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五拜禮 六月二十央港香 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940. 日八初月一十
HURLS
BOMBS
DUSSELDORF
AND
R.A.F. ON
TURIN: DAMAGE GREAT
LONDON, DEC. 5 (REUTER);—R.A.F. BOMBERS LAST NIGHT MÅDE ATTACKS ON VARIOUS 'OBJECTIVES IN THE DUSSELDORF AREA, WHERE FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS RE- SULTED FROM THE BOMBING.
ANOTHER FORCE OF BRITISH AIRCRAFT, STATES THE AIR MINISTRY, SELECTED TARGETS AT TURIN, AND CONSIDERABLE damage was obSERVED BY THE BOMBER CREWS.
Greeks Capture Another City
Italians Withdraw From Porto Edda
Other targets attacked included the ports of Antwerp and Calais, and several enemy aerodromes as well as search-light and anti-aircraft gun positions were included.
One British aircraft is missing from operations over Italy, but all other aircraft returned safely.
Unfounded Report
RAILWAYS BLASTED
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Dec. 5 (Reuter)~Raids on the big LONDON, Def 5 (UP)--The Netherlands Government spokesman Mannesmann Rohrenweke armament works employing states that the report that Queen some 6,000 people, railway yards in the Derendorf Wilhelmina is going to Lisbon, and thence to NewYork, is entirely district, quays and dockyards along the Rhine and untrue. Dusseldorf coal-gas plants were the main objectives of the R.A.F. raids.
There was much cloud, but the first arrival was lucky in finding a gap, and more than a dozen fires followed his bursts of high explosives and incendiarica.
..
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" STRUGA, Dec. 5 (UP)-
Aircraft continued to raid Dusseldorf at intervals for near- According to frontier reports, ly 12 hours. One plot say "15 to 20 good fires" in and around the the Greeks have captured a Derendorf railway yards, and the flare of fires striking village only two and a half miles from Porto Edda. The fall of through the cloud banks told of the crippling damage.
the village followed bitter fight- ing and heavy losses on both u.des. Afterwards the Greeks crosses the Porto Edda-Delvinc road and succeeded in half encircling the port.
Last night the Italians with-| drew from Porto Edda and the Greeks are said to have entered the city this morning. In the course of the operation they lost
SOVIET STANDS BY CHINA
three officers and 28 soldiers Japan Uneasy
-killed and 70 wounded, while the Italians lost eight officers and 68 men killed, and a further 160 wounded. The Greeks captured five officers and 120 soldiers, as
Internally
up
* Turin Arsenal. Crippled ·· LONDON, Dec. 5 (Reuter).— The Royal Arsenal at Turin was the chief objective of last night's R.A.F. attacks on Italy, and much was done to reduce the Arsenal's output of guns, tanka and ammunition and other instruments of war, states the Air Ministry News Service.
The British pilots flew through dense clouds until they reached the Alps, but the clouds suddenly clcored and visibility over Turin was excel- Tent.
one
First news received in England of MOSCOW, Dec. 5 (Reuter), the raid was a message from well as trucks, guns und other The declaration just made to the pilot: "Raid successful. Weather per-
Japanese Government by the fect,"
the the Soviet Ambassador "that Greeks are 15 miles northwest of policy of the Soviet Union to- Moskapolje and are continuing their wards advance.
equipment,
In the Moskopolje
sector
China
remains
On Fiat Works Several hours later the Arst of the un-aircraft returned. On his way to the
British and Greek planes bombed changed" is the first important Arsenal, one bomber pinced a stick
Sino-Soviet rc- and caused considerable damage at statement on Valens, where five people were kill-lations for four months, ed and 13 injured.
of bombs across the Flat works, but the mujority of the attackers concen- trated on the Royal Arsens).
we
Wo are trying to establish the peace of all free peoples such as civilised peoples understand it, which is not a peace in which everybody is subdued to the will of one man or of one nation."
Consult- GILMAN'S
Commons Give
Definite
"No?
To Demand For Peace Overtures
Special to the "Telegraph"
LONDON, Dec. 5 (UP)-The House of Commons to-day rejected by a vote of 341 to 4, the Independent Labour Party's peace appeal amendment.
Mr. McGovern moved as amendment to the King's address- presented at the opening of the new Parliament on November 21, deploring the fact that the Government falled to set forth the Terms upon which peace could be made, and also deploring its failure to propose that a conference be called to end the conflict at an early date..
covered the ground of hir colleagues' arguments with all
Vigorous Speech By Attles LONDON, Dec. 6 (Reuter).his accustomed vehemence.
Major Attlee declared that there Replying for the Government in
was a fundamental fallacy through- the House of Commons debate, out Mr, Maxton's speech; it was that Mr. C. Attlee, Deputy Leader of there was the choice between a tefri- the House, addressed his reble war on the one hand, and all the marks to Mr. James Maxton who beauties of peace on the other. proposed an amendment to the speech from the Throne and
SPITFIRES CHASE NAZIS ACROSS THE
CHANNEL
LONDON, Dec. 5 (Reuter).—Formations of Messerschmidts which crossed the south-east coast of England to-day were scattered in all directions by Spitfires which chased them right across the Channel.
