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HOW THE R.A. F. ATTACKS ITS OBJECTIVES
No. 18202
FOUNDED 1851 -拜敢 號五十月七英港香。 MONDAY, JULY 15, 1940.. 日十初月六 SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS
"We Would Rather See London in Ashes & Ruins
WINSTON
STIRRING
TO THE
CHURCHILL'S
BROADCAST
DEMOCRACIES
NO ONE who heard the broadcast by the Premier, Mr. Winston Churchill, in the early hours of this morning could have failed to have been stirred by the message he conveyed to the free peoples of the world.
Each word was a word of hope. Each sentence breathed confidence.
It will be a long and hard war, and the great Nazi assault may come to-night. It may come next week, perhaps, said Mr. Churchill, it may never come.
"WE SEEK NO TERMS"
"Be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms,” said the Premier.
"We shall tolerate no parley. We may show mercy-we shall ask for none.
"Here in our island we are in good health and in good heart.”
We may be sure, Mr. Churchill continued, that there is a plan, perhaps built up over years, for destroying Great Britain which, after all, has the honour to be Hitler's main and foremost enemy. "All I can say is that any plan for invading Britain which Hitler made two months ago must have had to be entirely recast in
order to meet our new position," he added.
Roosevelt BRITISH
DESTROYER
Expected Is SUNK To Poll 90% Vote
IS
"Escort". Hit By A Torpedo
-President Roosevelt was yacht-
LONDON, July 14 (Router), An Admiralty communique an- CHICAGO, July 14 (Reuter).nounces the loss of the destroyer, ing on the Potomac River to-day Escort was lost in the western The communique says that the as the Democratie Convention Mediterranean. She was hit by machine put the finishing touches to its programme which & torpedo and damaged. She opens here to-morrow at noon, subsequently foundered while in the tow,
but his detachment from political sceno was more apparent
Modern Warship than real because his closest November, 1934. She was a 1,330- The Escort was completed in political associate and.. personal ton ship, with a normal complement friend, Mr. Harry Hopkins, is of 145. She carried four 4.7 in. guns, handling his affairs at the Con- and seven small guns. She also had vention.
eight 21-in, torpedo tubes, and two Furthermore a special telephone
depth charge throwers. connecting Mr. Hopkins with the White House has been installed.
A
90. Par cent. Vote Expected
movement which has been spreading throughout the country for months with at least the President's passive consent is gathering momen- ium which, by Thursday, will pro- bably give President Roosevelt nearly 90 per cent. of the votes in the first ballet.
nomination.
U.S.
Offer To Evacuees
Ship To Take Kiddies
Across Atlantic
NO SUBMISSION
An air attack on a column of enemy transport moving through a town In France is seen from the air in this RAF, photograph. Some 180 vehicles are passing from East to West through a town. Part of the main road la obscured by a pali of smoke, Bombs are bursting to the S. W., of the town and bombs are falling towards the railway line,
salvo of nine
"Should the invader come to Britain, there Week-End Of Raids On British Coast Ports
will be no passive lying down of the people, no submission before him as we have seen, alas, in other countries.
We shall defend every village, avery town, every city.
"The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army, and we would rather see London laid in ashes and ruins than it should be tamely and abjectely enslaved."
Mr. Churchill's speech in full, cabled by "Reuter," is
as follows:
EFFECT OF
"All we can say is that any plan for invading Britain which Hitler made two months ago,
NAZIS MEET THEIR MATCH
IN TERRIFIC AIR DUEL
LONDON, July 14 (Reuter).-A terrific aerial battle miles above the Channel off the south-east coast of England took place this afternoon.
When enemy raiders approached the const, A.A. guns opened fire. Then British fighters roared into action and the sky was filled with white blobs from bursting shells and the rattle mingled with the roar R.A.F. Bombers Have Busy Week-End of engines...
An eye-witness states that the battle began when German dive-
CHINA WAR must have had to be entirely bombers attacked a convoy off
Hongkong Company Reduces Capital
That the company had decided not to invest any more of their
funds in the furtherance of the
recast in order to meet our new the shore...... positions.
"We must prepare not for the sum-. mer but for the winter, not only for 1941 but for 1842, when the war will. I trust, take a different form from the defensive in which it has hitherto been bound.
