1940-07-29 — Page 16

HOW BRITAIN FACES UP TO NAZI BOMBING RAIDS

ITALIANS TRY TO RAID ADEN

An Italian air raid on Aden yesterday oftemoon was direct- ed chiefly against shipping in the har- bour.

One merchant ship received superficial damage and one In- dian member of the crew was killed.

There were no other casualties or damage as the result of the raid.-Reuter.

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CAR STOLEN FROM GARAGE

Between midnight on Friday and 8 a.m. on Saturday,

LOCALITIES IN BRITAIN which have had enemy air raids are still quite a small part of the whole country but in the regions most frequently mentioned in Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security announcements there are a few places where, during the last six weeks, siren warnings, the drone of engines, gunfire and occasional bombs have become very familiar.

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 29, 1940.

SHANGHAI RUSH TO

JOIN ARMY

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") The British recruiting authori- ties in Shanghai will be unable to interview any more applicants for enlistment in the Army R.A.F. until Monday, August 5, it was announced in the northern port yesterday.

or

It is understood the decision is due to the fine response of China Britons who volunteered the recruiting scheme was

The decision augurated.

not apply to recruiting for Royal Navy-Havas.

since

in- does the

Mrs. V. Tkachenko, of No. 3, Hankow Road, has reported the

theft of a canvas car. cover from

a motor truck

parked outside!

Experience in these areas of the people's calm-the premises yesterday. ness, patience, irrepressible good humour and kind- liness to one another leaves no doubt how the rest of Britain will behave when its turn comes, or how the nation as a whole will stand up to the air men-

ace.

shelters something exchange the more successful "artistes" whose "appearance" is prospective

Wherever Hitler's "travellers" have called with samples of the luftwaffe's might and menace, the determination to liberute the duly "billed" the previous day. world from domination by ter- Such is the resilence of spirit rorism may be a little more grim with which the enemy's raids on than elsewhere but there is noj Britain have been met so far.

British Wireless. despondency.

The inhabitants are showing: great adaptability and ingenuity in overcoming the inconveniences and disturbances of normal routine caused by the regularly repeated warnings and raids.

SOVIET

To avoid fatigue due to inter- FLEET

rupted rest many people have changed

their

sleeping hours.

Others sleep in their shelters.

Common Shelters

EXPANSION

SOVIET RUSSIA HAS BEEN

somel In many streets of small houses, ENGAGED IN A LARGE-SCALE person gained entrance to the common shelters have been erect- EXPANSION OF HER FLEET, garage of No. 23, Blue Pool Roaded by the authorities and where and stole a car, No. 6071, longing to Mr. A. Evans.

A WRITER IN THE is SOVIET NEWSPAPER "IZVES-

be-warnings are of almost nightly SAYS

occurrence, neighbourliness joined by something of a picnic TIA." spirit.

Mr. W. Wallace, between 8 p.m. and midnight on Saturday, from either lost, or had stolen him, a gold packet-watch, valued at $85, in the Wanchai district.

ANNOUNCING

THE

ARRIVAL

OF

NEW SUPPLIES

OF

DAKS

Shipbuilding for the navy dur- Wives take it in. turn to pro-

greater 'vide hot drinks. Men arrangeing 1939 was five times games, and concerts are provid-than it was at the peak of the ed by young people. Adjacent second Five-Year Plan, and, ac- cording to the writer, they are "first-class ships."

THE PRINCE-

"They will protect the peace- ful workers of the U.S:S.R.," he says, and continues that they are "ready to strike a decisive blow at the enemy.'

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OF SLACKS He did not indicate who the

FOR MEN

THERE IS NOTHING SO PRACTICAL AND COM- FORTABLE IN THE WEARING

"enemy" was. -- Havas.

SHANGHAI SUFFERS

.' (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Following the closure of the

shipping supply

the routes to

NATURAL

as near to Naturė as is desirable are Sir William Crookes' lenses.

Something to offset the harmful glare is necessary but you don't have to have the whole landscape darkened like a rainy day to do that.

Wear Crookes and know what real eye- comfort means.

OPTICIANDO

STOP PRESS

YACHTING

Chungking Government along THRILLS

the Chekiang and Fukien coasts, the arrival of supplies in Shang- hai in small coastal vessels from Wenchow, Ningpo and

Foochow

Two owners of motor-

has been considerably curtailed yachts had exciting ex- Farms products, instead of being periences in the typhoon! sent to regular shipping ports such "blow" yesterday.

as Ningpo and Wenchow, are sent Mr. T. P. Tong, of the Hong elsewhere and are trans-shipped Kong and Shanghai Bank, had to Shanghai. Merchandise is now considerable difficulty in fighting arriving from Shantung ports in-his way through Lycemun Pass in stead of from Ningpo.

the teeth of the high wind, and Chickens, melons etc. are now eventually reached safety,

Mr. A. D. Coppin, the well- AS DAKS brought to Shanghai from down-

The prefix "Spealal to telegrams 18 river ports.-Havas.

known, broker, who was accom- panied by Mr. Mody, was also try-used by the "Sunday Herald" and ing to battle against the gale when China Mail", to indicato nows which is strictly copyright under the provi- the motor of his craft broke down.alons of the Telecommunications Or They took refuge in a bay outside dinance, 1936, and may not be reprint- Lyeemun and were rescued by aled

any circumstances, either boat from A King Slipway in the wholly or in part, without prior ar early hours of this morning..

THEY GIVE THE MAXI-2 MUM OF EASE AS ALSO OF PRIDE IN THEIR POSSESSION. CUT & FASHIONED FROM SUPERB MATERIALS, WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE NOW, ABLE TO SUP-M

OF FABRICS. IN GREY, BROWN, FAWN AND GREEN, FLANNELS, GABARDINE, CRASH, CORDUROY AND TROPI CAL WORSTEDS.

NISHIHARA RECALLED

PLY THESE IN ALL Major-General "Nishihara, head SIZES & IN A VARIETY of the Japanese' Inspectorate sent to Indo-China to supervise the French undertaking to stop sup- plies to General Chiang Kai-shek, has been recalled to Japan be cause his attitude was "too con- ciliatory," according to a report received this morning in Shang- jhai from Hanoi.

IN A FULL RANGE OF SIZĖS

WE ADVISE AN EARLY VISIT

WILLIAM POWELL, LTD.

10, ICE HOUSE STREET

The report adds the Japanese Government will send else.in his place-Reuter.

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