THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 3, 1940.
SHA-UE-CHUNG BOMBED
Six Killed In Japanese Raid Yesterday Morning
BIG FIRE STARTED IN MERCHANDISE DEPOT
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”) SHA-UE-CHUNG, MIRS BAY terminus of the Taipo- Sha-ue-chung Ferry Service, was yesterday severely bombed by two Japanese 'planes, the machines arriving over the little village port within three minutes after the air raid alarm was sounded.
Six persons were killed and eight seriously wounded by the bombs which fell in the town, on the out- skirts and along the waterfront.
The wounded were conveyed to Kowloon by the ferry boat. Seven were admitted to the Kowloon Hospital, one of the wounded,, who had two of his legs blown off, having died on
way.
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Eight others who took shelter in a dug-out were buried alive when one of the bombe registered a direct hit on the shelter.
Merchandise of some value. was de- stroyed by fire caused by incendiary bombs dropped by the Japanese in the course of the raid.
The air raid alarm was sounded at
minutes the Japanese 'planes were humming overhead,
AMERICAN INSISTENCE ON 5-5-3
Washington, To-day. Admiral Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, informed the United
of States Chamber
Commerce yesterday that the present Unit- ed States naval strength might not be sufficient to protect the country in the future.
He declared the minimum re- quirement for self-rellance and self-defence was to keep up the fleet to the 5/5/3 ratio of the Washington Treaty.
Admiral Stark spoke after the 'Chamber had called for faster United States arming on a "pay as we go" basis.-Router.
THREE PROMINENT SHANGHAI CHINESE
KIDNAPPED
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
Shanghai, To-day.
NIGHT RAIDS WILL SCORE
If large scale air-war starts, many raiding aircraft will penetrate far over Britain at night and will not be brought down, a high R.A.F. officer declared.
The R.A.F. has no plan of campaign promising a smashing defensive blow at night raiders.
This is due to the extreme difficulty of intercepting planes at night, espe- cially if they do not come within a searchlight area,
"Why do you think our planes are not brought down on night raids over "The Germany?" asked the officer, Germans would bring them down if they could.
"Defence at night against attacking aircraft is an extremely difficult pro- blem, to which neither side has a satis- factory answer," it was emphasised.
JUNKMASTER FINED
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Liu Tak-won, 48, master of a fish- ing junk, was fined $600 or four months by Mr. T. J.. Houston this morning, for possession of 30 taels of opium, on board his junk at Lan Tau Island, and for carrying cargo and 26 passengers.
'Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios was for the defendant.
His Excellency and Lady Northcote
9.10 a.m. yesterday and within three NO LESS THAN THREE KIDNAPPINGS took place
in the International Settlement yesterday. Yoong Er-zung, manager of the Sung Sing cotton are holding a small Reception at Gov- mills, situated at Brenan Piece, left his Bub-ernment House on Monday evening to bling Well home at 8.30 in his Packard and fail-T. Wright of the British Relief Unit ed to arrive at the office.
Low Flying Rald
Flying very low, the Japanese dropped high explosive and incendiary bombs in the heart of the town and along the waterfront.
There was a panic among the popu- lation.
Incendiary bombs fell on a piece of land on which was stored a large quantity of merchandise. The goods caught fire and blazed throughout the day to burn out at 4 p.m.
Relief squads worked all afternoon rescuing people from damage dwell- ings and assisting the injured.
Many others sustained slight injuries by splinters. Eight were seriously wounded and were taken on board the ferry launch to be conveyed to the Kowloon Hospital..
R.A.F.'S OWN LEAFLET WAR
When he had not returned for 'tiffin the family grew anxious and inform- ed the police, who immediately start- ed a search, questioning friends and relatives and circulating details of his car, but up to early this morning nó trace had been found of the prominent businessman.
In the second affair, two officials of Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Com- after pany were kidnapped when the noon recess they were returning to the Yu Yuen Road factory.. Their car was just about to turn four off from the main road when armed men stopped the vehicle and requested them to submit to a search for heroin and pistols.
Whisked Away
meet Mr. Evert Barger and Mr. P. R.
for Central China.
THE IMPORTANCE
OF STAVANGER TO THE NAZIS
By Major F. A. de V. Robertson
No critic can say that the R.A.F. fighters appeared on the scene. The of offensive fighters also suffered losses from the is not showing plenty
on fire of our power-operated gun-turrets, spirit in its repeated attacks Stavanger aerodrome. It is an in- It is notable that German anti-aircraft dependent air operation, but it will gun-fire very seldom has brought down be of great help to the Allied Ex- a British bomber, in spite of a vast peditionary Force in Norway, for expenditure of shells. It is even more Thinking the men were detectives Stavanger is one of the largest and from the Ta Tao police and seeing best aerodromes in Norway. (The qualified R.A.F. may by now have their weapons, Vong Chưa chang, manager of the tobacco leaf depart-the-second adjective.). If the Ger ment, and Lee Tse-doong,
man Air Force were allowed to estab- packing department manager, complied, only lish itself there It might make itself our troops in The pilots and crews of two York-to be whisked into a waiting hire car a great nuisance to
Norway. shire R.A.F. stations who are believed which sped off in a westerly direction,
It is obviously a matter of great to have borne the brunt of the re- presumably to Ta Tao territory. cent raids on the German seaplane
The third kidnapping occurred importance to prevent the Germans from establishing a real-air superior- bases at Sylt have been "raiding"
last night in a bath-house in each other with leaflets, some in
central district where an unimport-ity in Norway, and the first way of ant Chinese patron was forced leave with three gunmen.“
verse.
One station; apparently received more publicity for their part in the raid than their comrades at the se- cond station. A
The latter, who are understood to hava Bean the first to bomb the Gorman base,not out for the first station and plastered the officers' mean (with Deaflets Ironically Coon- gratulating them on their heroism In the Bylt bombardment. M
"REPRISALS" FOLLOW "Reprisals" were not long delayed, for printed leaflets, apparently scat tered from aircraft, were picked up on the first station. >
An extract read: ""Honours lie easily
the
to
putting a spoke in that wheel is to make Stavanger as nearly uninhabit- able as possible. Some authorities In all three cases the motive is un-hold that the bombing of well- known but is belleved to be political established enemy aerodromes is a
-Our Own. Correspondent.
policy of doubtful value, Holes in a landing field can be quickly filled in; meta: aircraft need not be stored in on our heads. You must be fright- hangars, but can be dispersed in such fully fealous, but then you came in a way that their camouflage makes rather late. It must be galling to them very difficult to spot from the have your thunder stolen. We sym-air. But German aircraft at Stavan, pathise. There are tales of indiscri- ger have been caught in the open and minate bombing on Mackerel, in the a number of them have been North Sea, but we accept all these stroyed. Their mechanics have
suffered casualties.. stories with a large pinch of Sylt.
Part of the reply was in verse writ- ten by a pllot-officer.
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notable that when German fighters, even the redoubtable Messerschmidtt 110, come to grips with our bombers the losses on both sides have been. imately equal. So there seems od reason for expecting that make Stavanger untenable
Our raiders-have suffered
They occurred when German the enemy.
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