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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 13, 1940.

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NIGHT BOMBING ATTACK DRAMA: CREW HONOURED

THE STORY OF A bomber's crew who

carried on and bombed their objective though MALAYA RAISES

two were wounded and one engine of their plane was out of action, was told in the Lon-

don Gazette last night.

Pilot Officer Andrew Dunn, Pilot Officer Charles. Montagu and Pilot Officer Leslie Watt, receive the D.F.C., and Acting Sergeant Bernard Savill and Sergeant Joseph Dawson receive the D.F.M.

LATEST

GERMAN

CANARD

"State-

MONEY FOR

35 FIGHTERS

It was disclosed in Singapore yesterday that £350,000 for the purchase of warplanes for the R.A.F. has been remitted to Lon- don by the War Fund launched by Malayan newspapers.---Reuter.

Their plane, piloted by Dunn was on a night bombing attack last month and was repeatedly at- hit by A. A. fire and then tacked by a Messerschmidt 109.-

The first attack disabled the Inter-communication gear and wounded-Savill, the air obser- ver, and Dawson, the wireless 00000 operator.

was

BRUTALITY

Watt, The rear gunner, The Ministry of In-unable to warn the captain of the fighter's second attack but de- formation in London yes-livered a good burst at short range

and destroyed the enemy. terday stated:

One engine of the R.A.F. ments recently made in bomber was disabled, however. the Despite these difficulties, German

target on the Ruhr was success- the erew

broadcasts in

OF NAZIS

Arabic in regard to a Bri-fully bombed before IN POLAND

the

turned homeward. tish-Jewish pact about

Landed In Sea Palestine are completely For three and a half hours

Dile! plane lost neight, flying on false.

engine until the North Sea "There have been no negotia-crossed at only 400 feet. tions before or since the Franco- were forced to land in the German armistice in regard to a close to the South Coast.

adds: The official description Jewish State in Palestine, evacua-

broadcasts, these have no founda--Reuter. tion in fact.

They

sea

more savage form.

RAF. LEADING A DOG-FIGHT

LIFE

individual fights during the latest raids on

THERE WERE SO MANY dag-fights and

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Britain that it is impossible to describe them all, but one, concerning a British squadron which met a German “air fleet" twice its size, shot down five and damaged two more, may be taken as typical.

The British Hurricanes were on patrol when they sighted 12 Heinkel bombers and 12 Messerschmidt fighters over the South Coast The Hurricanes manoeuvred for the attack.

deal

One section, in order to with the fighters, climbed to the attack and went into "line-astern' formation. The Messerschmidtsi adopted the same formation and circled round the bombers.

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One Hurricane, attacking 'plane, found two more on

tail. He, dived 15,000 feet to avoid them and as he went down slipped past a German who had taken to his parachute.

Another pilót saw a Messer schmidt diving down to ground far below.

VIGIL OF RAID

VICTIM'S WIFE

save

For two days doctors and nurses jat a North Riding (Yorks) hos-

pital have been fighting to the life of John Bidwell, aged forty-two, the most seriously in- jured of the first victims of squa-Nazi air raid over England

the

One

а

His wife is keeping vigil at his pilot, recalled from holiday.

bedside and his mother has been

A second section of the dron attacked the Heinkels. 'plane kept firing at a Heinkel until, in the words of the "a large chunk fell out."

Another got two long bursts Flames into a Heinkel bomber.

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AFTER THE DANCE New revelations of Nazi

Three workmen were admitted was brutality in Poland were shot out of the Heinkel and then to hospital after the bombs were north-east coast made available yesterday, died away. There was a puff of dropped over

The other black smoke, a lot of white smoke town on Saturday.

shot They show that the organ- and then the flames out two, Jonah Jones, aged nineteen,

and Trevor Evans, were not The bomber disappeared

seriously hurt. tion of Arabs or any such "This crew showed the greatest ised reign of terror which again.

Evans's mother said: schemes, and in spite of the determination, courage and gal-marked the Polish inva-in a dive down to the sea.

"The sound of the explosions wealth of detail given by German lantry throughout the operation."sion continues in an even All In Seconds

woke me. My first thoughts were All these attacks occurred_with-for my son. I had a premonition

that he was hurt."

the In the streets after

raid, and Mes- are now interned in German pri- While the Heinkels

girls in dance frocks returning serschmidts tried to keep to- soner-of-war and labour More than 100,000 from the gether, the British machines flew from a late dance mingled with

breaking up

the people who had hastily flung Poznan (Posen) district alone are in and out,

coat over their night clothes. formation.

out in concentration camps.

One dazed old man rushed As some of the Heinkels start-in his nightshirt, crying: "What Under the German labour laws

out, the Germans half a million men have been set ed to drop Mr. Menzies, the Australian to work in the Polish "corridor" patched up their formation and

beat a hasty retreat.

When the Hurricanes landed Prime Minister, announced yes-and Polish Upper Silesia..

Conditions are extremely bad. terday that Australia has agreed,

"It is of course well known that the Jews of Palestine, like a great| many Arabs there, are working: and fighting on the side of Great Britain against Nazi domination, but any story of a "secret pact"| between Great Britain and the Jewish Agency is sheer invention.".

Keuter.

DIED AS MOTHER FAINTED

must

"There is something I do. What is it?" a young marri- ed woman kept repeating to neighbours as she recovered from a faint..

Then she screamed: baby-in the bath."

"My

No fewer than 1,600,000 Poles in a few seconds of each other. AUSTRALIA

TO TAKE

INTERNEES

tain.

camps.

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was!

can I do, what can I do!"

