GERMAN PLANES THWARTED
Fail To ReachTM London
LONDON, Oct. 20 (Reuter),—Following up Jast night's ralds, the Germans were again busy to-day, but few machines succeeded in getting through to London which, however, hnd experienced five alert periods by Inte afternoon.
A formation of enemy fighters and bombers crossed the Kent coast at a number of points but each time found both A.A. defences and interceptor planes rendy for thom,
Most turned tall but among those which got through were two single (. machines. These dropped five bombs on the outskirts of London, fortunate- Jy on roads and fields.
A.A. guns on the Thaines Estuary were twice in action during the after moon.
Bomber In City Street
Ʌ yellow-nosed Messerschmitt bomber was shot down in a London street this afternoon. The pilot was killed.
Hundreds Of
U.S. Planes For Britain
20 LONDON, Oct. (Reuter)- Another is believed to have been brought down off the coast. It was American aircraft are now reaching seen streaking off to France with a England in hundreds and the number fighter plane in pursuit and smoke will steadily increase next year, sald
Lord Lothian, In was pouring from the German.
short speech im- The fighter returned later and did mediately on landing in England
from America vin Llsbor.
a "Victory" roll.
•
il
American rearmament was rapidly Seven Nazia Downed LONDON, Oct. 20 (Reuter) is getting into its stride, he said, and now officially stated that seven Ger-American opinion now realised the man aircraft were destroyed to-day. necessity of backing up Great Bri
tain. A tremendous Impression has Berlin claimed that mine British
been created in the United States by planes were shot down in the Sunday the way the public in taking the machines had not returned to their
eir London raids. bases. Hits were claimed on Im- Lord Lothian expects to remain in in England about three weeks. He wil military installations London and on a troop encampment have a few days holiday in Scotland before returning to London for con- in south-west England,
rakts and that three German
portant
Southeast Attached
sultations with the Government.
*
Monday,
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FOLKESTONE, Oct, 20 (UP).
British long range guns to- day started the biggest bom- burdment of the war shortly be fore noon, firing salvo after
salvo across the Straits of Dover In the direction of Cape Gris Nez.
In reply the German guns shelled nearby waters for over an hour.. ells arriving in twos and threes every few minutes.
shells
The Straits of Dover was brightly sunlit, but a shroud of mist made it impossible 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 Production Speed-Up London, Oct. 20 (Reuter) The vastness of things Chinese, but United States army has asked Ameri-because of the elemental hero- can neroplane factories to do 24 sm of the people's struggle to hour shifts, and Lord Lothian in an emerge together through the purely Oriental way of living to the practical things which the twentieth century has thrust before them.
CHEERFUL AR
CHURCHILL
Oct. 20.
LONDON, (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.
war
we
"We all feel better about the
then did. We have been through great calamities and catastrophes, yet here we are to-day with the Army and Navy in the greatest fettle,"
Chinese Dies Completing
A Mission
Just Left Hongkong
October 21, 1940.
TAKE THE LIMELIGHT
Turkey, Bulgaria SPECIAL
And Greece
LONDON, Oct. 20 (Reuter) The limelight moved this week-end from Rumania which is now de facto if not de juro
VALUE
In
under the German heel, further SLIP-ONS
south to Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece.
Mr. G. Rendall, the British Minister in Soflu, has gone to Istanbul to see his colleague, Sir Hughe Knatchbull Hugessen and, saya Reuter's diplomatic correspondent, before leaving he had a long talk with King Boris so that he is able to acquaint his colleague with the King's attitude to the new mover In the Bulkans-some idea of which It is possible to deduce from the fact that the German press hus launched a fierce campaign against King Boris.
What Axis Hope
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 passible Axis push further into the Balkons which will no doubt be in- fluenced by the attitude of Soveit Tussin.
No doubt the Axis Powers are hoping that Greece will submit tame- V too, as did Rumania, but with CHUNGKING, Oct. 20 (Cen-such an objcel lesson before her eyes, Athens is unlikely to fall into the tral Newa)-Mr. Chang Shan-same trap. In this she has the sup- tac, famous Chinese poet-painter, port of a British guarentee backed up who returned to China recently by the Bellish Navy. from a tour abroad, passed away SUNER HAS TALK in Chungking yesterday morning
WITH HIMMLER at the age of 62.
LONDON.
Oct, 20 (Reuter) Operating at a great height, German planes to-day were mainly over southeast England.
The damage they did, says an Air Ministry communique, was not heavy interview shortly after his arrival in curtain of centuries of the alive tigers which he had several in Himmler, Chief. of the German Secret nor were casualties numerous. Five England.
Th
don and
and
On
NAZIS DENY NEW PENETRATIONS BUCHAREST, Oct. 20 (Reuter).-
A native of Soochow, Chang how to paint from his learned mother, and later developed his technique to near perfection by using
pre-war days as models.
