COMMUNIQUES
Official
Nazi Claims
United
The following official com- muniques have been received through "Reuter," l'ress" and "Domel": GERMAN: Nazi
Version of Raids
A German submarine hos sunk the British ship Dunvegan Castle. This brings the total sinkinga by U-boats for the past three days to over 100,000 tons.
The communique added that Inst night German bömbing and fighting units carried out a surprise attack
on the British Isles. Airfields in Kent and Essex, harbours and docks in the Thames Estuary and Liver- pool and arms factories in the Mid- Jands
were heavily damaged hy bombs, the communique sald,
Last night British planes New over the Ruhr area and Bround Berlin dropping bombe al several places. Material damage is not worth men-
military tioning and no
objectives were hit. Henvy anti-aircraft Are
hindered the enemy planes dropping bombs on the city area.
Several bomis fell in Betda on the outskirts of the city. An previously reported the total enemy leszen jet- terday was 139 planes and 74 baringe balloons destruyed while a total of 32 German planes failed to return, the communique said.
The British attack the empital was the fifth this week and seemed to time its arrival to coincide with the beginning of the war's first an - niversary but it missed midnight by four minutes,
LONDON: Our
Official Air Losses
A German High Command com- musique claims that the total British losses yesterday were 133 planes and that 32 German planes were missing. The true figures of yesterday's air lusses are 83 German planes shot down and 17 Dritish planes destruy- ed wille 25 British pilots are sufe
In terms of highly trained airmen. this means that the loss to Germany
It about
fighter 212 bomber crews against
pilots lost.
pilots
and British
uf
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12 The discrepancy enormous importance in Germany's growing difficulty in placing skilled personnel NEAR EAST: R.A.F.
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Attacks Tobruk
R.A.F. bombers attacked the prin cipal enemy aerodromes na loriding grounds in Eastern Libya yesterday when ruids were made Eltmini, Derna, Elgazala, Bardin and Elgubbi. At Eltmini, bombs fell on enemy aircraft and a
camp, and at enst four enemy aircraft were destroyed by Are.
During the raid on Tobruk aero- drome, a big explosion occurred and one aircraft was destroyed by the.
Probably
uthers several
damaged.
were
At Elgazala, bombs fell among mir- craft and on a cornp.
One cheby aircraft, taking off to engage bombers, flew into expinding bombs and was destroyed.
There were several engagementa between enemy fighters but the raiders were enrried through in every case and bombs were dropped on tar- gets.
On August 30, Agordat, in Eritrea, was raided by a formation of R.A.F. bombers, direct hits being scored un stores and other bulidings and fres were started.
We suffered no losses.
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 2, 1940.
IN LESS THAN FOUR MINUTES.
NECKLACE GIFT FOR WAR
EFFORT BRINGS £24,400
IN just under four minutes one of the finest diamond necklaces the,
salerooms have ever seen was sold at Christies, in London, for £24,400. BARON IS
The money went to the nation to help on the war. [A] fortnight before a woman walked into the Treasury and offered the necklace as a contribution to the war effort. Her only condition was that her name should never bef made known.
The auctioneer who sold the necklace assured me that he did not know to whom it had belonged.
Probably some of the jewel trade experta know, but they are not telling.
The only clue Is that the neck- Jace, which contains 42 gradúnied diamonds, some as large as a six- pence, was put into its setting half a century ago.
Behind Steel Doors
An hour before the sale began, people were queving up inside the, opening of the steel doors that lend sedate sale rooms, waiting for the
to the room in which the necklace, would be sold.
Inside That room the camera- men were rigging up their appara tus, the B.B.C. men were setting microphones nt the rostrum, and preparing a mundproof box from which a commentator could brand- cast the scene
HEAD OF URBAN
COUNCIL
H. E, the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Mr. William James Carrio to} be Chairman of the Urban Council with effect from September 2, 1940.
STAGE NUDITY NOW “MR.”
-NEUROSIS
of
"Nudity on the stage is nothing more nor less than war neurosis, Kald Mr. Basil Dean, Director the E.N.S.A. (Entertainments
Service National
Association). speaking at a Ladies' Night din- ner at the London Press Club,
"We are all treating it much too seriously. It will pan,” he added. "Nudity is not freedom. It is Beence, so let us forget it.”
Last-Minute Appeal To French Fleet Admiral Tells How He Ruined Secrets
VICE-ADMIRAL EMILE MUSELIER, commander Outside there was a mixed crowd of the free French naval forces under General de Gaulle cutaway coals to told recently how he did his best to save French war vlubs of St. James's secrets from falling into Nazi hands.
of the he heard
-old men the
In
actresses In summer froska, formed war nurse, couple of Aus-
with their
tralian
soldiers
Directly
of girl weakening resistance friends, a few jewel deniers, a few Government he made his
from Bordeaux to Paris to or
saleroom attendants.
hin SAFE HOME NOW
Thousands Risked The
way
One of the attendants stood be-ganise "systematic sabotage and hind the nes ense in which the destruction." neckince wna Juld out. Apart fromj him. and
nonchalant-looking La
fellow at the top of the stairs, there was no special guard.
