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WHITEAWAY'S
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:
7
at any hour,
"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 for descended on the Channel area, reducing visi- bility to about 100 Icet, and the aerial ceiling to zero.
The wind is abating.
Meanwhile the Germans have ordered the entire southern and western const of Norway closed, presumably to conceal invasion preparations.
Shattering Attacks By Our Bombers
Berlin Airport Hit & Damaged By R.A.F.
All persons aver the age of 15,
Are required to carry passes before leaving or enter- Jing the aren.
German guns on the French roast shelling The Dover
te emaneteed
at 11 am
bombardment
opened
with
salves in the city's main streets were crowded with morning shoppers, who rashed 10 Be shelwis
Four salvors
ten ThiBules
Houred.
fired were Eleven persone
within
Concentrations Blasted
were
The Royal Air Force, despite poor visity and adverse flying condi-j
GOERING FEARS THEM
man
Here is the gun-and the behind it feared by German airmen. This type of R.A.F. pilot sent 188 planes, over a thousand Nazi 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 said in authoritative quarters in Berlin to have piloted a Junkers 88 type of bomber over London on Sunday night.
Lons, continued to blust the Nazi Communiques
barge concentrations over I! wide
LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter).-Describing the attack on Berlin in the early hours of this morning, the Air Ministry news service states that the German capital was visited by a harassing force which bombed military objectives to the north-west of the city, the Templohfon concentrations of war supplies, Airport and power stations which had been damaged in ports of Hamburg, Wilhelmshaven. previous raids.
The raiders were met with anti-aircraft fire but none of the aircraft was hit.
Thunderstormes over the city caused the engine of one bomber attacking the Templohf Airport to cut out as the crew were approaching the target. Unloaded Bomba
Continuing his run, the pilot un- loaded his bombs on the aerodrome and flying at 6,000 feel succeeded in maintaining this height on only one engine for 45 minutes until the second
engine picked up.
CONVOYS RAIDED
German Shipping Gets Bad Time
arcu.
Heavy attacks were made yesterday barges, shipping, dock yards and
Antwerp, Flushing, Ostend, Dunkirk, Calala and Boulogne.
Direct his were scored on a Ger-
military tanker and supply ship in the Elbe Estuary were damaged.
R.A.F. IN ACTION
Intensive Raids
man warship nt Terschelling and a Official communiques issued severely last night included the following:
LONDON: British
Bombers Active
Aircraft of the Coastal Command also sank an enemy ship off 1jmuden. German convoys off the Nether- lands coast were also attacked, two supply ships being sunk.
Reports say he was escorted by two Messerschmitt destroyer machines.
Goering is sold 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.
A
Monday's Raid. London message, referring to Monday's raids on Britain, says there no sign of activity in the London Was 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, be- gan streaming homewards, the streets resembling the normal rush hour.
The majority of buses were run- and road
The R.A.F. last night bombed military objectives in Berlin.
Further heavy attacks were made Attacks were also made on the shipping and docks at Le Havre, ships on concentrations of war supplies,j LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter). alongside the quays and the quays barges, and shipping at dockyards
and the ports of Hamburg, Wilhelm-ning packed to capacity Fuller details of Air Force themselves being repeatedly hit.
During the carly part of the raid, attacks are given by the Air (United Press and Domet messages.) shaven, Antwerp, Flushing, Ostend, trafle was quite normal. Air Ministry news service.
Other forces of RAF bombers three bombs exploded in the London at TURN to Page 2, Column Four
Roosevelt Signs Conscript Bill
Dunkirk, Colais and Boulogne.
attacked distribution centres Hamm, Osnabruck, Soest and Kreft3}, goodsyards at Hamburg and rallway Junctions at Rheine were also bomb- ed.
Warship Hit
Invasion bases оп the Dutch, Belgian and French coast were again. The statement says that the· the chief objectives on Sunday night's German supply ship sunk at rolds.
anchor at Ijmuiden was a 5,000). Antwerp Again -'. ton vessel.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (Reuter), During the night the heaviest
As regards the attacks on German-President Roosevelt at a attacks were directed against the
convoys and shipping concentrations Ceremony at the White House signed A direct hit was made on an enemy. TURN to Pago 8, Column Five on the Channel coast, the statement the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription warship off Terschelling, while an oll says the first convoy was aftacked off Bill whereby some 10,500,000 men be-tanker and a supply ship in the Elbe TURN to Page 8, Column Four tween the age of 21 and 35 become estuary were severely damaged.
liable to military service.
6 LOST ABOARD
"EXPRESS"
LONDON, Sept. 18. (UP).-The Admiralty announced that the follow- ing casualties occurred in the des- troyer, Express, which was damaged recently either by mine or torpedo:
Killed --Lieut. « Cummdr. D. W. Deane, Temporary Sub-Lieutenant R. P. Lawrence,
brief
SNOBBERY MADE TRIP
TO AUSTRALIA “UNPLEASANT”
Coastal Command aircraft sank an jenemy supply ship of Ijmuiden.
Convoys off the Dutch coast" were also attacked, Two supply ships were sunk and others severely damaged.
Attacks were also made on ship- ping and docks at Le Havre, where
Sydney Report ships alongside quays and the quays
Snobbery aboard one of the evacuee ships en route to Aus
themselves were repeatedly hit,
From these extensive and success-
ful operations, all our aircraft return-
tralia from Hongkong made life unpleasant for passengers ed safely pa
Died of Wounds-Cup.J. G. Bick-aboard, according to the Sydney "Dally Telegraph.”
ford.
Missing. --- Temporary
Lieut."A" C. Shelford.
]
AIR MINISTRY: Raid Surgeon Efforts were made by a section sections.
Casualties Slight of the passengers to obtain con-
The officers of the liner refused to grant the concession Reports hitherto received and Lieut. D. H, Maitland-MacCcessions which they did not wish One wife of an Army officer ex-show that the number of
to have granted to the other TURN to Page 8, Column Three TURN to Page 8, Column Thres |
Wounded.-Lieut. C. M. K. Bruton
Crichton.
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FRENCH DOWN R.A.F. PLANE
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VICHY, Sept. 16 (UP). —It is officially announced that French fighting plane, patrolling near Casablanca, shot down a British seaplane in flames when the latter fired a
shets volley of French craft.
The British
at the
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.
ITALIAN CLAIMS
Bugbug Reached
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
Cholera
New Year Advanced
Kowloon City Wards Off Evil Spirits
For the purpose of driving away the evil spirits which they believed have descended upon them, the villingers of Kowloon City, which so far has suffered the greatest number of cholera cases, celebrated Chinese New Year yesterday-about four months in advance of the actual date.
The advancement was decided upon following · a conference between the village elders and ROME, Sept. 16 (UP)-It has temple priests and after a con- been reliably reported that sultation by the latter with the Italian forces have reached the gods and goddesses who decreed outskirts of Bugbug, thirty miles that the year was a bad one beyond Sollum and half way hence the necessity of beginning between Sollum and Sidi Bar- rani,
a new year. The latest dispatches from. This is the second occasion that Benghahi to-night.said that the Chinese New Year has been Italian planes to-day intensified celebrated in advance; the occasion their attacks on Sidi Barrani and having been observed by the inhabi- Marsamatruh.
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 slated later i particularly concerned with Australia,
The conference is believed to have There has been speci ddalt largely with Japan's moves in the United States and Austraila Franch Indo-China and the possible form a defence agreement simi implications for Australia.
that recently concluded with