1940-10-01 — Page 19

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 1, 1940.

Ubniry, Supreme Court

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LUFTWAFFE TRIES AGAIN Big Raids Renewed For First Time Since Friday

"Alert""

Five

STARTLING MOVE BY U.S.

Warnings In London GOVERNMENT

LONDON HAD FOUR: ALERTS UP TO ABOUT 5 O'CLOCK YES- TERDAY A TERNOON, THE FIRST BEING THE RESULT OF A GER-- MAN BOMBER AND FIGHTER FORMATION NUMBERING 80 WHICH CROSSED THE KENT COAST AND AFTER FLYING. A FEW. MILES INEAND SPLIT INTO A. NUMBER. OF SMALL GROUPS..

The machines stayed over coastal districts in Kent and Sussex for a short time before being dispersed.

About 40 aircraft were used in the second

JAPAN BLAMES

ROOSEVELT

attack when the raiders came over the south DIDN'T

́east coast in a number of formations.

Before they had gone very far 10000000000

in

inland they were again intercept- cd by British fighters and neither of these attacks did any encmy aircraft reach the London area.

During the third-raid British fighters engaged the raiders high: over the western suburbs of London.

An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security announcement issued last evening slated the enemy made four large-scale at- tacks on south and east areas be- tween dawn and early afternoon and A.A. defences

were conTM stantly in action.

In the first two attacks which took place at about 9 a.m. and 10.15, respectively, the enemy crossed the coast near Dover and penetrated about 40 miles inland but none reached London..

Bexhill And Mastings

at se

Bombs were 'dropped veral places in the south-east, notably Bexhill and Hastings, and some damage and casualties, some fatal, were caused in each of

thes towns.

AGAIN OVER LONDON LAST NIGHT

German bombers were around: London again last evening but the first few hours we re remarkably quiet in Central Lon doni

'planes

German were reported in: north-east and south- west areas of England.

-Reuter..

Dorset Bombing

An Air Ministry and Ministry

The United States Government yesterday filed

suit against: twenty-two major oil companies and the 'American: Petroleum:

•

COALITION SOUGHT IN AUSTRALIA

MR. MENZIES, THE AUSTRA LIAN PRIME MINISTER, IS RE- PORTED: TO BE TAKING STEPS TO PREVENT. A. STALEMATE AS A RESULT OF THE GENER- AL ELECTIONS, WHICH HAVE: LEFT ONLY A SMALL MAR-

Institute, charging GIN BETWEEN THE GOVERN them with unlawful. monopoly, price-fixing and conspiracy in violation of the Sher- man anti-Trust Act.

The Government is Federal

MENT AND THE OPPOSITION. Mr. R. G. Menzies is inviting Mr. Cameron, Mr. Curtin and Mr. Leasley, respectively-leaders of the Country, Labour and Anti- Communist Labour Parties, to meet him on Friday to discuss methods of instituting an effective government.

WANT TO asking, the DO IT!

A. TOKYO

4

MESSAGE SAYS THAT THE "JAPAN TIMES;" A N ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER WHICH FRE- QUENTLY REFLECTS. THE OF- FICIAL JAPANESE VIEW, YESTERDAY BITTERLY AT. TACKED PRESIDENT ROOSE- VELT'S POLICY IN THE FAR EAST...

The U.S. Government;, says the paper, "forced". Japan to join the Axis by a series of "stealthy in- cidents."

Japan, Germany and Italy could have carried on without special alliance if the "provocativeness of the United States had not been past all bearing." Reuter.

District Court of Co- lumbia to restrain the companies from ac- quiring oil-reserves for monopolistic. purposes. and to dissolve the American Petroleum. Institute.-Reuter.

AUSTRALIAN AIRCRAFT OUTPUT

Mr. Menzies said that as a re- sult of the recent elections_no party will have, a majority giving it clear authority in the new Par; liament, and thus a National Gov ernment was the only practicable course to ensure stability and a strong war effort during the most vital period. In Australian his- tory. Reuter;

BIG TIN DEPOSITS.

DISCOVERED

Tin deposits.cstimated by Egyp, rian experts at some half a mil lion tons, have been discovered in the neighbourhood of Rosseir, on the Red Sea Coast.

The Under-Secretary of: Einj ance declares, that these mines should produce about: 15,000 tons." of pure tin annually. Reuter.

THAILAND MISSION. IN INDIA

from

Mr. Fadden, the Australian: Air Minister, stated in Melbourne yesterday that Australia is pro- cucing two. de Havilland Moth training 'planes daily and is now.

The goodwill: mission ling overseas orders for train-Thailand, touring India, arrived ing aircraft from the surplus home at Calcutta yesterday. The mem- supply..

bers are remaining in India until He added that the output at the middle of October as the month-Reuter

About an hour later a third of Home Security communique SOUTH AFRICAN AIR Wirraway is already 30 planes & guests of the Government of

attack was made across the states that late yesterday after- Dorset coast where the enemy nocn enemy aircraft approaching was engaged. Few of his bom-in three separate forces crossed bera penetrated any distance the coasts of Kent and Sussex Inland and no reports of bomba simultaneously,

"have been received.

vas

The fourth attack largest and began soon after

p.m,

the 3

1

FORCE RAIDS

Our fighters--engaged the scattered enemy. A few bombs

It is officially announced in were dropped and some dam Nairobi that Birikau, in Italian ́age caused at a town in Dor- | Somaliland,·· About 180 aircraft flew in!

Was successfully over Dungeness and again, pene-, trated inland but were engaged and broken up before reaching the outskirts of London.

Western Suburbs

set and a town in the Thames | raided for the third time by the Valley where there were some South African Air Force on casurities. Els whore damage Saturday..

was slights.

During the afternoon an isolat- The communique adds that: ad- od attack was made on a town ministrativic buildings received in Suffolk. Houses were dam-direct hits by heavy high explo- aged but reports indicate casual-sive and incendiary bombs. tics were very few.-Reuter.

A few enemy aircraft however, evaded our defences and succeed- ed.in dropping bombs in the BAG” JUMPS TO 47 western suburbs. Hore damage was done and casualties caused' An Air Ministry report lato läst .but details are not, you available..evening, stated the day's bug of It is officially announced that 11 Nazi raiders had been increased enemy aircraft were destroyed up to 47, one of them having been to 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. downed by A.A. quns.

London had its fourth alert for a short period late in the after- roon-Reuter,

'Twenty-two of our fighters were lost but the pilots of 12 are suie. Reuter.

Some of the buildings burned' out;

wore

Other South African squadrons reconnaissances and carried out have nothing to report.

All the aircraft in the opera- Lions

to returned safely

their Reuter:

base.

There are over 100 pupils at a school for Belgian refugee children in London. The school; which is situataif- în: St. John's. Wood' Park, lo free and all the teachers ard- Bolglan. Photo shows some of the young refug en:daching out of their school at playstore." (Copyright;":"Fox}.

'India.-Reuter.

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