THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 28, 1940.
BRITAIN'S BOMBERS DISORGANISE NAZI LINES Attacks From Rhineland To French Frontier
Direct Hits On KING'S Supply Columns BROADCAST And Panzer Units
London, To-day.
THE AIR MINISTRY NEWS service states that all rail and river traffic was disorganised over a wide area from the Rhineland to the French frontier during Sunday night's activities by the Bomber Command.
ANNOYS NAZIS
Borne, To-day.
The "Basler Nachrichten" cor- respondent in Berlin reports an unprecedented violent reaction in Germany against the King's Em- pire broadcast,
The correspondent considers it can only be that the King's broad- cast has exercised a profound in- fluence on world opinion.-Rou- ter.
FINNISH TRADE MISSION IN MOSCOW (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Stockholm, To-day. The Finnish trade mission which
very cordial welcome, Swedish press
Typical was the record of one heavy bomber which within half an hour scored direct hits on a mech- anised column near Brussels, extinguished a searchlight by bombing it and another by ma-recently arrived in Moscow met with a chine-gun fire, wrecked a railway line and bridge correspondents report. Russo-Finnish and demolished a machine-gun post on a hilltop with a salvo of three bombs.
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT TELLS STORY
London, To-day.
Other bombers scored direct hits on Aachen the railway track south of and wrecked a railway junction in Belgium, where bombs which fell in a nearby wood caused exceptionally heavy explosions as if an ammunition store had been hit.
Two heavy bombe struck a convoy of 24 vehicles and the bursts were explosions followed by two violent
and the blinding flash lit the country for miles-Router.
London, To-day.
that The Air Ministry announces the R.A.F. on Sunday night attacked aerodromes at Flushing, Brussels and Antwerp...
A Flight Lieutenant who Bombers Continue Attacks has been with a squadron of fighters hotly engaged in the air battles along the French coast in the last few days, gave an account of the squa- dron's experiences in a broad- cast last night.
He said that until the German in- vasion of Belgium and Holland, not one of his squadron had as much as seen a German machine.
they In the last two days alone, had shot down fifteen definitely and probably another five.
Two of their machines had failed to return, but one of the pilots was known to be safe.
In one engagement, they got Messerschmidts and four bombers.
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Just A Bit Of Luck Immediately afterwards, he found a Messerschmidt swooping on his tail. He waited for, the attack, gave him, a burst at about 200 yards, hitting his petrol tank, 'swerved from under him and caught him again as he was going down.
"It was just a bit of luck," he said. "It might easily have been me."-- Reuter,
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also continued Operations were against the enemy's communications In Beiglum and western Germany. Hits were made on railway junc- tions, sidings and convoys of armour- ed vehicles.
Earlier in the evening much dam- age was done by medium bombers to a concentration of enemy me- chanised vehicles near Boulogne, Yesterday bombing operations were carried out against various objectives in Flanders. So far all our aircraft have returned safely.
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Preliminary reports show that 28 enemy aircraft were destroyed seriously damaged by our aircraft yesterday.
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One patrol of Defiants five enemy bombers. Five of fighters are reported missing.--Reuter.
Still Burning Days Later
London, To-day. 'Planes of the Coastal Command which flew over Rotterdam on Satur- day report that the fuel dumps,.. set on fire several days before were still -burning-
They went on to "visit" other mill- tary objectives and when they left at dawn they could see the fires they had started from 30 miles away.
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In one case, German troops were The public is informed that certain
customs crossing a bridge as the British bombs privileges in the matter of exemption are available for parcels hit it. The plane then went down addressed to persons, domiciled in the low, and the gunner completed Dominions or Colonies now serving in work of disorganising the column.- the British forces in Europe or furlough in the United Kingdom from, such forces. Full particulars as to method of directing such parcels may be obtained at the Parcel Department of the General Post Office, Hong Kong." No such privileges exist in the case of parcels addressed to members of such forces who themselves belong to the United Kingdom.,
The Chinese American Institute of Cultural Relations, Hong Kong Branch, will hold its annual general meeting to-day at 5 p.m. in the Chinese Mer- chants' Club, China. Building:
and Russo-Swedish trade negotiations
PORT ERIN NOW PORT FOR WOMEN
London, To-day.
Port Erin, on the Isle of Man, has been taken over in its entirety by the Govern- ment for the accommodation of German and Austrian wo- men and children who are to be interned under the new order of the Home Secretary.
No civilians will be permitted, in Port Erin unless they have business there.-Reuter.
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL").
London, To-day, Following the decision to set up a
concentration camp in the Isle of Man, all German and Austrian women be-
are taking place simultaneously and longing to the "B" class of aliens, the Kremlin apparently desires to 1,500 women, most of them servants, show the greatest cordiality and were arrested in London yesterday.. goodwill towards both countries. It is believed that all suspect aliens
have now been rounded up.-Havas. Havas.
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