GERMAN PLANES THWARTED
Fail To Reach London
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LONDON, Oct. 20 (Reuter)—Following last night's raids, the Germans were again busy to-day, but few machines succeeded in getting through to London which, however, had experienced five alert periods by late afternoon.
A formation of enemy fighters and bombers crossed Kent coast at a number of points but each time found both defences and interceptor plancs ready for them.
Most turned tall but among those which got through were two single machines. These dropped five bombs on the outskirts of London, fortunate-: ly on roads and fields.
AA guna on the Thames Estuary were twice in action during the after- noon.
Bomber In City Street
A yellow-nosed Messerschmit! bomber was shot down in a London atreet this afternoon. The pilot was killed.
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The War's Biggest Bombardment
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH" FOLKESTONE, Oct. 20 (UP). British long range guns to day atarted the biggest bom- the bardment of the war shortly be- A.A.fore noon, firing salvo after salvo across the Straits of Dover in the direction of Cape Gris Nez.
Hundreds Of U.S. Planes For Britain
LONDON, Oct.
20' (Reuter).— Another is believed to have been brought down off the coast. It was American aircraft are now reaching scen streaking off to Franco with a England in hundreds and the number Aghter plane in pursuit and smoke will steadily increase next year, sald was pouring from the German.. Lord Lothian, in a short speech im- The fighter returned later and did mediately on landing in England
from America via, Lisbon. a "Victory" roll,
Seven Nazis Downed
American rearmament was rapidly LONDON, Oct. 20 (Reuter), it is getting into its stride, he said, and now ofleially stated that seven Ger-American opinion now realised the man aircraft were destroyed to-day. necessity of backing up Great Bri- Berlin claimed that nine British crented in the United States by A tremendous impression has planes were shot down in the Sunday the way the public is taking the Tolds and that three German machines had not returned to their London_raids,
Lord Lothian expects to remain in bases. His were celnimed on im-
In England about three weeks. He will portant military installations
been
London and on troop encampment have a few days holiday in Scotland before returning to Landen for con-
in south-west England,
over
sultations with the Government.
Southeast Attacked
Production Speed-Up LONDON, Oel. 20 (Reuter).—
London, Oct. 20 (Router)The Operating at a great height, German
mainly
United States army has asked Ameri- planes to-day were
can neroplane factories to do 24 southeast England.
The damage they did, says an Air hour shifts, said Lord Lothian in an Ministry communique, was not heavy Interview shortly after his arrival in nor were casualties numerous. Five England.
The British, envoy to America of the Nazi planes were destroyed.
the factories are The raiders were mostly fighters or added: "I think Oghter-bombers which crossed the doing it." Kent const in formation on several xcasions during the morning and afternoon bound for London and the Thames Estuary.
on
Some succeeded in reaching Lon-
bambs were dropped don an
and London, Kent and Essex but none reported from elsewhere.
Five attempts in all were made to reach London from the
Thames Estuary but British interceptors were there each time and, after the A.A. batteries had given the raiders some salvoes three farce dogfights took place over two towns.
Two of the enemy fighters three times attacked the balloon barrage at Dover harbour but were driven off by anti-aircraft gunners without shooting down single balloon.
In reply the German guns shelled nearby waters for over an hour, shells arriving in twos and threes overy few minutes.
The Straits of Dover was brightly sunlit, but a shroud of mist made it impossible to
to see exactly what was happening.
It seems as though the Germans attempted blindly to shell British ships moving through the Channel.
Chinese Education
In The War
Chinese Education in the War. by Hubert Frayn, published by Kelly & Walsh.
The China that was born with the Revolution of 1912 is a na- tion whose movements are epic not only because of the physical vastness of things Chinese, but because of the elemental hero- ism of the people's struggle to emerge together through the curtain of centuries of the purely Oriental way of living to the practical things which the twentieth century has thrust before them.
One of the things China is learning
CHEERFUL MR.
CHURCHILL
LONDON, Oct. 20. (Reuter),—Mr. Winston Churchill is astounding his Cabinet colleagues by his inexhaustible energy and ---freshness of mind.
on
Speaking to a North of England audience Saturday, Lord
Lloyd, Secretary for the Colonies, added that he had never seen the-Prime Minister in better heart than he is these days.
all feel better **We about the war than we
have did. We
been
· through--great · calamities and catastrophei, yet here are to-day with the Army and Navy in the greatest fettle."
we
1
Chinese Dies Completing A Mission
Just Left Hongkong
October 21, 1940.
TAKE THE LIMELIGHT
Turkey, Bulgaria SPECIAL
And Greece
VALUE
LONDON, Oct, 20 (Router) The limelight moved thain week-end from Rumanin which
is now de facto if not do juro under the German heel, further south to Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece
Mr. G. W. Rendall, the British Minister in Sono, has gone to Istanbul
to
seo his colleague, Sir Hughe Knatchbull Hugesien and, saya Reuter's diplomatic correspondent, before leaving he had a long talk with King Boris so that he is able to with Tho acquaint his colleague King's attitude to the new moves In the Balkans-some idea of which It is possible to deduce from the fact that the German press has Jaunched flerce campaign against King Boris
What Axis Hope
21
Sir Hughe has seen Mr. Sarajoglu, the Turkish Foreign Minister, and he may be able to throw some light on the reaction of Turkey towards possible Axle push further into the Balkans which will no doubt be in- Quenced by the attitude of Sovelt Russia.
