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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 30, 1940.
NAZIS WARNED:
RED CROSS SYMBOL
ON PLANES
AN AIR MINISTRY communique in Lon- don yesterday stated that for some time past [R.A.F. aircraft have observed German · sea-
“Excellent! It's White Horse-planes painted white and marked with the
I could tell it blindfold.” Red Cross flying over British convoys within|
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These aircraft, which are fitted with wire- less, are known to make valuable reconnais- sances on behalf of the enemy and to be used. |for general salvage purposes.
-Early in July two guel-air-|
craft were forced down
one a
few miles from Hartlepool; the Channel
other in the English
near Walmer. Their crews were were made prisoners of war.
The logbook of one of the captured aircraft showed
that
under cover of the Red Cross emblem, it had been used as a communication aircraft by Gen- eral Major Tittel, commander of an infantry division, and his ad- jutant, and also that it had been used to make bogus war films for the German war news service.
A Warning
AIR WAR
AGAINST
ITALIANS
+
MANY NAZI AIRMEN PRISONERS
Included in a list of 85 German prisoners captured in the last four days up to Sun-.. day are 77 airmen.
The previous list, issued last Thursday totalled 109, includ- ing 55 airmen.-Reu-
ter.
DESERT
PATROL IN
€7
Yesterday's R.A.F. Cairo TOUGH SPOT
the
communique states: "Se- A British mechanised In view of this, His Majesty's ver al reconnaissance unit operating in Government caused the following flights were carried out Western Desert had a Libya by tough time when spotted
communication to be made
through the proper channels for over eastern
Italian Governments;
“Sole Agents for South China: JARDINE MATHESON AND COMPANY LTD transmission to the German and bombing aircraft of the by Italian aircraft, it was R.A.F. escorted by fight-revealed in Cairo yester- "It has come to the notice of His Majesty's Government in the ers
day after the return of the United Kingdom that enemy air-] During one of these a large REGIMENTAL BADGE BROOCHES.
craft bearing civil markings and formation of enemy fighters was survivors of the force. marked with the Red Cross have met and in the subsequent action The official communique on the ROYAL NAVAL CROWN ROYAL NAVAL CAP recently flown over British ships one enemy plane was shot down. incident, issued in Cairo yester- at sea and in the vicinity of the One of our aircraft is missing. day states: "A Western Desert MERCANTILE NAVY ROYAL ARTILLERY
British coast and they are being During another reconnaissance patrol of light armoured fighting employed for purposes which His flight two Italian fighters were vehicles, which had penetrated.. ROYAL ENGINEERS-ROYAL CORPS SIGNALS Majesty's Government cannot re-seen on the ground. They were far behind the enemy's front, was by spotted and subjected to continu- ROYAL
-H K. gard as consistent with the pri-attacked and both destroyed ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
vileges generally accorded the fire.
ous low-flying attacks by Italian Red Cross. VOLUNTEERS.
In Italian East Africa a bomb-bombers and fighters. "His Majesty's Government de-ing and machine gunning attack "Some casualties to men and Įsire to accord to ambulance air-was made on the aerodrome at vehicles were suffered. {craft reasonable facilities for the Mille. One Italian bomber was "On other fronts there is noth-
Transport of sick and wounded in totally destroyed and two others ing of importance to report." accordance with the Red Cross damaged.
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Convention, and aircraft engaged French Cooperate
French pilots and crews oper- provided they comply with thelated with the R.A.F. and carri- relative provisions of the Con-ed out valuable reconnaissance vention.
work in the Diredawa area. At Own Risk
A Sunderland flying boat patrolling in the Mediterranean A delegation of five trade "His Majesty's Government attacked three ships. Result of presentatives from Iran was due are unable, however, to grant the bombing is not yet known. to arrive in Moscow last night immunity to such aircraft flying The Sunderland was attacked to discuss railway transport. over áreas in which operations by three formations of enemy A Hungarian' delegation is exe are in progress on land or sea monoplane fighters but maintain-pected towards the end of the or approaching British or Allied ed a running action throughout week. territory or territory in British its return flight. One Italian A trade agreement, following occupation or Allied ships.
fighter was shot down in flames seven weeks of negotiations, be- "Ambulance aircraft which and another driven down out of tween Soviet Russia and Afghani- do not comply with the above control. Our aircraft returned stan is announced.-Reuter. requirements will do 80 at safely. their own risk and peril.” On Sunday German seaplanes marked with Another Sunderland on patrol Enemy bombers escorted by a the Red Cross which approached was also attacked by enemy large formation of a dozen fight-.