London, Oct. 20 (Reuter)--Senor Serrano Suner, Spain's new Foreign Minister, had w talic with Herr Pollee, who arrived in Madrid to-day. In the winter of 1030, the National Suner accompanied the German to Relief Commission sent Chang abroad the World Palace where he was re- to raise funds, which he successfully ceived by General Franco who, ur- One of the things China is learning did in Paris, New York, Chicago, cording to the Lyons Radio, had
hour with to do is to defend herself; another, Boston, Philadelphia and Hollywood conversation lasting an
exlubitions. The greatest attraction him.
191131 his pants was "China Roar," a to the simple but forceful work of a sleepy
lion roaring atop a mountain.
the subject of Mr. Freyn's book, is of
to teach her children.
Col. Knox Appeals
a
The British envoy to America of the Nazi planes were destroyed.
the factories are The raiders were mostly fighters or tudded: "I think
the doing it." fighter-bombers which crossed Kent coast in formation on several, Occasions during the morning afternoon bound for London and the
Estimry, Some succeeded in reaching Lon-
and bombs were dropped
It is a glorious tribute London, Kent and Essex but none
New China (not the Japanese con- soundness of the foundation of the
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt invited To Servicemen from elsewhere.
White House made to
cept), that education is still one of Artist Chang to the
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (Reuter). she more than once. the Thames here concerning German penetration the main objects
-Colanet Knox. Secretary for for which reach
London from
into Rumanía,
He arrived in Hongkong by the Navy, in a special Navy Day message. Estuary but British Interceptors were
strives while beating back the in- The reports published abroad that vader from her innermost fastnesses. 8.6. City of Newport News on urges servicemen to keep the United there each time and, after the â‚A. ja Gerinan division has arrived in the batteries had given
The story of that struggle is September 25. During his brief stay Siates Navy strong, efficient and ralders some foit region of Ploesti are dented. the
In the salvoes three fierce dogfights took!
worthy to take its place among the here he gave an exhibition of his ready. "In this serious lime It is similarly denied that 30 ver two towns.
the world. Universities paintings at St. Francis Hotel which nation's history." place of
German merchant vessels, londett
The outspoken nim of the recent Two of the enemy fighters three with
crushed to the ground, brutally out-attracted many visitors. armaments, hove reached
He left for Chungking by plane tripartite pact, he added, was applica- attacked the balloon Harrage Rumania.
raged and scattered to the winds with deliberate ut Dover harbour but were driven
wantonness
on October 4. Not long after his tion of pressure on all nations not ot been set up again in primitive form arrival there he fell sick,
war, including the United States. off by anti-aircraft gunners without
far in the Interior. Scholars and shooting down a single balloon.
on
Peace Commission
Plane Crashes
Using Sub-Stratosphere LONDON, Oct, 20 (Reuter).—The | German air force is sing the sub- stratosphere more and more in the daylight
raids
Britain. The Sunk In Mediterrancan raiders commonly cross the coast at
LONDON, Oct. 20 (Ileuter).-Vichy 30,000 feet and make for London. Interception at that height is diffleuft announced to-day that three French and four German members of the since the manoeuvrability of the
Armistice Control Commission were fighter is very much reduced near its filled in an ale disaster on October ceiling where the controls are opt to 10. be sluggish.
annals of
have
their students have unquestioningly
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. subject should be published in such Though its cheapness
Jews Want To Battle Alongside Britons
the
LONDON, Oct. 20 (Reuter),We have reason and hope to
The plane in which they were ir. the Was "Chinese Education expect that at long last the war services of Jews in Palestine will
The enemy is also well out of range travelling crashed in the Mediter -of-AA.- batteries. These tactics Cranean count chiefly for the small losses of Six German non-commissioned the Luftwaffe recently and for the officers and mich also perished. fact that on several occasions their Some bodies have been washed
losses have been no more, and some-fashore, times less, than ours,
The announcement says that the
The almost exclusive use of Mcs-plane "was undoubtedly caught in a serschmitts 109 and 110 has greatly storm." reduced the arca of attack on A search by German and French planes falled to locate why wreckage. England:
Egypt Maintains Fair Economy Despite War
CAIRO, Oct. 20 (Reuter).-During the past five months, the railway 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 commerce and in- dustry are also turning smoothly since what little Egypt lost externally she
in local trade. is picking up. £500,000 Some
normally
spent sboard, now stays at home, while
Britain is spending two millions
poses.
Mr. Eden In Jerusalem
annually in Egypt for the main- JERUSALEM, Oct. 20 (Reuter),— tenance of troops and for war pur- Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for War, arrived at Jerusalem on Thursday, according to an official announcement issued to-night.
