1940-08-13 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 13, 1940

OPERATION DURING RAIDS Remarkable Incidents During Blitzkrieg Air Attacks SOLDIER FINISHES OFF

ITALIAN

JERRY WITH LEWIS-GUN ACCUSATION

YESTERDAY'S GERMAN AIR RAIDS ON ENGLAND PRODUCED A CROP OF REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF COOLNESS AND COUR- AGE; FOR INSTANCE, A SURGEON HAD JUST STARTED A CRITICAL MASTOID OPERATION ON A WOMAN PATIENT IN THE OPERATING THEATRE OF A HOSPITAL IN A SOUTH-EAST TOWN WHEN A BOMB CRASHED NEARBY.

The surgeon and his staff of five courage-j

ously carried on with their task for over half GOEBBELS'

an hour until the operation was successfully concluded.

Similar calm courage was displayed by BEST FEAT

townspeople generally though many people

taking cover in Anderson shelters could hear.

TO DATE

destruction raining on their own homes.

FAN-TAN SCHOOL IN RESTAURANT

One house was utterly de.- The official molished. The backs of two

off.

DENIED

An official denial was issued in Athens yesterday of the Ita-

·lian report that Dau- thoggia, Albanian patriot, had been as- sassinated by Greek agents-Reuter.

BLENHEIMS RAID NEAR

German CHERBOURG

NAVY GETS ITS OWN BAG

Five German planes were brought down by the Royal Navy on Sunday, it was revealed in London last evening.

The news is contained in 'an Admiralty communique stating: With reference to the communi- que issued earlier to-day in- formation has now been received that Ave enemy aircraft were shot down by anti-aircraft fre during an action between His Majesty's ships and enemy air- craft on Sunday.

The first enemy aircraft was shot down by H.M.S. Windsor. H.M. trawler Edwardian shot down the second.

Anti-aircraft fire from the ships others were ripped clean away.news agency in Berlin The corner of a fourth was blown last night admitted that

A German aircraft mov-was so intense and so accurate that it is impossible to state with ing along a flare path on certainty which vessels shot down Hardly a window anywhere, 17 German planes are

It is most pro- near remained intact.

Įan aerodrome near Cher-the other three, Tiles missing after yesterday's}

[bable that Edwardian and the and slates littered the

was trawler Peter Carey each ac- Doors hung drunkenly on their air battles "over Ports-bourg last night

roads.

Yet in a short time the ARP mouth and other parts of bombed by a Blenheim of counted for at least one of them.

hinges.

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are

There was no loss of life in Windsor or Peter Carey.-Reuter.

the Coastal Command. services sprang into action and the Channel."

The Blenheim pilot saw many cleared the debris away.

Among German claims regard-lights moving quickly along the A Few Casualties 100 Engaged Over $400 was seized

ing yesterday's attacks

2 flare path as he came in to at- claim that 40 bombers accom-tack. His bombs burst very close In an air battle over the south-panied by fighters

It was officially announced in from the table by the

which ralded to them.

London yesterday that H.M. able to police when they raided alast coast over 100 machines were Portsmouth "were

drop

Others of his squadron attack- trawler Edwardian on Sunday fan-tan school

bombs peacefully withou ed oil tanks at Cherbourg. They shot down an enemy dive bomber on the A.A. fre crippled several interference from British fighters started big fires. third floor of the Sun Kei down at least five over the sea aircraft fire.""

jand so damaged another that it planes while fighters brought and extremely inaccurate anti- Yuen Restaurant, Des The pilot of one machine para- It was also asserted that

the air.

chuted into the Channel and was;

their

their

Voeux Road Central, last dead when picked up six miles-distance and when the Germans

"English fighters kept

night.

Led by Det.-Sergt. Cullinan, the] police party found 21

persons, business men, brokers and shop proprietors, engaged in the fun- tan game and arrested all

Two were released on bail of. $250 each and nineteen on bail of $15 each,

away.

As they flew away, gunners is unlikely to have reached its and observers could see flames base. The trawler suffered a few rising

Reuter, punctuated by violent casualties. upheavals as other tanks caught| fire. closed, they fled." Another

Another flight of Coastal Com- machine enemy

It was further claimed that 23 mand Blenheims was badly hit by A.A. fire and British planes

set out during the pilot tried to land his "The fact that the British airmer depot on the Dutch coast. The machine in lop-sided fashion

are avoiding engagement's nc-weather was bad and only one but a bombardier rushed out

counts for the small number!"-aircraft

to And the was able of a hedge with a Lewis-gun Reuter. and peppered the machine.

target. The pilot dropped all his bombs directly on the target area. A British fighter squadron

British Wireless.

This morning none of those signalled him to get out of the

his task

arrested appeared before Mr. Way but he stuck to FARM

G. T. Lawry when the case was and finished off the machine. called at Central Magistracy. The

Three bodies were found in the

bails were estreated and $406.40 plane; one is believed to be a 24- table money was ordered to be year-old-German-count-Router. placed in the Poor Box.

