties,
Rome bouses and there wero including a number
of persons
killed when bombs fell in coastal districts in the west country. An enemy fighter was shot down off the coast this afternoon by unti- aircraft fre.
Latest Report
LONDON, July 8 (Router)Tha Air Ministry announced that IAF. fighters shot down three enemy figh- ters off the south-east coast last evening,
One of our aircraft was lost,
NEW RAIDS ON MALTA
LONDON, July 7 (Reuler)An Italian communique claims that large fires were started in Malta yesterday. It also states that three Brit planes were brought down when they attacked Tobruk furi,
It admits that two empty merchant vesseln in harbour were hit.
It la stated that British naval units caused slight damage to military equipment in an attack on Port Bardin,
KING HAAKON ·
Berlin, July 7. Authorised quarters here 10-day declared Germany possesses no on- clal Jaformation regarding the over- sens reports that Norway is forming a new Government to replace King Hankon's.
However, they pointed out that recent Press reports from Oslo in- dicate that moves are afoot whereby the Storting will again function, Im- of a Govern-
iment the formation
"Steps designed to increase Nor- why's autonomy are progressing" they said, but explained at the same time that the Nuzi gauletier, Herr Terboven, will remain at Oslo. For the past week the German Press has been asserting that King Haakon forfeited his rights to the throne when he fled.-United Prest.
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