1940-06-04 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 4, 1940.

Myers, Faprome

HEAVY BOMBERS IN

OPERATION OVER GERMANY

London, To-day.

AN AIR MINISTRY COMMUNIQUE says that in support of the Allied armies, medium bombers of the R.A.F. made a series of attacks on enemy gun emplacements, roads, railways and troop concentrations in the Dunkirk area throughout Sunday.

These operations were continued during the night by our heavy bombers. At the same time other formations of heavy bombers attacked enemy aerodromes and other military objectives in north-west Germany.

All our aircraft returned from these operations.

Our fighter aircraft continued to maintain offensive patrols over Dunkirk area.

the

In the Narvik area six enemy air- craft were shot down on June 1 and

2.

light of a slowly descending parachute flare, it was subjected to machinegun attack.

Salvos of bombs were seen to burst in the midst of a convoy on the road ahead of it and in adjoining woods. A series of heavy explosions continued to break out for some time after the "Eye-witness," telegraphing from attack as ammunition or petrol lor- somewhere in Norway, says the

ries in the wrecked convoy were ignit- Allied fighters are estimated alreadyed by incendiary bomb fires and blew to have shot down 24 machines

up.-British Wireless. over the part of northern Norway occupied by the Allies. They have damaged many more.

Anti-aircraft guns have taken con- siderable toll of enemy planes in al-

raids. most daily and nightly

This punishment has had a marked effect upon the frequency of German visita- tions. Reuter.

Oil Wagons Set Alight Marshalling yards were bombed, oil tank waggons were set alight and troop convoys were machine-gunned by lowflying bombers in the course of Sunday night's extensive raids over north-west Germany.

railway

At Soest, an important junction to the east of Dortmund, a Line of high explosive. bombs fell across the centre of crowded railway yards. Moving trains, were hit and brought to a standstill and direct hits were registered on loaded goods wag- gons.

In another successful attack on a märshalling yard carried out shortly after midnight, a group of oiltank wag- gons standing in the middle of the yard was first wrecked and then, set The alight by incendiary, bombs. fire kindled by the bombs spread rapidly and clouds of smoke. were seen rising from the yard for some time after the raid.

Osnabruck Raid

at

The road and rail junction Osnabruck were heavily attacked, for the second night in succession.

NAZIS HIDE

LOSSES FROM

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Budapest, To-day.

Neutral observers return- ing from Vienna report the arrival there of trainloads of wounded every day.

Schools, public buildings and large houses have been converted into hospitals and all doctors, even Jews who had been forbidden to practice,. have now to work night and day.

There have been`încidents at rail- way stations as Austrian soldiers ...were leaving for the front.

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Hysterical women threw selves on the tracks to prevent the trains leaving. They were driven off by fire hoses.

Army officers in Vienna estimate that Germany has petrol and oil sup-- plies sufficient only for another two months of such intensive, warfare,- Havas.

GLOUCESTER HOTEL

THEFTS

Ma Kei, 29, was before Mr. R. Ed- wards this morning, charged with stealing a bucket, a fire hydrant and hose, and a silver coffee pot from the Gloucester Hotel on June 2.

A direct hit was scored on the goods yard at Hamburg, and at Hamm, south of Munster, one end of the bridge over the canal was reported to have been demolished and nearby railway tracks were torn up by the force of three heavy bomb explosions.

Enemy air bases at Rotterdam, De-ing the night,

visited

venter and Wesel were also by night raiders.

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at

Defendant removed the articles dur-

He was sentenced to four months' hard labour, and ordered to be ex- pelled from the Colony as a destitute.

At the Rotterdam aerodrome Waalhaven, a group of buildings which had survived earlier Allied

CHINA TYPEWRITERS & CO. bombardment was straddled by a salvo of heavy calibre bombs. --

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