"I am not in a position to say when our war aims can be stated," continued Major Atileo, "bat 1 can say that we are trying to establish. the peace of all free peoples such as we civilised proples understand ft, which is not a pesce in which everybody is subdued to the will of one man or of ane nation.
Replace Anarchy 2-- "You must replace anarchy by ot- dered peace and you must base that. ordered peace on ordered justice.. we want to build a new world on the foundation of liberty-on giving the individual in every antica an op portunity to recognise to the full his or her personality,
“It is directly there that you come
Bombs were dropped on one town but did no serious damage. An unsuccessful
up Individual is nothing.. Wo bollove attempt was also made to bomb some small ships in the Channel but the ships replied against the Fascist idea that the you can broaden and expand the so effectively that the raiders were driven off,
principles we have adopted here not In the evening heavy gunfire adopted only but extended steadily to
the British Commonwealth shook Channel conat towns us throughout the British Empire-the British and German long-range extension of wider political, personal
ilberties."
King Pays Japanese Bombs guns fought as violent artillery and economic liber der
Visit To S'hampton
Given Wonderful Reception
5
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. Flares were dropped and a forgo The last such pronouncement are was started immediately. Grey (UP)-A wildly enthusiastic three crowd almost swept King George was made by the Foreign Com-smoke curled up for two to Constantly Bombed
from his feet when he paid a ATHENS, Dec. 5 (UP)--The inaninmissar, M. Molotov on August thousand feet.-
Other bombers quickly appeared concentrated above Tepelini under our relations with the great after nine o'clock, they bombed the Southampton caused by a four-
Allied aviation attacks. constant
e nation of China which is fighting Arsenal. bomb.rs are wreaking great damage on the flal on divisions. The Greeks for its existence, they are aro using anti-tank guns and have re- ever peatedly ambushed Italian armoured friendly in accordance with the units on the narrow road around, Soviet - Chinese non-aggression
Heavy fighting is in progress above pact."
Italian forets are reported to bel when he declared: "Regarding and for two hours, beginning shortly personal visit to the ruins at
Kilsoura.
good-neighbourly
and
day blitzkreig, which wrought ព Fires and explosions were so considerable havoc..
numerous, according to the report of one pilot, that It was Impossible to distinguish the effect of the bombs falling among them,
Begrimed and red-eyed fire-] men were still playing their hoses on flaming debris as His Majesty picked his way along
he main street.
Wound Frenchmen
--CHUNGKING, Dec. 6 (Router).—Two French railway employees were wounded, 14 Annamite- and · 3 - Chinese workmen killed, and 30 Annamites were wounded when eight Japanese planes, coming from bases in French Indo- China, on Tuesday raided Tchechuen station and yards on the Yunnan rail- way, 105 miles northward of Hakow, an Indo-China frontier station.
The names of the wounded Frenchmen are Castes and Clement.
duel across the Straits of Dover. The cannonding was continuing with unabated force after it had been in progress for an hour,
Aircraft Shot Down LONDON, Dec. 5(Router)—The number of enemy aircraft destroyed off the British coast 10-way has now Increased to 15, including one enemy bomber shot down of the south-west coast.
The remainder were destroyed in combats in the south-east, states an Air Ministry communique.
Two British aircraft were lost, but one pllot is safe.
One squadron of Spitfires, to-day shot down eight Messerschmidt 100's of the Kent coast without loss to thrinseives,
A Polish flying ofleer has thot down his second machine in five days.
New Zealand ********And The War
U. S. Loan
Wreck-To China
Huge Fires Lake Ochrid along the Mokrah While the statement made to Japan
Seven minutes after the last bomber heights in the deep snow, and the does not necessarily Imply any set-left on the return journey, a Berce
Warkers poised on hills of wreck- Grecks are reliably reported to have back to the recent efforts to not explosion was heard, and dames shot for BC.
ge and tottering walls paused for taken most of the heights after malise Soviet Japanese relations, It storming reparate Italian positions,
miles on the homeward Journey.
moment to glance curiously at the does give the lie to many rumours by main and were visible publicly reaffirming Soviet friendship Large fires were also started at the flicial entourage and then carried for China
by Flat works. Two bombs burst on the on swinging their picks. represented DLS
Chiang Kal-shek's roof and one large explosion was Women and children who could be observed. A subsidiary Flat factory, spared from the labour of reconstruc- statement lose in manufacturing both motor and aeration turned out in their thousands to
Greek Air Activity ATHENS, Dec. B (UP)—It is Generalissimo officially announced that wreck dive Jovernment.
Criticised
In It To The End WELLINGTON, Dec, 5 (Reuter), "New Zealand is with you to the last penay of our wealu, the last inch of our property and the last The New drop of our blood."
Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Peter Fraser, gave this assurance to the British people at a State lunchcon marking the approaching end of Via- count | Governor General.