Four German bombers are now believed to have been shot down by British fighters which broke up the attack, and drove the ralders back across the Channel.
with
Blowing Germany's Depots Sky-High
LONDON, July 14 (Reuter) An Air Ministry bulletin states that more barge concentrations at Bruges and St. Fierre, a few miles north of Bruges, were destroyed to-day when Blenheim bombers of the Coastal Command renewed their
The Blenheims dropped many The battle ended with a Spitare incendiary bombs and scored WEEK OF
Pilot Bales Out "During the last fortnight the British Navy, in addition to blockad-diye towards the sea
One German bomber was seen to Ing what is left of the German Fleet pouring from it. The pilot boled out imposed upon it the sad duty of pat- parachuted down to the sea. and chasing the Italian Fleet, has had at a height of about 1,000 feet and attacks. ting effectually out of action for the duration the capital ships of the chasing two bombers out to sca. French Navy.
It
he
+
AIR RAIDS
company's objects owing to the existing hostilities in China, which had hampered the com- pany's activities and decreased its business, was one of the |reasons advanced by Mr. D. J. N.
is believed that this Spitfire direct hits on the barges, and Anderson, counsel for Messrs.
These under the armistice-terms brought down one of the bombers started many fires on the canal INTENSIVE If he refused to accept this, he National Maritime Trade Union, the ing the hearing of an application in the power of Nazi Germany. The
LONDON, July 14 (Reuter).--The Kwong Sang Hong Limited, dur: signed in the ratiway could at Cam- and then went in pursuit or the bank.
plogne, would have been placed with-other. would be the first man In United American Union of Seamen on Al-
One, pilot was picked up by n States history to refuse a presidential lantic runs, has offered to provide a for a reduction of capital of the transfer of these ships to Hitler would
concentration of searchlights; Lagless Pilot's Achievement crew without pay if a ship is sent company before Sir Atholl Mac Britain and the United States. We, have endangered the security both of According to one of the most acute from Amerien to carry away children Gregor at the Supreme Court therefore, had no choice but to act as was a Dornier 17 which was shot
LONDON, July 14 (Reuter)One in the middle of the ring of light,
bombed that too, his bombs bursting of Germany's week-end air losses political observers, the President will evacuees from Britain.
this morning.
Dutch Harbour Bombed
Britain Sees Shape we did and to act forthwith. Our down into the sea by a Hurricane accept on the assumption that the New Zealand is disappointed at the draft is really spontaneous and will postponement
Mr. Anderson said the of The
Children was incorporated in Hongkong in
company painful task is now compléjed. "sacrifice" himself to run again
The gunner of another Blenheim
Of Things To Come "Although the unfinished bottle fighter piloted by a legless pliat,fred down the beam of a searchlight | be-Evacuation Scheme, but Mr. Peter 1910, and carried
Flying Omeer Douglas couse, Arslly, it is the will
business as ship, Jean Bart, still rests in a Moros Stewart Bader, who was on and extinguished it. the Fraser, the Prime Minister, said to manufacturers of and dealers
Robert
LONDON, July 14 (Router). people; secondly, the New
in can harbour and there threatened by Mr. Wendell Willie: of hospitality will hold good when Brand" and all kinds of
Toulon and in accident nine years 180.
Much damage was done by Hudson-One of the most Intensive and thirdly, his experienced hand can the scheme is resumed.
Derfumes, various French ports all over the
during the night when a fight bomb-began has just ended, although guide the country through an inter- He revealed that New Zealand has toilet articles, medicines, chemicals world, these are not in condition pr
1 British. Losses
ed the Dutch harbour, of Harlingen. the raids are nothing like what of a character to disarrange our pre- LONDON July 24 (Router). Turn to Page 5, Fourth Columns now placed more units at Britain's and other preparations.
His bombs exploded in warehouses disposal than can be used at the $600,000 Reduction. Sought.
ponderance of naval powers long. Later reports show that three British The original capital was $200,000,
therefore, as they make up attempt ghters were altogether lost in re but had been increased on four fur-
we shall not moles! them in arid count yesterday. any way! France's national Day. there is a reception at the French $100 eachat resolution was passed by are concerned, has come to no end.
Usually 100,000 divided lato 24,000 shares of |
That melancholy phase in our
In the course of these attacks, 12 ་ *་ relations with France, so far as we others damaged."
caemy aircraft werk destroyed · and Consulate-General but the ceremony A special. was abandoned this year.
Turn to Page 5, Fourth Column
Costly Attack On Shipping LONDON, July 14 (Reuter)--An
of
ол
Deal is day that he is convinced that offers Florida water of the "Two Girls of French warships at se, a number serobatics nee at Hendon before his aircraft of the Coastal Command weeks of air raids since the war
Nazi Order Defied
U.S. Continues... Its Strong Stand
Tho
LONDON, July 14 (Reuter) United States Department of State is still considering the German order that all American and other diploma- tie missions clear out of Belgium, Netherlands, Norway and Luxem- bourg by to-day. ́ ́
moment.
