1940-08-23 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 23, 1940

HEAVY RAIDS

IN GERMANY

Oil Refineries Main Objective Widespread

CHURCHILL

Operations SEES NEW

AN AIR MINISTRY communique states that further attacks on enemy oil refineries were carried out on Wednesday night al- though weather conditions were again un- favourable.

at

Chief targets were important refineries Magdeburg and Deurag and installations at Hanover.

GUNS

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL ¡ INSPECTED ANTI - AIRCRAFT

UNITS OF THE R.A.F. ON THE FIRING OF THE NEWEST

EAST COAST AND SAW THE

ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS.

boalan East Coast port, and addressed an assembly of naval

Afterwards he went in a speed-

officers and ratings. He stopped. and talked to several of the men and discussed their decorations

At Caen and Abbeville our aircraft bomb- with them. ed aerodromes, causing explosions on run-

ways and landing grounds and setting the famous Admiral. Earl Beatty hangars on fire.

Searchlight batteries were ex-) tinguished by gunfire.

Attacks

were also made оп aerodromes at Quakenbruck, near Hanover, and on the island of Texel,

Key railway centres were bombed In the Ruhr and Rhineland.

Bombs were dropped on a tunnel between Heinburg and Verden, north-west of Hanover, as a supply trafn entered.

One of our

returned.

R.A.F. RAID

PANICKED

TURIN

Before he left for London he asked to see Earl Beatty, son of

came running to the train. The couple engaged in earnest con- versation for some minutes.

Civilians waved and cheered as the train left for London.

THE 1,000 MARK REACHED

The total of German aeroplanes

The day after the first destroyed around British coasts aircraft has not British raid on Turin since large scale raids began on June 18 reached one thousand there was pandemonium with an aeroplane brought down at the railway station-it in the German attack on a Bri-

tish convoy yesterday.

British was jammed with Italians wireless. all trying to get trains in- to the country to safety.

AUSTRALIAN

ARMS OUTPUT

"I never saw anything like it,"

MR. R. MENZIES, THE AUS-Jan Englishwoman, Mrs. J. G. Wel- TRALIAN PREMIER, IN A by, wife of the superintendent of BROADCAST FROM CANBER: the British Seamen's Mission at RA LAST EVENING, SAID Leghorn, who was in Turin at the THAT DURING THE THREE time, told a reporter. MONTHS EXISTENCE OF THE MINISTRY OF MUNITIONS HE HAD APPROVED A £100,000,000 MUNITIONS PROGRAMME,

Australia, he said, is now sup- plying munitions to Britain, India) and New Zealand.

"There were long queues t the booking office and great congestion. The Italian Govern. ment offered such refugees 50 per cent. reduction in fares, but that

was not what made them so anxious to get out.

"They were obviously terri fled after the previous night's raid."

-Acording to Sydney radio Mr. Menzies said that by the middlef of next year Australia would be employing directly or indirectly on munition production 150,000 people out of a population o more than 200 bombs were drop- 7,000,000,

Router.

IN AID OF THE NETHERLANDS

Dr. H. D. Van Broekhuizen, South African Minister at the Hague at the time of the German]

She said the raid lasted two hours, and she believed that!

ped. They did heavy damage to factories on the outskirts of the city.

BICYCLES STOLEN AND REPAINTED

SIX MONTHS' HARD LABOUR invasion, 'in a letter asking all WAS IMPOSED churches in South Africa to make HIMSWORTH THIS

BY MR.

MORNING

E.

a special collection on Sunday, ON IP HUNG, 20, FOR STEAL- September 15 in aid of the "op- ING TWO BICYCLES. pressed and subjected people of

For aiding and abetting,

Lai

the Netherlands," writes: "I feel On-wong, 28, shop foki, was fined that the history of South Africa $60 or two months. is so closely connected with the

Sub-Inspector Madgwick stated

Houses of Orange and the people! that Ip Hung hired the bicycles of the Netherlands that it is our in the Hunghom district and never duty in these days of trial. and returned. trouble to help."--British Wire- The less.

RUMOUR OF PACT

BY PETAIN

Reports received in Kwang Chow Wan from Hanoi allege that the Petain Government have directly concluded a pact with the Japanese.

The pact, add the reports, in- clude permission for Japanese troops to pass through French Territory,

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poliçe recovered the bicycles in Mongkok yesterday.

It appeared, added the Inspec- tor, that after, hiring the bicycles, Ip Hung took them to Lai and had them repainted, selling them for $21 to a firewood shop.

estimated at $100.

The value of the bicycles was

CONCRETE ́ FOR MANHOLE COVERS (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") The P.W.D. of the Shanghai In- MADRAS FUND

ternational Settlement is busy replacing iron Ilds over drains in STILL GROWING the streets by concrete covers Iol- lowing several cases of larceny by A further gift of £7,500 has thieves who sell the manhole been received from Madras for covers for metal. It was found the purchase of fighters, bringing Impossible to keep perpetual the total contributions from the watch at night over every "mun- Madras fund to just over £101,-hole. Havas. 000,-Reuter.

HON. R. R. BLADES

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·HOSPITAL SUICIDE

A 50-year-old patient of the Nows has been received at his Tung Wah Hospital committed home that Lieutenant the Hon. suicide" shortly after 4 o'clock this Rowland R. Blades, Royal Artil-morning by jumping out from the lery, previously reported missing, window on the fourth floor of the is a prisoner of war and well.'hospital,

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