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"Attacks Will Become More Ferocious Each Day,” Says
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Berlin Report
GERMANS CONTINUE
CONTINUE MASS
MASS RAIDS ON BRITAIN: ANOTHER 39 DOWN
Round Trip of Pacific
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
HONOLULU, Aug. 12 (UP). -The California Clipper, carrying 13 guest newsmen, în- cluding Mr. Roy Howard, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Scripps-
Belisha Wants Army Of 100 Divisions.
INVASION. OF NAZI-OCCUPIED TERRITORY URGED
Howard News Agency and LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter),The creation of an army Steve Richarda, of the Detroit | several millions strong was suggested by Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, office of the "United Presa", | former Secretary for War, in a speech at Devonport this evening. departed for Canton Island at He said that we should plan to strike at the enemy in terri- 6.40 a.m., to-day on the second tories he has occupied. It was possible that only thus should leg of a trip which will include we bring the war to a successful end.
The New Zealand, Australia, Dutch
project should con-
East Indies, Singapore, Hong- template the creation of at least SWEDEN FACING
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kong and Manila from where 100. divisions, equipped in they will return to the United | fashion improving upon Stater by Clipper.
recent experience and provided From Auckland the party with its own air arm. travels by British planes.
TROOPS MASS IN
•
BALKANS
The present Incompleteness of our industrial mobilisation should not be tlerated for a moment longer. We could not beat Germany with 800,000 unemployed.
Our Economic Task
Our economic task was to recrui In vedy fully all available pro- ductive capacity. The wutput of goods for consumption should be the; lowest
the with compatible dispensable quirements
people.
of
in-
the
Expert trade should be kept at a mundiman level which, supplementing
Tension Not Yet our other means of payinent, could
Relieved
SPECIAL TO, THE "TELEGRAPH"
Get the cost of our necessary im-
poitations.
The whole of the rest of the indus
trial machine should be concentrated BUCHAREST, Aug. 12day and night on the output of war
(Domei)-Turkey, the
Soviet Union and Bulgaria
the three countries vitally concerned in the Balkans, are quietly massing troops at strategic points around Dardanelles, in Bessarabia, and along the Bulgo-Turkish frontier, well-informed quarters report.
production.
POOR HARVEST
LONDON. Aug. 12 (Reuter). Sweden's harvest is very
poor, de- res Moscow Radlo, adding: "This especially the case on the island of Gotland, an important harvesting centre, where crops are the worst for 70 years owing to the drought."
N-W Frontier "SEVERAL HUNDRED" NAZI Fight: Heavy PLANES IN LATEST
Casualties
one
SIMLA, Aug. 12 (Reu- ter).It is officially an- nounced that Captain H.L.V. Russell and Indian other rank were hilled, 14 Indian other ranks were wounded and one is missing in a recent engagement with hostile tribes on the Валли- Miranshah Road on the North-west 'Frontier.
The engagement took place last Wednesday in the village of Tappi.
The enemy are believed to have lost five killed and · seven wounded.
ATTACK OVER WIDE AREA
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
ALTHOUGH NOT ON THE EXTENSIVE SCALE OF SUN- DAY'S RAIDS, WHEN SIXTY GERMAN AND TWENTY-SIX R. A.F. MACHINES WERE BROUGHTT DOWN, GERMAN CONTINUED THROUGHOUT
ATTACKS ON · BRITAIN YESTERDAY.
The first wave of German raiders came over at 3 a.m., and successive waves were reported throughout the day.
SPITHEAD, PORTSMOUTH, AERODROMES IN KENT: (AND SUSSEX AND SHIPPINNG IN THE CHANNEL WERE THE MAIN OBJECTIVES YESTERDAY.
APPROXIMATELY 39 GERMAN MÄCHINES HAD BEEN BROUGHT DOWN BY 4 P.M. NINE BRITISH MACHINES ARE MISSING. THE
NAVY BRING DOWN GERMANS ADMIT THE LOSS OF SIX MACHINES, CLAIMING THAT
FIVE NAZI
NAZI PLANES
LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter).-Five German planes were brought down by the Navy yesterday.
This news was contained in no Admiralty communique issued to-night, stating:
"With reference to the communique issued earlier to-day, information is ¡now received that Ave.enemy aircraft were shot down by anti-aircraft fire during An netion between His
S. America's Majesty's ships and enemy aircraft
"Fuehrer"
Is Arrested
May Be Deported By Argentine Govt.
yesterday.
"The first enemy aircraft was shot down by H.M.S. Windsor. ILM. trawler Edwardian shot down the second.