་
and on the quay. As he turned away, they may become.
he could see explosion after explosion Gorman bombers and fighters have
There was no local celebration of ther ocenators until it was now $2,return to porta in Germany, and pelling enemy attacks on our shipping in the warehouses which were already been coming over in bigger numbers
What Nazis Will Meet
If They Try Invasion
-
flames. The blaze was still visible when the aircraft was woll out to sea,
Widespread Raids On Reich
Two of our bombers failed to re- turn.
the
than before.
LATEST
were
When Mr. Winston Churchill spoke about the evacuation of Chunkirk, he sald that the RAF, were bringing the enemy down at the ratio of tuce or Turning To The Future,
An Air Ministry communique says own. He said that if Britain
four German planes to one of Our "Let us turn, therefore, to the Air Ministry communique states that that on Saturday evenlag aircraft. of attacked in bigger, numbers, he was future. To-day is: the 14th of July, enemy aircraft which were attacking the Bomber Command attacked vari- the national festival of France. A shipping in the Straits of Dover early cus objectives in northwest Germany. Turn to Page 5, Fourth Column year ago in Paris I watched a stately in the evening were intercepted, and parade down Champs Elysee of the five of them one fighter and four French Army and the French Empire. bambers were shot down into the Last night bombers continued the Who could foresee what the course sen by our fighters.
attacks. Objectives included the of a yead would bring? Who cha In addition on enemy bomber was docks at Hamburg, Bremen and foresee what the course of... other shot down by anti-aircrati Aro. 1
Wilhelmshaven and Emden, the air- years; will bring?
One of our fighters was lost, not LONDON, July 14 (Reuter)-Measures to wipe out German
craft factories at Bremen, Délchsha It is believed in Washington that, forces trying to invade Britain were referred to in a broadcast
7th Naxi Pland Down
gen;
refineries at Monheim and oli the Germans want to push ahead talk on Saturday night by Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the
and comfort when we stand-in 'awa with their plunder and persecution
before the unfurling scroll of hue
LONDON, July 14 (Reuter) Ahe broth, & supply factories at Greven
Ministry states that it is con-
Gelsenkirchen and Hamburg, without close foreign scrutiny.
Admiralty.
• Britain is still handling 2,200,000
man destiny, and I proclaim the firmed that a second enemy fighter and goodyards at Hamm,
Omabruck
'SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH”. faith that some of newill, five to was shot down in this evening's en- and Scent,mis Naval dispositions were such, he tons of shipping each week at her
Fourteen enemy nerodromes in Japanese Navy has notified all SHANGHAI, July 15 (UP),Tho see a 14th of July when a liber ragement over the Straits of Dover. said, that they ensured the warmest. Successful attacks on ships in
ated France will once again re- This is the seventh enemy aircraft Holland and Germany were also at foreign Consulates that effective at The Germans are also irritated at reception for any seaborne Invading British convoys are sull only at, the
ratio of one In 081.
foton in ber greatness"and" in her destroyed in this engagement.
tacked, so frag midnight to-night, the Japanese are the presence of diplomats accredited forces.
The British Isles are
One of our bombers: on the way stili the mainer, and once again stand for- stage of our war effort and from the and the rights at mast
-ward ns-a- champion) of --trendpus
and Wenchow sectors, re- bast. from which we seek out and
LONDON, July 14 (Reuter) —His
aircraft returned: Bately;;"
all rights to detain any..! serves in those areas, and that destroy the enemy.
"When that day dawns, as down Majesty. the King has approved the will fight from the Dominions, the with comprehension and with kind- January next of Vice-Admiral Sir Although in the last, extremity wet will, the soul of France will turn extension of office for one year from
Japan will not assume responsbility time required for final victory will boness
Pilot Oficer John Harold Day for any damage to foreign properly much shorter If we continue to held Frenchwomen, wherover they
those Frenchmen and Hamphrey Walwyn as Governor and older son at Dr. and Mrs. Bernardi This isInterpreted: MA
another mayCommander-in-Chief of Newfound-Day, formerly of Kuala Lumpur has effort to cut off the supplies Turn to Page 5, Second Column land.
dled of wounds,
Chendung.
Nazis Irritated
to Governments in exile, deZINA The R.A.F. will give ample warning
Up to late to-night, the State of any such expedition. Department had not complied with the order...)
Blockade Attempts
The American Ambassadors in German attempts at blockade by Poland, France and Spain have been making Intensified attack on shipping holding a conference in Madrid over are only temporary and will not be the week-end.:
sustained.
this island.
**^ "Faith - is given to us can help
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JAPAN'S NEW OPERATIONS
shot down an enemy, fighter. All ing military operations in the-
vessels
to