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No. 91,957

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1940

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COSTLY FAILURE

German Mass Daylight Raids On London Again

YOUNG

SCOUT'S PLUCK

A young boy's pluck and knowledge of signals told the pilot of the Sun- derland flyingboat that found the 46 additional survivors of the "City of Benares" all he wanted to know about the lifeboat below him, .

Sunder-

The captain of the land, telling the story, said: "Through, my glasses I saw there were people in a drifting Boat but most of them were prostrate and obviously well exhausted.

"Suddenly a little chaps in Boy Scout'a uniform" Depatted va.... He pulled himself upi

- looked round “fon,

WASHINGTON

DEFENCE CONFERENCE

It was announced in Washington yesterday that President Roose- velt received Lord Lothian, the British Ambassador,

and afterwards saw lead- ing defence officials before the Cabinet session in the after- noon.-Reuter.

BURMA ROAD AGITATION

*

Torn To Rags And Tatters One Hundred And Thirty Shot Down

GREATER LONDON'S WAR WORK CARRIED ON SMOOTHLY YESTERDAY WITH THE MINIMUM INTERRUPTION WHILE LARGE GERMAN BOMBER FORMATIONS ESCORTED BY EVEN BIGGER |FIGHTER ESCORTS TRIED REPEATEDLY TO PENETRATE THE DE- FENCES IN WHAT APPEARED TO BE THEIR MOST · DETERMINED DAYLIGHT ATTACK ON THE CAPITAL SINCE SEPTEMBER 15.

Reports to the early evening suggest it

proved the same costly failure as then, when KIEL AGAIN which fell to British fighters. Yesterday the HEAVILY most concentrated anti-aircraft fire London

the enemy lost 191 aircraft, all but six of

has ever seen in daylight harried the raiders.

Reuters.air correspondent who wins

witnessed

white and began wavingthing Agitation has been re-operations on the south-east outskirts of Lon

"I didn't get the idea for a newed in Chungking for don, states the synchronisation of fighter in moment and then it dawned on the re-opening of the terception was brilliant.

me what he was up to, and I watched steadily, and saw hin Burma road.

spell-out" "City of Benares.

- Chinese public bodies are hold- weing meetings to discuss the issue and also are sending delegates to call on the British Ambassador.

That was enough, and were off right away to get help."

-Reuter.

BRITISH CHILDREN.

REACH N.Z.

Over 30 members of the Na- tional People's Political Council have wired members of the Bri- tish House of Commons urging The first party of British chil the early unconditional re-open- dren, numbering 84, evacuated ing of the road for strengthening from Britain arrived in Welling-Chinese resistance

safe Aton (N.Z.), yesterday, says Reu-guarding British interests in the

tër.

Far East. Reuter.

and

SERGEANT AIR

WAR'S

GUNNER WINS

ELEVENTH V.C.

THE ELEVENTH V.C. of the war has been awarded to Sergeant John Hannah, of the Royal Air Force, for conspicuous gallantry and courage. A native of Glasgow, he is only 18 years of age.

On September 15, he was wireless opera: tor and gunner in a plane engaged on a suc- cessful attack on enemy barge concentrations at Antwerp

Over the Thames Estuary AÏA shell bursts collected until they formed a pool of black smoke over a wide area 25,000 feet up."

Shortly afterwards eight large; enemy bombers emerged from the direction of that death trap of scattered shrapnel in foose

ATTACKED

The R.A.F: attack on the dockyards at Kiel on Thursday night began at 8 o'clock and lasted until

11

p.m.,

GOOD INVASION shortly after

WEATHER

states the Air_Ministry. news service.

One raider described the scene · as follows: "Fires started in "the lock area were terrific. I have

formation; they were possibly IT HAS BEEN GOOD "INVA-seen lots of fires in my time

all that remained of a larger SION WEATHER" FOR THE but those last night will want a

PAST FEW DAYS, CONDITIONS lot of beating.". formation..

In the face of the gun bursts HAVE BEEN FÄVOURABLE The bombardment ớt they gradually tailed and then all AND YESTERDAY WAS NO swerved off.

EXCEPTION."

haze above

LO

Havre lasted two and a quar...... ter hours and despite intenss opposition from ground, de- fences the ralders succeeded. In pressing home their attacks, Fires and violent explosions were caused.

Kiel and Le Havre were

the

In the Straits: of Dover, there Locked In Battle - was a slight mist, but the sea was calm and there were no clouds in All this time Allied and Ger. the sky. The wind swung from Iman: fighters had been locked in NEŝto NWA

battle in the

The only activity, however, was the bombers. As the latter turned a short gun duel between long-northern and southern limits of and the guns became silent, fight-range guns on the English and he night's raids by the R.AF. er after fighter dropped in among

French Coast sides of the Chan-on enemy invasion bases.-Reu- them until they were lost to`sight.

[nel-Reuter.

Iter.. This scene was repeated many times on the southern outskirts of London and over the Downs and valleys to the Channel, The enemy were everywhere] apparently trying to find their] way into London and not suc- ceeding. Split up and confound- ed, the bombers dropped bombs

to little effect,

Yesterday afternoon, during of London's fifth daylight raid the day, violent A.A. fire was audible over --Central- London and about a dozen German 'planes · were @seen: flying-in- „formation towards, the south-

west.

Plumes of smoke seemed to in- dicate British fighters had attack- ed the formation.

Severe Losses

The plane was then hit by "[a] *: During this time, ammunition] «; shell, which apparently burst in-. burst in- all directions, and ho side the bomb compartment::: The – was almost blinded, by the heat fire spread and as both the-star- board- und -port-petrol tanks. had been pierced there, was grave risk The bomb compartment was qħ, South of England", and inflicted frèraft being enveloped by interna. All the aluminium floor severe losses, particularly the

en sheetings had melted, leaving only!"

neighbourhood of London, his way through the the cross-bars, and he had sus- Two of these attacks were smoke, he got hold of tained burns to his face and eyes. made on London in the morning

The rear. But he put the fire out,

and a third in the afternoon. A discovered, had had to Making his way forward, he few bombs fell in Central Lon- found that the navigator had left don and a humber of south and He could have done the same, the 'plane, and he passed the log-south-west districts. Some dam- but instead he stayed and fought book and maps up to the pilot. age to houses was caused. the fire for 10 minutes." When them. Thanks to his courage, coolness Insouth London an Indusi contents of the extinguishers had and devotion to duty, the pilot - trial building was hit and a all gone, he fought the flames with was able to bring the plane safely number of casualties resulted, his log-book.

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An Air Ministry communique and flames. He turned on him 20ys our-fighters intercepted oxygen supply.

anyak several enemy attacks in the

home-Reuter.

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