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No. 18237
FOUNDED 2081 In tЯ✯✯✯ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1940. : BXTBA
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Defenders Still on
Alert
THREAT OF
DAILY
NEUTRALS BELIEVE
INVASION DECREASING
HEAVY FOG OVER CHANNEL FAVOURS NAZIS BUT R.A.F. BLASTS BARGE ASSEMBLY
Special to the "Telegraph"
THE BRITISH CABINET still reckons strongly with the threat of immediate invasion, an influential member of the Government told "United Press" last night.
But the failure of "crisis week-end" to produce anything extra- ordinary has strengthened the feeling of neutral experts that the threat of invasion is decreasing each day.
Whether the delay is due to conflict within the German High Com- mand, or conflict between Hitler and the High Command, or the Luft waffe's inability to break the Royal Air Force and the latter's own murderous pounding of invasion bases is not clear
FULLY PREPARED
If the invasion does come, Britain is fully prepared. A Cabinet member said last night:
at any hour.
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"We continue to believe it might come
"But never have we been more confident in our ability to crush it."
All along Britain's shores, hundreds of thousands of look-outs are on the qui vive, ready to raise the alarm the moment anything untoward happens. FOG OVER CHANNEL
Every available unit of the Royal Navy is patrolling the invasion area. Late yester- day afternoon a very dense fog descended on the Channel area, reducing visi- bility to about 100 feet, and the aerial ceiling to zero.
The wind is abating.
Meanwhile the Germans have ordered the entire southern and western coast of Norway closed, presumably to conceal invasion preparations,
Shattering Attacks By Our Bombers
Berlin Airport Hit & Damaged By R.A.F.
LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter).—Describing the attack
All persons over the age of 15: yours
required to carry passes before leaving or enter ing the area.
German guns on the French voust recommenced shelling the Bover died at 11 am
with The bombardment opened. salvoes as the city's train streets were crowded with morning shoppers, who rushed to the shelters,
Four Falvoes
ten minutes injured.
fired were Eleven persons
within!
Were
Concentrations Blasted
The Royal Air Force, despite pour
GOERING FEARS THEM
Here is the gun--and the man behind it-feared by German airmen. This type of R.A.F. pilot sent 186 planos, over a thousand Nazî airmen, crashing to their doom in yesterday's great air battles.
Berlin Says Goering Was In London Raid
Five Warnings Yesterday
Special to the "Telegraph"
BERLIN, Sept. 16 (UP).—Goering himself is sold 'In authoritative quarters in Berlin to have piloted a Junkers. 88 type of bomber over London on Sunday night.
tions, continued to blast the Nazi Communiques
д
wide
on Berlin in the early hours of this morning, the Air and adverse dying condi
barge concentrations over Ministry news service states that the German capital was
Breu. visited by a harassing force which bombed military
Heavy attacks were inade yesterday objectives to the north-west of the city, the Templohfon concentrations of war supplies, barges, shipping. dock yards and Airport and power stations which had been damaged in ports at Hamburg, Wilhelmshaven, Antwerp Flushing, Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne. previous raids.
The raiders were met with anti-aircraft fire but none of the aircraft was hit.
Thunderstorms over the city enused the engine of one bomber attacking the Templchf Airport to cut out as the crew were approaching the target. Unloaded Bombs
Continuing his run, the pilot un- Joaded his bombs on the aerodrome
CONVOYS RAIDED
Direct hits were scored on a Ger- man warship at Terschelling and a military tanker and supply ship inj
Elbe Estuary were
the damaged.
"Alrcraft of the Coastal Command niso sank an enemy ship of Imuden.
R. A.F. IN ACTION
Intensive Raids Official communiques issued severely last night included the following:
LONDON: 'British.
Bombers Active German convoys of the Nether- The R.A.F. last night bombed German Shipping lands coast were also attacked, two military objectives in Berlin.
supply ships being sunk.
Attacks were also made on the Further heavy attacks were made shipping and docks at Le Havre, ships, on concentrations of war supplies, alongside the quays and the quays barges, and shipping at dockyards and the ports of Hamburg, Wilhelm- themselves being repentedly hit. (United Press and Domet messages.) shaven, Antwerp, Flushing, Ostead,
Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne.
Other forces of R.A.F. bombers Roosevelt Signs Conscript Bill
Reports say he was escorted by two Messerschmitt destroyer machines.
Goering is said to have declared after his return to headquarters 'in a small village in Normandy that he was most impressed by the effect of the bombing raids on London.
Monday's Raid
A London message, referring to
Monday's raids on Britain, says there was no sign of activity in the London area three hours after the fourth raid warning, except the infrequent bark of anti-aircraft guns In the distance.
Hundreds of thousands of people, tired of waiting in the shelters, ba- gan streaming homewards, the streets resembling the normal rush hour.