No doubt the Axis Powers are hoping that Greece will submit tame- too, as did Rumanía, but with such an object lesson before her eyes, CHUNGKING, Oct. 20 (Cen- Athens is unlikely to fall into the tral News).—Mr. Chang Shan-same trap. In this she has the sup- tse, famous Chinese poet-painter, port of a British guarantee backed up who returned to China recently by the British Navy: from a tour abroad, passed away SUNER HAS TALK in Chungking yesterday morning at the age of 62.
from
WITH HIMMLER
A native of Soochow, Chang his learned how to paint
London, Oct. 20 (Reuter) Senor mother, and later developed his Serrano Suner, Spain's new Foreign technique to near perfection by using Minister, had a talk with Herr allve tigers which he had several in Himmler, Chief of the German Secret pre-war days as models.
Police, who arrived in Madrid to-day. Suner accompanied the German to the World Palace where he was re- ceived by General Franco who, ne- cording to the Lyons Radio, had a
In the winter of 1938, the National Relief Commission sent Chang abroad to raise funds, which he successful did in Paris, New York, Chicago, Boston,
greatest attraction
NAZIS DENY NEW to do is to defend herself; another. Boleh Philadelphia and Elollywood conversation lasting an hour with
PENETRATIONS
BUCHAREST, Oct, 20 (Reuter). Two more oficial denials were given here concerning German penetration Into Rumania.
The reports published abroad that German division has arrived in the all region of Ploesti are denied.
It is similarly denied that 30 German merchant vessels, loaded with armaments, have reached Rumania.
the subject of Mr. Freyn's book, is to teach her
children.
cept), that education
of
a his paints was "China Roar," simple but forceful work of a sleepy lion roaring atop a mountain.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt invited Artist Chang to the White House' more than one
Col. Knox Appeals
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Colonel Knox, Secretary for Navy, in a special Navy Day message,
matic. on urges servicemen to keep the United States Navy strong, efficient and ready "in this serious time in the nation's history,"
It j a glorious tribute to tho soundness of the foundation of the New China. (not the Japanese con- still one of the main objects for which she
He arrived in Hongkong by the strives, while beating back the in- vader from her innermost fastnesses. 8. City of Newport News
September 25. During his brief stay is that Biruggle The story of worthy to take its place among the here he gave an exhibition of his world. Universities paintings at St. Francis Hotel which annnis of the crushed to the ground, brutally out-attracted many visitors.
He left for Chungking by plane raged, and scattered to the winds with deliberate wantonness have on October 4. Not long after his been set up again in primitive form arrival there he fell sick. for in the Interior. Scholars and
Peace Commission their students have unquestioningly
Plane Crashes
picked up their few text books and trekked thousands of miles literal- ly thousands of miles with the most inadequate forms of transport-to hear the word of culture. China has refused to let the Sino-Japanese war brutalise her. She looks ahead to the end of
wars. It is a pity that this particular
The outspoken aim of the recent tripartite pact, he added, was applien- tion of pressure on all nations not at war, including the United States.
Jews Want To Battle Alongside Britons
Using Sub-Stratosphere LONDON, Oct. 20 (Reuter)~~~The German air force is using the sub- stratosphere more and more in the daylight raids
Sunk In Mediterrancan on Britain. The raiders commonly cross the coast at
LONDON, Oct. 20 (Reuter)-Vichy 30,000 feet and make for London.
difficult announced to-day that three French Interception at that height
members of the since the manoeuvrability of the and four German
Armistice Control Commission were
LONDON, Oct: 20 (Reuter)~We have reason and hope to fighter is very much reduced near killed in an air disaster October subject should be published in such expect that at long Inst the war services of Jews in Palestine will ceiling where the controls are apt to 10.
form as be sluggish.
The plane in
which they were in the War." Though its cheapness: used, declared Paul Goodman, presiding at the annual confer- The enemy
also well out of range travelling crashed in the Mediter (it is a paper bound volume) willence in London of the Zionist Federation of Britain and Ireland. make-it-available-to-many, the sub- The speaker added that Jews in Palestine could be relied count chiefly for the small losses of Six German non-commissioned Ject is worthy of more ambitious on to do their utmost to defend all those British interests of the Luftwaffe recently and for the officers and men also perished.
trealment and should be book that fact that on several occasions their. Some bodies have been washed losses have been no more, and some- ashore. times less, than ours,
of AA batteries. These tactics-ne-ranean
on
The announcement says that the The almost exclusive use of Mes-plane "was undoubtedly caught in a- zerschmitts 100 and 110 has greatly storm." reduced the area of attack
A search by German and French England.
planes foiled to locate any wreckage.