He was accompanied by General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander- In-Chief in the Middle East,
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,"
Recent precautionary measures in-
protection of reservoir catchments in
|
a cheap
(it is a paper bound volume) will make it available_to_many, t the sub- ject is worthy of more ambitious treatment and should be a book that one would be proud to have in one's library.-G.
Rescued From Sea
Airmen Save Sailors LONDON, Oct. 20 (British Wire- less). After being adrift nine hours, 24 survivors, of a British naval vessel were recently rescued by Patrolling Blenheims of
Constal the R.A.F. Comunund.
Seeing a white speck fluttering on the sea, the patrol found a raft and several Boats Alled with men one of whom was vigorously waving a white rag. Two of the Blenhelms remained while the third, having dropped its own dingly, returned to report to the base Highspeed motor boats put out and, picked up the men.
AUSSIE PILOTS READY SOON
(Reuter) LONDON, Oct. 20 fighly-trained Australian pilots, observers, wireless operators and air guaners will be in the thick of the fight early next year," the Australian Air Minister stated, according to the Sydney radia.
The Minister also said that further Mr. Eden Inspected many units of results of the Empire Air Scheme
Karrison while in Palesi!e.
would be in evidence next month
A
clude the allotment of funds for the the detachment of the Arab Legion the event of air raids and the nursing formed a Guard of Honour when Mr.
when numbers of pilots would have completed their course,
of stocks of commodities. Steps are Eden visited Amman on Friday and Stating that the scheme would being taken to swell the country's was received by Emir Abdullah of coal reserves and the State railways Trans-Jordan,
havo decided to buy 5,000 tons of Later, Mr. Eden saw a desert patrol coal from Natal at 18s. Od. per ton of the Arab Leglon and a unit of the to be delivered in Egypt at a freight, Trans-Jordan Frontier Force. rate of 705. 1
Faithful Turkey;
A Comparison ISTANBUL, Oct. 20 (Reuter)-A| unanimous expression of faith in Mr. Eden's mission to the Middle East and In an intensification of netion by Great Britain
ngsinst the Axis
Premier To Speak
LONDON, Oct. 20 (Reuter)The Premier will broadcast to the French nation to-morrow at 7.35 p.m.G.M.T., speaking first in English, then in French.
French Ambassador
Powers, is contained in the Turkish In Kunming
press to-day,
involve an expenditure of nearly two £55,000,000 within the next years, the Minister added that the monthly quota of pilots, observers and other personnel was being speeded up.'
U.S. Embassy Still
In London
LONDON, Oct. 20 (Router).-The Berlin radio report that the American Embassy in London has moved to another city is denied here by on official who said, "We are still doing business at the old stand."
FOOCHOW CONSUL
KUNMING, Oct. 21 (Centrol The newspaper "Tan" comments: News)-M. Henri Cosme, French FOOCHOW, Oct, 21 (Central "Hitler's ambitions envisage a string Ambassador to China, arrived yester-News),Mr. Robert S. Ward, U.S. of conqueste such as were obtained by day afternoon in Kunming from Consul in Fooehow, will be trans- Alexander the Great and it is perhaps French Indo-Ching by express train ferred to Hongkong ca Consul. He In the Middle East that Alexander the | during an air raid alarm. He isis leaving for the British Colony to- Great's terrible fate awaits him.". leaving to-day for Chungking by ward the end of October.
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The speaker_added_that_Jews in Palestine could be relied on to do their utmost to defend all those British interests of which the country was the nerve centre.
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Soldiers Charged For Using Road
Home Guards To Pav
Toll
Fine- 2d.
Each
MEMBERS of Penarth Home Guard are to march
in procession to the local police station to pay-and potest against-a 10s. fine imposed on one of their section lenders 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 fine, and pay it in small change after making their protest.
Guard While the Home
were making this decision, Lord Plymouth, one of the owners of the road, who is also chairman of the Welsh Terri torial Association, said "I did not know until to-day the case had been
the brought before
court. management of the tell 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."
The
1s
Lord Bute's Interest
Chief Interest in the toll road held by Lord Bute, who recently sold halt of Cardiff to a syndleate. The chief of his legal department refused to comment on the enac, He said: "The magistrates gave their decision. We shall say nothing more."
Mr. Morgan said: "My wife has persuaded me not to go to jail, but to allow the Home Guard protest Instead,"
a
A protest meeting is also to be held In Penarth where most residents, to avold paying the tolls, use another. route to Cardiff. This is two miles) longer, and involves driving up steep hill. At the Tollgate private cars pay a shilling a day, and buses two shillings each time they pass. Lorrica with trailers are charged shillings,
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Soldiers on duty and in uniform
have to pay if they are in their own not cura. Even ambulances do escape,. Penarth Council have protested against the toll, which they say has restricted the town's growth,
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