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THRILLING DRAMAI

CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 18, 1940.

Lords Review of The War: 2,000 Killed

HEROIC ADVENTURE In Air Raids CHURCHILL

JOAN

IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS YESTERDAY A

LEADS THE WAR ATMOSPHERE WAS OBTAINED; LORD FLOTILLA FAIRBANKS. BENNETT CALDECOTE STATED THAT IN THE FIRST

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|HALF OF SEPTEMBER OVER 2,000 CIVIL- THE FIRST FLOTILLA OF IANS, ́INCLUDING MANY WOMEN AND CHIL-JOIN THE ROYAL NAVY HAVE DREŃ, WERE KILLED AND ABOUT 80,000 NOW BEEN GIVEN THEIR WOUNDED BY AIR BOMBARDMENT. FOUR- FIFTHS OF THESE FIGURES APPLIED TO THE LONDON AREA.

LORD CALDECOTE went into the war situation in more detail on certain points than did the Prime Minister.

NAMES.

named "Churchill”—a choice with which 10 one will quarrel.

The flotilla leader is

The others have been named

Caldwell Cameron, Casteltown,

after towns common to both the

Chelsea, Clare and Campeltown,

¡Jnited Kingdom and the United

States,

Names on a similar basis will be given to the others and will

non to the West Indies.--Reuter,

He referred to the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces available to Britain so include a few names.com- to repel invasion should invasion, come, and also to the units of the Royal Canadian Navy and he naval contingent from New Zealand.

In

e air, he added, a Cana-

dian Fighter Squadron had help- INSPIRED

ed magnificently to increase the enemy' losses and Britain had invaluable assistance from the Royal Australian Air Force,

More recently, there had ar- rived a contingent from Southern Rhodesia, and in the Royal Air Force were many pilots from all the Dominions, and indeed, from all parts of the Empire.

HINTS

OVERCROWDING IN FACTORY

A fine of $100, was imposed on the manager of the Yat› Kwong, (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL").

Bulb Factory, 65, Sai Yee Street, by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Hints that Spain may renounce Kowloon Magistracy this morning her neutrality and throw in her or permitting his factory, to be

ot with the Rome-Berlin Axis vercrowded so as to be dangerous. tre being thrown out by informer injurious to the health of em-. Nazi-circles-in-Berlin, as-a-resul· levees,

Air Superiority

of the visit of Senor Suner. Span-D. W. Phillips. Assistant Ins- sh: Minister of Interior and bro sector of Factories. and Works, Lord Caldecote also referred her-in-law of General Franco, ta'd that when he visited the fac- to the remarkable contribution Berlin.

tory on August 28 he found 44 made by Newfoundland in the The Spanish press in Madricersors on premises only large defence of the British Isles both reports that Senor Suner told the ncugh for 22 persons. The fac- by sea and air.

German, press that Spain "intend

ory employed open gas flames to restore her moral influence and n the manufacture of bulbs. In respect of the Empire alt culture in Latin America.' training scheme, he said

that Havas. this was in advance of schedul and that Britain would shortly. be receiving a flow of highly: skilled pilots and air crews to redress the balance in the air and ultimately to give Britain. air superiority.

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In the Middle East an impor-

tant part was being played by the forces of South Africa.

It was fined $75 last April, for 1 similar offence.

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had distinguished itself by in- flicting heavy losses on the enemy. The Dominions had not confin- ed their help to military, naval and air contingents, but were pro- ducing an ever increasing` output| of munitions and military suppliesį of many kinds.

Turning to the Mediterranean. Lord Caldecote said that our naval forces recently swept the - Mediterranean from end to end'. for six days without any naval action being taken by the enemy!- Meanwhile, convoys of troops and materials arrived in the Near Eost taking fighting men and sup- lies to fill the gaps in that thea, tre of war left by the collapse of France.

The Far East

Lord Caldecote said he had no. 'definite Information as to

the course of the negotiations cald to be proceeding between Indo- China and Japan at Hanoi. In view, however, of current re- ports that Japan had been press- 'ng the Government of Indo- China to allow the passage of Ja- panese troops and the e¬tablish- ment of air and naval bases in 'he colony, His Majesty's Govern- ment had made clear to the Ja- panese Government their interest; In the maintenance of the status iquo in' that area.

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vetrol for the distribution of me- [dical supplies in the Interior of [China had been activély pursued

It was hoped a definite proposal [in this point, would be made to the Japanese In the near future. -Reuter

Mr. G. Hiranana, of the Paris Silk Store,45; Nathan Road, ports that between 8p.m. Yon September 10 and 9.30 a.m. Yes” terday, someone forced even a show 'case, and stol men's', un- derwear valued at $21.

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Luk, was admitted to Kowloon Hospital with Injuries to his hands and face, received while dynamiting fish outside the har- bour: :

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