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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 29, 1939

R.A.F. RAID ON NAZI SEAPLANE BASE AT BORKUM

London, To-day.

BRIEF DETAILS OF A raid by British aircraft on the R.A.F.'S BIG

German seaplane base on Borkum Island at the

entrance to the estuary of the River Ems, are PULL OVER given in an Air Ministry communique issued last NAZI PLANES

night.

The base is used as the striking off point for German

machines which have been active in the Shet-

London, To-day.

FOREIGN PLANES. OVER BRUSSELS

Brussels, To-day. Anti-aircraft guns opened fire yesterday on Beveral foreign seroplanes which appeared high over Brussels at noon yesterday. After A few minutes, the 'planes disappeared in a west- erly direction.-Reuter.

GERMAN GOODS TO

The superiority of the BE FROZEN land, Firth of Forth and North Sea areas gen- equipment of the Royal Air

erally.

FAMOUS ARTISTES

GIVING SHOW

The British planes swooped low and machine-gunned three German sea- planes resting on the water and bombed the shore establishment.

Heavy anti-aircraft fre greeted the British craft, but they pressed home their attack and returned safely without losses,

Other machines made a further successful reconnaissance flight over North-West Germany.

A German statement, admitting the A SPECIAL CONCERT WILL BE

raid on Borkum Island, KONG British HONG GIVEN AT THE HOTEL AT 9.30 PM, ON SATUR- claims that the British machines were DAY BY CAROLA GOYA. SPANISH | driven off by anti-aircraft fire before

AND they could drop any bombs. DANCER EXTRAORDINARY.

HARPIST. BEATRICE BURFORD. EMILO OSTA WILL BE AT THE PIANO.

Hong Kong has a shipping schedule to thank for this performance, the only one which will be given in the Far East. The artistes are return- the ing from a successful visit to Union of South Africa and are bound the United for the East Coast of States to open their winter season.

Hong But the next ship out of Kong does not sail for a week, and so, at the suggestion of Hong Kong's premier "showman," Mr. Victor Hugo, they are to give a performance Saturday night.

on

The artistes are under contract to Corporation of Concerts Columbia New York. This year, Columbia Ar- tists', for the first time. sent a num-

in ber of artists to South Africa. cluding Rose Bampton, of the Metro- politan Onera.

TEXT OF COMMUNIQUE

Force is compared with the German Air Force.

Our bombers are fitted with gun- turrets operated by the power of the engines and the gunner can swing the gum himself in any direction without exertion.

The Germans have no Buch turrets and their bombara must therefore rely on speed and eva. slon, owing to the difficulty In holding a machine-gun steady at present speeds of aircraft. The British eight-gun fighters have success whereas the proved a great German four-gun fighters are at a disadvantage.

Tests on a captured Messerschmidt 109 proved it a bad aeroplane.

The Air Ministry arinouncement | Reuter.

afternoon one of our reads: "This

long-range fighter patrols which had RATIONING

IN FORCE IN JANUARY

been out to search for enemy mine- laying seaplanes, reconnoitred a sea- plane base at Borkum and there found and attacked with machine-gun three of these seaplanes.

fre

"Our fighters were engaged by heavy anti-aircraft fire to which they plied.

"All our aircraft returned safely." Reuter.

TAIPO FIRE

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A two-storled building near Taipo Police Station was gutted by fire at 4.30 a.m. to-day. No one was injured.

Goya, Burford and Osta were the last to visit South Africa and when the war broke out they decided to return to America via the Far Easting cities of the world. rather than risk torpedoing in the Atlantic!

LONDON, TO-DAY. RATIONING OF TWO COMMODI

TIES WILL BE INTRODUCED AT

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Paris, To-day. Well-informed circles state that the embargo on German exports applies to ships which load cargo not only in Germany but also in neigh- bouring countries even if as in the case of Sweden and Norway - they do not have a common frontier with the Reich.

The control will be more efficacious than in 1915. when goods were de- tained only if the owners could not reship them to the port of loading.

In this case, goods were sold but the amount realized from such sales could be returned to Germany.

"FROZEN UP"

To-day. it appears that non-perish- able goods will be "frozen up" until the end of the war, although they will not be confiscated.

To-day, as in the last war, all goods containing 25 per cent of German material or work will be considered to be German.

Neutral countries will be granted HOME FROM JANUARY 8. THESE all facilities for avoiding delays and ARE BACON AND BUTTER, IN-

adjustments will be made to respect CLUDING BOILED AND TINNED their interests.-Havas.

HAM.

They will be restricted to 4 ounces per head a week.

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Although sugar will not be restrict- ed, said Mr. W. S. Morrison, nouncing in the House of Commons well as appeared in most of the lead- yesterday, purchasers are asked to limit their orders to one pound a

Reuter. Beatrice Burford has had the dis-head a week. tinction of playing her harp with the

Symphony Orchestra, A parade and inspection of The This is Carola Goya's eighth con- Philadelphia

Her Boy Scouts Association, is being held cert season, and she has appeared under

orchestras of music is a vital part of Carola Goya's on Saturday, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. with the symphony

on Murray Parade Ground. Washingto Toronto and Chicago, as dances,

Leopold

Stokowski.

Dominion Ministers who took part in the Empire's War Conferences visited one of England's" milltary commands. Photo shows--The Hon. F. Fraser (Naw Zealand) handling an anti-tank rifle during the visit. (Air Mail. Copyright), ́

DETECTIVE "CAUGHT" BY "INFORMER”

AN

ODD) POINT AROSE

THIS

MORNING BEFORE MR. O. A. A.

MACFADYEN (WHEN CHAN YIEK- PING, 29,

WITH WAS CHARGED OBTAINING $5.50 FROM DETEC- TIVE C581 BY FALSE PRETENCES. Det.-Set. H. J. Baldwin, prosecut- ing, sald the defective received a telephone call on Sunday, asking him to meet an informer at the Indian Curry Shon.

- Defendant met the detective and Pave him a list of names and ad- dresses of burglars. The detective gave Chan $5.50 for the Information. On the following day, C.581 re- ceived another call supposedly from his foki. who asked him to meet an- other informer at the same place.

A few minutes later, Chan tele-" phoned C.581, who recognised that Chan's voice was very similar to that" of his foki.

The information, after investiga- tion, proved to be false.

The detective arrested Chan. Mr. Macfadyen, pointing out that the money was voluntarily given..to Chan by the detective, adjourned the case for 48 hours to enable the pro- secution to obtain better legal advice.

SPECTACLES LOST

Mrs."""Costello," résiding at No. Humphreys 'Buildings," "fias reported the loss of a pair of spectacles be tween her home Buildings and .the'. Star Ferry between 12.15 p.m. · and

| 13.40 p.m. on Monday,`