The necklace Itseif winked thousand reenbow lights t the? staring crowd
Harris
V.
Ward
5th
The doors opened and th crowd
The surged
Khann swiftly whipped round to the back. anc et up again next
The Lostram, where
an aproned attendant held
He made it his ftrat business to tear up or burn all naval papers concern- ing aircraft and arms production.
Then he did his best to And and destroy
the ell supplies of the url qus Puris arms faclories,
Among the supples which he blew up were 400 tons of speeləl nil an Ita way to the Citroen works.
Usinsk completed, he escaped
to Marseilles by ear, a pennant's carl and a fire engine.
Gives Up Italian Honour
CAPTAIN Baron George
of Marochetti,
the Italian nobility, the other day became Mr. George Marochetti,
He said: "I do not want to hold any honour from a country let by a man who does not know what honour means."
Mr. Marocheill, third holder of the. barony, renouneed his title officially in the following advertisement:
Baron George Marochett, late 11th (P.A.D.) Hussars, does not wish to avail himself of the title of Baron, of Sardinia bestowed by the King upon his grandfather, and from now on desires to be known as Mr. George Marochett!.
Titled Sculptor
Mr. Marochetti's grandfather was Charles, 1st Baron Marochetti, R.A., the famous Italian sculptor, and friend of Queen Victoria.
His father was Italian Ambassador to Russia.
G
Both Mr. Marchetti, who is now 40, and his brother, Baron Charles, served with the British Army in the tast wor. Mr. Murochetti was lieutenant in the Prince Albert's Own. He is a City Insurance broker Journey From France now
in renouncing his title he sold; "It Mr. Butler, Under Secretary,
way of retaliating to the Foreign Office, when asked in Paris ny Bament what steps the Government abominable action of Mussolini, took in the evacuation from Francs jam prouki to be a British subject and of stranded British citizens, many of an ex-officer of the British Army.
wounded, Anki Invalids them
"If the King of Italy had abdicated. piled:
I would have kept my title, but he has not abdicated, and so
re-
"Many thousands of British cili zons who wished to leave and were the hazards and prepared to face hardships involved have been eyacu- ated.
It would not be in the public
what steps were taken."
J
conakder
he has endorsed Mussolini's attempt | in stub France in the backi
Mr. Marochet!l yesterday ordered a new stock of nolepaper and visiting
Then he boarded a British collier] interest at this moment to disclose cards without his family crest and
with 400 British refugees,
Money As Well
Admiral Muselier, who 18 52, hud broadcast to the French Fleet à re- minder that seamen are not bound to obey commanders who decide to give up without fighting.
AL Boun precisely
black- the coated auctioneer, Mi MrKenna,
T mounted the rostrum, and ank.
"Ladles
gentlemen, ard
1 AR1 now going to offer Uais magnificent damond necklace, 7 Brnerously presented to the nation by a lady 41 42 contribution towards our war effort.
A battalion of Marines to be formed, will be among the first complete units of General de Gaulle's volunteer legion. Admiral Museller said the part of
hope you will show your appre-¦ clation by bidding to the extent of the French mercantile murine which your resourcen May } quy £10,-
000?
was free came under his arders, und Ils charter-earnings and cargoes pro-
initiala. G. M."
UNIFORM RUSE AGAINST EGYPT
Italian Trick
AN ominous indication of how Italy may strike at
A dealer, Mr. S. 11. Harris, situng: vided enough resources to keep als Egypt has reached Egyptian military chiefs.
forces for several years.
M
Smashed Machines
of
armu-
Andre Labarthe, General de New Order To Check
Alien Influence
just below the auctioneer, nudded
Another dealer, Mr. Fred Ward,}
Mr Harris, standing just behind immediately said £20,000.
The
rest
too Goulle's director-general happened almost quickly to get any drama uut of it.
ment and scientific work, was about Those two bid against each other, to be arrested by Petain's men when
he escaped in a ship. firal in £100% up to £23,000, then ¦
in £300'a.
Millionairess Bids
Just below £24,000 voice made a single bid. Mrs. Van der Elst, the millionairess. Į The dealers passed beyond her, bld-; ding in £100's again.
He said he had managed to bring to the coast 18 lorryloads of valuable scientific material from Government laboratories.
move,
-Fines, Gaol
All organisations subject to foreign influence are affected by a new De fence Regulation Issued recently.
womori'si His inen smashed with stedge- They may be wound up if it is estab- That was hammers all material they could not lished that they are being used to hinder the efficient prosecution of the whlecht war All experimental engines could not be moved were drained of The order alap covers persons in oil and then ret running at full spted control of such organisations. If found to be in sympathy with the to destroy themselves,
Many other French scientific ex-system of government of any country armament with which Britoin is at war, they perts,
engineers and further bid, and slapped it down on specialists have grouped themselves are liable to Imprisonment or heavy the rostrums,
Anes, or both.
