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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 17, 1940.

Ulvary, Supreme Cost

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HITLER'S INVASION PLANS RETARDED

Intensified R.A.F. Attacks On Germany Being Felt

Encouraging Factors

THE INTENSIFIED R.A.F. ATTACKS ON GERMAN INVASION BASES AND FEEDING LINES ARE CONSIDERED IN LONDON TO HAVE SERIOUSLY RETARDED COMPLETION OF THE PREPARATIONS FOR INVASION OF THE BRITISH isles, WRITES THE PRESS ASSOCIATION AIR CORRESPONDENT.

Should an invasion be attempted it is re- cognised that Britain must expect an attack on inland centres and towns on a more formid- able scale than has so far been made.

Not only has material destruction been wrought at invasion ports and elsewhere by Britain's bombers but some confusion caused in the necessarily complex administrative arrangements.

has!

The loading and marshalling ✪✪✪000. of men and the embarkation of, the right men and materials in the right boats and barges been disorganised. All this, how- ever, has not prevented altoge- ther an increase in the German concentrations.

In the longer view of the air war, other factors brought out in; London yesterday are very en couraging to Britain.

There is reason to believe, writes the correspondent, that Germany cannot maintain her present rate of aircraft produc- tion during a long period of sustained operations.

Demoralising Effect

The big losses she suffers whenever her air force comes over Englandin force

must have, an increasingly demoralis ing effect on personnel. OII depots, as well as plants for producing synthetic oil

high grade lubricants, which -have-been-attacked unceasingly

by the R.A.F., are objectives paramount importance,

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As soon as she has exhausted the 7,500,000 tons of oil she is thought to have plundered from German-occupied countries -not; many months hence-Germany' difficulties over oil will be in- tensified.

There is little doubt that oll she can get from Rumania. and Russia will be, far short of her minimum requirements from abroad.

Supply Route Strained

While the British Fleet re- mains. in the eastern Mediterra- nean the bulk of supplies from these two countries must go via the Danube or by rail, which imposes a drastic limitation on the quantity it is possible tc obtain.

and. canol communications

DUKE OF WINDSOR'S MESSAGE

The Duke of Wind- sor, in a message to the King and Queen after the bombing of Buckingham Palace, expressed on behalf of the Government and people of the Bahamas his "deep

sense of relief for the

escape of Your Ma-

jesties from the recent

grave danger to which you have been expos- ed."

messages

Similar have been received from all parts of the Colonial Empire. Reuter.

THE QUEEN VISITS FOOD DEPOT Her Majesty the Queen recently visited a Ministry of Food depot In the Home Counties. Photo shows the Queen chatting to plum pickers during her visit. (Copyright, Fox).

EXILES RETURN

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Many members of the Iron Guard who have been in exile in Germany returned to Rumanią yesterday.

They included the wife and daughter of Cornelius Codreanu, the Iron Guard leader, who was shot by the Rumanian police last 'year allegedly while trying to`es- cape from the van. in which he 'was being transferred from one

prison to another.-Havas.

NOVICE BAGGED PALACE RAIDER

...R.A.F. attacks on railway THE BRITISH Sergeant-Pilot who shot throw more, and more traffic down the German 'plane that bombed ..on the roads, producing ..an

ever increasing strain on the Buckingham Palace yesterday was on his Successes reaped by the R.A.F. first flight.

supply route to the front.

against all these military objec-

tives are believed to be demora- His formation were at 17,000 feet when

Ilising the German people quite they saw 30 Dorniers coming towards London,

as effectively as if Britain in-

dulged in the indiscriminate he said yesterday.

hombing of civilians.—Reuter.

BELGIAN GOVT.

DISSOLVES

"His" Domier, took all that he a roof in Cheisea and fell into had to give it. Bits fell off and a garden in his back-Reuter, he broke away, intending to at-

tack it again.

Black oil covered his windscreen

as he made his second attack, but)

EXECUTIVE YUAN ORDER

The believes that In fact, he attack-(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") 2d a second machine, A big flame The Executive Yuan in Chunt- hot up, and this probably came king is to issue an order prohl from the petrol tank.

biting the name "Moslem race" in reference "to Chinese of Moham-

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"). He made a head-on attack on medan faith. The term has been

THE BELGIAN GOVERNMENT RESIDING IN, FRANCE HAS DECIDED TO DISSOLVE IT- SELF.

putes. Havas.

another plane, firing straight the cause of several "racial dis- Into the cockpit. He saw what ho at first thought was a plece of the machine break away and then saw, that it was a German THE TYPHOON baling out. -

The Royal Observatory reports Then he got into trouble him-that the anticyclone is centred self.

As he made his final at-lover Manchuria and covers the The decision is connected with tack, his right wing hit something whole of China and Japan,

the with a terrific smack, the French suppression; of

The typhoon is situated about. diplomatic missions of countries He struggled free from his ma- 200 miles west of the Bonins, occupied by Germany-Havas, chine and eventually slid down noving northward.

Some of the Belgian Ministers will remain in France as private individuals while others will go abroad."

PRAISE FROM MR. CHURCHILL

The exploits of the Fighter Command are praised in the following message sent by Mr. Chur- chill to the Air Minister for the Fighter Com- mand:

"Aided by squadrons of their Czech and Polish comrades, using only a small proportion of their total strength and under cloud conditions of some difficulty, they cut to rags and tatters three separate waves of a murderous as- sault upon the civil population of 'heir native land, inflicting an as- certained loss of 123 bombers and 53 fighters upon the enemy, to say nothing of probables and damaged, while they themselves sustained only the loss of 12 pilots and 25 machines.

"These results exceed all ex- pectations and give a just and sober confidence in the approach- ing struggle." -Reuter-

STEADY STOCK MARKET

The undertone on the London |Stock Exchange yesterday was steady despite the quietness of trading. The movements of most groups were within a' narrow range but Triplex Safety Glass advanced sharply from 13/0 to |17/6 ex-dividend on the view that the recent big decline was exces- sive. Wall Street was very firm.

Reuter.

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