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British Bombers Light Up The Coast
FROM PAGE ONE-
Kent coast. Many braved the bitter wind to watch the spectacle and they felt the bomb explosions and Daylight Patrols LONDON, Mar. 30 (Router). German Invasion ports along the Channel were heavily attacked by R.A.F. bombers after dusk to-night. Explosions were heard from the British side and fires were seen in the direction of Calais,
Earlier during, daylight, frequent patrols of RAF fighters were seen over the Straits of Dover, flying the across the Channel towards French coast,
German Nothing was seen of any aircraft from the Kent copat except One bomber which was driven off.
The swoop of the. R.A.F. on the German invasion ports along the French coast to-night was intensive and heavy. Watchers on the British side of the Channel had an
excend view. Bombs And gun flashes be seen along the entire coort from Calais to Dunkirk and clouds above Calals were soon coloured by the glare of fierce fires while the thud of avy explosions could be many heavy clearly heard.
Ships Bombed LONDON, Mar, 30 (Reuter)-The RAF
continuing their polley of secking out and attacking German shipping of the, French and Dutch coasts, have announced that three zuch ships were machine-gunned and bombed off the Dutch coast In addition to the destruction of the anti-submarine vessel in the Loire Estuary.
French Fire On British Warships
· FROM PAGE ONE.
30 AXIS SHIPS SEIZED BY U.S.
FROM PAGE ONE
merchant ships succeeded in enter-over the ships and that there is no in the nearby French, port of fimit to the time that they may be Nemours in Algeria. -
kept in custody, but it was insisted. "During Unb roturn of our forces to that the mere fact that sabotago wis Gibraltar, they were twice attacked attempted did not justify confleca- by French bomber: formations with tion. out suffering damage or casualties."
Secret
One official said that the officers and crews would be taken over by Vichy Version'.
Iminigration officials. The crews of VICHY, Mar. 30 (Reuter)The the live vessels in New York will bo French version of the Anglo-French sent to Ellis Island. Those involved convoy incident says: "A considera. In the alleged sabotage will be pro- able British naval force attacked at secuted.
h.m. this morning in French terri-
Operation torial waters Between Nemours and
Secretary Morgenthau'n acted
swiftly Oran a convoy of four French mer chant ships bound from Casablanca and the entire operation was secret. to Oran under an escort of a single Reporters and photographers were French destroyer.
barred from, the ships and the only, The convoy look shelter in the information came from the ameial Port
of Nemours under the protection spokesman. Diplomats were caught
and.no
comment expected of its escort, naval shore batteries and unawares aircraft which replied to the fire of immediately, from the Italian Em-
and drove them off. bassy. Robert with he aggressors
Vice "Admiral H. The
is safe and unherined." The French version of the Anglo- hofemben, the German Naval Attache French convoy incident, given in the said that the move was "interesting. French Admiralty communique, also The First Secretary of the Embassy, claims that the cargo of the merchant-Herbert von Strempel declined to ships concerned consisted solely of comment. commodities and products destined Senator George sald he thought the supply the native population of Al-Government acted wisely on the basis
barley, etc. geris,
etc. of alleged sabotage. He added that "All evidence and the route the United States up a non-belligerent, followed by the ships along the Al- could legally have denied, shelter lo gerlan coast goes to show that it was the ships, but since it had provided a transaction between two French the vessels with a haven, they were possessions. The attack on the co-entitled to protection. voy by the British warships cannot, therefore, be explained by the neces- sities of blockade, the object of which
Senator Burton Wheeler proclaimed food- in to prevent cargo ships taking atuifs to
to belligerent countries.
that Secretary Morgenthau's action. The communique proceeds to con- the nation in war, against the wishes was "another step towords Involving
It adds, rice, sugor,
tend that the British "attack" was
"Best News Since Beginning Of War" hensible"
FROM PAGE ONE
units to cut off the Italian Hine of retreat to Bari, Brindisi and other bases, while the RAF. as announced yesterday hammered the Lecce nero- drome in order to diminish the air support.