Mr. Harris suid £24.300. Mr. Ward said £24.400. The auctioneer raised his hammer,
SUNDAY'S "BAG" used to inquire if there were any
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Mr. Harris und Mr. Ward laughed | and shook hands.
The clerk handed the necklace In Ita case to Mr. Ward (of Jerwood und Ward, Hatton Garden diamond
tempts to destroy nerodromes In merchants). Kent, Surrey and Essex.
Once in the morning and twice in the afternoon, a hundred or more raiders crossed the Kent coast, and three times Fighter Command pliots and anti-aircraft gunners foiled the attacks.
The second rald of tlic day, between noon and I p.m., was the largest. Over '159 raiders crossed the coast and a bomber formation fiew as far as the southern out- skirts of London, to be broken up by anti-aircraft fre.
Gunners saw that shella hit at
least three out of 12 German bombers flying at 10,000 feet.
Mr. Ward tucked it under his arm, while the crowd swept round him, begging for another glance at the necklace.
"Is that the most expensive neck- lace you have ever bought?" I asked Once Paid £45,000
hirn.
"Oli, no," he replied, "I brought a pear! necklace in this room for
£45,000 in: 1023."
under M. Laburthe in Britain.
Polish Woman Soldier
Fought in Two Wars
A 40-YEAR-OLD Polish woman soldier now living in England, who lost touch with her husband and family after joining her country's forces, was reunited with one of her missing sons.
She is Mme. Sophie Nowa- sielski. When she arrived in
"And will you try to sell it as a England from France all she whole, or will it be split up?" knew of her husband was that
"Couldn't say," he answered, "Ihe had last been seen fighting don't know yet what I shall do with with the Polish Army in
Flanders,
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RESEARCH ON WAR AILMENTS
The third attack was weaker and | it,” was confined to the Kent coast nero- Не went out by the back way,
Her eldest son. 17-year-old Bazy- dromes.
still under his with the necklace Single-seat · Messerschmitt 100 arm. Later they told me at his of- dar, vanished among the masses of
Her
БОП 14-year-old was "very refugees. fighters dropped bombs. They had fice that the necklace been put to this use before but to-day comfortable, and in a very safe Bohdan has not been heard of since they were used as dive bombers,
when he wrote, from Easter,
SIR FREDERICK BANTING, place." First Official Figures
Cash was pak to Christies at Lithuanian Internment camp. the discoverer of insulin, who She has been slaying with her LONDON, Sept. 1 (Reuter)-It is once, and it will be handed over to officially announced that 11 enemy the Treasury.
Ave-year-old son in Fulham; now was once a penniless student in uircraft were shot down in this
Bozydar, who arrived in England by Canada, will arrive in England another route has joined her, shortly to carry out important
A Lieutenant Reports are not yet available for the second raid.
Mme. Nowuslelaki has, like other researches into war ailments. Polish women, held rank as a lieu- He will work in a specially-Built tenant in the Polish Army. She has laboratory in a new million dollar
against the Canadian Red Cross hospital built in:
and
morning's raki,
All Portsmouth Schools To Close
Children Evacuate
are
The £24,400 would just about
buy. a nice bomber.
State Employee On Secrets Charge
to
remand in custody was ordered
at, Hendon, NW, when Arthur Jack
fought in two Lituanions
Russians and
!!
against the Germans and Russians,
the grounds of a large estate.
She added: "It is just the story of His research will be concerned not
h
Native troops un the other
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The frontier force uniform, with lis khaki turban and a broad green sash round the waist, is one of the most distinctive in the world.
And the aim of the step could only be to spread confusion in any attack, whether by land or by parachute descents in the desert, which, up to now, had been thought unlikely.
However, the
the of members Egyptian frontier force--tail, maho gany-coloured, their cheeks scarred with the long gashes of telbal Initia- tion marks-are not to imitatable as their uniforms.
Frontiersmen
These frontiersmen are equally at home with camel or car, and now are in instant readiness for any trouble. They would not show the least
mercy to any treacherous attack.
Equally unmerciful would be the men of the Arab Legion, who know
have been killed off like flies under the Libyan regime.
that their brethren over the border
Egyptian plunes patrolling the border have not seen recent signs of i new concentrations.
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By order of the Board of Educa- tion all schools in Portsmouth will be closed, Sixteen thousand five hundred children still in
in the elty
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have
reinined tering for evacuation at a later date.
Its Own Banknotes they will supply any equipment he
wants for the laborator Between two and three thousand confidential document and a book children have been evacuated to issued from the Police Commission- PARIS The town of Versailles www b
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