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The Queen inspecting some of the apples used for preserv- ing purposes, during a visit to a food depot. (Copyright, Fox).
THE BALL
THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 17, 1940.
BERLIN BOMBED: R.A.F. FIELD DAY OVER GERMANY
CONTINUING THEIR VIRTUALLY NON-STOP RAIDS ON GER- MANY AND GERMAN-OCCUPIED TERRITORY, THE R.A.F. ON SUN- DAY NIGHT CARRIED OUT A HARASSING ATTACK ON BERLIN, WHERE MILITARY OBJECTIVES WERE BOMBED, AND ALSO SE- VERELY PUNISHED THE CHANNEL PORTS AND ANTWERP, WHERE THE WORK OF DÉSTRUCTION OF THE PREVIOUS NIGHT WAS CONTINUED WITH DEVASTATING EFFECT.
The Air Ministry news service, describing the attack on Berlin, which was carried out in the early hours of the morning, states the
RUMANIA CRAWLS TO GAME-NEW Nazi capital was visited by a harassing force
SOVIET
VERSIONE
which bombed military objectives to the north-west of the city, the Tempelhof airport and power stations which had been damaged in previous raids.
THE RUMANIAN GOVERN-(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL" MENT HAS PROHIBITED RU-} MANIAN AIRCRAFT FROM JAPANESE BASEBALL UM- FLYING OVER TERRITORY PIRES. ARBITERS OF THE: BORDERING THE RUSSO COUNTRY'S MOST POPULAR RUMANIA DEMARCATION SPORT, ARE BUSY LEARNING LINE, ACCORDING TO THE THE JAPANESE EQUIVALENTS their first two alarms in one night, met with OF TYPICAL AMERICAN EX- the usual fierce anti-aircraft fire but none of
GERMAN RADIO,
Rumania has also frontier troops, not to except in a case of
PRESSIONS SUCH AS "PLAY Instructed BALL" AND "STRIKE".
use arms The Japanese Frofessional deliberate violation of Rumanian territory:
Baseball Federation has decided
The raiders, whose visits gave Berliners.
our aircraft was hit.
ap-
Convoy Bombed
Thunderstorms over the city, ship in the Elbe Estuary were se- to eliminate from the game for-caused the engine of one bomber verely damaged. A statement to this effect was eign expressions, in keeping with jattacking. Tempelhof airport to
cut out as the crew were contained in the Rumanian Note the trend-of the times:" replying to the Soviet protesi of
The Federation has also decided proaching the target.
more Continuing his run the pilot Coastal Command aircraft sank August 28.
that players' uniforms be sober in colour, with the names unloaded his bombs on the aero- an enemy supply ship off Iimul- The Note says the Rumanian of the teams written in Japanese drome and, flying at 5,000 feet, den.
succeeded
Convoys off the Dutch const instead of. Romar letters.
in maintaining this by Government is inspired
were also attacked. Two supply desire to maintain friendly and! Furthermore, foreigners will not height on only one engine for 45
ship were Bunk and others sa- play on Japanese minutes until the second engine neighbourly relations
verely damaged, " picked up. Havus.
Attacks were also made on Soviet Union.-Reuter.
Invasion bases on the Dutch, shipping and docks at Le Havre Belgian and French coasts were where ships alongside the again the chief objectives of Sun-and the quays themselves were day night's raids.
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the be allowed to
teams in future.
GOOD NEWS!
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Antwerp Havoc
The night's heaviest attacks -were-directed against the docks) at Antwerp (ao on the night, before), where great floets of barges and many ships been accumulated during
repeatedly hit..
quays
From these extensive and suc- cessful operations all our aircraft {returned safely.
Hudsons' Feats
GOEBBELS PLAYS AN
OLD TUNE
"The British cam- paign will be settled in a very few weeks and the offensive against the islands will last only three weeks or a month."
"
Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels is reported in the Mad- rid newspaper “ABC”- yesterday to have said this to Belgian corres- pondents.
The newspaper says his words had no offi- cial or semi-official echo because they were uttered private- ly.~Reuter....
