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一拜禮 號七月十英港香
MONDAY, OCTOBER
1940.
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What Empire May Face This Winter THE WOMEN GO
AXIS PLANS FOR FRESH CAMPAIGN
Special to the "Telegraph” ·
ROME, OCT. 6, (UP)—PLANS FOR THE AXIS WINTER CAM- PAIGN, WHICH INCLUDE A GENERAL SPEEDING-UP OF THE GERMAN ATTACK AGAINST THE BRITISH ISLES AND AN ITALIAN PUSH AGAINST BRITISH EGYPT, WERE DRAFTED DURING THE MEETING BETWEEN HITLER AND MUSSOLINI IN THE BRENNER PASS, ACCORDING TO AUTHORITATIVE REPORTS.
Well-informed sources in Rome expect that General Graziani's offon. sive in Egypt will be resumed shortly and also that a Nazi invasion of England may be attempted.
NAZI FACTORIES PUNISHED
Tons Of Bombs On Krupps
LONDON, Oct. 6 (Reuter) Two tons of high explosive bombs were dropped on the Krupps armament factory at Essen In a lightning RA.F, attack made from a high level, says the Air Ministry news service.
In addition to the objectives mentioned in the official con- munique, targets included the docks at Amsterdam and Flushing. aerodromes at Schipol, Texel, Aldebrock and Bussum.
The weather
was extremely und over the entire operations area and the bomber
crews had to contend with severe Icelng conditions, violent electrical storms und widespread Tow clouds which necessitated blind flying
over avere smashed and a dry dock a great part of the route, Quays damaged by salvoes of beavy bans during the attack în Brest.
One ptibil reported that his lombs, which struck aroud by one of the qunys, enused
a series of explosions as if àmment- tion sheets had been hit
CHANNEL
PORTS BOMBED
Accurate Marksmanship
SPECIAL TO THE **TELEGRAPH LONDON, Oct. 6 (UP).
The Dictators apparently envisage a general striking lat the British Empire throughout the world, with special attention being paid to Aden und Gibraltar. At- tacks on these two centres, If made, will probably occur simultaneously.
The presence at the Brenner Pass conference of General von Keitel, German High Command) Chief of Staff, is interpreted to mean that military and technical questions were discussed, pos sibly involving Italinn participa. TURN to Page 5, Column Ono
Duce Inspects Army, Safe In North Italy
LONDON, Oct. 6 (Reuter).—
| Troops of Italy's northern army
Coastal command aircraft con- massed in the vast plain of centrated their operations last] Parma were inspected to-day by night on the Channel ports of Mussolini, who flew to Placenza Brest and Gravelines.
for the purpose.
As
Oil Plant Smashed The raiding forces, which reeded in reaching the Ruhr, located an oll plant at Gelsenkirchen and for nearly half an hour the target was bombed. A series of minor explo-
The raiders arrived at Brest
Infantry, artillery, engineer corps sions followed the bursting of heavy just
night was falling.unct auxiliary services of the Littorio bombs and incendiary bonus, seat- Despite the haze they were able Division, whileh had its baptism of tered across the factory area, started
tre in the Spanish campaign, were! several ares, one of which quickly to see the outlines of the dock.
salvoca of heavy bombs drawn up in serled array. developed into a great blabe.
and damaged the In the raid on Hamin explosionsmashed quays followed by cutbreaks of fire were
Ammunition Sheds Hit? seen in the goodsyards
One pilot reperied that his bombs, which struck on the road by the side of one of the quays, caused a series af heavy explosions as if ammunition sheds had been hit,
More fires were started in n railway siding near Osnabruck, where heavy explosions occurred after the bombs had burst.
Dock Areas Blasted
At Rotterdam lieavy bombs burst along the dockside, and buildings on the north bank opposite the docks en-
were set afire.
trance
Their
drydock.
Standing on a platform, 11 Duce watched the famous "rapid march” of the Bersaglieri, followed by a pro- cession
armoured
and eprs motorised batteries.
of
Il Duce, who earlier in the day had inspected at Trieste motorised Another squading reported heavy division which partielpated in the had fighting in the Alps in June, took of fires at Gravelinester they dropped heavy bombs and large later in his private plane for an un- quantities of incendiaries.
known destination.
The dock area on the south side of Japanese Minister's "Challenge" To U.S.
the river was the chief target at
Amsterdam and here great fires re- sulted from the bombing.
