THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 2, 1940
Giant New German Bomber Attacks British Ship
Unusually Heavy Load Of Bombs
FLUSHING, TO-DAY.
IT IS REVEALED THAT 20 BOMBS WERE DROPPED
BY A BIG GERMAN AIRCRAFT WHICH BOMB-
ED AND MACHINE-GUNNED AN UNARMED
BRITISH STEAMER, THE, HIGH WAVE, ON
TUESDAY THIS WEEK.
According to information gathered from members of the crew the bombs were dropped In groups of five from a height of 1,000 feet.
BALKAN MILITARY ALLIANCE?
non-
Rome, To-day, A plan for joint action in the event of aggression by a Balkan power, it is understood, will be discussed at the Balkan Entente conference in Belgrade.
It is thought highly improbable, however, that any discussion of this subject will be made public. -Reuter.
BIG FRENCH NAVAL PROGRAMME
PARIS, TO-DAY.
Aviation circles here point out that a machine capable of dropping
20
bombs is something new in the Ger-
man campaign against shipping.
The bomber involved is believed to
have been a four-engined military version of commercial craft.
CITY OF BATH
Meanwhile details of a German bomber's attack on the 5,000-ton liner City of Bath off the Scottish coast on Tuesday were revealed yesterday.
"AMATEUR"
PILOTS IN FRANCE
(Reuter's Special Correspondent With The B.E.F.)
London, To-day.
A number of Britain's
QUAKE SHOCKS IN EUROPE
London, To-day.
Earth tremors were felt yes. terday in several parts of south- ern Europe.
Tremors were felt in southern Balonica, Greece, In the morning and also at Blena and Florence, In the province of Tuscany, Italy, Tremors were also felt at Bu- charest, the Rumanian capital.
Little damage is reported from any of these places-Reuter.
"week-end" pilots have MYSTERY
SHANGHAI
now taken their places in France alongside the re- gular Air Force.
In private life they are City men, clerks, engineers, shipyard workers and miners who joined the Auxiliary Air Force.
MURDER
SHANGHAI, TO-DAY. AN ASSASSINATION WHICH, From the lefter "A" which adorns | FOR THE TIME BEING, HAS COM- their tunics, showing their volunteer | PLETELY BAFFLED THE POLICE, origin, they have nicknamed them- | OCCURRED IN THE FRENCH CON- selves "amateurs."
CESSION SHORTLY AFTER
The bomber was held off by the ship's defence gun in the stern, but during the attack, which lasted a
a big part in home quarter of an hour, the machine
Now they are attached to squadrons dropped six bombs and raked the
working with the B.E.F. and are bridge with port side and the
eagerly awaiting an opportunity of machinegun bullets.
showing their mettle. One heavy bomb fell
For the moment they are having feet of the ship's side and the vessel was shaken but there were no casual-to possess their souls in patience, for the mist which has set in with the tles. Reuter.
thaw is keeping their machines
Reuter. grounded.
Hitherto they have been playing | O'CLOCK LAST NIGHT.
air defence.
within 15
Thirteen Freeze To Death After U-Boat Outrage
London; To-day.
Adrift for several days in a life-
JAPANESE
bout after their ship was torpedoed PREDICT
and sunk without warning by a U- boat in the Atlantic, 13 members of THE EXTENSIVE FRENCH NAVAL | the crew of the Greek steamer Eleni and AN-Statothos were frozen to death BUILDING PROGRAMME IS
DES had to be thrown overboard. ALYSED BY THE "JOURNAL
The remaining 20 of the crew DEBATS," WHICH ENUMERATES
landed in Eire in such a weak VESSELS UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
condition that aven when they
They are....-
Four 35,000-ton battleships, Two 18,000-ton aircraft-carriers, Three 8,000-ton cruisers,
29 destroyers,
Five large submarines,
15 smaller submarines,
Three submarine minelayers minesweepers,
Gunboats and other auxillaries. Reuter.
SUPPORT
FOR CHIANG
THE CHINA
BIG BATTLE
Canton, To-day.
NINE
The victim was a young unknown Chinese woman who was surrounded and shot by a gang of armed dropping dead with four bullets her body.
men, In
No arrests have been made and the motive is not known.
are
The police endeavouring to Identify the woman.-Our Own Cor- respondent.