RECORD GOLD OUTPUT PRISON FOR

The

was

IN S. AFRICA

London Stock Exchange steady yesterday though trading was quiet. Egyptian

were shot down the night to attack a German_oil FRENCH AIR

HANDS

CAPTURE

DEALERS IN NAZI PILOT CHILDREN

Suffering from bad wounds in the leg, one of bonds were notably firm despite How timely interference by the crew of a German international uncertainties, Gilt- Chinese constable, Wong King, at plane who made a para- edged failed fully to maintain Taipo Railway Station Pier on initial gains while industrials Sunday, prevented four children chute descent on a farm moved narrowly. Kaffirs harden-] from being "smuggled" into Chin- in south-eastern England

ed late in the session on favour-lese territory, was mentioned be-

FIGURES

IN AN INTERVIEW WITH AMERICAN PRESS CORRES- |PONDENTS, THE FRENCH UN-

MADRAS WAR FUND DER-SECRETARY FOR AIR AT

VICHY STATES THAT THE The Madras Governor's War FRENCH AIR FORCE, FROM Fund for the purchase of air- THE START OF THE INVASION craft now amounts to £33,704. OF THE LOW COUNTRIES," Lord Beaverbrook has cabled to MAY 10, UP TO JUNE 6, the Governor of Madras express- BROUGHT DOWN 982 NAZİ Ling the nation's gratitude. A 'PLANES. AT A LOSS OF 306

Madras Presidency squadron is FRENCH AIRCRAFT.

to be established with -machines The French 'planes, he said, named after districts subscribing were in a numerical inferiority of to the Fund.--British Wireless. Ifive to one.-Reuter.

CHOOSE: ME OR

EVACUEE, SAID WIFE

able reaction to a record output fore Mr. E. Himsworth this morn-yesterday was held up A MOTHER OF three sons admitted that she of gold in July. Wall Street was[ing in a case in which a man and with a double-barrelled quietly steady. Reuter.

two women were charged with

the unlawful transfer of Kwok gun by farm employees leave him if he billeted an evacuee.

gave her husband an ultimatum, threatening to Ho, 13-year-old girl, and Kwok and later handed over to

Accused, Lo Kwok-ming, 39, the police. unemployed seaman,

ARMY LORRY AND Mui, eight-year-old boy.

TRAM COLLIDE

his

wife,

Another

sea

the two children, Wong Pat, 39 and was drowned.

A passing motorist who saw the

months'

She said, too, that she would not take one into her home even during a "dire state of emergency." Chan Tai, 38, and the mother of from the machine into the

of the crew jumped As a result of her ultimatum, her husband A collision between a military were sentenced to six

Richard Leighfield, of Goddard Avenue, Swindon, truck and a tramcar in Shaukiwan, hard labour and ordered to descent on the farm and loaded Wilts - refused to billet a schoolboy. was reported to the Police last be expelled from the Colony his revolver en route to the spot, night by Private Bathe of the The four children were ordered searched, the Injured man, took Middlesex Regiment.

to be placed in the custody of the him to his home and gave him to pay £2 2s. costs at Swindon He was fined £25 and ordered] It appears that Bathe was driv- S.C.A."

brandy before handing him over Police Court for not ing along Taikoo Street when, he

complying Inspector Moreton, of the had to swerve to avoid a pedes- S.C.A., stated that at 7.30 a.m. on

to the police,—Reuter,

with a billeting notice. He had trian, Miss Janet Chang, of

Ipleaded not guilty, No. Sunday, the constable, on duty at 47, Leighton Hill Road, resulting the Pier, saw first and second in the crash into the tram. Both accused board a launch for Sha- vehicles were badly damaged.

yu-chung with two girls and two boys.

The constable

questioned

SPAIN'S

children in the presence of the INTENTIONS

TRINIDAD FUND FOR THE RED CROSS couple

told

and was

that the couple were not their parents but

SOMALILAND: NO OPERATIONS

His wife, Mrs. Daisy K. Leigh- field, said she had made up her mind she was not going to takej

the child.

that, whatever the state emergency and whatever the dire need of 'getting children out of other districts, you will nevar accept a child in your house?"

"That is my attitude," replied the woman.

Mr. Lemon described. · Leigh- field's position as

"difficult and Asked by her husband's soli={tragic." citor, Mr. Harold Lemon, what He was not unwilling to have she would have done If her the child. husband had taken the boy, she He was in court not because of said: "I should have left the what he had done, but because of house and left Swindon."

what his wife refused to do. Then came this dialogue:

The Bench were being asked to Mr. Lemon: If he takes the child drive a wedge between husband ITS EMBASSY IN❘now what will you do?—I am de-land wife, added Mr. Lomon.

finitely leaving the town and my husband.

A MOSCOW REPORT AP- THE FOREIGN PRESS HAS BROUGHT THE FOLLOWING DENIAL FROM

GOVERNMENT

THE SPANISH THROUGH

MR. CHAMBERLAIN

* OFF FOR HOLIDAY

The Trinidad and Tobago that they had been sold to them. PEARING IN branch of the British Red Cross has cabled a further £15,000 to London headquarters raising the colony's contributions to the Overseas Fund to £20,000.

| LONDON: Liberal gifts have come from the Chinese community, the Portu-

"Rumours in the foreign press guese Club, East Indians, West A communique issued in Cairo to the effect that Spanish ships at] "Enough To Do”. Indians, the Venezuelan com-3esterday said there was nothing present in foreign ports have re- munity, the American commun- to report from the Western Desert, ceived instructions not to sail are Why do you refuse to take the Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Lord ity and Jewish refugees.-British In the Sudan and Palestine there false, fantastic and entirely de- child?—I have my own three sons President of the Council, left his Wireless.

was no activity to report.

void of foundation.".

and the house. I have quite nursing home yesterday. He has In Somaliland no oporations

enough to do. They would not been convalescing following his

with Such an order, says the Em-Ingree TOWN RECAPTURED are reported and the enemy have

stranger in the recent operation. bassy, has not been issued and house.

After lunching at 11: Downing Chinese forces, have recaptured Kenya reports of reconnais-Spanish ships will continue

Mr. G. H. Rountree, prosecut-[Street, he left London with Mrs. Shangkin, cast of Lungchow in aance units indicate that the carry on with their normal trade. Ing, ankeď Mra. Loighfield: "Do|Chamborlain for a short rest in south Kwangsi-Central News,, 'enemy is holding,Dobel-Reuter-Reuter,

you wish the Bench to take it the country-Reulor,

nivde no advance.

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