NEW WAGES REGULATIONS
Giving further details of the have raids later, the Air Ministry news recent service says the German supply! weeks.
ship sunk at anchor at Ijmuiden The raid began at 10.30 p.m. was a 5,000-tonner.
|(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") and was kept up for nearly three¦ In regard to the attacks on hours.
¡German convoys and shipping A new set of wage, regulations Favoured by bright moonlight concentrations on Channel are receiving the finishing touches in the early stages of the attack coast, the statement 'says the by the Japanese Finance Ministry the bombers, despite fierce op-first convoy was attacked off the before enforcement next Wednes- position by the ground defences, Dutch coast by Hudson aircraft day, when the decree of Septem- got through to their objectives which dived on the nearest large ber 18 last, freezing wages, rents and played havoc.
ship and sank it with bombs. and prices, expires.
Mass Of Flames
the convoy.
the
Then a Hudaan pilot ma- | Chief feature of the new-regu- · chine-gunned an armed trawler lations will be the establishment and thoroughly machine-gunned of a fixed starting salary for col- Barges struck and set ablaze ex- an E-bout which was escorting lege graduates ranging between ploded in flashes of flame. which
65 and 75 yen a month, with an- Ilt up. the whole docks. By 12.30 The second German convoy was inual bonuses totalling between Ja.m. one of the main wharves was stationary off the Dutch const seven and nine months salaries, a mass of flames and other grow-when it was attacked by another states the "Asahl." Graduates of ing fires could be seen in all parts patrolling Hudson at dawn. The middle schools will receive a of the docks.
...
pilot dived on one ship in the starting salary of 40 yen. Gradu- Still the attack went on, later semi-darkness and, let go three ates to technical schools will be aircraft straddling the dock bombs one of which at least allowed an extra 10 yen a month.
basino, jetties and shipping. [struck home, for the Hudson was An hour later, when the last peppered with splinters from the raider had left the blazing dock, ship, which is believed to have the glow of fires could be seen been sunk, many miles, out to sea,
Waves Of Blenheims
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· Railways Attacked
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7,000,000 IN TOKYO
At Ostend, shipping and docks were subjected to a series of in- The attacks on concentrations termittent ralds by heavy and of German vessels in Channel! medium bombers over a period of ports were made by waves of (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") four hours, during which what Blenheims. Two ships were dam- appeared to be a large transport aged when Blenheims attacked The population of Tokyo now off Sangatte, near exceeds seven million according [ly caught fire.
Calais, but the main attack was to estimates published by the Me reserved for. Le Havre where tropolitan Police Board yesterday. pilots of the first wave of Blen-This represents an increase of helms saw four large ships moor-180,000 over last year. The popti- The official, Air Ministry com-ed alongside a deep-water quay. lation of Osaka is given na 4,074,- munique on the night's opera- Repeated salvoes of bombs 847 and Nagoya 1,917,190. tions, states military objectives in struck squarely on the quay and Havas. Berlin were bombed and further there were fires when the Blen- heavy attacks were made on the heims flew away. concentration of war supplies, Pilots in the second wave mode] barges and shipping at dockyards their attack in bright, moonlight and ports at Hamburg, Wilhelm- which clearly, outlined the quays shnych, Antwerp, Flushing, Os- baalde which were dark shadows, tend, Dunkirk, Calafs and Bou-Amid intense. A.A, fire the (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL' logne.
Bierheims dived over the har-
ANTI-JEWISH MEASURES
Other forces of 'R.AF. bombers bour and bombed systematically. New decrees affecting Jows in attacked distribution centres: at Bombs burst among ships and Rumania are being drafted by the Hamm, Osnabrück, Soest and direct hits were seen on a pler Iron Guard, the only existing po Krefeld, goodsyards at Hamburg and, quays.
Blitical group in the country The
and a rullway junction at Rheine. Damaged ships and shattered measures are expected to be much
A direct it was made un un masonry, and storehouses chemy warship of Terschelling the results of the bombing, while in oil tanker and a supply ter
were more severe than the anti-Jewish decrees adopted a few weeks ago.
-Havas,
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