NOTE IN POCKET
Shanghai, Later.
The only clue the police have dis- covered is a note supporting the "peace movement.”
the
Whether the assassins placed note in the woman's pocket has not
The Japanese expect the severest battle since the been established. sighted the coast they had lost Shanghai war to take place
interest in life and lacked strength to pull the Dars.
They were saved by the crew of a motorboat who saw the lifeboat drifting in the bay and towed it in.
and-Reuter.
LONDON, TO-DAY.
CAMPAIGN
MITTEE YESTERDAY
18SUED
COM- A
THE 80.
“ASAMA" INCIDENT
JAPAN REPLIES
Tokyo, To-day. The text of the Japanese reply to LONG STATEMENT "DENOUNCING | the British Note of January 27 In con- UNCONDITIONALLY
CALLED PEACE TERMS RECENT- LY DISCUSSED WITH THE JAPAN. ESE. AUTHORITIES
WANG BY
CHING-WEI."
The police believe now that the motive was a political one-Our Own
in South China in the near Correspondent. future around Kuitang, where the Chinese are put- ting up a very stout resist- ance, declared the Japanese military spokesman here last night.
The spokesman broke the long offl- cial silence over the operations in Kwangsi.
He announced that on Jan. 28 an "annihilating campaign" was com-
U.S. AMBASSADORS CALLED HOME From Paris And London For Consultations
WASHINGTON, TO-DAY. THE SECRETARY OF STATE, MR. ANNOUNCES CORDELL HULL,
menced. Purpose of the campaign is THAT
THE AMBASSADOR IN WILLIAM BULLITT,
not the occupation of more towns but PARIS, MR.
the crushing of the Chinese troops HAS BEEN SECONDED HOME FOR around Kuitang, where more than 20 | CONSULTATION. divisions are moving southward from Pingyang.
These troops are reported to be concentrating for an attempt to recapture Kultang.
to-morrow Mr. Bullitt is leaving (Saturday). His visit will be short and he has no special mission.
Mr. Cordell Hull added that Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Ambassador in Lon- With the aid of maps the spokes-don, is returning to England this
month.
nexion with the Asama Maru Incident was handed to the British Ambassa- dor, Sir Robert Craigle, yesterday by the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
It was agreed that the two Notes beman demonstrated the Japanese tactics published simultaneously as soon the British Government has had time
Japanese Note. to consider the Reuter.
The Committee fully supports the announcement by General Chiang Kal-shek on January 23 and pledges itself to endeavour to prevent in any the form whatever recognition. by British Government of any puppet government under Wang Ching-wei, and to obtain the support of both INTERNMENT OF ALIENS the British people and Government for the Government of General Chiang Kai-shek.-Reuter.
NAZI ‘ENTHUSIASM'
IN BRITAIN
of
London, To-day. The Minister of Home Security, Sir John Anderson, informed the House Rome, To-day, of Commons yesterday that 415 aliens A total of 14,300 people of German were interned · on the outbreak origin in the South Tyrol have left war, and 854 had been interned after Italy to return to the Reich in accor-examination by tribunals,
In reply to a question, "Sir John dance with the Italo-German agree
said the number of enemy aliens' at ment last summer,
The Germans stated that 185,000| large was somewhere in the
Reu people "want to go back."-Reuter, bourhood of 60,000.
of encircling and crushing the Chinese forces which, he said, had set out to encircle the Japanese,~~Reuter.
B.B.C. PROGRAMMES FOR THE TROOPS (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MÁIL”),
Paris, To-day.
Mr. F. W. Ogilvie, Director-General of the B.B.C., has arrived in Paris on his way to the front, where he will talk with British officers and men in the front lines on the programmes they would like best.
On his return trip Mr. Ogilvie will confer with M. Jean Giraudoux, the ench official who is in charge of stablish closer~~Franco-British, radio.
<operation.—Havas.
Reuter.
NEW FORTIFICATIONS
FOR SWEDEN
Stockholm, To-day.
has Swedish Government The granted nearly £1,500,000 for the construction of fortifications. Reuter.
“A QUIET, DAY".
Paris, To-day. Last night's French war communi- que said it was a quiet day on the whole.
There was firing from casemates on either side of the line. Reuter,
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