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TYNESIDE

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 16, 1940

BOMBED

Casualties In Residential Area In Sunderland

M.T.B. FORCED EARLY PHASE TO ABANDON OF YESTERDAY'S RESCUE

AIR BATTLES

How German pleasan- AT ONE STAGE IN GERMANY'S LARGE

tries in their conduct of war cost the life of one

of their own pilots is de- scribed in an official Ad- miralty communique.

"When," says the message, "a

to the rescue of a German pilot

SCALE AIR OPERATIONS OVER THE BRITISH ISLES YESTERDAY, THE TYNESIDE AREA AND SUNDERLAND RECEIVED THE CHIEF ATTENTION OF NAZI RAIDERS.

An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home British motor torpedo-boat went Security communique, issued in the after- who was seen to bale out of his noon, stated that enemy aircraft again ap- English Channel to-day (Thurs- peared in large numbers över our coasts.

aircraft and come down in the

day), it was found that the Ger-

During the morning a large,

man pilot, who was wounded, was force of bombers, unsuccessfully entangled in his parachute:

aero-

Our and

NAZI GRIP ON HOLLAND

attacked several R.A.F. "One of the crew of the M.T.B. dromes in the south-east, dived overboard to assist in get-nighters engaged the enemy ting the German clear,

inflicted heavy casualties. "While he was thus engaged

Early in the afternoon a num and the M.T.B. was stopped, yber of enemy aircraft crossed the Ing alongside the man in the north-east coast and bombs were water, three German seaplanes dropped on the Tyneside area and

THE machine-gunned in the residential district of Sun- appeared and

the M.T.B. and the man in the derland. water from a low altitude, from which the task at which they were engaged could well be ob- served.

"Three members of the crew of

the M.T.B. were wounded.

the rating from the water

OF NAZIFICATION

DURING HOLLAND, WHICH

FIRST DAYS OF THE WAS OCCUPATION

No damage of any military THE importance was caused and the GERMAN number of persons injured was KEPT IN THE BACKGROUND.. very small though some killed.

Further inland,

were is NOW ASSUMING WIDE

bombs were

PROPORTIONS,

The Nazi Commissar for

the has

"In order to avoid further cas-dropped on several isolated points. Netherlands, Seyss Inquart, ualties, the M.T.B. re-embarked At an R.A.F. aerodrome some been touring the country making

damage was done

to buildings speeches, accompanied by S.S. 'got under way, being forced causing a number of casualties, detachments who are taking the'

Anti-aircraft guns and fighters place of the Dutch Stale police. were constantly in action through- He has never lost an opportun-

andi

to

leave the wounded pilot

to his

fate."-Reuter.

SHA-YU-CHUNG

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CHURCHILL

******* NAVY'S

CONTROL OF STRAITS

STATEMENT

NEXT TUESDAY

'Mr. Winston Chur- chill announced yes- terday he would make a statement on the war situation next Tuesday, which would be followed by a pub- lic debate. The House would adjourn next Thursday until Sep- tember 5.

situation

The war would also be discuss- ed in the House of Lords next Tuesday. -Reuter.

SAFETY

OF THE

STEEL SHELTER

"I have just returned from a 48-hour cruise in the Straits of Gibraltar on board a British warship,'

Reuter's special writes

correspondent.

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"The experience convinced me that a ship can pass into or out of the Mediterranean only if the Royal Navy so desires.

"Italian merchant vessels, like Italy's "fighting' ships, have been swept from the surface.

war

Was

"Before Italy declared the Contraband Control stopping at least 12 Italian mer- day. They citantmen every have now varished, and traffic to and from Italian ports has ceased.

"During the 48 hours steaming only six vessels appeared. They were all Spanish and were ply- ing between Spain and Spanish 'Morocco."-Reuter.

'SWEEPER TOWS FLIER

A minesweeper, which was at-

a rope until

the

the

his

out the day and while it wasity of stating that the Germanic Reports from technical experts tacked by a German plane while impossible to give any full account character of the Dutch people of the Ministry of Home Security it was in the act of rescuing an areas affected R.A.F. oficer, was forced to tow of yesterday's action at 5 p.m., re-should be enhanced. The leaders who have visited ports up to then showed that 55 of the Dutch Nazi party have dis-by recent air raids, furnish strik-him along on

The pilot, twenty-five-year-old. enemy aircraft had been destroy-played increasing activity, in ex-ing-testimony to the protective machine was beaten off. ed.-Reuter.

plaining what the future policy of qualities of the Anderson steel

Flying-Officer Robert New, of Car- Holland's Nazi' rulers should be. shelters.

In one south-eastern town aldiff, was on patrol during evacuation when Three Shot Down

Collisions, they said, between the Sha-yu-Chung, Mirs

old political groups and the new heavy bomb, probably of 500lb, Dunkirk Three planes were shot down ones apparently cannot be avoid-fell in a garden at the back of a plane was crippled by superior terminus Bay

of the during the raids

group of small houses, most of enemy forces. on Tyneside ed In future.

which had shelters. One Although he was wounded

shelters these.

was only the thigh with shapnel he crawl- Taipo - Shayu - chung Two fell in the sea and one of Ferry Service, was-bomb- Large numbers of Spitfires and

of four, in-8,000ft. by parachute into the sea Holland's puppet and held a family ed yesterday by Japanese Hurricanes were seen flashing in

the cluding two children. All were four miles off Dunkirk. and out of the clouds, engaging Hitler, stated, according to

He swam for three hours and aircraft.

