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GERMAN GUNS IN FRENCH PORTS
ARE SHELLING COAST OF BRITAIN
BRITISH GUNNERS REPLY ACROSS THE CHANNEL
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY ENGLAND HAS BEEN BOMBARDED BY LAND ARTILLERY.
Following yesterday's bombardment of a convoy passing through the English Channel, German long; range guns at Calais and other French ports opened a bombardment against the British south-east coast ports
******* ¡at 9 p.m. (4 a.m. H.K.T.).
EGYPT READY FOR INVADERS
---War Minister SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAFN" CAIRO, Aug. 22 (Domei).-Indicating that Egypt is taking every pre- caution against the possi- bility of an Italian assault, the War Minister, MA Keissy, Pasha, disclosed. that Egyptian mobile divi- sions have already taken positions up strategic along the Egyptian fron- tiere.
He emphasized Egypt's intention of observing strict neutrality. He said that Egypt will not take the initiative "but if at- tacked, it will fight along- side its ally, Birtain."
The shella exploded on land with terrifle explosions, shaking buildings in the vicinity.
The gun fashes were easily visible across the Channel as they stabbed the sky in France.
Aritish coastal batteries took up the challenge and began bombarding the German gun pusillons shortly after the German bombardment be- gan.
Explosions Heard In London The German bombardment was still in progress at 11 pm, (0 a.m. [J.K.T.), Arthur Mennen, United
•Press
correspondent at a south-east 12 reported
Med by telephone
Fport.
G
A DORNIER FLYING PENCIL which crashed in a field' in southern England after
being shot down by fighters of the R.A.F. The fuselage of the Dornier was riddled with
As he spoke to the London office |-·| of "United Press" the explosions were j clearly audible over the telephone.
The initial report from "Neuters" stated that over a dozen shells fell on the south-east coast.
Watchers on the coast saw the gun flashes and heard the shells shrieking Through the air towards their ob- Jectivos.
subsequent explosions were described as "great."
German
"United Press" quotes sources in Berlin as stoting that the ♦♦ : bombardiñent AYUR not almed
JAPAN'S CHANGE IN POLICY Shaking-Up Her Diplomats
Lit
spreific targets but was merely for the purpose of "spotting objectives"}
bullet holes.
•
Vichy Threat: France Will Take Necessary Steps" Against Britain
Blockade of WOMEN FIGHT INCENDIARY BOMBS
Continent
Special to the "Telegraph” VICHY, Aug. 22-(UP),.-—
and giving the gunners target prac-Britain's refusal to lift the
tice.
Convoy Bombarded
blockade of France is an
Further reports continue to be re-act of hostility." reived regarding the earlier bom- bardment of a convoy passing through the Channel.
This declaration was
The fire from the German batteries) made in Vichy to-day by the was at the rate of ten rounds a|Petain Government's Minis-- mlaule, Between 80 and 100 shells ter for Foreign Affairs, M.
were fired at the convoy, but no ship was hit or damaged.
the
Paul Baudoin.
He announced that the British
The oficial communique on shelling, jointly issued by the Ad- Government has repiled to Vichy miralty and the Air Ministry, states WASHINGTON. Aug. 20
Smoke Screens Laid.
representations regarding the (UP)—Official circles here have "Shortly before noon to-day, one
blockade, after delaying its declined to comment on Japan's of our convoys in the vicinity of the answer for three weeks. diplomatic shakeup which is said Straits of Dover come under fire from to be the most extensive in const.
heavy guns mounted on the French Japanese history and is believed "Warships escorting the convoy at
It has refused to lift the blockade. "The French Government will take the necessary steps to ensure that the country will not suffer," declared M.
to presage a sharp change in the once laid smoke screens to conceal Baudouin. Japanese foreign policy under the conveal from the enemy.
The French Minister called the
he
the Matsuoka-Chashi combina close to the ships, no ship of
"Although some shells Tell fairly blockade "Inhuman." It WAB,
the tald, unworthy of a Christian coun- tion.
convoy or escort was hit or received y
Continuation of the blockade would
The Japanese Foreign Minister has damage. ordered home forty diplomats includ-tacked by enemy aircraft. No dam-warned M. Blaudoin.