The majority of buses were run
FRENCH DOWN R.A.F. PLANE
VICHY, Sept. 16 (UP).
а
near
-It is officially announced that French fighting plane, patrolling Casablanca, shot down a British seaplane in AlamEA when the latter fired a volley of shots at the French craft.
The British crew
of three were saved by a French naval launch.
British planes recently flew over Morocco drop- ping tracts inviting the French to join the De
Gaulle movement.
SPAIN'S MISSION
Gentle Hint By Senor Suner
Cholera
New Year Advanced
Kowloon City Wards Off Evil Spirits
For the purpose of driving nway the evil spirits which they believed havo descended upon them, the villagers of Kowloon City, which so far has suffered the greatest number of cholera cases, celebrated Chinese New Year yesterda”, about four months in adva ce of the actual date.
The advancement was decided upon following a conference between the village elders and temple priests and after a con-
LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter). Bultation by the latter with the ning packed to capacity and road"Spain's position at present is gods and goddesses who decreed
trame was quite normal.
During the early part of the raid, one of non-belligerency but that that the year was a bad one three bombs exploded in the. London must not be interpreted as hence the necessity of beginning at TURN to Page 5. Column Five disinterestedness," said Senor
Gets Bad Time LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter). and flying at 5,000 feet succeeded in Fuller details of Air Force maintaining this height on only one attacks are given by the Air engine for 45 minutes until the second engine plcked up.
Air Ministry news service. Invasion bases on the Dutch, The statement says that the Belgian and French coast were again German supply ship sunk at the chief objectives on Sunday night's anchor at Imulden was a 5,000 taids.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (Reuter). ton vessel. 'Antwerp Again
As regards the attacks on German-President Roosevelt at a brief During the night the heaviest convoys and shipping concentrations ceremony at the White House signed attacks were directed against the on the Channel conal, the statement the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription warship off Terschelling, while an oll docks at Antwerp (as on the night says the first convoy was aftacked off all whereby some 10,300,000 men be
tween the ages of 21 and 35 become before), where great fects of barges TURN to Page 5, Column. Two liable to military service. and many ships had been accumu-
lated during recent weeks,
The rald began at 10.30 pm. G.M.T. and was kept up for nearly thres hours.
Favoured by bright moonlight in the early stages of the attack, the bombers despite fierce opposition
the from
ground defencer got
through to their objectives and
played havoc.
SNOBBERY MADE TRIP TO AUSTRALIA "UNPLEASANT”
-Sydney Report
attacked distribution centres Hamm, Oznabruck, Soest and Krefel goodsyards at Hamburg, and railway. Junctions at Rheine were also bomb- ed.
Warship Hit
A direct hit was made on m enemy tanker and a supply ship in the Elbe estuary were severely damaged.
Coastal Command 'nircraft aank an enemy supply ship off limulden.
Convoys off the Dutch coast were.
ships also attacked. Two supply were sunk and others severely damaged.
Attacks were also made. on. ship- ping and docks at Le Havre, where, ships alongside quays, and the quaya themselves were repeatedly hit.
From these extensive and success. ful operations, all our aircraft return- [ed safely.
Raid AIR MINISTRY State: Casualties Slight The officers of the liner, refused to
Reports hitherto | received grant the concession,GRAN
One wife of an Army officer - show that the number of TURN to Page 5, Column Two TURN to Page 5, Column Two
Snobbery aboard one of the evacuee ships en route to Aus Barges were struck, set ablaze, tralia: from Hongkong made life unpleasant for passengers and exploded in flashes of flame aboard, according to the Sydney "Daily Telegraph.” which lit up the whole docka
Efforts were made by a section By 12.30 am, one of the main of the passengers to obtain con- wharvoa was 0 mass of fomes, cessions which they did not wish TURN to Page 5, Column Five to have granted to the other
Mau of Flames
sections.
LATEST
Sou Back Page:For Further Late Nawa-
Suner, the Spanish Minister of a new year.
the Interior, in an interview with This is the second occasion that the "Voelkischer Beobachter," the Chinese New Year has been says the Berlin official news celebrated in advance, the occasion" agency.
Thaving been observed by the inhabi- TURN to Pago 5, Column Two tants of Salkung on September 2
Possible
Australian-
U.S. Defence Pact
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (Reuter) Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, had a lengthy conference to-day with Lord Lothian, the British Ambassador, and Mr. R. G. Casey, the Australian Minister, on matters which were stated later to be particularly concerned with Australia NCAA
The conference is believed to have There has been speculation the 'dealt largely with Japan's moves in the United States and Australia migi
French Indo-China and the possible form a defence, agreement similar Implications for Australia, Myth that recently concluded with Cana