Rubber From Bangkok LONDON, Mar. 30 (Reuter).-It is revented in London to-night that at least one of the four French 'ships
Warlike Act
entirely unjustifiable and "Incompre-lot 85 per cent of the people." He agreed with Senator George, however, that the Axis
would sider the seizure as a
like con- Senator George believed that the United States co
could use funds
from the sever billion dollar ald fund to and once Required, the Mediterranean was carrying ahere was no obstacle in trast
them to Britain to meet her cry for Dt rubber and Germany is very ships, cargo
and more ships
ore ships." How- short of rubber.
It is stated in authoritative circles the willingness of the owners to sell. ever, such a plun would rest upon
challenged by British naval units in purchase the ships, transferring
A Press Ministry official said "this is the best news since the beginning would
of the war."
·
Italy's Lost Navy
that at least one of these ships salled from. Bangkolt with rubber which He pointed out that if the United States entered the war, it could selze the vessels of enemy nations,
Others May Follow Suit
the
tably find its way across
.it ju" stated, has always
The great strength with which Italy fully maintained her rights under Informed financial quarters pre- about 'one turd. Italy started the international Low to search ships dicted that other American nations
entered the war is now reduced by
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of carrying contraband will follow the example of the United
war with seven heavy cruisers, ten destined for Germany, and it has States and prevent the possibility of of the Condottieri claks and two long been notorious that French mer-sabotaged ships being sunk in their colonial cruisers plus the old San chantmen have been carrying to harb
harbours.
They gave the impression Giorgio but fourteen more of French metropolitan ports various that the eventuat goal is to
place the various classes
were being built, some materials, a high proportion of which Axis ships on Hemispheric trado of which
Was have probably since been Immediately appropriated by routes
routes-by pecial arrangement. completed.
It was also suggested that
at the Totalitarian Governments anticipated the Intention of the United States to
Previous cruiser "casualiles were
the Bartolomeo Colleen, one unnam~
Germany.
Attitude
ed cruiser of the Condottieri class It is considered here a strange re-obtain use of the ship, and decided and the San Giorgio, while the Bol-flection of French policy that she to cripple them. It was noted that zano was reported to be idly should attack British forces at the German-ships left Brazil recently, damaged. Out of the 127 destroyers, very time when the British Navy was Indicating that the Axis anticipated 12 Have been previously reported engaged in, destroying the warships the possibility of similar netion being
Italy. sunk and one enptured by the Grecks, of France's enemy
taken by other nations In the Western Moreover, the French action, as Hemisphere.
London, appears particularly untimely when Britain has indicated here her willingnes to abrogate her International right to the extent of allowing the passage of certain food- stuffs in order to relieve the suffer inga in Uncecupied France caused by German rapacity,
Colony Warned
FROM PAGE ONE
been introduced in the Empire solely as part of the war effort and, al- though this Government Is doing everything in its power to present fully-to-the-Home authorities local aspects of the matter, the Anal deci- slon will have to be taken in Lon- den, as the centre of the war effort, almost exclusively from the point of view of national necessity and large- ly without
aut regard to previous dect- sions taken when national clrcum-
ances may have been different. The authorities in London with their wider grasp of the situation as a whole may decide, for reasons which may not in the public interest be fully divulged or which may not appear adequate In Hongkong, that this further step must be taken by Hongkong. If so,
public may at least be assured that
Interests In the matter have for several months been considered by the Home author- ities in much greater detail than war conditions normally permit.
nt
Meanwhile, new remittances, distinct from existing remittances, have already ceased except in the case of husbands of evacuated fami-
iles.
The question of provision of pos- sages for persons who would be affected by any restriction by:renson' of the evacuation is understood to be under consideration by HM. Treasury in the United Kingdom.
U. S. Envoy To -China
WASHINGTON, Mar. 29 (Central Nowa)-Mr Clarence E. GOTASE, newly-appointed United States' Am", bassador to China, who returned here yesterday from Australia, will pro- ceed to Chungking early in April.. Mr Gauss may fly to Hongtrong by Clipper en route to Chungking.
A Royal Navy patrol vessel collided with a junk off Stanley on Saturday night. The sixteen Chinese'on board were rescued but the junk was water- logged. Nobody was injured,
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