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BANK

OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE ON RAIDS

MANAGER'S Direct Hit On

ESCAPE

· Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Port- folio, yesterday watched bags of money being re- covered from O bank

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1940.

Pompey Cinema:

Raids Widespread

·A MINISTRY OF HOME SECURITY COM-

.

which was partially de- MUNIQUE STATES IT IS NOW CONFIRMED NEW "SURPRISES " molished by a direct hit THAT DURING THE RAID ON PORTSMOUTH during Friday's air raid ON SATURDAY A NUMBER OF CASUALTIES on a London suburb. WERE CAUSED, SOME OF WHICH WERE (SPECIAL TO "CHINĄ MAIL")

The escape of the manager FATAL.

and his family is attributed to

fore the sirens sounded, other-

the fact that the bomb fell be- Majority of these were in a cinema which wise they would have been the received a direct hit. Damage was also done

to private property and business premises.

tering in the strong-room

part

of which was destroyed.

Most of the money. was 1'e- covered but the books are still under. the debris.-Reuter.

It is now known that in addition to the at tack already reported on Wanston aerodrome (outside Ramsgate) casualties were caused at another R.A.F. aerodrome on Satur-

INDISCRIMINATE LONDON BOMBING day.

(Continued from Page 1)

Broken Glass

Damage done in the London area and the City in the week- end raids was very small indeed, an official of the Ministry

of

also

Reports now received show that add to the previous communique in Saturday's raids on part of the in which it was stated that dam- London area there were some age was done to commercial and casualties but the number of fa-private properties.

Elsewhere in England spora- talities was small.

dic attacks were made over 1 wide area. in three towns in

some the North and Midlands damage was done mainly to re- sidential property and samt casualties' ware caused, a few of which were fatal. In other districts damage is re- casualties ported as slight and

Home Security told. Reuter after more enemy aircraft

a

Otherwise there is nothing

to

tour of inspection.

wrong to believe the

London

or

serious upset.

He added it would be quite bringing the total to 39.

Eleven of our fighters but it is known missing pilots of three are safe. Meanwhile on Saturday,

were des- troyed in yesterday's air battles,

are the

few,

Ave

shot

raids caused, devastation

In the City, he said, certain

areas

may be roped off to-day more enemy planes were because of the widespread break-down by R.A.F. fighters and A.A. batteries, making the total for the day 50.

ing of glass which left the con- tents of many shops lying open.

The population of both Dover and Ramsgate maintained their

raids.

Later Statement By

The

that

Air Ministry Air Ministry says Nineteen of our aircraft were later reports regarding Saturday lost on Saturday but the crews night's attacks shows some dam- age was done to industrial' pre- spirit splendidly during the Spitfires engaged a

of 12 are safe.-Router.

German mises on the north-east coast but

a/no

further casualties were re- Damage in these towns is sub-raider above the clouds over stantial but in no sense catastro-south-east town yesterday. With-ported.. phic.

Enemy activity was on a smal- Messersch- in a few minutes a midt in flames came down ler scale yesterday but bombs through the clouds. The pilot are reported to have been drop- ped in the afternoon on the An Air Ministry communique, was picked up dead. states that reports received up to! A minute later another raider Scilly Isles where one person was 9 o'clock last night show that 13 crashed a few yards away,

German Losses

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Bombs were also dropped in .south Wales. No damage is

reported - but one person seriously injured.

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An enemy bomber was shot down by our fighters in this area.

Later in the afternoon the Enemy made an attempt in force to cross the Dorset coast but was driven off: No bombs were "dropped and it la already

known that 24 enemy

aircraft

were destroyed in this engage. ment. Four of our aircraft are missing but the pilots of three are safe.

Two Fires

According to an eye-witness who enjoyed official facilities in making a tour of areas in the London region damaged. In. Satur- day night's air raid, damage was small, and casualties. very few.

Two fires, one of them in the City of, London, were promptly [dealt with by the London Fire Brigade which adapted peace time arrangements of "brigade calls" very satisfactorily to air raid conditions.

Owing to the fact that many shop windows were shattered by the concussion, areas in London will be roped off this morning until owners of property have time to arrive and make neces- sary arrangements for safety, and this is stated authoritatively to be the sole reason for such isolation. In fact, all those who can prove they have business in these areas will be freely admitted. A

It is also authoritatively stated that although Dover and Ramis- gate again suffered damage, the population is standing up to the strain of air raids extraordinarily

well and civilians are carrying greatest calm. British Wire-

on normál: activities with the

less.

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA" MAIL") The Overscas Affairs Board of the Kuomintang in Chungking hos received: US. $1,000 from the Hawaiian Chinese Wär Relief. As- sociation for the Society of Friends of the Wounded. — Havas

The profix. "Spealat to telegrams m used by the. "Sunday.. Heraid!" and 'China Mail" to indicate nows which' le strictly copyright wrider the, provi ¡sións of the Telecommunications Or

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WARNING

STANDARD PRICES

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

The Japanese consulate-gen- ! eral in Tientsin will shortly intro duce standard prices for all daily ́ commodities sold by Japanese merchants in the city. The action, will be the direct result of the Tokyo Foreign Office's instructions, to all Japanese consulates in China: advising them to forbid Japanese merchants to gain exhorbitant profits. Those found guilty, of

be profiteering will

severely punished. Havas.

WHEAT FOR NORTH CHINA RELIEF

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") In accordance with the Anglo- Japanese agreement on the Tien- "It will not be many days betsin silver, by which approximate-

fore the British will find them-ly € 100,000 worth of silver in writes Signor Gayda in one of the relief in North China, 100,000 bags

selves up against new surprises," Tientsin was to be used for flood

Italian papers.

of Australian and American wheat He carried on in this vein at and four have been ordered by The but gives no hint Japanese firms in Tientsin. some length as to what the surprises might be. [flour will be distributed among

Huvas.

victims.' Havas.

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German bombers were over London again last night. They dropped flares in one district which lit up a wide area for few minutes. In another district, planes dropped. para- chute flares and then a num- ber of bombs.

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Three bombs were dropped during the night on a thick- populated district in South-West England, demol- ishing two houses. Several people were trapped in the wreckage. Ambulance work- ers and demolition squads worked feverishly in. the darkness to extricate them and after an hour; two per- taken out still

sons were alive.

Three others still living were in the wreckage three hours after the bombs fell.

While rescue work was in -progress,, raiders paid a fur- ther visit to the town, but were driven. off, by Spitfires and dropped no further bombs.-Reuter.

A total of 54 German planes were brought down.over Bri- tain yesterday, 48 by fighters and six by A.A. guns. Thirteen of our planes were lost but the pilots of three are safe, Reuter.

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