Sen. Taft Accuses co Galway's term of office as
bombers hit the troop concentrations Nor does the audit is made in engines, was also attacked. Two give King George a Royal welcome. Mr. Morgenthau
at Tepelini and Kelcyre,
Informed circles caumate that ten response to a notification by Tokyo sticks of bombs burst directly on the Italian planes were brought down in that the anti-Communist article of main buildings, after which a glow dog fights to-day. Off the coast near agreement just concluded with the was visible, and later it was clearly seen that an internal fire was raging. Junct to back Pago, Coumn 4 TURN to Back Pago, Column 5
R.A.F. And Army Units Range African Desert
LONDON," Dec. 5 (Reuter). The wellom desert of El Adem Sollum and Sidi Barani were bombed on the night of December 8 states the Air Minis ry. Aircraft of the Rhodesian Squadron successfully ralded stores and dumps on the road east of Chelga. The dumps were burnt out.
A direct hit completely wrecked a railway station building at Adarte, while goods trucks on the sidings, and a group of huts: that comprised the station were badly damaged.
2.
Italian Oil Supplies
Ramanian Deliveries
Goes on To Portsmouth
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH“
Mr. Fraser sold that Viscount Galway would take back to the King and people of Britain New Zealand's at their WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. (UP), admiration and gratitude LONDON, Dec. 5 (Reuter)-King George to-day saw what Nazi
Senator Robert Taft, Re-night for themselves and the peoples
of the Dominions.
"From Buckingham Palace to the bombers had dope to Southampton, publican, member of the Senate and standing by one of the bombed Banking and Currency Com-slums of Wellington the civic centres he chatted with air-raid mittee said that Mr. Morgen-danger is realised, and the common determination is to carry on to wardens when the lair-raid alarm sounded and a plngle Nazi spotting thau, Secretary of the Treasury victory", concluded Mr. Fraser. plane was seen flying high whilo had lost all sense of reasoning bursts of anti-aircraft shells appeared in the performance of his duty, and had violated a rule of com- around.
"British Aid Likely CHUNGKING, Dec. (Butc
The King went on to Portsmouth mon sense in. proposing. the LONDON, Dec. 5 (Reuter)warm during the Royal visit. He
where again there was an air-raid $100,000,000 ban to China.. Italy is relying upon oil supplies saw some men who brought over the from Rumania and Albania, the recently acquired American des- Italian news agency states to troyers. (day.
Thousands of saltors and workmen The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" cheared as His Majesty walked
through the dockyards. is quoted as anying that Italy's Dil supplies are assured and that Britain is therefore mistaken in her calcula. Hons.
"Italy is receiving by reliable means One of our reconnaissance aircraft Kassala sector, inflicting a number of failed to return, but with this excen- zasunities. This further success in a large quantity of oil from Rumania
Wu Teh-chen Tour Contributions
aud Chinese-
common
In
"In
Our Way of Life
And
conclusion," mid Major Attlee, "We cannot lay down the to the rest of the world and we do not wish to do.so. We can only say, here is our way of life.” The speaker sat down amid some heard for some time past. of the warmest Ministerial cheers
The amendment of the Independent
Labour Party, moved by Mr. Maxton,
was defeated by 341 votes to four and the Address was adopted.
LATEST
Sce Back Pago, For Further Late News
Courageous
British Trawlers
Work By
$
·Regarding persistent.reporis concern- Ing British crodila to China, "Reuter"" learns that while no details are yet
LONDON, Dec. 5 (Reuter);—Four British trawlers and one obtainable here, some form of British assistance will be forthcoming as a drifter were recently lost through damage sustained by mine- result. of conversations between the sweeping.elaskan British
authorities in The Admiralty communique alludes to the fact that the Chonekinm
Senator Taft was absent when Mr. German High Command lays continual stress upon the mining of Setor Me Morgenthau explained British ports.
between the success of these devices has been the transaction to the Commitee, He
These ports and their approaches, limited and; la likely to decrease, nepestched, stranuccaly
states the communique, are kept clear, inty impose losses like those men- the use of the stabilization Buds to tenacity and courage of British mines the trawlers lost are the Ethel Elk, Chiverton, and Hooguised Me Morgenthau of a
eneinyls using all mamer Dr and as the find Trustee, devices to prevent or hinder & the fulThere were no casualties among MIRN: Page, Calumm 3. sweeping-of-thade mines.Allhough thæinnothrat and 20%, crews.
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„tion, all theso operations were carried the Sudan) in^ recorded in 10-day's) and apr can also uss; Albanian walls," CHUNGKING: Déc:"6⋅ (Heuter); waldt Hitada Ubeen taking the Vainst óf ·rninos · frons, day to day be the floned above, upon föur förens,
out without lon
Katiala Sector A CAIRO, Dec., All (Reuter)—a Brillah patról miccessfully engaged a large enenty working party in the
G. H. Q communique, which is the paper says, "To tim must be Neadly),155,000,000 in contributions tates that in the karen of Well Added; the icohol dirülleries es from South Best Calbese is the result Galabat, British artillery, was again tibilslied under the salem of of the tour of the Straits Settlement actres
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