Accurate A.A. Fire "Anti-aircraft fire from the ships was so Intense and so accurate that I was impossible to state with cer- tainly which vessels shot down the other three. It is most probable that; the Edwardian and the trawler Peter
Turkey has concentrated 350,-
NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (Reu-Carey each scenunted for at least 000 men around the Straits of Bosphorus and Dardanelles and ter)-According to the Buenos one of them." in Eastern Thrace.
There was no loss of life in the Aires correspondent of the "New The novemint
York Times," Arnule Fuhrmann, Windsor or the Peter Carey." of troops was particularly heavy at Istanbul where the so-called Fuchrer of South traffle was continually being stopped America, was arrested on Sun- for long hours. Turkish mobilisation day night at Concordia, which is is believed to aim at the securing of the straits against Italy and the a border point on the Uruguay Soviet Union.
River.
The arrest was made at the request) Bulgaria is said to have massqu 100,000 troops along the Turco- of the Buenos Aires Police, Bulgurian frontier as a precautionary It is expected that the Argentine | measure.
Government will order the deporte- Meanwhile, the Soviet forces with tion of Fuhrmann as it has ordered ut the deportation of Karl Arnold, who their headquarters established Kishinev in Bessarabia, Imve was accused of being u prominent stationed 15 divisions of infantry, 5 Nazi Secre! Police agent. divisions of cavalry, and 1,300 ar- moured cars and tanks and others.
Along the Prut River, the Soviet are reported to have set up formid- able defence works. The Soviets at present have two torpedo boats and four patrol ships on the Prut River.
Nazi Aviators Captured
Farmer And Motorist
Secure Prisoners LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter). Suffering from bad wounds in the leg, one of the crew of a German plane who made a
Plan To Scize Uruguay
No Activity
In Desert
Italian Operations Held Up
12
CAIRO, Aug.
{Router), ---A communique issiled to-day states that there is nothing to report from the western desert.
German Aerodromes Plastered With Bombs
The R.A.F.
Keep Up
Fine Work
23 BRITISH MACHINES WERE DOWNED,
Anti-aircraft gunfire accounted for five of the German machines; the rest were shot down in aerial combat. ATTACK ON PORTSMOUTH
The attacks on Portsmouth were launched by large fleets of German bombers but it is officially announced that the invaders achieved very little success in their attacks on the great naval dockyard.
Some damage was caused to R.A.F. 'dromes in Kent and Sussex. -An-eye-witness;-describing-raids-by-two-waves-of-bombera-which--appeared-
over a south-east coast town shortly after the luncheon hour, said:
"I saw about thirty Junkers come roaring down.
"Five of them were destroyed. Our A.A. guns put up a terrific barrage and one of the bombers had its tail completely shot off, dived straight down, behind some houses.
"About twelve Germans bailed out of their machines." In the raids along the
LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter) south-eastern coastal
-An
Air
stake the fores, communique the German raiders dropped Kent, Sussex, Hants
of
that high-level bombing
enemy aerodromes was heavy calibre bombs and carried out on Sunday.
considerable damage was
Enemy-occupied airfields at Dinal done. and Cuen were attacked and a sca-
plane slipway at Brest was damaged.
The Guernsey airport was bombed,
ayam
A Coastal Command aircraft, white
Happily, casualties
were light.
One bomb fell in a railway station yard, damaging a signal
school
And Dorset Raided
urs recormaissance off the French box and injuring the signal-man But Damage And Casualties
coast, shot down an enemy fighter into the sea.
Oil The Main Objective Oil was again the mam objective of the bomber aircraft last night. A In the Sudan and Palestine, there synthette oil plant at Dortmund blew During the recent investigation of is also no activity to report, Nazi activities by the Committee of
up with
a violent explosion and In Somaliland, no operations are plant at Castron Rauxel was fred on. the Uruguan Congress, & document reported and the enemy have made
Pionts at Gelsenkirchen and Wanne for military nu advance. oulting the plans seizure of Uruguay
In Kenya, reports of reconnuissance Eickel were also heavily bombed.
Other aircraft attacked an oil depot Jat Cherbourg, where tanks were set
on fire.
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German
LATEST
colony, was found in Fuhrmana's units Indicate that the enemy ure possession. Fultzmann admitted that holding Dobel. the plan was in his hand-writing bul contended that it was only a joke.
