1940-09-09 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 9, 1940.

YESTERDAY'S RAIDS

Large Nazi Formations Broken Up Near Dover

Kent Railway Station Hit

SINCE DAWN YESTERDAY, said an Air Ministry communique, enemy air activity was negligible until shortly before midday when a large force of enemy aircraft approached the coast north of Dover.

They were promptly engaged by our fight ers and A.A. guns and only small formations were able to penetrate inland.

These flew north to the Thames Estuary where they were dispersed and driven off.

PEACE PERFECT PEACE?

show Thes

Reports so far received that bombs were dropped, fell mostly in rural areas and dic little damage.

In Kent, some houses and : railway station were hit and : road temporarily blocked. There was a small number of casualtier but only one person was killed,

Three..German bombers wert chot down here by A.A. batter- 'les. Another four were brough

down by our fighters. Threr British fighters were lost, ont pilot being safe.

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"1 It was revealed in Bucharest yesterday that under the Craiova

Yesterday's morning raid was agreement, Rumania and Bulgaria undertook never to ledge any ter-of a very minor character. ritorial claims against each other. Bombs were dropped on village: The pledge was given following in a south-eastern area but the the agreement on the exchange damage was slight and no casual-

of minorities.

. Meanwhile in Budapest, Hun-

ties were reported.

Enemy Losses

Men of the Palestine Auxiliary Pioneer Corps are now in the Aldershot Command. They were among the last to leave. during the evacuation of St. Malo. Photo shows three coloured members who still have a big smile. (Copyright, Fox).

UNDAUNTED

SPIRIT IN EAST

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"Same Again"

In a dockland public house, garian comment is paying the Reports received up till late where every window was blown, greatest attention to the re-afternoon showed that hitherto out, business was brisk and while organisation of the Rumanian eight

enemy aircraft had been

three

:

State system, while Gentral destroyed yesterday, Antonescu's efforts to reform them being shot down in the Government structure are Thames Estuary battle. viewed "sympathetically."

Three of our ' aircraft Political circles stress that Hun- missing but the pilot of gary now considers her long-known to be safe. Reuter. standing dispute with Rumania

definitely settled and Hungary Alarm At 7 p.m.

of.

workmen were busy shuttering| every window and sweeping the the glass at the customers' feet, habi- tues were collecting for the Spit- fire Fund.

were one. is!

is nok prepared to "cooperate The air raid warning Was sincerely" with Rumania.

There still remains the tion of minorities left in countries.-Havas.

ANNOUNCING

THE

ARRIVAL

OF

NEW

SUPPLIES

OF

DAKS

The neighbourliness which is always a feature of Lon- don's East End excelled`itaelf: ́after the raid. -

:

Those whose houses avere un- sounded in the London area at damaged went round to the less! ques-6.59 p.m. yesterday shortly after fortunate "to make them tea and both which heavy anti-aircraft fire help them in a score of other

was heard.-Reuter.

THE PRINCE

OF SLACKS

- FOR MEN

THERE IS NOTHING 80 PRACTICAL AND COM- FORTABLE IN THE

ways..

A hospital which received da direct hit in the first of the even ing raids had some casualties; in- cluding a 14-year-old child and two nurses.

Rescue Perils-

Despite the tremendous risks from a wall which might have! crashed at the slightest vibration, rescue parties worked amid piles of debris well into the danger period of the second raid until gunfire and bomb detonations made a continuation impossible.

Meanwhile, in wards only a -few yards away from a bomb.

crater,

tending doctors were' not only those wounded in the hospital itself but in streets outside.

Bombs wrecked two wards and the nurses' corridor, and many nurses last all their possessions.

Doctors odged their way among rescuers, administering

to morphia badly wounded

cases.

One nurse, buried for three hours, was brought out practical- ly unscathed. She insisted on tak- ing her place alongside the other nurses afterwards-Reuter.

99 Shot Down An Air Ministry commun'que states final reports show that 11

WEARING AS DAKS more enemy aircraft were ·des- THEY GIVE THE MAXI-troyed by anti-aircraft güns dur- Ing Saturday's engagements, MUM OF EASE AS ALSO ringing the total shot down by PRIDE IN THEIR [Aghters "and" AA... ̈guns on that POSSESSION. CUT AND day to 89.

Anti-aircraft fire accounted for.

FASHIONED FROM 21 of these in all,

SUPERB - MATERIALS,

One of our fighter pilots ré-

WE ARE PLEASED TO ported missing has returned sufe

ANNOUNCE THAT WE |ly. — Reuter

ARE NOW - ABLE - TO SUPPLY THEBE IN ALL. SIZES AND IN A VAR

IETY OF FABRICS. IN GREY, BROWN, FAWN "AND GREEN, FLANNELS, GABARDINE, CRASH, CORDUROY AND TROPICAL WORSTEDS, ALSO "DAKS”, SHORTS IN NAVY, WHITE, GREEN AND BROWN.:

WE ADVISE AN EARLY VISIT

Official Estimate

The official provisional; estimate

of London's casualties on Satur- day is still 400 killed and between 1,300 and 1,400 seriously injured.

Reuter

TURKISH COAL MINE DISASTER 18PECIAL TO "CHINA MAILAT Five miners were killed and

WILLIAM POWELL, LTD. Tak coal

10 ICE HOUSE STREET,

38 injured in a gas, explosión : in Zengu Idak coal mine, in Tur koy, a week ago: The disaster was kept secret until yesterday when the authorities were able dennité- ly to establish the casualty toll, HAVAE.

"BOMBING" THROUGH

THE ETHER

ALTHOUGH SOON AFTER HODN ́YESTERDAY THE BER-

IN RADIO WAS ANNOUNCING THAT WAVE ON WAVE OF BOMBERS WAS AT THAT MO. VENT, BEING FLUNG AGAINST ONDON ONCE AGAIN, IN THE IEART OF LONDON BY 5 P.M. 'ESTERDAY · THERE HAD ONLY BEEN ONE WARNING OF AN HOUR'S DURATION AND JO ONE HAD SEEN ANY. THING.

A few bombs were dropped, on

i village in south-east England, ut prèss reports received so far tate that only slight damage was aused, and no casualties are re- orted. :

One raider dropped whistling bombs on the cliffs and sea near coastal town and was driven off y gun-fire-Reuter.

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