The same convoy was Inter at-be "disastrous for those who apply it, ing five ambassadors, nineteen minis- ters, five counsellors and elevene was caused by this attack, and Tho Minister referred to Mr. consuls-general. The ambassadors the enemy was driven off by our Winston Churchill's speech In the Include those at Washington, Ankara, gunfire and fighter aircraft,
House of Commons.
France and Brazil.
"Our fighters shot down one enemy Political circles here profess to be aircraft during this action." perplexed by the move but some ("Reuter" and "United Press") Informed quarters belleve it is intend-
ed as a sensational gesture mainly to impress the Japanese public.
Changes Wero Expected Some important changes in the Japanese diplomatic corps were ex- pected as soon as Mr. Matsuoka took office as Foreign Minister in view of his energetle methods and inten- tion to promote a "Great East Asia" doctrine.
France, he declared, had sought an armistice with Hitler because she TURN to Page 8, Column One
Britain To Weed Out
Her Interned Aliens
LONDON, Aug. 22 (Reuter)-In the House of Commons
But there wholesale changes were to-day, Sir John Anderson, Home Secretary," replied for the
not expected since nearly pll the Government in the adjournment debate on the internment-of Japanese diplomats were already re-
garded as ardent proponents of aliens.
whatever policy "Tokyo dictates.
This impression has long
caused
HOW housewives can help to, protect their homes in the event of enemy air raiders using incendiary bombs was shown at a demonstration Ho stated: "The policy of that enough is known of his history of fire-fighting in London recently. The photograph shows housewives
to show that by his writings or
the conviction here the changes in general internment has inevit-speeches or politicnt or officiul activi | Draclining geiling from s first floor window without hurting themselves.
the diplomatic personnel made little ably resulted in the internment ties he has consistently, over a period difference in basic relations with Tokyo.
ef, some of the most bitter and of years, taken a public and
Not Prepared To Join Axis most active enemies of the Nazi prominent part in opposition to the Dogs For Defence
Informed quarters are Inclined regime.
to regard the new shakeup as * resino· merely for home consungs-
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SPORADIC RAIDS ON ENGLAND DO LITTLE DAMAGE
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
ALTHOUGH HITLER HAS TEMPORARILY ABANDONED HIS AERIAL BLITZKRIEG AGAINST ENGLAND, OWING, IT IS BE- LIEVED, TO HIS ENORMOUS LOSSES, ENEMY BOMBERS CONTINUE RAIDS ACROSS THE CHANNEL IN SPORADIC FASHION.
It is officially announced that four German · planes were shot down by the R.A.F. yesterday.
Desert Raids
ITALIAN
BASES
ATTACKED
This, says United Press," brings the total German losses around the British coast since June 18 to 1,002.
Did Not Got Inland
The German alreratt in yesterday's ralds operated singly..
None of the enemy planet succeed- ed in penetrating more than • tow | miles bexong the const and no bombe | were dropped on land.
Two R.A.F. fighters were lost, the pitot of one parachuting to safety.
The crew of a 1,119-ton stcamer which arrived at an Irish port yester-
CAIRO, Aug. 22 (Reuter). day told of an unsuccessful attack some miles off the const by a Nazi commu ni torpedo-bomber. The dropped
both its tarpdocs, missed mark.
states that during the night has the tapes, but planned Breit
of August 19-20, R.A.F.
our
Meanwhile, the R.A.F. attacks on' bombers raided Tobruk Har-Germany continue with undiminish-
ed fury.
R.A.F. Bomb Oil Plant Naval oil tanks on the The Air Ministry announces them foreshore, which were the thus: main targets, received direct hits.
"Further attacks on enemy oll re-
Jalthough the weather conditions were
unfavourable. --The-chief fargets were.
st
(aineries were carried out last night
Other bombers attacked with the important Brabag refineries success the landing grounds at Magdeburg and the Dourog Installa Tobruk and el Adem.
tons
Hanover.
