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二拜禮·號六十月七英港香 TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1940.
Anticipating____ Hitler's Blitzkrieg
TERRIFIC ATTACKS ON 22 NAZI AERODROMES
WIDESPREAD HAVOC
IN NIGHT RAIDS
LONDON, JULY 15 (REUTER).—TWENTY- TWO ENEMY AERODROMES WERE BOMBED DURING THE PAST TWO NIGHTS, ACCORDING TO AN AIR MINISTRY COMMUNIQUE.
The communique adds: "Last night strong forces of R.A.F. bombers again attacked various objectives in Germany, including an aircraft fac- tory at Bromon, aircraft stores at Paderborn, cast of the Ruhr, and Diepholz, north-east of Osna- bruck, oil plants at Gelsenkirchen, oil refineries at Hamburg and Bromen, and goodsyards at Hamm and Soest.
Fires and Explosions
"Tires and explosions resulted and considerable` damage was done.
"Other forces of R.A.F. bombers attacked a number of aerodromes in Holland and north-west Germany.
“Aircraft of the Coastal Command last night attacked an
ail storage depot-al ̈Ghent and set overal tanks afire.
"From all these operations, two of our aircraft failed to
return."
London
.
To Be Reduced To Ashes
-Gayda's New-Threat-
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH
ROME, July 16 (Domel).— Germany and Italy have decided
to
serve Britain with a final warning, advising her to capitu- Inte, according to Gaydn, the Editor of the "Giornale d'Italia."
|
Cround Dofonces Attacked LONDON, July 15 (Reuter) —The
22 aerodromes and seaplane boues which were successfully attacked covered the whole of north-west
Germany and Holland, according to SHIPS FOR
an Air Ministry news service state- menl.
Anti-aircraft batteries and been bombed in the face of terrife fire and searchlights
HONGKONG
were machine-gunned EVACUEES
and put out of action,
Concrete runways had been hit and wrecked, hongars were set on Ore and machines were destroyed on the ground.
The success of these-attacks, -ihe. statement udis, is contributing effec- tively to a reduction of the striking power of the German air force
German Claims
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
BERLIN, July 15 (UP). The offical news agency reports that Ger- man bombing attacks on the night of July 15 were directed ut south
Ji Britain continues her England. Including the airport at "futile resistance" London will Ramsgate, a slipyard at Chatham, oil be reduced to ashes, a Nazi tanks at Avoumouth and the dynamite
works at Faversham. spokesman said in Berlin to-day, in reply to Mr. Churchill's speech.
The Warsaw Procedent
Coastal Casualtics SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
LONDON, July 15 (UP)-Three
"Mr. Churchill has said that every were killed and 12 injured in the village in the British Lales und every Gennan raids on the south coast to- street in London is strongly defended day, und that Britain is prepared to fight!
Meanwhile, the Air Ministry an- against any German invasion," the nounced that during the last 48 hours, spokesman added.
22 enemy airdromes were bombed by The precedent of Warsaw shows the R.A.F. that there can be no check to the German advances."
Last night the R.A.F. set fire and
Ships have been secured to take Hongkong people, now_in_the_Philippine. Islands, on to Australia.
The Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, Colonial Secretary, told the "Telegraph" this morning that the names and details of the ships concerned could not be divulged, but he expected the ships to arrive in Manila within a few days and to transport the 3,000- odd women and children cvacuated from this Colony to Australia.
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MORE EVACUATION PHOTOGRAPHS FROM MANILA
HELEN BENDALL, a young evacuee from Hongkong, clutches the only possession sho was allowed to take with her aside from a suitcase. Others in the picture aro Roy, Gordon and baby John Bendall in mother's arms. They are the family of Mr. J. A. Bendall of the P.W.D.
PEACE IN CHINA SAID TO BE CONDITION FOR CLOSING BURMA ROAD
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ·
LONDON, July 15 (UP).-According to statements made here to-day, Britain's WALKING DOWN THE gongway willingness to close the Burma Road for three months is conditional upon Japan from the Empress of Japan. An other group of Hongkong evacuees seeking to secure a broader settlement of the Sino-Japanese dispute which would landing in Manila.
result in a peace equitable to both countries.
TWO YOUNG EVACUEES get their first glimpse of a Filipino nurse, assigned to care for them after their arrival in Manila aboard the Empress of Japan.
GIVE BRITAIN ALL
damaged the Bremen aircraft factory: SUPPORT URGES
Gayda predicts that tho German the Paderborn and Diepholz aircraft and Italian Blitzkrieg against Britain warehouses; the Gelsenkirchen all
will be launched in simultaneous at plants at Hamburg and Bremen; the SENATOR BANKHEAD
tacks from both the North Sea and oil refineries at Hamm and Soest; the Atlantic, within a few days. the freightyards at Ghent and an oli Italy, he declares, will maintain storage depot in Holland. Several side-tracking operations in the aerodromes in northwest Germany norther Mediterranean and in were also bombed. eastern Africa In order to keep the British forces there immobilised.
Bullitt Returning
To America
#PECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” WASHINGTON, July 15 (UP) The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, said to-day that Ambassador William Bullitt is returning to Washington for consultations im- mediately.
The mutter of his return to France
will be discussed upon his
orrival.
There is some speculation here that ho will not return to France.
Little Enemy Activity LONDON, July 15 (Reuter)-The that there Ministry of Home Security announces was little enemy air netivity in south-west England and south Wales this afternoon and that a few bombs were dropped.
the damage done was slight.