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No vital damage was done, and Sir Arthur Lambert," Northern Regional Commissioner for Civil ale of the people. The explosions

of lawakened hundreds

people over a wide area. Many of them rushed out to the air-raid shel- ters.

to take alien internees from Brl-The food is of the poorest quality back on their home aerodrome, Defence paid tribute to the mor-

counted and the scanty rations issued are an. Intelligence. Officer

Where and then stopped. It is reported that 2,000 have often reduced as a form of pun-them in. He counted up to

ishment. already left Britain. for "Down

According to the "Central Euro-No. 12? Under."

The British Government will pean Observer," 18,000 of the bear the cost of their mainten-leading figures in Poland's intel- ance, camps and guards.-Reuter, lectual life have been executed..

ITALIANS KEEP ATTACK ON

UP

The answer came a few hours later, when Pilot No. 12 arrived slightly wounded. He had had! to take to his parachute.-Reuter.

Air Ministry Bulletin

The Air Ministry news service,

chased the

British machines raider out to sea.

Most of the bombs dropped harmlessly on open ground, but many people narrowly escaped [injury..

One door, bolted and locked,

describing the destruction of 11 was blasted into a house. Windows German bombers by the RAF.

were smashed, walls damaged. yesterday, states nine were shot and dozens of houses were filled down by Spitfires and Hurricanes: one by an Anson of the Coastal with soot and debris.

VIN RENALTY AREA ́. Command and one by A.A. gùn- One bomb fell.. in the penalty

They crashed at different points area of a football field.

Mrs. Jones, mother of Jonah A BRITISH WAR communique issued in Cairo on land or in the sea from Aber-Jones, has had a large family. A verdict of Accidental death yesterday stated that at British Moyale our dedeenshire to Hampshire.

Her seven-month-old daugh-

ter was found drowned in six Inches of water in the bath.

KENYA FRONTIER

was recorded at the inquest at fences, damaged by artillery fire supporting the

Falmouth, Cornwall.

The young mother, Mrs. Avis original Italian attack on July 9, were repaired dur- mouth, had fallen unconscious in ing the night."

Andrew, of Bowles-road, Fal-

her garden as she was taking

a

A counter-attack on July 10 inflicted heavy Neighbours found her three losses on the enemy and fighting continues.

towel from the clothes line.

year-old daughter. and four-year-

old son trying to raise her. They

In Somaliland, the Camel Corps*** helped her to her kitchen and de-continues their offensive action voted their attention to her, un-against frontier posts, and daily aware of the drowning baby's losses are inflicted on the enemy. plight.

PETAIN CABINET RESHUFFLE

The garrison, at British Mo- yale, which is on the Kenya.. Abyssinian frontier, and which the Italians have been' attack- king since Wednesday morning, had not at noon yesterday made

PRESIDENT

STILL EVASIVE

contact with the British troops President Roosevelt stat-

The official communique

*

nouncing this added the relleving day he is definitely not troops were holding positions on an escarpment. ~

ing to Chicago for the Enemy Casualties High mocratic Convention:

ners.

...

Her twenty children include tri First victory of the day was lets and two pairs of twins. won by six Hurricanes patrol- Jonah has at twin sister. ling In the early morning off the "The triplets were born dur East Anglian coast, and they ing an air raid by a German Zep- saved merchant shipping from belin in 1918," said Mrs. Jones. attack by 10 Heinkels. **

"Two of them died at the age of Four of the Heinkels, shattered two." by the eight-gun Hurricanes, crashed into the sea, and the other six were driven off before) they could damage th ships.

A little later two Dorniers tried to attack the convoy but a single Hurricane pilot from the same section shot down one and dam- aged another-Reuter..

SHOUTED LONDON BOMBED GETS 3

MONTHS IN PRISON

Stated to have called out "Ger-

Eleven Shot Down mans bomb London," Frank. Tap-

The Air Ministry. announced per aged forty-two, a news ven-

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coming to their rollef. ⠀⠀ an-ed in Washington yester-last evening that an enemy bomb-dor, of no fixed address, was sen

er was, shot down by our fighter tenced at Portsmouth to three

false infor go-aircraft off the South Coast last months' imprisonment on a charge.

mation. De-evening, bringing up to 11 the of communicating

total·énemy aircraft destroyed

It was stated that Topper was yesterday. Reuter.

sent to prison for a month last- November for displaying a false placard bearing the words Ger- many attacks Holland."

The French Cabinet met last

At his daily press conference, evening at Vichy under Marshal The communique says enemy Petain in his new capacity of casualties are not yet known but he evaded questions regarding his Head of the State, according to a are believed to be very heavy intentions should he be nominat~

British aircraft carried:.. out telegram to the. German news

reconnaissances and attacks ed for a third term. agency.

have,

ten-

The French Miniators as expected,' : collectively dorod their resignations; in-or-} der to make way for the now 12 members of the Cabinet,...... The list of new members is expected to be published: to-day —Reutar: A

actiliory positions in the Moyale

BURMESE ON THE DEFENCE COUNCIL -UNION RE-FORMING

A Rangoon telegram says theThe Belgian Transport Workers against; machinegun'. posts and He stated he was conferring Governor of Burma has appointed Union is being re-formed in Bri- area. Two machinegun posts later with Mr. Henry Stimson, U Maung Gyee, President of the tain, with headquarters in Lon

be the new Secretary of War, ware destroyed.“ varm

re-Senate to the post of third couns dán, under the International

At about 5 pm. our machines garding mobilisation of the Na met three Capronis and two fight-

tional Guard for trainin Reu ors and put them to flight...

'tor. [Reuter.

sellor for defence, which was Transport Workers Union, and in created to associate Burmese in close co-operation, with the British the country's defence matter. - National Union of Seamen Reu-

teri Router: