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Four Blows
By War, Still She Smiles
Scaring Night
FROM PAGE ONE
Hollanit, and several aerodromes.
One Royal Air Force plane is mias ing from these operations,
Evacuees At Poznan LONDON, Oct. 24 (Reuter)It is reported that the first batch of 700 German children to be from Berlin on account of air raids, has arrived at Poznan.
evacuated
Power Stations Hit LONDON, Oct. 24 (Reuter). Berlin, bombed again last Wednesday night for the 22nd time, was visited by R.A.F. heavy bombers for nearly two hours.
Putlilz
Strasse
the
Exchange. At A Glance
SELLING
T.T. London Demand London T.T. T.T. Singapore T.T. Japan TT. India U.S.A T.T.
Shanghal
TT Manila
T.T. Batavia
T.T. France
.1/274
1/2
.385 .024 103 0214
.45%
42
T.T. Bangkok
149%
TT, Surro
.90 .Nom,
.07 .1/6%
1/3
.2/3%
T.T. Switzerland T.T. Australia
BUYING
4 m/s L/C London 4 m/s D/P London
.23/4
4 m/s L/C U.S.A,
4 m/s France 30 d/s India
Nom.
.84
U.S. Cross rate in London 4.02%
.4.03 U.S. Cross rate in NY.
at
and
October 25, 1940.
Attack By Spain On Gibraltar Said
FROM PAGE ONE
efforis of much vaster Import than was previously believed.
His meeting with Laval and Franco is interpreted as showing his desire to align all the European Powers after which he will face Britain either with a deinand to lift the blockade or with a peace proposal.
The fact that Hitler is personally conducting the negotiations is stress- ed as proof of their importance.
According to a London report M. Laval is pressing Hiller to reduce the German occupation of France in order to avert the growing danger of currency inflation in the country. France, it is understood, is paying 400,000,000 francs dally in meeting costs of the occupation a higher Bgure than either the Dawes or Young Plans imposed on the Reich.
Communique on Meeting BERLIN, Oct. 24 (Reyter)-A communique issued after the meeting of Hitler and Petain says: "The Fuchrer to-day received the Chief of the French State and the President of
Marshal Petain.
Reaching Berlin well after midnight Heavy Casualties In French Council of Ministers,
Two of the capital's principal power stations were among the targets selected by the R.A.F. They were the Berliner Electriclly Works in Charlottenberg area and the Kingen- berg Works on the opposite side of the city.
The Kreat rallway yards "HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY
Tempelhof, THE CAMERA" Second Edition.
NORTH-EAST county sports-Lehreter were also attacked. Over 60 excellent views of the Colony, Price $1.50. Obtainable at woman, wife of a distinguished Kelly
& Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong soldier, Mrs. W. D. B. Thompson by dead reckoning navigation be- cause of cloud, they were met by Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, can still smile though the war
Intense and concentrated fire from South China Morning Post, Ltd,
has dealt her some hard knocks.the batteries on the outskirts of the Wyndham Street.
city and in the city itself, Her husband,
But neither guns nor searchlights Colonel W. D. B. Thompson, Q.S.O., M.C., was made could stop the attack. The crew of prisoner of war at Dunkirk. So was one bamber, which spent half an her only son, twenty-four-year-old hour over the capital, said they went
Сотря
Lleutenant Harold straight through the outer borrage, Thompson.
picked up position in the target area For alve weeks there was no news and got ready to bomb. of her husband and son. Mrs. Thomp- son cancelled all social engagementa and stayed Indoors, wailing for news.
Home Guard Resigns In Protest
BETWEEN seventy and eighty members of the Home Guard at Newchurch, near Leigh, Lancs, have handed in their arms as a protest because their commun- der, Mr. P. Crampton, a solicitor, has been asked to resign.
Newchurch is thus left without a Home Guard company, but it was learned that most of the men are carrying on until a decision is reach-
ed.
Tank
One day the telephone rang. It was news of her husband. He was a prisoner of war. Two days later came news of her son. He, too, was
a prisoner.
Mrs. Thompson began picking up the threads of her normal active out door and social life.
Bomb Hits Home
Glasgow Disaster
→→→→FROM PAGE ONE
Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and the Vice-President of the French Council of Ministers, M. Laval, were present,
Transfer To Paris LONDON, Oct. 24 (Reuter)The establishments-a starch works-was first tangible result of the Hitler- destroyed by an explosion and fire aval meeting will be the transfer
of the Petain Government to Paris, i according to the Berlin correspondent to-day, with a heavy casunity list.
the Yugo-Slavian newspaper Substantial renovations were in pro- of gress when an explosion wrecked the "Bolitika" as quoted by the Belgrade works, windows over a wide area radio, neighbouring flour mill was blown off.
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Locating Targets Some anti-aircraft shells burst very close and a member of the crew whe put his head out of the side windows said he heard them go off with "a crisp sharp explosion. Their bombs
lieved that tên are dead and 28 were started a large fre.
Other aircraft located their ob- taken to hosplini.
the aid of parachute! jectives by dares. A squadron leader attacking one railway yard said that somebody
stated the regular fremen. It is be-
states that the situation in Syria was given special attention.
New Peace Move NEW YORK, Oct. 24 (Reuter)— Rumours that France may launch a new peace move on behalf of the
in Axis are circulating diplomatic circles in Vichy, according Vichy
These rumours are linked with the
else put down a fare very nicely for Air Marshal Killed advices received here.
the
crucial moment when "wo carried out attacks straight But third hard knock was not and level, ignoring the fire from the many days away. It came in the form ground. It was right in the centre of a message from the Alr Ministry of the city. About ten to 15 seconds fires telling her that her nephew, Flight-after the bombs burst. four Lieutenant It. V., Jeff, only British spring up."
Another pilot made six separate do The resignations fallow an incl-flying-officer with the Croix
bur, was flights over the Charlottenberg power the dent in July in which the rector of Guerre and D. F. C. and
station to make certain that Newchurch, Rev. II, E. Elrington-missing.
end of bombs dropped dead over the of mis- Ret. Firer broke out here too.
Reed, was ordered to accompany two members of the Home Guard
to their local headquarters after he
bad refused to hand over the key of an emply school building.
Even this was not the Mrs. Thompson's chapter fortune. In a recent air raid the Arst heavy salvo struck her home. "They seem to have habit of me out first for their nasty After a stay of a quarter of an hours. Thompson sald white at the headquarters the rector was she helped to clear the debris caused allowed to leave.
by the explosion
He explained that he was only one of three trustees of the school and that he was not satisfied as to authority of the person who asked for the key.
t
She dismissed her lond of trouble with the retnark: "After all, we are theat war, and we must train ourselves to face up to any eventuality, how- ever unpleasant.
this "The balance of fortune in war has not been on my side, but I still feel able to stay put and to carry on
"Outrage at My Home". The rector told his congregation: "You will all know of the outrage committed
I have al my home. placed the matter in the hands of my solicitors, the Diocesan authorities and the Bishop of Liverpool."
One of the Home Guard said: "Our move in sympathy with Mr. Cramplu, whom we have confidence.
"We want this matter cleared up unce and for all."
—ERTAL. #94
METROPOLE
LONDON, Oct. 24 (Reuter).-Air Vice Marshal C. H. B. Blount has been killed in an air crash.
reported impending meeting between M. Pierre Laval and Jitter in Paris. Recall From Hungary MADRID, Oct.
(Reuter).
2-1
(Army Co-Operation Squadrons) of Senor de Muguiro, Spanish Minister
He commanded the Air Component
the R.A.F. in France.
10 Jungary, has returned to Spain.
Rifle And Lewis-Gun Firing Tests
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Sympathy With China CHUNGKING, Oct., 25 (Central News)-Word has been received from Mayor Siddiqi of Calcutta that he has postponed his goodwill trip! to China to next month owing to a closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise recrudescence of his illness.
He originally planned to arrive in stated, and where mails are advertis- Chungking on the Double Tenth, ed to close at or before 9 a.m. regis- and parcel mails are closed ot tered October 10,
3 p.m. on the previous day. When Mr. Siddiqi is coming to China at malls are advertised to close after the request of Mohammed All 5 p.m., Registered and Parcel mails. Jinnah, President of the Indian Mos are closed at 5 p.m. lem League, who follows the course of China's war
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Friday, Oct. 25 Interest and sympathy. During the Macasser and Sourabaya..2.30 p.m. recent visit of the Chinese Moslem Air Mall by Air to. Rangoon to Goodwill Mission to India and Asia:
connect with the "British OverseRE. Airways." Minor, Mr. Jinnah promised to de- legale an Indian Moslem envoy to
A large factory with its own rail-! tar-way siding 50 miles east of Berlin, was atlacked and other objectives in- cluding railway cars at Frankfurt- un-Order, a factory 40 miles east of "The Military Authorities inform Bremen where night work was in us that those members of the HK.V. progress, the Dornier aircraft fac- D.C. Training Company and Train-China on a return goodwill tour, furies at Wiesmat on the Baltic Coast, ing Cadre who have hot fred elther and their rifle or Lewis gun course will and all refineries at Hanover Madgburg which had both been parade.ot Kowloon A Range on Satur- damaged in previous raids,
day, at-2 p.m.
Railways and Factories Tons of high explosive bombs and hundreds of incendiaries were un loaded on the dock area and the ad- Jacent railway sidings in two separate raids, the Arst lasting half an hour and the second an hour, on Emban.
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......Oct. 28, 8.30-a.m. Monday, Oct. 28
.1 n, Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A.. Central and South America and *United Kingdom via Sun Fran- ciscu, (No Mall for Canada).
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.175 n. 3871⁄2 sa.
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150 n.)
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READ THIS LETTER
beat SAY,
AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS DEPARTMENT,
KONG KONS,
30th April, 1940.
I beg to inform you that a DUSLAIKS WAN per part dertag the roost blackout to erperimesi vizh 15-reit dine-sprayed lampa supplied by you? company.
1 m so it will be of interest to you to bear that the building in which thaso.trials were arried out wxe sot located from the air. aoither vers the rooms which were lli with these Lange visible from the ground at a distance of 100 yard.
The results obtained are mosì encouraging,
and further trials on a larger soule will be narried out during the part blackout,
Youre faithfully,
Als Dis
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