TWO THOUSAND CHUNGKING RAID
Europe Waits On
CASUALTIES
Chungking, To-day.
Col. Beck Thirty-six Japanese bombers carried out another
London, To-day. THE speech this morn-The ning of the Polish Foreign Minister, Col- onel Joseph Beck, is be- ing awaited throughout The Europe with almost as much interest as normal- ly attends the utterances of Mr. Chamberlain and Herr Hitler.
Authoritative comments in ad-
and Berlin.
is
ruthless raid on Chungking yesterday. casualties in yesterday's horrors are estimated at between 800 and 1,000, and thus the toll taken in two days of raids amounts to roughly 2,000 civilian dead and injured.
bombers came in two groups, each of 18 ma- chines, and concentrated on certain military establishments which were moved some time
ago.
The bombs fell on the closely- Twenty-five employees of the fac- packed surrounding houses, killingtory were killed. and wounding hundreds.
The planes then flew over the Half Chungking is without elec- river and machine-gunned a motor- vance have been made in Paris tric lights or telephone service, launch, killing one passenger and and thousands of homeless are wounding several others. Three of the machines swooped down very In Paris,
made emphatic-sleeping on the pavements.
another ally clear that France is deter- In vivid contrast, the other half low and machine-gunned mined to stand by Poland, who of the city is full of bright lights | river-launch killing over 20 passeng- will be the sole judge whether and life is going on as usual. her vital interests are affected.
The French Cabinet will meet on Saturday morning.
The "Voelkischer Beobachter" in Berlin prints an article by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propa- ganda Minister, declaring that the Polish demands are "Intolerable" and blaming Britain for encourag- ing Polish chauvinism.
AXIS DISCUSSION
AMBASSADOR WATCHES
The British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr, watched yes- terday's raids, during which one Japanese plane was shot down. Reuter.
THREE RAIDS
ers.
A.A. GUNS IN ACTION
SAGRES INCIDENT QUESTIONS
London, To-day.
Questioned in the House of Commons yesterday about Ja- panese seizurê of the British vessel "Sagres" on May 8, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A, Butler, stat- ed that representations had been made to the Japanese naval authorities in China and the Foreign Office in Tokyo for release of the vessel. Reuter.
As the machines flew over the city, Chinese A. A. guns went into at the railway station. Two villages The city north and west of Chao-On・・ were action for the first time. was sprayed with anti-aircraft shell heavily bombed and machine-gun- shrapnel, but no casualties resulted ned. for most of the people were in- JUNKS MACHINE-GUNNED
(loors.
As the population were about to settle down again, the same planes
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Returning, the machines flew along the waterfront of Swatow and machine-gunned 'junks and other
ON SWATOW roared over the city two hours later, rivercraft.
dropping a few bombs on the out-
Last night, hundreds of refugees skirts.
flowed out of the port and all tran- The third air-raid occurred after sportation means were taxed be
(From Our Own Correspondent)
Swatow, To-day. Some 100 are reported killed and wounded and over 70 houses demolished following three-air-they dropped a number of bombs raids on the port yesterday by Japanese planes.
The bombing
3 p.m. when again eight planes ap-|yond capacity: peared, and flew to Chao-On where
It is assumed that the Nazi For- Ribben- eign Minister, Herr von
Beck's trop, will discuss Colonel pronouncement with Hitler before going to meet Ciano to-night.
In Warsaw, indications last night Colonel Beck's speech will be firm but not provocative. squadron on each occasion num- bered eight machines which ap- close the door, Colonel Beck is ex-parently came off an aircraft- pected to make counter-proposals
| carrier reported off the coast.
When the first alarm Was sounded, twenty light bombs were
were that
Since Poland does not intend to
to the German demands.-Reuter.
SPEECH TO BE dropped in the neighbourhood of
BROADCAST
Warsaw, To-day.
•
THE Polish Chamber
will meet at 11 o'clock
the Kwong Wah Match Factory, causing considerable damage to the factory and buildings in the vicinity.
this morning to hear the Barbara
Polish Foreign Minister's!
reply to Hitler.
Colonel Beck is expected to speak at 11.15.
The speech is being broadcast throughout Poland and will be re- ¡layed, to the United States.·
Translations will be broadcast
in English, French and German
Reuter.
Henman
Expelled
Berlin, To-day.
O'Calla
Perfection Scots (
MCCALLUM'S
MISS Barbara Henman, PERFECTION
secretary in the Ber- lin office of the London
SWATOW ATTACKED "Daily Telegraph," has
AGAIN TO-DAY
Swatow, To-day.
The centre of the city was
been ordered to leave Germany within 14 days. No reason is given for the ex- pulsion.
Miss Herman is the first wo bombed and machine-gunned man among the present series heavily by Japanese planes this of expulsions of Britons from Germany in retaliation to for the slon from Britain of proved
rable Nazis. Beuter-
morning
SCOTS WHISKY
DILM CALLU MER EDINBURGH
Further raids are feared--to-day.
Our Own Correspondent,
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