The correspondent addis that though the German Minister in Uruguay has issued a statement dis- owning Fuhrmann og on Argentine citizen of weak mentality who should hat be taken seriously, correspon- dence seized by the Uruguayan Palice showed that he was one of the most powerful Nazi leaders In Uruguay and in constant cofnmunication with Nazi leaders in Germany.
parachute descent on a farm in Steadiness On the
south-eastern England 10-Jay, was kept covered by double barrel gun by farm employeca and Inter handed over to the, Police,
Another of the crew jumped from the machine into the sea and was drowned...
Stock Exchange
LONDON, Aug. 12, (Reuter).—The Stock Exchange to-day was steady thougl trading was quiet.
Egyptian bonds were notably firm despite international uncertainties.
A passing 'motorist, who saw the dilt-edged koldings falled fully to descent. on the farm loaded his maintain their infini gains while revolver en route to the spot, search-Industrials moved narrowly,
ed for the injured man. After find- Kaffles hardened on the last session ing him, the motorist took him home on favourable, reaction to a record and gave him brandy before handing output of gold in July.
him over to the Police.
Wall Street was quietly steady,
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· Farther Lata: Nows
Military objectives at Dusseldorf, Wanne Elckel, Hattingen and Dort- mund were also attacked, and Hamme and Soest received their usual visit.
In all these operations, three of our [alreraft were lost.
Crow's Report
Other bombs fell in a playground.
Onc
Four bombs were dropped another part of the same area, ploughed up a tennis court, another into the garden of a colinge and the burst a water main; the third dropped fourth ripped off the side of a house. Over Wide Area
As
reports of the raids-con- tinue to pour in from widely separated points, it becomes evident that the Germans are again em- ploying several hundred. planes, Relays of British fighters are con- tinually taking off to give battle. Derlin's,
version of
of Monday's ralds state that the intense attacks on Britain which began on Sunday ure being continued with equal ferocity.
is only the beginning," Naz! cles boast, and add that the attack:| LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter)-The will become more ferocious cach day. crew of one the Air Force air DNB reiterates, the claim that the craft which bombed the synthetic oil
Are Comparatively Slight
LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter).The Admiralty, Air Ministry munique saying that enemy bombing attacks, which began over and Ministry of Home Security have issued a joint com- the Kent coast this morning, were later extended to the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth, where large forces were employed.
AIR DUEL
OVER TOWN
Spitfires Dofcat Messerschmitts LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter)
bombers and fighters raided a Ports-south-east coast town to-night
but little damage was Cone
plant at Dortmund lust night report attacks mark the "Arst step in GerA force of about 70 German
superiority" mon air
Reporting on the raid on
ed on their return that they had witnessed an exceptionally violent
Air Ministry mouth, DNB states that the naval explosion, states the
base, was attacked by three groups of news service.
An early raider at midnight planes, which bombed munitions and dropped four bombs on the oil plant mine depots, wharves and oli tanks und a big blue flash followed. There
39 Nazis Destroyed was a violent explosion and even LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter)-An though they were lying at several Air Ministry communique states that thousand fest, the crew of the bomber in to-day's air engagements round could hear it above the rear of the our coasts, the total number of enemy engines which usually drowns the aircraft so for known to have been noise of explosions;
destroyed is 30, A large fire followed the explosion. Nine of our ghters are missing.
Burning Briskly, maj
A half-hour attack by several NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (Reuter)-A bombers just before midnight left the British liner arrived here today with Turn to Page 5, Fourth Column 162. British children aboard.
Many bombs fell in open country Another nir baille was fought over and others in the sea. a south-east copst town carly in the evening after bombs had been heard exploding some distance away.
At Least Two Down Spitres could be seen high up in sky engaging about 20 Messerschmitts and they accounted for at least two.
the
The attack on His Majesty's dockyard met with little success,
Some bombs were dropped on
the outskirts of the dockyard
area, setting fire to a store and
causing minor damage to jetty.
a
Two small harbour service craft were damaged and subsequently saak. In other parts of Portsmouth, a railway station was hit and a slumber of buildings, including a brewery, were set afire.
Casualties were caused, including some deaths, but these were not numerous having regard to the large number of bombs, dropped."
Church. Damaged
In the Isle of Wight, a church and some houses were damaged and a few people were injured.
Later reports have also been re- ceived on attaclul on the coasts of Kent and Sussex, Bombs were dropped at a number of points and slight damage was, caused to several RA,F, acro- dromes.
Some houses and other civillan property were also hit.
After bursts of machine-gun fire. one German plane came roaring over Casualties in this area were very Turn to Paga S, Fourth Column Turn to Page 5, Fourth Column