At Flushing heavy callbre bombs, which struck the dock, started a traini of explosions inst ten minutes and started fires which could be seen for out to sea,
.
CHANCE TO
Matsuoka Heatedly Denies Interview
Special to the "Telegraph"
TOKYO, Oct. 6 (UP).—Interviewed by "United Press" to- day, Mr. Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister, categorically
International News Service.
EVACUATE denied statements attributed to him in an interview with the
U.S. Firm 'In Hongkong
#Receives Advice:
the
TO WORK
The women of Britain, in their thousands, have now taken up various..forms of war work, tu milny instances replacing me wh
needed for tla, army or essential services. As in; the inat zwar, women bus conductors are now Д common "zight. The first batches have now completed their training and are starte
ing work on the country routes of the London Trans port. Here we see a smiling bus conductor at a Lotidon transport, depot. Cool white costs are part of the summer uniform.
HAKONE MARU RELEASED
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"
Oct. TOKYO, (Domei).The N. Y. K. liner Hakone Maru, well known in Hongkong, has been released by the Bri tish authorities at Ber-s muda after receiving a close inspection, na
The ship, left Lisbon on September 21 for Japan via Baltimore and Panama. However, on September 30 it was ordered by the. the Bermuda authorities to remain in port where an inspection of goode con- signed for Liverpool was made. The Hakone Maru "wäs” “unable sito reach Liverpool rowing to the blockade.
Briton Tortured
Tortured For
He characterised the whole affair as "outrageous conduct by certain American newspapermen." Wives and families of em- Asked to clear up the alleged ployees of the American
statements, particularly Standard-Vacuum Oil company have been advised to evacuate all phrase: "I fling a challenge at Far Eastern areas except the America," Mr. Matsuoka rei- terated emotionally: "There is Philippines.
This was admitted to-day by an nothing to be clarified because it officer of the arm's Hongkong branch. is even beyond the imagination There is nothing compulsory about of any person, that any person it but the head office has sent out a in such a responsible position as general suggestion to all eastern Foreign Minister could have sald British Minister, went to Ploest last night and saw Mr. Percy BUCHAREST, Oct. 6 (Reu ter).Sir Reginald Hoare, the branches that, it would be wiser to send the women away" the officer such things I never made any Clark, who was still in bed hardly able to move as the result of
Bald.
such, remarks...
Ransom In Rumania
R. A. F. Winning Air Supremacy
NAZIS
LOSE 104
PLANES IN WEEK
LONDON, OCT. 6 (REUTER)—DURING THE WEEK ENDING MID- NIGHT OCTOBER 5, IT IS CONFIRMED THAT GERMAN PLANES LOST IN BATTLES OVER BRITAIN AMOUNTED TO 194, NOT INCLUDING MACHINES DAMAGED OR PROBABLY LOST.
ON THE BASIS OF CONFIRMED PLANE LOSSES ALONE, GERMAN PILOT LOSSES ARE ESTIMATED, TO EXCEED 250.
In the same period, the R.A.F. lost 40 machines 'in or around Britain, but from these 21, or more than half of the pikols, were saved.
Sunday's Raids
LONDON, Oct. 6 (Reuter).- Tp and run German raiders be- gan their activity early to-day. Taking advantage of low clouds, several German planes crossed the coast and flew towards London. They were met by intense A.A. fire and Wert
turned back before they could reach the centre of the city.
In the north-west district of the Ione German bomber
capital, B
swooped out of the clouds and dropped a number of bombs.
man crashed.
A
AIRCRAFT RESCUES
AT SEA
-500 Saved
LONDON, Oct, 0 (Reuter).—
got on to its tall and the Drifting helplessly on the grey wastes of the Atlantis, two Later, during the second alert in boatloads of people, survivors of the London area, enemy planes flying in lost ship, suffered severely
singly in
the relays passed up
Thomes Estuary in the direction of from thirst. London, while enemy plates were Suddenly a Sunderland flying.. ugain seen over the north-west dis boat searching for submarines trict of London.
while escorting a convoy, swoop- (ed down. The crew had spotted Itwo dots on the ocean.
During the morning's air battics uver south-east England a German fighter was shot down.
Argus To Be Towed To Indo-China
The 500-ton
14
The survivors signalled that they had food but no water.
