1940-09-19 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 19, 1940.

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HUNS EXPERIMENT TO TRY AND OUTWIT THE R.A.F.

GERMAN RAIDERS FLOCKED OVER:

CHINESE DRIVE

NEAR NANKING

...

SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND ALL DAY YESTER- |(8PECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”) DAY, SAYS REUTER'S

AIR CORRESPON- DENT, TRYING ALL THE KNOWN AIR LANES TO THE CAPITAL AND OTHERS AS WELL.

Flying at a great height, the frozen trails

of their exhaust gases weaved a pattern in the

Reports received in Chungking from the Kiangsu-Anhwei border claim that Chinese forces are sur- rounding the Nanking region and that a large force of Japanese troops is now trying to "remove

this threat to the seat of the Wang Ching-wei regime."

19 The "expeditionary force,' as

in Chungking, are commanded by

blue sky, but despite the frequency of Lon-these Chinese troops are called don's air raid alarms, no serious attack deve-Wen Yuan-tao. loped on the capital or on any other objec-Tienchang and Laian, in central

tives.

south.

At times, the whole east area was completely ofear

of enemy aircraft.'

Goering's present confusion as

Fighting has broken out. at

Anhwei. Havas.

AFRICAN PIONEER

PASSES

The man who planted the first died in

Some bombs were dropped in the Thames Estuary and Kent but but only trivial damage was done.

The formations varied iri size but rarely exceeded fifty.

to the best way of raiding Bri-coffee in East Africa There were more fighters than ain by day is clear from a study Nairobi yesterday. bombers in the groups, conform- of his tactics since Sunday, bu He was John Patterson, pioneer ing to the enemy's desire to "wear he may be expected to tackle the and missionary, who brought the down" the resistance of the problem with customary German coffee seca from Aden 45 years R.A.F.

horoughness.

ago-Reuter.

Meanwhile, he will endeavour

Like on Tuesday, no major battle was fought, but the enemy suffered more severely.

0 do by night what he has greater intensity as the chances aitherto falled to do by day, name-of invasion fade before the bril- Following on the record ten-, engage in

the destruction of liant work of the R.A.F and the

Reuter. hour night raid, the seven day-ondon and other large cities with slow march of time. light alarms in London seemed to suggest that the enemy was build- ing up to a maximum "all round the clock" effort against the me- tropolis. The absence of any at- tempt to repeat Sunday's serious thrust against London suggests that more experimenting is being done by the enemy to find an an- swer to the costliness of day raiding.

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YUNNAN PREPARES FOR EMERGENCIES

THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES have taken over control of the French railway from the Indo-China Goering's Confusion border to Kunming and French officials of the line and their families were evacuated yesterday, accord- ing to reports received this morning.

More than once yesterday, Enemy formations got so far and then went no farther, but dis persed and went home.

LONDON

Several towns along the line in converted into military bases Yunnan have been evacuated and while miles of track have been

torn up by Chinese sappers.

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The situation in Indo-China re- mains obscure with: the French. authorities continuing "plans for defence" and the Japanese pre- paring for general evacuation.

All Japanese nationals have been instructed to keep them- selves in readiness for evacuation at any moment.

Meanwhile, many Japanese "commercial agents," "tourists,' and "technicians" are reported to be filtering into Indo-China.

There has been some activity by Japanese forces near the Kwangsi-Indo-China border. The Japanese have been massing war supplies and concentrating a con- siderable large number of troops in the area. -—. Our Own Corres- pondent.

MAY NOT BE SENT FOR TRIAL

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M. Edouard Daladier, ex-French Premier, and.. General Gamelin, will be formally indicted by the Riom Supreme Court following a petition to be made by the Prose- cutor-General,

They have not yet been indicted: and should- their counsel 'success- fully meet the prosecutor's argu- ment they may escape trial för "responsibility for the war." Hayas.

Women are now included in some sections of the Upper Thames Patrol-the Home Guard's "Navy"." Their duties in: clude secretarial work ashore and many of them drive a motor launch on the day patrols, accompanied by two male members of the patrol. They wear an armlet, but carry no arms. (Copy- right, Fox).

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EPIDEMIC

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Rumours, for which there

is no official confirmation, stat-- ed this afternoon that the Franco-Japanese negotiations over Indo-China have been broken off. Chinese quarters, it is reported, expect in- minent developments.

It is also reported that Chinese artillery were carry- ing out practice shoots throughout yesterday and the aerodrome at Yunnanfu where 100 planes have, ar- rived, has been greatly ex- panded.

DEATH:

No untoward. Incident was re- A further decrease in cholera ported in Shanghai yesterday on a Kowloon, bút strengthening :0. the anniversary of the Mukden he epidemic on the island, art Incident. The strictest precautions ndicated in the health returns is- were taken; all vehicles were sub-ued this afternoon. Some 31 STAFFORD SMITH:-On Thurs- Jected to close examination and ases were registered in the 24j.: barbed wire barricades effectively tours ended at midnight, twenty closed-up several thoroughfares.oria and one each from the New From Kowloon, nine" from Vic- Havas.

Territories and the luarbour. “

There were also 14 cases yphoid, 13 of dysentery, 21 of tu erculosis, and one of diphtheria.

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day, September 19, 1940, at Shek-O, Lucy Kathleen, be- loved wife of Featonby Staf ford Smith. Funeral service at Colonial Cemetery Chapel at 5.30 p.m.. to-day. No flowers: Shanghai 27 papers please copy,

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