No casualties were reported and
Soong As China Envoy, Report
SPECIAL TO
THE "TELEGRAPH"
Chicago, July 15 (UP),-"Great Britain stands alone against the hurricane of blitzkrieg. Hitler and Mussolini have sworn total annihilation;
China Can Still Fight
Sufficient Arms-For
Next Nine Months
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH",
LONDON, July 16 (UP)- Following the meeting last night |
"They have,, furthermore sworn sympathy for the British Common-between the Chinese Ambassa- eternal enmity against the so-called wealth in its struggle for life, but dor and the Under Secretary for decadent democracies.
that we should furnish every possible "That includes us!?! These words were used to-day by We must, too, realst to the death any celved
material assistance short of war. Foreign Affairs, Mr. Quo re- Senator John Bankhead during the compromise of democratie principles correspondents.
American nowspaper Demperalle Convention, at which he with these malignant disturbera of urged every possible support for world peace. We must not appease Britain in the war against Totall-the aggressor." torianism.
US. POLICY IN FAR EAST
Replying to charges that Britain is trying to coerce China to ↑ conference table with Japan, British authorities as- Borted that Britain would refuse to regard any Sino-Japanese [ peace-seltlement as satisfactory unless it was acceptable to both Chungking and Tokyo,
It is reported that the Japanese proposals for a settlement with China have been conveyed to Britain...
Must Do Mutual
CHINESE PROTEST
Says British Action. Is "Unfriendly".
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, July 16, (UP).--- The Chinese Ambassador lodged a sharp oral protest with Mr. A British statement on this says: R. A. Butler, Under Secretary "Britain will not submit any peace for Foreign Affairs, last night. proposals until both sides "Indicate He characterised the British offer their readiness to discuss a settle to restrict traffic on the Burns Rond ment, and Britain has so far received as a "most unfriendly act."
no indication from either side that
It is
is reported that Mr. Quo in- they are ready talk."
formed Mr. Buller that China con- It is understood that Mr. Winston sidered it was "adding Insult to Churchill intends to make a state-injury" to suggest that the three ment in the House of Commons en months'
during
Burma which the would be
be closed should be used
Tuesday regarding the Sino-Japanese Kolore prospects of a settlement
negotiations,
U.S. Reactions
to between China and Japan.
He asked the British Government Meanwhile, it has been authorita- to disavow the broadcast made by tively stated here that the United the Hon. Mr. Jones in Singapore.. States, after being Informed by Mr. Churchill is expected to make Lonton. raised no objection to a statement in the House of Com- Britain's offer to Japan to restrict mons to-night, clarifying Turn to Page-2, Fourth Column | Far Eastern policy.
Leaving H.K. For Battle Of Britain
New Zealander's Long Air Trip
To be at the Battle of Britain, a New Zealand sheep station
prepared to accept United States leaving Hongkong to-morrow on.
·He indicated that China was more owner from the backblocks is mediation than British, or at least the next hop of his £500 flying Fatoful Moment
preferred Joint Anglo-Amerlean. In trip from Sydney to England, by tercession. "We are assembled In a most fateful
Imperial Airways and Clipper. moment in the history of mankind,"
Can Fight On
He is Mr. Ralph Lowry, brother of he said..
He declared that byen if all foreign the well known New Zealand cricket "The sinister shadow of a SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH'*
čruči,
supplies to China were halted, China team's captain Tom Lowry, who led savage and ruthless despotism hangs WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuter) could continue to fight for a further the touring teams in England, WASHINGTON, July 15 (UP)-like a pall of doom on the demoer-The United States continues to time or twelve months. Sources close to Mr. T. V. Soong and tic. Biberty-loving peoples,
After flying from Sydney Mr. the Chinese Embasay have no know-
pursue a separate and Independent Nevertheless, the political, and Lowry arrived at Hongkong yester "Already the Juggernaut physical policy in the Far East, Mr. Cordell moral effects of Britain's restriction day by Imperial Airways plane from ledge of any officlul basis for the forces and brutal power of Hitler has Hull told Press representatives to of traffic along the Burma' route was Bangkok and will leave by Clipper local rumours that Mr. Soong will fald hands on freedom and sovereign- Brush exorts for peace between supplies were awaiting-transportation board a trans-Atlantic Clipper for
day, commenting on reports replace Mr..Hu Shih as Ambassador, ty.
& grave blow to Chinn. 01 NAIROBI, July 18 (Reuter)-An
10-morrow for San Francisco. After Fifteen hundred tons of medical flying across the United States he will The Chinese Embassy continued official communique says: "Our make no comment but said there and now France, lle in agony and the Shortly before the Press Con- transport has been Immobilised owing
"Eight small, defenceless nations, China and Japan. garrison In British Moyale, which has were no basis for the reports that ashes of totalitarian destruction,
to China from Rangoon but motor Lisbon, been surrounded for the last five Hu Hsili will soon go to China. Ho
ference, Mr. Cordall Hüll saw. Lord to the lack of petrol
"As I will rench London by July days withdrew last night according is now in Chicago observing the be expressed here, it would be that there is no indication that the Far five provinces are threatening forty 27," he told a "Telegraph" reporter "If overwhelming sentiment should Lothlon, the British Ambassador, but
20 I will be in time for the reported to plan and without incident."
Meanwhile, epidemics of malaria in German occupation attempt on July Democratie Convention.
We not only have the deepest Eastern situation was discussed, ·†million lives.
with a smile.
British Withdraw From Moyale
to
Britain's
O.A.C.'s Broadcast SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” SINGAPORE, July 18 (Domel) .-- The radio broadcast by the Acting (Governor, the Hon. Mr. S. W. Jones,
has created 2 considerable sen-. sation.
The broadcast was made from the Singapore station on Sunday. In it, Turn to Page 2, Third Column
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