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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 5, 1940.

BRITISH RELATIONS WITH SOVIET

London, To-day. Questioned in the Commons yesterday on the subject of Bri- tish diplomatic. representation In Moscow, Mr. R. A. Butler, Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, sald he hoped to be able to give a reply to-day..but In the mean- time answered in the affirmative a query whether Britain prepared to enter into fully nor- mal relations with the Soviet Government.-Reuter.

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YES, BUT WHAT ABOUT DUNKIRK?

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REPRISAL RAID

French Bomb Factories In Reich

NEARLY 1,000 CALAIS THE PARIS CASUALTIES PROUDEST

Paris, To-day.

THE GHASTLY TOLL TAKEN in the Nazi air raid on Paris on Monday was only fully revealed in an official announcement last night.

It is now declared that total casualties numbered

906, of which 254 were killed.

Of the dead, 195 were civilians and 59 military, while of the wounded, 545 were civilians and 107 military. Reuter.

The Reprisal Raids

Paris, To-day. A French Air Ministry cornmuni- que says that our squadrons on the night of June 3 attacked with great success various objectives of a mili- tary character in Germany, notably in the neighbourhood of Frankfurt and

Munich.

Aerodromes, stations, railway lines and Industrial war establishments, including one of the most important In the aircraft engine factories Reloh, were hit.

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No Modesty

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Berlin, To-day. Between 300 and 400 French fighters were destroyed on the ground during Monday's raid on Paris, claims the German High Command!-Havas,

A.A. Fire Around Paris

Paris, To-day.

There was renewed anti-aircraft fire around Paris yesterday morning, but the air-raid alarm was not sounded.

Paris remains calm but angry and there is a demand for prompt repri- sals for Monday's attack.-Reuter.

Reprisal Raids

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Paris, To-day.

It is now disclosed that military Frankfurt-on- objectives in Munich,

Many explosions and fires were ob- served and our airmen brought back important strategic information. our aircraft returned to their bases.

Other bombing operations were Main and the Ruhr were bombed by carried out in the Immediate region the Allied avlation as a reprisal for of the battlefield north of the

Monday's German air raid on Paris, Gomme.

No details have yet been issued. Havas

The objectives assigned to our air- men, such as troop concentrations and armoured

les, were attained. Observation ircraft photographed back areas of the whole front, parti- cularly north of Abbeville, Reuter.

Paris Denlat

London, To-day,

25 Nazi Planes Downed

It has now been German bombers during the rald on

Havasi

faned that 25 rought down

Monday

Categorically-denying the claim of Many Bombers Damaged

the German High Command that 70 French planes were destroyed in the rald on Paris, the Paris radio, in a German broadcast last night, stated four French planes were shot down

A French COP losses suffered, by in the course of

and 10 damaged on the ground. over the Faris region, are

It added that besides 17 German at a minimum of 25 lanes brought down, several were | tión, many bombers

y British fighters who in-

on the way -honie.

damaged and were seen to be dificulty in reaching their, Reuter

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ANSWER

Berne, To-day. The Swiss press remains full of admiration for the northern Allied armies.

The "Tribune" says the Allied de feat at no time and nowhere took on the character of a rout and the way in which the evacuation of the forti fled camp of Dunkirk was successfully carried out will mark a glorious page in the annals of military science. :

Germany prophesied the Waterloo of the Democracles; this hope was not realised. In throwing back the Allies to the sea the German army scored a first class strategic success but did not succeed in breaking the adversary's fighting power or cutting off his retreat.

The heroic behaviour of the small British detachment in Calais Citadel constitutes the proudest answer to the insinuations of Germans propaganda which

pretended the British only thought of flight-Reuter.

PARIS

BRITISH AIR SUPREMACY

New York, To-day.

An article in the "New York Times" by Major de Seversky, the noted aviation expert, contends that British pursuit planes made the Dun- kirk evacuation possible.

"I confidently assert," he writes, "that this withdrawal was accom- plished primarily because of the British local superiority in the air.

"That may sound astonishing but it remains true and Incontrovertible. to those who have had flying ex- perience that British planes like the Spitfire, Hurricans and Defiant are masters of any pursuit planes which the Germans possess in great quantity, and actually have achiev-

alr ed mastery of the

over the Channel. "Without such supremacy, the with- drawal would have proved disastrous. Established Immediately

come

"It was the first time that the Bri- tish and German forces had into conflict over an extended period, and with so much at stake the sup-. eriority of the English planes was. established immediately

.... the cover- age of the British pursuit planes made bombardment operations of Dunkirk very hazardous, if not impossible. That is why the evacuation was suc- cessful."-Reuter.

LONDON DEMANDS REPRISAL

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London, To-day.

A wave of anger and indig- nation swept over the capital when the full casualty list in the Nazi air raid on Paris be-

EXPECTANT came known.

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") Paris, To-day. It is unofficially reported that Allied have heavily bombed military

in Munich. Gen

ude in Paris is calm and expectant. It is thought that this week will see a kreat German of

tallan participa- tensive on Fr tion

ind heavy air bom bärti

on a scale not yet dreamed

GERMANS MINE

BEHIND RETREAT

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The German assertion that only mili- tary objectives were aimed at, was ridiculed in London, where it is point- ed out that the high civilian death roll contradicts this assertion.

Fublic opinion supports any.... retaliation.

Allied

The bellef lë hold among the Brl- tish public that the Allied mir foross have not bombed .... sufficiently the Germi

das, and it is stressed at pay for her vio:

StäwarfarO,

that German in-

spared.

NARVIK BOMBED

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