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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 3, 1940

R.A.F. SET

SET NEW

NEW RECORD 78 Nazi Planes Destroyed In One Day

Heavy Raids On Military Objectives In Germany

LONDON, TO-DAY.

THE AIR MINISTRY ANNOUNCES THAT 78 NAZI BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS WERE DESTROYED OR SEVERELY DAMAGED OVER DUNKIRK BEACHES BETWEEN DAWN AND 7 O'CLOCK ON SATURDAY EVENING.

This sets a new day's record for our fighter pilots;

16 British aircraft are missing. Squadrons of Hurricanes and Spitfires flew high above the French fens all day guarding con- voys which were bringing the B.E.F. rearguard home.

Huge formations of Nazi bombers | Fighters attacked three enemy dive escorted by fighters attempted to sink bombers on the ground at Ostend, and the ships. They did not lack targets, set them on fire.

the for the sea was thick with craft of all French fighters. operating with kinds, but when they tried to bombR.A.F.. accounted for three enemy the ships, fighters attacked and drove bombers. them off and most of the bombs fell In the Narvik (Norway) area into the sea.

fighters shot down nine enemy air- two craft and probably destroyed others.-Reuter.

Many Junkers, Heinkels, Dorniers and Messerschmidts soon crashed into the sea. after their bombs. Thir- ty-two of their fighters were tainly destroyed.

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One Hurricane pilot disabled in combat landed on the beach, walked 15 miles carrying his parachute to Dunkirk, got a lift home to Folkestone in a paddle steamer, rejoined his squadron and was on patrol the next day.

Best Bag

Best bag on Saturday went to a Spit- fire squadron which destroyed 12 Ger- man bombers and fighters in one short action, and later in the day went up again and shot down another six.

It was a bad day for Messerschmidts, for two British fighter squadrons along accounted for 23.

On Saturday, medium bombers the R.A.F. continued to support rearguard, action of the. Allies Flanders.

German Report On Air Activities

Berlin, To-day.

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A High Command communique says the air force combatted attempts by remants of the defeated B.E.F. to: escape to ships sailing off Dunkirk.

Four warships and 11 transports, aggregating 54,000 tons, were sunk. Fourteen warships, namely,

: two cruisers, two light cruisers, one anti-aircraft cruiser, six destroyers, two torpedo-boats and one speed- boat, as well as 38 merchantmen, were damaged by bomb hits.

Many boats, barges and tugs were. capsized and troop concentrations on Dunkirk beaches effectively bombed. A German speedboat torpedoed sank a heavily laden transport of the 4,000 tons.

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Repeated attacks were made on the enemy's communications, roads and bridges, as well as ammunition dumps and troops.

During the night, operations - were continued by heavy bombers..

Raids In Germany Other formations of heavy bombers attacked, military objectives in Ger- -many, marshalling yards at Hamm and.

Osnabruck being hit.

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At Rheine, a column of transport was blown up and a bridge severely damaged.

All these operations were carried

out without loss..

Three Hudson aircraft of the Coast-

al Command, while engaged over Dun-

tion of 40 bombers and shot down

and

Air force detachments attacked for the first time the port of Marseilles, bombed and set on fire two large merchantmen and damaged the Lyons

at several Marseilles railway line points,

Many of the refugees. REFUGEES LEAVE FOR NEW HOMES from Holland and Belgium who have arrived safely in London have Photo shows left for their new homes where they are to be billeted..

(Air Mail. Copyright). refugees boarding buses en route.

NEUTRALITY ADVICE TO SPANIARDS

"Nobody shall force Spain to follow a path Spain does not want to folow," says the Span- Ish Catholic, organ Ya in an edi- torial popularly regarded as re- presenting the real views of the "man in the street. This was par- kicwarty so after all the recent

arts that Spain" might find. Saself involved in the wark

These rumours have: now .con- siderably abated, despite the in- tensification of German propa- ganda böth in the Press and from other sources. Ya added that the 'best way of maintaining neutral- ity was to follow Gen.. Franco's word of command exclusively.

1.31 INCHES OF RÄIN

-- Another 1.31 inches of rain fell in the 24 hours ending at 10 o'clock this morning, bringing the total for the year to 35.88 inches, or 11.85 inches above normal.

The Royal Observatory reports that pressure is now highest over the Paci- fic to the south-east of the Bonins;

The enemy lost 58 planes on June 1, and 15 German aircraft are miss-it has increased considerably over .ing.

Japan, the Loochoos and the east coast German Alpine troops advancing of China. Depressions are situated north from Trondheim took Bodoe near Shantung and Hokkaido, on June I and captured a British battery-Reuter.

ENTERED MINE AREA

FRENCH AIR ACTIVITY

Paris, To-day.

Four Chinese boatmen were charged before Commander J. Jolly, Deputy Harbour Master, at the Marine Court this morning with entering the mine- field in North Lantau Channel yester- day.

They were fined $10 or 10 days' im- A French Air Minister com-prisonment. An additional fine, of $10 kirk on Saturday, attacked a forma-munique states bombing was imposed on one man for failing to the three, while two dived out of control operations were undertaken stop when ordered to do so by

police. and two others were damaged. All on Saturday on roads north of Abbeville and on enemy troops.

the Hudsons were unharmed.

Twenty-five tons of bombs

were Two

At dusk other Hudsons successfully attacked Bergen (Norway) wircless station, set oil tanks on fire and bomb- ed and machinegunned supply ves-dropped with marked success. sels in the harbour.

German convoys were destroyed and one railway cut.

Yesterday's Operations

Yesterday Fighter Command air- craft in the Dunkirk area continued offensive patrols.

While returning, our bombers countered enemy fighters and down one Messerschmidt, 109,

en- shot

During the night our bombers con- tinued to maintain the service, "of supplies to Alfiod troops In the Dun kirk

n, especially medicines. Numerous reconnaissances were car.

Reports hitherto received show our Oghters have destroyed 35 enemy air- eraft and probably further six.ried out over northern France.

Eight of our fighters are missing.

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PARIS NOW IN THE

WAR ZONE

SWISS BRING DOWN THREE NAZI PLANES

Paris, To-day.

A third German bomber was brought down by Swiss fighters yesterday.

Two others were brought down on Saturday on their way to the Rhone Valley, and later this particular for mation was attacked by. the French, who brought down four, or possibly five, more.

It is now learned that at least 56 were killed and 100 injured in Satur day's raids on the Rhone Valley. Four 'planes were brought down at Mar- seilles, where the harbour was bomb- ed and a British ship was hit.

On their way back, the Germans encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire in Alsace Reuter.

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Paris, To-day. The Swiss General Staff announces that Swiss patrol planes shot down. German bomber near Yverdon-in the- Jura Mountains-Havás.

WAR MEMORIES OF 25 YEARS AGO

(From the "Ch[na_Mail"!-filles). June 3, 1915.

Strong attacks at Przemsyl been repulsed..

have

The Italians have firmly occupied a ridge in Montenegro, 7,000 feet high across the Isonzo; they have thus penetrated the main Austrian bartier of defence:

The Khedival Line s.s. Saidies has been torpedoed in the

North Sea; seven seamen and, a stewardess. were drowned.

There has been close hand-to-hand fighting on the north fortat Dardanelles,

the

Brigadier-General. Philip Chetwoode has been wounded.

Paris, To-day. Among signs that Paris is officially part of the war zone are more police- men supplied with portable machine-DEFENCE REGULATIONS gins to combat Fifth Columnists. Telephoning from public call offices and restaurants is forbidden.Reuter.

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