German controlled radio, that hejunharmed. The house from which unseen enemy raiders.

A number of high explosive aims to free Holland from Jewish, they had come was badly dam-was then "spotted" by the mine- sweeper. After the tow, he was the French and British influence and aged.. bomba were dropped - In

rescued and landed at-a-south- working-class district of Sun-from that of the churches.".

east coast port.

It is reported that some bombs were dropped along waterfront and in other areas.

10 the

Details of casualties and dam- age done are not yet available,. but it is said that some five or

land.

derland, causing shoot above the houses.

in

Britain “An Enemy" of

30 feet from the bomb crater el out of the cockpit and dropped

Mussert,

flames

to

Britain had, he said, been Hol- land's enemy for 300 years, and

A terrific barrage of anti-air-the fact that constitutional Hol-

six persons were killed and about craft fire was- heard. 10 wounded.

Not Enough Earth

Two other Anderson shelters the bomb crater were land was now still at war with the close to

FORGOT

Bombs dropped on two villages Germans was of no account. The damaged because they had in- THE NAZI

The raid took place between 9 near the town damaged property a.m. and 10 a.m. and was made and caused some casualties,

Reuter. by eight Japanese 'planes...

They're well worn

but they've

worn well · .

thanks to

BLACK POLISH

Polishes, Protects and Preservas

KIWI

TAN - POLISHES

FLAG!

Dutch people must live with the sufficient earth covering, in one Germans "as good friends and case because the entrance, which neighbours."

was not facing the house, did not or similar Meanwhile, the German author-have an earth bank

as officially recom- ities have prohibited the reassem-protection, bling of the Dutch Parliament and mended.

When an unknown Sunderland In a south-coast town' the debris the Council of State. No elections"

who took a smáll boat will be held. The unhampered of a house fell on an Anderson man, functions of

from representative shelter, but the occupants were across the Channel to help with bodies of a free democracy are in-unhurt. A large bomb fell close to the evacuation of troops compatible with Nazi rule. Thus a public shelter, the occupants of Dunkirk, wàs nearing the port his craft was blown out of the water, Holland's oppression daily assumes which were also uninjured. grimmer. aspects.

the

LATEST CENSUS IN MANCHURIA

The reports confirm the neces- He and a cook swam toward the sity, which has so often been jetty and boarded a fast motor- officially stressed, of seeing that boat lying there. They found a on board, and, Anderson shelters have their pro-German sailor per earth covering-15 inches after throwing him overboard, of earth on top and 30 inches at they started up the engine. the back and sides.

A British ship then directed

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]

If the entrance does not face the her guns on the motor-boat be- Lastest census taken by the department for the people's wel-house or a stout brick wall, or is cause the men had failed to haul fare in Hsinking shows the popu-more than 15 feet from such pro-down the Nazi flag. They lation of Manchukuo is 39,454,000, tection, it must be guarded. by to swim again, but later an increase of 830,000 over 1939. an earth mound, or boxes filled picked up...

The national proportion is 95 per with earth, not less than 30 inches

cent, Manchurians. The number

of foreigners continues to decrease!

and at present is 2,022,

Havas.

ITALY FORESEES

A LONG WAR

thick or half. that thickness "of

RECRUITING PILOTS IN AMERICA

had

were

BUTTED INTO A SMUGGLING RACKET Charged with the theft of seven

dozen white belts and 400 in- candescent. mantles, Chau Wun,

Kowloon

"On the basis of the present BRITAIN WANTS TO RE-29, cargo coolie, was fined $100, military situation," a long war is CRUIT AMERICAN PILOTS TO or three months' hard labour, by possible, according to the Italian FLY BOMBERS FROM CANADA Mr. E. Himsworth at newspaper "Corriere della Sera," TO BRITAIN, states a despatch from Milan to The Canadian Air Ministry an- the "Neue Zuercher Zeitung" of nounces that two types are want- Zurich yesterday.

ed:

this morning.

Accused was engaged to unload cargo from a ship in the harbour. and was found with the articles in his possession when leaving the

to bo

The Italian newspaper also says! 1. One hundred expert naviga- vessel. more raids over Italian towns are tors capable of flying any type of Nobody claimed the articles to be expected, Reuter,

plane, to be sent to England as which apparently were ferry pilots and release R.A.F.

Ismuggled to Singapore. pilots for activė service,

VALUABLE PEN STOLEN

NOTE ISSUE AT RECORD HIGH LEVEL

2. Skilled pilots to fly bombers

from Canada.

Tho Bank of England return They are being recruited in the for the week ended August 14 United States because all Canadian shows notes in circulation at pilots are either on active service

Mr. J. E. Maler, visitor from White Cleaner £613.0 millions, which is a now or on Government afr lines..

It has not yet been decided whe-San Francisco, lost a fountain and Shop Creams high record. Compared with re-

at U.S.$25, in the 'cent weeks the rate of expansion ther they should be in the Royal'pén, valued um of note circulhulon was consider Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Central District yesterday after-

Force or remain civilians.-Reuter, noon. "ably slower.—Reuter.