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TWO-HOUR RAID ON LEUNA

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CHINA MAIL

FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST. ESTABLISHED 1845.

No. 91,930

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1940

Price: 10 Cts.

LATE FINAL

NIGHT

INSIST ON.

Daisy Brand

Australia's Choicest

BUTTER

NIGHT RAIDERS OVER ENGLAND

WAR TAX PAYMENTS BY INSTALMENTS

Provision whereby at the discretion of

the Commissioner payments of Salaries Tax may be spread, and paid by instal- ments, is made in an amendment to the War Revenue Ordin- ance to be submitted to Legislative Council. to-morrow...

Full details of se-- veral new provisions. will be found in Page Sixteen.

London

Attacked

RIOT OVER

At Several Points BUTTER IN

AFTER A COMPARATIVELY QUIET DAY, DURING WHICH GER- MAN 'PLANES CAME IN SMALL NUMBERS AND SHOWED NO EN- THUSIASM IN PRESSING HOME ATTACKS, AN AIR RAID WARNING WAS SOUNDED IN LONDON AGAIN LAST NIGHT.

DUTY ON

H.K. BEER REDUCED

The warning came within two or three minutes of the time of Monday night's alarm and the raiders were trying to pierce the de- fences of London a minute or so afterwards.

The anti-aircraft guns swung into action

BELGIUM

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")

A Zurich despatch says that five persons were killed and 45 in- jured during a riot over the shortage of butter at Huy, Liege Province, Belgium.- Havas.

all round the hub of London, the Germans ap- BRITISH

parently attacking from several points at once. Heaviest barrages were in the north-

Modification of beer west, north-east and south-west London areas. RELIEF UNIT

Shells were bursting and flashesj

duties, to give increased as if from bombs were seen in the

to locally-North-West District.

ooooo preference

AXIS RECALL MINISTERS IN HUNGARY

manufactured beers, and welsh coast, attacked a town in Enemy 'planes also crossed the!

a preference for Empire the South-West of England, and a beers over other beers, is town in North-Western England. proposed by Government.

to-

Cinema and theatre audiences

H.K. STOP SHIPS FOR

INDO-CHINA

CABLES HOME

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"Y

E. BARGER AND P. WRIGHT, MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH RELIEF UNIT VISITING CHUNGKING, HAVE SENT A TELEGRAM TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT URGING THAT: -Y {GASOLINE, NEW TRUCKS AND for British and SPARE CAR PARTS BE SENT ports in TO THE INTERIOR OF CHINA

in London again took the warn- ings coolly and hardly anyonel left entertainment buildinge when the warning was sounded, according to one manager, who allied ships to French said that the show went on nor French Indo-China were sudden- VIA THE BURMA ROAD. mally.

All clearances

In Legislative Council morrow, the Financial Secretary will move a resolution reducing locally- the duty per gallon on manufactured concentrated beer from 80 to 80 cents, maintaining the tax on Empire brews at 80) Later reports, showed that they suspended from Monday- mid-

night.

The message added the Chinese (SPECIAL TO “CHINA' MAIL") cents and increasing the duty, on night raiders

Red Cross cannot import and dis- No explanation for this step is tribute medical supplies and run The German and Ita-concentrated beers of other ori-parts of England and Wales.

available. gin from 80 cents to $1 per gal-

ambulances itself. It was also Ships under way yesterday to emphasised that the need is now French Indo-China ports were re-more urgent than..ever consider- and returned to Hongling the devastating air raids we

other

on The initial duty beer, except cider and perry,

were over

Slight Activity

many

During the day, Britain's de- called

if of Hong Kong origin, is to fences were not seriously tested. Kong. One or two came into har-have witnessed in Chungking dur- be reduced to fifty cents per A joint Air Ministry and Minis-bour, this morning.

lian Ministers to Hungary ion. left for their respective countries yesterday to re- port to their governments on the interruption of the Rumano-Hungarian gotiations.

ne-

gallon from 70 cents, that of try of Home Security communi-

Empire origin is to remain at que states:

over

Enemy air activity has been 80 cents per gallon, and if of

slight other origin, the duty will be..very

to-day. Several raised to $1 per gallon.

small formations appeared Prior to their departure the two

The effect of this is that Hong the Channel coast; but only a few envoys conferred with the Hun-Kong Beer will pay 50 cents per aircraft penetrated inland. Three garian Premier and Foreign Min-gallon duty as against $1 for of them were shot down by four ister.

Shanghai, American and other fighters. Diplomatic quarters stated Ru-foreign brews, and 80 cents for mania's new proposals to Hun-English, Singapore or Canadian bombs reported to have been gary will be submitted to Buda-beer.

pest before the end of this week,

Hun-

while the Rumanian and garian delegations will meet again at Turnu-Severin.

The same quarters added that! the recall of the German and Ita- lian Ministers for personal con- sultations should not be interpret- ed as foreshadowing Axis arbitra- tlon in the Transylvanian dispute.

Havas,

AIR RAID ALARM IN BERNE

.

CHINESE 'PLANES NEAR BORDER-IT IS REPORTED

"are

on

Up to 5 p.m. G.M.T:, the only

dropped fell on the foreshore in the Isle of Wight. They did no damage and caused no casualties.

Midlands Bombed

Enemy 'planes were reported ing the vicinity of South-East and South-West coastal towns and the Midlands during the after- noon.

Chinese aircraft flew over Jap-

Two raiders are believed, to anese-occupied territory in the have been brought down in the Snumchun . border

Midlands, where bombs fell in al Monday, according to belated mes-park on a golf course, on a sports sages received this afternoon. Iground and near several factories.

The machines, it is stated, scat- (Continued on Page 16) tered thousands of leaflets warn- (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") ing the populace to evacuate the

Air-raid alarms sounded in arcasas the Chinese forces are, Berne and other Swiss towns on contemplating a series of offen- Monday night, and anti-aircraft, sives soon.

guns went into action when, for-

cign 'plunes flew across Switzer- SEVEN MORE CASES

land. A

OF CHOLERA

THE TYPHOON:

The typhoon is now situated Inbout 450 miles east-north-east of Manila, moving west-north-west, according to the Royal Observa tory this. morning.

A weak anticyclone extends from Manchuria across Japan to

Informed quarters state that several squadrons of bombers] A further seven cases of flew at a low altitude from the cholera. were reported. In. Hong the. Pacific. Jura region in France to the Kong yesterday." Five were - in Italian border, drawing heavy Kowloon; one in Victoria, one in WEATHER FORECAST: — Eást! anti-aircraft fire. Havas, the harbour and one imported. 'winds, fresh; fair generally?

'ing the past week.” Havas.

HAVE AN H.B.-

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AND THEN TRY!