The flying boat crew dropped their own fresh water supply and then went of fetch a rescue ship to the
scene,
Women On Raft
French destroyer A few days later two women on Marne orrived in Hongkong on a raft, were sighted from the air and Saturday to tow the French gun boat they were also saved. Argus to Indo-China. The Marne Telling these stories to-day, the
has been stationed. In Indo-China for Air Ministry news service states that some time but it is believed this, is nearly 500 survivors of ships lost in the first time she has visited Hong- the Atlantic have been saved in the kong. The Argus is well known here last few months by the good work as she has been for years on the of Coastal Command aircraft. Canton River flotilla. Since the out- break of war she has been at buoy In the harbour.
SUNDAY RAIDS ON BRITAIN
-Activity By Luftwaffe
Special to the "Telegraph”.
LONDON, Oct. 6(UP)Many parts of England were west London district during the second alarm at 4.50 in the after- subjected to raids during to-day, heavy bombs falling on a north- noon. It is officially reported that a few bombs were dropped in the east Midlands and East Anglia, no silf na shu
At Folkestone and a town in
Northants, high explosive bombs UNDEFINED
a
demolished some houses and caused
small
number of casualties, some of which were fatal
At several other places enemy atr kraft dived and delivered short bursts of machine-gun fire, then quickly
Injured. ALON
STATUS
Spain
And The Axis MADRID, Oct. 6 (Router).
flow off. A few persons were Before leaving Rome for Spain yesterday, Senor Serrano Suner, Elsewhere, although bombs fell in the Spanish Minister of the a number of widely scuttered areas, little damage was caused and the Interior, la reported to have had a 40-minutes conversation with number of casualties small
Weather conditions made inter- Count Ciano after the latter's ception by fighting planes difficult, return from Brenner... 1 but reports so far received show that
Messages from Rome and Berlin one enemy bomber was brought
the unt continue to assure Spain that down
Brenner meeting was neither a Barlin Claims
preliminary to a peace offensive nor LONDON, Oct. 6*** (Reuter).- denotes weakness of the Axial g Strong units of the
German
Sunderland flying boats-both of the R.AF. and the Royal Australian ¡Air Force=—and other aircrüft, ore-oOA patrol for out Into the Atlantic every day escorting convoys.
LATEST
Sea Back Fage For Further, Late-Nawa
ui Papers here all make much of force have effectively bombed docks, Senor Super's return but no indica-Falange Party, of which Senor Sungr supply installations, arms works and tion is given as to the nature of the is the head, counsels against specula- tion, making it clear that nothing ether military targets in London: by conversations, dial organ of the will be published about the talks. the official Direct hits were scored on oil day and night, says 2 Berlin com- inks and gas works Harbours,
the limb-twisting to which he had been subjected duris, le serie and all works Harbouce, FRENCHMEN RALLY TO
abduction
and arinament works in South Eng
Se land and the west coast were attack- Mallenged and many fires, were equred, da PMS
GEN. DE GAULLE'S STANDARD
It is learned that his captors Off England Feast, courly three LONDON Oct 6 (Reuter) offered to release him for convoys were dispersed by heavy mittees are being created In all foreign countrie £12,000,0
* bombing, Two big merchant ships are important colonies of French people, states: SMS were: hlt. One took a heavy list and
Issued from General de Gaulle's hea Mr. Clark paid the money and the ether was set on are
British Harbours allowed to go i s
Will Arrange Transport interview in question was
No More Interviews The firm has agreed arrange transport for all those who decide granted for publication. In onberty Iron Guard Celebrates to follow the suggestion.be.
Magazine" not newspapers, and only. "This new suggestion follows one after the manuscript had been sub- Adherence To Axis made by the head office three months mittes to me for approval
''Because of this 'outright outrageous" BUCHAREST", "OM, 8 (Reuter) ago which, naked employées whose wives were not in the East not to violation of confidence I have made About 100,000 members of the Iron bring them, out in view of the dis my mind not to see in fature any Guard from all parts of Rumania hold was turbed situation newspaperman unnected with the
BANATA ANA, American prem, vezes mass demonstration here to-day In “Very few wonen, hove followed ***** saw Liberty:1,"/"contributor celebration of the establishment of bla
gestion as for as I know. It because I contributed three articles the new legionary Formaldered purely a precautionary to that magazing in the past and ult was through that o connection:"the
ballove that Standard Vacuum interview was obtained ACON
Axta allen itha: prosché rican frip In the East Mry Matsuolta refused any, further the German 170
"mindo, any, move to comment on what, he told was an GermREAN Tamiles of its employees. Imipossible story.
he was a short distance from Enemy plane ptors, more young men fired at ?ith revolvers but with
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