THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 31, 1989
Air Raid Siren Accident
Spreads Panic In Bordeaux
THOUSANDS TAKE REFUGE IN SHELTERS
Paris, To-day.
Nearly three hundred thousand inhabitants of the city of Bordeaux were seized by panic in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Scenes witnessed were somewhat reminiscent of the mass hysteria which gripped the United States some few months ago as the result of the realistic performance of a radio play, when thousands of Americans completely lost con- trol in the belief that militant inhabitants of the planet Mars had landed in the United States.
SECRETS OF AN OLD VILLAGE IN OXFORDSHIRE
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London, To-day. Secrets of the Oxfordshire vil- lage of Seacourt, which sank into oblivion five centuries ago, have been brought to light by excava- tione.
In Bordeaux the panic was due to an air raid warning.
An exceptionally powerful air raid warning syren had been erected on the beach and it began to howl at exactly 2.30 am, yes- terday, because, as a result of heavy storms, the electric trans- mission cable had broken and caused a short circuit.
The population of Bordeaux, in the absence of official intimation of a practice, seriously believed that an enemy begun.
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Britain's DR. BENES TO Naval Bases RESIDE IN All Set
London, Yesterday.
Britain's important naval bases
ENGLAND
are prepared against attack, Boom
London, Yesterday. defences protect all harbour en- The former Czecho-Slova- trances. Submarines, torpedoes, kian President, Dr. Edouard and floating mines could not pene-Benes, has received permis- trate them.
sion from the British authori- ties to speak at a public meet- ing.
Even H.M.S. Nelson, 34,000-ton flagship of the Home Fleet, could not break through the boom de- fence at half speed.
The boom defence, however, is not intended to block warships, which would not attempt to pene- trate into the harbours because an effective bombardment could be carried out with long-range guns.
For many weeks only one en-
On Thursday next week Dr. Benes will speak at the summer Cambridge on "The future of school of the Loyal Party at
Democracy."
Dr. Benes, says the press, will not return to the United States in the near future but will re- main in London, from where he
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trance has been available to ship-will visit Paris and Moscow. ping at the chief naval ports. And Dr. Benes has asked the boom defence at this entrance Czech diplomatic representa- is ready to be placed in position at tives abroad to support his en- a moment's notice.
deavours to liberate his country..
Trans-Ocean.
In dockyard buildings lights are shaded and windows heavily cur- tained at night, while every em- ployee is under instruction to exer- cise the same precautions as he would in time of war.-Our Own Correspondent,
air attack had HEAVY RAINS PUT END TO SHANSI BATTLE
This was accentuated when other A party of Oxford graduates and air raid syrens of the city had under-graduates, together with also taken up was what believed students from St. Andrew's Uni- to be the signal. versity and unemployed from South Wales, have been systemati- cally unearthing relics of mediaev- al days.
Their work has now come to an end to be resumed during the long vacation next summer.
TAKE REFUGE
Everybody rushed down into air raid shelters and only after the people had been taking refuge for some considerable time without a sign of an aeroplane was the mis- take cleared up...
CHUNGKING, YESTERDAY.
FOUGHT PERIL OF TSETSE FLY
London, Yesterday.
The Royal African Society has made a posthumous award of its silver medal to C. F. Massy Swyn- nerton, who devoted a large part of his life to a war on the tsetse ffy, carrier of sleeping sickness.
He was killed in a plane crash last year while on a journey con- nected with his duties as Director of Tsetse Résearch in Tanganyika
HEAVY RAINS HAVE TEM- PORARILY BROUGHT THE SOUTH-EAST SHANSI FIGHT. ING TO A STANDSTILL WITH SPORADIC ENGAGEMENTS Territory. CONTINUING.
The torrential rains have ren- dered all communications impass-
One of the chief objects of the excavations, which have been
able. Even so, when police went from supervised by Mr. R. L. S. Bruce- Mitford, Assistant Keeper of the place to place, cellar to cellar, al- British Mediaeval Department of most, explaining that war had not the British Museum, was to dia-yet broken out, there were many cover something of the pottery who refused to accept the police of the period about which little is known.
Many fragments, some of a kind not hitherto seen, have been found. Ornaments were also brought to light, the best being a circular bronze brooch, the pin and hinge of which are still in perfect condition.
When the "diggers" uncovered the site of the old village church, several skeletons were found. One
word and were only persuaded to leave the shelters with difficulty.-- Trans-Ocean.
was that of a man who had a wast- ing disease believed to have been leprosy.
Other finds include horseshoes, arrow heads, strap ends and game. counters bearing the likeness of Edward I-Our Own Correspon- dent.
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AMERICAN LLOYD TRAVEL SERVICE
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The Japanese forces are using the opportunity to consolidate while the Chinese are completing the rain's work and destroying the Japanese lines of communica- tion,
All Japanese advancing lines, after the capture, of Paoping and Changchi, have established con- nection, except two from the which Tungpu-Pinghan railway, are effectively held up.-
Mr. Swynnerton began his fam- ous work on the tsetse fly while farming in Southern Rhodesia, and was later appointed first game warden
the of Tanganyika for special purpose of studying the tsetse problem.-Our Own Corres- pondent.
DR. COLIJN'S SUCCESSOR
In Central Hupeh, Chinese units
THE HAGUE, YESTERDAY. are making steady progress: to-
IT IS NOW ALMOST CER- wards Chingkiang which has
|TAIN THAT DR. DECKERS, been in Japanese hands for long LEADER OF THE CATHOLIC time. Chinese mobile units are PARTY IN PARLIAMENT, very active behind the Japanese WILL BE ENTRUSTED WITH lines in this region. Trans-
FORMATION OF A NEW Ocean.
CABINET.
It is believed that Dr. Deckers will
Socialists, Anti-Revolu-
REPATRIATION OF tionists, Christian Historicals the request the co-operation of
MILITIAMEN
St. Jean de Luzs, To-day,
and Democrats.
re-
It is expected, however, that the Anti-Revolutionists and Christian Historicals will. agreement between France and fuse to participate, and it is -Spain has been reached for probable that the Social Demo- mmediate repatriation of 50,000 cratic - leader, Dre
nish militiamen, who are at pre-would then try to form a ca
Interned in a camp in France.inet of Socialists, Catholics and
Democrats, Trans-Ocean.
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