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SUSTAINED ATTACKS

ON THE BERLIN AREA Heavy Bombers Over Nazi Capital For Four Hours

Ammunition Train Goes Up At Mannheim

DETERDING HEIR REPORTED MISSING

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Henry Deterding, son of the Dutch oil. king and heir to a for- tune of £2,000,000, is reported missing fol- lowing the last Ger- man air raid on Lon- don, the "Svenka Dag- bladet" reported in Stockholm yesterday.

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SOVIET ARMY GAMES

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STRONG FORCES OF R.A.F. BOMBERS CARRIED OUT SUSTAINED ATTACKS IN THE BERLIN AREA AGAIN ON MONDAY NIGHT, AND OTHER FORCES OF BRITISH AIRCRAFT: BOMBED A WIDE SERIES OF OBJECTIVES IN GERMANY AS WELL AS THE INVASION PORTS, WHICH RECEIVED THEIR USUAL NIGHTLY BLASTING.

Our planes attacked oil refineries at Leuna and Hanover, an aircraft factory at Rottenburg, a munitions factory near Mag- deburg, goods yards and rail communications at Bremen, Ehrang, Osnobruck, Mannheim. and Brussels, docks at Cuxhaven and Amster dam, the ports of Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais. Boulogne, and Le Havre and several enemy aerodromes.

opera- In the course of these. tions, an aircraft of the Bomber Command

shot engaged and. down an enemy aircraft into the

sea.

Oil refineries at Hanover and Leuna (east of Leipzig) were also left ablaze.

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AUSTRALIAN AIR BRITONS SQUADRONS ROUGHLY

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Announcing that a number of Australian'. Air Force squadrons were going to Malaya, the Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, said-in Melbourne yes- terday the units would not add to the pre- sent strength of the station but would re- lieve RAF units needed elsewhere. Reuter.

HANDLED

The British Consul in Bucharest last night visit- ed the Britons arrested by the Rumanian authori- ties, including Mrs. Tracy, wife of a Canadian mining engineer, a few minutes after permission was giv- en by General Antonescu, Rumanian Dictator.

The Consul säld: the Ruman- lan authorities admitā two of the Britons had been.ill treated.

appeared haggard

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The Consul said the prisoners stated the aggression had been committed by civilians. Treat- ment by the State police had been good,

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medical of the Minister of Justice who relief among the Chinese people, was present at the interview.

Reuter. to- it was stated in Chungking day. Explosions at Leuna-which The money was raised by Miss was severely damaged

Buck's Book of Hope movement. Aircraft of the Coastal Com-weeks ago followed the drop- Every American woman s NOTHING TO REPORT mand operating with the Fleet ping of many incendiary bombs, the book must contribute US$30

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and Mrs. Roosevelt is among those There is nothing to report, said SATISFACTION OVER THE Air Arm attacked

who have signed: The fund is yesterday's Cairo communique.-

Reuter.. SHOWING OF THE SOVIET petrol stores at Rotterdam and

still growing-Havas, TROOPS DURING MANOEU-Blardingen, shipping and stores VRES JUST CONCLUDED IN at Ostend and set fire to an oil THE KIEV MILITARY REGION dump at Hamstede aerodrome. WAS EXPRESSED YESTERDAY Five of our aircraft are missing, BY THE WAR COMMISSAR, MARSHAL TIMOCHENKO, IN AN ORDER OF THE DAY.

The manouvres were carried out under the personal direction the Marshal.”

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* Basic theme was defence for

tifications against Infiltration by enemy armoured units. Theoretical conclusions reached as a result of the manoeuvres were also revealed yesterday by the Chief of Staff of the Red Army.

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LONG RANGE POLICY

FURTHER POLITICAL DES VELOPMENTS MAY BE EX- PECTED AFTER THE RETURN. TO SPAIN FROM SITALY OF SENOR BERRANO - BUNER, SPANISH MINISTER DE IN, TERIOR, ZIT WAS-HINTED. IN MADRID YESTERDAY:

Je is suggested that a long-range policy has been drawn up. ry

A mesinge from Rome to the dally Pueblo," however, suggests little change in Spanish policy is likely to rosult from Senior Suner's mission-Reuter,

Berlin Raids

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Describing the sustained tacks the Air Ministry news ser- vice states that the west power station in Berlin, badly damaged in previous raids, was clearly identified by flares and a few minutes after the first stick bombs had fallen there was a large explosion and numerous

fires:

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Klingenberg power station was also heavily bombed; 'while rallways were hit and a factory. set on fire.

Heavy bombers remained.. over Berlin from 10.30p.m. until past 2.a.m.

Other RAF, bombers operated over widely separated targets in Germany.

Munitions Train. Or

Dump

At the railway yards at Mann- helm bomb bursts were followed by a violent explosion which do veloped into long lines of ex plosions so flerce and bright that the aircraft was lit up by them.

The crew consider that eithos ammunition trains or a series of dumps had gone up,

Fair And Square

Railway yards at. Ehrang were struck fair and square by a stick of high explosives which caused many explosions followed by a vivid yellow fire.

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Another stick started smal- ler fires which merged toge- ther and culminated in further explosions.

Six smaller ones followed the dropping of bombs close to aerodrome flare path.

The explosions" continued for some time, after the last of salvoes had fallen-Reuter.

GUNS AGAIN BOOM

OVER LONDON

A big gun barrage from-bat- teries in London suburbs.opened will a shuddering roar as enemy raiders paid their nightly visit to the capital last night: Reuter.

CHOLERA DOWN

Four cases of cholera three from Kowloon and one from the New Territories were regis- tored yesterday by the Health Authorities.“

There

were also 12 cases of typhold, 33 of tuberculosis, and seven of dysent

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