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Egypt Maintains Fair Economy Despite War
CAIRO, Oct. 20 (Reuter),-During the past five months, the rallway revenue of Egypt has increased by £239,000 and the harbour dues by £172,000 because of the arrival of troops and war material from the British Empire.
These figures prove that both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea are completely under British control.
The wheels of commerco and in-f dustry are also turning smoothly since what little Egypt lost externally trade. is picking up shc
in local Some
normally £500,000
spent aboard. now stays at home, while Britain is spending two millions annually in Egypt for tho main- tenance of troops and for war. pur
poses.
It is true that the local cotton trade has been hit but Britain has helped to relieve the situation by purchases amounting to £3,000,000.
Mr. Eden In Jerusalem
a cheap
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was nothing that stood more to British Government to raise a Jewish France's discredit or would manifest army under the British dog and to 50 pathetically her. debasement, as mobilise all the resources of Palestine
the policy of making Jews the scape for the war effort. Airmen Save Sailors
LONDON, Oct. 20 (British Wire.. less)-After being adrift nine hours;. 24 survivors of a British naval vessèi'i were
rescued by Patrolling-|
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AUSSIE PILOTS READY SOON
JERUSALEM, Oct 20 (Reuter) —
LONDON, Oct. 20 (Reuter). Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary of State
"Highly-trained Australian pilots, for. War, arrived at Jerusalem on Thursday, according to an official observers, wireless operators and air announcement issued to-night.
gunners will be in the thick of the
He was accompanied by Generalight early next year," the Australian Air Minister stated, according to the Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander.
Sydney radio, In-Chief in the Middle East,
Mr. Eden inspected many units of Recent precautionary measures in- clude the allotment of funds for the the garrison while in Palestive. protection of reservoir catchments in A dotachment of the Arab Legion the event of air raids and the nursing formed a Guard of Honour when Mr at. stocks of commodities. Steps are Eden visited Ammon on Friday and being taken to swell the country's was received by Emir Abdullah of cool reserves and the Stato railways Trans-Jordan, have decided buy 5,000 tons of Later Mr. Eden saw a desert patrol coal from Natal at 18s. 6d. per ton of the Arab Legion' and a unit of the to be delivered in Egypt at a freight Trans-Jordan Frontier Force. rate of 70s.
Faithful Turkey; A Comparison
ISTANBUL, Oct. 20 (Reuter)-A unanimous expression of faith In Mr. Eden's mission to the Middle East and an intensification of action by Great Britain against tho Axis Powers, is contained in the Turkish press to-day. -
In
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The Minister also said that further results of the Empire Air Scheme
when numbers pilots would have would be in evidence next month completed their course,
Stating that the scheme would involve an expenditure of nearly £55,000,000 within the next two years, the Minister added that the monthly quota of pilots, observers and other personnel was being speeded up.
Premier To Speak U.S. Embassy Still
LONDON, Oct. 20 (Reuter)~~~The Premier will broadcast to the French nation to-morrow at 7.35 p.m.G.M.T apeaking first in English, then in French.
In London
LONDON, Oct. 20 (Reuter).—The Berlin radio report that the American Embassy In London has moved to another city is denied here by an official who said, "We are still doing business at the old stand,”
FOOCHOW CONSUL
French Ambassador In Kunming. KUNMING, Och 21 (Central The newspaper "Tan" comments: News)-M Henri Come, French "Hitler's ambitions envisage a string Ambassador to China, arrived yester of conquests such as were obtained by day afternoon. In Kunming from Alexander the Great and it is perhaps French Indo-China by express train in the Middle East that Alexander the during an air raid alarm.' He is leaving for the British Colony 10- Great's terrible fate awaits him." leaving to-day for Chungking by
FOOCHOW, Oct 21 (Centra News) Mr. Robert S. Ward, US, Consul in Foochow, will be trans- ferred to Hongkong as Consul. He
ward the end of October..
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MEMBERS of Penarth Home Guard are to march
in procession to the local police station to pay-and protest against-a 10s. fine imposed on one of their section leaders who refused to pay a shilling toll for driving his car along the Cardiff-Penarth road on official duties.
So that a colleague should not go to, Jail, the Home Guard will give two- pence each towards the flog, and pay It in small change after making their protest.
have to pay if they are in their own Even ambulances do not
cars. escape.
Penarth Council have protested against the toll, which they say has While the Home Guard were restricted the town's growth. making this decision, Lord Plymouth, 15 one of the owners of the road, who also chairman of the Welsh Terri torial Association, said "I did not know until to-day the case had been
the court. brought before management of the toll road is not in my hands. But I will go into the question of whether the Home Guard can use the road without paying a toll."
Lord Bute's Interest
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allow the Home. Guard protest
Feen a mint
Instead,"
A protest meeting is also to be held.
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in Penarth where most residents, to
"avoid paying the tolls, use another
roitto to Cardiff. This is two miles
longer, and involves driving up a
steep hill, Af the Tollgate private cars
paya shilling a day, and buses two
shillings each time they pass. Lorrios
with trailers are charged four,
shillings, a
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