Three Italian bombers were “At Coan and Abbevilis our air- seriously damaged during a raid on craft bombed the aerodromes esusing Sidel Mini yesterday. One was explosions on the runways and laxud- set on fire and exploded. A seconding grounds and setting the hangars burned out. The third had its wings extinguished by gun fire.
Searchlight batterics wero
blown of.
There were a number of near
afire.
"Attacks were also made оп the
misses, which probably caused airdromes at Quakenbruck near damage to other aircraft.
Hanover and the Laland of Texel.
"Railway centers were bombed In" the Ruhr and Rhineland. Bombs were dropped on a tunnel between Nieburg and Verden, Hazover, as a supply train entered.
Planes Return Safely
All our bombers returned safely. Our aircraft also raided Bomba on the Libyan coast. A direct hit was registered on a staplarie jetty.
Aircraft of the Southern Rhodeslan and South African squadrons carried
out numerous offclusive recon- naissances in Italian Somaliland.
At Mogadiscio, direct hits were registered on the jelly of one hangar, while at Merka one Caproni aircraft- on the ground was damaged.
Direct hits were also registered on buildings.
Raid On Dessin
"Only one of our aircraft falled to {return."
Greeks Face New Charge
--by Albanians
Special to the "Telegraph" TIRANA, Aug. 22, (UP),—
The R.A.F. also carried out heavy bombing of the Italian air base st|The Albanian newspapers renew- led their charges of Greck
Dessin.
| aerodroma and buildings.
Direct bits were scored on the maltreatment of Albanians in,
Cinmurla and Janina regions to day..
All our aircraf) returned.
Heavy bombing attacks were also
carried out on hangars and railway)
The latest example, says the station at Diredawa. Direct hits ""Tomori," is the kidnapping-of Selim Skiakn, an outstanding
were observed.
was shot down. -~-~
Opposition from fighter planes was encountered and one of our aircraft Albanian intellectual who is supposed to have been trans- A French crew carried out im- ported to Greece by Greek portant reconnulasance fights into enemy territory,
gendarmes.
The "Tomor" adds that Greek prisons in Janina and along the Albanian-Greek frontier. are full of Albanians of Clamuria and that
| hư the Greeks Inside Albanla.
ON GUARD numerous others have been kidnapped
IN CANAL ZONE Special to the "Telegraph”. BALBOA, Aug 22 (Domel). The acting. Governor of the Nazi regime and is actively. friendly Commander Locker Lampson (Cu
Panama Canal Zone, Lt. Col. towards us or the Allied cause," Handsworth, Birmingham) will ask
Glen Edgerton, was issued an London, July 6."[order requiring all vessels enter- He proposed to appoint a sultable
Private D. Mountain, reported ing the ports of Balboa and tion, Unofficial authorities here. Our dimeulty has been to loveat Tribunal consisting of a Chairman of the Home Secretary "whether he will mostly do not believe that Japan some test to decide the genuineness legal experience, assisted by two or instruct all units of defence in this missing on April 23 in Norway Cristobal to halt near the naval is prepared to cast in her lat with of alleged hostility or opposition to three people with knowledge of the country to learn to distinguish the returned to his home at Ibstock, the Axis
Japan
the regime. On the recommendation politics of Germany and Austria. sound of a Grammar aeroplane from Leicestershine, after tramping 600 vessels stationed outside the by" They said:
milca in 58 days. He guyaway from entrances to the Panama Canal, be cautious of the Advisory Committee, I decided The Tribunal will be assisted, as that of a British seroplane and Norway in a nahing boat with water? The announcement states that, it is about
her adventures in Indo to adopt a new category in the follow when it thinks fit, by reliable repre- whether he will insist on the use for five days and food for two days, not safe for commercial craft to pros China and the Dutch East Indies ing terms: Any person as to whom sentative refugeer who were leaders by night of dogs, which are the only Norwegian people were kind to him cred directly to the Canal because until the outcome of the Battle for the Tribunal appointed by the Secret of German political groups to give means of ending strange trègne in he said, while he was eluding the changes are being made from time Britain 14, more certain.
ary of State for the purpose reports them advice and information.
wooded pla
**ter) Germans, one woman giving him 50%. to ime in the Channel.”
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