Only the British coast company fighters, one of which broke uplers raided Malta.
slight with heavy enemy fighter patrols in the air, and another gave up damage was done. One enemy were shot down into the sea by the combat apparently in badly fighter
brought down by British fighters,-Reuter.
damaged. condition.
anti-aircraft fire and crashed in- The Sunderland returned safe-to the sea."-British Wireless.
afternoon two
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Mr. Chien Hung-ych, Criminal Judge of the First Spe- cial District Court in Shanghai, who was critically wounded yes- terday afternoon by two gun- men, had received many threaten- ing letters in connection with his recent. trials of thugs belonging to the so-called "Peace and National
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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 30, 1940.
Petain Ridden By A Fixed Idea: One
Obsession
LOOKING BACK OVER the tragedy of the French surrender one confesses that it was with misgiving that those who knew Marshal Petain's re- cord in the last war first heard of his introduction to M. Reynaud's Cabinet.
When he succeeded M. Reynaud in supreme con- trol there was little hope that the cause of the Allies would be the first thought of the Bordeaux Govern-
ment.
Petain was in many ways a' first-class and determined soldier, bat in the last war he gave proof that he lacked breadth of outlook. The protection of Paris was an Cession with him, and on occasions at least it needed Foch's tervention to prevent this obses- on leading to a course of action which would have had serious if!
1wo
not disastrous results on the gen-
al situation.
CHANGE IN
NEW ORDER
IN EUROPE'
COLDLY
EXAMINED
Herr Funk's exposition of the Nazis' schemes for a new economic order in
ODDS ON WAR Europe has not had
BETTING
a very
favourable press in those| countries where comment is still free, according to summaries reaching Lon- AN EDITORIAL IN THE NEW
YESTERDAY don.
In March, 1918, he would have YORK "TIMES"
integrity sperificed the Franco-British front in order
Paris.
repre-
of the SAYS THAT IN THE INTERVAL The Swiss newspaper "Demo-
THE to SINCE
COLLAPSE OF crate" says:
"Many cconomists W. EN IT SEEMED consider that driving Britain from nuke more certain of covering FRANCE,
ENGLISH COULDN'T July Again, in
Europe and the construction of a of that THE
OUT ALONE, THERE
bloc would separate European year, when he Germans launched HOLD east and west of Rheims what HAS BEEN A SHARP CHANGE precipitate the haemorhage of a was to prove their last great off-IN THE GENERAL ESTIMATE dying continent" which ensive, he tried to draw on Foch's OF BRITISH STAYING POWER.sents in the view of London ex- Now the gloomiest military experts a very shrewed appraisal of counter-offensive reserve in or-
the the facts. strengthen der to
are veering towards defence perts
A Norwegian journal says: against what he considered was a opinion that the Battle of Britain
at all Swedish be a blitzkreig had may not
and Danish papers
countries' culture is inseparably bound up with the old Democra-| tic tradition and the same can be said of Norway.
the
thrust towards Paris. Foch orders but a prolonged and costly siege write regarding this that their
actually to countermand Petain had issued.
his
OLD PREJUDICES
One can realise that, with the fall of Paris, Petain in old age felt that there was nothing left to fight for. He had in 1917 and 1918 worked amicably with Haig, but perhaps always with the object of secur- ing maximum relief for the
in which anything may happen.
The sudden right about face of the U.S. Government In de ciding to exercise control over exports of oll and scrap iron to Japan and Spain, was ac- tuated in part by the judgment that a long war is now possible' and in a long war the blockade against Germany will be effec. tive.
French army. He probably shar- Secretary Hull's efforts
been "We Norwegians have accustomed for generations to think and talk freely and our- selves to choose who shall ad- ministrate our affairs.
"If we lose these democratic rights we lose our culture's ker- to nel. Perhaps we have not paid
"We regarded them as a mat-
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